The Cuba was a steamship owned by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. Originally launched in 1897 as the German SS Coblenz, she was seized by the United States in 1917, and named SS Sachem, until Pacific Mail purchased her from the Shipping Board on February 6, 1920 for US$400,000 and renamed SS Cuba.
The ship's radio was out. She had been navigating through a dense fog for several days. Later that day, nine US Navy destroyers ran aground nearby in the Honda Point Disaster.
Air Cuba, previously known as Cuba, were a British electronic music duo formed by Christopher Andrews and Ashley Bates. They released two singles and an album, Leap of Faith, on 4AD in 1998 and 1999. Their sound demonstrated a range of electronic, pop, and rock influences, and they were frequently compared with Primal Scream.
Background
The group was formed as Cuba in 1998 by Christopher Andrews and Ashley Bates, formerly the drummer of Chapterhouse. Originally from Canada, Andrews named the band "Cuba" in honour of his mother's birthplace. The group self-financed two singles, "Havana" and "Fiery Cross", which were released by 4AD. The following year they changed their name to Air Cuba and released their only album, Leap of Faith.
During the 1990s, Andrews was married to Slowdive vocalist/guitarist Rachel Goswell (their marriage dissolved in 2000). She performed on some of the band's recordings, and Cuba also collaborated with Angie Brown of Bizarre Inc, Shara Nelson, and Mau (alias of Michael Giffts).
Connery is as a British mercenary who travels to Cuba, which is on the brink of revolution with the authority of dictator Fulgencio Batista steadily collapsing. Connery encounters a former lover there (Brooke Adams), who is neglected by her Cuban husband (Chris Sarandon). The film ends with Havana falling to Fidel Castro's revolutionaries as most of Connery's employers flee the island aboard one of the last flights out.
The same historical events were featured five years earlier in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather Part II and would be covered again by Sidney Pollack in his 1990 film Havana, starring Robert Redford. Lester's film was perhaps the most stylish of the three, aided by its stirring Spanish locations, "with a marvelous sense of atmosphere."
Plot
The film's sense of historical accuracy is marred by the opening scene which shows an airliner landing in Havana with the wrong date ("1959") superimposed on the screen. It should read "1958", the last year of the revolution. Cuban President Batista fled the capital when Fidel Castro and his guerrillas entered Havana on New Year's Day 1959.
Before becoming a territory, varying cultures of indigenous peoples and historic Native Americans inhabited Indiana for thousands of years. Since its founding as a territory, settlement patterns in Indiana have reflected regional cultural segmentation present in the Eastern United States; the state's northernmost tier was settled primarily by people from New England and New York, Central Indiana by migrants from the Mid-Atlantic states and from adjacent Ohio, and Southern Indiana by settlers from the Southern states, particularly Kentucky and Tennessee.
Though soon outclassed by newer vessels, Indiana was to enjoy a substantial 36-year career, a highlight of which was her transportation of United States President Ulysses S. Grant on the first leg of his celebrated 1877–78 world tour. After 24 years of transatlantic crossings, Indiana was sold for Pacific service, before being requisitioned as a troopship for service during the Spanish–American War. She was wrecked off Isla Santa Margarita, Mexico, in 1909.
Development
The four Pennsylvania class liners were constructed at a cost of $520,000 each by William Cramp & Sons on behalf of the American Steamship Company (ASC), a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The Railroad intended to utilize the vessels to bring European immigrants direct to Philadelphia, thus ensuring the company a steady stream of customers. In recognition of this purpose, the four ships—Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois and Ohio—were named after the four states serviced by the Railroad. Design of the ships was entrusted to Charles H. Cramp of the Cramp & Sons shipyard, and Barnabas H. Bartol, a director of the ASC.
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Indiana farmers and Cuba
If Congress allows Americans to make money in Cuba, one group of Hoosiers could benefit greatly.
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Cuba: The Forgotten Revolution Trailer
Cuba: The Forgotten Revolution tells the virtually unknown story of Cuban revolutionaries Frank País and Jose Antonio Echeverría.
Working largely independently from each other, these young men—a school teacher and architecture student, respectively—played critical roles in the eventual overthrow of dictator Fulgencio Batista, although their names seldom appear alongside their more famous contemporaries, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.
Scholar Lillian Guerra explains: “It is as if we told the tale of the American Revolution as solely Washington’s story, leaving out Franklin, Jefferson, Adams and others.”
New scholarship and recently accessed footage challenge the prevailing view—in part manufactured and perpetuated by Che
Guevara—that Castro’s army of 200 guerrillas single-handedly defeated...
