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The Genesis of Mosquito Control in New Zion

Keep Everlastingly at it: Florida’s War on the Mosquito Menace

The Centenary of the Florida-Anti Mosquito Association

The Mosquito Crusades: A History of the American Anti-Mosquito Movement from the Reed Commission to the First Earth Day (Studies in Modern Science, Technology, and the Environment)

Medieval History: 500 to 1450 CE Essentials: 500 to 1450 AD (Essentials Study Guides)

Florida Institute of Technology (FL) (College History) by Gordon Patterson (2000-11-09)

Dr. Patterson has received six awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 1998 and 2003, he taught the summer semesters in Seoul, Korea, and Misawa, Japan as part as part of the University of Maryland's Asian division. Patterson received a Fulbright Travel Study Grant in 2004 for research in Malaysia and Indonesia. He is the past chair of the social science section of the Florida Academy of Science, a former director of the Florida Historical Society, former director of the Florida Humanities Council, and past member of Board of Advisers to Florida Defenders of the Environment. In 1994, Dr. Patterson was named to the panel of judges for the Eugene M. Emme Astronautical Literature Award, given by the American Astronautical Society.

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