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Florida Web Sites: 1950 - Present
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Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri
A comprehensive Web site that allows visitors to read related documents and view photographs.Cuban Missile Crisis, The
http://www.hpol.org/jfk/cuban/
Includes an overview of the standoff between Kennedy and Khruschchev, Real Audio files, and a timeline.NSA and the Cuban Missile Crisis
http://www.nsa.gov/publications/publi00033.cfm
A document archive of declassified files from the Cuban Missile Crisis.Experience the 13 Hottest Days of the Cold War
http://www.floridamuseum.org/cuban.html
An online tour of the Cuban Missile Crisis exhibit of the Florida International Museum in downtown St. Petersburg.Current News
Florida Links to the News
http://www.floridalink.com/thenews/thenews.htm
Direct links to Florida newspapers, TV stations, guides, jobs, web cams and beach cams.Yahoo! News and Media
http://dir.yahoo.com/news_and_media/by_region/u_s__states/florida/counties_and_regions/
Browse through online newspapers and radio stations by counties and regions.Natural Disasters
Effects of Hurricane Andrew (1992) on Wetlands
http://water.usgs.gov/nwsum/WSP2425/andrew.html
An extensive Web site that provides information, pictures, and additional resources.Hurricane Andrew [unl.edu]
http://snrs.unl.edu/amet451/musfeldt/andrew.html
An informative site about this category-four Atlantic hurricane.Hurricane Andrew Simulation
http://gewex.meteo.mcgill.ca:8080/liu/hurricane_andrew.html
Contains several detailed animations and .avi files of the hurricane.Space
Armstrong, Neil Alden
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761571861/Neil_Armstrong.html
An Encarta Encyclopedia article about the first man to set foot on the moon. He was on Apollo 11 that launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on July 16, 1969 and arrived in orbit around the moon on July 20.Astronaut Bio: Alan B. Shepard, Jr.
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/shepard-alan.html
Information about the first American astronaut to enter space. On May 5, 1961 he was on the Freedom 7 spacecraft that launched from Florida and sent him to an altitude of 116 statute miles.Mars
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/
The official Web site by NASA about the Mars missions. Includes a directory to Mars related sites.Moonport, CH14-4
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4204/ch14-4.html
Concerns the spaceport's impact on local communities.NASA
http://www.nasa.gov/
The official Web site for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration that was formed in Florida in the 1950s.
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