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- 1510s establishments in Cuba
- 1515 establishments in North America
- 1515 establishments in the Spanish West Indies
- Capitals in North America
- Capitals in the Caribbean
- Populated places established in 1515
- Port cities in Cuba
- Provinces of Cuba
- World Heritage Sites in Cuba
A Coruña
A Coruña (La Coruña; also informally called just Coruña; historical English: Corunna or The Groyne) is a city and municipality in Galicia, Spain.
Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro
Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro, is the oldest and most prestigious fine arts school in Cuba.
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Adolphe Alphand
Jean-Charles Adolphe Alphand (26 October 1817 – 6 December 1891) was a French engineer of the Corps of Bridges and Roads.
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Aerogaviota
Aerogaviota is an airline based in Havana, Cuba.
Afro-Cubans
Afro-Cubans (Afrocubano) or Black Cubans are Cubans of full or partial sub-Saharan African ancestry.
Aix-les-Bains
Aix-les-Bains (Èx-los-Bens; Aquae Gratianae),known locally and simply as Aix, is a commune in the southeastern French department of Savoie.
Alamar
For the film see Alamar (film) Alamar, also known as Alamar-Playa, is a district in east part of the city of La Habana in Cuba, part of the municipio of Habana del Este.
Alameda de Paula
The Alameda de Paula is a promenade in Havana, Cuba.
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Albear Aqueduct
The Acueducto de Albear is the name of a water supply system of the city of Havana, Cuba, built in the 19th century by Francisco de Albear.
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Albert Anastasia
Umberto "Albert" Anastasia (né Anastasio; September 26, 1902 – October 25, 1957) was an Italian-American mobster, hitman and crime boss.
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Alcohol (drug)
Alcohol, sometimes referred to by the chemical name ethanol, is one of the most widely used and abused psychoactive drugs in the world and falls under the depressant category.
Alejo Carpentier
Alejo Carpentier y Valmont (December 26, 1904 – April 24, 1980) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist who greatly influenced Latin American literature during its famous "boom" period.
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Alfonso XIII
Alfonso XIII (Spanish: Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Habsburgo-Lorena; French: Alphonse Léon Ferdinand Marie Jacques Isidore Pascal Antoine de Bourbon; 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941), also known as El Africano or the African due to his Africanist views, was King of Spain from his birth until 14 April 1931, when the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed.
Almendares River
The Almendares River is a river that runs for 47 km in the western part of Cuba.
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Amelia Peláez
Amelia Peláez del Casal (January 5, 1897 – April 8, 1968) was an important Cuban painter of the Avant-garde generation.
American Civil War
The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.
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Aníbal de Mar
Aníbal de Mar (born Evaristo Simón Domínguez, October 26, 1918 – February 22, 1980) was a Cuban actor who played the character of El Tremendo Juez in the radio show La Tremenda Corte (1942) that even nowadays is still broadcast by several latinoamerican radio stations, forming a funny duo with Leopoldo Fernández (Tres Patines), with whom he joined to make the musical-comedy duo of Pototo and Filomeno.
Ancient Greek architecture
Ancient Greek architecture came from the Greeks, or Hellenes, whose culture flourished on the Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands, and in colonies in Anatolia and Italy for a period from about 900 BC until the 1st century AD, with the earliest remaining architectural works dating from around 600 BC.
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Ancient Roman architecture
Ancient Roman architecture adopted the external language of classical ancient Greek architecture for the purposes of the ancient Romans, but was different from Greek buildings, becoming a new architectural style.
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Ann Miller
Ann Miller (born Johnnie Lucille Collier; April 12, 1923 – January 22, 2004) was an American actress and dancer.
Anna Pavlova
Anna Pavlovna Pavlova (born Anna Matveyevna Pavlova; – 23 January 1931) was a Russian prima ballerina.
Antilles
The Antilles is an archipelago bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the south and west, the Gulf of Mexico to the northwest, and the Atlantic Ocean to the north and east.
Antonio Maceo
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Arawakan languages
Arawakan (Arahuacan, Maipuran Arawakan, "mainstream" Arawakan, Arawakan proper), also known as Maipurean (also Maipuran, Maipureano, Maipúre), is a language family that developed among ancient indigenous peoples in South America.
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Architectural design competition
An architectural design competition is a type of design competition in which an organization that intends on constructing a new building invites architects to submit design proposals.
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Architectural League of New York
The Architectural League of New York is a non-profit organization "for creative and intellectual work in architecture, urbanism, and related disciplines".
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Arroyo Naranjo
Arroyo Naranjo is one of the 15 municipalities or boroughs (municipios in Spanish) in the city of Havana, Cuba.
Art Deco
Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs, is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s.
Artemisa Province
Artemisa Province is one of the two new provinces created from the former La Habana Province, whose creation was approved by the Cuban National Assembly on August 1, 2010, the other being Mayabeque Province. Havana and Artemisa Province are provinces of Cuba.
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Ashkenazi Jews
Ashkenazi Jews (translit,; Ashkenazishe Yidn), also known as Ashkenazic Jews or Ashkenazim, constitute a Jewish diaspora population that emerged in the Holy Roman Empire around the end of the first millennium CE. They traditionally spoke Yiddish and largely migrated towards northern and eastern Europe during the late Middle Ages due to persecution.
Asturias
Asturias (Asturies) officially the Principality of Asturias, (Principado de Asturias; Principáu d'Asturies; Galician–Asturian: Principao d'Asturias) is an autonomous community in northwest Spain.
Avant-garde
In the arts and in literature, the term avant-garde (from French meaning advance guard and vanguard) identifies an experimental genre, or work of art, and the artist who created it; which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic establishment of the time.
Axis powers
The Axis powers, originally called the Rome–Berlin Axis and also Rome–Berlin–Tokyo Axis, was a military coalition that initiated World War II and fought against the Allies.
Bacardi
Bacardi Limited is the largest privately held, family-owned spirits company in the world.
Baroque
The Baroque is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s.
Baroque architecture
Baroque architecture is a highly decorative and theatrical style which appeared in Italy in the early 17th century and gradually spread across Europe.
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Barrio de San Lázaro, Havana
Barrio de San Lázaro is one of the first neighbourhoods in Havana, Cuba.
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Basilica of San Francisco de Asís, Havana
The Basílica Menor of San Francisco de Asís (Minor Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi; also the Convento de San Francisco de Asis) is a Catholic minor basilica and Franciscan convent in the district of Old Havana, Cuba.
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Basilicas in the Catholic Church
Basilicas are Catholic church buildings that have a designation, conferring special privileges, given by the Pope.
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Batabanó, Cuba
Batabanó is a municipality and town in the Mayabeque Province of Cuba.
Battista Antonelli
Battista Antonelli (or Bautista) (1547–1616) was a military engineer from a prestigious Italian family of military engineers in the service of the Habsburg monarchs of Austria and Spain.
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Battle of Lake Maracaibo
The Battle of Lake Maracaibo also known as the "Naval Battle of the Lake" was fought on 24 July 1823 on Venezuela's Lake Maracaibo between fleets under the commands of Republican Admiral José Prudencio Padilla and royalist Captain Ángel Laborde.
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Battle of Las Queseras del Medio
The Battle of Las Queseras del Medio was an important battle of the Venezuelan War of Independence.
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BBC World Service
The BBC World Service is an international broadcaster owned and operated by the BBC.
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Bejucal
Bejucal is a municipality and town in the Mayabeque Province of Cuba.
Belfry (architecture)
The belfry is a structure enclosing bells for ringing as part of a building, usually as part of a bell tower or steeple.
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Benny Moré
Bartolomé Maximiliano Moré Gutiérrez (24 August 1919 – 19 February 1963), better known as Benny Moré (also spelled Beny Moré), was a Cuban singer, bandleader and songwriter.
Betacism
In historical linguistics, betacism is a sound change in which (the voiced bilabial plosive, as in bane) and (the voiced labiodental fricative, as in vane) are confused.
Beth Shalom Temple (Havana, Cuba)
Temple Beth Shalom, built in 1952, is a synagogue located in the Vedado neighbourhood of downtown Havana.
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Black market
A black market, underground economy, or shadow economy is a clandestine market or series of transactions that has some aspect of illegality or is not compliant with an institutional set of rules.
Black tie
Black tie is a semi-formal Western dress code for evening events, originating in British and North American conventions for attire in the 19th century.
Blas de Lezo
Admiral Blas de Lezo y Olavarrieta (3 February 1689 – 7 September 1741) was a Spanish navy officer best remembered for the Battle of Cartagena de Indias (1741), where Spanish imperial forces under his command decisively defeated a large British invasion fleet under Admiral Edward Vernon.
Boyeros
Boyeros (oxherds) is one of the 15 municipalities or boroughs (municipios in Spanish) in the city of Havana, Cuba.
British West Indies
The British West Indies (BWI) were colonised British territories in the West Indies: Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Montserrat, the British Virgin Islands, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, British Guiana (now Guyana) and Trinidad and Tobago.
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Buccaneer
Buccaneers were a kind of privateer or free sailors particular to the Caribbean Sea during the 17th and 18th centuries.
Calabazar
Calabazar is a ward (consejo popular, "people's council") of the city of Havana, the capital of Cuba, belonging to the municipal borough of Boyeros.
Calixto García
Calixto García Íñiguez (August 4, 1839 – December 11, 1898) was a Cuban general in three Cuban uprisings, part of the Cuban War for Independence: the Ten Years' War, the Little War, and the War of 1895, itself sometimes called the Cuban War for Independence, which bled into the Spanish–American War, ultimately resulting in national independence for Cuba.
Canary Islands
The Canary Islands (Canarias), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish region, autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean.
Cantonese people
The Cantonese people or Yue people, are a Han Chinese subgroup originating from or residing in the provinces of Guangdong and Guangxi (collectively known as Liangguang or, with other regions, Lingnan), in southern mainland China.
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Capital city
A capital city or just capital is the municipality holding primary status in a country, state, province, department, or other subnational division, usually as its seat of the government.
Captaincy General of Cuba
The Captaincy General of Cuba (Capitanía General de Cuba) was an administrative district of the Spanish Empire created in 1607 as part of Habsburg Spain attempt to better defend and administer its Caribbean possessions.
