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2 days ago · The Cuban Revolution ( Spanish: Revolución cubana) was the military and political effort to overthrow Fulgencio Batista 's dictatorship which reigned as the government of Cuba between 1952 and 1959. It began after the 1952 Cuban coup d'état which saw former president and military general, Fulgencio Batista topple the nascent Cuban democracy ...
19 hours ago · The 2023 Atlantic hurricane season was the fourth-most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 20 named storms forming, [nb 1] tied with 1933. [1] Among them, 7 became hurricanes, with 3 reaching major hurricane strength. [nb 2] The season also had an above‑normal accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) rating of 148, despite the presence of ...
1 day ago · Originally a liner, the Borinquen (1931), renamed Puerto Rico in 1949, Arosa Star in 1954, Bahama Star in 1959, La Jenelle in 1969, grounded 13 April 1970 in California. Scrapped. Originally a liner, the Félix Roussel (1929), renamed Arosa Sun in 1955. Sold in 1960 and used as a hotel ship. Scrapped in 1974.
1 day ago · Diver looking at a shipwreck in the Caribbean Sea. Scuba diving is a mode of underwater diving whereby divers use breathing equipment that is completely independent of a surface breathing gas supply, and therefore has a limited but variable endurance. [1] The name scuba is an anacronym for "Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus" and was ...
3 days ago · Reenactment of a Viking landing in L'Anse aux Meadows. Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories are speculative theories which propose that possible visits to the Americas, possible interactions with the Indigenous peoples of the Americas—or both—were made by people from Africa, Asia, Europe, or Oceania prior to Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Caribbean in 1492 (i.e., during ...
1 day ago · e. The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas. The outfitted European slave ships of the slave trade regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage, and existed from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
1 day ago · The Cretaceous–Paleogene ( K–Pg) extinction event, [a] also known as the Cretaceous–Tertiary (K–T) extinction, [b] was a sudden mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal species on Earth, [2] [3] approximately 66 million years ago. The event caused the extinction of all non-avian dinosaurs.
