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The Arrotino (Italian - the "Blade-Sharpener"), or formerly the Scythian, thought to be a figure from a group representing the Flaying of Marsyas is a Hellenistic-Roman sculpture (Pergamene school) of a man crouching to sharpen a knife on a whetstone.
José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera (19 November 1888 – 8 March 1942) was a Cuban chess player who was the third world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. A chess prodigy, he is widely renowned for his exceptional endgame skill and speed of play.
Logan M. Williams, a student at the University of Connecticut and a researcher at the Center for a Free Cuba wrote that the Center opposes an American détente with the Cuban Communist Party and that a détente would "appeas[e] a brutal dictatorship" and embolden it to further repress the Cuban population, and strengthen its position to invite ...
The National Library José Martí (Spanish: Biblioteca Nacional José Martí) is the national library of Cuba. It is located in Havana and named after the national hero José Martí . This library was established on October 18, 1901. [ 1 ]
The Cuba Libre Story is a documentary series that portrays the history of Cuba from colonial times to 2015. [1] The eight-part series was released on Netflix on December 11, 2015. [ 2 ]
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice convenes a meeting of the Commission in December 2005. The United States Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba (CAFC) was created by United States President George W. Bush on October 10, 2003, to, according to him, explore ways the U.S. can help hasten and ease a democratic transition in Cuba.
Education in Cuba has been a highly ranked system for many years. The University of Havana was founded in 1727 and there are a number of other well-established colleges and universities . Following the 1959 revolution, the Castro government nationalized all educational institutions, and created a government operated system.
Baseball5, inspired by cuatro esquinas, being played in Havana.. Cuatro esquinas (transl. four corners) is a variation of baseball in which the only equipment used is a rubber ball.