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Bacardi's transition into an international brand was due mostly to Schueg's " business genius "; Schueg " branded Cuba as the home of rum, and Bacardi as the king of rums " and expanded overseas, first to Mexico ( 1931 ), then to Puerto Rico ( 1936 ), under the brand name Ron Bacardi.
Drinks now made in the former Bacardi distillery are sold in Cuba under the name Caney.
However, after 1998, it began to describe the drink as Cuba Libre – literally translated as " Free Cuba " which is the original name of the drink and how it's mostly called in Latin America.
This recent growth was inspired in part by theoretical works on guerrilla warfare, starting with the Manual de Guerra de Guerrillas by Matías Ramón Mella written in the 19th century and, more recently, Mao Zedong's On Guerrilla Warfare, Che Guevara's Guerrilla Warfare and Lenin's text of the same name, all written after the successful revolutions carried by them in China, Cuba and Russia respectively.
The Cozy Cone Motel design is the Wigwam Motel on U. S. Route 66 in Arizona with the neon " 100 % Refrigerated Air " slogan of Tucumcari, New Mexico's Blue Swallow Motel ; the Wheel Well Motel's name alludes to the restored stone-cabin Wagon Wheel Motel in Cuba, Missouri.
It is distinct from the various traditional animistic religions in the interiors of these same countries and is the main origin for religions of similar name found among the African Diaspora in the New World such as Haitian Vodou, the Vudu of Puerto Rico, Candomblé Jejé in Brazil ( which uses the term Vodum ), Louisiana Voodoo and Santería in Cuba and the Dominican Republic.
* The protagonist ( Gnossos Pappadopoulis ) in Richard Fariña's 1966 novel Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me believes his best friend to be named Heffalump for the majority of the novel, although Gnossos discovers in Cuba that Heffalump's birth name was Abraham Jackson White.
José Martí International Airport, sometimes known by its former name Rancho-Boyeros Airport, is located southwest of Havana, Cuba, and is a hub for Cubana de Aviación, Aerogaviota and Aero Caribbean, and former Latin American hub for Aeroflot Soviet Airlines.
The city received its name from one settler who had once lived on the island of Cuba.
Hatuey also lives on in the name of a beer brewed by Empresa Cerveceria Hatuey Santiago, a brewery in Santiago de Cuba, and one brand of a type of sugary, non-alcoholic malt beverage called malta.
The Platt Amendment ( the name is a misnomer ; the Platt Amendment is actually a rider to the Army Appropriation Act of 1901 ) was accepted by Cuba in late 1901, after " strong pressure " from Washington.
The name " Yuba City " was finally picked after a dispute about the name of the new village, but after discovering another location had already been given that name, a new name, " Cuba City ," was selected.
The origins of the name Casino are derived from the Spanish term for the dance halls where a lot of social Salsa dancing was done in Cuba during the mid-20th century and onward.
Operation Anadyr () was the code name used by the Soviet Union for their Cold War ( 1962 ) secret operation of deploying ballistic missiles, medium-range bombers, and a division of mechanized infantry in Cuba to create the army group that would be able to prevent an invasion of the island by U. S. forces.
It is a Cold War and spy story, adapted from the book of the same name by Leon Uris and closely based on the 1962 Sapphire Affair involving French SDECE spy Philippe Thyraud de Vosjoli ( a friend of Leon Uris ) who " ha played a considerable part in helping the U. S. discover the presence of Russian offensive missiles in Cuba ".
** Cuba, former name of Iceland, California
* Air Cuba ( band ), the name used by a ' Big Beat ' duo that was initially named Cuba
After his passing, hurricane warning services were assumed by the United States Signal Corp and United States Weather Bureau over the next decade, first based in Jamaica in 1898 and Cuba in 1899 before shifting to Washington, D. C. in 1902 .< ref name =" Simpson "> The central office in Washington, which would evolve into the National Meteorological Center and Hydrometeorological Prediction Center, assumed hurricane warning / advisory responsibility at that time.
And the Russian code name for the project to base missiles in Cuba was that named after their closest bomber base to the US ( just across the Bering Strait from Nome, Alaska ), Operation Anadyr.

