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823 relations: Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, Advice and consent, Afghanistan, Africa, African Americans, Afro-Puerto Ricans, Aguada, Puerto Rico, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, Aguinaldo (music), Aibonito, Puerto Rico, Air National Guard, Ají caballero, Alan Heston, Alejandro Tapia y Rivera, Allspice, Alonso Manso, Altar, Amateur radio, Ambassadors of the United States, American Bar Association, American Forces Network, American Institute of Biological Sciences, American Jews, American Revolution, American Sign Language, Americas, Amphibian, Ana G. Méndez University, AND1, AND1 Live Tour, Andalusia, Andy Montañez, Anglicanism, Anglicisation, Annatto, Annual Review of Entomology, Annual Reviews (publisher), Antonio Paoli, Antonio S. Pedreira, Archipelago, Architectural style, Arecibo, Puerto Rico, Army National Guard, Arroz con gandules, Art Deco, Article Four of the United States Constitution, Asian Puerto Ricans, Associate justice, Associated Press, Associated state, ... Expand index (773 more) »
- 1493 establishments in the Spanish West Indies
- 1898 disestablishments in the Spanish West Indies
- Caribbean islands of the United States
- Dependent territories in the Caribbean
- Greater Antilles
- Insular areas of the United States
- Islands of Puerto Rico
- Spanish-speaking countries and territories
- States and territories established in 1898
Adjuntas, Puerto Rico
Adjuntas is a small mountainside town and municipality in Puerto Rico located central midwestern portion of the island on the Cordillera Central, north of Yauco, Guayanilla, and Peñuelas; southeast of Utuado; east of Lares and Yauco; and northwest of Ponce.
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Advice and consent
Advice and consent is an English phrase frequently used in enacting formulae of bills and in other legal or constitutional contexts.
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Afghanistan
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia.
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Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
African Americans
African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.
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Afro-Puerto Ricans
Afro-Puerto Ricans (Afropuertorriqueños), most commonly known as '''Afroboricuas''', but also occasionally referred to as Afroborinqueños, Afroborincanos, or Afropuertorros, are Puerto Ricans of full or mostly sub-Saharan African origin, who are predominately the descendants of slaves, freedmen, and free Blacks original to West and Central Africa.
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Aguada, Puerto Rico
Aguada, originally San Francisco de Asís de la Aguada, is a town and municipality of Puerto Rico, located in the northwestern coastal valley region bordering the Atlantic Ocean, east of Rincón, south of Aguadilla, west of Moca; and north of Añasco and Mayagüez.
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Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
Aguadilla, founded in 1775 by Luis de Córdova, is a city and municipality located in the northwestern tip of Puerto Rico, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, north of Aguada, and Moca and west of Isabela.
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Aguinaldo (music)
Aguinaldo It is a genre of Puerto Rican and Venezuelan traditional and cultural music, popular in several Latin American countries., based on Spanish Christmas carols or villancicos which is traditionally sung on Christmas itself or during the holiday season.
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Aibonito, Puerto Rico
Aibonito is a small mountain town and municipality in Puerto Rico located in the Sierra de Cayey mountain range, north of Salinas; south of Barranquitas and Comerío; east of Coamo; and west of Cidra, and Cayey.
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Air National Guard
The Air National Guard (ANG), also known as the Air Guard, is a federal military reserve force of the United States Air Force, as well as the air militia of each U.S. state, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the territories of Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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Ají caballero
The Ají caballero (or "gentleman pepper") is a scarce hot chili pepper used as the basis of some Puerto Rican condiments, such as the Pique sauce.
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Alan Heston
Alan W. Heston (born 1934 in Portland, Oregon) is an American economist best known for his collaborative work with fellow economist Robert Summers and the development of the Penn World Table (PWT).
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Alejandro Tapia y Rivera
Alejandro Tapia y Rivera (November 12, 1826 – July 19, 1882) was a Puerto Rican poet, playwright, essayist and writer.
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Allspice
Allspice, also known as Jamaica pepper, myrtle pepper, pimenta, or pimento, is the dried unripe berry of Pimenta dioica, a midcanopy tree native to the Greater Antilles, southern Mexico, and Central America, now cultivated in many warm parts of the world.
Alonso Manso
Alonso Manso (1460 – September 27, 1539) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as the first Bishop of Puerto Rico (1511–1539), (in Latin) and first Bishop of Magua (1504–1511), (in Latin) and as the eighth governor of Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico and Alonso Manso are Spanish West Indies.
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Altar
An altar is a table or platform for the presentation of religious offerings, for sacrifices, or for other ritualistic purposes.
Amateur radio
Amateur radio, also known as ham radio, is the use of the radio frequency spectrum for purposes of non-commercial exchange of messages, wireless experimentation, self-training, private recreation, radiosport, contesting, and emergency communications.
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Ambassadors of the United States
Ambassadors of the United States are persons nominated by the president to serve as the United States' diplomatic representatives to foreign nations, international organizations, and as ambassadors-at-large.
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American Bar Association
The American Bar Association (ABA) is a voluntary bar association of lawyers and law students; it is not specific to any jurisdiction in the United States.
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American Forces Network
The American Forces Network (AFN) is a government television and radio broadcast service the U.S. military provides to those stationed or assigned overseas, and is headquartered at Fort Meade in Maryland.
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American Institute of Biological Sciences
The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) is a nonprofit scientific public charitable organization.
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American Jews
American Jews or Jewish Americans are American citizens who are Jewish, whether by culture, ethnicity, or religion.
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American Revolution
The American Revolution was a rebellion and political movement in the Thirteen Colonies which peaked when colonists initiated an ultimately successful war for independence against the Kingdom of Great Britain.
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American Sign Language
American Sign Language (ASL) is a natural language that serves as the predominant sign language of deaf communities in the United States and most of Anglophone Canada.
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Americas
The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.
Amphibian
Amphibians are ectothermic, anamniotic, four-limbed vertebrate animals that constitute the class Amphibia.
Ana G. Méndez University
The Ana G. Méndez University (UAGM / AGMU) is a private university system with its main campus in San Juan, Puerto Rico that participates in the Puerto Rico Space Grant Consortium.
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AND1
AND1 is an American footwear and clothing company specializing in basketball shoes, clothing, and sporting goods.
AND1 Live Tour
The AND1 Live Tour, formerly known as the AND1 Mixtape Tour, was a traveling basketball competition and exhibition that existed from 1998 to 2008.
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Andalusia
Andalusia (Andalucía) is the southernmost autonomous community in Peninsular Spain.
Andy Montañez
Andrés Montañez Rodríguez (born May 7, 1942), better known as Andy Montañez, is a Puerto Rican singer and songwriter.
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Anglicanism
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.
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Anglicisation
Anglicisation is a form of cultural assimilation whereby something non-English becomes assimilated into, influenced by or dominated by the culture of England.
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Annatto
Annatto is an orange-red condiment and food coloring derived from the seeds of the achiote tree (Bixa orellana), native to tropical parts of the Americas.
Annual Review of Entomology
The Annual Review of Entomology is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes review articles about entomology, the study of insects.
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Annual Reviews (publisher)
Annual Reviews is an independent, non-profit academic publishing company based in San Mateo, California.
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Antonio Paoli
Antonio Paoli (14 April 1871 – 24 August 1946) was a Puerto Rican tenor.
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Antonio S. Pedreira
Dr.
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Archipelago
An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster, or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.
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Architectural style
An architectural style is a classification of buildings (and nonbuilding structures) based on a set of characteristics and features, including overall appearance, arrangement of the components, method of construction, building materials used, form, size, structural design, and regional character.
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Arecibo, Puerto Rico
Arecibo is a city and municipality on the northern coast of Puerto Rico, on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, located north of Utuado and Ciales; east of Hatillo; and west of Barceloneta and Florida.
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Army National Guard
The Army National Guard (ARNG), in conjunction with the Air National Guard, is an organized militia force and a federal military reserve force of the United States Army.
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Arroz con gandules
Arroz con gandules is a combination of rice, pigeon peas, and pork, cooked in the same pot with sofrito.
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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.
Article Four of the United States Constitution
Article Four of the United States Constitution outlines the relationship between the various states, as well as the relationship between each state and the United States federal government.
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Asian Puerto Ricans
Asian Puerto Ricans are Puerto Ricans who trace their ancestry to the continent of Asia, mostly from China, India, and especially Palestinian Territories, Japan, Lebanon and Syria (see Arab).
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Associate justice
An associate justice or associate judge (or simply associate) is a judicial panel member who is not the chief justice in some jurisdictions.
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Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Associated state
An associated state is the minor partner or dependent territory in a formal, free relationship between a political territory (some of them dependent states, most of them fully sovereign) and a major party—usually a larger nation.
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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.
Athens
Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.
Atlantic hurricane season
The Atlantic hurricane season is the period in a year, from June 1 through November 30, when tropical or subtropical cyclones are most likely to form in the North Atlantic Ocean.
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, with an area of about.
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Atlantic Time Zone
The Atlantic Time Zone is a geographical region that keeps standard time—called Atlantic Standard Time (AST)—by subtracting four hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), resulting in UTC−04:00.
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Autonomous Municipalities Act of 1991
Law No.
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Bad Bunny
Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio (born March 10, 1994), known professionally as Bad Bunny, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer, and record producer.
Baggage
Baggage or luggage consists of bags, cases, and containers which hold a traveler's personal articles while the traveler is in transit.
Baháʼí Faith
The Baháʼí Faith is a religion founded in the 19th century that teaches the essential worth of all religions and the unity of all people.
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Balearic Islands
The Balearic Islands (Illes Balears; Islas Baleares or) are an archipelago in the western Mediterranean Sea, near the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula.
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Baloncesto Superior Nacional
The Baloncesto Superior Nacional, abbreviated as BSN, is the first-tier-level professional men's basketball league in Puerto Rico.
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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.
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Barrio
Barrio is a Spanish word that means "quarter" or "neighborhood".
Bartolomé de las Casas
Bartolomé de las Casas, OP (11 November 1484 – 18 July 1566) was a Spanish clergyman, writer, and activist best known for his work as an historian and social reformer.
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Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding.
Baseball World Cup
The Baseball World Cup (BWC) was an international baseball tournament for national teams around the world, sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation (IBAF).
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Baseline (sea)
A baseline, as defined by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is the line (or curve) along the coast from which the seaward limits of a state's territorial sea and certain other maritime zones of jurisdiction are measured, such as a state's exclusive economic zone.
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Basil
Basil (Ocimum basilicum), also called great basil, is a culinary herb of the family Lamiaceae (mints).
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket in diameter mounted high to a backboard at each end of the court), while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop.
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Bayamón, Puerto Rico
Bayamón is a city, municipality of Puerto Rico and suburb of San Juan located in the northern coastal valley, north of Aguas Buenas and Comerío; south of Toa Baja and Cataño; west of Guaynabo; and east of Toa Alta and Naranjito.
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Bernardo de Gálvez
Bernardo Vicente de Gálvez y Madrid, 1st Count of Gálvez (23 July 1746 – 30 November 1786) was a Spanish military leader and government official who served as colonial governor of Spanish Louisiana and Cuba, and later as Viceroy of New Spain. Puerto Rico and Bernardo de Gálvez are Spanish West Indies.
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Bicameralism
Bicameralism is a type of legislature that is divided into two separate assemblies, chambers, or houses, known as a bicameral legislature.
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BioScience
BioScience is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal that is published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences.
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Bobby Valentín
Roberto "Bobby" Valentín Fret (born June 9, 1941), is a musician and salsa bandleader.
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Bomba (Puerto Rico)
Bomba is an umbrella term that refers to a variety of musical styles and associated dances originating in Puerto Rico.
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Boumediene v. Bush
Boumediene v. Bush, 553 U.S. 723 (2008), was a writ of habeas corpus petition made in a civilian court of the United States on behalf of Lakhdar Boumediene, a naturalized citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina, held in military detention by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay detention camps in Cuba.
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Boxing
Boxing is a combat sport and martial art.
Breakbulk cargo
In shipping, break-bulk, breakbulk, or break bulk cargo, also called general cargo, is goods that are stowed on board ships in individually counted units.
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British Ecological Society
The British Ecological Society is a learned society in the field of ecology that was founded in 1913.
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Budget of the Government of Puerto Rico
The Budget of the Government of Puerto Rico (Presupuesto del Gobierno de Puerto Rico) is the proposal by the Governor of Puerto Rico to the Legislative Assembly which recommends funding levels for the next fiscal year, beginning on July 1 and ending on June 30 of the following year.
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Cabo Rojo National Wildlife Refuge
Cabo Rojo National Wildlife Refuge (Spanish: Refugio Nacional de Vida Silvestre de Cabo Rojo) is an 1,836-acre National Wildlife Refuge located in southwestern Puerto Rico, in the municipality of Cabo Rojo.
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Cabotage
Cabotage is the transport of goods or passengers between two places in the same country.
Caguas, Puerto Rico
Caguas is a city and municipality of Puerto Rico located in the Central Mountain Range of Puerto Rico, south of San Juan and Trujillo Alto, west of Gurabo and San Lorenzo, and east of Aguas Buenas, Cidra, and Cayey.
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Caja de Muertos Island
Caja de Muertos (also in English: Deadman's Chest or Coffin Island) is an uninhabited island off the southern coast of Puerto Rico, in the municipality of Ponce.
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Caja de Muertos Nature Reserve
Caja de Muertos Nature Reserve (Spanish: Reserva Natural Isla de Caja de Muertos) is a nature reserve in southern Puerto Rico consisting of the islands of Caja de Muertos, Cayo Morrillito, Cayo Berbería, and their surrounding reefs and waters in the Caribbean Sea. Puerto Rico and Caja de Muertos Nature Reserve are islands of Puerto Rico.
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Calabaza
Calabaza is the generic name in the Spanish language for any type of winter squash.
California
California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast. Puerto Rico and California are former Spanish colonies.
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California Penal Code
The Penal Code of California forms the basis for the application of most criminal law, criminal procedure, penal institutions, and the execution of sentences, among other things, in the American state of California.
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Campamento Santiago
Camp Santiago Joint Training Center is a military training installation controlled by the Puerto Rico National Guard on of land located in Salinas, Puerto Rico.
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Canarian Spanish
Canarian Spanish or Canary Island Spanish (Spanish terms in descending order of frequency: español de Canarias, español canario, habla canaria, or dialecto canario) is a variant of standard Spanish spoken in the Canary Islands by the Canary Islanders.
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Canary Islands
The Canary Islands (Canarias), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish region, autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Caper
Capparis spinosa, the caper bush, also called Flinders rose, is a perennial plant that bears rounded, fleshy leaves and large white to pinkish-white flowers.
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.
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Capitanes de Arecibo
The Capitanes de Arecibo are a Puerto Rican professional basketball team based in Arecibo that competes in the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN) league.
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Capsicum
Capsicum is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family Solanaceae, native to the Americas, cultivated worldwide for their edible fruit.
Captaincy General of Puerto Rico
The Captaincy General of Puerto Rico (Capitanía General de Puerto Rico) was an administrative district of the Spanish Empire, created in 1580 to provide better military management of the island of Puerto Rico, previously under the direct rule of a lone governor and the jurisdiction of Audiencia of Santo Domingo. Puerto Rico and Captaincy General of Puerto Rico are Spanish West Indies and Spanish-speaking countries and territories.
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Carbonate
A carbonate is a salt of carbonic acid,, characterized by the presence of the carbonate ion, a polyatomic ion with the formula.
