Florida，my Florida，
Will call thy children day by day
To learn to walk the patriot’s way
Firmly to stand for thee for aye
Florida，my Florida．
Yield their rich store of good supply，
To still the voice of hunger’s cry
For thee we’ll live，for thee we’ll die
Florida，my Florida．
Facts and Trivia相关资料
1．Greater Miami is the only metropolitan area in the United States whose borders encompass（包围，环绕，包含或包括某事物）two national parks．You can hike through pristine（质朴的）Everglades National Park or ride on glass－bottom boats across Biscayne National Park．
2．Saint Augustine is the oldest European settlement in North America．
3．The name Punta Gorda，which means，“fat point”when translated from Spanish．The moniker（名字，绰号）was given to the city because a broad part of the land in Punta Gorda juts into Charlotte Harbor．The harbor itself is somewhat unique，as it is the point where the Peace River meets the ocean．
4．Orlando attracts more visitors than any other amusement park（游乐园）destination in the United States．
5．New England Congregationalists（公理会之教友）who sought to bring their style of liberal arts education to the state founded Rollins College，the oldest college in Florida，in Winter Park in 1885．
6．Cape Canaveral is America’s launch pad（发射台）for space flights．
7．Florida is not the southernmost state in the United States．Hawaii is farther south．
8．A museum in Sanibel owns 2million shells and claims to be the world’s only museum devoted solely to mollusks（［动］软体动物）．
9．The Benwood，on French Reef in the Florida Keys，is known as one of the most dived shipwrecks（船只失事，海难，遇难）in the world．
10．Safety Harbor is the home of the historic Espiritu Santo Springs．Given this name in 1539by the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto．He was searching for the legendary Fountain of Youth．The natural springs have attracted attention worldwide for their curative（医疗的）powers．
11．Niceville is home to the famous Boggy Bayou Mullet Festival celebrated the third weekend in October．
12．The United States city with the highest rate of lightning（“闪电”），英国第一种超音速喷气式战斗机，英60年代的主力机种。）strikes per capita is Clearwater．
13．Gatorade（给他力（商标名，一种运动饮料））was named for the University of Florida Gators where the drink was first developed．
14．Young aviator（飞行员，飞行家）Tony Jannus made history on January 1，1914when he flew the world’s first scheduled passenger service airline flight from St．Petersburg’s downtown yacht（游艇，快艇，轻舟）basin to Tampa．
15．Dr．John Gorrie of Apalachicola invented mechanical refrigeration in 1851．
16．Miami Beach pharmacist（配药者，药剂师）Benjamin Green invented the first suntan（晒黑，卡其色军服）cream in 1944．He accomplished this development by cooking cocoa butter in a granite（花岗岩）coffee pot on his wife’s stove．
17．Neil Smith and his brother of Montverde developed the first Snapper riding lawn mower（割草机）．
18．Key West has the highest average temperature in the United States．
19．The Saint John’s River is one of the few rivers that flows north instead of south．
20．The largest lake in Florida is Lake Okeechobee．
21．May 20，1970Florida lawmakers passed and sent to the Governor a bill adopting the moonstone（月长石）as the official state gem．Ironically，the moonstoneis not found naturally in Florida．．．nor was it found on the moon．
22．In 1987the Florida legislature designated the American alligator（Alligator mississippiensis）the official state reptile（爬虫动物，卑鄙的人）．Long an unofficial symbol of the state，the alligator（产于美洲的鳄鱼）originally symbolized Florida’s extensive untamed wilderness and swamps．
23．Miami installed the first bank automated teller machine especially for rollerbladers．
24．Ybor City was once known as the Cigar Capital of the World with nearly 12，000tabaqueros（cigar－makers）employed in 200factories．Ybor City produced an estimated 700million cigars a year at the industry’s peak．
25．Plant City，the Winter Strawberry Capital of the World，holds the Guinness record for the world’s largest strawberry shortcake（脆饼的一种）．The 827square－foot，6，000pound cake was made on Feb．19，1999in McCall Park．
