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Military watches are believed to have received their name from a German military request for a soldier in a watch house, otherwise known as a guard tower. One story tells that the military wristwatches came into use when a German naval officer needed to know the time but could not pull out a pocket watch since both his hands were busy operating the machine.
Islands of Florida (12 C, 176 P) K. Florida Keys (6 C, 35 P) M. Mountain passes of Florida (1 P) P. Peninsulas of Florida (7 P) R. Reefs of Florida (1 C, 4 P) Ridges ...
With 19,334 faculty and staff as of 2023, the University of Miami in Coral Gables is Miami-Dade County's second-largest employer after Baptist Health South Florida. [1] This is a list of major companies or subsidiaries headquartered in the Miami metropolitan area.
Florida Department of Financial Services (FLDFS) is a state agency of Florida.Its headquarters are in Tallahassee. [1] In 2002 the Florida Legislature merged the Department of Insurance, Treasury and State Fire Marshal and the Department of Banking and Finance into one department, the Florida Department of Financial Services.
The name Relojes Centenario was adopted that same year, the centennial of the end of the Mexican War of Independence. It is the first maker of monumental clocks in Latin America. [3] In 1930, Olvera Hernandez founded his own homestead called La Quinta María where he installed the second workshop of Centenario.
Diagram of electric time system used around 1910 to keep time in factories, schools, and other large institutions. The master clock (bottom center), controlled by a temperature-compensated mercury pendulum, is wired to slave clocks throughout the building.
The Straits of Florida The Florida straits, the J-shaped channel between southeastern Florida and the Bahamas, and the Florida Keys and Cuba.. The Straits of Florida, Florida Straits, or Florida Strait (Spanish: Estrecho de Florida) is a strait located south-southeast of the North American mainland, generally accepted to be between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean, and between the ...
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