Cargo
In transportation, freight refers to goods conveyed by land, water or air, while cargo refers specifically to freight when conveyed via water or air.
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.
Caribbean Islands National Wildlife Refuge Complex
Caribbean Islands National Wildlife Complex is an administrative unit of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service which oversees National Wildlife Refuges in Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Navassa Island of the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands.
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Caribbean Plate
The Caribbean Plate is a mostly oceanic tectonic plate underlying Central America and the Caribbean Sea off the northern coast of South America.
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Caribbean Sea
The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere.
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Caribbean Series
The Caribbean Series (Spanish: Serie del Caribe) is an annual club tournament contested by professional baseball teams in Latin America.
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Carjacking
Carjacking is a robbery in which a motor vehicle is taken over.
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Carnival
Carnival or Shrovetide is a festive season that occurs at the close of the Christian pre-Lenten period, consisting of Quinquagesima or Shrove Sunday, Shrove Monday, and Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras.
Carolina, Puerto Rico
Carolina is a city and municipality located on the northeast coast of Puerto Rico.
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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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Casals Festival
The Casals Festival is a classical music event celebrated every year in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in honor of classical musician Pablo Casals.
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Casiano Communications
Latin Media House, LLC acquired the assets of Casiano Communications Inc. (CCI) effective November 2, 2015 from Chapter 11 at the US Bankruptcy Court.
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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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Catalonia
Catalonia (Catalunya; Cataluña; Catalonha) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a nationality by its Statute of Autonomy.
Cathedral of San Juan, Puerto Rico
The Catedral Basílica Metropolitana de San Juan Bautista, or in English, Metropolitan Cathedral Basilica of Saint John the Baptist, is the Catholic cathedral for the Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico.
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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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Catholic Church in Puerto Rico
The Catholic Church in Puerto Rico is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in communion with the pope in Rome.
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Cave
A cave or cavern is a natural void under the Earth's surface.
Cayetano Coll y Toste
Dr.
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Ceiba pentandra
Ceiba pentandra is a tropical tree of the order Malvales and the family Malvaceae (previously emplaced in the family Bombacaceae), native to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, northern South America, and (as the variety C. pentandra var guineensis) West Africa.
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Ceiba, Puerto Rico
Ceiba is both a small town and a municipality in northeast Puerto Rico.
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Central America
Central America is a subregion of North America.
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Central American and Caribbean Games
The Central American and Caribbean Games (CAC or CACGs) are a multi-sport regional championship event, held quadrennial (once every four years), typically in the middle (even) year between Summer Olympics.
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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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Cerro de Punta
Cerro de Punta or Cerro Punta is the highest peak in Puerto Rico, rising to above sea level.
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Cerro Las Tetas
Cerro Las Tetas, nicknamed Las Tetas de Cayey but officially Las Piedras del Collado, are two mountain peaks located in the municipality of Salinas, Puerto Rico, north of the city of Salinas proper.
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Chicken as food
Chicken is the most common type of poultry in the world.
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Chickpea
The chickpea or chick pea (Cicer arietinum) is an annual legume of the family Fabaceae, subfamily Faboideae.
Chief justice
The chief justice is the presiding member of a supreme court in many countries with a justice system based on English common law, such as the High Court of Australia, the Supreme Court of Canada, the Supreme Court of Ghana, the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong, the Supreme Court of India, the Supreme Court of Ireland, the Supreme Court of Japan, the Supreme Court of Nepal, the Supreme Court of New Zealand, the Supreme Court of Nigeria, the Supreme Court of Pakistan, the Supreme Court of the Philippines, the Supreme Court of Singapore, the Supreme Court of the United States, and provincial or state supreme courts/high courts.
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Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico (Jefe del Tribunal Supremo de Puerto Rico) is the presiding officer of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico.
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Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. Puerto Rico and Chile are former Spanish colonies and Spanish-speaking countries and territories.
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
Christianity
Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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Christians
A Christian is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.
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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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Chrysobalanus icaco
Chrysobalanus icaco, the cocoplum, paradise plum, abajeru or icaco, also called fat pork in Trinidad and Tobago, is a low shrub or bushy tree found near sea beaches and inland throughout tropical Africa, tropical Americas and the Caribbean, and in southern Florida and the Bahamas.
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Circular migration
Circular migration or repeat migration is the temporary and usually repetitive movement of a migrant worker between home and host areas, typically for the purpose of employment.
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Citizenship of the United States
Citizenship of the United States is a legal status that entails Americans with specific rights, duties, protections, and benefits in the United States.
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Citrus
Citrus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the family Rutaceae.
Civil law (legal system)
Civil law is a legal system originating in Italy and France that has been adopted in large parts of the world.
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Claridad
Claridad ("Clarity") is a Spanish-language weekly newspaper based in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Classical music
Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.
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Climate
Climate is the long-term weather pattern in a region, typically averaged over 30 years.
CNN
Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.
Coamo, Puerto Rico
Coamo is a town and municipality founded in 1579 in the south-central region of Puerto Rico, located north of Santa Isabel; south of Orocovis and Barranquitas; east of Villalba and Juana Díaz; and west of Aibonito and Salinas.
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Colloquialism
Colloquialism (also called colloquial language, everyday language, or general parlance) is the linguistic style used for casual (informal) communication.
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Colombia
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America. Puerto Rico and Colombia are former Spanish colonies and Spanish-speaking countries and territories.
Commander-in-chief
A commander-in-chief or supreme commander is the person who exercises supreme command and control over an armed force or a military branch.
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Commerce Clause
The Commerce Clause describes an enumerated power listed in the United States Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3).
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Committee of the Whole (United States House of Representatives)
In the United States House of Representatives, a Committee of the Whole House is a congressional committee that includes all members of the House.
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Common law
Common law (also known as judicial precedent, judge-made law, or case law) is the body of law created by judges and similar quasi-judicial tribunals by virtue of being stated in written opinions.
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Commonwealth
A commonwealth is a traditional English term for a political community founded for the common good.
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Commonwealth (U.S. insular area)
Commonwealth is a term used by two unincorporated territories of the United States in their full official names, which are the Northern Mariana Islands, whose full name is Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and Puerto Rico, which is named Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in English and Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico in Spanish, translating to "Free Associated State of Puerto Rico." The term was also used by the Philippines during most of its period under U.S. Puerto Rico and Commonwealth (U.S. insular area) are insular areas of the United States.
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Compact of Free Association
The Compacts of Free Association (COFA) are international agreements establishing and governing the relationships of free association between the United States and the three Pacific Island sovereign states of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), and the Republic of Palau.
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Compound annual growth rate
Compound annual growth rate (CAGR) is a business, economics and investing term representing the mean annualized growth rate for compounding values over a given time period.
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CONCACAF
The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football, abbreviated as CONCACAF (typeset for branding purposes since 2018 as Concacaf), is one of FIFA's six continental governing bodies for association football.
Congressional Gold Medal
The Congressional Gold Medal is the oldest and highest civilian award in the United States, alongside the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Connecticut
Connecticut is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.
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Conscription
Conscription is the state-mandated enlistment of people in a national service, mainly a military service.
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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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Constitution
A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organization or other type of entity, and commonly determines how that entity is to be governed.
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Constitution of Puerto Rico
The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Constitución del Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico) is the controlling government document of Puerto Rico.
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Constitution of the United States
The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States.
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Consul (representative)
A consul is an official representative of a government who resides in a foreign country to assist and protect citizens of the consul's country, and to promote and facilitate commercial and diplomatic relations between the two countries.
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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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Coquí
Coquí is a common name for several species of small frogs in the genus Eleutherodactylus native to Puerto Rico.
Cordillera Central (Puerto Rico)
The Cordillera Central (English: Central Mountain Range), is the main mountain range in Puerto Rico.
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Coriander
Coriander (Coriandrum sativum), also known as cilantro, is an annual herb in the family Apiaceae.
Corozal, Puerto Rico
Corozal is a town and municipality of Puerto Rico located in the central-eastern region, north of Orocovis and Barranquitas; south of Vega Alta; southwest of Toa Alta; east of Morovis and Orocovis; and west of Naranjito.
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Corsica
Corsica (Corse; Còrsega) is an island in the Mediterranean Sea and one of the 18 regions of France.
Corsican immigration to Puerto Rico
Corsican immigration to Puerto Rico resulted in the 19th century from widespread economic and political changes in Europe that made life difficult for the peasant and agricultural classes in Corsica and other territories.
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Cost of living
The cost of living is the cost of maintaining a certain standard of living for an individual or a household.
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Costa Rica
Costa Rica (literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in the Central American region of North America. Puerto Rico and Costa Rica are former Spanish colonies and Spanish-speaking countries and territories.
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County (United States)
In the United States, a county or county equivalent is an administrative or political subdivision of a U.S. state or other territories of the United States which consists of a geographic area with specific boundaries and usually some level of governmental authority.
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Cretaceous
The Cretaceous is a geological period that lasted from about 145 to 66 million years ago (Mya).
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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. Puerto Rico and Cuba are 1898 disestablishments in the Spanish West Indies, former Spanish colonies, former colonies in North America, Greater Antilles, island countries, new Spain, small Island Developing States, Spanish West Indies, Spanish colonization of the Americas and Spanish-speaking countries and territories.
Culebra National Wildlife Refuge
The Culebra National Wildlife Refuge (Spanish: Refugio nacional de vida silvestre de Culebra) is a National Wildlife Refuge in Puerto Rico.
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Culebra, Puerto Rico
Isla Culebra (Snake Island) is an island, town and municipality of Puerto Rico and geographically part of the Spanish Virgin Islands.
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Cut flowers
Cut flowers are flowers and flower buds (often with some stem and leaf) that have been cut from the plant bearing it.
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Danza
Danza is a musical genre that originated in Ponce, a city in southern Puerto Rico.
Delaware
Delaware is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern region of the United States.
Delma S. Arrigoitia
Delma S. Arrigoitia (February 10, 1945 – January 8, 2023) was a historian, author, educator, and lawyer whose written works covered the life and works of some of Puerto Rico's most prominent politicians of the early 20th century.
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Democratic Party (Puerto Rico)
The Democratic Party of Puerto Rico (Partido Demócrata de Puerto Rico) WIPR.
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Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.
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Dependent territory
A dependent territory, dependent area, or dependency (sometimes referred as an external territory) is a territory that does not possess full political independence or sovereignty as a sovereign state and remains politically outside the controlling state's integral area.
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Desecheo Island
Desecheo (Isla Desecheo) is a small uninhabited island of the archipelago of Puerto Rico in the northeast of the Mona Passage; from Rincón on the west coast (Punta Higüero) of the main island of Puerto Rico and northeast of Mona Island.
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Desecheo National Wildlife Refuge
The Desecheo National Wildlife Refuge (Spanish: Refugio Nacional de Vida Silvestre de Desecheo) is a National Wildlife Refuge in Puerto Rico.
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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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Devolution
Devolution is the statutory delegation of powers from the central government of a sovereign state to govern at a subnational level, such as a regional or local level.
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Diego de Torres Vargas
Diego de Torres Vargas (1615–1670) was a Puerto Rican Catholic priest, and the first person to write a book about the history of Puerto Rico.
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Dinoflagellate
The dinoflagellates are a monophyletic group of single-celled eukaryotes constituting the phylum Dinoflagellata and are usually considered protists.
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Diocese
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
Diocese of the North East Caribbean and Aruba
The Anglican Diocese of North East Caribbean and Aruba was originally established in 1842 as the Diocese of Antigua and the Leeward Islands when the Anglican Diocese of Barbados, then with the Diocese of Jamaica, one of the two dioceses covering the Caribbean, was sub-divided.
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Dominican Republic
The Dominican Republic is a North American country on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north. Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic are former Spanish colonies, former colonies in North America, Greater Antilles, island countries, new Spain, small Island Developing States, Spanish West Indies, Spanish colonization of the Americas and Spanish-speaking countries and territories.
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Dominican Republic immigration to Puerto Rico
Dominican immigration to Puerto Rico dates back to the beginning of European colonization of the Americas.
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Double jeopardy
In jurisprudence, double jeopardy is a procedural defence (primarily in common law jurisdictions) that prevents an accused person from being tried again on the same (or similar) charges following an acquittal or conviction and in rare cases prosecutorial and/or judge misconduct in the same jurisdiction.
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Down These Mean Streets
Down These Mean Streets is a memoir by Piri Thomas, a Latino of Puerto Rican and Cuban descent who grew up in Spanish Harlem,Berger a section of Harlem with a large Puerto Rican population.
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Downes v. Bidwell
Downes v. Bidwell, 182 U.S. 244 (1901), was a case in which the US Supreme Court decided whether US territories were subject to the provisions and protections of the US Constitution.
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Dry season
The dry season was a yearly period of low rainfall, especially in the tropics.
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Dulce de leche
Dulce de leche, caramelized milk, milk candy, or milk jam is a confectionery popular in Latin America, France, Poland, and the Philippines prepared by slowly heating sugar and milk over several hours.
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Dutch people
The Dutch (Dutch) are an ethnic group native to the Netherlands.
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Earthquake
An earthquakealso called a quake, tremor, or tembloris the shaking of the Earth's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves.
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East Asia
East Asia is a geographical and cultural region of Asia including the countries of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.
Eastern Catholic Churches
The Eastern Catholic Churches or Oriental Catholic Churches, also called the Eastern-Rite Catholic Churches, Eastern Rite Catholicism, or simply the Eastern Churches, are 23 Eastern Christian autonomous (sui iuris) particular churches of the Catholic Church, in full communion with the Pope in Rome.
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Eastern Orthodox Church
The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, and also called the Greek Orthodox Church or simply the Orthodox Church, is the second-largest Christian church, with approximately 230 million baptised members.
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Eastern Orthodoxy
Eastern Orthodoxy, otherwise known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity or Byzantine Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism.
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Ecological Society of America
The Ecological Society of America (ESA) is a professional organization of ecological scientists.
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Ecuador
Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. Puerto Rico and Ecuador are former Spanish colonies and Spanish-speaking countries and territories.
Edgardo Vega Yunqué
Edgardo Vega Yunqué (May 20, 1936August 26, 2008) was a Puerto Rican novelist and short story writer, who also used the pen name Ed Vega.
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Eggplant
Eggplant (US, CA, AU, NZ, PH), aubergine (UK, IE), brinjal (IN, SG, MY, ZA), or baigan (IN, GY) is a plant species in the nightshade family Solanaceae.
El Niño–Southern Oscillation
El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a global climate phenomenon that emerges from variations in winds and sea surface temperatures over the tropical Pacific Ocean.
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El Nuevo Día
El Nuevo Día (English: The New Day) is the newspaper with the largest circulation in Puerto Rico.
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El Vocero
El Vocero de Puerto Rico is a Puerto Rican free newspaper that is published in San Juan.
El Yunque (Puerto Rico)
El Yunque or El Yunque Peak (Spanish: Pico El Yunque) (Taíno: Yukiyu) is a mountain located fully within the boundaries of the El Yunque National Forest, part of the U.S. Forest Service, which is the only tropical rainforest under the U.S. Forest Service jurisdiction.
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El Yunque National Forest
El Yunque National Forest (Bosque Nacional El Yunque), formerly known as the Caribbean National Forest (or Bosque Nacional del Caribe), is a forest located in northeastern Puerto Rico.
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Electric power distribution
Electric power distribution is the final stage in the delivery of electricity.
