HSCC By-Box Pre-65 Touring Car Silverstone Finals 2015
This is on-board footage from Tim Harbers Austin Mini in the HSCC By-Box Pre-1965 Touring cars race at the HSCC Silverstone Finals meeting 2015.
Driving through Great Leighs Essex UK.
Driving through Great Leighs, note the tractor taking up all the road, but at least he let me pass..
Bird Friendly Gardens, Bird Friendly People - Don Burke
Presentation at the September 14th 2016 FSA meeting.
Don Burke will be well known to all Australians as the creator of the TV Lifestyle genre with his Burke's Backyard program that ran for 18 years. Don has kept a range of aviary birds for some 62 years, including Beautiful and Red-eared Firetails.
Details of the plants (given out at the meeting) is reproduced below...
AVIARY NESTING SHRUBS.
Native Plants
Acacia howittii 'Honey Bun' (dwarf wattle) Ht 1.5m
Baeckea virgata 'Miniature' (or Dwarf) Ht 2.5m
Callistemon (dwarf bottlebrushes): 'All Aglow' Ht 2.5m
'Better John' Ht 1.5m
'Green John' Ht 1.5m
'Captain Cook' Ht 2.5m
'Matthew Flinders' Ht lm+
'Saint Mary Mackillop' Ht 2.5m
'Scarlet Flame' Ht 2m
Casuarina glauca 'Greenwave' (dwf sheoak) Ht 2m
Melaleuca linariifolia 'Claret Tops' (dwf paperback) Ht 1.5m+
Rhagodia spinescens (creeping salt bush) Ht 0.5m
Westringia fruticosa 'Naringa' Ht 2m+
Climbers...many, try the Wonga vine (pandorea pandorana)
Exotic Plants
Abelia grandiflora 'Compacta' Ht 1-2m Escallonia 'Dwarf Pink' Ht 1-2m
Euonymus 'Easy Hedge' Ht 1.5m
Food Plants
Chickweed, Guinea Grass, Panic Veldt grass (for shade), Summer grass. Summer Grass is a member of the digitaria genus which has been shown to be a key genus for bird and human health (Google Fonio Digitaria.exilis).
Late Monet Symposium Part One
Poetry and Anguish: Monet’s Water Lilies
Robert Gordon, independent scholar, New York
The Art of Biography and the Biography of Art: Writing about Claude Monet
Ross King, author of Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies, Woodstock, United Kingdom
Monet’s Grandes Décorations
Marine Kisiel, curator of paintings, Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Moderated by George T. M. Shackelford, deputy director, Kimbell Art Museum
kimbellart.org/event/symposium-0
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
Six-time Oscar-nominated romantic classic about a staid schoolmaster whose heart is thawed by a beautiful young woman. Robert Donat (The 39 Steps) received an Oscar for his moving performance. Oscar-winner Greer Garson (Mrs. Miniver, Madame Curie) received an Oscar-nomination as the woman who steals his heart. Co-starring Paul Henreid (Casablanca). Recently selected by the prestigious American Film Institute as one of the greatest American films of all time and added Arthur Chipping to its' list of 50 Greatest Heroes.
Black Lace - Superman. Top Of The Pops 1983
Good quality video recorded from Top Of The Pops 1983. Black Lace is a British pop group best known for novelty party records, including their biggest hit, Agadoo. The band first came to the public eye after being selected to represent the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest 1979 in which they finished seventh with the song Mary Ann. With numerous lineup changes, Black Lace went on to have success with a number of lightweight party anthems such as Superman, Agadoo and Do The Conga. A duo still performs under the name of Black Lace, but neither current band member was in the group when it was formed or when it enjoyed its biggest chart success.
Terry Dobson and school pal Ian Howarth formed The Impact as a five-piece pop group in 1969 with Alan Barton, Steve Scholey and Nigel Scott. The group also performed under the names Penny Arcade and Love or Confusion.
