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Sunshine State's nature is bold, bright and wild
The subtropical region south of Tampa is a bird-watcher's paradise. Roseate spoonbills, herons and ibises, wood storks and pelicans winter in such places as Sanibel Island's J.N. (Ding) Darling Wildlife Refuge. There, visitors can walk or drive along a dirt trail and see the avian equivalents of the crowds at the local restaurants. The shallow waters nearby are filled with dinner. Some of Florida's non-avian species invite even closer acquaintance. Bottlenose dolphins live year-round in the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean and are common sights throughout the state. In the Florida Keys, there are places where you can swim and play with them. And then there are the manatees, huge grass-eating sea cows that gather at natural warm springs and in the warm outflows from power plants in places like the Orange River in Fort Myers, Crystal River north of Tampa and Blue Spring State Park north of Orlando. The best days to swim with the manatees are the coldest ones, when more of the creatures gather around the warm springs. Although officially in residence from mid- November through the end of March, Jan. 20 through Feb. 20 is the peak season for manatees. As the Gulf of Mexico warms, the manatees generally head out.
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Six-gun territory Series: ANNUAL FLORIDA RESORTS ISSUE
Florida's colorful cowboy history began with the Spanish conquistadors who first settled the peninsula. Visitors can see remnants of that past in the Peace River valley that meanders through the prairies, pine forests and cypress swamps southwest of Orlando and on to Charlotte Harbor. Ranches, rodeos and a state-run cow camp recall those days when the Florida frontier was fraught with peril, when survival depended on an individual's ability to master the wilderness and avoid an outlaw's six-gun. Today, descendants of those frontiersmen re-enact Arcadia's \"Wild West\" days at the twice-a-year All-Florida Championship Rodeo. Bandits on horseback stage a hold-up of a train carrying passengers to the rodeo. After the Civil War, rustling and killing continued to plague the area, but the cattle industry boomed with a new market: Cuba. Jacob Summerlin herded thousands of cattle down the valley to be shipped to Cuba from Punta Rassa near Fort Myers.
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From sober religious rituals to drunken revels; Mexico packs its calendar with more than 5,000 local and national fiestas
They range from sober religious rituals to colorfully costumed, drunken revels featuring dancing in the streets until all hours of the morning. Some of the 5,083 fiestas listed by Mexico's secretary of education are national holidays, celebrated from the largest cities to the smallest mountain villages. Those squeamish about big crowds will probably find the Taxco procession too much to handle. The wide zocalo in front of the Church of Santa Prisca becomes a sea of people. As the hour approaches for the march, bodies fill every available inch of space; along the corridor of the procession, controllers continually push the crowd back to make room for the thorn-bearers The crowd of children and adults follows the band from pinata to pinata up the street until the last one yields its loot. Then a man emerges from a house carrying over his head a papier-mache bull, with an odd attachment - a wire frame loaded with fireworks. Someone lights a match to the torito and the man-bull races through the street, fireworks sizzling, popping and shooting in every direction. People scatter, children run screaming as el torito charges the crowd.The running of the torito ends the official celebration, but the crackling of pistols and fireworks continues into the night.
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Simple Pleasures
Rush hour along State Road 5 leading into Shipshewana finds cars dodging dozens of horse-drawn buggies carrying bearded Amish men and their dress-alike families to market. While Lancaster, Pa., is America's biggest and best-known Amish settlement, this part of northeastern Indiana is the country's second largest. The town and surrounding countryside provide a glimpse of the approximately 12,000 Amish who live here (compared with about 16,000 in Lancaster County). Here, the so-called Plain People maintain their curious culture without the trappings of Lancaster's giant tourist industry - much like the Amish country of Pennsylvania must have appeared 30 years ago. One place where Amish combine the old and the new is the Deutsch Kase Haus. Watching through a storeroom window, visitors view Amish men in rubber boots industriously mixing milk that eventually churns into cheese. The process holds fascination even for Amish families; one may witness little boys wearing black straw hats and girls dressed all in lavender or blue hoisted by their father to peer through the window. Perhaps having just brought in a load of milk, the father points to the stainless steel vats. He explains in Pennsylvania Dutch how the product of the family's labor is transformed into yellow bricks of cheese.
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Shopping Area, Apartments At Timonium Are Opposed
More than ,100 persons jammed into the Baltimore County. Council chamber yesterday to protest a proposed 52-acre commercial and apartment-house development in Timonium.
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THE EYES AND SIGHT OF OWLS--II
IN the first of those two articles it was shown how, by evolutionary changes, the owl's eye has been adapted until it has arrived at its present structural form, whereby its large size, with consequent large iris and lens, enables it to trap to the maximum extent the small amounts of light available under nocturnal conditions. It now remains to be shown how further highly specialised features of the owl's eye utilise this low light intensity once it has passed through the lens of the eye.
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THE EYES AND SIGHT OF OWLS--I
BIRDS in general are lovers of the light, and it is only in exceptional cases that certain types have adapted themselves to nocturnal requirements, and made the night their day. The most thoroughly adapted of these birds are the owls, which have passed from diurnal to nocturnal habits by evolution through crepuscular birds like the goatsuckers and American frogmouths.
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