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Coppertone Sunscreen Began With A Miami Pharmacist And A Wartime Problem

Coppertone Sunscreen Began With A Miami Pharmacist And A Wartime Problem

The sunscreen that fills beach bags across the country traces back to a Miami Beach pharmacist who first mixed it not for sunbathers but for soldiers. Benjamin Green’s wartime experiment, developed during World War II and refined afterward in his own kitchen, became Coppertone, one of the foundational American sun-care products and a piece of consumer history rooted firmly in South Florida. A Soldier’s Problem In The Pacific The product grew out of a military need rather than a commercial one. By the early 1940s, the Army Air Forces were searching for a way to protect personnel exposed to relentless sun, whether stranded in deserts or adrift on life rafts in the Pacific. Green, who served as an airman, saw

Julia Tuttle The Only Woman to Found a Major U.S. City, Miami

Miami Is the Only Major U.S. City Founded by a Woman

Most great American cities trace their origins to soldiers, speculators, or railroad barons, almost always men. Miami is the exception. The city on Biscayne Bay owes its existence to Julia Tuttle, a widowed businesswoman from Ohio who saw a city in a near-empty stretch of subtropical wilderness and willed it into being. Known ever since as the “Mother of Miami,” Tuttle holds a distinction no other woman in the country shares: she is the only woman credited with founding a major American city. A Vision in the Wilderness Julia DeForest Tuttle was born in Cleveland in 1849. After her husband died in 1886, she made a decision that would have struck her contemporaries as eccentric. In 1891 she moved south

Miami's Tourism Recovery: The Comeback of the Cruise Industry and International Visitors

Miami’s Tourism Recovery: The Comeback of the Cruise Industry and International Visitors

Miami sits at the center of one of the most consequential tourism moments in its modern history — a city where the world’s largest cruise port is setting passenger records, new ships are calling it home, and the FIFA World Cup is weeks away from bringing a global wave of visitors to its beaches, hotels, and neighborhoods. The convergence is not accidental. It reflects years of infrastructure investment, a deepening identity as an international gateway, and the return of confidence from travelers who chose Miami as their destination even when global tourism stumbled elsewhere. PortMiami’s Record-Breaking Run PortMiami officially closed Fiscal Year 2025 with its highest-ever passenger count: 8,564,225 cruise passengers passed through Miami between October 1, 2024, and September

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Who Were the Tequesta?

A Complete History of Miami’s First People The Tequesta were the original inhabitants of what is now Miami and much of southeastern Florida, long before the arrival of Europeans. Their

Edge Computing: Improved Performance Over Cloud?

Edge Computing: Improved Performance Over Cloud?

Edge computing offers a compelling performance advantage by minimizing the distance data must travel between its source and the point of processing. Unlike traditional cloud computing, which relies on centralized