Howarth left the band for a short while but returned to the line-up in 1974, Dobson also left to be replaced briefly by Neil Hardcastle, Dobson then re-joined and Nigel Scott left in 1974; That same year the band adopted the name Black Lace. Howarth left the band for good in 1976 and was replaced by Colin Gibb (born Colin Routh, 8 December 1953).
The (now Professional) four members of Black Lace 1976 - 1981:
Alan Barton (lead singer and guitar)
Colin Gibb (guitar, bass and backing vocals)
Steve Scholey (bass and backing vocals)
Terry Dobson (drums and backing vocals)
The band was managed by Keith Mills and played their first summer season at the Beer Garten, Bottons Fun Park in Skegness, Lincolnshire. In 1977, they enjoyed a number of successes playing a summer season at Butlins in Skegness & Filey. They released an EP to be sold at shows and were voted Yorkshire Band of the Year by BBC Radio Leeds and voted best clubland group at a show in the Winter Gardens Blackpool.
In 1978, Black Lace recorded their first single, Mary Ann, for ATV music and a record deal quickly followed with EMI. The song won the BBC's A Song For Europe. Other television appearances around this time included BBC Nationwide, Multi-Coloured Swapshop with Noel Edmonds, Top of the Pops and Juke Box Jury. At the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest, held in Israel, the band finished seventh and Mary Ann only reached number 42 in the UK charts, one of the lowest chart positions for any Eurovision entry at that time.
The band's follow-up single, So Long Suzy Baby, failed to stir interest but Black Lace continued live performances, notably at the festivals Sopot in Poland and Golden Orpheus in Bulgaria, and TV shows in East Germany, West Germany and Spain. By this time Black Lace is said to have played to an international TV audience estimated at over 2.5 million people but the success was tarnished by a rift between the band and its manager and a split from record label EMI.
The band toured Denmark in 1980 supporting Suzi Quatro and working with Tommy Seebach, a Danish entertainer. Black Lace and Seebach recorded Hey Hey Jock McRay for the Danish singles market, but an intended 1980 tour of Poland was called off because of political unrest in the country.
On 4 November 2009 the new incarnation of Black Lace was filmed by British airline easyJet performing a re-written version of Agadoo, launching a new air service between Gatwick airport and Agadir in Morocco, for release on the video-sharing website YouTube.
Founder-member Terry Dobson is still playing the drums in the Wakefield band Mr Twister. His book And Then Came Agadoo was published by Authorhouse in November 2009. In it Dobson describes starting up the band with Ian Howarth in 1969, Dobson's life and times and his continued friendship with band members past and present.
Colin Gibb remains in Tenerife, continues to play Black Lace shows and is still represented by Now Music and manager John Wagstaff.
Dene Michael and Ian Robinson recorded a new version of Music Man for BBC Children in Need 2009, and are also represented by Now Music and John Wagstaff. In 2010 they recorded yet another version of Music Man, this time entitled We Are The England Fans, as an unofficial England supporters' song to coincide with the 2010 FIFA World Cup. The record, thanks to there being no publicity whatsoever, unsurprisingly flopped.
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2018 Virtual Convocation Ceremony :: 19 May
00:13 Director's Welcome Address
13:31 Student Speaker: Felicity Murphy
26:51 Convocation Speaker: Jim Neal
38:17 Director's Concluding Remarks
39:48 Student Convocation Video
2016-09-08 KCCD Board Meeting
2016-09-08 KCCD Regular Board Meeting
VICTORIA BOND: The Crowded Hours (Trumpet Concerto)
Mark Ridenour, trumpet; Ray Frewen, narrator; Chicago College of Performing Arts Wind Ensemble; Stephen Squires, conductor
from Albany TROY1723
The presidents honored in this album fundamentally altered the structure and development of the United States. Composer Victoria Bond, in collaboration with librettist Myles Lee, MD, has written four concertos for soloist and narrator: “Soul of a Nation” (from which the title of the album was derived) is a portrait of Thomas Jefferson; “The Indispensable Man” illuminates Franklin Roosevelt; “The Crowded Hours” presents Theodore Roosevelt; and “Pater Patriae” honors George Washington. As portraits of personal character, each piece illustrates the inner turmoil each man endured on his journey to immortality. Soloists from the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (Frank Almond, Concertmaster), and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (John Bruce Yeh, assistant principal clarinet and Mark Ridenour, assistant principal trumpet), and Gabriela Vargas (flute) join narrators Adrian Dunn, Henry Fogel, Ray Frewen, and David Holloway. Emanuele Andrizzi and Stephen Squires conduct the chamber orchestra and wind ensemble from the Chicago College of performing Arts at Roosevelt University.
