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Sarasota (sâr'əsō`tə), city (1990 pop. 50,961), seat of Sarasota co., SW Fla., on Sarasota Bay; settled c.1884, inc. 1914. It is a yachting and fishing resort with varied light manufacturing, and packing houses handling the citrus fruit, celery, and beef raised in the area. Sarasota is the former winter home of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus and is the site of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, with its excellent Peter Paul Rubens Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577–1640, foremost Flemish painter of the 17th cent., b. Siegen, Westphalia, where his family had gone into exile because of his father's Calvinist beliefs. ..... Click the link for more information. collection. Other attractions are the Sarasota Jungle Gardens and the Cars of Yesterday Museum. New College of Florida is in Sarasota. Nearby, on the keys off the Gulf of Mexico, are many beautiful white-sand beaches. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Langedyk (Senior Instructor for Construction Estimating Institute of America in Sarasota, Florida since 1982) is an extensive collective study of the variables and intricacies involved in estimating and configuring construction costs and bids for building, renovating, remodeling, and general house improvements. Allen, an illustrator whose picture books included Judith Hendershot's In Coal Country (Knopf), a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book, died on November 8, 2004, in Sarasota, Florida. announced the sale of Sarasota Square, an 893,000 SF shopping center in Sarasota, Florida, to Westfield America Trust. |
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