Havana (/həˈvænə/; Spanish: La Habana, [la aˈβana]) is the capital city, largest city, province, major port, and leading commercial centre of Cuba. The city proper has a population of 2.1 million inhabitants, and it spans a total of 728.26km2 (281.18sqmi) – making it the largest city by area, the most populous city, and the third largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean region. The city extends mostly westward and southward from the bay, which is entered through a narrow inlet and which divides into three main harbours: Marimelena, Guanabacoa and Atarés. The sluggish Almendares River traverses the city from south to north, entering the Straits of Florida a few miles west of the bay.
The city of Havana was founded by the Spanish in the 16th century and due to its strategic location it served as a springboard for the Spanish conquest of the continent becoming a stopping point for the treasure-laden Spanish galleons on the crossing between the New World and the Old World. King Philip II of Spain granted Havana the title of City in 1592. Walls as well as forts were built to protect the old city. The sinking of the U.S. battleship Maine in Havana's harbor in 1898 was the immediate cause of the Spanish–American War.
The production ran for 221 performances before touring the provinces. It also soon played in Berlin, Germany. An American production played at the Casino Theatre in New York after a Philadelphia tryout, with revisions by its star, James T. Powers. This production was staged by Ned Wayburn and ran from 11 February 1909 to 25 September 1909 for a total of 236 performances.
Among the show's musical numbers are the songs Little Miquette, Cupid's Telephone, How Did the Bird Know That? and Pensacola. Musical selections from the show were recorded by the Victor Light Opera Company in 1909.
Havana ("turn left in Havana") is a club passingpattern. There are 4 jugglers with a total of 12 clubs and the pattern is a type of rotating feed, much like a feed weave. Feeders do a 2 count (everies) while feedees do a 6 count. All passes are right hand tramline.
There is always one feeder, but the feeder changes throughout. It is best described from the feeders point of view. When feeding, begin passing to your leftmost feedee. Make 5 passes in a windshield wiper fashion.
After the first pass, feedee B and C begin to switch places in a clockwise motion. After the places have been exchanged and the feeder has given their 4th pass, B takes one additional step forward and turns counter clockwise (see: "turn left"), such that D will be the new feeder.
Once A finishes their 5th pass, D immediately begins their feed cycle starting on their left. Note that A has no break between A's 5th pass and D's first pass.
Some find that practicing a 4 person feed weave with a single feeder is a good warm up for this pattern.
Rock Island Girls Basketball vs Havana Summer 2011
published: 22 Jun 2011
Havana Girls Basketball vs Rock Island Summer 2011
published: 22 Jun 2011
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Cuba: Rolling Stones rock Havana with landmark gig
The Rolling Stones have rocked Havana, playing to tens of thousands in the Cuban capital, where most foreign rock music was banned for several decades.
Many of those at the free concert were lifelong fans who for years had to keep quiet about their love of the Stones and other groups.
published: 26 Mar 2016
The Rolling Stones Live in Havana - Cuba 25.03.2016
Cuba's revolutionary regime and the Rolling Stones have one thing in common: unexpected longevity.
The left-wing government has defied expectations by outlasting the Soviet Union, its former backer, by decades. The Rolling Stones, a 54-year-old unruly rock 'n' roll act, still wow crowds with impressive vim for septuagenarians.
These two worlds collide in Havana, Cuba's capital, on Friday, with the British band's debut there. The show takes place against a backdrop of slowly improving relations between the US and Cuba, former Cold War enemies.
"What strikes me is the longevity of these guys," Bill Janovitz, author of Rocks Off, a book about the Stones, told Al Jazeera.
"They're well into their 70s, beyond retirement age for most people. Not only are they still out there, but they're n...
published: 26 Mar 2016
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published: 27 Mar 2019
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The Rolling Stones have rocked Havana, playing to tens of thousands in the Cuban capital, where most foreign rock music was banned for several decades.
Many of ...
The Rolling Stones have rocked Havana, playing to tens of thousands in the Cuban capital, where most foreign rock music was banned for several decades.
Many of those at the free concert were lifelong fans who for years had to keep quiet about their love of the Stones and other groups.
The Rolling Stones have rocked Havana, playing to tens of thousands in the Cuban capital, where most foreign rock music was banned for several decades.
Many of those at the free concert were lifelong fans who for years had to keep quiet about their love of the Stones and other groups.
Cuba's revolutionary regime and the Rolling Stones have one thing in common: unexpected longevity.
The left-wing government has defied expectations by outlasti...
Cuba's revolutionary regime and the Rolling Stones have one thing in common: unexpected longevity.
The left-wing government has defied expectations by outlasting the Soviet Union, its former backer, by decades. The Rolling Stones, a 54-year-old unruly rock 'n' roll act, still wow crowds with impressive vim for septuagenarians.