Contents:
Victoria Bond, composer
Soul of a Nation: Concerto for Violin and String Ensemble
Frank Almond, violin; Henry Fogel, narrator; Roosevelt University Chamber Orchestra; Emanuele Andrizzi, conductor
Victoria Bond, composer
The Indispensable Man: Concerto for Clarinet and Wind Ensemble
John Bruce Yeh, clarinet; David Holloway, narrator; Chicago College of Performing Arts Wind Ensemble; Stephen Squires, conductor
Victoria Bond, composer
The Crowded Hours: Concerto for Trumpet and Wind Ensemble
Mark Ridenour, trumpet; Ray Frewen, narrator; Chicago College of Performing Arts Wind Ensemble; Stephen Squires, conductor
Victoria Bond, composer
Pater Patriae: Concerto for Flute and Wind Ensemble
Gabriela Vargas, flute; Adrian Dunn, narrator; Chicago College of Performing Arts Wind Ensemble; Stephen Squires, conductor
Board of Supervisors - November 5, 2019 Morning Session
The Board of Supervisors is the governing body of the County of Sacramento. There are five members of the Board and each represents one of five Districts. Board of Supervisor meetings are open to the public to attend. Meeting agendas are available at: sccob.saccounty.net
Durham City Council May 6, 2019
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Call to Order 2:15
Moment of Silent Meditation 2:33
Pledge of Allegiance 2:56
Roll Call 4:18
National Drinking Water Week 4:48
Children’s Mental Health Awareness Month 13:06
History Moment: Mr. Earl Pollock 17:21
Announcements by Council 26:21
Priority Items by the City Manager, City Attorney and City Clerk 33:13
Consent Agenda 33:35
1. Housing Appeals Board - Appointments 37:25 and 49:47
23. 2018-2019 Durham Youth Commission Annual Report 38:04
25. 2019 First Quarter Crime Report 50:17
26. Patterson Place Compact Suburban Design (CSD) District Text Amendment and Zoning Map Change (TC1800009 and Z1800030) 2:08:35 (continued until Aug 5, 2019 Council meeting)
27. Oregon Street Closing 3:41:10 (continued until June 3, 2019 Council meeting)
28. Unified Development Ordinance Text Amendment, Tree Coverage and Landscaping Revisions 4:08:40 (referred back to administration)
29. Consolidated Annexation Item – November Drive Annexation 4:18:43
6. Resolution in Recognition of the Life of El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz A.K.A. Malcolm X. 4:22:07
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Amelia Earhart | Wikipedia audio article
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Amelia Earhart
00:01:04 1 Early life
00:01:13 1.1 Childhood
00:02:49 1.2 Early influence
00:04:32 1.3 Education
00:05:17 1.4 Family fortunes
00:07:51 1.5 Spanish flu pandemic of 1918
00:09:10 1.6 Early flying experiences
00:12:16 2 Aviation career and marriage
00:12:26 2.1 Financial crisis
00:13:24 2.2 Boston
00:15:00 2.3 Transatlantic flight in 1928
00:17:15 2.4 Celebrity image
00:19:06 2.5 Promoting aviation
00:20:06 2.6 Competitive flying
00:22:53 2.7 Marriage to George Putnam
00:24:51 3 Transatlantic solo flight in 1932
00:26:48 3.1 Additional solo flights
00:29:08 4 Move from New York to California
00:30:58 5 World flight in 1937
00:31:09 5.1 Planning
00:33:25 5.2 First attempt
00:34:44 5.3 Second attempt
00:35:48 5.4 Departure from Lae
00:38:21 5.5 Radio equipment
00:45:12 5.6 Nearing Howland Island
00:49:38 5.7 Radio signals
00:55:12 5.8 Search efforts
00:59:34 6 Speculation on disappearance
01:00:31 6.1 Crash and sink theory
01:05:31 6.2 Gardner Island hypothesis
01:14:53 6.3 Japanese capture theory
01:19:11 6.4 Myths, legends, and claims
01:19:34 6.4.1 Spies for FDR
01:20:21 6.4.2 Tokyo Rose
01:20:51 6.4.3 New Britain
01:22:53 6.4.4 Assuming another identity
01:24:07 7 Legacy
01:25:33 7.1 Memorial flights
01:27:26 7.2 Other honors
01:34:45 8 In popular culture
01:38:31 9 Records and achievements
01:40:09 10 Books by Earhart
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- Socrates
