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Theodore Roosevelt wanted to fight. By the mid-1890s, inflamed by press reports of Spanish atrocities against Cubans fighting for independence, he strongly favored forcing Spain to give up Cuba or face war. On Feb. 15, 1898, the U.S. battleship Maine exploded under mysterious circumstances in Havana harbor, killing 266 sailors. Congress declared war against Spain in April and called for volunteers. Among the first was Roosevelt, who said a man "should pay with his body" for his beliefs.He helped raise a cavalry regiment largely from the Southwest and became its lieutenant colonel. The press dubbed them the Rough Riders...
...Secretary of the Navy, Roosevelt dispatched Commodore George Dewey and the U.S. Pacific Fleet to the Philippines. On May 1, 1898, Dewey destroyed the Spanish squadron at Manila Bay without a single U.S. casualty. A peace agreement was signed on Aug. 12, and with a formal treaty in December, Spain ceded Puerto Rico and Guam, sold the Philippines to the U.S. for $20 million and granted independence to Cuba PHILIPPINES Manila Guam
Sources: The Rough Riders and An Autobiography, by Theodore Roosevelt; The War with Spain in 1898, by David F. Trask; San Juan Hill 1898, by Angus Konstam; The Spanish-American War, An American Epic, 1898, by G.J.A. O'Toole; The Spanish-American War, by Edward F. Dolan...
...Association of German Concert Agencies (IDKV) show that since 1999, Germans have been spending more on attending live music events than on CDs (j2.7 billion in 2003, compared to j1.78 billion). There are 167 festivals listed on German events website meinestadt.de between May and August alone. In Spain the Summercase Festival, which rotates lineups between Madrid and Barcelona, joins a crowded schedule just one week before the well-established Festival Internacional de Benicàssim (FIB), where the likes of Scissor Sisters, Madness and Franz Ferdinand will keep the four-day (and night) party going on a beach near Valencia...
...serious money needed to stage large events and draw big-name acts. For mobile-phone firms like Virgin and O2, it's a branding exercise in front of a natural consumer base. And for beer companies too, it's not just about selling suds to fans. Heineken backs Spain's FIB as well as the Oxegen Festival in Ireland; in Germany Becks is sponsoring 15 summer events this year. "You directly want to link in to something with scale, and yes, there is a cool halo effect of being associated with a festival like that," says Coor's Coyle...