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CUBA CARIBBEAN SEA Santiago de Cuba Las Guásimas El Caney El Pozo Siboney Daiquirí Guantánamo Bay Caimanera Fort Toro Fisherman's Point CUBA Havana Map area...
...Watching him hold court on the terrazzo patio, it wasn't lost on me that the origin of his birth would probably have kept him out of such places in pre-Castro Cuba. Segundo, born Maximo Francisco Repilado Mu?oz in Siboney, Cuba, was the grandson of a freed slave. When fame came knocking on his door again, I think Segundo did not mind becoming another feather in Castro's utopian hat, adding poetry and charm to the drier accomplishments of universal health care, equal job opportunity, and subsidized education...
...Willie!" They embarked in June 1898, bound for Siboney, Cuba. By his account, it was the third notable amphibious operation in U.S. history. (First two: Washington crossing the Delaware and the landing at Vera Cruz during the Mexican War.) Since the troop transports were commercially chartered, the skipper could choose his own disembarkation point, which ranged up to a half-mile offshore. The horses and mules panicked, with the result that the Rough Riders rode in name only. The first quasi action of Post's outfit was to rush up and relieve the Rough Riders who had got themselves...
...first tourist to the balmy island of Cuba, went ashore Oct. 28, 1492, sword in one hand, cross in the other, saying: "The most beautiful land human eyes have ever beheld." The gentle Siboney Indians left their hammocks and met Christopher Columbus, crying: "Peace, we are friends." A quarter of a century after Columbus' first voyage to the New World, Cuba's gold and precious woods adorned Madrid, and many Indians had died of overwork and by their own hands. Blackbirders slid into Havana harbor with Negro slaves, and on their wretched backs rose an elegant, sugar-based...
Died. Alfreda Theodore Strandberg Morse, 63, Tin Pan Alley lyricist who collaborated with her composer-husband, the late Theodore Morse, produced some of the nation's alltime popular favorites (Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here; Siboney); in White Plains...