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This work is in the public domain in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the United States because it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico as part of that person’s official duties under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code.
Independence movement in Puerto Rico; Jayuya Uprising; José Coll y Cuchí; José Ferrer Canales; Juan Antonio Corretjer; Julia de Burgos; List of Puerto Rican flags; List of wars: 1945–1989; Lolita Lebrón; Luger pistol; Margot Arce de Vázquez; Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico; Olga Viscal Garriga; Oscar Collazo; Pedro Albizu Campos; Pedro ...
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While some online stores do offer free shipping on orders to Puerto Rico, many merchants exclude Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico and other U.S. territories. The household median income is stated as $19,350 and the mean income as $30,463 in the U.S. Census Bureau's 2015 update.
From December 10, 1898, the date of the annexation of Puerto Rico by the U.S., to July 25, 1852, the date of the establishment the commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit. 'Free Associated State of Puerto Rico'), it was considered a felony to display the Puerto Rican flag in public, with the flag of the ...
Use: Civil and state flag, civil and state ensign: Proportion: 2:3: Adopted: December 22, 1895; 129 years ago () by pro-independence members of the Revolutionary Committee of Puerto Rico exiled in New York City; members identified colors as red, white, and blue but did not specify color shades; some historians have presumed members adopted light blue shade based on the light blue flag of the ...
Puerto Rico was plunged into darkness on New Year's Eve by a nearly island-wide blackout. About 90% of almost 1.5 million customers had no electricity, said Luma Energy, the island's main power ...
Puerto Rico does not have an official bird. In 2001 the legislature passed a bill designating the pitirre (Tyrannus dominicensis), but the governor vetoed the bill because although native to it is not endemic to Puerto Rico. [6] [7]