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Careening
Careening (also known as "heaving down") is a method of gaining access to the hull of a sailing vessel without the use of a dry dock.
Caribbean
The Caribbean (el Caribe; les Caraïbes; de Caraïben) is a subregion of the Americas that includes the Caribbean Sea and its islands, some of which are surrounded by the Caribbean Sea and some of which border both the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean; the nearby coastal areas on the mainland are sometimes also included in the region.
Carmen Suite (ballet)
Carmen Suite is a one-act ballet created in 1967 by Cuban choreographer Alberto Alonso to music by Russian composer Rodion Shchedrin for his wife, prima ballerina assoluta Maya Plisetskaya.
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Carmen Tórtola Valencia
Carmen Tórtola Valencia (June 18, 1882 – February 13, 1955) was a Spanish early modern dancer, choreographer, costume designer, and painter, who generally performed barefoot.
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Carretera Central (Cuba)
The Carretera Central (CC), meaning "Central Road", is a west-east highway spanning the length of the island of Cuba.
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Cartagena, Colombia
Cartagena, known since the colonial era as Cartagena de Indias, is a city and one of the major ports on the northern coast of Colombia in the Caribbean Coast Region, along the Caribbean sea.
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Casa de Contratación
The Casa de Contratación (House of Trade) or Casa de la Contratación de las Indias ("House of Trade of the Indies") was established by the Crown of Castile, in 1503 in the port of Seville (and transferred to Cádiz in 1717) as a crown agency for the Spanish Empire.
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Casablanca, Havana
Casablanca is a ward (consejo popular) of the city of Havana, the capital of Cuba, belonging to the municipal borough of Regla.
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Casino
A casino is a facility for certain types of gambling.
Castillo de la Real Fuerza
The Castillo de la Real Fuerza (Castle of the Royal Force) is a bastion fort on the western side of the harbour in Havana, Cuba, set back from the entrance, and bordering the Plaza de Armas.
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Castillo de los Tres Reyes Del Morro
The Castillo de los Tres Reyes del Morro (Kings of Morro), also known as Castillo del Morro (Morro Castle), is a fortress guarding the entrance to the Havana harbor.
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Castillo del Príncipe (Havana)
The Castillo del Príncipe (Castle of the Prince) is a military fort located in the Loma de Aróstegui, in Havana, Cuba.
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Castillo San Cristóbal (San Juan)
Castillo San Cristóbal (English: Saint Christopher Castle) is a fortress in the historic district of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, known as the largest fortification built by the Spanish in the New World.
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Castillo San Felipe del Morro
Castillo San Felipe del Morro (English: Promontory Castle of Saint Philip), most commonly known as El Morro (The Promontory), is a large fortress and citadel in the historic district of Old San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Castillo San Salvador de la Punta
Castillo San Salvador de la Punta is a fortress at the entrance to the bay in Havana, Cuba.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.
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Cayo Hueso, Havana
Cayo Hueso is a consejo popular (ward) in the municipality of Centro Habana, Havana, Cuba.
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Celia Cruz
Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso (21 October 1925 – 16 July 2003), known as Celia Cruz, was a Cuban singer and one of the most popular Latin artists of the 20th century.
Central America
Central America is a subregion of North America.
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Central Bank of Cuba
The Central Bank of Cuba (Banco Central de Cuba, BCC) is the central bank of Cuba.
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Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.
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Centre Pompidou
The Centre Pompidou, more fully the Centre national d'art et de culture Georges-Pompidou, also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil, and the Marais.
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Centro Habana
Centro Habana is one of the 15 municipalities or boroughs (municipios in Spanish) in the city of Havana, Cuba.
Centrobasket
The Centrobasket is a FIBA-sponsored international basketball tournament where national teams from Central America and the Caribbean participate.
Cerro, Havana
Cerro is one of the 15 municipalities or boroughs (municipios in Spanish) in the city of Havana, Cuba.
Chancel
In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar, including the choir and the sanctuary (sometimes called the presbytery), at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building.
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire (9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet who also worked as an essayist, art critic and translator.
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Charles III of Spain
Charles III (Carlos Sebastián de Borbón y Farnesio; 20 January 1716 – 14 December 1788) was King of Spain in the years 1759 to 1788.
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Chinese Cubans
Chinese Cubans (chino-cubano) are Cubans of full or mixed Chinese ancestry who were born in or have immigrated to Cuba.
Christ of Havana
The Christ of Havana (Spanish: Cristo de La Habana) is a large sculpture representing Jesus of Nazareth, on a hilltop overlooking the bay in Havana, Cuba.
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Christ the Redeemer (statue)
Christ the Redeemer (Cristo Redentor, standard) is an Art Deco statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, created by French-Polish sculptor Paul Landowski and built by Brazilian engineer Heitor da Silva Costa, in collaboration with French engineer Albert Caquot.
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Christian cross variants
The Christian cross, with or without a figure of Christ included, is the main religious symbol of Christianity.
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Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus (between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas.
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Church of San Francisco de Paula, Havana
The Iglesia de San Francisco de Paula, Havana is part of the ecclesiastical heritage of Havana.
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Cienfuegos
Cienfuegos, capital of Cienfuegos Province, is a city on the southern coast of Cuba. Havana and Cienfuegos are port cities in Cuba and world Heritage Sites in Cuba.
Cinerama
Cinerama is a widescreen process that originally projected images simultaneously from three synchronized 35mm projectors onto a huge, deeply curved screen, subtending 146-degrees of arc.
Claudio Brindis de Salas Garrido
Claudio José Domingo Brindis de Salas Garrido (4 August 1852 – 1 June 1911) was a Cuban concert violinist.
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Clifford A. Jones
Clifford Aaron Jones, Sr. (February 19, 1912 – November 16, 2001) was an American politician.
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CMQ (Cuba)
CMQ was a Cuban radio and television station located in Havana, Cuba, reaching an audience in the 1940s and 1950s, attracting viewers and listeners with a program that ranged from music to news dissemination.
Cocktail
A cocktail is a mixed drink, usually alcoholic.
Cojímar
Cojímar is a district in Havana, Cuba, forming a ward (consejo popular) that is part of the Habana del Este municipality.
Colegio Nacional de Arquitectos de Cuba
Colegio Nacional de Arquitectos de Cuba (CNAC) is a Cuban national institution based in Havana.
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Colon Cemetery, Havana
El Cementerio de Cristóbal Colón, also called La Necrópolis de Cristóbal Colón, was founded in 1876 in the Vedado neighbourhood of Havana, Cuba to replace the Espada Cemetery in the Barrio de San Lázaro.
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Communist Party of Cuba
The Communist Party of Cuba (Partido Comunista de Cuba, PCC) is the sole ruling party of Cuba.
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Confederate States of America
The Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States (C.S.), the Confederacy, or the South, was an unrecognized breakaway republic in the Southern United States that existed from February 8, 1861, to May 9, 1865.
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Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne
The Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM), or International Congresses of Modern Architecture, was an organization founded in 1928 and disbanded in 1959, responsible for a series of events and congresses arranged across Europe by the most prominent architects of the time, with the objective of spreading the principles of the Modern Movement focusing in all the main domains of architecture (such as landscape, urbanism, industrial design, and many others).
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Conrad Hilton
Conrad Nicholson Hilton (December 25, 1887 – January 3, 1979) was an American businessman who founded the Hilton Hotels chain.
Conservative Judaism
Conservative Judaism, also known as Masorti Judaism (translit), is a Jewish religious movement that regards the authority of Jewish law and tradition as emanating primarily from the assent of the people through the generations, more than from divine revelation.
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Controlled-access highway
A controlled-access highway is a type of highway that has been designed for high-speed vehicular traffic, with all traffic flow—ingress and egress—regulated.
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Cotorro
Cotorro, or San Pedro del Cotorro, is one of the 15 municipalities (municipios in Spanish) in the city of Havana, Cuba.
Count of Pozos Dulces
Count of Pozos Dulces is a Spanish title created on 24 June 1790, along with the viscountcy of la Albufera, by Charles IV of Spain for Melchor Jacot y Ortiz Rojano, son of José Jacot y Ruiz de la Escalera (1702–1738.) Melchor Jacot y Ortiz-Rojano was Robed Minister of the 'Consejo Supremo de las Indias', First Regent of Lima's Audience, and Knight of the Order of Carlos III.
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CreateSpace
On-Demand Publishing, LLC, doing business as CreateSpace, was a self-publishing service owned by Amazon.
Cuba
Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island. Havana and Cuba are 1515 establishments in the Spanish West Indies.
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Cuba–Soviet Union relations
After the establishment of diplomatic ties with the Soviet Union after the Cuban Revolution of 1959, Cuba became increasingly dependent on Soviet markets and military aid and was an ally of the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
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Cuba–United States relations
Cuba and the United States restored diplomatic relations on July 20, 2015, after relations had been severed in 1961 during the Cold War.
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Cuban Academy of Sciences
The Cuban Academy of Sciences (Academia de Ciencias de Cuba) is an official institution of the Cuban state, with headquarters in the National Capitol building in Havana.
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Cuban Grand Prix
The Cuban Grand Prix, also known as the Havana Grand Prix, was a sports car motor race held for a brief period in the late 1950s in Havana, Cuba, last raced in 1960.
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Cuban Institute of Radio and Television
The Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (Instituto Cubano de Radio y Televisión; ICRT) was the government agency responsible for the control of radio and television broadcasters in Cuba.
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Cuban League
The Cuban League was one of the earliest and longest lasting professional baseball leagues outside the United States, operating in Cuba from 1878 to 1961.
Cuban medical internationalism
After the 1959 Cuban Revolution, Cuba established a program to send its medical personnel overseas, particularly to Latin America, Africa, and Oceania, and to bring medical students and patients to Cuba for training and treatment respectively.
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Cuban National Ballet
The Cuban National Ballet (Ballet Nacional de Cuba) is a classical ballet company based at Great Theatre of Havana in Havana, Cuba, founded by the Cuban prima ballerina assoluta, Alicia Alonso in 1948.