These two worlds collide in Havana, Cuba's capital, on Friday, with the British band's debut there. The show takes place against a backdrop of slowly improving relations between the US and Cuba, former Cold War enemies.
"What strikes me is the longevity of these guys," Bill Janovitz, author of Rocks Off, a book about the Stones, told Al Jazeera.
"They're well into their 70s, beyond retirement age for most people. Not only are they still out there, but they're not taking the easy route. They're inserting themselves into a worldwide political conversation."
Sir Mick Jagger, the band's raucous front man, was a schoolboy in 1953, when Fidel and Raul Castro began a rebellion that eventually deposed the Caribbean Island's austere US-backed government and launched socialist reforms.
In 1962, when the Stones formed in London, the United States imposed a full trade embargo on Cuba and the world approached nuclear Armageddon as Moscow and Washington rowed over Soviet missiles on the island. Decades of animosity ensued.
'Cultured country'
This week's visit of President Barack Obama continued a US-Cuba detente that began 15 months ago and has seen Washington ease restrictions by opening up flights and some trade to an island only 145km off Florida's coast.
As Obama toured Havana, a crew of 140 Stones employees and some 80 Cubans were setting the stage at the Ciudad Deportiva de la Habana sports complex to welcome hundreds of thousands of fans to the show, called the Concert for Amity.
Speaking with reporters, the band's production manager Dale "Opie" Skjerseth, joked that Obama was their "opening act".
The gig was a late addition to the group's Latin American tour, which kicked off last month in Santiago, Chile. Cubans dodge the $200 ticket prices paid elsewhere thanks to free entry, on a first-come, first-served basis.
The band used 61 shipping containers to import an estimated 500 tonnes of equipment, such as the stage, speakers, lights and video screens, Skjerseth said. A Boeing 747 arrived from Mexico last week carrying the last of the gear, he added.
The Stones are not strangers to the Caribbean. They recorded albums in Montserrat, Jagger is understood to own a villa in Mustique and was married to the rights campaigner and former actress Bianca Jagger, from nearby Nicaragua.
Their sound draws on many styles, from rhythm and blues to reggae and soul. Their 1964 cover version of Not Fade Away, which opens with Jagger shaking maracas, features echoes of Afro-Cuban music.
US media outlets present the gig as the first world-renowned rock act to reach an isolated nation of some one million culture-starved Cubans. For Cuba-watcher James Early, this is typical "US-centric arrogance and chauvinism".
Cubans are erudite and world-class in music, ballet and poetry, Early said.
"I don't mean to detract from the Rolling Stones, which will be a great attraction for Cuba, but to suggest that somehow this is opening the curtain of universal culture for them is just way beyond the pale," Early, a former Smithsonian Institution director, told Al Jazeera.
"It's a very cultured country."
Though human rights groups have big gripes about Cuba - from political prisoners to web blocking - the communist-run island has not sought to banish the music of foreign bands, including the Stones, since the early days of the revolution.
Former president Fidel Castro turned out to watch the Manic Street Preachers, a Welsh band, at the Teatro Karl Marx in 2001. In 1979, during a previous US-Cuba rapprochement, Kris Kristofferson and Billy Joel played the same venue.
A statue of John Lennon, the former Beatle and peacenik, was unveiled in a Havana park in 2000.
Although the Stones gig may go down in history as the biggest rock concert to be staged in Cuba, Bernardo Navarro, a 39-year-old Cuban-American, does not foresee major convulsions to life for its Spanish-speaking people.
Cuba's revolutionary regime and the Rolling Stones have one thing in common: unexpected longevity.
The left-wing government has defied expectations by outlasting the Soviet Union, its former backer, by decades. The Rolling Stones, a 54-year-old unruly rock 'n' roll act, still wow crowds with impressive vim for septuagenarians.
These two worlds collide in Havana, Cuba's capital, on Friday, with the British band's debut there. The show takes place against a backdrop of slowly improving relations between the US and Cuba, former Cold War enemies.
"What strikes me is the longevity of these guys," Bill Janovitz, author of Rocks Off, a book about the Stones, told Al Jazeera.
"They're well into their 70s, beyond retirement age for most people. Not only are they still out there, but they're not taking the easy route. They're inserting themselves into a worldwide political conversation."
Sir Mick Jagger, the band's raucous front man, was a schoolboy in 1953, when Fidel and Raul Castro began a rebellion that eventually deposed the Caribbean Island's austere US-backed government and launched socialist reforms.
In 1962, when the Stones formed in London, the United States imposed a full trade embargo on Cuba and the world approached nuclear Armageddon as Moscow and Washington rowed over Soviet missiles on the island. Decades of animosity ensued.
'Cultured country'
This week's visit of President Barack Obama continued a US-Cuba detente that began 15 months ago and has seen Washington ease restrictions by opening up flights and some trade to an island only 145km off Florida's coast.