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Amelia Mary Earhart (, born July 24, 1897; disappeared July 2, 1937) was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She received the United States Distinguished Flying Cross for this accomplishment. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. In 1935, Earhart became a visiting faculty member at Purdue University as an advisor to aeronautical engineering and a career counselor to women students. She was also a member of the National Woman's Party and an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment.During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Model 10-E Electra, Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Fascination with her life, career, and disappearance continues to this day.
A Virtual Art Exhibition by Coastal Gallery Lymington
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Great A-10 Thunderbolt Tactical Demo
United States Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II Tactical aerial aerobatic demonstration performed by Lt. Colonel Jeff Lowery of the 12th Air Force and A-10 West demonstration team based at Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona. This demonstration was performed at Phoenix Mesa Gateway Airport in Mesa, Arizona on April 9, 2000 and includes excellent pyrotechnic demonstrations to simulate strafing runs and large weaponry deployment.
St. Augustine, Florida
St. Augustine (Spanish: San Agustín) is a city in Northeast Florida and the oldest continuously occupied European-established settlement and port in the continental United States. The county seat of St. Johns County, it is part of Florida's First Coast region and the Jacksonville metropolitan area. According to the 2010 census, the city population was 12,975. The St. Augustine urban area has a population of 69,173.
San Agustín was founded in September 1565 by Spanish admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, and subsequently served as the capital of Spanish Florida for two hundred years. It remained the capital of East Florida as the territory changed hands between the Spanish and British, and remained the capital of the Florida Territory until it was moved to Tallahassee in 1824. Since the late 19th century, its historical character has made the city a major tourist attraction. It is the headquarters for the Florida National Guard.
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Yale | Wikipedia audio article
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Yale
00:02:46 1 History
00:02:55 1.1 Early history of Yale College
00:03:05 1.1.1 Origins
00:04:42 1.1.2 Naming and development
00:06:29 1.1.3 Curriculum
00:08:13 1.1.4 Students
00:09:04 1.2 19th century
00:11:10 1.2.1 Sports and debate
00:14:00 1.2.2 Expansion
00:15:58 1.3 20th century
00:16:07 1.3.1 Behavioral sciences
00:17:17 1.3.2 Biology
00:18:29 1.3.3 Medicine
00:19:26 1.3.4 Faculty
00:19:52 1.3.5 History and American studies
00:20:48 1.3.6 Women
00:22:41 1.3.7 Class
00:23:07 1.3.8 Town–gown relations
00:23:51 1.4 21st century
00:30:58 2 Administration and organization
00:31:09 2.1 Leadership
00:32:52 2.2 Staff and labor unions
00:34:37 3 Campus
00:40:29 3.1 Notable nonresidential campus buildings
00:42:29 3.2 Relationship with New Haven
00:43:00 3.2.1 Campus safety
00:44:20 4 Academics
00:44:29 4.1 Admissions
00:46:12 4.2 Collections
00:48:23 4.3 Rankings
00:49:04 4.4 Faculty, research, and intellectual traditions
00:51:35 5 Campus life
00:52:08 5.1 Residential colleges
00:53:56 5.1.1 Calhoun College
00:57:07 5.2 Student organizations
01:00:01 5.3 Traditions
01:01:02 5.4 Athletics
01:04:13 5.4.1 Song
01:05:01 5.4.2 Mascot
01:05:33 6 Notable people
01:05:42 6.1 Benefactors
01:06:51 6.2 Notable alumni and faculty
01:11:37 7 In fiction and popular culture
01:12:38 8 Notes and references
01:12:48 9 Further reading
01:12:57 9.1 Secret societies
