Portal:Cuba/Selected articles and pictures

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[edit] Did You Know?

  • ...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)

[edit] Quotes

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.