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The Florida Power and Light Company Ice Plant is a historic site in Melbourne, Florida, United States. It is located at 1604 South Harbor City... Boulevard. On November 17, 1982, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
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The James Wadsworth Rossetter House is a historic U.S. home located at 1320 Highland Avenue, Melbourne, Florida. The original address of the home was... 1328 Houston Street. On July 27, 2005, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The house is owned by The Rossetter House Foundation, Inc., managed by the Florida Historical Society, and part of the Historic Rossetter House Museum.
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Darrell Hammond is an American actor, stand-up comedian and impressionist. He was a regular on Saturday Night Live from 1995 until 2009, the... longest tenure of any cast member. Upon his departure, Hammond, at age 53, was the oldest cast member in the show's history. Hammond has made more SNL appearances than any other cast member and has impersonated more than 107 celebrities . As of December 10, 2011, he has appeared on the show eight times since leaving the cast. Hammond was born in Melbourne, Florida, the son of Margaret and Max Hammond. He graduated from Melbourne High School in 1973 where he was a star athlete who lettered in both football and baseball. Darrell was a high school baseball teammate of Bruce Bochy. He then attended Brevard Community College and the University of Florida where he majored in broadcasting. Hammond credits UF theater professor David Shelton for encouraging his work. After completing college, Hammond moved to New York City where he lived for several years before joining the cast of SNL.
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Isabel Lucas is an Australian actress. Perhaps best known for her role as Tasha Andrews on the Australian television soap opera Home and Away .... Lucas moved to Los Angeles in early 2008 and has since been featured in film and television projects including Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Immortals, The Pacific and Daybreakers. Lucas was born in Melbourne. As a child, Lucas lived in Cairns, Queensland. She also lived in Switzerland and Kakadu, in the Northern Territory. She has a Swiss mother and an Australian father and speaks German and French in addition to her native English. Lucas went to St. Monica's College in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. Lucas was involved in drama during her school years and attended courses at Victorian College of Arts and Queensland University of Technology. But Lucas had never pursued commercial roles until Sharron Meissner, a Sydney talent agent, 'discovered' Lucas while she was vacationing in Port Douglas.
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C.J. is an Association of Surfing Professionals World Championship surfer. C.J. has a twin brother, Damien Hobgood, who both compete in the... East. C.J. entered his first surfing contest in 1989 and made the Open Boys final. He placed second in a national competition the following year. He won several other championships and in 1998 he was selected as the model for the new NSSA logo. In 1999, CJ was the Association Surfer Professionals Rookie of the Year. In 2001 he won the ASP World Championship. He currently resides in Satellite Beach, Florida with his wife and daughter, near his younger brother Travis, his younger sister Marissa, and his parents. Along with surfing, C.J. is also a great tennis player, and his filmography includes Noahs Ark, The Outsiders produced by Walkingonwater.org, Down the Barrel , Inaugural Hobgood Challenge , Somewhere, Anywhere, Everywhere. He has recently won the 2007 US Open of Surfing. C.J. is a 1997 graduate of Satellite High School. His twin brother Damien is a 1997 Satellite High graduate as well. C.J. and Damien operate The Goods Surf and Skate in Indialantic, Florida.
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Bill Weeden is an actor.

James Douglas "Jim" Morrison was the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band The Doors, as well as a poet. Following The Doors' explosive rise to... fame in 1967, Morrison developed a severe alcohol and drug dependency that culminated in his death at the age of 27 in Paris. He is presumed to have died from a heroin overdose, but as no autopsy was performed, the events surrounding his death and the exact cause of it continue to be disputed by many to this day. Morrison was well known for often improvising spoken word poetry passages while the band played live. Due to his wild personality and performances, he is regarded by critics and fans as one of the most iconic, charismatic and pioneering frontmen in rock music history. Morrison was ranked number 47 on Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Singers of All Time", and number 22 on Classic Rock Magazine's "50 Greatest Singers In Rock". James Douglas Morrison was born in Melbourne, Florida, to future Rear Admiral George Stephen Morrison and Clara Morrison.
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Brian Carpenter is an American composer, multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and radio producer. He is the lead singer and songwriter for the... Boston, Massachusetts band Beat Circus. His primary instrument is the trumpet. He also leads the Ghost Train Orchestra in New York City. He currently resides in Arlington, Massachusetts. Brian Carpenter was born in Melbourne, Florida. He first attended the University of Florida in the mid-1990s, where he studied engineering and became part of the burgeoning music scene in Gainesville, Florida. He moved to Boston in 2000 and began hosting a radio show on WZBC-FM in Newton, Massachusetts and formed the band Beat Circus in 2002. In 2009 he revealed his son had high-functioning autism. After the formation of Beat Circus, Carpenter began composing a "Weird American Gothic" trilogy of albums, starting with Dreamland, released on the Cuneiform label in 2008, a song cycle loosely based on the Coney Island theme park of the same name. Boy From Black Mountain followed in 2009 with Southern folk songs inspired by his son and his father's life growing up as a farmer in the Florida Panhandle.
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