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Aviation & Space

Astronaut Memorial Planetarium and Observatory - Offers a guide to objects found in the night sky over central Florida and the planetarium shows and schedules.

Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex

Spaceflight Now Tracking Station
Space Online - From Florida Today, provides international launch schedules, current and archived space articles from Florida Today, NASA status reports, and international space station reports.

Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum & TICO Airshow - A museum dedicated to the preservation of aviation history.

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Entertainment

Brevard Live - an entertainment magazine for the Space Coast listing music, festivals, movies, arts, and dining.

Brevard Movie Listings - Offers movie titles and times and links to movie website.

Florida Today's Entertainment Listing - Community events, arts and literature, outdoor activities, dining, attractions and daytrips, music, and nightlife.

Internet Movie Database - Search by movie or TV title, cast or crew member, character name. This site will provide credits, awards and reviews, plot and quotes, trivia, soundtrack goofs, information about merchandising, filming locations, promotional information and links to other related Webpages for 210,000 movies (including made-for-tv).

Mr. Showbiz - Offers entertainment news, a movie guide featuring new releases, over 30,000 movie summaries (cast, credits, biographies) TV news and schedules, discussions of current entertainment and new book reviews, trivia, games (including a plastic surgery mix-and-match-your-favorite-stars facial features) music, news, and biographies.

Reel Classics: Elizabeth's Classic Movie Homepage - A site devoted to classic movies, its stars, directors, studios and more

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Gardening

Brevard County Extension Service - Offers horticultural advice, identification of plants and pests, and publications on local gardening issues.

Project Backyard Brevard - Encourages citizens of Brevard County to preserve, create or maintain a habitat that is beneficial to local wildlife.

Garden Web – Features largest gardening forums on the web. Offers links to a searchable database of plant images and information, exchanges and trading and calendar of garden events.

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General Information

Inside Central Florida - This site includes happenings in Brevard as well as the whole Central Florida area. Site offers information (including discounts) on theme parks, attractions, movies, dining, TV highlights and schedules, bars and clubs, art and performances, celebrities, games and lottery, museums, galleries, radio, sights, and what is happening in Central Florida.

Space Coast Office of Tourism - Links to activities, attractions, accommodations in Brevard.

Space Coast Teens - Features activities, programs, resources and links for Brevard teens

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Historical

Brevard Museum of History and Natural Science - Strives to educate the public about our regional cultural heritage and to preserve historical artifacts and natural history specimens.

Cape Canaveral Lighthouse - Offers history and tour information.

McLarty Treasure Museum - View archeological treasures from the wreck of the Spanish Plate Fleet in 1715.

North Brevard Historical Museum- Offers a history of north Brevard settlement and communities, the Windover archaelogical digs, the Harry and Harriette Moore story, an historic downtown tour, and postcards from the early years.

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Nature, Outdoors & Wildlife

American Trails - Representing a national organization, this site provides links and information on a variety of recreational trails throughout the United States and Canada. It also lists trail organizations, agencies, support groups and training opportunities, such as wilderness first aid training.

Brevard Parks and Recreation Department - Lists county parks by area and features, camps and recreational activities, golf courses

Brevard Zoo - Offers a look at its animals, specials events, educational programs and camps and volunteer opportunities.

Canaveral National Seashore - Offers 24 miles of undeveloped beach, walking and canoe trails, horseback riding, and camping.

Enchanted Forest Sanctuary– Explore walking and learning trails in one of the last remaining large tracts of coastal hardwood forest in east central Florida

Marine Resources Council – Focuses on issues affecting the Indian River Lagoon through its programs on shoreline restoration, water quality monitoring and right whale watching.

Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge – Located at Kennedy Space Center , offers a wildlife driving tour to view migratory birds and animals, hiking trails, a manatee observation deck, river fishing, and educational programs.

Samson's Island Nature Park– Located in Satellite Beach , offers hiking, fishing, camping and birdwatching.

Sea Turtle Preservation Society – Volunteers are dedicated to education on sea turtle biology and conservation.

Sebastian Inlet State Park– Offers boating, camping, fishing, swimming, and surfing.

Space Coast Audubon Society– Offers info about local field trips, their Christmas Bird Count, and Bluebird nesting project.

Space Coast Flyway Festival – Bird and wildlife viewing sites in Brevard.

Turkey Creek Sanctuary Park – Located in Palm Bay , a passive 113-acre recreation area presrved in its natural condition.

Weather Buoys Offshore – Interactive marine observations from NOAA.

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Sports

Brevard Blue Ducks – Brevard’s United States Basketball League team, playing at the Clemente Center at Florida Institute of Technology.

Brevard County Manatees – Minor league baseball team of the 1998 World Series Champion Florida Marlins. Schedules, ticket prices, players, coaches, statistics and press releases.

Florida Marlins –Major leaugue baseball Ticket info, spring training and regular season schedules, player stats and press releases.

Space Coast Brevard County Golf Courses - Provides details on fees and services, the pro shop, special events and weather forecasts.

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Surfing

CFL Waves - Provides local surf report and webcams. Offers links to other Florida surf reports and web cams from Neptune Beach to Miami .

2nd Light - Local site providing surf cams, reports and a discussion board on various topics from fishing to surfing.

Surfcam - This site offers the option to sign up for surf alerts via email, cell phone, pager and PDA. Provides links to related sites and a web cam of Melbourne Beach .

Surf Conditions - Surf forecast for four Brevard locations.

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And don't forget--if your search for an answer didn't prove successful, contact the Reference Desk at your nearest Brevard County public library location.

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