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Electric power transmission
Electric power transmission is the bulk movement of electrical energy from a generating site, such as a power plant, to an electrical substation.
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Electric utility
An electric utility, or a power company, is a company in the electric power industry (often a public utility) that engages in electricity generation and distribution of electricity for sale generally in a regulated market.
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Electricity generation
Electricity generation is the process of generating electric power from sources of primary energy.
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Elfin woods warbler
The elfin woods warbler (Setophaga angelae) is a species of bird endemic to Puerto Rico, where it is local and uncommon.
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Emigration
Emigration is the act of leaving a resident country or place of residence with the intent to settle elsewhere (to permanently leave a country).
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Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Endemism
Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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English language in Puerto Rico
While Spanish is the first official language of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, English is the second official language.
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Eocene
The Eocene is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma).
Eryngium foetidum
Eryngium foetidum is a tropical perennial herb in the family Apiaceae.
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Esmeralda Santiago
Esmeralda Santiago (born May 17, 1948)Santiago, Esmeralda.
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ESPN
ESPN (an abbreviation of its original name, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) is an American international basic cable sports channel owned by The Walt Disney Company (80% and operational control) and Hearst Communications (20%) through the joint venture ESPN Inc. The company was founded in 1979 by Bill Rasmussen, Scott Rasmussen and Ed Eagan.
Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico
Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico is the official name in Spanish of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
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Eugenio María de Hostos
Eugenio María de Hostos y de Bonilla (January 11, 1839 – August 11, 1903), known as ("The Great Citizen of the Americas"), was a Puerto Rican educator, philosopher, intellectual, lawyer, sociologist, novelist, and Puerto Rican independence advocate.
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Eurasia
Eurasia is the largest continental area on Earth, comprising all of Europe and Asia.
Executive branch of the government of Puerto Rico
The executive branch of the government of Puerto Rico is responsible for executing the laws of Puerto Rico, as well as causing them to be executed.
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Fajardo, Puerto Rico
Fajardo is a town and a municipality part of the San Juan-Caguas-Fajardo Combined Statistical Area in Puerto Rico.
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Farruko
Carlos Efrén Reyes Rosado (born May 2, 1991), better known by his stage name Farruko, is a Puerto Rican singer and rapper.
Félix Córdova Dávila
Félix Lope María Córdova Dávila (November 20, 1878 – December 3, 1938) was a political leader and judge from Puerto Rico who served as Puerto Rico's fourth Resident Commissioner in Congress and later as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico.
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Félix Trinidad
Félix Juan Trinidad García (born January 10, 1973), popularly known as "Tito" Trinidad, is a Puerto Rican former professional boxer who competed from 1990 to 2008.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States and its principal federal law enforcement agency.
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Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States.
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Federal Election Commission
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) is an independent agency of the United States government that enforces U.S. campaign finance laws and oversees U.S. federal elections.
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Federal Emergency Management Agency
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), initially created under President Jimmy Carter by Presidential Reorganization Plan No.
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Federal government of the United States
The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government or U.S. government) is the national government of the United States, a federal republic located primarily in North America, composed of 50 states, five major self-governing territories, several island possessions, and the federal district/national capital of Washington, D.C., where most of the federal government is based.
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Federal judiciary of the United States
The federal judiciary of the United States is one of the three branches of the federal government of the United States organized under the United States Constitution and laws of the federal government.
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Federal Reserve Bank of New York
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is one of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks of the United States.
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Federal voting rights in Puerto Rico
Voting rights of United States citizens who live in Puerto Rico, like the voting rights of residents of other United States territories, differ from those of United States citizens in each of the fifty states and the District of Columbia.
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FIBA
The International Basketball Federation (FIBA; French: Fédération Internationale de Basketball) is an association of national organizations which governs the sport of basketball worldwide.
FIBA AmeriCup
The FIBA AmeriCup (previously known as the FIBA Americas Championship) is the Americas Basketball Championship that takes place every four years between national teams of the Western Hemisphere continents.
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FIFA
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association, more commonly known by its acronym FIFA, is the international self-regulatory governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal.
Flag of Puerto Rico
The flag of Puerto Rico (Bandera de Puerto Rico), officially known as the flag of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (lit), represents Puerto Rico and its people.
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Florida
Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Puerto Rico and Florida are former Spanish colonies.
Florida, Puerto Rico
Florida is a town and municipality of Puerto Rico located in the karst region north of Ciales, south of Barceloneta, east of Arecibo, and west of Manatí.
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Flying Spaghetti Monster
The Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM) is the deity of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or Pastafarianism, a parodic new religious movement that promotes a light-hearted view of religion.
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Folk art
Folk art covers all forms of visual art made in the context of folk culture.
Foraker Act
The Foraker Act,, officially known as the Organic Act of 1900, is a United States federal law that established civilian (albeit limited popular) government on the island of Puerto Rico, which had recently become a possession of the United States as a result of the Spanish–American War.
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Foreign Affairs Manual
The Foreign Affairs Manual (FAM) is published by the United States Department of State and can be accessed on the department's website.
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Foreign policy
Foreign policy, also known as external policy, is the set of strategies and actions a state employs in its interactions with other states, unions, and international entities.
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Fort Allen (Puerto Rico)
Fort Allen, officially Fort Allen Training Center, is a Puerto Rico National Guard military installation located on a facility in Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico.
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Fort Buchanan (Puerto Rico)
United States Army Garrison Fort Buchanan, is a United States Army installation in Puerto Rico.
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Fortification
A fortification (also called a fort, fortress, fastness, or stronghold) is a military construction designed for the defense of territories in warfare, and is used to establish rule in a region during peacetime.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
Free people of color
In the context of the history of slavery in the Americas, free people of color (French: gens de couleur libres; Spanish: gente de color libre) were primarily people of mixed African, European, and Native American descent who were not enslaved.
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French immigration to Puerto Rico
French immigration to Puerto Rico came about as a result of the economic and political situations which occurred in various places such as Louisiana (United States), Saint-Domingue (Haiti) and in Europe.
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Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment is a peer-reviewed scientific journal issued ten times per year, and consists of peer-reviewed, synthetic review articles on all aspects of ecology, the environment, and related disciplines, as well as short, high-impact research communications of broad interdisciplinary appeal.
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Fundamental rights
Fundamental rights are a group of rights that have been recognized by a high degree of protection from encroachment.
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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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Geography of Puerto Rico
The geography of Puerto Rico consists of an archipelago compromised of one main island, five smaller islands, and numerous islets and cays located between the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, east of Hispaniola, west of the Virgin Islands, north of Venezuela, and south of the Puerto Rico Trench, the deepest point in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Geological hazard
A geologic hazard or geohazard is an adverse geologic condition capable of causing widespread damage or loss of property and life.
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George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker BushAfter the 1990s, he became more commonly known as George H. W. Bush, "Bush Senior," "Bush 41," and even "Bush the Elder" to distinguish him from his eldest son, George W. Bush, who served as the 43rd U.S. president from 2001 to 2009; previously, he was usually referred to simply as George Bush.
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German immigration to Puerto Rico
German immigration to Puerto Rico began in the early part of the 19th century and continued to increase when German businessmen immigrated and established themselves with their families on the island.
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Giannina Braschi
Giannina Braschi (born February 5, 1953) is a Puerto Rican poet, novelist, dramatist, and scholar.
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Goeppertia allouia
Goeppertia allouia (syn. Calathea allouia), known as lerén or lairén in Spanish, and also known in English as Guinea arrowroot, and sweet corn root, is a plant in the arrowroot family, native to northern South America and the Caribbean, The name "allouia" is derived from the Carib name for the plant Lerén is a minor food crop in the American tropics, but was one of the earliest plants domesticated by pre-historic Amerindians in South America.
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Goodwill Games
The Goodwill Games were an international sports competition created by Ted Turner in reaction to the political troubles surrounding the Olympic Games of the 1980s.
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Government Accountability Office
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent, nonpartisan government agency within the legislative branch that provides auditing, evaluative, and investigative services for the United States Congress.
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Government of Puerto Rico
The government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is a republican form of government with separation of powers, subject to the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the United States.
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Governor of Puerto Rico
The governor of Puerto Rico (gobernador de Puerto Rico) is the head of government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and commander-in-chief of the Puerto Rico National Guard.
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Grain
A grain is a small, hard, dry fruit (caryopsis) – with or without an attached hull layer – harvested for human or animal consumption.
Greater Antilles
The Greater Antilles is a grouping of the larger islands in the Caribbean Sea, including Cuba, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Navassa Island, and the Cayman Islands.
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Greater Antilles mangroves
The Greater Antilles mangroves is a mangrove ecoregion that includes the coastal mangrove forests of the Greater Antilles – Cuba, Hispaniola, Jamaica, and Puerto Rico.
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Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch
The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch (Ελληνορθόδοξο Πατριαρχείο Αντιοχείας), also known as the Antiochian Orthodox Church and legally as the '''Rūm''' Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East (lit), is an autocephalous Greek Orthodox church within the wider communion of Eastern Orthodox Christianity that originates from the historical Church of Antioch.
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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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Gross national income
The gross national income (GNI), previously known as gross national product (GNP), is the total domestic and foreign financial output claimed by residents of a country, consisting of gross domestic product (GDP), plus factor incomes earned by foreign residents, minus income earned in the domestic economy by nonresidents.
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Guanches
The Guanche were the indigenous inhabitants of the Spanish Canary Islands, located in the Atlantic Ocean some to the west of modern Morocco and the North African coast.
Guava
Guava is a common tropical fruit cultivated in many tropical and subtropical regions.
Guánica State Forest
The Guánica State Forest (Bosque Estatal de Guánica), popularly known as the Guánica Dry Forest (Spanish: Bosque seco de Guánica) is a subtropical dry forest located in southwest Puerto Rico.
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Haiti
Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of The Bahamas. Puerto Rico and Haiti are former Spanish colonies, Greater Antilles, island countries and small Island Developing States.
Harlem Globetrotters
The Harlem Globetrotters are an American exhibition basketball team.
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Harrisia portoricensis
Harrisia portoricensis is a species of cactus in the genus Harrisia.
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Harvard Law Review
The Harvard Law Review is a law review published by an independent student group at Harvard Law School.
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Havana
Havana (La Habana) is the capital and largest city of Cuba.
Health insurance
Health insurance or medical insurance (also known as medical aid in South Africa) is a type of insurance that covers the whole or a part of the risk of a person incurring medical expenses.
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Herb
In general use, herbs are a widely distributed and widespread group of plants, excluding vegetables and other plants consumed for macronutrients, with savory or aromatic properties that are used for flavoring and garnishing food, for medicinal purposes, or for fragrances.
High culture
In a society, high culture encompasses cultural objects of aesthetic value, which a society collectively esteems as being exemplary works of art, and the intellectual works of literature and music, history and philosophy, which a society considers representative of their culture.
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Highway
A highway is any public or private road or other public way on land.
Hiram Bithorn Stadium
Hiram Bithorn Stadium (Spanish: Estadio Hiram Bithorn) is a baseball park in San Juan, Puerto Rico, built in 1962 and designed by Puerto Rican architect Pedro Miranda.
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Hispanic and Latino Americans
Hispanic and Latino Americans (Estadounidenses hispanos y latinos; Estadunidenses hispânicos e latinos) are Americans of full or partial Spanish and/or Latin American background, culture, or family origin.
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Hispaniola
Hispaniola (also) is an island in the Caribbean that is part of the Greater Antilles. Puerto Rico and Hispaniola are Greater Antilles and Spanish West Indies.
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Historiography
Historiography is the study of the methods used by historians in developing history as an academic discipline, and by extension, the term historiography is any body of historical work on a particular subject.
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Honduras
Honduras, officially the Republic of Honduras, is a country in Central America. Puerto Rico and Honduras are former Spanish colonies and Spanish-speaking countries and territories.
Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.
Hostosian National Independence Movement
The Hostosian National Independence Movement (Movimiento Independentista Nacional Hostosiano, MINH) is a political organization in Puerto Rico.
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House & Garden (magazine)
House & Garden is a shelter magazine published by Condé Nast Publications that focusses on interior design, entertaining, and gardening that began in the USA in 1901.
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House of Representatives of Puerto Rico
The House of Representatives of Puerto Rico (Cámara de Representantes de Puerto Rico.) is the lower house of the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico, the bicameral territorial legislature of Puerto Rico.
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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 Dorian
Hurricane Dorian was an extremely powerful and catastrophic Category 5 Atlantic hurricane, which became the most intense tropical cyclone on record to strike the Bahamas, and is tied with the 1935 Labor Day hurricane for the strongest landfall in the Atlantic basin in terms of maximum sustained winds.
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Hurricane Irma
Hurricane Irma was an extremely powerful Cape Verde hurricane that caused widespread destruction across its path in early September 2017.
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Hurricane Jose (2017)
Hurricane Jose was a powerful and erratic tropical cyclone which was the longest-lived Atlantic hurricane since Hurricane Nadine in 2012.
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Hurricane Maria
Hurricane Maria was a deadly Category 5 hurricane that devastated the northeastern Caribbean in September 2017, particularly in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, which accounted for 2,975 of the 3,059 deaths.
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IBA World Boxing Championships
The IBA Men's World Boxing Championships and the IBA Women's World Boxing Championships are biennial amateur boxing competitions organised by the International Boxing Association (IBA, previously known as AIBA), which is the sport governing body.
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ICESI University
Icesi University (Universidad Icesi. Originally the initials of Instituto Colombiano de Estudios Superiores de Incolda, the Colombian Institute of Higher Studies of Incolda) is a private university located in Cali, Colombia.
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Ifá
Ifá is a divination system originating among the Yoruba people of West Africa.
Iglesia de la Santísima Trinidad
The Iglesia de la Santísima Trinidad (Holy Trinity Church) was organized by British residents in Ponce, Puerto Rico, as an Anglican congregation in 1869.
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Import
An importer is the receiving country in an export from the sending country.
Independence movement in Puerto Rico
Throughout the history of Puerto Rico, its inhabitants have initiated several movements to gain independence for the island, first from the Spanish Empire between 1493 and 1898 and since then from the United States.
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Index of Puerto Rico–related articles
The following is an alphabetical list of articles related to the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
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Indigenous peoples
There is no generally accepted definition of Indigenous peoples, although in the 21st century the focus has been on self-identification, cultural difference from other groups in a state, a special relationship with their traditional territory, and an experience of subjugation and discrimination under a dominant cultural model.
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Interamerican University of Puerto Rico
The Inter American University of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico; often abbreviated to UIPR or Inter) is a private Christian university with its main campus in San Germán, Puerto Rico.
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Internal Revenue Code
The Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (IRC), is the domestic portion of federal statutory tax law in the United States.
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Internal Revenue Service
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is the revenue service for the United States federal government, which is responsible for collecting U.S. federal taxes and administering the Internal Revenue Code, the main body of the federal statutory tax law.
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Internal waters
According to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, a nation's internal waters include waters on the side of the baseline of a nation's territorial waters that is facing toward the land, except in archipelagic states.
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International airport
An international airport is an airport with customs and border control facilities enabling passengers to travel between countries around the world.
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International Monetary Fund
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution funded by 190 member countries, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It is regarded as the global lender of last resort to national governments, and a leading supporter of exchange-rate stability.
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International Society for Krishna Consciousness
The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), known colloquially as the Hare Krishna movement, is a Gaudiya Vaishnava Hindu religious organization.
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International Wrestling Association (Puerto Rico)
The International Wrestling Association is a conglomerate of professional wrestling promotions that originated in Puerto Rico and currently operates there.