01:13:26 10 External links
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Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine Colonial Colleges chartered before the American Revolution.Chartered by Connecticut Colony, the Collegiate School was established by clergy to educate Congregational ministers. It moved to New Haven in 1716 and shortly after was renamed Yale College in recognition of a gift from British East India Company governor Elihu Yale. Originally restricted to theology and sacred languages, the curriculum began to incorporate humanities and sciences by the time of the American Revolution. In the 19th century, the college expanded into graduate and professional instruction, awarding the first Ph.D. in the United States in 1861 and organizing as a university in 1887. Its faculty and student populations grew after 1890 with rapid expansion of the physical campus and scientific research.
Yale is organized into fourteen constituent schools: the original undergraduate college, the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and twelve professional schools. While the university is governed by the Yale Corporation, each school's faculty oversees its curriculum and degree programs. In addition to a central campus in downtown New Haven, the University owns athletic facilities in western New Haven, a campus in West Haven, Connecticut and forest and nature preserves throughout New England. The university's assets include an endowment valued at $29.4 billion as of October 2018, the second largest endowment of any educational institution in the world. The Yale University Library, serving all constituent schools, holds more than 15 million volumes and is the third-largest academic library in the United States.Yale College undergraduates follow a liberal arts curriculum with departmental majors and are organized into a social system of residential colleges. Almost all faculty teach undergraduate courses, more than 2,000 of which are offered annually. Students compete intercollegiately as the Yale Bulldogs in the NCAA Division I – Ivy League.
As of October 2018, 61 Nobel laureates, 5 Fields Medalists and 3 Turing award winners have been affiliated with Yale University. In addition, Yale has graduated many notable alumni, including five U.S. Presidents, 19 U.S. Supreme Court Justices, 20 living billionaires and many heads of state. Hundreds of members of Congress and many U.S. diplomats, 78 MacArthur Fellows, 247 Rhodes ...
University of York | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:47 1 History
00:02:56 1.1 Origins
00:04:02 1.2 Establishment
00:06:11 1.3 Expansion
00:10:01 2 Campus
00:10:11 2.1 Heslington West campus
00:14:27 2.1.1 Heslington Hall
00:15:48 2.2 King's Manor
00:17:20 2.3 Heslington East campus
00:18:04 2.4 Science Park and on-campus organisations
00:18:54 2.5 Other properties
00:19:23 3 Organisation and administration
00:19:34 3.1 Colleges
00:21:21 3.2 Academic departments
00:22:34 3.3 Governance
00:22:43 3.3.1 List of Chancellors
00:23:24 3.3.2 List of Vice-Chancellors
00:24:16 4 Academic profile
00:24:26 4.1 Reputation and academic rankings
00:26:44 4.2 Admissions and enrolment
00:27:18 4.3 Official teaching statistics
00:27:28 4.4 Research assessment
00:29:04 5 Student activities
00:29:15 5.1 Representation
00:30:24 5.2 Media
00:33:34 5.3 Sports
00:33:44 5.4 Arts
00:36:35 6 Notable alumni and academics
00:39:41 7 Notes
00:41:39 8 References
00:43:30 9 External links
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- Socrates
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The University of York (abbreviated as Ebor or York for post-nominals) is a collegiate plate glass research university, located in the city of York, England. Established in 1963, the campus university has expanded to more than thirty departments and centres, covering a wide range of subjects.
