Corretjer was born in Ciales, Puerto Rico, into a politically active pro-independence family.

In 1920, when he was only 12 years old, Corretjer wrote his first poem " Canto a Ciales " ( I sing to Ciales ).

Ciales () is a municipality of Puerto Rico, located on the Central Mountain Range, northwest of Orocovis ; south of Florida and Manatí ; east of Utuado and Jayuya ; and west of Morovis.

Manatí () is a municipality of Puerto Rico on the northern coast, north of Morovis and Ciales ; east of Florida and Barceloneta ; and west of Vega Baja.

Corretjer's epic poem " Alabanza en la Torre de Ciales " ( Praise in the tower of Ciales ) ( 1953 ), is considered one of the representative works of the " neocriollismo " movement and has had a strong influence on many later poets.

Arecibo () is a municipality in the northern midwest coast of Puerto Rico and located by the Atlantic Ocean, north of Utuado and Ciales ; east of Hatillo ; and west of Barceloneta, and Florida.

Ciales is the home town of Juan " Pachín " Vicens-Puerto Rico's undisputed national basketball star, named Best Player in the World at the 1959 World Basketball Championship, Santiago de Chile ( a. k. a., Juan " Pachín " Vicens, " Astro del Balón ", " El Jeep "; younger brother of Puerto Rico's National Poet, Nimia Vicens, who also hailed from Ciales ).

Florida () is a municipality of Puerto Rico located north of Ciales, south of Barceloneta, east of Arecibo, and west of Manatí.

Jayuya () is a municipality of Puerto Rico located in the mountainous center region of the island, north of Ponce ; east of Utuado ; and west of Ciales.

Morovis () is a municipality of Puerto Rico located in the central region of the island, north of Orocovis, south of Manatí, Vega Baja and Vega Alta ; east of Ciales, and west of Corozal.

Orocovis ( from Taino language, Orocobix meaning remembrance of the first mountain ) is a municipality of Puerto Rico located in the Central Mountain Range, north of Villalba and Coamo ; south of Morovis and Corozal ; southeast of Ciales ; east of Jayuya ; and west of Barranquitas.

It is located north of Adjuntas and Ponce ; south of Hatillo and Arecibo ; east of Lares ; and west of Ciales and Jayuya.

His father and uncles were involved in the " Ciales Uprising " of August 13, 1898, against the United States occupation.

The government named a high school in Ciales after Corretjer thereby honoring him.

The cooperative has offices and warehouses in Ponce ( main offices ), San Juan, Mayagüez, Arecibo, Yauco, San Sebastian, Utuado, Adjuntas, Jayuya and Ciales.

Eduardo Figueroa Padilla ( born October 14, 1948, in Ciales, Puerto Rico ), is a former Major League Baseball player.

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William Coddington, who was running the colony, felt constrained to move seven miles south where, with others -- as mentioned above -- he founded Newport.

In the final analysis his contribution to American historiography was founded on almost intuitive insights into religion, economics, and Darwinism, the three factors which conditioned his search for a law of history.

When founded by Franklin the Gazette was a weekly family newspaper and under its new name its format remained that of a newspaper but its columns gradually contained more and more fiction, poetry, and literary essays.

He was named Product Manager of the Special Products Division of Sprague when it was founded in 1958, and was later promoted to his present post.

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He was the third son of the writer and schoolmaster Leonard Huxley and his first wife, Julia Arnold, who founded Prior's Field School.

He founded Interview Magazine and was the author of numerous books, including The Philosophy of Andy Warhol and Popism: The Warhol Sixties.

The American Film Institute was founded in 1967 as a national arts organization to preserve the legacy of American film heritage, educate the next generation of filmmakers and honor the artists and their work.

Milne was an early screenwriter for the nascent British film industry, writing four stories filmed in 1920 for the company Minerva Films ( founded in 1920 by the actor Leslie Howard and his friend and story editor Adrian Brunel ).

The club was originally founded as a football team in 1891, with the name Buenos Aires English High School although it was obliged to change its name to Alumni Athletic Club ( the name was proposed by a former student of the English High School ) in 1901.

In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement after his split with Garry Davis ' movement Citizens of the World, which the surrealist André Breton was also a member.

It was founded in 1991 and is a training school for students of archaeology and anthropology.

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In 1867 gas street lighting was implemented, the University of Adelaide was founded in 1874, the South Australian Art Gallery opened in 1881 and the Happy Valley Reservoir opened in 1896.

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The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.

Someone evidently was on duty there.

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The bullet had torn through the flesh just above the knee, inflicting an ugly gash that was forming a pool of blood on the floor.

Mike tested the leg and found that he was able to hobble around on it.

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In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.

What else he said was lost in the rattle of gunfire on all sides.

He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.

He got up slowly, and she was already on her feet, and he stood facing her.

On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.

Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.

This desire, I went on, growing voluble as my conviction was aroused, had mounted at such a rate recently that I now found its realization necessary not only to my physical but also to my spiritual wellbeing.

It was to him that Barton had sent Carl Dill on Dill's release from the prison.

When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.

He had to depend on himself, since he was invariably miles and hours away from others.

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He'd put on his old brown corduroy coat and it was already soaked.

He was puffing on a cigar, and he was turning up his coat collar against the rain.

No man laid a hand on him, but the threat of violence was there.

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