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Intrusive rock
Intrusive rock is formed when magma penetrates existing rock, crystallizes, and solidifies underground to form intrusions, such as batholiths, dikes, sills, laccoliths, and volcanic necks.
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Iraq
Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.
Irene Barnes Taeuber
Irene Barnes Taeuber (December 25, 1906 – February 24, 1974) was an American demographer who worked for the Office of Population Research at Princeton University, where she edited the journal Population Index from 1936 to 1954.
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Irish immigration to Puerto Rico
Irish immigration to Puerto Rico began during the period of Spanish colonization of the island, continuing through 19th century to the present day.
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Irreligion
Irreligion is the absence or rejection of religious beliefs or practices.
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Isla de Cabras
Isla de Cabras (Spanish for goat island) is an islet located at the entrance of San Juan Bay, immediately across from San Juan Islet in Puerto Rico.
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Isla de Mona
Mona Island (Isla de Mona) is the third-largest island of the Puerto Rican archipelago, after the main island of Puerto Rico and Vieques.
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Isla Verde, Puerto Rico
Isla Verde (Spanish for green island) is an area of Carolina located east of Santurce (southwestern front of Piñones) next to Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport above the Teodoro Moscoso Bridge.
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Islamic architecture
Islamic architecture comprises the architectural styles of buildings associated with Islam.
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Islet
An islet is a very small, often unnamed island.
ISO 3166-2:PR
ISO 3166-2:PR is the entry for Puerto Rico in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
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ISO 3166-2:US
ISO 3166-2:US is the entry for the United States in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions (e.g., provinces or states) of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.
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Italians
Italians (italiani) are an ethnic group native to the Italian geographical region.
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At, it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and south-east of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory). Puerto Rico and Jamaica are countries and territories where English is an official language, former Spanish colonies, Greater Antilles, island countries and small Island Developing States.
Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland. Puerto Rico and Japan are island countries.
Jíbaro (Puerto Rico)
Jíbaro is a word used in Puerto Rico to refer to the countryside people who farm the land in a traditional way.
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Jehovah's Witnesses
Jehovah's Witnesses is a nontrinitarian, millenarian, restorationist Christian denomination.
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Jenniffer González-Colón
Jenniffer Aydin González Colón (born August 5, 1976) is a Puerto Rican politician who serves as the 20th Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico.
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Joe Biden
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States since 2021.
John the Baptist
John the Baptist (–) was a Jewish preacher active in the area of the Jordan River in the early 1st century AD.
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Jones–Shafroth Act
The Jones–Shafroth Act – also known as the Jones Act of Puerto Rico, Jones Law of Puerto Rico, or as the Puerto Rican Federal Relations Act of 1917 – was an Act of the United States Congress, signed by President Woodrow Wilson on March 2, 1917.
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José Ferrer
José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón (January 8, 1912 – January 26, 1992) was a Puerto Rican actor and director of stage, film and television.
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José J. Reyes
José J. Reyes (born 1963) is the 22nd Puerto Rico Adjutant General, and the commanding officer of the Puerto Rico National Guard.
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José Luis Dalmau
José Luis Dalmau Santiago (born September 19, 1966) is an attorney and politician.
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José Pedraza (boxer)
José Pedraza González (born May 8, 1989) is a Puerto Rican professional boxer and former two-weight world champion.
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Journal of Applied Ecology
Journal of Applied Ecology is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing research in all areas of environmental management.
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Journal of Paleontology
The Journal of Paleontology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the field of paleontology.
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Juan Evangelista Venegas
Juan Evangelista Venegas (December 27, 1928 – April 16, 1987) was a Puerto Rican boxer notable for winning Puerto Rico's first Olympic medal.
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Juan Ponce de León
Juan Ponce de León (1474 – July 1521) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador known for leading the first official European expedition to Puerto Rico in 1508 and Florida in 1513. Puerto Rico and Juan Ponce de León are Spanish West Indies.
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Juana Díaz, Puerto Rico
Juana Díaz is a town and municipality of Puerto Rico located on the southern coast of the island, south of Jayuya, Ciales, Orocovis and Villalba; east of Ponce; and west of Coamo and Santa Isabel and the Caribbean Sea to the south.
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Juanita García Peraza
Juanita García Peraza also known as "Mita" (June 24, 1897 – February 21, 1970) was the founder of the Mita Congregation, a christian denomination with Puerto Rican origins which is described in Melton's Encyclopedia of Protestantism. When Peraza died, the Senate of Puerto Rico closed their offices for three days in her honor.
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Judiciary of Puerto Rico
The Judiciary of Puerto Rico is defined under the Constitution of Puerto Rico and consists of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, Court of Appeals, and the Court of First Instance consisting of the Superior Courts and the Municipal Courts.
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Julia de Burgos
Julia Constancia de Burgos García (February 17, 1914 – July 6, 1953) was a Puerto Rican poet.
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Jurassic
The Jurassic is a geologic period and stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya.
Karst
Karst is a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble carbonate rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum.
Köppen climate classification
The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.
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Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche
Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche (10 May 1938 – 19 June 2010), also known as "Khen Rinpoche," was a teacher, a scholar, a lama, and a Dzogchen master in the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism.
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Kingdom of Great Britain
The Kingdom of Great Britain was a sovereign state in Western Europe from 1707 to the end of 1800.
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Kongo people
The Kongo people (Bisi Kongo., EsiKongo, singular: Musi Kongo; also Bakongo, singular: Mukongo or M'kongo) are a Bantu ethnic group primarily defined as the speakers of Kikongo.
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Korean War
The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea; it began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea and ceased upon an armistice on 27 July 1953.
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Krishna
Krishna (Sanskrit: कृष्ण) is a major deity in Hinduism.
La Borinqueña
"La Borinqueña" (from the native name of Puerto Rico, Borinquen or Boriquen) is the official anthem of Puerto Rico.
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La Fortaleza
La Fortaleza (English: The Fortress), also known as Palacio de Santa Catalina (Saint Catherine's Palace), has been the official residence of the governor of Puerto Rico since the 16th century, making it the oldest executive mansion in continuous use in the New World.
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La Opinión
La Opinión is a Spanish-language daily newspaper and website based in Los Angeles, California.
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La Perla del Sur
La Perla del Sur is a weekly online Spanish-language newspaper based in Ponce, Puerto Rico, catering to a regional audience.
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Lajas, Puerto Rico
Lajas is a town and municipality of Puerto Rico located in the Lajas Valley in southwestern Puerto Rico, on the southern coast of the island, bordering the Caribbean Sea, south of San Germán and Sabana Grande; east of Cabo Rojo; and west of Guánica.
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Land
Land, also known as dry land, ground, or earth, is the solid terrestrial surface of Earth not submerged by the ocean or another body of water.
Landslide
Landslides, also known as landslips, or rockslides, are several forms of mass wasting that may include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, mudflows, shallow or deep-seated slope failures and debris flows.
Larry Seilhamer Rodríguez
Lawrence N. "Larry" Seilhamer Rodríguez (born December 13, 1954) is a Puerto Rican politician who was the Secretary of State of Puerto Rico.
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Latin
Latin (lingua Latina,, or Latinum) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
Latin America
Latin America often refers to the regions in the Americas in which Romance languages are the main languages and the culture and Empires of its peoples have had significant historical, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural impact.
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Law of the United States
The law of the United States comprises many levels of codified and uncodified forms of law, of which the most important is the nation's Constitution, which prescribes the foundation of the federal government of the United States, as well as various civil liberties.
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Lebanon
Lebanon (Lubnān), officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia.
Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico
The Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico (Asamblea Legislativa de Puerto Rico) is the territorial legislature of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, responsible for the legislative branch of the government of Puerto Rico.
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Legume
Legumes are plants in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or the fruit or seeds of such plants.
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.
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Liga de Béisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente
Liga de Béisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente (LBPRC) is the main professional baseball league in Puerto Rico; it is colloquially referred to as the Puerto Rican Winter League.
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Lima
Lima, founded in 1535 as the Ciudad de los Reyes (Spanish for "City of Kings"), is the capital and largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín Rivers, in the desert zone of the central coastal part of the country, overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
Limited-access road
A limited-access road, known by various terms worldwide, including limited-access highway, dual-carriageway, expressway, and partial controlled-access highway, is a highway or arterial road for high-speed traffic which has many or most characteristics of a controlled-access highway (also known as a freeway or motorway), including limited or no access to adjacent property, some degree of separation of opposing traffic flow, use of grade separated interchanges to some extent, prohibition of slow modes of transport, such as bicycles, horse-drawn vehicles or ridden horses, or self-propelled agricultural machines; and very few or no intersecting cross-streets or level crossings.
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List of ambassadors of the United States to El Salvador
The following is a list of United States ambassadors, or other chiefs of mission, to El Salvador.
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List of directors of the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration
The following is a list of directors of the Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration.
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List of government-owned corporations of Puerto Rico
The government-owned corporations of Puerto Rico —or public corporations (corporaciones públicas)— are a set of corporate entities owned entirely or in large part by the executive branch of the government of Puerto Rico or by its municipalities.
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List of halls and walks of fame
A hall, wall, or walk of fame is a list of individuals, achievements, or other entities, usually chosen by a group of electors, to mark their excellence or fame in their field.
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List of islands of Puerto Rico
This is a list of islands of Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico and list of islands of Puerto Rico are Caribbean islands of the United States and islands of Puerto Rico.
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List of Puerto Rican boxing world champions
In Puerto Rico, boxing is considered a major sport, having produced more amateur and professional world champions than any other sport in its history.
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List of Puerto Rico state forests
Puerto Rico state forests (Spanish: Bosques estatales de Puerto Rico), sometimes referred to as Puerto Rico Commonwealth forests in English, are protected forest reserves managed by the government of Puerto Rico, particularly by the Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources.
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List of rivers of Puerto Rico
List of rivers in Puerto Rico (U.S. Commonwealth), sorted by drainage basin and then alphabetically.
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List of U.S. state and territory abbreviations
Several sets of codes and abbreviations are used to represent the political divisions of the United States for postal addresses, data processing, general abbreviations, and other purposes.
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Loanword
A loanword (also a loan word, loan-word) is a word at least partly assimilated from one language (the donor language) into another language (the recipient or target language), through the process of borrowing.
Luis Muñoz Marín
José Luis Alberto Muñoz Marín (February 18, 1898April 30, 1980) was a Puerto Rican journalist, politician, statesman and was the first elected governor of Puerto Rico, regarded as the "Architect of the Puerto Rico Commonwealth." In 1948 he was the first democratically elected governor of Puerto Rico, spearheading an administration that engineered profound economic, political and social reforms; accomplishments that were internationally lauded by many politicians, statesmen, political scientists and economists of the period.
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Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport
Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport is a joint civil-military international airport located in suburban Carolina, Puerto Rico, southeast of San Juan.
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LUMA Energy
LUMA Energy is a private power company that is responsible for power distribution and power transmission in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
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Maite Oronoz Rodríguez
Maite Oronoz Rodríguez (born 1976) is a Puerto Rican jurist who currently serves as the 17th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico since 2016.
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Major general
Major general is a military rank used in many countries.
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Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball league and the highest level of organized baseball in the United States and Canada.
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Man and the Biosphere Programme
Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) is an intergovernmental scientific program, launched in 1971 by UNESCO, that aims to establish a scientific basis for the 'improvement of relationships' between people and their environments.
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Mangrove
A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows mainly in coastal saline or brackish water.
Manhattan
Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.
Manuel A. Alonso Pacheco
Dr.
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Manuel Zeno Gandía
Manuel Zeno Gandía (January 10, 1855 – January 30, 1930) was a Puerto Rican physician, poet, novelist, journalist and politician.
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Manufacturing in Puerto Rico
Manufacturing in Puerto Rico is the largest economic sector in the economy of Puerto Rico; composing almost half (about 46%) of the gross domestic product (GDP) of Puerto Rico.
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Maricao State Forest
Maricao State Forest (Spanish: Bosque Estatal de Maricao) is a state forest located in the eastern Cordillera Central mountains of Puerto Rico.
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Mass media
Mass media include the diverse arrays of media that reach a large audience via mass communication.
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Mauby
Mauby, also known as madi, maví, mobi, mabi, and maubi, is a tree bark-based beverage grown, and widely consumed, in the Caribbean.
Mayagüez metropolitan area
The Mayagüez Metropolitan Statistical Area is a United States Census Bureau defined Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) in west central Puerto Rico.
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Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
Mayagüez is the ninth-largest municipality in Puerto Rico.
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Mayor
In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.
Mayors in Puerto Rico
The mayors of Puerto Rico encompass the different mayors of the municipalities of Puerto Rico; each mayor being the highest-ranking officer of their corresponding municipality.
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McJoe Arroyo
McJoe Arroyo Acevedo (born December 5, 1985) is a Puerto Rican professional boxer who held the IBF junior bantamweight title from 2015 to 2016.
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McWilliams Arroyo
McWilliams Arroyo Acevedo (born December 5, 1985) is a Puerto Rican professional boxer who has held the WBC interim flyweight title since February 2021.
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Medicaid
In the United States, Medicaid is a government program that provides health insurance for adults and children with limited income and resources.
Medicare (United States)
Medicare is a federal health insurance program in the United States for people age 65 or older and younger people with disabilities, including those with end stage renal disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease).
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Melbourne, Florida
Melbourne is a city in Brevard County, Florida, United States.
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Melicoccus bijugatus
Melicoccus bijugatus is a fruit-bearing tree in the soapberry family Sapindaceae, native or naturalized across the New World tropics including South and Central America, and parts of the Caribbean.
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Mercedita International Airport
Mercedita International Airport (AIM) (Aeropuerto Internacional Mercedita) is an international airport located three nautical miles (6 km) east of the central business district of Ponce, Puerto Rico.
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Merchant Marine Act of 1920
The Merchant Marine Act of 1920 is a United States federal statute that provides for the promotion and maintenance of the American merchant marine.
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Mexico
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. Puerto Rico and Mexico are former Spanish colonies and Spanish-speaking countries and territories.
Miami
Miami, officially the City of Miami, is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida.
MICE tourism
Meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions tourism (MICE tourism) is a type of tourism in which large groups, usually planned well in advance, are brought together.
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Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word is a word processor developed by Microsoft.
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Miguel Cotto
Miguel Ángel Cotto Vázquez (born October 29, 1980) is a Puerto Rican former professional boxer who competed from 2001 to 2017.
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Miguel Piñero
Miguel Piñero (December 19, 1946 – June 16, 1988) was a Puerto Rican born American playwright, actor and co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café.
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Milan
Milan (Milano) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, and the second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome.
Mile
The mile, sometimes the international mile or statute mile to distinguish it from other miles, is a British imperial unit and United States customary unit of distance; both are based on the older English unit of length equal to 5,280 English feet, or 1,760 yards.
Military of Puerto Rico
The military defense of Puerto Rico is the responsibility of the United States as part of the Treaty of Paris.
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Milwaukee Deep
Milwaukee Deep, also known as the Milwaukee Depth, is part of the Puerto Rico Trench.
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Minority Rights Group International
Minority Rights Group (MRG) is an international human rights organisation, headquartered in London, with offices in Budapest and Kampala.
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Missionary
A missionary is a member of a religious group who is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.
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Mita Congregation
The Mita Congregation (Congregación Mita) is a Christian denomination with headquarters in Puerto Rico.