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Cuba Rediscovered: Day In The Life
Beyond the more than 50 years of repression, John Stehr found the Cuban people are really a lot like us.
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Local historian speaks on Cuba
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Cuba Rediscovered: Ball State cultural exchange
The U.S. is now easing travel restrictions to Cuba and college students are among the first to take advantage of that, including students from several Indiana universities.
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Hundreds participate in Cuba's Gay Pride march
(14 May 2016) Hundreds of Cuban gays and members of the LGBT community marched along Havana's picturesque seaside Malecon boulevard Saturday, joined by dozens of supporters and activists.
The march celebrates the major advances made by Cuba's LGBT community in recent years since widespread repression of homosexuals during much of the early years of the country's revolution.
Gay rights have come a long way since then, when gays and transvestites were routinely jailed and exiled by the Communist government.
Led by a new generation of activists, including Mariela Castro, the daughter of Cuba's President, Raul Castro, the LGBT community in Cuba has been officially accepted by the government, and by most of the country's people.
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Back in the 1950s, Cuba had one of the highest standards of living in the Western Hemisphere and a thriving middle class. But the socialist revolution and the U...
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Cuba: The Forgotten Revolution tells the virtually unknown story of Cuban revolutionaries Frank País and Jose Antonio Echeverría.
Working largely independently...
Cuba: The Forgotten Revolution tells the virtually unknown story of Cuban revolutionaries Frank País and Jose Antonio Echeverría.
Working largely independently from each other, these young men—a school teacher and architecture student, respectively—played critical roles in the eventual overthrow of dictator Fulgencio Batista, although their names seldom appear alongside their more famous contemporaries, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.
Scholar Lillian Guerra explains: “It is as if we told the tale of the American Revolution as solely Washington’s story, leaving out Franklin, Jefferson, Adams and others.”
New scholarship and recently accessed footage challenge the prevailing view—in part manufactured and perpetuated by Che
Guevara—that Castro’s army of 200 guerrillas single-handedly defeated tens of thousands of Batista’s professional soldiers and liberated the people of Cuba. In fact, País and Echeverría’s
city-based insurgencies in Santiago and Havana held the key to generating popular support for undermining the authority of Batista and his secret police.
Both País and Echeverría rivaled Castro in popularity and power during the height of the Revolution yet neither man lived to see Batista defeated. País was gunned down in the street; Echeverría died in a daring raid on the palace. We will never know what Cuba
would have been like had they survived. This documentary highlights the complexities inherent in revolutions and examines the shaping and reshaping of the final historical record.
The film is narrated by Academy Award-winner Rita Moreno.
Support comes from the Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation, Inc., promoting and preserving the Arts and Humanities in Indiana.
Cuba: The Forgotten Revolution tells the virtually unknown story of Cuban revolutionaries Frank País and Jose Antonio Echeverría.
Working largely independently from each other, these young men—a school teacher and architecture student, respectively—played critical roles in the eventual overthrow of dictator Fulgencio Batista, although their names seldom appear alongside their more famous contemporaries, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.
Scholar Lillian Guerra explains: “It is as if we told the tale of the American Revolution as solely Washington’s story, leaving out Franklin, Jefferson, Adams and others.”
New scholarship and recently accessed footage challenge the prevailing view—in part manufactured and perpetuated by Che
Guevara—that Castro’s army of 200 guerrillas single-handedly defeated tens of thousands of Batista’s professional soldiers and liberated the people of Cuba. In fact, País and Echeverría’s
city-based insurgencies in Santiago and Havana held the key to generating popular support for undermining the authority of Batista and his secret police.
Both País and Echeverría rivaled Castro in popularity and power during the height of the Revolution yet neither man lived to see Batista defeated. País was gunned down in the street; Echeverría died in a daring raid on the palace. We will never know what Cuba
would have been like had they survived. This documentary highlights the complexities inherent in revolutions and examines the shaping and reshaping of the final historical record.
The film is narrated by Academy Award-winner Rita Moreno.
Support comes from the Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation, Inc., promoting and preserving the Arts and Humanities in Indiana.
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The U.S. is now easing travel restrictions to Cuba and college students are among the first to take advantage of that, including students from several Indiana u...
The U.S. is now easing travel restrictions to Cuba and college students are among the first to take advantage of that, including students from several Indiana universities.
The U.S. is now easing travel restrictions to Cuba and college students are among the first to take advantage of that, including students from several Indiana universities.
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Gary Truitt talks to one of the Hoosier leaders returning form a fact finding mission from Cuba.