As Obama toured Havana, a crew of 140 Stones employees and some 80 Cubans were setting the stage at the Ciudad Deportiva de la Habana sports complex to welcome hundreds of thousands of fans to the show, called the Concert for Amity.
Speaking with reporters, the band's production manager Dale "Opie" Skjerseth, joked that Obama was their "opening act".
The gig was a late addition to the group's Latin American tour, which kicked off last month in Santiago, Chile. Cubans dodge the $200 ticket prices paid elsewhere thanks to free entry, on a first-come, first-served basis.
The band used 61 shipping containers to import an estimated 500 tonnes of equipment, such as the stage, speakers, lights and video screens, Skjerseth said. A Boeing 747 arrived from Mexico last week carrying the last of the gear, he added.
The Stones are not strangers to the Caribbean. They recorded albums in Montserrat, Jagger is understood to own a villa in Mustique and was married to the rights campaigner and former actress Bianca Jagger, from nearby Nicaragua.
Their sound draws on many styles, from rhythm and blues to reggae and soul. Their 1964 cover version of Not Fade Away, which opens with Jagger shaking maracas, features echoes of Afro-Cuban music.
US media outlets present the gig as the first world-renowned rock act to reach an isolated nation of some one million culture-starved Cubans. For Cuba-watcher James Early, this is typical "US-centric arrogance and chauvinism".
Cubans are erudite and world-class in music, ballet and poetry, Early said.
"I don't mean to detract from the Rolling Stones, which will be a great attraction for Cuba, but to suggest that somehow this is opening the curtain of universal culture for them is just way beyond the pale," Early, a former Smithsonian Institution director, told Al Jazeera.
"It's a very cultured country."
Though human rights groups have big gripes about Cuba - from political prisoners to web blocking - the communist-run island has not sought to banish the music of foreign bands, including the Stones, since the early days of the revolution.
Former president Fidel Castro turned out to watch the Manic Street Preachers, a Welsh band, at the Teatro Karl Marx in 2001. In 1979, during a previous US-Cuba rapprochement, Kris Kristofferson and Billy Joel played the same venue.
A statue of John Lennon, the former Beatle and peacenik, was unveiled in a Havana park in 2000.
Although the Stones gig may go down in history as the biggest rock concert to be staged in Cuba, Bernardo Navarro, a 39-year-old Cuban-American, does not foresee major convulsions to life for its Spanish-speaking people.
What if.. You were asked to leave everything behind and board a plane that takes you to a sunny, comfortable, yet inhabited island? You can bring a selection of...
What if.. You were asked to leave everything behind and board a plane that takes you to a sunny, comfortable, yet inhabited island? You can bring a selection of your favorite stuff to ease your stay. First one to get on the plane: Deaf Havana! Ready to discover their desert island essentials?
Deaf Havana // Rock Werchter 2019 // Sunday 30 June // The Slope // #RW19
What if.. You were asked to leave everything behind and board a plane that takes you to a sunny, comfortable, yet inhabited island? You can bring a selection of your favorite stuff to ease your stay. First one to get on the plane: Deaf Havana! Ready to discover their desert island essentials?
Deaf Havana // Rock Werchter 2019 // Sunday 30 June // The Slope // #RW19
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Hi there, my name is Leo and I run a studio on the westside of Norway where I record and produce bands, do video work and play live shows.
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✨ Also check out the Disney Hits playlist : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79DijItQXMM&list=PLiNVoBckLqLmdcbotc6n_MjdTDCHLiYDo
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The Rolling Stones have rocked Havana, playing to tens of thousands in the Cuban capital, where most foreign rock music was banned for several decades.
Many of those at the free concert were lifelong fans who for years had to keep quiet about their love of the Stones and other groups.
Cuba's revolutionary regime and the Rolling Stones have one thing in common: unexpected longevity.
The left-wing government has defied expectations by outlasting the Soviet Union, its former backer, by decades. The Rolling Stones, a 54-year-old unruly rock 'n' roll act, still wow crowds with impressive vim for septuagenarians.
These two worlds collide in Havana, Cuba's capital, on Friday, with the British band's debut there. The show takes place against a backdrop of slowly improving relations between the US and Cuba, former Cold War enemies.
"What strikes me is the longevity of these guys," Bill Janovitz, author of Rocks Off, a book about the Stones, told Al Jazeera.
"They're well into their 70s, beyond retirement age for most people. Not only are they still out there, but they're not taking the easy route. They're inserting themselves into a worldwide political conversation."
Sir Mick Jagger, the band's raucous front man, was a schoolboy in 1953, when Fidel and Raul Castro began a rebellion that eventually deposed the Caribbean Island's austere US-backed government and launched socialist reforms.
In 1962, when the Stones formed in London, the United States imposed a full trade embargo on Cuba and the world approached nuclear Armageddon as Moscow and Washington rowed over Soviet missiles on the island. Decades of animosity ensued.