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Mitochondrial DNA
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA and mDNA) is the DNA located in the mitochondria organelles in a eukaryotic cell that converts chemical energy from food into adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
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Mofongo
Mofongo is a dish from Puerto Rico with plantains as its main ingredient.
Mona and Monito Islands Nature Reserve
Mona and Monito Islands Nature Reserve (Spanish: Reserva Natural Islas Mona y Monito) consists of two islands, Mona and Monito, in the Mona Passage off western Puerto Rico in the Caribbean. Puerto Rico and Mona and Monito Islands Nature Reserve are islands of Puerto Rico.
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Mona Canyon
Mona Canyon (Spanish: Cañón de la Mona) is an 87-mile long (140 km) submarine canyon located in the Mona Passage, between the islands of Hispaniola (particularly the Dominican Republic) and Puerto Rico, with steep walls measuring between 1.25 and 2.17 miles (2-3.5 km) in height from bottom to top.
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Mona ground iguana
The Mona ground iguana (Cyclura stejnegeri) is a critically endangered species of rock iguana, endemic to Mona Island, Puerto Rico.
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Mona Passage
The Mona Passage (Canal de la Mona) is a strait that separates the islands of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico.
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Monica Puig
Monica Puig Marchán (born September 27, 1993) is a Puerto Rican former professional tennis player.
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Monito Island
Monito Island (English: Little Mona, Islote Monito) is an uninhabited island about northwest of the much larger Mona Island.
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Montreal Expos
The Montreal Expos (Les Expos de Montréal) were a Canadian professional baseball team based in Montreal.
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Monumento al Jíbaro Puertorriqueño
The Monumento al Jíbaro Puertorriqueño (Monument to the Puerto Rican Countryman) is a monument built by the Government of Puerto Rico to honor the Puerto Rican Jíbaro, located on Puerto Rico Highway 52, km 49.0, Barrio Lapa, Salinas, Puerto Rico.
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Mosque
A mosque, also called a masjid, is a place of worship for Muslims.
Movimiento Unión Soberanista
Movimiento Unión Soberanista (MUS) (English: Sovereign Union Movement) was a Puerto Rican political party.
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Muñiz Air National Guard Base
Muñiz Air National Guard Base is the home base for the Puerto Rico Air National Guard.
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Multiracial Americans
Multiracial Americans or mixed-race Americans are Americans who have mixed ancestry of two or more races. The term may also include Americans of mixed-race ancestry who self-identify with just one group culturally and socially (cf. the one-drop rule). In the 2020 United States census, 33.8 million individuals or 10.2% of the population, self-identified as multiracial.
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Municipalities of Puerto Rico
The municipalities of Puerto Rico (Spanish: municipios de Puerto Rico) are the second-level administrative divisions in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
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Municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
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Municipio
Municipio and município are administrative divisions in several Hispanophone and Lusophone nations, respectively.
Muslims
Muslims (God) are people who adhere to Islam, a monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic tradition.
National Basketball Association
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada).
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National Geographic
National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners.
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National Guard (United States)
The National Guard is a state-based military force that becomes part of the U.S. military's reserve components of the U.S. Army and the U.S. Air Force when activated for federal missions.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (abbreviated as NOAA) is a US scientific and regulatory agency charged with forecasting weather, monitoring oceanic and atmospheric conditions, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species in the US exclusive economic zone.
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Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico
The Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico (Partido Nacionalista de Puerto Rico, PNPR) is a Puerto Rican political party founded on September 17, 1922, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.
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Natural resource economics
Natural resource economics deals with the supply, demand, and allocation of the Earth's natural resources.
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Nature Communications
Nature Communications is a peer-reviewed, open access, scientific journal published by Nature Portfolio since 2010.
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Nature Portfolio
Nature Portfolio (formerly known as Nature Publishing Group and Nature Research) is a division of the international scientific publishing company Springer Nature that publishes academic journals, magazines, online databases, and services in science and medicine.
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Nautical mile
A nautical mile is a unit of length used in air, marine, and space navigation, and for the definition of territorial waters.
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Nelson Dieppa
Nelson Dieppa-Gerena (born February 25, 1971) is a Puerto Rican professional boxer.
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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.
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New Progressive Party (Puerto Rico)
The New Progressive Party (Partido Nuevo Progresista, PNP) is a political party in Puerto Rico that advocates statehood.
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New Spain
New Spain, officially the Viceroyalty of New Spain (Virreinato de Nueva España; Nahuatl: Yankwik Kaxtillan Birreiyotl), originally the Kingdom of New Spain, was an integral territorial entity of the Spanish Empire, established by Habsburg Spain. Puerto Rico and New Spain are former Spanish colonies, former colonies in North America, Spanish West Indies, Spanish colonization of the Americas and Spanish-speaking countries and territories.
New World
The term "New World" is used to describe the majority of lands of Earth's Western Hemisphere, particularly the Americas.
Newspaper
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background.
Nichiren Buddhism
Nichiren Buddhism (日蓮仏教), also known as Hokkeshū (法華宗, meaning Lotus Sect), is a branch of Mahayana Buddhism based on the teachings of the 13th-century Japanese Buddhist priest Nichiren (1222–1282) and is one of the Kamakura period schools.
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Nicholas II
Nicholas II (Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov; 186817 July 1918) or Nikolai II was the last reigning Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland from 1 November 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917.
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Niger–Congo languages
Niger–Congo is a hypothetical language family spoken over the majority of sub-Saharan Africa.
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Non-Hispanic whites
Non-Hispanic Whites or Non-Latino Whites are White Americans classified by the United States census as "white" and not Hispanic.
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Non-voting members of the United States House of Representatives
Non-voting members of the United States House of Representatives (called either delegates or resident commissioner, in the case of Puerto Rico) are representatives of their territory in the House of Representatives, who do not have a right to vote on legislation in the full House but nevertheless have floor privileges and are able to participate in certain other House functions.
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North Africa
North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.
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North American Plate
The North American Plate is a tectonic plate containing most of North America, Cuba, the Bahamas, extreme northeastern Asia, and parts of Iceland and the Azores.
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Northeastern United States
The Northeastern United States, also referred to as the Northeast, the East Coast, or the American Northeast, is a geographic region of the United States located on the Atlantic coast of North America.
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Northern Karst Belt
The Northern Karst Belt (Spanish: Cinturón del Carso Norteño) is a limestone karst landscape located in the northern part of Puerto Rico.
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NotiCel
NotiCel is an online newspaper that covers news related to Puerto Rico.
Nuyorican
Nuyorican is a portmanteau word blending "New York" (or "Nueva York" in Spanish) and "Puerto Rican", referring to Puerto Ricans located in or around New York City, their culture, or their descendants (especially those raised or currently living in the New York metropolitan area).
Nuyorican movement
The Nuyorican movement is a cultural and intellectual movement involving poets, writers, musicians and artists who are Puerto Rican or of Puerto Rican descent, who live in or near New York City, and either call themselves or are known as Nuyoricans.
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Oceanic crust
Oceanic crust is the uppermost layer of the oceanic portion of the tectonic plates.
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Office of Population Research
The Office of Population Research (OPR) at Princeton University is the oldest population research center in the United States.
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Official language
An official language is a language having certain rights to be used in defined situations.
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Old San Juan
Old San Juan (Viejo San Juan) is a historic district located at the "northwest triangle" of the islet of San Juan in San Juan.
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Oligocene
The Oligocene is a geologic epoch of the Paleogene Period and extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years before the present (to). As with other older geologic periods, the rock beds that define the epoch are well identified but the exact dates of the start and end of the epoch are slightly uncertain.
Olive
The olive, botanical name Olea europaea, meaning 'European olive', is a species of small tree or shrub in the family Oleaceae, found traditionally in the Mediterranean Basin.
Opera
Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.
Operating budget
The operating budget contains the revenue and expenditure generated from the daily business functions of the company.
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Oral literature
Oral literature, orature, or folk literature is a genre of literature that is spoken or sung in contrast to that which is written, though much oral literature has been transcribed.
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Oregano
Oregano (Origanum vulgare) is a species of flowering plant in the mint family Lamiaceae.
Organization of American States
The Organization of American States (OAS or OEA; Organización de los Estados Americanos; Organização dos Estados Americanos; Organisation des États américains) is an international organization founded on 30 April 1948 to promote cooperation among its member states within the Americas.
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Oriental Orthodox Churches
The Oriental Orthodox Churches are Eastern Christian churches adhering to Miaphysite Christology, with approximately 50 million members worldwide.
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Orlando Antigua
Orlando Radhames Antigua Fernández (born February 20, 1973), nicknamed "Hurricane", is a Dominican-American basketball coach and former player who is currently the associate head coach at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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Orlando Cepeda
Orlando Manuel Cepeda Pennes (September 17, 1937 – June 28, 2024), nicknamed "the Baby Bull" and "Peruchin", was a Puerto Rican first baseman in Major League Baseball who played for six teams from 1958 to 1974, primarily the San Francisco Giants.
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Orlando Meléndez
Orlando Meléndez Gilbert, a.k.a. "El Gato" (The Cat) (born 14 February 1979), is a Puerto Rican basketball player.
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Orthodox Judaism
Orthodox Judaism is the collective term for the traditionalist branches of contemporary Judaism.
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Ortoiroid people
The Ortoiroid people were the second wave of human settlers of the Caribbean who began their migration into the Antilles around 2000 BCE.
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Outline of Puerto Rico
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Puerto Rico: The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is a self-governing unincorporated territory of the United States of America located in the northeastern Caribbean, east of the Dominican Republic and west of the Virgin Islands.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Pacific Islander Americans
Pacific Islander Americans (also colloquially referred to as Islander Americans) are Americans who are of Pacific Islander ancestry (or are descendants of the indigenous peoples of Oceania or of Austronesian descent).
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Pagliacci
Pagliacci (literal translation, 'Clowns') is an Italian opera in a prologue and two acts, with music and libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo.
Palo (religion)
Palo, also known as Las Reglas de Congo, is an African diasporic religion that developed in Cuba during the late 19th or early 20th century.
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Pan American Games
The Pan American Games (known colloquially as the Pan Am Games) is a continental multi-sport event in the Americas featuring summer sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions.
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Panama
Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America. Puerto Rico and Panama are Spanish-speaking countries and territories.
Papier-mâché
Mardi Gras papier-mâché masks, Haiti Papier-mâché, frequently written as paper mache, is a composite material consisting of paper pieces or pulp, sometimes reinforced with textiles, and bound with an adhesive, such as glue, starch, or wallpaper paste.
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Pasteles
Pasteles (singular pastel), also pastelles in the English-speaking Caribbean, are a traditional dish in several Latin American and Caribbean countries.
Payroll tax
Payroll taxes are taxes imposed on employers or employees, and are usually calculated as a percentage of the salaries that employers pay their employees.
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Pedro Capó
Pedro Francisco Rodríguez Sosa (born November 14, 1980), known professionally as Pedro Capó, is a Puerto Rican singer who is a grandson of singer Bobby Capó and former Miss Puerto Rico Irma Nydia Vázquez.
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Pedro Pierluisi
Pedro Rafael Pierluisi Urrutia (born April 26, 1959) is a Puerto Rican politician and lawyer currently serving as governor of Puerto Rico since January 2, 2021.
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Pejorative
A pejorative word, phrase, slur, or derogatory term is a word or grammatical form expressing a negative or disrespectful connotation, a low opinion, or a lack of respect toward someone or something.
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Pentecostalism
Pentecostalism or classical Pentecostalism is a Protestant Charismatic Christian movement that emphasizes direct personal experience of God through baptism with the Holy Spirit.
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Petrochemical
Petrochemicals (sometimes abbreviated as petchems) are the chemical products obtained from petroleum by refining.
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Pew Research Center
The Pew Research Center (also simply known as Pew) is a nonpartisan American think tank based in Washington, D.C. It provides information on social issues, public opinion, and demographic trends shaping the United States and the world.
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Pharmaceutical industry in Puerto Rico
The pharmaceutical industry in Puerto Rico encompasses more than half of all manufacturing done in Puerto Rico.
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Piña colada
The Piña Colada (piña, "pineapple", and colada, "strained") is a cocktail made with rum, cream of coconut, and pineapple juice, usually served either blended or shaken with ice.
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Pig roast
A pig roast or hog roast is an event or gathering which involves the barbecuing of a whole pig.
Pineapple
The pineapple (Ananas comosus) is a tropical plant with an edible fruit; it is the most economically significant plant in the family Bromeliaceae.
Piragua (food)
A piragua is a Puerto Rican shaved ice dessert, shaped like a cone, consisting of shaved ice and covered with fruit-flavored syrup.
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Piri Thomas
Piri Thomas (born Juan Pedro Tomas; September 30, 1928 – October 17, 2011) was a Puerto Rican-Cuban writer and poet whose memoir Down These Mean Streets became a best-seller.
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Plant Protection and Quarantine
Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) is one of six operational program units within the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
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Plena
Plena is a genre of music and dance native to Puerto Rico.
Plenary power
A plenary power or plenary authority is a complete and absolute power to take action on a particular issue, with no limitations.
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Political party strength in Puerto Rico
The political party strength in Puerto Rico has been held by different political parties in the history of Puerto Rico.
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Political status of Puerto Rico
The political status of Puerto Rico is that of an unincorporated territory of the United States officially known as the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (lit).
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Polvorón
A polvorón (From, the Spanish word for powder, or dust) is a type of heavy, soft, and very crumbly Spanish shortbread made of flour, sugar, milk, and nuts (especially almonds).
Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico
The Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico (PUPR) (commonly referred as Poly or La Poly in Spanish) is a private university in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Ponce Creole
Ponce Creole is an architectural style created in Ponce, Puerto Rico, in the late 19th and early 20th century.
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Ponce metropolitan area
The Ponce Metropolitan Statistical Area is a United States Census Bureau defined Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) in south central Puerto Rico.
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Ponce, Puerto Rico
Ponce is a city and a municipality on the southern coast of Puerto Rico.
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Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico
The Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Puerto Rico) is a private Roman Catholic university with its main campus in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
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Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico School of Law
The Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico School of Law is the law school of the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico, a private Catholic university with its main campus in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
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Pope Pius X
Pope Pius X (Pio X; born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto; 2 June 1835 – 20 August 1914) was head of the Catholic Church from 4 August 1903 to his death in August 1914.
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Popular culture
Popular culture (also called mass culture or pop culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as popular art or mass art) and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a society at a given point in time.
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Popular Democratic Party (Puerto Rico)
The Popular Democratic Party (Partido Popular Democrático, PPD) is a political party in Puerto Rico that advocates to continue as a Commonwealth of the United States with self-governance.
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Port
A port is a maritime facility comprising one or more wharves or loading areas, where ships load and discharge cargo and passengers.
Port of San Juan
The Port of San Juan (Puerto de San Juan) is a seaport facility located in the metropolitan area of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe, whose territory also includes the Macaronesian archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira.
Postmodern architecture
Postmodern architecture is a style or movement which emerged in the late 1950s as a reaction against the austerity, formality, and lack of variety of modern architecture, particularly in the international style advocated by Philip Johnson and Henry-Russell Hitchcock.
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Poverty
Poverty is a state or condition in which an individual lacks the financial resources and essentials for a certain standard of living.
Poverty threshold
The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line, or breadline is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.
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President of the Senate of Puerto Rico
The president of the Senate of Puerto Rico (Presidente del Senado) is the highest-ranking officer and the presiding officer of the Senate of Puerto Rico.
