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Pelican Harbor Seabird Station: This non-profit in Miami cares for injured brown pelicans. They work to rehabilitate brown pelicans and return them to their natural wildlife habitat. They offer both guided and self-guided tours of the rehabilitation facility. Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex: This Florida complex offers visitors the opportunity to stand beside actual rockets, hear presentations from former astronauts, and take in an exhibit of robot space probes, among many other attractions. The Center hosts twice yearly homeschool days featuring special programming and even more hands-on exploration. The visitor complex housing the retired shuttle Atlantis is expected to open

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Spanish Colonial Florida (1513-1763) Unlike other parts of the Spanish imperial project in the Americas (such as Mexico, Peru, and the Caribbean), which were important for large Indian populations as tax and labor bases, silver deposits, or as sugar plantation sites, Florida never offered the Spanish Empire much of anything. Its principal purpose was as a territorial buffer between the lucrative trans-Atlantic silver fleet system, which disembarked from Havana before heading to Seville, and the imperial pretensions of the French and English in the Carolinas and Louisiana. Nor were the climate, land, or Indian populations much help in this regard.

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