Tampa, Florida stands for Phosphates, Tobacco, Sunshine and Education

Tampa, Florida stands for Phosphates, Tobacco, Sunshine and Education The city of Tampa, Florida is much more than many people associate with: sunshine, tobacco and hurricanes. Tampa also means phosphate industries, cigar-makers, film, guava fruits and many educational facilities anchored in the fascinating history of Florida. The modern history of Tampa starts with the Spanish explorer Narváez who landed near present-day Tampa. But the expedition was ill-fated and had to be rescued by the Hernando de Soto party. Ruled by Spain for the most part, the United States purchased Florida from Spain in 1821 in order to eliminate the southern refuge for renegade slaves. In the 1880s, Tampa became boom town when phosphate was discovered in the Bone Valley Tampa region. Today Tampas port still ships millions of tons of phosphate annually; the term phosphate capital of the world was coined. Besides phosphate, Tampas other capital of the world label was for tobacco. Nearly 12,000 tabaqueros (cigar-makers) were employed in 200 factories. Ybor City produced an estimated 700 million cigars a year at the industrys peak. Some largely unknown facts about Tampa are worth knowing and quite interesting. Tampa Bay is a popular birding site. The breeding population of the region totals 35,000-45,000 nesting pairs annually at more than 20 sites. Besides its names originating from phosphate and tobacco, Tampa is also known as the Big Guava. Guavas are yellow, pear-shaped tropical fruits found in Tampa. Ybor City guava delicacies include guava jelly, guava paste, guava turnovers and pickled guavas, which are usually displayed in the areas guava cooking contests. The film industry loves sunshine, infrastructure and scenic sites all of which Tampa has a plenty. There is a large number of films (or portions of it) which were shot in Tampa Bay, including China Moon, Cocoon, Edward Scissor hands, Lethal Weapon III, My Girl, Wilder Napalm, Parent Trap II, Once Upon A Time In America, and Oceans 11. Education is another area when Tampa Bay resident can be proud of. For example, Hillsborough High School is one of the Souths oldest high schools. Later, due to the increasing high school population in the Tampa area, a second high school was founded and named after the third president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson. A third high school deserves mentioning: Freedom High School in located in New Tampa. It was named in honor of those who lost their lives on September 11, 2001. Tampa high school students can choose from three specialized programs: Technical, Architecture Environmental Design, or Health. These three programs are also indicative of the importance of how to make a living in modern day Tampa. The Tampa Bay area boasts dozens of higher education institutions and universities. Foremost the University of South-Florida, also known as USF, is a member of the State University System of Florida and a public research university. USF is the fourth-largest public university in the state of Florida, with a total enrollment of 47,646 as of the 2012â€"2013 academic year. The University of Tampa (UT) is a private university in Downtown Tampa which recently celebrated its 75th anniversary. UT offers over 150 undergraduate degree options, along with 12 masters degree programs in accounting, finance, business administration, education, marketing, nursing and creative writing. For the seventh year in a row, UT has been named by The Princeton Review as an outstanding business school for its 2013 edition. Going hand-in-hand with the plethora of educational facilities are the many fine tutors of Tampa some of which are found on TutorZ.com, for example, Tampa economics tutors, Tampa History tutors,  Tampa Psychology tutors and Tampa Algebra tutors. While being a major city of the world, one thing though puzzles me about Tampa is a law that unmarried women in Tampa, who parachute on Sundays, may be jailed.  Can anyone explain this curious fact?