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President of the United States
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.
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Presidential system
A presidential system, or single executive system, is a form of government in which a head of government, typically with the title of president, leads an executive branch that is separate from the legislative branch in systems that use separation of powers.
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Primera Hora (Puerto Rico)
Primera Hora is a daily newspaper of Puerto Rico.
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Princeton University
Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Professional wrestling
Professional wrestling (often referred to as pro wrestling, or simply, wrestling) is a form of athletic theater that combines mock combat with drama, under the premise (known colloquially as kayfabe), that the performers are competitive wrestlers.
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PROMESA
The Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA) is a U.S. federal law enacted in 2016 that serves as a custom-made Bankruptcy law for Puerto Rico.
Protestantism
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.
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Protestantism in Puerto Rico
Protestantism in Puerto Rico officially was introduced in 1872 when the first Protestant church in the Anglican tradition was established on the island.
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Public debt of Puerto Rico
The public debt of Puerto Rico is the money borrowed by the government of Puerto Rico through the issue of government bonds by the Government Development Bank and other government agencies.
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Puerta de Tierra, San Juan
Puerta de Tierra is a subbarrio (subdistrict) occupying the eastern portion of the Islet of San Juan and the ''barrio'' of San Juan Antiguo in the municipality of San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Puerto Mosquito
The Puerto Mosquito Bioluminescent Bay, or Mosquito Bio Bay, is a bay in the island of Vieques famous for its bioluminescence produced by the dinoflagellate Pyrodinium bahamense, which glows blue when agitated.
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Puerto Rican amazon
The Puerto Rican amazon (Amazona vittata), also known as the Puerto Rican parrot (Puerto Rican Spanish: cotorra puertorriqueña) or iguaca, is the only extant parrot endemic to the archipelago of Puerto Rico, and belongs to the Neotropical genus Amazona.
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Puerto Rican boa
The Puerto Rican boa (Chilabothrus inornatus) is a large species of boa endemic to Puerto Rico.
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Puerto Rican broad-winged hawk
The Puerto Rican broad-winged hawk (Buteo platypterus brunnescens) is an endangered subspecies of the broad-winged hawk (B. platypterus).
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Puerto Rican crested toad
The Puerto Rican crested toad (Peltophryne lemur), or simply Puerto Rican toad, is a species of toad found only in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
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Puerto Rican cuatro
The Puerto Rican cuatro (Spanish: cuatro puertorriqueño) is the national instrument of Puerto Rico.
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Puerto Rican dry forests
The Puerto Rican dry forests are a tropical dry forest ecoregion located in southwestern and eastern Puerto Rico and on the offshore islands.
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Puerto Rican government-debt crisis
The Puerto Rican government-debt crisis was a financial crisis affecting the government of Puerto Rico.
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Puerto Rican Independence Party
The Puerto Rican Independence Party (Partido Independentista Puertorriqueño, PIP) is a social-democratic political party in Puerto Rico that campaigns for the independence of Puerto Rico from the United States.
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Puerto Rican moist forests
The Puerto Rican moist forests are a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion in Puerto Rico.
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Puerto Rican sharp-shinned hawk
The Puerto Rican sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter striatus venator), falcón de sierra or gavilán pecho rufo in Spanish, is an endemic subspecies of the North American sharp-shinned hawk, occurring only in Puerto Rico.
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Puerto Rican Spanish
Puerto Rican Spanish is the variety of the Spanish language as characteristically spoken in Puerto Rico and by millions of people of Puerto Rican descent living in the United States and elsewhere.
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Puerto Rican spindalis
The Puerto Rican spindalis (Spindalis portoricensis) is a bird endemic to the island of Puerto Rico, where it is commonly known as reina mora.
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Puerto Ricans
Puerto Ricans (Puertorriqueños), most commonly known as '''Boricuas''', but also occasionally referred to as Borinqueños, Borincanos, or Puertorros, are an ethnic group native to the Caribbean archipelago and island of Puerto Rico, and a nation identified with the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico through ancestry, culture, or history.
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Puerto Ricans for Puerto Rico Party
The Puerto Ricans for Puerto Rico Party (Partido Puertorriqueños por Puerto Rico, PPR) was a Puerto Rican political party.
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Puerto Rico Adjutant General
The Puerto Rico Adjutant General (Ayudante General de Puerto Rico) is the commander of the Puerto Rico National Guard.
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Puerto Rico Air National Guard
The Puerto Rico Air National Guard (PR ANG) —Guardia Nacional Aérea de Puerto Rico— is the aerial militia of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States of America.
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Puerto Rico Aqueducts and Sewers Authority
The Puerto Rico Aqueducts and Sewers Authority (PRASA; Spanish: Autoridad de Acueductos y Alcantarillados de Puerto Rico) is a water company and the government-owned corporation responsible for water quality, management, and supply in Puerto Rico, a US insular area.
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Puerto Rico Army National Guard
The Puerto Rico Army National Guard (PRARNG) — officially designated in Spanish as Guardia Nacional Terrestre de Puerto Rico, but colloquially known as Ejército de la Guardia Nacional de Puerto Rico — is the Army National Guard of the archipelago of Puerto Rico which, together with the Puerto Rico Air National Guard, comprises the Puerto Rico National Guard.
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Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources
The Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (PRDNER) is the executive department of the government of Puerto Rico tasked with protecting, conserving, developing, and managing the natural and environmental resources in Puerto Rico.
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Puerto Rico Department of State
The Department of State of Puerto Rico was created in July 1952 and is responsible of promoting the cultural, political, and economical relations between Puerto Rico, other jurisdictions of the United States and foreign countries.
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Puerto Rico Department of Treasury
The Puerto Rico Department of Treasury (Departamento de Hacienda de Puerto Rico) is the executive department of the government of Puerto Rico responsible for the treasury of the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
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Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority
The Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA; Spanish: AEE) Is an electric power company owned by the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico responsible for electricity generation, power distribution, and power transmission on the island.
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Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration
The Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration (PRFAA)—Administración de Asuntos Federales de Puerto Rico—is the executive agency of the government of Puerto Rico that represents the government of the island and its dependencies and municipalities before entities of or in the United States, including.
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Puerto Rico Federal Relations Act of 1950
The Puerto Rico Federal Relations Act of 1950 was an Act of Congress of the 81st United States Congress.
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Puerto Rico Government Development Bank
The Government Development Bank for Puerto Rico (GDB) —Banco Gubernamental de Fomento para Puerto Rico (BGF)— is the government bond issuer, intragovernmental bank, fiscal agent, and financial advisor of the government of Puerto Rico.
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Puerto Rico Health Reform
The Puerto Rico Health Reform Reforma de Salud de Puerto Rico, refers to the Medicaid health plan which is a "subset of the larger public government healthcare delivery system" of Puerto Rico.
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Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation Authority
The Puerto Rico Highways and Transportation Authority (PRHTA) Autoridad de Carreteras y Transportación (ACT) is the government-owned corporation of Puerto Rico charged with constructing, operating, and maintaining roads, bridges, avenues, highways, tunnels, public parkings, tolls, and other transit facilities in Puerto Rico.
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Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company
The Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company (PRIDCO) —Compañía de Fomento Industrial de Puerto Rico (or simply Fomento)— is a government-owned corporation of Puerto Rico authorized and empowered to induce private capital into Puerto Rico in order to establish trade, cooperatives, and industrial operations in Puerto Rico.
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Puerto Rico men's national basketball team
The Puerto Rico national basketball team (Selección de Baloncesto de Puerto Rico) represents Puerto Rico in men's international basketball competitions, it is governed by the Puerto Rican Basketball Federation (Federación de Baloncesto de Puerto Rico), The team represents both FIBA and FIBA Americas.
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Puerto Rico Metropolitan Bus Authority
The Autoridad Metropolitana de Autobuses (AMA, English: Puerto Rico Metropolitan Bus Authority) is a government-owned corporation and public transport bus service based in the San Juan metropolitan area.
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Puerto Rico national football team
The Puerto Rico national football team (Selección de fútbol de Puerto Rico) represents Puerto Rico in men's international football, and are governed by the Federación Puertorriqueña de Fútbol (FPF).
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Puerto Rico National Guard
The Puerto Rico National Guard (PRNG) –Guardia Nacional de Puerto Rico– is the national guard of the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
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Puerto Rico Office of Legislative Services
The Office of Legislative Services of Puerto Rico was created on January 27, 1954 to provide research, translation, library and legislative drafting services to all members of the Puerto Rico Legislative Assembly.
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Puerto Rico Police
The Puerto Rico Police (Policía de Puerto Rico), officially the Puerto Rico Police Bureau, is a law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over the entire Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
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Puerto Rico representative districts
The Puerto Rico representative districts (distritos representativos) refers to the electoral districts in which Puerto Rico is divided for the purpose of electing 40 of the 51 members of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico (with the other 11 being elected at-large).
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Puerto Rico senatorial districts
The Puerto Rico senatorial districts (distritos senatoriales) refers to the electoral districts in which Puerto Rico is divided for the purpose of electing 16 of the 27 members of the Senate of Puerto Rico (with the other 11 being elected at-large).
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Puerto Rico Soccer League
The Puerto Rico Soccer League or PRSL is an association football league in Puerto Rico founded in 2008 and the first unified football league in the island's history.
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Puerto Rico State Commission on Elections
The Puerto Rico State Commission on Elections—Spanish: Comisión Estatal de Elecciones de Puerto Rico (CEEPR or CEE-PUR)—is the government agency of the executive branch of the government of Puerto Rico that oversees and manages elections in Puerto Rico as well as guaranteeing the right to vote to its citizens.
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Puerto Rico State Guard
The Puerto Rico State Guard (PRSG; Guardia Estatal de Puerto Rico) is the state defense force of Puerto Rico that operates under the sole authority of the governor of Puerto Rico who, in turn, delegates such authority to the Puerto Rico Adjutant General.
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Puerto Rico statehood movement
The Puerto Rico statehood movement (movimiento estadista de Puerto Rico) aims to make Puerto Rico a state of the United States.
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Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra
The Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra (PRSO) (Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico in Spanish) a musical ensemble sponsored by the Government of Puerto Rico.
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Puerto Rico Trench
The Puerto Rico Trench is located on the boundary between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, parallel to and north of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
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Purchasing power parity
Purchasing power parity (PPP) is a measure of the price of specific goods in different countries and is used to compare the absolute purchasing power of the countries' currencies.
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Pyrodinium
Pyrodinium is a genus of dinoflagellates.
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Radio broadcasting
Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience.
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Rafael Cordero (educator)
Rafael Cordero y Molina (October 24, 1790 – July 5, 1868), known as Maestro Cordero, was a self-educated Afro–Puerto Rican who provided free schooling to the children of his city regardless of race or social standing.
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Rafael Cordero Santiago Port of the Americas
The Rafael Cordero Santiago Port of the Americas Puerto de las Américas Rafael Cordero Santiago (PLA) is a megaport currently under construction in Ponce, Puerto Rico.
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Rafael Hernández Airport
Rafael Hernández International Airport (Aeropuerto Internacional Rafael Hernández) is a joint civil-military airport located in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.
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Rain shadow
A rain shadow is an area of significantly reduced rainfall behind a mountainous region, on the side facing away from prevailing winds, known as its leeward side.
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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.
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Rate of natural increase
In Demography, the rate of natural increase (RNI), also known as natural population change, is defined as the birth rate minus the death rate of a particular population, over a particular time period.
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Río Abajo State Forest
Rio Abajo State Forest is a forest preserve in Puerto Rico owned by the Department of Natural Resources and one of the 20 state forests in the island.
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Río Piedras, Puerto Rico
Río Piedras is a populous district of San Juan, and former town and municipality of Puerto Rico, which was merged with the municipality of San Juan in 1951.
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Real estate in Puerto Rico
As of 2012, the real estate industry in Puerto Rico constituted about 14.8% of the gross domestic product of Puerto Rico, about 1% of all of the employee compensation on the island and, together with finance and insurance (FIRE), about 3.7% of all the employment on the jurisdiction.
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Reform Judaism
Reform Judaism, also known as Liberal Judaism or Progressive Judaism, is a major Jewish denomination that emphasizes the evolving nature of Judaism, the superiority of its ethical aspects to its ceremonial ones, and belief in a continuous revelation which is closely intertwined with human reason and not limited to the Theophany at Mount Sinai.
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Reggaeton
Reggaeton, is a modern style of popular music that originated in Puerto Rico during the late 1990s.
Regional power
In international relations, regional power, since the late 20thcentury has been used for a sovereign state that exercises significant power within its geographical region.
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Reptile
Reptiles, as commonly defined, are a group of tetrapods with usually an ectothermic ('cold-blooded') metabolism and amniotic development.
Republic
A republic, based on the Latin phrase res publica ('public affair'), is a state in which political power rests with the public through their representatives—in contrast to a monarchy.
Republic of Ireland
Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a country in north-western Europe consisting of 26 of the 32 counties of the island of Ireland. Puerto Rico and Republic of Ireland are countries and territories where English is an official language and island countries.
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Republican Party of Puerto Rico
The Republican Party of Puerto Rico (Partido Republicano de Puerto Rico) is the local affiliate of the national United States Republican Party in Puerto Rico. The affiliation started in 1903. The party does not participate in the November elections mandated by the Constitution of Puerto Rico for local registered political parties because it is not a registered party in Puerto Rico for local electoral purposes.
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Republicanism in the United States
The values and ideals of republicanism are foundational in the constitution and history of the United States.
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Resident commissioner of Puerto Rico
The resident commissioner of Puerto Rico is a non-voting member of the United States House of Representatives elected by the voters of the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico every four years, the only member of the House of Representatives who serves a four-year term.
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Rhode Island
Rhode Island (pronounced "road") is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.
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Ricardo Rosselló
Ricardo Antonio Rosselló Nevares (born March 7, 1979) is a former governor of Puerto Rico who served from 2017 until his resignation in 2019 after overwhelming protests related to the Telegramgate scandal.
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Rice pudding
Rice pudding is a dish made from rice mixed with water or milk and commonly other ingredients such as sweeteners, spices, flavourings and sometimes eggs.
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Richter scale
The Richter scale, also called the Richter magnitude scale, Richter's magnitude scale, and the Gutenberg–Richter scale, is a measure of the strength of earthquakes, developed by Charles Richter in collaboration with Beno Gutenberg, and presented in Richter's landmark 1935 paper, where he called it the "magnitude scale".
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Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games
The Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Comitê Organizador dos Jogos Olímpicos e Paralímpicos Rio 2016) was the organizing committee for the 2016 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Brazil.
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Road running
Road running is the sport of running on a measured course over an established road.
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Robert Summers
Robert Summers (June 22, 1922 – April 17, 2012) was an American economist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught from 1960.
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Roberto Alomar
Roberto Alomar Velázquez (born February 5, 1968) is a Puerto Rican former second baseman who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for sixteen seasons, primarily with the Toronto Blue Jays.
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Roberto Clemente
Roberto Enrique Clemente Walker (August 18, 1934 – December 31, 1972) was a Puerto Rican professional baseball player who played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates, primarily as a right fielder.
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Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico
The Archdiocese of San Juan de Puerto Rico (Archidiœcesis Sancti Joannis Portoricensis) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church– comprising the northeast portion of the island of Puerto Rico.
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Roosevelt Roads Naval Station
Roosevelt Roads Naval Station, nicknamed Rosy Roads, is a former United States Navy base in the town of Ceiba, Puerto Rico.