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Cuban National Ballet School
The Cuban National Ballet School (Escuela Nacional Cubana de Ballet) in Havana, with approximately 3,000 students is the biggest ballet school in the world and the most prestigious ballet school in Cuba.
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Cuban National Series
The Cuban National Series (SNB) is a domestic baseball competition in Cuba.
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Cuban Revolution
The Cuban Revolution (Revolución cubana) was the military and political effort to overthrow Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship which reigned as the government of Cuba between 1952 and 1959.
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Cuban thaw
The Cuban thaw (deshielo cubano) was the normalization of Cuba–United States relations that began in December 2014, ending a 54-year stretch of hostility between the nations.
Cubana de Aviación
Cubana de Aviación S.A., commonly known as Cubana, is Cuba's flag carrier, as well as the country's largest airline.
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Cubans
Cubans (Cubanos) are people from Cuba or people with Cuban citizenship.
David Vaughan (dance archivist)
David Vaughan (May 17, 1924 – October 27, 2017Roberts, Sam (November 1, 2017) The New York Times) was a dance archivist, historian and critic.
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Deutscher Wetterdienst
The Deutscher Wetterdienst or DWD for short, is the German Meteorological Service, based in Offenbach am Main, Germany, which monitors weather and meteorological conditions over Germany and provides weather services for the general public and for nautical, aviational, hydrometeorological or agricultural purposes.
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Developed country
A developed country, or advanced country, is a sovereign state that has a high quality of life, developed economy, and advanced technological infrastructure relative to other less industrialized nations.
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Developing country
A developing country is a sovereign state with a less developed industrial base and a lower Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries.
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Diego Rivera
Diego Rivera (December 8, 1886 – November 24, 1957) was a prominent Mexican painter.
Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar
Diego Velázquez de CuéllarPronounced: (1465 – c. June 12, 1524) was a Spanish conquistador and the first governor of Cuba.
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Diez de Octubre
Diez de Octubre is one of the 15 municipalities or boroughs (municipios in Spanish) in the city of Havana, Cuba.
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Diezmero
Diezmero is a ward in the outskirts of Havana, Cuba, located by the Carretera Central.
Discuba
Discuba is a Cuban record label founded in 1959 by RCA Victor.
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration № 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
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Dolores Hart
Dolores Hart, O.S.B. (born Dolores Hicks; October 20, 1938) is an American Roman Catholic Benedictine nun and former actress.
Domingo Dulce, 1st Marquis of Castell-Florite
Domingo Dulce y Garay, 1st Marquis of Castell-Florite (Sotés (La Rioja), Spain, 7 May 1808 - Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda, France, 23 November 1869), was a Spanish noble and general, who fought in the First Carlist War and who served two times as Captain General of Cuba.
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Don Murray (actor)
Donald Patrick Murray (July 31, 1929 – February 2, 2024) was an American actor best known for his breakout performance in the film Bus Stop (1956, with Marilyn Monroe), which earned him a nomination for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
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Dorothy Johnson (actress)
Dorothy Mae Johnson (October 14, 1936 – April 7, 2022) was an American actress and print model.
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Dry dock
A dry dock (sometimes drydock or dry-dock) is a narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow that load to come to rest on a dry platform.
Earl Warren
Earl Warren (March 19, 1891 – July 9, 1974) was an American lawyer, politician, and jurist who served as the 30th governor of California from 1943 to 1953 and as the 14th Chief Justice of the United States from 1953 to 1969.
Economy of Cuba
The economy of Cuba is a planned economy dominated by state-run enterprises.
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Edificio del Seguro Médico, Havana
The Edificio del Seguro Médico is a commercial building in El Vedado, Havana.
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Eduardo Chibás
Eduardo René Chibás Ribas (August 15, 1907 – August 16, 1951) was a Cuban politician who used radio to broadcast his political views to the public.
Electric Railway Journal
Electric Railway Journal was an American magazine primarily about electric urban rail transit in North America, published by McGraw Hill from June 1908 until December 1931.
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Embassy of the United States, Havana
The Embassy of the United States of America in Havana (Embajada de los Estados Unidos de América, La Habana) is the United States of America's diplomatic mission in Cuba.
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Enhanced Fujita scale
The Enhanced Fujita scale (abbreviated as EF-Scale) rates tornado intensity based on the severity of the damage they cause.
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Enrico Caruso
Enrico Caruso (25 February 1873 – 2 August 1921) was an Italian operatic first lyric tenor then dramatic tenor.
Erik Bruhn
Erik Belton Evers Bruhn (3 October 1928 – 1 April 1986) was a Danish ballet dancer, choreographer, artistic director, actor, and author.
Escambray Mountains
The Escambray Mountains are a mountain range in the central region of Cuba, in the provinces of Sancti Spíritus, Cienfuegos and Villa Clara.
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Escola de la Llotja
The Escola de la Llotja ("Llotja School"; Escuela de la Lonja), officially the Escola d'Arts i Oficis de Barcelona (Barcelona Arts and Crafts School), is an art and design school located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
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Espada Cemetery
The Espada Cemetery was located in the Barrio of San Lazaro approximately a mile west of the city walls, near the cove of Juan Guillen and close to the San Lázaro Leper Hospital.
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Esplanade
An esplanade or promenade is a long, open, level area, usually next to a river or large body of water, where people may walk.
Estadio Latinoamericano
The Estadio Latinoamericano (English: Latin American Stadium) is a stadium in Havana, Cuba.
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Eugenio Rayneri Piedra
Eugenio Rayneri Piedra was the architect of numerous buildings in Havana, son of Eugenio Rayneri Sorrentino a remarkable architect, author of the entrance of the Colón Cemetery, the Palace of the Marquise of Villalba, and the Mercado de Tacón.
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Eusebio Leal
Eusebio Leal Spengler (11 September 194231 July 2020) was a Cuban historian.
Eye surgery
Eye surgery, also known as ophthalmic surgery or ocular surgery, is surgery performed on the eye or its adnexa.
Federico García Lorca
Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936), known as Federico García Lorca, was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director.
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Festival
A festival is an event celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures.
Fidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008.
First Carlist War
The First Carlist War was a civil war in Spain from 1833 to 1840, the first of three Carlist Wars.
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Flag carrier
A flag carrier is a transport company, such as an airline or shipping company, that, being locally registered in a given sovereign state, enjoys preferential rights or privileges accorded by the government for international operations.
Florence
Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.
Florence Cathedral
Florence Cathedral (Duomo di Firenze), formally the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flower (Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore), is the cathedral of Florence, Italy.
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Florida Keys
The Florida Keys are a coral cay archipelago off the southern coast of Florida, forming the southernmost part of the continental United States.
FOCSA Building
The FOCSA Building is a residential and commercial block in the Vedado neighborhood of Havana, Cuba.
Foreign interventions by Cuba
Cuba intervened into numerous conflicts during the Cold War.
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Francis of Paola
Francis of Paola, OM (also known as Francis the Fire Handler; 27 March 1416 – 2 April 1507), was a Roman Catholic friar from the town of Paola in Italy who founded the Order of Minims.
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Frederick Snare Corporation
Frederick Snare Corporation, formerly known as the Snare & Triest Company, was an American engineering and construction firm.
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French corsairs
Corsairs (corsaire) were privateers, authorised to conduct raids on shipping of a foreign state at war with France, on behalf of the French crown.
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Frida Kahlo
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón (6 July 1907 – 13 July 1954) was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico.
Fulgencio Batista
Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (born Rubén Zaldívar; January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was a Cuban military officer and politician who served as the elected president of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 and as a military dictator from 1952 until his overthrow in the Cuban Revolution in 1959.
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Galicia (Spain)
Galicia (Galicia (officially) or Galiza; Galicia) is an autonomous community of Spain and historic nationality under Spanish law.
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Galleon
Galleons were large, multi-decked sailing ships developed in Spain and first used as armed cargo carriers by Europeans from the 16th to 18th centuries during the Age of Sail and were the principal vessels drafted for use as warships until the Anglo-Dutch Wars of the mid-17th century.
Gambino crime family
The Gambino crime family (pronounced) is an Italian-American Mafia crime family and one of the "Five Families" that dominate organized crime activities in New York City, within the nationwide criminal phenomenon known as the American Mafia.
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Güines
Güines is a municipality and town in the Mayabeque Province of Cuba.
Giselle
Giselle, originally titled Giselle, ou les Wilis (Giselle, or The Wilis), is a romantic ballet ("ballet-pantomime") in two acts with music by Adolphe Adam.
Giuseppe Gaggini
The subject of this article is different to sculptor Giuseppe Gagini of Palermo, Sicily, who died in 1610 Giuseppe Gaggini (Genoa, April 25, 1791 – May 1, 1867) was an Italian sculptor.
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Giuseppe Moretti
Giuseppe Moretti (3 February 1857 – February 1935) was an Italian émigré sculptor who became known in the United States for his public monuments in bronze and marble.
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Goar Mestre
Goar Mestre Espinosa (born December 25, 1912 – March 23, 1994) was a Cuban-born Argentine businessman, remembered as one of the pioneers of the audiovisual industry in Latin America.
Google Books
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.
Gran Hotel Manzana Kempinski La Habana
The Gran Hotel Manzana Kempinski La Habana is a luxury hotel in Havana, Cuba.
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Gran Teatro de La Habana
Gran Teatro de La Habana is a theater in Havana, Cuba, home to the Cuban National Ballet.
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Great Depression
The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.
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Gross domestic product
Gross domestic product (GDP) is a monetary measure of the market value of all the final goods and services produced and rendered in a specific time period by a country or countries.
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Guanabacoa
Guanabacoa is a colonial township in eastern Havana, Cuba, and one of the 15 municipalities (or boroughs) of the city.
Guanabo
Guanabo is a beach town in the Ciudad de la Habana Province of Cuba.
Guantánamo
Guantánamo is a municipality and city in southeast Cuba and capital of Guantánamo Province. Havana and Guantánamo are port cities in Cuba.
Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico (Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, mostly surrounded by the North American continent.
Gustave Moreau
Gustave Moreau (6 April 1826 – 18 April 1898) was a French artist and an important figure in the Symbolist movement.
