Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who represents this state's 18th District, was born in Havana
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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen - Wikipedia  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is the most senior U.S. Representative from Florida, representing Florida's 27th congressional district. ... from Florida's 18th district ... Ros-Lehtinen gave the first Republican response to the State of the Union address ... Ileana Ros y Adato was born in Havana, Cuba, one of two children born to Enrique...
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Welcome to Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen ...  Official site for U.S. Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen from Florida's 27th district, Republican party.
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Biography | Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen  I am proud to represent Florida's 27th Congressional District, a diverse area which includes Coral ... I was born in Havana, Cuba in July, 1952. ... In 1982, I was elected to the Florida State House of Representatives and the Florida Senate in...
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Ileana Ros-Lehtinen - Ballotpedia  Ileana Ros y Adato on July 15, 1952, in Havana, Cuba) is a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives. ... Ros-Lehtinen was first elected to the U.S. House in 1988 to District 18. She previously served in the Florida State Senate from 1987 to 1989 and the Florida ... Ros-Lehtinen was born in Havana, Cuba.
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Hispanic Americans in Congress -- Ros-Lehtinen - Library of Congress  ... elected to Congress, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, was born in Havana, Cuba on July 15, ... She served as State Senator until 1989, when she was elected to the U.S. ... She represents Florida's 18th District where, according to the 1990 census,...
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Hispanic Americans in Congress -- Ros-Lehtinen - Library of Congress  Republican of Florida. One Hundred First - One Hundred Ninth Congresses August 29, 1989 - Present. The first Hispanic woman elected to Congress, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, was born in ... She served until 1986, when she became a State Senator. ... She served as State Senator until 1989, when she was elected to the U.S....
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jeopardy/1558_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  LET'S VISIT CUBA | Disco Ayala in the city of Trinidad is located inside one of these, so you're always ... LET'S VISIT CUBA | Visit this site that Teddy did in 1898 & see small monuments marking the battle & a rusted ferris wheel | San Juan Hill.
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man in the news: xavier louis suarez; miami's first cuban-born mayor  Published: November 14, 1985 ... Shortly after noon today, Mr. Suarez was sworn in as Mayor, the first Cuban-American to reach that ... ''There is a great difference between the majority of blacks in our city and the majority of whites. ... Xavier Louis Suarez was born in Las Villas, Cuba, on May 21, 1949, the ninth of 14...
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Jon Secada - Wikipedia  Jon Secada is a Cuban American singer and songwriter. Secada was born in Havana, Cuba, and raised in Hialeah, Florida. He has won two Grammy Awards and sold 20 million albums since his English-language debut album in 1992. His music fuses funk, soul, pop and Latin percussion. ... 5 UK hit) with his Gold single "Just Another Day", and three more top 30 hits,...
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All grown up: Elian Gonzalez, survivor of raft journey from Cuba ...  Dec 7, 2011 ... He was taken to live with relatives in Miami but his father, who was separated from his mother and had remained on the island ... his return and has made his case and that of the other "Cuban Five" a cause celebre. ..... the end is near. ..... In all those countries, many people have fled persecution/oppression,...
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History of Puerto Rico: 1950 - 2014  The U.S. Congress had conferred commonwealth status on Puerto Rico and upgraded ... On March 1, Puerto Rican nationalists (Lolita Lebron, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Irvin ... On November 5, Luis A. Ferr, leader of a pro-statehood party, is elected ... and Irving Flores were freed from prison. who were in prison since 1954.
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Ask Me A Trivia Question -- 2 -- - Discussion on Topix  Mar 17, 2012 ... The Old Capitol Building in this Cuban capital resembles ours in Washington, D.C.. Havana. Reply . Report Abuse Judge it! Fifth Generation.
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CUBA/US-POLITICS: International Custody Battle Looming Over ...  CUBA/US-POLITICS: International Custody Battle Looming Over Cuban Refugee Child ... MIAMI, FLORDIA, Dec 1 1999 (IPS) - Less than a week ago, Elian Gonzalez ... Now he is about to become the subject of a major, international custody case, the latest ... The sequence of events which have catapulted this five year- old...
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THE 1990 ELECTIONS - The Nation - DEMOCRATS RETAIN GRIP ...  Nov 7, 1990 ... ... TAKE TOP POSTS IN TEXAS AND FLORIDA; CUOMO RE-ELECTED, ... He became the first independent elected governor of an American ... "We're very encouraged by Democratic vote all over the country," said ... his 18 years in the United States Senate, which he left in 1988, saying he was burned out.
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Jos Mart - Journalist, Poet - Biography.com  Mar 24, 2016 ... Synopsis. Sometimes called the Apostle of the Cuban Revolution, Jos Mart was born in Havana in 1853. He showed a talent for writing and...
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Suarez Promises To Pull Miami Together - tribunedigital ...  If Xavier Suarez can achieve the populist activism he promised Wednesday in his ... as Miami's first Cuban-American mayor, Miami will become a very different city from the one headed. ... November 14, 1985|By Robert A. Liff, Sentinel Miami Bureau ... 36, was elected Tuesday over Raul Masvidal, a millionaire Cuban-born...
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Diana Nyad completes historic Cuba-to-Florida swim | inspiration ...  Diana Nyad, Historic Cuba To Florida, Cuba To Florida Swim, Key West, Completes .... first attempt, at 64 years old, and on her fifth and final try, Diana Nyad swam 110 .... became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage! .... She left the Cuban capital, Havana, on Saturday afternoon and is aiming to...
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Katherine Harris - Wikipedia  Katherine Harris (born April 5, 1957) is a politician, elected in 1998 as Secretary of State of Florida and in 2002 to the United States House of Representatives from Florida. A Republican, Harris won the 2002 election to represent Florida's 13th ... In the 1994 state senate election, Sarasota-based Riscorp, Inc. made illegal...
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El Capitolio - Wikipedia  El Capitolio, or National Capitol Building in Havana, Cuba, was the seat of government in Cuba until after the Cuban Revolution in 1959, and is now home to the Cuban Academy of Sciences. "El Capitolio" has a size of 681 by 300 ft. Its design and name recall the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.. .... Centro Habana  Miramar  Old Havana (La Habana Vieja); Vedado  Others.
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Jacob Riis Exhibit Opens April 14 | News Releases - Library of ...  Mar 3, 2016 ... Exhibition on Jacob Riis, Pioneering Photographer, Journalist and Social Reformer, ... of the squalid conditions in New York City's tenements led to social reform, will be ... He used these pictures as a compelling complement to his written words. ... Jacob August Riis was born May 3, 1849 in Ribe, Denmark.
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Cuban Americans Still Angry Over Elian - latimes  Apr 23, 2001 ... MIAMI  One year since heavily armed federal agents snatched a 6-year-old Cuban boy to allow him to return home with ... where exactly a year before, Elian Gonzalez was grabbed at gunpoint in a predawn raid. ... Elian lived to exactly the way it was on April 22, 2000, when INS agents swooped down.