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Rosario Ferré
Rosario Ferré Ramírez de Arellano (September 28, 1938 – February 18, 2016) was a Puerto Rican writer, poet, and essayist.
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Royal Decree of Graces of 1815
The Royal Decree of Graces of 1815 (Spanish: Real Cédula de Gracia de 1815) is a decree approved by the Spanish Crown in August 1815 to encourage Spaniards, and Europeans of non-Spanish origin but coming from countries in good standing with Spain, to settle in and populate Puerto Rico.
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Ruggero Leoncavallo
Ruggero (or Ruggiero) Leoncavallo (23 April 18579 August 1919) was an Italian opera composer and librettist.
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Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia
The Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (translit), also called Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia or ROCOR, or Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (ROCA), is a semi-autonomous part of the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate).
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Saladoid
The Saladoid culture is a pre-Columbian Indigenous culture of territory in present-day Venezuela and the Caribbean that flourished from 500 BCE to 545 CE.
Salinas, Puerto Rico
Salinas is a town and municipality in the southern part of Puerto Rico located in the southern coast of the island, south of Aibonito and Cayey; southeast of Coamo, east of Santa Isabel; and west of Guayama.
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Salsa music
Salsa music is a style of Caribbean music, combining elements of Cuban, Puerto Rican, and American influences.
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San Germán, Puerto Rico
San Germán is a historic town and municipality located in the Sabana Grande Valley of southwestern region of Puerto Rico, south of Mayagüez and Maricao, north of Lajas, east of Hormigueros and Cabo Rojo, and west of Sabana Grande.
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San José Church
San José Church (Iglesia de San José), located in Old San Juan within the historic colonial zone of the capital of Puerto Rico, is one of the first significant works of architecture on the island.
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San Juan Bay
San Juan Bay (Bahía de San Juan) is the bay and main inlet adjacent to Old San Juan in northeastern Puerto Rico.
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San Juan Islet
San Juan Islet (Spanish: Isleta de San Juan) is a islet or small island on San Juan Bay in the Atlantic coast of northern Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico and San Juan Islet are islands of Puerto Rico.
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San Juan National Historic Site
San Juan National Historic Site (Sitio Histórico Nacional de San Juan) in the Old San Juan section of San Juan, Puerto Rico, is a National Park Service-managed historic site which preserves and interprets the Spanish colonial-era fortification system of the city of San Juan, and features structures such as the San Felipe del Morro and San Cristóbal fortresses.
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San Juan Puerto Rico Temple
The San Juan Puerto Rico Temple is the 176th operating temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Juan (Spanish for "Saint John") is the capital city and most populous municipality in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States.
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San Juan–Caguas–Guaynabo metropolitan area
The San Juan metropolitan area is a United States Census Bureau defined metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in northeastern Puerto Rico centered around the city of San Juan.
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Santería
Santería, also known as Regla de Ocha, Regla Lucumí, or Lucumí, is an Afro-Caribbean religion that developed in Cuba during the late 19th century.
Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Santurce (from the Basque Santurtzi which means Saint George) is a barrio of San Juan.
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Scotland
Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Puerto Rico and Scotland are island countries.
Sculpture
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.
Secretary of State of Puerto Rico
The secretary of state of Puerto Rico (Secretario de Estado de Puerto Rico) leads all efforts that promote the cultural, political, and economical relations between Puerto Rico and foreign countries, and other jurisdictions of the United States.
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Sedimentary rock
Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the accumulation or deposition of mineral or organic particles at Earth's surface, followed by cementation.
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Seismology
Seismology (from Ancient Greek σεισμός (seismós) meaning "earthquake" and -λογία (-logía) meaning "study of") is the scientific study of earthquakes (or generally, quakes) and the generation and propagation of elastic waves through the Earth or other planetary bodies.
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Senate of Puerto Rico
The Senate of Puerto Rico (Senado de Puerto Rico) is the upper house of the Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico, the territorial legislature of Puerto Rico.
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Separation of powers
The separation of powers principle functionally differentiates several types of state power (usually law-making, adjudication, and execution) and requires these operations of government to be conceptually and institutionally distinguishable and articulated, thereby maintaining the integrity of each.
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Share taxi
A share taxi (also called shared taxi or taxibus, or jitney in the US) is a mode of transport which falls between a taxicab and a bus.
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Short Eyes (play)
Short Eyes is a 1974 drama written by playwright Miguel Piñero.
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Sierra Bermeja
Sierra Bermeja is a mountain range in southwestern Puerto Rico.
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Sierra Luquillo
The Sierra Luquillo (Spanish: Sierra de Luquillo) is a mountain range located in the northeastern part of Puerto Rico.
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Slavery
Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour.
Slavery in colonial Spanish America
Slavery in the Spanish American viceroyalties was an economic and social institution which existed throughout the Spanish Empire including Spain itself. Puerto Rico and Slavery in colonial Spanish America are Spanish colonization of the Americas.
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Social Security (United States)
In the United States, Social Security is the commonly used term for the federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program and is administered by the Social Security Administration (SSA).
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Social Security Administration
The United States Social Security Administration (SSA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government that administers Social Security, a social insurance program consisting of retirement, disability and survivor benefits.
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Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Maria Sotomayor (born June 25, 1954) is an American lawyer and jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Soursop
Soursop (also called graviola, guyabano, and in Latin America guanábana) is the fruit of Annona muricata, a broadleaf, flowering, evergreen tree.
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.
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South End Press
South End Press was a non-profit book publisher run on a model of participatory economics.
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Sovereign state
A sovereign state is a state that has the highest authority over a territory.
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Spain
Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa. Puerto Rico and Spain are Spanish-speaking countries and territories.
Spanish Colonial architecture
Spanish colonial architecture represents Spanish colonial influence on the cities and towns of its former colonies, and is still seen in the architecture as well as in the city planning aspects of conserved present-day cities. Puerto Rico and Spanish Colonial architecture are former Spanish colonies.
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Spanish Colonial Revival architecture
The Spanish Colonial Revival style (Arquitectura neocolonial española) is an architectural stylistic movement arising in the early 20th century based on the Spanish colonial architecture of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
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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. Puerto Rico and Spanish Empire are Spanish colonization of the Americas.
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Spanish language
Spanish (español) or Castilian (castellano) is a Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin spoken on the Iberian Peninsula of Europe.
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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. Puerto Rico and Spanish–American War are Spanish West Indies.
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Speaker of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico
The President of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico —commonly called the Speaker of the House (Presidente de la Cámara de Representantes)— is the highest-ranking officer and the presiding officer of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico.
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Special Committee on Decolonization
The United Nations Special Committee on the Situation with Regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples, or the Special Committee on Decolonization (C-24), is a committee of the United Nations General Assembly that was established in 1961 and is exclusively devoted to the issue of decolonization.
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Spice
In the culinary arts, a spice is any seed, fruit, root, bark, or other plant substance in a form primarily used for flavoring or coloring food.
Springer Publishing
Springer Publishing Company is an American publishing company of academic journals and books, focusing on the fields of nursing, gerontology, psychology, social work, counseling, public health, and rehabilitation (neuropsychology).
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State defense force
In the United States, state defense forces (SDFs) are military units that operate under the sole authority of a state government.
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State monopoly
In economics, a government monopoly or public monopoly is a form of coercive monopoly in which a government agency or government corporation is the sole provider of a particular good or service and competition is prohibited by law.
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Stateside Puerto Ricans
Stateside Puerto Ricans (Puertorriqueños en Estados Unidos), also ambiguously known as Puerto Rican Americans (puertorriqueño-americanos, puertorriqueño-estadounidenses), or Puerto Ricans in the United States, are Puerto Ricans who are in the United States proper of the 50 states and the District of Columbia who were born in or trace any family ancestry to the unincorporated US territory of Puerto Rico.
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Status quo movement in Puerto Rico
The status quo movement in Puerto Rico refers to initiatives throughout the history of Puerto Rico aimed at maintaining the current political status of Puerto Rico, that of a commonwealth of the United States.
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Statute
A statute is a formal written enactment of a legislative body, a stage in the process of legislation.
Streetball
Streetball (or street basketball) is a variation of basketball, typically played on outdoor courts and featuring significantly less formal structure and enforcement of the game's rules.
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Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa, Subsahara, or Non-Mediterranean Africa is the area and regions of the continent of Africa that lie south of the Sahara.
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Suckling pig
A suckling pig is a piglet fed on its mother's milk (i.e., a piglet which is still a "suckling").
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Suffrage
Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise is the right to vote in public, political elections and referendums (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote).
Sugarcane
Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of tall, perennial grass (in the genus Saccharum, tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar production.
Summer Olympic Games
The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Games of the Olympiad, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years.
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Supplemental Security Income
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is a means-tested program that provides cash payments to disabled children, disabled adults, and individuals aged 65 or older who are citizens or nationals of the United States.
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Supreme Court of Puerto Rico
The Supreme Court of Puerto Rico (Tribunal Supremo de Puerto Rico) is the highest court of Puerto Rico, having judicial authority to interpret and decide questions of Puerto Rican law.
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Supreme Court of the United States
The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.
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Swiss roll
A Swiss roll, jelly roll (United States), roll cake, cream roll, roulade or Swiss log is a type of rolled sponge cake filled with whipped cream, jam, icing, or any type of filling.
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Synagogue
A synagogue, also called a shul or a temple, is a place of worship for Jews and Samaritans.
Syriac Orthodox Church
The Syriac Orthodox Church (ʿIdto Sūryoyto Trīṣath Shubḥo); also known as West Syriac Church or West Syrian Church, officially known as the Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East, and informally as the Jacobite Church, is an Oriental Orthodox church that branched from the Church of Antioch.
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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. Puerto Rico and Taíno are Spanish West Indies.
Taíno language
Taíno is an extinct Arawakan language that was spoken by the Taíno people of the Caribbean.
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Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia. Puerto Rico and Taiwan are island countries.
Tapioca
Tapioca is a starch extracted from the tubers of the cassava plant (Manihot esculenta, also known as manioc), a species native to the North and Northeast regions of Brazil, but whose use is now spread throughout South America.
Taro
Taro (Colocasia esculenta) is a root vegetable.
Tatito Hernández
Rafael "Tatito" Hernández Montañez (born April 14, 1972) is a Puerto Rican politician affiliated with the Popular Democratic Party (PPD).
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Tax exemption
Tax exemption is the reduction or removal of a liability to make a compulsory payment that would otherwise be imposed by a ruling power upon persons, property, income, or transactions.
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Taxation in Puerto Rico
Taxation in Puerto Rico consists of taxes paid to the United States federal government and taxes paid to the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
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Tectonics
Tectonics are the processes that result in the structure and properties of the Earth's crust and its evolution through time.
Telemundo Internacional
Telemundo Internacional is a Latin American pay television network owned by NBCUniversal.
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Telephone numbers in Puerto Rico
Telephone numbers in Puerto Rico are assigned under the North American Numbering Plan (NANP).
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Television station
A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the earth's surface to any number of tuned receivers simultaneously.
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Tembleque
Tembleque is a coconut dessert pudding from Puerto Rico similar to blancmange and related to Latin American manjar blancos and Filipino maja blanca.
Temple (LDS Church)
In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), a temple is a building dedicated to be a House of the Lord.
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Tenerife
Tenerife (formerly spelled Teneriffe) is the largest and most populous island of the Canary Islands.
Territorial waters
Territorial waters are informally an area of water where a sovereign state has jurisdiction, including internal waters, the territorial sea, the contiguous zone, the exclusive economic zone, and potentially the extended continental shelf (these components are sometimes collectively called the maritime zones).
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Territories of the United States
Territories of the United States are sub-national administrative divisions overseen by the federal government of the United States. Puerto Rico and Territories of the United States are insular areas of the United States.
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Tertiary sector of the economy
The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle).
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, informally known as the LDS Church or Mormon Church, is the largest Latter Day Saint denomination, tracing its roots to its founding by Joseph Smith during the Second Great Awakening.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Journal of Commerce
Journal of Commerce is a biweekly magazine published in the United States that focuses on global trade topics.
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The Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow into the Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle
The Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow into the Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle is a 2004 novel by Edgardo Vega Yunqué.
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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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Theodore Roosevelt Jr.
Theodore Roosevelt III (September 13, 1887 – July 12, 1944), often known as Theodore Jr.,Morris, Edmund (1979).
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Thespesia grandiflora
Thespesia grandiflora is a tree in the family Malvaceae of the rosids clade.
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Tibetan Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism is a form of Buddhism practiced in Tibet, Bhutan and Mongolia.
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Title 48 of the United States Code
Title 48 of the United States Code outlines the role of United States territories and insular areas in the United States Code.
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Toro Negro State Forest
Toro Negro State Forest (Spanish: Bosque Estatal de Toro Negro) is one of the 21 forests that make up the public forests system in Puerto Rico.
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Tourism in Puerto Rico
Tourism in Puerto Rico attracts millions of visitors each year, with more than 5.1 million passengers arriving at the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in 2022, a 6.5% increase from 2021, the main point of arrival into the island of Puerto Rico.
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Town square
A square (or plaza, public square, or urban square) is an open public space used for various activities.
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Trade union
A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.
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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.
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Transportation in Puerto Rico
Transportation in Puerto Rico includes a system of roads, highways, freeways, airports, ports and harbors, and railway systems, serving a population of approximately 4 million year-round.
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Transportation Security Administration
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is an agency of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that has authority over the security of transportation systems within, and connecting to, the United States.
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Treaty of Paris (1898)
The Treaty of Peace between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Spain, commonly known as the Treaty of Paris of 1898, was signed by Spain and the United States on December 10, 1898, that ended the Spanish–American War.
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Tren Urbano
The Tren Urbano (English: Urban Train) is a automated rapid transit system that serves the municipalities of San Juan, Guaynabo, and Bayamón, in Puerto Rico.
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Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests
Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests (TSMF), also known as tropical moist forest, is a subtropical and tropical forest habitat type defined by the World Wide Fund for Nature.
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Tropical cyclone
A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls.
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Tropical rainforest
Tropical rainforests are dense and warm rainforests with high rainfall typically found between 10° north and south of the Equator.
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Tropical Storm Karen (2019)
Tropical Storm Karen was a weak tropical storm that impacted the Lesser Antilles, Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico in September 2019.
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Tsunami
A tsunami (from lit) is a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake.
Tuber
Tubers are a type of enlarged structure that plants use as storage organs for nutrients, derived from stems or roots.
Twenty-foot equivalent unit
The twenty-foot equivalent unit (abbreviated TEU or teu) is a general unit of cargo capacity, often used for container ships and container ports.
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U.S. state
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50.
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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 Nations
The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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United States Agency for International Development
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent agency of the United States government that is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance.
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United States Army
The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces.
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United States Atlantic Command
The United States Atlantic Command (acronym from 1947-1993 USLANTCOM, after 1993 USACOM) was a Unified Combatant Command of the United States Department of Defense.
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United States census
The United States census (plural censuses or census) is a census that is legally mandated by the Constitution of the United States.
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United States Census Bureau
The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.
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United States Coast Guard
The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is the maritime security, search and rescue, and law enforcement service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the country's eight uniformed services.
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United States Congress
The United States Congress, or simply Congress, is the legislature of the federal government of the United States.
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United States Department of State
The United States Department of State (DOS), or simply the State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations.
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United States Department of the Treasury
The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is the national treasury and finance department of the federal government of the United States, where it serves as an executive department.
