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Isla de la Juventud, the Glossary

Isla de la Juventud (Isle of Youth) is the second-largest Cuban island (after Cuba's mainland) and the seventh-largest island in the West Indies (after mainland Cuba itself, Hispaniola, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, and Andros Island).^[1]

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ABC-Clio

ABC-Clio, LLC (stylized ABC-CLIO) is an American publishing company for academic reference works and periodicals primarily on topics such as history and social sciences for educational and public library settings.

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Afro-Cubans

Afro-Cubans (Afrocubano) or Black Cubans are Cubans of full or partial sub-Saharan African ancestry.

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Agriculture

Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, fisheries, and forestry for food and non-food products.

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American crocodile

The American crocodile (Crocodylus acutus) is a species of crocodilian found in the Neotropics.

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Andros, Bahamas

Andros Island is an archipelago within The Bahamas, the largest of the Bahamian Islands.

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Armando Valladares

Armando Valladares Perez (born May 30, 1937) is a Cuban-American poet, diplomat and former political prisoner for his involvement in the Cuban dissident movement.

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Attack on the Moncada Barracks

The Moncada Barracks were military barracks in Santiago de Cuba, Cuba named after General Guillermo Moncada, a hero of the Cuban War of Independence.

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Batabanó, Cuba

Batabanó is a municipality and town in the Mayabeque Province of Cuba.

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Beach

A beach is a landform alongside a body of water which consists of loose particles.

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Canarreos Archipelago

Canarreos Archipelago is an archipelago of Cuba. Isla de la Juventud and Canarreos Archipelago are islands of Cuba.

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Canoe

A canoe is a lightweight narrow water vessel, typically pointed at both ends and open on top, propelled by one or more seated or kneeling paddlers facing the direction of travel and using paddles.

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Catamaran

A catamaran (informally, a "cat") is a watercraft with two parallel hulls of equal size.

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Cave painting

In archaeology, cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves.

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Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus (between 25 August and 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas.

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Citrus

Citrus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the family Rutaceae.

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Cuba

Cuba, officially the Republic of Cuba, is an island country, comprising the island of Cuba, Isla de la Juventud, archipelagos, 4,195 islands and cays surrounding the main island.

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Cuban Revolution

The Cuban Revolution (Revolución cubana) was the military and political effort to overthrow Fulgencio Batista's dictatorship which reigned as the government of Cuba between 1952 and 1959.

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Cuban War of Independence

The Cuban War of Independence, also known in Cuba as The Necessary War (La Guerra Necesaria), fought from 1895 to 1898, was the last of three liberation wars that Cuba fought against Spain, the other two being the Ten Years' War (1868–1878) and the Little War (1879–1880).

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Eastern Time Zone

The Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing part or all of 23 states in the eastern part of the United States, parts of eastern Canada, and the state of Quintana Roo in Mexico.

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Eminent domain

Eminent domain (also known as land acquisition, compulsory purchase, resumption, resumption/compulsory acquisition, or expropriation) is the power to take private property for public use.

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English literature

English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world.

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Fidel Castro

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (13 August 1926 – 25 November 2016) was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008, serving as the prime minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and president from 1976 to 2008.

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Fishing

Fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish.

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Fulgencio Batista

Fulgencio Batista y Zaldívar (born Rubén Zaldívar; January 16, 1901 – August 6, 1973) was a Cuban military officer and politician who served as the elected president of Cuba from 1940 to 1944 and as a military dictator from 1952 until his overthrow in the Cuban Revolution in 1959.

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Guanahatabey

The Guanahatabey (also spelled Guanajatabey) were an Indigenous people of western Cuba at the time of European contact.

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Gulf of Batabanó

The Gulf of Batabanó (Golfo de Batabanó), also called the Batabanó Gulf, is an inlet or strait off southwestern Cuba in the Caribbean Sea, separating mainland Cuba from the Isle of Youth.

