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Sarasota Bay is a lagoon located off the central west coast of Florida in the United States.Though no significant single stream of freshwater enters the bay, with a drainage basin limited to 150 square miles in Manatee and Sarasota counties, [1] it is generally treated as an estuary, with three "passes" or inlets giving access from the Gulf of Mexico.
A living Christmas tree. A Singing Christmas Tree, sometimes called a Living Christmas Tree, is an artificial Christmas tree filled with singers used as part of nativity plays. Constructed of steel, the tree is actually a conical circular sector where between one-third and one-half of an actual Christmas tree is shown. Depending upon tree size ...
Sarasota Bay was known to be a prolific fishery as described by early area settlers. [9] During the second Spanish Colonial period (1783-1821) there were fishing camps, called ranchos, along the bay that were established by Spanish fisherman from Cuba who traded fish and turtles with merchants in Havana. [10]
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Brenda Mae Tarpley (born December 11, 1944), [2] known professionally as Brenda Lee, is an American singer.Primarily performing rockabilly, pop, country and Christmas music, she achieved her first Billboard hit aged 12 in 1957 and was given the nickname "Little Miss Dynamite".
Sarasota has long history of avoiding catastrophic storms. Hurricanes caused havoc in varying degrees in 1926, 1944 and 1950, as well as Donna in 1960. Charley was a near-miss in 2004 when its ...
SEE MORE: Major U.S. Cities Host Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremonies. But, Christmas trees as we know them, began in 16th century Germany, when devout Christians brought dressed evergreen trees ...
George Papadopoulos was born August 19, 1987, at Swedish Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, [14] to Greek immigrants parents originally from Thessaloniki. [15] [16] His father, Antonis, was heavily involved in the local politics of the Greek-American community and is the former president of the Pan-Macedonian Union of the United States. [17]