Portal:Cuba/Selected articles and pictures
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Articles[edit]
- National Schools of Art, Havana
- José Martí Memorial
- Santiago de Cuba
- Granma (yacht)
- Taíno
- 26th of July Movement
Pictures[edit]
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Cuba as seen from space -
José Martí Statute with Cuban Flag. -
The José Martí Memorial -
Sicre's Statue of Martí. -
José Martí Memorial.
Biographies[edit]
Did You Know?[edit]
- ...that in 1869 the Spanish colonial authorities banned Baseball in Cuba because Cubans began to prefer baseball to viewing bullfights, the Spaniards' national sport?
- ...that Fernandina's Flicker, a woodpecker endemic to Cuba, is threatened by habitat destruction and now there are fewer than 800 left in the world?
DYK nom spotted by Victuallers (talk) 13:49, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
Quotes[edit]
| “ | We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked. | ” |
U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.