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Havana

Havana (La Habana) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. Isla de la Juventud and Havana are provinces of Cuba.

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Hay–Quesada Treaty

The Hay–Quesada Treaty is the agreement reached between the governments of Cuba and the United States, which was negotiated in 1903, but not ratified by both parties until 1925.

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Hilton Hotels & Resorts

Hilton Hotels & Resorts (formerly known as Hilton Hotels) is a global brand of full-service hotels and resorts and the flagship brand of American multinational hospitality company Hilton.

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Hispaniola

Hispaniola (also) is an island in the Caribbean that is part of the Greater Antilles.

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Huber Matos

Huber Matos Benítez (26 November 1918 – 27 February 2014) was a Cuban military leader, political dissident, activist, and writer.

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Human Development Index

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a statistical composite index of life expectancy, education (mean years of schooling completed and expected years of schooling upon entering the education system), and per capita income indicators, which is used to rank countries into four tiers of human development.

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Hydrofoil

A hydrofoil is a lifting surface, or foil, that operates in water.

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Island

An island or isle is a piece of subcontinental land completely surrounded by water.

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J. M. Barrie

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, (9 May 1860 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered as the creator of Peter Pan.

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Jamaica

Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At, it is the third largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic), and south-east of the Cayman Islands (a British Overseas Territory).

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La Demajagua, Isle of Youth

La Demajagua is a Cuban village and consejo popular ("people's council", i.e. hamlet) of the special municipality and province of Isla de la Juventud.

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La Habana Province

La Habana Province, formerly known as Ciudad de La Habana Province, is a province of Cuba that includes the territory of the city of Havana, the Republic's capital. Isla de la Juventud and La Habana Province are provinces of Cuba.

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List of Cuban provinces by Human Development Index

This is a list of provinces of Cuba by Human Development Index as of 2023 with data for the year 2021.

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Marble

Marble is a metamorphic rock consisting of carbonate minerals (most commonly calcite (CaCO3) or dolomite (CaMg(CO3)2)) that have crystallized under the influence of heat and pressure.

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Mestizo

Mestizo (fem. mestiza, literally 'mixed person') is a person of mixed European and Indigenous non-European ancestry in the former Spanish Empire.

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Mulatto

Mulatto is a racial classification that refers to people of mixed African and European ancestry.

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New World

The term "New World" is used to describe the majority of lands of Earth's Western Hemisphere, particularly the Americas.

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Nueva Gerona

Nueva Gerona is a Cuban city, capital of the Isla de la Juventud special municipality and province.

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Panopticon

The panopticon is a design of institutional building with an inbuilt system of control, originated by the English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century.

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Pearcy v. Stranahan

Pearcy v. Stranahan, 205 U.S. 257 (1907), was a 1907 ruling of the Supreme Court of the United States in a tax case in which it determined that the Isle of Pines off the southern coast of Cuba was a "foreign country" for the purposes of tariffs under the Dingley Tariff Act of 1897, even though Cuba and the United States had agreed that the legal status of that island would remain undetermined until they settled the question by treaty.

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Peter and Wendy

Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, often known simply as Peter Pan, is a work by J. M. Barrie, in the form of a 1904 play and a 1911 novel titled Peter and Wendy, often extended as Peter Pan and Wendy.

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Pinar del Río Province

The Pinar del Río Province is one of the 15 provinces of Cuba. Isla de la Juventud and Pinar del Río Province are provinces of Cuba.

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Pine

A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus Pinus of the family Pinaceae.

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Piracy

Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods.

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Platt Amendment

On March 2, 1901, the Platt Amendment was passed as part of the 1901 Army Appropriations Bill.

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Political prisoner

A political prisoner is someone imprisoned for their political activity.

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Pre-Columbian era

In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era, also known as the pre-contact era, spans from the original peopling of the Americas in the Upper Paleolithic to European colonization, which began with Christopher Columbus's voyage of 1492.