name and itself
He did not mind the Line itself, which Churchill declared in the House of Commons, on February 27, 1945, he had always believed to be `` just and right '', but he did not want it called by a hated name.
Various theories exist regarding the origin of the name itself.
Abdul is a common Arabic name component ( but never a name by itself ; additionally the ending-ul and the beginning Al-are redundant ), but Alhazred may allude to Hazard, a pun on the book's destructive and dangerous nature, or a reference to Lovecraft's ancestors by that name.
* In a version of Scrabble called Clabbers, the name itself being an anagram of Scrabble, tiles may be placed in any order on the board as long as they anagram to a valid word.
* 1784 – Western North Carolina ( now eastern Tennessee ) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin ; it is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years.
The earliest mention of the island of Abadan, if not the port itself is found in works of the geographer Marcian, who renders the name " Apphadana ".
It is from this period that the later Syria Vs Assyria naming controversy arises, the Seleucids applied the name not only to Assyria itself, but also to the lands to the west ( Aram modern Syria ) which had been part of the Assyrian empire.
When they lost control of Assyria itself, the name Syria survived and was applied only to the land of Aramea to the west, that had once been part of the Assyrian empire.
Note that, because a name translated to an address, which included a socket number as well as a node number, a name in AppleTalk mapped directly to a service being provided by a machine, which was entirely separate from the name of the machine itself.
When a service started up on a machine, it registered a name for itself as chosen by a human administrator.
While this went on MCP renamed itself to MCP CHIP but ran into problems with the German computer magazine CHIP, and had to return to its former name.
The name itself may have originated as a nickname given to women who carried water to men on the battlefield during the war.
A slash is sometimes used instead of hyphen, especially if the name of one of the methods contains a hyphen itself.
In 1938, the first formal men's barbershop organization was formed, known as the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America ( S. P. E. B. S. Q. S. A ), and in 2004 rebranded itself and officially changed its public name to the Barbershop Harmony Society ( BHS ).
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The ancient Greek township of that name, whose existence is attested by coins of the 5th and 4th centuries, and the river itself were located in ancient Thrace in the Chersonese.
St Gregory Nazianzen, fellow Doctor of the Church, 330-390, said in Or. 21: " When I praise Athanasius, virtue itself is my theme: for I name every virtue as often as I mention him who was possessed of all virtues.
21 with: " When I praise Athanasius, virtue itself is my theme: for I name every virtue as often as I mention him who was possessed of all virtues.
Barium's name originates from the alchemical derivative " baryta ", which itself comes from Greek βαρύς ( barys ), meaning " heavy.
The Beowulf manuscript itself is mentioned in name for the first time in a letter in 1700 between George Hickes, Wanley ’ s assistant, and Wanley.
However, the strict acrostic style of four of the five poems is not found at all in the Book of Jeremiah itself and Jeremiah's name is not found anywhere in the book itself ( nor any other name, for that matter ), so authorship of Lamentations is disputed.

name and Havana
The first round of the talks will take place in Oslo on 5 October and then return to Havana < Ref name =" BBC peace "> for approximately six months of talks before culminating in Colombia.
In 1877, using his second name and second surname Julián Pérez as pseudonym, Martí embarked for Havana, hoping to there arrange moving his family away from Mexico City.
Havana City Province ( Ciudad de La Habana ) recovered its original name: La Habana ( Havana in English ).
The most likely explanation of the breed's name is that its coat color is very similar to that of Havana cigars, however, some have also argued that the breed's name is also derived from the Havana ( rabbit ) which also shares the color.
* April 18 – Two Soviet Navy Tupolev Tu-20 ( NATO reporting name " BEAR D ") reconnaissance / missile-targeting aircraft land at José Martí International Airport outside Havana, Cuba, the first time that any variant of the BEAR has landed outside the Soviet Bloc.
Korda, whose real name was Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez, was born on 14 September 1928 in Havana, Cuba.
The first in a long list of movie theatres in Havana was set by José A. Casasús, actor, producer and entrepreneur, under the name of " Floradora ", later renamed " Alaska ".
Mella was born Nicanor McPartland in Havana in 1903 .< ref name =" argenpress. info ">
The city of Lawton, Oklahoma, takes its name from General Lawton, and also a borough in the city of Havana, Cuba.
Caine puts a bounty on Tanner's name, forcing him and Jones to escape to Havana.
Guaracheros de Regla was the name of a carnival comparsa of Havana, Cuba.
The name was coined from a bar in Old Havana, that sold both liquor and iced seafood.
Morro Castle in Havana shares the name with other structures in Santiago de Cuba and the Castillo de San Felipe del Morro in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Although total monetary damage from the storm is unknown, estimates of losses in Havana, Cuba exceed $ 1 million and in the Florida Keys, $ 250, 000 ( 1910 USD ).< ref name =" MWR3 "> At least 100 deaths occurred in Cuba alone.
Versalles was born in the Vedado neighborhood of Havana, Cuba and he had difficulty adjusting to life in the U. S., due largely to the language barrier and his fear of failure ,< ref name =" sportsillustrated. cnn. com ">
When a newspaper column under Durocher's name accused MacPhail of allowing known gamblers to use his box seats at spring training games in Havana, Cuba, Commissioner of Baseball Happy Chandler initiated an investigation that resulted in Durocher's suspension for the entire ' 47 campaign.

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