Situated to the south-east of the city of York, the university campus is about 500 acres (200 hectares) in size. The original Heslington West (or Campus West) campus incorporates the York Science Park and the National Science Learning Centre, and its wildlife, campus lakes and greenery are prominent. In May 2007 the university was granted permission to build an extension to its main campus, on arable land just east of the nearby village of Heslington. The second campus, known as Heslington East or Campus East, opened in 2009 and now hosts three colleges and three departments as well as conference spaces, a sports village and a business start-up 'incubator'. The institution also leases King's Manor in York city centre. The university had a total income of £331.4 million in 2016/17, of which £66.0 million was from research grants and contracts.York is a collegiate university and every student is allocated to one of the university's nine colleges. The ninth college was founded in 2014 and was named Constantine after the Roman emperor Constantine I, who was proclaimed Augustus in York in 306 AD. There are plans to build two new colleges in the near future.In 2012, York joined the Russell Group of research-intensive British universities. It was ranked joint 12th in the UK amongst multi-faculty institutions for the quality (GPA) of its research and 24th for its Research Power in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework. The 2019 national ranking of York is 12th by The Guardian and 22nd by The Times and in 2020 it was ranked 30th by The Complete University Guide; internationally it ranked 134th (QS) and 119th (THE) for 2019, 128th (CWTS) and between 301-400 (ARWU) for 2018 (see below).
St. Augustine, Florida | Wikipedia audio article
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St. Augustine, Florida
00:01:52 1 History
00:02:00 1.1 Founding by Pedro Menéndez de Avilés
00:05:53 1.2 Invasions by pirates and enemies of Spain
00:08:46 1.3 Loyalist haven under British rule
00:09:46 1.4 Second Spanish period
00:10:43 1.5 Territory of Florida
00:11:32 1.6 Civil War
00:12:04 1.7 Henry Flagler and the railroad
00:13:59 1.8 Civil Rights movement
00:16:27 1.9 Modern St. Augustine
00:17:33 2 Geography and climate
00:20:37 3 Demographics
00:23:29 4 Transportation
00:23:38 4.1 Highways
00:24:07 4.2 Buses
00:24:30 4.3 Airport
00:25:11 5 Points of interest
00:25:20 5.1 First and second Spanish eras
00:26:08 5.2 British era
00:26:19 5.3 Pre-Flagler era
00:26:33 5.4 Flagler era
00:27:06 5.5 Historic churches
00:27:27 5.6 Lincolnville National Historic District – Civil Rights era
00:27:41 5.7 Other points of interest
00:28:03 6 Sister cities
00:28:26 7 Education
00:30:21 8 Notable people
00:33:26 9 Gallery
00:33:34 10 See also
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- Socrates
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St. Augustine (Spanish: San Agustín) is a city in the Southeastern United States, on the Atlantic coast of northeastern Florida. Founded in 1565 by Spanish explorers, it is the oldest continuously inhabited European-established settlement within the borders of the continental United States.The county seat of St. Johns County, St. Augustine is part of Florida's First Coast region and the Jacksonville metropolitan area. According to the 2010 census, the city's population was 12,975. The United States Census Bureau's 2013 estimate of the city's population was 13,679, while the urban area had a population of 71,379 in 2012.St. Augustine was founded on September 8, 1565, by Spanish admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Florida's first governor. He named the settlement San Agustín, as his ships bearing settlers, troops, and supplies from Spain had first sighted land in Florida eleven days earlier on August 28, the feast day of St. Augustine. The city served as the capital of Spanish Florida for over 200 years. It was designated as the capital of British East Florida when the colony was established in 1763 until it was ceded to Spain in 1783.
Spain ceded Florida to the United States in 1819, and St. Augustine was designated the capital of the Florida Territory upon ratification of the Adams–Onís Treaty in 1821. The Florida National Guard made the city its headquarters that same year. The territorial government moved and made Tallahassee the capital in 1824. Since the late 19th century, St. Augustine's distinct historical character has made the city a major tourist attraction.