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Seminole family in Indian camp, 1916

The indigenous people of the Everglades region arrived in the Florida peninsula 15,000 years ago. The Paleo-Indians found an arid landscape. Climate changes 6,500 years ago brought a wetter landscape, and the Paleo-Indians slowly adapted to the new conditions. Archaeologists call the cultures that resulted Archaic peoples, from whom two major tribes emerged: the Calusa and the Tequesta. Spanish explorers sought to convert and conquer them. Isolated groups may have been assimilated into the Seminole nation, which formed in northern Florida when a band of Creeks consolidated surviving members of pre-Columbian societies in Florida into their own to become a distinct tribe. Seminoles were forced into the Everglades by the U.S. military during the Seminole Wars from 1835 to 1842. Seminoles continue to live in the Everglades region, and support themselves with casino gaming on six reservations located throughout the state. (Full article...)

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1718 – The pirate Blackbeard was killed in battle by a boarding party of British sailors off the coast of the Province of North Carolina.
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1910 – The crews of three Brazilian warships – all commissioned only months before – and several smaller vessels mutinied against perceived "slavery" being practised in the Brazilian Navy.
1975 – Two days after the death of Francisco Franco, Juan Carlos I (pictured) was declared King of Spain according to the law of succession promulgated by Franco.
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The white-lipped tree frog (Nyctimystes infrafrenatus) is a species of tree frog in the subfamily Pelodryadinae, part the family Hylidae. It is found in eastern Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, parts of Solomon Islands, and in the wet tropics of north-eastern Queensland, Australia, and lives in rainforests, cultivated areas, and around houses in coastal areas. A large species, the white-lipped tree frog has a typical length of 11 to 14 cm (4.3 to 5.5 in) and a mass of 30 to 60 g (1.1 to 2.1 oz). Its dorsal surface is usually bright green, although the colour changes depending on the temperature and background, and can be brown, while its lower lip has an eponymous distinctive white stripe. This white-lipped tree frog was photographed in the Daintree Rainforest in Queensland.

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