Habaguanex
Habaguanex was a Native American (Taíno) chief (cacique) who controlled the area of Havana, Cuba.
Habana (Cuban League)
The Habana B.B.C. also known as the Habana Reds or, later, the Leones del Habana was one of the oldest and most distinguished baseball teams in the old Cuban League, which existed from 1878 to 1961.
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Habana del Este
Habana del Este (Spanish for "East Havana"), also spelled La Habana del Este, is one of the 15 municipalities or boroughs (municipios in Spanish) forming the city of Havana, Cuba.
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Habanos S.A.
Habanos S.A. is a Cuban manufacturing company of tobacco that controls the promotion, distribution, and export of premium cigars and other tobacco products for Cuba worldwide.
Hammock
A hammock, from Spanish hamaca, borrowed from Taíno and Arawak hamaka, is a sling made of fabric, rope, or netting, suspended between two or more points, used for swinging, sleeping, or resting.
Harbor
A harbor (American English), or harbour (Canadian English, British English; see spelling differences), is a sheltered body of water where ships, boats, and barges can be moored.
Harvard Extension School
Harvard Extension School (HES) is the continuing education School of Harvard University, a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
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Havana
Havana (La Habana) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. Havana and Havana are 1510s establishments in Cuba, 1515 establishments in North America, 1515 establishments in the Spanish West Indies, capitals in North America, capitals in the Caribbean, populated places established in 1515, port cities in Cuba, provinces of Cuba and world Heritage Sites in Cuba.
Havana Cathedral
Havana Cathedral (Catedral de San Cristóbal) is one of eleven Catholic cathedrals on the island.
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Havana Central railway station
Havana Central (La Habana Central; the "Central Railway Station", Estación Central de Ferrocarriles) is the main railway terminal in Havana and the largest railway station in Cuba, is the hub of the rail system in the country.
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Havana Conference
The Havana Conference of 1946 was a historic meeting of United States Mafia and Cosa Nostra leaders in Havana, Cuba.
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Havana Harbor
Havana Harbor is the port of Havana, the capital of Cuba, and it is the main port in Cuba.
Havana Plan Piloto
The Havana Plan Piloto was a 1955–1958 urban proposal by Town Planning Associates, which included Paul Lester Wiener, Paul Schulz, the Catalan architect Josep Lluis Sert, and Seely Stevenson of Value & Knecht, Consulting Engineers, seeking to combine "architecture, planning, and law".Wiener, Paul Lester, and Constantine Michaelides.
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Havana Suburban Railway
The Havana Suburban Railway (Red del ferrocarril suburbano de La Habana) is a passenger suburban rail network serving the city of Havana, capital of Cuba, and its suburbs.
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Hedda Hopper
Elda Furry (June 2, 1885February 1, 1966), known professionally as Hedda Hopper, was an American gossip columnist and actress.
Hedychium coronarium
Hedychium coronarium, the white garland-lily or white ginger lily, is a perennial flowering plant in the ginger family Zingiberaceae, native to the forest understorey of Asia.
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Henri Matisse
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship.
Hershey Electric Railway
The Hershey Electric Railway, also known as the Hershey Railway, is a standard-gauge electric interurban railway that runs from Casablanca, Havana, to the city of Matanzas, approximately to the east.
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Hilton Hotels & Resorts
Hilton Hotels & Resorts (formerly known as Hilton Hotels) is a global brand of full-service hotels and resorts and the flagship brand of American multinational hospitality company Hilton.
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Hipódromo de la Zarzuela
The Hipódromo de la Zarzuela is a race course on the outskirts of Madrid, Spain.
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History of Havana
Havana was founded in the sixteenth century displacing Santiago de Cuba as the island's most important city when it became a major port for Atlantic shipping, particularly the Spanish treasure fleet.
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Horsecar
A horsecar, horse-drawn tram, horse-drawn streetcar (U.S.), or horse-drawn railway (historical), is an animal-powered (usually horse) tram or streetcar.
Hospital de San Lázaro, Havana
Hospital de San Lázaro was a hospital in the city of Havana, Cuba.
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Hotel Nacional de Cuba
The Hotel Nacional de Cuba is a historic Spanish eclectic style hotel in Havana, Cuba, opened in 1930.
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Hotel rating
Hotel ratings are often used to classify hotels according to their quality.
Hotel Sevilla
The Sevilla Habana Affiliated by Meliá is a historic hotel in Havana, Cuba.
Human Development Index
The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.
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Hurricane Ian
Hurricane Ian was a deadly and extremely destructive Category 5 Atlantic hurricane, which was the third-costliest weather disaster on record worldwide, the deadliest hurricane to strike the state of Florida since the 1935 Labor Day hurricane, and the strongest hurricane to make landfall in Florida since Michael in 2018.
IAAF Continental Cup
The IAAF Continental Cup was an international track and field competition organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).
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Iberian Peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula (IPA), also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in south-western Europe, defining the westernmost edge of Eurasia.
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IMDb
IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.
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Industriales
Industriales is a professional baseball team in the Cuban National Series.
Infant mortality
Infant mortality is the death of an infant before the infant's first birthday.
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Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos
The Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC, Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry) was established by the Cuban government in March 1959 after the Cuban Revolution.
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Instituto Técnico Militar
The Instituto Técnico Militar (lit. Technical Military Institute), originally designed as the Colegio de Belén, Havana, is located at 45th and 66th streets in Marianao, Havana, Cuba.
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International Ballet Festival of Havana
The International Ballet Festival of Havana (Festival de Ballet de La Havana) is a biennial ballet festival held in Havana, Cuba.
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International School of Havana
The International School of Havana (ISH) is an international school in Cuba, located in Miramar, Havana.
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Italian architecture
Italy has a very broad and diverse architectural style, which cannot be simply classified by period or region, due to Italy's division into various small states until 1861.
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Jacques de Sores
Jacques de Sores was a French pirate and corsair who attacked and burnt Havana, Cuba in 1555.
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Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier
Jean-Claude Nicolas Forestier (9 January 1861 – 26 October 1930) was a French landscape architect who trained with Adolphe Alphand and became conservator of the promenades of Paris.
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Jinx Falkenburg
Eugenia Lincoln "Jinx" Falkenburg (January 21, 1919 – August 27, 2003) was an American actress and model.
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Joaquín Sorolla
Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (Joaquim Sorolla i Bastida, 27 February 1863 – 10 August 1923) was a Spanish painter.
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Joaquín Torres-García
Joaquín Torres-García (28 July 1874 – 8 August 1949) was a prominent Uruguayan-Spanish artist, theorist, and author, renowned for his international impact in the modern art world.
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José Antonio Páez
José Antonio Páez Herrera (13 June 1790 – 6 May 1873) was a Venezuelan leader who fought against the Spanish Crown for Simón Bolívar during the Venezuelan War of Independence.
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José de la Luz y Caballero
José Cipriano de la Luz y Caballero (July 11, 1800 – June 22, 1862) was a Cuban scholar, acclaimed by José Martí as "the father...
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José Martí
José Julián Martí Pérez (January 28, 1853 – May 19, 1895) was a Cuban nationalist, poet, philosopher, essayist, journalist, translator, professor, and publisher, who is considered a Cuban national hero because of his role in the liberation of his country from Spain.
José Martí Anti-Imperialist Platform
The José Martí Anti-Imperialist Platform (Spanish Tribuna Antiimperialista José Martí) is a public event venue located in the Plaza de la Dignidad, across the street from the Embassy of the United States in Havana.
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José Martí International Airport
José Martí International Airport, sometimes known by its former name Rancho Boyeros Airport, is an international airport located in the municipality of Boyeros, southwest of the centre of Havana, Cuba, and is a hub for Cubana de Aviación and Aerogaviota, and former Latin American hub for the Soviet (later Russian) airline Aeroflot.
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José Miguel Gómez
José Miguel Gómez y Arias (6 July 1858 – 13 June 1921) was a Cuban politician and revolutionary who was one of the leaders of the rebel forces in the Cuban War of Independence.
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José Nicolás de la Escalera
José Nicolás de Escalera (1734 – 1804) was a Cuban painter specializing in religious scenes and portraits.
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José Raúl Capablanca
José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera (19 November 1888 – 8 March 1942) was a Cuban chess player who was the third world chess champion from 1921 to 1927.
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José Vilalta Saavedra
José Villalta Saavedra (born January 27, 1862, Havana, - died March 16, 1912, Rome) was a Cuban sculptor.
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Josep Lluís Sert
Josep Lluís Sert i López (1 July 190215 March 1983) was a Catalan architect and city planner established in the USA after 1939.
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Juan Gris
José Victoriano González-Pérez (23 March 1887 – 11 May 1927), better known as Juan Gris, was a Spanish painter born in Madrid who lived and worked in France for most of his active period.
Julio García Espinosa
Julio García Espinosa (5 September 1926 – 13 April 2016) was a Cuban film director and screenwriter.
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Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.
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Kees van Dongen
Cornelis Theodorus Maria "Kees" van Dongen (26 January 1877 – 28 May 1968) was a Dutch-French painter who was one of the leading Fauves.
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Knights of the Golden Circle
The Knights of the Golden Circle (KGC) was a secret society founded in 1854 by American George W. L. Bickley, the objective of which was to create a new country, known as the Golden Circle (Círculo Dorado), where slavery would be legal.
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La Argentina (dancer)
Antonia Mercé y Luque (September 4, 1890 – July 18, 1936), also known as La Argentina, was an Argentine-born Spanish dancer who created the neoclassical style of Spanish dance.
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La Cabaña
Fortaleza de San Carlos de la Cabaña (Fort of Saint Charles), colloquially known as La Cabaña, is an 18th-century fortress complex, the third-largest in the Americas, located on the elevated eastern side of the harbor entrance in Havana, Cuba.
La Casa de Beneficencia y Maternidad de La Habana
La Casa de Beneficencia y Maternidad de La Habana, (lead) was for 270 years Havana's repository of Havana's unwanted children.
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La Habana (Cuban National Series)
Vaqueros de la Habana (Havana Cowboys), commonly referred to simply as La Habana, were a baseball team in the Cuban National Series from the 1977–78 season through the 2010–11 season.
