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3 godz. temu · The full name of the state is Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave. Veracruz was named after the city of Veracruz (From Latin Vera Crux, "True Cross"), which was originally called the Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz. The suffix is in honor of Ignacio de la Llave y Segura Zevallos (1818–1863), who was the governor of Veracruz from 1861 to 1862.
4 godz. temu · Cuba has foiled a plot to sneak arms and ammunition onto the Caribbean island from the United States, detaining nearly three dozen people in a broader scheme authorities say sought to destabilize its government, a Cuba Interior Ministry official said on Monday. Cuba first unveiled details of the plot last December, when authorities said a Cuban man residing in the United States arrived on the ...
1 dzień temu · Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.Poland is divided into sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union (EU), with over 38 million people, and the seventh largest EU country, covering a combined area of 312,696 km 2 (120,733 sq mi). It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains ...
1 dzień temu · HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba has foiled a plot to sneak arms and ammunition onto the Caribbean island from the United States, detaining nearly three dozen people in a broader scheme authorities say ...
1 dzień temu · The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II and lasted to 1991, the fall of the Soviet Union.. The term cold war is used because there was no large-scale fighting directly between the two superpowers, but they ...
1 dzień temu · Cartagena (/ ˌ k ɑːr t ə ˈ h eɪ n ə / KAR-tə-HAY-nə), known since the colonial era as Cartagena de Indias (Spanish: [kaɾtaˈxena ðe ˈindjas] ⓘ), is a city and one of the major ports on the northern coast of Colombia in the Caribbean Coast Region, along the Caribbean sea.Cartagena's past role as a link in the route to the West Indies provides it with important historical value for ...
1 dzień temu · Illustration representing Cecil Rhodes' plan of building railways across Africa, connecting Cape Town and Cairo, aimed at extending the British Empire. Imperialism is the practice, theory or attitude of maintaining or extending power over foreign nations, particularly through expansionism, employing both hard power (military and economic power) and soft power (diplomatic power and cultural ...
