#spanish cuba

[omgitsacuban]

Cuban Social vol II nr. 4 (abril 1917)

[candela888]

The most common way to say "car" in Spanish and Portuguese

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

La Amistad, 1839 by unknown

This 1839 oil painting of La Amistad shows the ship off Long Island, New York, next to the USS Washington. The Portuguese were the first and the last to partake in the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The Spanish were also major transatlantic slavers and committed a genocide of the Native Cuban peoples when they colonized Cuba. The Spanish empire enslaved people of African origin and they often depended on others to obtain enslaved Africans and transport them across the Atlantic. Spanish colonies were major recipients of enslaved Africans, with around 22% of the Africans delivered to American shores ending up in the Spanish Empire. The story of the Amistad began in February 1839, when Portuguese slave hunters abducted hundreds of Africans from Mendeland, in present-day Sierra Leone, and transported them to Cuba, then a Spanish colony. Though the United States, Britain, Spain and other European powers had abolished the importation of enslaved peoples by that time, the transatlantic slave trade continued illegally, and Havana was an important trading hub. The Spanish plantation owners Pedro Montes and Jose Ruiz purchased 53 of the African captives as enslaved workers, including 49 adult males and four children, three of them girls. On June 28, Montes and Ruiz and the 53 Africans set sail from Havana on the Amistad (Spanish for “friendship”) for Puerto Principe (now Camagüey), where the two Spaniards owned plantations. Several days into the journey, one of the Africans—Sengbe Pieh, also known as Joseph Cinque—managed to unshackle himself and his fellow captives. Armed with knives, they seized control of the Amistad, killing its Spanish captain and the ship’s cook, who had taunted the captives by telling them they would be killed and eaten when they got to the plantation. In need of navigation, the Africans ordered Montes and Ruiz to turn the ship eastward, back to Africa. But the Spaniards secretly changed course at night, and instead the Amistad sailed through the Caribbean and up the eastern coast of the United States. On August 26, the U.S. brig Washington found the ship while it was anchored off the tip of Long Island to get provisions. The naval officers seized the Amistad and put the Africans back in chains, escorting them to Connecticut.

[illustratus]

The heroic stand of the Rough Riders at the battle of Las Guasimas, Cuba, on 24 June 1898; Colonel Theodore Roosevelt is seen second from left, from Harper's Pictorial History of the War with Spain, Vol. II

by W.A. Rodgers

[enbysiriusblack]

remus having to partner up with dorcas in classes they share with slytherin because no other gryffindor students want to partner with a slytherin, other than lily but she always partnered with severus, and the other slytherin students refuse to partner with dorcas. so remus and dorcas become very friendly towards each other and sometimes study together (and with lily if she isn't busy)

and i think during the war when sirius thought remus was the traitor and peter sided with him, and james and lily disagreed with them but also got annoyed at remus thinking sirius was the spy too, dorcas was the only one who actually fully took remus' side. remus staying over at dorcas and marlene's cause he doesn't want to go home simce he knows he'll just fight with sirius. and remus actually telling dumbledore 'no' to going on a mission for the first time after marlene dies cause he wants to be there for dorcas. (war era!marauders is honestly the lesbian couple and their depressed gay bestfriend- they're literally charlotte/cordelia and marvin from falsettos, guys)

[linguisticdiscovery]

Linguists have identified a new English dialect that’s emerging in South Florida, driven by influence from Cuban Spanish

[mourningcttlfsh]

i started watchign 31 minutos. gelp

obsessed with the gambling addict bunny man. i have so many screenshots of him and im only on like. episode six. of season one. you have no idea

[fieriframes]

[In Cuba, the food we have, it's a mix of different cultures, Spanish, Afro, even French and the Chinese culture.]

[ackee]

tis caribbean american heritage month but for me that is every month 🤞🏽

maybe i will finally finish designing some ocs from traversion in celebration....

[lonestarbattleship]

USS TEXAS (1892) in Cuban waters, during the Spanish-American War.