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La Habana Province
La Habana Province, formerly known as Ciudad de La Habana Province, is a province of Cuba that includes the territory of the city of Havana, the Republic's capital. Havana and La Habana Province are provinces of Cuba.
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La Lisa
La Lisa is one of the 15 municipalities or boroughs (municipios in Spanish) in the city of Havana, Cuba.
La Lupe
Guadalupe Victoria Yolí Raymond (23 December 1939 – 29 February 1992), better known as La Lupe, was a Cuban singer of boleros, guarachas and Latin soul known for her energetic, sometimes controversial performances.
La Rampa
La Rampa (also known as Calle 23) is a main street in the Vedado district of Havana, Cuba.
La Recoleta Cemetery
La Recoleta Cemetery (Cementerio de la Recoleta) is a cemetery located in the Recoleta neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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La Víbora, Havana
La Víbora is a ward (consejo popular) within the municipality of Diez de Octubre, Havana, Cuba.
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Landing of the Granma
Granma is a yacht that was used to transport 82 fighters of the Cuban Revolution from Mexico to Cuba in November 1956 to overthrow the regime of Fulgencio Batista.
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Landscape architect
A landscape architect is a person who is educated in the field of landscape architecture.
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Las Vegas
Las Vegas, often known as Sin City or simply Vegas, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada and the seat of Clark County.
Latin American Studies Association
The Latin American Studies Association (LASA) is the largest association for scholars of Latin American studies.
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Latin Americans
Latin Americans (Latinoamericanos; Latino-americanos) are the citizens of Latin American countries (or people with cultural, ancestral or national origins in Latin America).
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Laureano de Torres y Ayala
Laureano de Torres y Ayala (1645–1722), Marquis of Casa Torres and Knight of Santiago, was a Spanish military officer and royal governor of La Florida (1693–1699) and of Cuba (1708–1711 and 1713–1716).
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Laurel wreath
A laurel wreath is a round wreath made of connected branches and leaves of the bay laurel, an aromatic broadleaf evergreen, or later from spineless butcher's broom (Ruscus hypoglossum) or cherry laurel (Prunus laurocerasus).
López Serrano Building
The López Serrano Building was the tallest residential building in Cuba until the construction of the FOCSA in 1956.
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Leonard Goldenson
Leonard H. Goldenson (December 7, 1905 – December 27, 1999) was the founder and president of the United States-based television network American Broadcasting Company (ABC), from 1953 to 1986.
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Leonard Lyons
Leonard Lyons (born Leonard Sucher; 10 September 1906 - 7 October 1976) was an American newspaper columnist, best known for his New York Post column called "The Lyons Den.".
Leonardo Morales y Pedroso
Leonardo Morales y Pedroso (January 25, 1887– November 17, 1965) was one of the most prominent Cuban architect in Cuba in the first half 20th century.
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Leopoldo Fernández (Tres Patines)
Leopoldo Augusto Fernández Salgado (26 December 1904 – 11 November 1985) was a Cuban comedian, known as Jose Candelario Tres Patines or Pototo, maker and performer of the radio and TV program La Tremenda Corte, which is still presented on radio and offered in CD, VHS and DVD.
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Leopoldo Romañach
Leopoldo Romañach y Guillen (1862–1951) was a Cuban painter and educator.
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Les Fleurs du mal
Les Fleurs du mal (italic) is a volume of French poetry by Charles Baudelaire.
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Les Halles
Les Halles ('The Halls') was Paris' central fresh food market.
Life expectancy
Human life expectancy is a statistical measure of the estimate of the average remaining years of life at a given age.
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Linda Cristal
Marta Victoria Moya Peggo Burges (24 February 1934 – 27 June 2020), known professionally as Linda Cristal, was an Argentine actress.
List of cities in Cuba
This is a list of cities in Cuba with at least 20,000 inhabitants, listed in descending order.
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List of ethnic groups of Africa
The ethnic groups of Africa number in the thousands, with each ethnicity generally having its own language (or dialect of a language) and culture.
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List of heads of state of Cuba
This article lists the heads of state of Cuba from 1902 until the present day.
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List of metropolitan areas in the Caribbean
This is a list of the largest metropolitan areas in the Caribbean, based on official population estimates or projections as of mid-2015-2024.
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List of North American cities by population
For the majority of cities in North America (including the Caribbean), the most recent official population census results, estimates or short-term projections date to 2020, with some dating 2022 at the latest.
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List of World Heritage Sites in North America
Below is a list of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites located in upper North America.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Louis Vauxcelles
Louis Vauxcelles (born Louis Meyer; 1 January 187021 July 1943) was a French art critic.
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Macau
Macau or Macao is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.
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Madrid
Madrid is the capital and most populous city of Spain.
Malecón, Havana
The Malecón (officially Avenida de Maceo) is a broad esplanade, roadway, and seawall that stretches for 8 km (5 miles) along the coast in Havana, Cuba, from the mouth of Havana Harbor in Old Havana, along the north side of the Centro Habana neighborhood and the Vedado neighborhood, ending at the mouth of the Almendares.
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Malecon (cocktail)
The Malecon is a cocktail named after the ''El Malecón'', the winding beachfront avenue atop the seawall in Havana, Cuba.
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Manila
Manila (Maynila), officially the City of Manila (Lungsod ng Maynila), is the capital and second-most-populous city of the Philippines after Quezon City.
Manuel de Falla
Manuel de Falla y Matheu (23 November 187614 November 1946) was a Spanish composer and pianist.
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Maria Christina of Austria
Maria Christina Henriette Desideria Felicitas Raineria of Austria (María Cristina de Habsburgo-Lorena; 21 July 1858 – 6 February 1929) was Queen of Spain as the second wife of Alfonso XII.
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Mariana of Austria
Mariana or Maria Anna of Austria, (24 December 1634 – 16 May 1696), was Queen of Spain from 1649, when she married her uncle Philip IV of Spain, until his death in 1665.
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Marianao
Marianao is one of the 15 municipalities or boroughs (municipios in Spanish) in the city of Havana, Cuba.
Mariel, Cuba
Mariel is a municipality and town in the Artemisa Province of Cuba.
Marta Fernández Miranda de Batista
Marta Fernández Miranda de Batista (November 11, 1917 – October 2, 2006), also known as i, was First Lady of Cuba from 1952 until 1959 as the second wife of Cuban president and dictator Fulgencio Batista, who was overthrown by Fidel Castro in the Cuban Revolution, which forced the couple to flee permanently into exile.
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Martín Domínguez Esteban
Martín Domínguez Esteban (San Sebastián, December 26, 1897 – New York, September 13, 1970) was a Spanish architect.
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Martha Graham
Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) was an American modern dancer and choreographer, whose style, the Graham technique, reshaped American dance and is still taught worldwide.
Matanzas
Matanzas (Cuban; Ayá Áta) is the capital of the Cuban province of Matanzas.
Mayabeque Province
Mayabeque Province is one of two new provinces created from the former La Habana Province, whose creation was approved by the Cuban National Assembly on August 1, 2010, the other being Artemisa Province. Havana and Mayabeque Province are provinces of Cuba.
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Mayabeque River
Mayabeque River (alternately Rio Mayabeque) (Río Mayabeque) is a river of western Cuba, considered the largest in the southwestern watershed of Cuba, with an extensive fluvial network that encompasses the municipalities of Güines, San Jose de las Lajas, Jaruco, Madruga, and Melena del Sur.
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Máximo Gómez
Máximo Gómez y Báez (November 18, 1836 – June 17, 1905) was a Cuban-Dominican Generalissimo in Cuba's War of Independence (1895–1898).
Medical tourism
Medical tourism is the practice of traveling abroad to obtain medical treatment.
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Melena del Sur
Melena del Sur is a town and a municipality located south of the Mayabeque Province, in Cuba.
Mestizo
Mestizo (fem. mestiza, literally 'mixed person') is a person of mixed European and Indigenous non-European ancestry in the former Spanish Empire.
Metropolis
A metropolis is a large city or conurbation which is a significant economic, political, and cultural area for a country or region, and an important hub for regional or international connections, commerce, and communications.
Metropolitanos
The Metropolitanos of Havana was a baseball team in the Cuban National Series.
Miguel Tacón y Rosique
Miguel Tacón y Rosique, (Cartagena, Spain, 10 January 1777 - 13 October Madrid, 1855) was a Spanish soldier and colonial administrator in the Spanish Americas.
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Miramar, Havana
Miramar is a residential district (zona residencial) of the municipality of Playa, in the city of Havana.
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Mixed-use development
Mixed use is a type of urban development, urban design, urban planning and/or a zoning classification that blends multiple uses, such as residential, commercial, cultural, institutional, or entertainment, into one space, where those functions are to some degree physically and functionally integrated, and that provides pedestrian connections.
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Modern architecture
Modern architecture, also called modernist architecture, was an architectural movement and style that was prominent in the 20th century, between the earlier Art Deco and later postmodern movements.
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Modern art
Modern art includes artistic work produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the styles and philosophies of the art produced during that era.
Modern Orthodox Judaism
Modern Orthodox Judaism (also Modern Orthodox or Modern Orthodoxy) is a movement within Orthodox Judaism that attempts to synthesize Jewish values and the observance of Jewish law with the modern world.
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Modernisme
Modernisme (Catalan for "modernism"), also known as Catalan modernism and Catalan art nouveau, is the historiographic denomination given to an art and literature movement associated with the search of a new entitlement of Catalan culture, one of the most predominant cultures within Spain.
Monarchy of Spain
The monarchy of Spain or Spanish monarchy (Monarquía Española) is the constitutional form of government of Spain.
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Monterrey
Monterrey is the capital and largest city of the northeastern state of Nuevo León, Mexico, and the ninth largest city and second largest metro area in Mexico behind Greater Mexico City.
Montparnasse
Montparnasse is an area in the south of Paris, France, on the left bank of the river Seine, centred at the crossroads of the Boulevard du Montparnasse and the Rue de Rennes, between the Rue de Rennes and boulevard Raspail.
Monument to the Victims of the USS Maine (Havana)
The Monument to the Victims of the USS Maine (Spanish: Monumento a las víctimas del Maine) was built in 1925 on the Malecón boulevard at the end of Línea Calle, in the Vedado neighborhood of Havana, Cuba.
