In terms of crops, Florida was once best known for its oranges. When Andrew Jackson took control of Florida in 1821, he established two counties: Escambia and St. Johns, with the Suwannee River as the dividing line. In 1845, when Florida became a state, Central Florida was organized under the name Orange County for its abundance. But now Florida’s

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Over the last few years thousands of desperate migrants have come in from Venezuela, swelling the population to more than 600,000, but that is still less than in any other of Brazil’s twenty-seven states. Indeed, for much of its history Roraima was a no-man’s land occupied by a handful of indigenous groups, where the British, Spanish, Dutch and

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