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Presidio Modelo

The Presidio Modelo was a "model prison" with panopticon design, built on the Isla de Pinos ("Isle of Pines"), now the Isla de la Juventud ("Isle of Youth"), in Cuba.

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Provinces of Cuba

Administratively, Cuba is divided into 15 provinces and one special municipality (the Isla de la Juventud).

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Puerto Rico

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Quarry

A quarry is a type of open-pit mine in which dimension stone, rock, construction aggregate, riprap, sand, gravel, or slate is excavated from the ground.

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Raúl Castro

Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz (born 3 June 1931) is a Cuban retired politician and general who served as the first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, the most senior position in the one-party communist state, from 2011 to 2021, and President of Cuba between 2008 and 2018, succeeding his brother Fidel Castro.

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Resort

A resort (North American English) is a self-contained commercial establishment that tries to provide most of a vacationer's wants, such as food, drink, swimming, accommodation, sports, entertainment and shopping, on the premises.

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Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer.

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Santa Barbara, California

Santa Barbara (Santa Bárbara, meaning) is a coastal city in Santa Barbara County, California, of which it is also the county seat.

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Santa Fe, Isle of Youth

Santa Fe, also named La Fe, is the second largest town on Isla de la Juventud of Cuba.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

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Spanish–American War

The Spanish–American War (April 21 – December 10, 1898) began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to United States intervention in the Cuban War of Independence.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Tourism

Tourism is travel for pleasure, and the commercial activity of providing and supporting such travel.

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Treasure Island

Treasure Island (originally titled The Sea Cook: A Story for BoysHammond, J. R. 1984. "Treasure Island." In A Robert Louis Stevenson Companion, Palgrave Macmillan Literary Companions. London: Palgrave Macmillan..) is both an 1883 adventure novel and a historical novel set in the 1700s by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, telling a story of "buccaneers and buried gold".

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Treaty of Paris (1898)

The Treaty of Peace between the United States of America and the Kingdom of Spain, commonly known as the Treaty of Paris of 1898, was signed by Spain and the United States on December 10, 1898, that ended the Spanish–American War.

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Trinidad

Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago.

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Tropical cyclone

A tropical cyclone is a rapidly rotating storm system with a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain and squalls.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress.

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Vegetable

Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food.

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Voyages of Christopher Columbus

Between 1492 and 1504, the Italian navigator and explorer Christopher Columbus led four transatlantic maritime expeditions in the name of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain to the Caribbean and to Central and South America.

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West Indies

The West Indies is a subregion of North America, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, which comprises 13 independent island countries and 19 dependencies in three archipelagos: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Lucayan Archipelago.

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White people

White (often still referred to as Caucasian) is a racial classification of people generally used for those of mostly European ancestry.

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Wood industry

The wood industry or timber industry (sometimes lumber industry -- when referring mainly to sawed boards) is the industry concerned with forestry, logging, timber trade, and the production of primary forest products and wood products (e.g. furniture) and secondary products like wood pulp for the pulp and paper industry.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isla_de_la_Juventud

Also known as History of Isla de la Juventud, Isla de Juventud, Isla de Pinos, Isla de Tesoros, Isle of Pines (Cuba), Isle of Pines, Cuba, Isle of Youth, Santa Bárbara, Cuba.

, Platt Amendment, Political prisoner, Pre-Columbian era, Presidio Modelo, Provinces of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Quarry, Raúl Castro, Resort, Robert Louis Stevenson, Santa Barbara, California, Santa Fe, Isle of Youth, Spain, Spanish–American War, Supreme Court of the United States, The New York Times, Tourism, Treasure Island, Treaty of Paris (1898), Trinidad, Tropical cyclone, United States Senate, Vegetable, Voyages of Christopher Columbus, West Indies, White people, Wood industry.

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See also

International territorial disputes of the United States

Islands of Cuba

Pirate treasure

Provinces of Cuba

References