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Moscow Metro
The Moscow Metro is a metro system serving the Russian capital of Moscow as well as the neighbouring cities of Krasnogorsk, Reutov, Lyubertsy and Kotelniki in Moscow Oblast. Opened in 1935 with one line and 13 stations, it was the first underground railway system in the Soviet Union., the Moscow Metro, excluding the Moscow Central Circle, the Moscow Central Diameters and the Moscow Monorail, had 294 stations and of route length, excluding light rail Monorail, making it the 10th-longest in the world and the longest outside East Asia.
Motif (visual arts)
In art and iconography, a motif is an element of an image.
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Mudéjar art
Mudéjar art, or Mudéjar style, was a type of ornamentation and decoration used in the Iberian Christian kingdoms, primarily between the 13th and 16th centuries.
Mulatto
Mulatto is a racial classification that refers to people of mixed African and European ancestry.
Multiple sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an autoimmune disease in which the insulating covers of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord are damaged.
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Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana
The National Museum of Fine Arts of Havana (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de La Habana) in Havana, Cuba is a museum of fine arts that exhibits Cuban art collections from the colonial times up to contemporary generations.
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Museum of the Revolution (Cuba)
The Museum of the Revolution (Museo de la Revolución) is located in the Old Havana section of Havana, Cuba, in what was the Presidential Palace of all Cuban presidents from Mario García Menocal to Fulgencio Batista.
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Narciso López
Narciso López de Urriola (November 2, 1797, Caracas – September 1, 1851, Havana) was a Venezuelan-born adventurer and Spanish Army general who is best known for his expeditions aimed at liberating Cuba from Spanish rule in the 1850s.
National Basilica Sanctuary of the Charity del Cobre
The Basílica Santuario Nacional de Nuestra Señora de la Caridad del Cobre (National Shrine Basilica of Our Lady of Charity del Cobre) is a Roman Catholic minor basilica dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary located in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba.
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National Capitol of Cuba
The National Capitol of Cuba, also known as Capitolio Nacional de La Habana (National Capitol of La Habana), and often simply referred to as El Capitolio (The Capitol), is a public edifice in Havana, the capital of Cuba.
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National Railway Company of Cuba
Ferrocarriles de Cuba (FCC) or Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Cuba (English: National Railway Company of Cuba), provides passenger and freight services for Cuba.
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Nationalization
Nationalization (nationalisation in British English) is the process of transforming privately-owned assets into public assets by bringing them under the public ownership of a national government or state.
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Nazism
Nazism, formally National Socialism (NS; Nationalsozialismus), is the far-right totalitarian socio-political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in Germany.
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.
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Neoclassical architecture
Neoclassical architecture, sometimes referred to as Classical Revival architecture, is an architectural style produced by the Neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century in Italy, France and Germany.
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Neoclassicism
Neoclassicism, also spelled Neo-classicism, emerged as a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity.
Neurology
Neurology (from νεῦρον (neûron), "string, nerve" and the suffix -logia, "study of") is the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all categories of conditions and disease involving the nervous system, which comprises the brain, the spinal cord and the peripheral nerves.
Nevada
Nevada is a landlocked state in the Western region of the United States.
New World
The term "New World" is used to describe the majority of lands of Earth's Western Hemisphere, particularly the Americas.
Nikolai Yavorsky
Nikolai Petrovich Yavorsky (Russian: Никола́й Петро́вич Яво́рский; 23 February 1891, Odessa - 9 October 1947, Santiago de Cuba) was a Cuban choreographer and ballet teacher of Russian origin.
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Nogent-sur-Marne
Nogent-sur-Marne is a commune in the eastern suburbs of Paris, France.
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North America
North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
Nyctalopia
Nyctalopia, also called night-blindness, is a condition making it difficult or impossible to see in relatively low light.
Old Havana
Old Havana (La Habana Vieja) is the city-center (downtown) and one of the 15 municipalities (or boroughs) forming Havana, Cuba.
Old World
The "Old World" is a term for Afro-Eurasia that originated in Europe after 1493, when Europeans became aware of the existence of the Americas.
OR Books
OR Books is a New York City-based independent publishing house founded by John Oakes and Colin Robinson in 2009.
Order of Minims
The Minims, officially known as the Order of Minims (abbreviated OM), and known in German-speaking countries as the Paulaner Order (Paulanerorden), are a Roman Catholic religious order of friars founded by Francis of Paola in fifteenth-century Italy.
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Oriente Province
Oriente ("East") was the easternmost province of Cuba until 1976.
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Orquesta Aragón
Orquesta Aragón is a Cuban musical band formed on 30 September 1939, by Orestes Aragón Cantero in Cienfuegos, Cuba.
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Orthopedic surgery
Orthopedic surgery or orthopedics (alternative spelling orthopaedics) is the branch of surgery concerned with conditions involving the musculoskeletal system.
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Pablo Picasso
Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.
Paifang
A paifang, also known as a pailou, is a traditional style of Chinese architecture, often used in arch or gateway structures.
Palace of the Revolution
The Palace of the Revolution (Palacio de la Revolución), is a palace in Havana, Cuba within the Plaza de la Revolución that serves as the house of the Cuban government and the First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party.
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Palacio de Aldama
The Palacio de Aldama is a neoclassical mansion located diagonally opposite to the old Plaza del Vapor (Parque del Curita), and in front of the old Campo de Marte; present day Parque de la Fraternidad, in Havana, Cuba.
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Papal bull
A papal bull is a type of public decree, letters patent, or charter issued by a pope of the Catholic Church.
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France.
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Parkinson's disease
Parkinson's disease (PD), or simply Parkinson's, is a long-term neurodegenerative disease of mainly the central nervous system that affects both the motor and non-motor systems of the body.
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Parque de la Fraternidad
The Parque de la Fraternidad (formerly the Campo de Marte) was built in the 1790s as a military practice range by the Spanish government, It was expanded in 1793 by Belgian engineer Agustin Cramer, and later Bishop Espada improved the lighting of the Campo.
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Paseo de Tacón
The Paseo de Tacón, or Paseo Militar, was created by the Captain General (Capitanía General de Cuba) Miguel Tacón y Rosique (1834–1838) who promoted the reform of the “road” that, starting from the calles of San Luis de Gonzaga (Reina) and Belascoáin, connected to the Castillo del Príncipe.
Paseo del Prado, Havana
Paseo del Prado is a street and promenade in Havana, Cuba, near the location of the old city wall, and the division between Centro Habana and Old Havana.
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Passy
Passy is an area of Paris, France, located in the 16th arrondissement, on the Right Bank.
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Pastor Vega
Pastor Vega (12 February 1940 – 2 June 2005) was a Cuban film director and screenwriter.
Patron saint
A patron saint, patroness saint, patron hallow or heavenly protector is a saint who in Catholicism, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodoxy and Oriental Orthodoxy is regarded as the heavenly advocate of a nation, place, craft, activity, class, clan, family, or person.
Paul Gauguin
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin (7 June 1848 – 8 May 1903) was a French painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, and writer, whose work has been primarily associated with the Post-Impressionist and Symbolist movements.
Pánfilo de Narváez
Pánfilo de Narváez (born 1470 or 1478, died 1528) was a Spanish conquistador and soldier in the Americas.
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Philip II of Spain
Philip II (21 May 152713 September 1598), also known as Philip the Prudent (Felipe el Prudente), was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from 1580, and King of Naples and Sicily from 1554 until his death in 1598.
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Philip IV of Spain
Philip IV (Felipe Domingo Victor de la Cruz de Austria y Austria, Filipe; 8 April 160517 September 1665), also called the Planet King (Spanish: Rey Planeta), was King of Spain from 1621 to his death and (as Philip III) King of Portugal from 1621 to 1640.
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Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.
Pinar del Río
Pinar del Río is the capital city of Pinar del Río Province, Cuba. Havana and Pinar del Río are world Heritage Sites in Cuba.
Platt Amendment
On March 2, 1901, the Platt Amendment was passed as part of the 1901 Army Appropriations Bill.
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Playa Baracoa Airport
Playa Baracoa Airport is an airport west of Havana, Cuba.
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Playa Mayabeque
Playa Mayabeque (Mayabeque Beach) is a location in the southern part of Mayabeque Province, within 15 kilometers of Melena del Sur on the southern shore of Cuba.
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Playa, Havana
Playa is a Cuban municipality, located in the Havana province.
Plaza de la Catedral
Plaza de la Catedral (English: Cathedral Square) is one of the four main squares in Old Havana and the site of the Cathedral of Havana from which it takes its name.
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Plaza de la Revolución
Plaza de la Revolución, "Revolution Square", is a municipality (or borough) and a square in Havana, Cuba.
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Plaza del Vapor, Havana
The Plaza del Vapor was a covered market in Havana, it was completed in 1835.
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Plaza Vieja, Havana
The Plaza Vieja is a plaza located in Old Havana, Cuba.
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Politics of Cuba
Cuba has had a socialist political system since 1961 based on the "one state – one party" principle.
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Polytechnic José Antonio Echeverría
The today Technological University José Antonio Echeverría, in its beginnings the University City José Antonio Echeverría (CUJAE), whose old acronyms are still used for its popular recognition.
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Pope Benedict XVI
Pope BenedictXVI (Benedictus PP.; Benedetto XVI; Benedikt XVI; born Joseph Alois Ratzinger; 16 April 1927 – 31 December 2022) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 19 April 2005 until his resignation on 28 February 2013.
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Pope Francis
Pope Francis (Franciscus; Francesco; Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio; 17 December 1936) is head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State.
Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II (Ioannes Paulus II; Jan Paweł II; Giovanni Paolo II; born Karol Józef Wojtyła,; 18 May 19202 April 2005) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 1978 until his death in 2005.
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Pre-Columbian art
Pre-Columbian art refers to the visual arts of indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, North, Central, and South Americas from at least 13,000 BCE to the European conquests starting in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
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Presbyter
Presbyter is an honorific title for Christian clergy.
