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— Fidel Castro's speech to the Movement just before the Moncada Attack, 1953. Castro stockpiled weapons for a planned attack on the Moncada Barracks, a military garrison outside Santiago de Cuba, Oriente. Castro's militants intended to dress in army uniforms and arrive at the base on July 25, the festival of St James, when many officers would be away. The rebels would seize control, raid the ...
The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis ( Spanish: Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis ( Russian: Карибский кризис, romanized : Karibskiy krizis ), was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy ...
Politics of Cuba. Cuba has had a socialist political system since 1961 based on the "one state – one party" principle. Cuba is constitutionally defined as a single party Marxist–Leninist socialist republic with semi-presidential powers. [1] [2] [3] The present Constitution of Cuba, which was passed in a 2019 referendum, [4] [5] also ...
Cube root. In mathematics, a cube root of a number x is a number y such that y3 = x. All nonzero real numbers have exactly one real cube root and a pair of complex conjugate cube roots, and all nonzero complex numbers have three distinct complex cube roots. For example, the real cube root of 8, denoted , is 2, because 23 = 8, while the other ...
The cube root law is an observation in political science that the number of members of a unicameral legislature, or of the lower house of a bicameral legislature, is about the cube root of the population being represented. [1] The rule was devised by Estonian political scientist Rein Taagepera in his 1972 paper "The size of national assemblies".
The United States embargo against Cuba prevents US businesses, and businesses organized under US law or majority-owned by US citizens, from conducting trade with Cuban interests. It is the most enduring trade embargo in modern history. [1] [2] The US first imposed an embargo on the sale of arms to Cuba on March 14, 1958, during the Fulgencio ...
Cube Route is a fantasy novel by British-American writer Piers Anthony, the twenty-seventh book of the Xanth series. Pangrammatic window. The shortest known published pangrammatic window, a stretch of naturally occurring text that contains all the letters in the alphabet, is found on page 98 of the 2004 First Mass Market Edition.
Right of way is the legal right, established by grant from a landowner or long usage (i.e., by prescription ), to pass along a specific route through property belonging to another. [1] A similar right of access also exists on land held by a government, lands that are typically called public land, state land, or Crown land.