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Gary Truitt talks to one of the Hoosier leaders returning form a fact finding mission from Cuba.
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Gary Truitt talks to one of the Hoosier leaders returning form a fact finding mission from Cuba.
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(14 May 2016) Hundreds of Cuban gays and members of the LGBT community marched along Havana's picturesque seaside Malecon boulevard Saturday, joined by dozens o...
(14 May 2016) Hundreds of Cuban gays and members of the LGBT community marched along Havana's picturesque seaside Malecon boulevard Saturday, joined by dozens of supporters and activists.
The march celebrates the major advances made by Cuba's LGBT community in recent years since widespread repression of homosexuals during much of the early years of the country's revolution.
Gay rights have come a long way since then, when gays and transvestites were routinely jailed and exiled by the Communist government.
Led by a new generation of activists, including Mariela Castro, the daughter of Cuba's President, Raul Castro, the LGBT community in Cuba has been officially accepted by the government, and by most of the country's people.
Some activists say however there is room for improvement, citing same-sex marriage as an issue that needs to be addressed.
But for Cuba's LGBT community, openly marching down the historic seaside Malecon, now a common yearly event, the march shows how far gays have progressed in a country where they were once shunned.
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The march celebrates the major advances made by Cuba's LGBT community in recent years since widespread repression of homosexuals during much of the early years of the country's revolution.
Gay rights have come a long way since then, when gays and transvestites were routinely jailed and exiled by the Communist government.
Led by a new generation of activists, including Mariela Castro, the daughter of Cuba's President, Raul Castro, the LGBT community in Cuba has been officially accepted by the government, and by most of the country's people.
Some activists say however there is room for improvement, citing same-sex marriage as an issue that needs to be addressed.
But for Cuba's LGBT community, openly marching down the historic seaside Malecon, now a common yearly event, the march shows how far gays have progressed in a country where they were once shunned.
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Cuba: The Forgotten Revolution tells the virtually unknown story of Cuban revolutionaries Frank País and Jose Antonio Echeverría.
Working largely independently from each other, these young men—a school teacher and architecture student, respectively—played critical roles in the eventual overthrow of dictator Fulgencio Batista, although their names seldom appear alongside their more famous contemporaries, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.
Scholar Lillian Guerra explains: “It is as if we told the tale of the American Revolution as solely Washington’s story, leaving out Franklin, Jefferson, Adams and others.”
New scholarship and recently accessed footage challenge the prevailing view—in part manufactured and perpetuated by Che
Guevara—that Castro’s army of 200 guerrillas single-handedly defeated tens of thousands of Batista’s professional soldiers and liberated the people of Cuba. In fact, País and Echeverría’s
city-based insurgencies in Santiago and Havana held the key to generating popular support for undermining the authority of Batista and his secret police.
Both País and Echeverría rivaled Castro in popularity and power during the height of the Revolution yet neither man lived to see Batista defeated. País was gunned down in the street; Echeverría died in a daring raid on the palace. We will never know what Cuba
would have been like had they survived. This documentary highlights the complexities inherent in revolutions and examines the shaping and reshaping of the final historical record.
The film is narrated by Academy Award-winner Rita Moreno.
Support comes from the Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation, Inc., promoting and preserving the Arts and Humanities in Indiana.
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(14 May 2016) Hundreds of Cuban gays and members of the LGBT community marched along Havana's picturesque seaside Malecon boulevard Saturday, joined by dozens of supporters and activists.
The march celebrates the major advances made by Cuba's LGBT community in recent years since widespread repression of homosexuals during much of the early years of the country's revolution.
Gay rights have come a long way since then, when gays and transvestites were routinely jailed and exiled by the Communist government.
Led by a new generation of activists, including Mariela Castro, the daughter of Cuba's President, Raul Castro, the LGBT community in Cuba has been officially accepted by the government, and by most of the country's people.
Some activists say however there is room for improvement, citing same-sex marriage as an issue that needs to be addressed.
But for Cuba's LGBT community, openly marching down the historic seaside Malecon, now a common yearly event, the march shows how far gays have progressed in a country where they were once shunned.
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The Cuba was a steamship owned by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. Originally launched in 1897 as the German SS Coblenz, she was seized by the United States in 1917, and named SS Sachem, until Pacific Mail purchased her from the Shipping Board on February 6, 1920 for US$400,000 and renamed SS Cuba.
The ship's radio was out. She had been navigating through a dense fog for several days. Later that day, nine US Navy destroyers ran aground nearby in the Honda Point Disaster.
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