President of Cuba
The president of Cuba (Presidente de Cuba), officially the president of the Republic of Cuba (Presidente de la República de Cuba), is the head of state of Cuba.
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Presidential palace
A presidential palace is the official residence of the president in some countries.
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Prima ballerina assoluta
Prima ballerina assoluta is a title awarded to the most notable of female ballet dancers.
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Prohibition in the United States
The Prohibition era was the period from 1920 to 1933 when the United States prohibited the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages.
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Prostitution in Cuba
Prostitution in Cuba is not officially illegal; however, there is legislation against pimps, sexual exploitation of minors, and pornography.
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Provinces of Cuba
Administratively, Cuba is divided into 15 provinces and one special municipality (the Isla de la Juventud).
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Punta Brava
Punta Brava is a small suburb located just to the southwest of Havana, Cuba, with a population of roughly 1500 inhabitants.
Purdy and Henderson
Purdy and Henderson was a New York City-based engineering firm founded by Corydon Tyler Purdy and Lightner Henderson.
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Radio comedy
Radio comedy, or comedic radio programming, is a radio broadcast that may involve variety show, sitcom elements, sketches, and various types of comedy found in other media.
Radiocentro CMQ Building
The Radiocentro CMQ Building complex is a former radio and television production facility and office building at the intersection of Calle L and La Rampa in El Vedado, Cuba.
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Rapid transit
Rapid transit or mass rapid transit (MRT), commonly referred to as metro, is a type of high-capacity public transport that is generally built in urban areas.
Raymond Hood
Raymond Mathewson Hood (March 29, 1881 – August 14, 1934) was an American architect who worked in the Neo-Gothic and Art Deco styles.
RCA Records
RCA Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.
Real Fabrica de Tabacos Partagás
La Real Fabrica de Tabacos Partagás, also known as The Royal Partagás Cigar Factory, is a cigar factory museum in Havana, Cuba.
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Refugee shelter
Refugee shelters are structures ranging from the most temporary tent accommodation through transitional shelter to building temporary pics and settlements and include the most basic kind of ad hoc structure.
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Regla
Regla is one of the 15 municipalities or boroughs (municipios in Spanish) in the city of Havana, Cuba.
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Reinaldo García Zapata
Reinaldo García Zapata is the current governor of Havana, in Cuba.
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René Portocarrero
René Portocarrero (born Havana, 24 February 1912; died Havana, 7 April 1985) was a Cuban artist recognised internationally for his achievements.
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Retinitis pigmentosa
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a genetic disorder of the eyes that causes loss of vision.
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Revista de Avance
Revista de Avance (Spanish: Advance Magazine) was a Cuban avant-garde magazine which existed between 1927 and 1930 in Havana.
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RHC-Cadena Azul
Radio Habana Cuba-Cadena Azul (lit. "Radio Havana Cuba-Blue Network") was a Cuban radio network operating in various forms from 1939 until 1954.
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Rockefeller Center
Rockefeller Center is a complex of 19 commercial buildings covering between 48th Street and 51st Street in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City.
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Rough Guides
Founded in 1982, Rough Guides Ltd is a British publisher of print and digital guide book, phrasebooks and inspirational travel reference books, and a provider of personalised trips.
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, and a component of His Majesty's Naval Service.
Rungis International Market
The Rungis International Market (Marché International de Rungis) is the principal wholesale market of Paris and mainly deals in food and horticultural products.
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Russians
Russians (russkiye) are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Eastern Europe.
Saint Christopher
Saint Christopher (Ἅγιος Χριστόφορος,,; Sanctus Christophorus) is venerated by several Christian denominations as a martyr killed in the reign of the 3rd-century Roman emperor Decius, or alternatively under the emperor Maximinus Daia.
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San Antonio de los Baños
San Antonio de los Baños is a municipality and town in the Artemisa Province of Cuba.
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San Carlos and San Ambrosio Seminary
San Carlos and San Ambrosio Seminary is a seminary in Havana, Cuba.
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San Miguel del Padrón
San Miguel del Padrón is one of the 15 municipalities/boroughs (municipios in Spanish) into which the city of Havana, Cuba is divided.
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Sancti Spíritus
Sancti Spíritus is a municipality and capital city of the province of Sancti Spíritus in central Cuba and one of the oldest Cuban European settlements.
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Santa Clara Battery
The Santa Clara Battery, with its two remaining coastal guns, one a caliber 305mm (12") Ordóñez HSE Modelo 1892 rifle and the other a 280mm (11") Krupp, stands on the grounds of the Hotel Nacional de Cuba, in Vedado, Havana.
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Santa Clara, Cuba
Santa Clara is the capital city of the Cuban province of Villa Clara.
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Santa Fe, Havana
Santa Fe is a ward (consejo popular) in the municipality of Playa in Havana, Cuba.
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Santiago de Cuba
Santiago de Cuba is the second-largest city in Cuba and the capital city of Santiago de Cuba Province. Havana and Santiago de Cuba are 1510s establishments in Cuba, 1515 establishments in the Spanish West Indies, populated places established in 1515, port cities in Cuba and world Heritage Sites in Cuba.
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Santiago de las Vegas
Santiago de las Vegas is a ward of Boyeros, a municipality of Havana, Cuba, located south of the city center.
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Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo (meaning "Saint Dominic" but verbatim "Holy Sunday"), once known as Santo Domingo de Guzmán, known as Ciudad Trujillo between 1936 and 1961, is the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic and the largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean by population. Havana and Santo Domingo are capitals in North America and capitals in the Caribbean.
Santo Trafficante Jr.
Santo Trafficante Jr. (November 15, 1914 – March 17, 1987) was among the most powerful Mafia bosses in the United States.
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Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah Bernhardt (born Henriette-Rosine Bernard; 22 October 1844 – 26 March 1923) was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including by Alexandre Dumas ''fils'', Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo, Fédora and La Tosca by Victorien Sardou, and L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand.
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Satellite state
A satellite state or dependent state is a country that is formally independent but under heavy political, economic, and military influence or control from another country.
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Seawall
A seawall (or sea wall) is a form of coastal defense constructed where the sea, and associated coastal processes, impact directly upon the landforms of the coast.
Sephardic Jews
Sephardic Jews (Djudíos Sefardíes), also known as Sephardi Jews or Sephardim, and rarely as Iberian Peninsular Jews, are a Jewish diaspora population associated with the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal).
Seven Years' War
The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict involving most of the European great powers, fought primarily in Europe and the Americas.
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Seville
Seville (Sevilla) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville.
Seville Cathedral
The Cathedral of Saint Mary of the See (Catedral de Santa María de la Sede), better known as Seville Cathedral, is a Catholic cathedral and former mosque in Seville, Andalusia, Spain.
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Shanty town
A shanty town, squatter area or squatter settlement is a settlement of improvised buildings known as shanties or shacks, typically made of materials such as mud and wood.
Siboney, Cuba
Siboney is a Cuban village and consejo popular (i.e.: people's council) located in the east of the city of Santiago de Cuba and belonging to its municipality.
Siege of Havana
The Siege of Havana was a successful British siege against Spanish-ruled Havana that lasted from March to August 1762, as part of the Seven Years' War.
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Simón Bolívar
Simón José Antonio de la Santísima Trinidad Bolívar Palacios Ponte y Blanco (24July 178317December 1830) was a Venezuelan statesman and military officer who led what are currently the countries of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, and Bolivia to independence from the Spanish Empire.
Slavery
Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour.
Slum
A slum is a highly populated urban residential area consisting of densely packed housing units of weak build quality and often associated with poverty.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
Spanish architecture
Spanish architecture refers to architecture in any area of what is now Spain, and by Spanish architects worldwide.
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Spanish Army
The Spanish Army (lit) is the terrestrial army of the Spanish Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations.
Spanish colonization of the Americas
The Spanish colonization of the Americas began in 1493 on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) after the initial 1492 voyage of Genoese mariner Christopher Columbus under license from Queen Isabella I of Castile.
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Spanish Empire
The Spanish Empire, sometimes referred to as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, was a colonial empire that existed between 1492 and 1976.
Spanish Florida
Spanish Florida (La Florida) was the first major European land-claim and attempted settlement-area in northern America during the European Age of Discovery.
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Spanish–American War
The Spanish–American War (April 21 – December 10, 1898) began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to United States intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.
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Special Period
The Special Period (Período especial), officially the Special Period in the Time of Peace (Período especial en tiempos de paz), was an extended period of economic crisis in Cuba that began in 1991 primarily due to the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the Comecon.
Straits of Florida
The Straits of Florida, Florida Straits, or Florida Strait (Estrecho de Florida) is a strait located south-southeast of the North American mainland, generally accepted to be between the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean, and between the Florida Keys (U.S.) and Cuba.
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Studio Museum in Harlem
The Studio Museum in Harlem is an American art museum devoted to the work of artists of African descent.
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Symbolism (arts)
Symbolism was a late 19th-century art movement of French and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts seeking to represent absolute truths symbolically through language and metaphorical images, mainly as a reaction against naturalism and realism.
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Taíno
The Taíno were a historic Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, whose culture has been continued today by Taíno descendant communities and Taíno revivalist communities.
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Taíno language
Taíno is an extinct Arawakan language that was spoken by the Taíno people of the Caribbean.
Tacón Theatre
The Teatro Tacón (Tacón Theatre) opened in 1838 in Havana, Cuba.
Ten Years' War
The Ten Years' War (Guerra de los Diez Años; 1868–1878), also known as the Great War (Guerra Grande) and the War of '68, was part of Cuba's fight for independence from Spain.
Tenor
A tenor is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types.
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Terry Moore (actress)
Terry Moore (born Helen Luella Koford; January 7, 1929) is an American film and television actress who began her career as a child actor.
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Tex McCrary
John Reagan "Tex" McCrary Jr. (October 13, 1910 – July 29, 2003) was an American journalist and public relations specialist.
The Beverly Hilton
The Beverly Hilton is a hotel located on an property at the intersection of Wilshire and Santa Monica boulevards in Beverly Hills, California, United States.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
The Lancet
The Lancet is a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal and one of the oldest of its kind.
