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Tampa, FloridaTampa is a city located in Hillsborough County, Florida. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 303,447. It is located at 27°58' North, 82°29' West. It is the county seat of Hillsborough County6.
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According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 441.9 km² (170.6 mi²). 290.3 km² (112.1 mi²) of it is land and 151.6 km² (58.5 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 34.31% water.
There are 124,758 households out of which 27.6% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 36.4% are married couples living together, 16.1% have a female householder with no husband present, and 42.9% are non-families. 33.7% of all households are made up of individuals and 10.2% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.36 and the average family size is 3.07.
In the city the population is spread out with 24.6% under the age of 18, 10.0% from 18 to 24, 32.3% from 25 to 44, 20.5% from 45 to 64, and 12.5% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 35 years. For every 100 females there are 95.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 92.1 males.
The median income for a household in the city is $34,415, and the median income for a family is $40,517. Males have a median income of $31,452 versus $26,133 for females. The per capita income for the city is $21,953. 18.1% of the population and 14.0% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 26.8% are under the age of 18 and 15.1% are 65 or older.
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the Ybor City district of Tampa was home to many Cuban and Italian immigrants, most of whom worked in the area's many cigar factories. With the advent of mechanization, the cigar factories closed, and the area fell into disrepute.
Ybor City experienced a cultural renaissance in the early 1990s, attracting many artistic types and serving as the locus for a thriving rave scene. Drug dealers began showing up in greater numbers and attracting the attention of local politicians and law enforcement. Local ordinances were passed barring all-night dance parties, and some rave clubs had their liquor licenses revoked. Then, the land developers moved in, seeking to capitalize upon the perception of Ybor City as a cutting edge cultural area. Ybor rents increased significantly, and suddenly many artists could no longer afford to live in Ybor. Local developers installed many upscale bars and a trendy shopping complex called Centro Ybor (http://www.centroybor.com/).
Despite the rave scene's collapse and the gentrification of Ybor City, Tampa remains a capital of goth subculture, revolving around The Castle (http://www.castle-ybor.com/).
Like much of Florida, Tampa's economy is heavily based on services and tourism. There is a huge net influx of cash into the area. Many wealthy people have winter houses there, and the upscale Tampa Palms [1] (http://www.tampa-palmscc.com/) neighborhood is a favorite destination for retired sports stars. Many corporations with non-locale-dependent business, such as large banks, maintain regional offices in Tampa, and the city is an extremely popular location for call centers.
Tampa boasts an extremely high incidence of strip clubs. The Mons Venus [2] (http://www.monsvenus.com/) is widely regarded as the finest strip club in the world.
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drawing-rooms in Moscow. His bald head with its tufts of dyed hair, and
of the colour of a raven's wing, began to be familiar to all the pale
dancing is going on. Pavel Petrovitch knew how to gain a footing in
of course, not when he was talking to persons of a higher rank than his
enough for six at parties. Of his wife there is scarcely anything to be
left eye, on the strength of which Kalliopa Karlovna (she was, one must
sensibility. She was always in a state of nervous agitation, seemed as
tarnished hollow bracelets. The only daughter of Pavel Petrovitch and
left the boarding-school, in which she had been reckoned, if not the
she had taken a decoration. She was not yet nineteen, when Lavretsky saw
The young Spartan's legs shook under him when Mihalevitch conducted him
presented him to them. But his overwhelming feeling of timidity soon
intensified by that special kind of geniality which is peculiar to all
were overlooked by every one; and as for Varvara Pavlovna, she was so
her presence; besides, about all her fascinating person, her smiling
light and yet languid movements, the very sound of her voice, slow and
voluptuous, tender, soft, though still modest, something which is hard
not the feeing it kindled. Lavretsky turned the conversation on the
herself to discuss Motchalov, and did not confine herself to sighs and
insight in regard to his acting. Mihalevitch spoke about music; she.
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