Photographed sometime between May and July 1898.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: NH 89467

[pulquedeguayaba]

Struggling a bit with my Friday class but I'm loving listening to all the accents ☺️

[athenaalexandria]

My granny is a fucking savage

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Auguste Maillard (French, 1864-1944) Emília de Rovira i Preses, 1928 Arenys de Mar, Catalunya, España According to tradition, Emília Rovira died in 1892, at the age of 32, due to love sickness. It is known for certain that the young woman partied with a young Cuban, Rafael Martínez Ortiz, when he was studying in Barcelona and was often in Arenys, where he had family. But Emilia's parents, who were upper class, did not consent to the union. Rafael left for Cuba, from where he wrote her letters, which never reached the girl because the family intercepted them. Rafael Martínez made a fortune and held important political positions in Cuba. In 1926, taking advantage of a trip to Europe, he moved to Arenys, where he learned of the girl's tragic end. Moved, he had this tomb built to bury Emilia's remains, but the family also opposed it. So the tomb was empty for many years, until, in the year 2000, thanks to the interest of some residents of the village, it was possible to move it, from the family columbarium and finally the remains of the young rest in his grave. The tomb, owned by the City Council, is made of black granite and was made in Paris and bears the signature of Thoin. The bust of Emilia, made in 1928 from a cameo photograph, is the work of an outstanding French sculptor, Auguste Maillard (1864-1944), author of numerous commemorative monuments in France.

[blackswaneuroparedux]

I know enough to know that no woman should ever marry a man who hated his mother.

- Martha Gellhorn, Selected Letters

Martha Gellhorn was a novelist, travel writer, journalist, and a pioneering war correspondent who covered most of the major conflicts of the 20th century. She was the third wife of author Ernest Hemingway.

Martha met Ernest in Key West, Florida, in December of 1936 at the bar, Sloppy Joe’s. She was 28 years old; he was 39, and she had admired Hemingway since her college days.

The following year, Martha and Ernest both traveled to Spain to report on the Spanish Civil War and began an affair that would last for years. She wrote for Collier’s, while he was reporting for the North American Newspaper Alliance.

On November 4, 1940, after fifteen years together, Hemingway divorced Pauline. Seventeen days later he and Martha were married in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

After they were married, the couple moved to Havana and Martha rented a 19th-century estate twelve miles outside the city, called Finca Vigia - Spanish for “Lookout Farm.” Hemingway would eventually buy the property and it would be his home for the next twenty years.

By the summer of 1943, the tide of war in Europe had begun to turn and Martha was intent on covering the Allied advance. In September, she left for England without Hemingway, to report for Collier’s. He begged her to return to Cuba; she urged him to join her in London, instead. In early 1944, Martha returned to Cuba, hoping somehow to reassure her husband and rebuild their marriage. It did not work. Finally, Martha told him she “was going back to London whether he came or not.”

Eventually, Ernest agreed to go. He signed on with Collier’s, thus ensuring that Gellhorn would be overshadowed at the magazine for which she wrote regularly. He also arranged to travel separately from her, arriving in London eleven days before she did. During that time he would meet the woman he would eventually leave Martha for: a correspondent named Mary Welsh.

When Martha arrived in London it was clear their relationship was over. She walked out after an argument at London's Dorchester Hotel, the only one of Ernest’s wives to leave him.

She continued to report on the war. On D-Day, June 6, 1944, she stowed away on a hospital ship, the only woman to land at Normandy. And she was there when the Allies liberated Dachau.

The following year, on March 1, 1945, Martha and Ernest officially divorced.

After the war, Gellhorn continued to travel, write, and cover conflicts around the globe. In a career that spanned more than six decades, she authored numerous novels — including a memoir and a collection of her war journalism — and several well-reviewed novellas.

In her last years, Martha was in poor health, suffering from ovarian cancer and failing eyesight. She committed suicide at her home in London on 15 February  1998, at the age of 89.

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Dulce María Loynaz

Dulce María Loynaz was born in 1902 in Havana, Cuba. Loynaz's first poems were published in a Havana newspaper when she was seventeen, and she would go on to become one of her country's most celebrated poets. In addition to her poetry, she was also known for her novel Jardín and her travel memoir Un verano en Tenerife. Though Loynaz's literary output was small, it was acclaimed throughout the Spanish-speaking world. In 1992, she won the Cervantes Prize, considered the highest honor in Spanish literature.

Dulce María Loynaz died in 1997 at the age of 94.

[justaz]

while i adore spanish speaking lance, what i think would be infinitely more funny is him being a no sabo kid and not knowing an ounce of spanish and keith growing up in south texas and learning spanish from the community