The Ludwig Foundation of Cuba
The Ludwig Foundation of Cuba (LFC) is a non-governmental, non-profit institution located in Havana, Cuba, created with the mission of protecting and promoting Cuban artists in Cuba and internationally.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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The World Factbook
The World Factbook, also known as the CIA World Factbook, is a reference resource produced by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with almanac-style information about the countries of the world.
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Theological virtues
Theological virtues are virtues associated in Christian theology and philosophy with salvation resulting from the grace of God.
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Tomás Estrada Palma
Tomás Estrada Palma (July 6, 1835 – November 4, 1908) was a Cuban politician, the president of the Cuban Republican in Arms during the Ten Years' War, and the first President of Cuba, between May 20, 1902, and September 28, 1906.
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Tornado
A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud.
Torreón de la Chorrera
The Torreón de la Chorrera (Tower of la Chorrera), or to give it its full name, Fuerte de Santa Dorotea de la Luna de la Chorrera, was completed in May 1646.
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Tourism in Cuba
Tourism in Cuba is an industry that generates over 4.7 million arrivals, and is one of the main sources of revenue for the island.
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Trade winds
The trade winds or easterlies are permanent east-to-west prevailing winds that flow in the Earth's equatorial region.
Trader Vic's
Trader Vic's is a restaurant and tiki bar chain headquartered in Emeryville, California, United States.
Traditional African masks
Traditional African masks are worn in ceremonies and rituals across West, Central, and Southern Africa.
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Transshipment
Transshipment, trans-shipment or transhipment is the shipment of goods or containers to an intermediate destination, then to another destination.
Treaty of Paris (1763)
The Treaty of Paris, also known as the Treaty of 1763, was signed on 10 February 1763 by the kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain, with Portugal in agreement, following Great Britain and Prussia's victory over France and Spain during the Seven Years' War.
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Tropical climate
Tropical climate is the first of the five major climate groups in the Köppen climate classification identified with the letter A. Tropical climates are defined by a monthly average temperature of or higher in the coolest month, featuring hot temperatures and high humidity all year-round.
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Tropical monsoon climate
An area of tropical monsoon climate (occasionally known as a sub-equatorial, tropical wet climate or a tropical monsoon and trade-wind littoral climate) is a tropical climate subtype that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification category Am.
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Tropical rainforest climate
A tropical rainforest climate or equatorial climate is a tropical climate sub-type usually found within 10 to 15 degrees latitude of the equator.
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Tropical savanna climate
Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a tropical climate sub-type that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories Aw (for a dry "winter") and As (for a dry "summer").
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Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis (TB), also known colloquially as the "white death", or historically as consumption, is an infectious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) bacteria.
Types of concrete
Concrete is produced in a variety of compositions, finishes and performance characteristics to meet a wide range of needs.
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UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
United States embargo against Cuba
The United States embargo against Cuba prevents US businesses, and businesses organized under US law or majority-owned by US citizens, from conducting trade with Cuban interests.
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United States Interests Section in Havana
The United States Interests Section of the Embassy of Switzerland in Havana, Cuba ("USINT Havana" in the State Department telegraphic address) represented United States interests in Cuba from September 1, 1977 to July 20, 2015.
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United States Military Government in Cuba
The United States Military Government in Cuba (Spanish: Gobierno militar estadounidense en Cuba or Gobierno militar americano en Cuba), was a provisional military government in Cuba that was established in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War in 1898 when Spain ceded Cuba to the United States.
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University of Havana
The University of Havana (UH; Universidad de La Habana) is a public university located in the Vedado district of Havana, the capital of Cuba.
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University of Nebraska Press
The University of Nebraska Press (UNP) was founded in 1941 and is an academic publisher of scholarly and general-interest books.
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Urban decay
Urban decay (also known as urban rot, urban death or urban blight) is the sociological process by which a previously functioning city, or part of a city, falls into disrepair and decrepitude.
USS Maine (1889)
Maine was a United States Navy ship that sank in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898, contributing to the outbreak of the Spanish–American War in April.
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UTC−04:00
UTC−04:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of −04:00.
UTC−05:00
UTC−05:00 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of −05:00.
Varadero
Varadero, also referred to as Playa Azul (Blue Beach), is a resort town in the province of Matanzas, Cuba, and one of the largest resort areas in the Caribbean.
Vaslav Nijinsky
Vaslav or Vatslav Nijinsky (Vatslav Fomich Nizhinsky,; Wacław Niżyński,; 12 March 1889/18908 April 1950) was a Russian ballet dancer and choreographer of Polish ancestry.
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Vía Blanca
Vía Blanca (I-3) is a highway in northern Cuba, connecting the capital city of Havana and the city of Matanzas.
Vedado
Vedado (El Vedado) is a central business district and urban neighborhood in the city of Havana, Cuba.
Venice
Venice (Venezia; Venesia, formerly Venexia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale (La Biennale di Venezia) is an international cultural exhibition hosted annually in Venice, Italy by the Biennale Foundation.
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Vera-Ellen
Vera-Ellen (born Vera-Ellen Rohe; February 16, 1921 – August 30, 1981) was an American dancer and actress.
Vienna
Vienna (Wien; Austro-Bavarian) is the capital, most populous city, and one of nine federal states of Austria.
Voiced bilabial plosive
The voiced bilabial plosive or stop is a type of consonantal sound used in many spoken languages.
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Voiced labiodental fricative
The voiced labiodental fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages.
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Waistcoat
A waistcoat (UK and Commonwealth, or; colloquially called a weskit) or vest (US and Canada) is a sleeveless upper-body garment.
Wajay
Wajay is a ward (consejo popular, "people's council") of the city of Havana, the capital of Cuba, belonging to the municipal borough of Boyeros.
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Walter Gropius
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (18 May 1883 – 5 July 1969) was a German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School, who, along with Alvar Aalto, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modernist architecture.
Ward (electoral subdivision)
A ward is a local authority area, typically used for electoral purposes.
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Watson and the Shark
Watson and the Shark is an oil painting by the Anglo-American painter John Singleton Copley, depicting the rescue of the English boy Brook Watson from a shark attack in Havana, Cuba.
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Welton Becket
Welton David Becket (August 8, 1902 – January 16, 1969) was an American modern architect who designed many buildings in Los Angeles, California.
Western Hemisphere
The Western Hemisphere is the half of the planet Earth that lies west of the Prime Meridian—which crosses Greenwich, London, England—and east of the 180th meridian.
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William McKinley
William McKinley (January 29, 1843September 14, 1901) was an American politician who served as the 25th president of the United States from 1897 until his assassination in 1901.
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World Heritage Committee
The World Heritage Committee is a committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization that selects the sites to be listed as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including the World Heritage List and the List of World Heritage in Danger, defines the use of the World Heritage Fund and allocates financial assistance upon requests from States Parties.
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World Heritage Site
World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance.
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World Meteorological Organization
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for promoting international cooperation on atmospheric science, climatology, hydrology and geophysics.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
Yokohama
is the second-largest city in Japan by population and by area, and the country's most populous municipality.
16th arrondissement of Paris
The 16th arrondissement of Paris (seizième arrondissement) is the westernmost of the 20 arrondissements of Paris, the capital city of France.
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1991 Pan American Games
The 1991 Pan American Games were held in Havana, Cuba from 2 to 18 August 1991.
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2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad and officially branded as Beijing 2008, were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China.
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2012 Summer Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012, were an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom.
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2019 Havana tornado
On the night of 27 January 2019, at 20:20 CST, an unusually violent and destructive tornado ripped through the Cuban capital Havana.
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See also
1510s establishments in Cuba
- Havana
- Santiago de Cuba
1515 establishments in North America
- Havana
1515 establishments in the Spanish West Indies
- Cuba
- Havana
- Santiago de Cuba
Capitals in North America
- Basseterre
- Belmopan
- Bridgetown
- Castries
- Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
- Guatemala City
- Hamilton, Bermuda
- Havana
- Kingston, Jamaica
- Kingstown
- Managua
- Mexico City
- Nuuk
- Ottawa
- Panama City
- Port of Spain
- Port-au-Prince
- Road Town
- Roseau
- Saint-Pierre, Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- San José, Costa Rica
- San Juan, Puerto Rico
- San Salvador
- Santo Domingo
- St. George's, Grenada
- St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda
- Tegucigalpa
- Washington, D.C.
Capitals in the Caribbean
- Basse-Terre
- Basseterre
- Brades
- Bridgetown
- Castries
- Charlotte Amalie, U.S. Virgin Islands
- Cockburn Town
- Fort-de-France
- George Town, Cayman Islands
- Gustavia, Saint Barthélemy
- Havana
- Kingston, Jamaica
- Kingstown
- Kralendijk
- Little Bay, Montserrat
- Marigot, Saint Martin
- Nassau, Bahamas
- Oranjestad, Aruba
- Oranjestad, Sint Eustatius
- Philipsburg, Sint Maarten
- Plymouth, Montserrat
- Port of Spain
- Port-au-Prince
- Road Town
- Roseau
- San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Santo Domingo
- St. George's, Grenada
- St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda
- The Bottom
- The Valley, Anguilla
- Willemstad
Populated places established in 1515
Port cities in Cuba
- Cienfuegos
- Guantánamo
- Havana
- Santiago de Cuba
Provinces of Cuba
- Artemisa Province
- Camagüey Province
- Ciego de Ávila Province
- Cienfuegos Province
- Granma Province
- Guantánamo Province
- Havana
- Holguín Province
- ISO 3166-2:CU
- Isla de la Juventud
- La Habana Province
- Las Tunas Province
- Matanzas Province
- Mayabeque Province
- Pinar del Río Province
- Provinces of Cuba
- Sancti Spíritus Province
- Santiago de Cuba Province
- Villa Clara Province
World Heritage Sites in Cuba
- Alejandro de Humboldt National Park
- Archaeological Landscape of the First Coffee Plantations in the South-East of Cuba
- Camagüey
- Castillo de San Pedro de la Roca
- Cienfuegos
- Desembarco del Granma National Park
- Havana
- Historic Centre of Cienfuegos
- List of World Heritage Sites in Cuba
- Pinar del Río
- Santiago de Cuba
- Trinidad, Cuba
- Viñales Valley
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