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In 1929, Puerto Rico's legislature granted women the right to vote, pushed by the United States Congress to do so. Only women who could read and write were enfranchised; however, in 1935, all adult women were enfranchised regardless of their level of literacy. Puerto Rico was the second Latin American country to recognize a woman's right to ...
The Black Friday is the term for a gold panic on September 24, 1869, which triggered a financial crisis in the United States. It was the result of a conspiracy between two investors, Jay Gould, later joined by his partner James Fisk, and Abel Corbin, a small time speculator who had married Virginia (Jennie) Grant, the younger sister of ...
First Africans in Puerto Rico. Slave transport in Africa, depicted in a 19th-century engraving. When Ponce de León and the Spaniards arrived on the island of Borinquen (Puerto Rico), they were greeted by the Cacique Agüeybaná, the supreme leader of the peaceful Taíno tribes on the island. Agüeybaná helped to maintain the peace between the ...
On Friday, Best Buy (BBY) announced a new price-match policy that will include such online competitors as Amazon.com (AMZN), but the new policy falls short in one key respect: The retailer won't ...
Sean Pavone/shutterstock. Like Amazon, Barnes & Noble offers readers access to a huge selection of new books, music, and movies online. But B&N is best known for their 600-plus stores in all 50 ...
Puerto Rico currently has the fourth-most active players in Major League Baseball (MLB) among Latin American jurisdictions, behind the Dominican Republic, Venezuela and Cuba. [ 1] More than three hundred players from the archipelago have played in the major leagues since 1926. This includes players who were born in either one of the archipelago ...
Black Friday store opening hours and doorbuster sales, including special Black Friday hours to shop at stores like Walmart, Target, Amazon, Best Buy, and more. These Stores Are Already Letting You ...
Economic management, Strategic thought. Puerto Rico is a Euro-style board game designed by German designer Andreas Seyfarth and published in 2002 in a German-language edition by Alea. [1] Players assume the roles of colonial governors on the island of Puerto Rico during the age of Caribbean ascendancy. Puerto Rico was the highest-rated game on ...