'Cultured country'
This week's visit of President Barack Obama continued a US-Cuba detente that began 15 months ago and has seen Washington ease restrictions by opening up flights and some trade to an island only 145km off Florida's coast.
As Obama toured Havana, a crew of 140 Stones employees and some 80 Cubans were setting the stage at the Ciudad Deportiva de la Habana sports complex to welcome hundreds of thousands of fans to the show, called the Concert for Amity.
Speaking with reporters, the band's production manager Dale "Opie" Skjerseth, joked that Obama was their "opening act".
The gig was a late addition to the group's Latin American tour, which kicked off last month in Santiago, Chile. Cubans dodge the $200 ticket prices paid elsewhere thanks to free entry, on a first-come, first-served basis.
The band used 61 shipping containers to import an estimated 500 tonnes of equipment, such as the stage, speakers, lights and video screens, Skjerseth said. A Boeing 747 arrived from Mexico last week carrying the last of the gear, he added.
The Stones are not strangers to the Caribbean. They recorded albums in Montserrat, Jagger is understood to own a villa in Mustique and was married to the rights campaigner and former actress Bianca Jagger, from nearby Nicaragua.
Their sound draws on many styles, from rhythm and blues to reggae and soul. Their 1964 cover version of Not Fade Away, which opens with Jagger shaking maracas, features echoes of Afro-Cuban music.
US media outlets present the gig as the first world-renowned rock act to reach an isolated nation of some one million culture-starved Cubans. For Cuba-watcher James Early, this is typical "US-centric arrogance and chauvinism".
Cubans are erudite and world-class in music, ballet and poetry, Early said.
"I don't mean to detract from the Rolling Stones, which will be a great attraction for Cuba, but to suggest that somehow this is opening the curtain of universal culture for them is just way beyond the pale," Early, a former Smithsonian Institution director, told Al Jazeera.
"It's a very cultured country."
Though human rights groups have big gripes about Cuba - from political prisoners to web blocking - the communist-run island has not sought to banish the music of foreign bands, including the Stones, since the early days of the revolution.
Former president Fidel Castro turned out to watch the Manic Street Preachers, a Welsh band, at the Teatro Karl Marx in 2001. In 1979, during a previous US-Cuba rapprochement, Kris Kristofferson and Billy Joel played the same venue.
A statue of John Lennon, the former Beatle and peacenik, was unveiled in a Havana park in 2000.
Although the Stones gig may go down in history as the biggest rock concert to be staged in Cuba, Bernardo Navarro, a 39-year-old Cuban-American, does not foresee major convulsions to life for its Spanish-speaking people.
What if.. You were asked to leave everything behind and board a plane that takes you to a sunny, comfortable, yet inhabited island? You can bring a selection of your favorite stuff to ease your stay. First one to get on the plane: Deaf Havana! Ready to discover their desert island essentials?
Deaf Havana // Rock Werchter 2019 // Sunday 30 June // The Slope // #RW19
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Havana (/həˈvænə/; Spanish: La Habana, [la aˈβana]) is the capital city, largest city, province, major port, and leading commercial centre of Cuba. The city proper has a population of 2.1 million inhabitants, and it spans a total of 728.26km2 (281.18sqmi) – making it the largest city by area, the most populous city, and the third largest metropolitan area in the Caribbean region. The city extends mostly westward and southward from the bay, which is entered through a narrow inlet and which divides into three main harbours: Marimelena, Guanabacoa and Atarés. The sluggish Almendares River traverses the city from south to north, entering the Straits of Florida a few miles west of the bay.
The city of Havana was founded by the Spanish in the 16th century and due to its strategic location it served as a springboard for the Spanish conquest of the continent becoming a stopping point for the treasure-laden Spanish galleons on the crossing between the New World and the Old World. King Philip II of Spain granted Havana the title of City in 1592. Walls as well as forts were built to protect the old city. The sinking of the U.S. battleship Maine in Havana's harbor in 1898 was the immediate cause of the Spanish–American War.
HAVANA -- Cuba on Monday accused the U.S. government of bearing "direct responsibility" for the protests that rocked the Caribbean island two years ago, marking the largest demonstrations since Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution.
The Rolling Stones rocked Havana with a free concert ... Meanwhile, US diplomats and intelligence officers stationed on the island reported hearing loss, headaches and vertigo in a mysterious outbreak of “ Havana syndrome ” in late 2016.
On July 11, 2021, anti-government rallies rocked the island, the largest such demonstrations since Castro’s1959 revolution ...OutsideHavana, vast swaths of the island were still in the dark as work ...
On July 11, 2021, anti-government rallies rocked the island, the largest such demonstrations since Castro’s1959 revolution ...OutsideHavana, vast swaths of the island were still in the dark as work ...