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United States Department of Transportation
The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT or DOT) is one of the executive departments of the U.S. federal government.
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United States district court
The United States district courts are the trial courts of the U.S. federal judiciary.
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United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico
The United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico (in case citations, D.P.R.; Tribunal del Distrito de Puerto Rico) is the federal district court whose jurisdiction comprises the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
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United States dollar
The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.
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United States Forest Service
The United States Forest Service (USFS) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers the nation's 154 national forests and 20 national grasslands covering of land.
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United States Joint Forces Command
The United States Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) was a Unified Combatant Command of the United States Department of Defense.
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United States men's national basketball team
The USA Basketball Men's National Team, commonly known as Team USA and the United States men's national basketball team, is the basketball team representing the United States.
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United States Merchant Marine
The United States Merchant Marine is an organization composed of United States civilian mariners and U.S. civilian and federally owned merchant vessels.
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United States nationality law
United States nationality law details the conditions in which a person holds United States nationality.
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United States Northern Command
The United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) is one of eleven unified combatant commands of the United States Department of Defense.
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United States presidential primary
Each of the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and territories of the United States holds either primary elections or caucuses to help nominate individual candidates for president of the United States.
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United States Virgin Islands
The United States Virgin Islands, officially the Virgin Islands of the United States, are a group of Caribbean islands and an unincorporated and organized territory of the United States. Puerto Rico and United States Virgin Islands are Caribbean islands of the United States, dependent territories in the Caribbean, insular areas of the United States and small Island Developing States.
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Universidad del Sagrado Corazón
Universidad del Sagrado Corazón (English: University of the Sacred Heart), abbreviated "USC" and often called simply Sagrado, is a private Catholic university in Santurce, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania, commonly referenced as Penn or UPenn, is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
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University of Puerto Rico
The University of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Universidad de Puerto Rico), often shortened to UPR, is the main public university system in the U.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
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USA Today
USA Today (often stylized in all caps) is an American daily middle-market newspaper and news broadcasting company.
Varieties of American Sign Language
American Sign Language (ASL) developed in the United States, starting as a blend of local sign languages and French Sign Language (FSL).
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Venezuela
Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. Puerto Rico and Venezuela are former Spanish colonies and Spanish-speaking countries and territories.
Viceroyalty of Peru
The Viceroyalty of Peru (Virreinato del Perú), officially known as the Kingdom of Peru, was a Spanish imperial provincial administrative district, created in 1542, that originally contained modern-day Peru and most of the Spanish Empire in South America, governed from the capital of Lima. Puerto Rico and Viceroyalty of Peru are Spanish colonization of the Americas and Spanish-speaking countries and territories.
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Victorian architecture
Victorian architecture is a series of architectural revival styles in the mid-to-late 19th century.
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Vieques National Wildlife Refuge
The Vieques National Wildlife Refuge (Spanish: Refugio nacional de vida silvestre de Vieques) is a National Wildlife Refuge on the island of Vieques in the Puerto Rico archipelago.
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Vieques, Puerto Rico
Vieques, officially Isla de Vieques, is an island and municipality of Puerto Rico, a United States territory in the northeastern Caribbean.
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Volcano
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net.
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Volumetric flow rate
In physics and engineering, in particular fluid dynamics, the volumetric flow rate (also known as volume flow rate, or volume velocity) is the volume of fluid which passes per unit time; usually it is represented by the symbol (sometimes \dot V).
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Wanda Vázquez Garced
Wanda Emilia Vázquez Garced (born July 9, 1960) is a Puerto Rican politician and attorney who served as Governor of Puerto Rico from 2019 to 2021.
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WAPA-TV
WAPA-TV (channel 4) is a Spanish-language independent television station in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
War on terror
The war on terror, officially the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), is a global counterterrorist military campaign initiated by the United States following the September 11 attacks and is the most recent global conflict spanning multiple wars.
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Washington Nationals
The Washington Nationals are an American professional baseball team based in Washington, D.C. The Nationals compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member of the National League (NL) East Division.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.
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Water quality
Water quality refers to the chemical, physical, and biological characteristics of water based on the standards of its usage.
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Water resources
Water resources are natural resources of water that are potentially useful for humans, for example as a source of drinking water supply or irrigation water.
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Water supply
Water supply is the provision of water by public utilities, commercial organisations, community endeavors or by individuals, usually via a system of pumps and pipes.
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Western Europe
Western Europe is the western region of Europe.
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Wet season
The wet season (sometimes called the rainy season or monsoon season) is the time of year when most of a region's average annual rainfall occurs.
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When I Was Puerto Rican
When I Was Puerto Rican is a 1993 autobiography written by Puerto Rican native Esmeralda Santiago.
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White people
White (often still referred to as Caucasian) is a racial classification of people generally used for those of mostly European ancestry.
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White Puerto Ricans
White Puerto Ricans (puertorriqueños blancos.) are Puerto Ricans who self-identify as white due to a rubric of laws like the Regla del Sacar or Gracias al Sacar dating back to the 1700's where a person of mixed ancestry could be considered legally white so long as they could prove that at least one person per generation in the last four generations had also been legally white.
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Wiley (publisher)
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley, is an American multinational publishing company that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials.
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Wilfred Benítez
Wilfred "Wilfredo" Benítez (born September 12, 1958) is an American-born Puerto Rican former professional boxer and the youngest world champion in the sport's history.
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Wilfredo Gómez
Wilfredo Gómez Rivera, El Nuevo Día (2015-04-18).
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Winter Olympic Games
The Winter Olympic Games (Jeux olympiques d'hiver) is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice.
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WIPR-TV
WIPR-TV (channel 6) is a non-commercial educational public television station in San Juan, Puerto Rico, owned by the Corporación de Puerto Rico para la Difusión Pública (English: Puerto Rico Public Broadcasting Corporation).
WKAQ-TV
WKAQ-TV (channel 2) is a television station in San Juan, Puerto Rico, serving as the U.S. territory's dual Telemundo and NBC outlet.
WLII-DT
WLII-DT (channel 11), branded on-air as TeleOnce, is a television station licensed to Caguas, Puerto Rico, serving the U.S. territory as an affiliate of Univision and UniMás.
Workers' Socialist Movement (Puerto Rico)
The Workers' Socialist Movement (Spanish: Movimiento Socialista de los Trabajadores, MST) is a Puerto Rican democratic socialist revolutionary organization, formed in 1982 and dedicated to the self-organization and self-emancipation of the working-class in Puerto Rico, as well as international solidarity with the workers struggles worldwide.
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Working People's Party (Puerto Rico)
The Working People's Party (Partido del Pueblo Trabajador or PPT) was a Puerto Rican socialist political party.
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World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects.
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World Bank high-income economy
A high-income economy is defined by the World Bank as a country with a gross national income per capita of US$14,005 or more in 2023, calculated using the Atlas method.
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World Baseball Classic
The World Baseball Classic (WBC), also referred to as the Classic, is an international baseball tournament sanctioned by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), the sport's global governing body, and organized in partnership with Major League Baseball (MLB) and Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA).
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World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum (WEF) is an international non-governmental organization, think tank, and lobbying organisation based in Cologny, Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.
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World economy
The world economy or global economy is the economy of all humans in the world, referring to the global economic system, which includes all economic activities conducted both within and between nations, including production, consumption, economic management, work in general, financial transactions and trade of goods and services.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
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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.
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World Wrestling Council
The World Wrestling Council (WWC; Spanish: "Consejo Mundial de Lucha"), is a professional wrestling promotion based in Puerto Rico.
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World's Best 10K
The World's Best 10K (WB10K) was a road race of 10 kilometers celebrated in San Juan, Puerto Rico every year.
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Yabucoa, Puerto Rico
Yabucoa is a town and municipality in Puerto Rico located in the eastern region, north of Maunabo; south of San Lorenzo, Las Piedras and Humacao; and east of Patillas.
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Yale Law School
Yale Law School (YLS) is the law school of Yale University, a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut.
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Yo-Yo Boing!
Yo-Yo Boing! (1998) is a postmodern novel in English, Spanish, and Spanglish by Puerto Rican author Giannina Braschi.
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Yoruba religion
The Yoruba religion (Yoruba: Ìṣẹ̀ṣe), West African Orisa (Òrìṣà), or Isese (Ìṣẹ̀ṣe), comprises the traditional religious and spiritual concepts and practice of the Yoruba people.
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Zen
Zen (Japanese; from Chinese "Chán"; in Korean: Sŏn, and Vietnamese: Thiền) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty as the Chan School (禪宗, chánzōng, "meditation school") or the Buddha-mind school (佛心宗, fóxīnzōng), and later developed into various sub-schools and branches.
.pr
.pr is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Puerto Rico.
17th Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico
The 17th Legislative Assembly of Puerto Rico was the 17th session of the Puerto Rican legislature that met from January 14, 2013 until January 1, 2017.
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1918 San Fermín earthquake
The 1918 San Fermín earthquake, also known as the Puerto Rico earthquake of 1918, struck the island of Puerto Rico at on October 11.
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1928 Okeechobee hurricane
The Okeechobee hurricane of 1928, also known as the San Felipe Segundo hurricane, was one of the deadliest hurricanes in the recorded history of the North Atlantic basin, and the fourth deadliest hurricane in the United States, only behind the 1900 Galveston hurricane, 1899 San Ciriaco hurricane, and Hurricane Maria.
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1952 Puerto Rican constitutional referendum
A referendum on a new constitution was held in Puerto Rico on 3 March 1952.
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1993 Central American and Caribbean Games
The 17th Central American and Caribbean Games were held in Ponce, a city in southern Puerto Rico.
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2000 United States census
The 2000 United States census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2 percent over the 248,709,873 people enumerated during the 1990 census.
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2004 Summer Olympics
The 2004 Summer Olympics (Therinoí Olympiakoí Agónes 2004), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (label) and officially branded as Athens 2004 (Αθήνα 2004), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece.
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2010 Central American and Caribbean Games
The 21st Central American and Caribbean Games (Spanish: XXI Juegos Centroamericanos y del Caribe, Mayagüez 2010) took place in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, from 18 July 2010 to 1 August 2010.
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2010 United States census
The 2010 United States census was the 23rd United States census.
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2017 Atlantic hurricane season
The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season was a devastating and extremely active Atlantic hurricane season, and the costliest on record, with a damage total of at least $294.92 billion (USD).
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2019–20 Puerto Rico earthquakes
Starting on December 28, 2019, and progressing into 2020, the southwestern part of the island of Puerto Rico was struck by an earthquake swarm, Grace Hauck.
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2020 Puerto Rican general election
General elections were held in Puerto Rico on November 3, 2020, to elect the officials of the Puerto Rican government who will serve from January 2021 to January 2025, most notably the position of Governor and Resident Commissioner.
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2020 Puerto Rican status referendum
A referendum of the status of Puerto Rico was held on November 3, 2020, concurrently with the general election.
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2020 Puerto Rico presidential primaries
Although Puerto Rico does not participate in U.S. presidential general elections because it is an unincorporated territory and not a state, and therefore cannot send members to the U.S. Electoral College, Puerto Ricans are citizens of the United States and do participate in the U.S. presidential primaries.
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2020 United States census
The 2020 United States census was the 24th decennial United States census.
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51st state
The 51st state in American political discourse refers to the concept of granting statehood to one of the United States' territories, splitting one or more of the existing states up to form a new state, or granting statehood to the District of Columbia, thereby increasing the number of states in the Union (something that has not happened since Hawaii was admitted in 1959) from 50 to 51.
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65th Infantry Regiment (United States)
The 65th Infantry Regiment, nicknamed "The Borinqueneers" during the Korean War for the original Arawak Indian name for Puerto Rico (Borinquen), is a Puerto Rican regiment of the United States Army.
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See also
1493 establishments in the Spanish West Indies
- Captaincy General of Santo Domingo
- Puerto Rico
1898 disestablishments in the Spanish West Indies
Caribbean islands of the United States
- Atlantic Gardens Veterans Cemetery
- Estate Niesky
- Islands of the United States Virgin Islands
- List of islands of Puerto Rico
- Puerto Rico
- United States Virgin Islands
Dependent territories in the Caribbean
- Anguilla
- Aruba
- Bonaire
- British Virgin Islands
- Cayman Islands
- Collectivity of Saint Martin
- Curaçao
- Curaçao and Dependencies
- Dependencies of Guadeloupe
- Dutch Caribbean
- Federal Dependencies of Venezuela
- Guadeloupe
- Martinique
- Montserrat
- Navassa Island
- Puerto Rico
- Saba (island)
- Saint Barthélemy
- Sint Maarten
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- United States Minor Outlying Islands
- United States Virgin Islands
Greater Antilles
- Anglo-French War (1778–1783)
- Antillean Confederation
- Antilles
- Cayman Islands
- Cuba
- Dominican Republic
- Effects of Hurricane Sandy in the Greater Antilles
- Eleutherodactylus portoricensis
- Erechthis
- Erechthis levyi
- Greater Antilles
- Haiti
- Hispaniola
- Islands of Cuba
- Islands of Haiti
- Islands of Jamaica
- Islands of Puerto Rico
- Islands of the Cayman Islands
- Islands of the Dominican Republic
- Jamaica
- List of Indigenous names of Caribbean islands
- Navassa Island
- Pre-Arawakan languages of the Greater Antilles
- Puerto Rico
Insular areas of the United States
- American Samoa
- Bajo Nuevo Bank
- Baker Island
- Commonwealth (U.S. insular area)
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Guam
- Insular Cases
- Insular area
- Kingman Reef
- Marshall Islands
- Midway Atoll
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Palau
- Palmyra Atoll
- Pasquines
- Puerto Rico
- Serranilla Bank
- Territories of the United States
- Territories of the United States on stamps
- U.S. territorial sovereignty
- United States Minor Outlying Islands
- United States Virgin Islands
Islands of Puerto Rico
- Caja de Muertos Nature Reserve
- Cayo Norte
- Isla Guachinanga
- Isla Magueyes
- Isla Mata la Gata
- List of islands of Ponce, Puerto Rico
- List of islands of Puerto Rico
- Mona and Monito Islands Nature Reserve
- Palomino Island
- Puerto Rico
- San Juan Islet
- Spanish Virgin Islands
Spanish-speaking countries and territories
- Alta California
- Andorra
- Argentina
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Captaincy General of Chile
- Captaincy General of Cuba
- Captaincy General of Guatemala
- Captaincy General of Puerto Rico
- Captaincy General of Santo Domingo
- Captaincy General of Venezuela
- Captaincy General of Yucatán
- Captaincy General of the Philippines
- Chile
- Colombia
- Colony of Santiago
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Guatemala
- Hispanidad
- Honduras
- Insular Government of Porto Rico
- Intendancy of San Salvador
- List of countries and territories where Spanish is an official language
- Mexico
- New Spain
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Province of Las Californias
- Provincias Internas
- Puerto Rico
- Republic of Texas
- Republic of Yucatán
- Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
- Spain
- Spanish West Indies
- Upper Peru
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
- Viceroyalty of New Granada
- Viceroyalty of Peru
- Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata
- Western Sahara
States and territories established in 1898
- British Weihaiwei
- Cretan State
- Federal State of the Visayas
- Guam
- Kiautschou Bay Leased Territory
- Kordofan
- New Territories
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Philippines
- Puerto Rico
- Republic of Negros
- Revolutionary Government of the Philippines
- Sultanate of Darfur
- Territory of Hawaii
- Yukon
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