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Book on Athletes with Physical Challenges Launched in Cuba

The first editions 12,000 issues, sponsored by INDER and the Cuban Association of the United Nations (ACNU), were distributed to sport centers and libraries throughout the country. Read More

Book on Internationalists experiences in Angola has been printed

The first volume was printed out in 2006, and a third is foreseen for 2008. It will put an end to the publication of a trilogy that reads the protagonism of Camagüeys internationalists from 1975 to 1977 in Angola. Read More

The aqueduct system will be declared National Monument

The fernando VII Aqueduct will also be part of the National Monument. This aqueduct was opened in 1835 to be the first one to take the water of the city through the pipes. Big estates around it used its waters for their home needs. Read More

Antilles Sloth Fossil Exhibited in Havana

The 20-million-year-old fossil was one of several that have been found since the 1970s in an area known as Domo Zaza, in the central Cuban province of Sancti Spíritus. They were discovered during the excavation of a canal. Read More

Testimony of the Sole Cuban Survivor of Guernica

A significant historical-cultural plaza in the Basque country, the city "under the control of Republican forces at the time of the attack" was a strategic post containing the advance guard of the Franco forces during the Spanish Civil War. Read More

University of Havana Celebrates 280th Anniversary

The University of Havana, the first higher learning institution in Cuba, celebrated its 280th anniversary on Saturday in an emotional celebration that paid tribute to the institutions resolute commitment to revolutionary ideas throughout the history of Cuba. Read More

New streetlights assembled in Camagüeys historic square

The Office of the Historian of the City of Camagüey (OHCC) invested in the project as part of its plan to set the streetlights in the key sectors of this city, one of the first villages founded by the Spaniards in America. Read More

Cuban ballet choreographer dies in Gainesville

Alberto Julio Rayneri Alonso died of heart failure in his adopted home of Gainesville, was best known for his 1967 work "Carmen Suite," the only Bolshoi Ballet ever commissioned by a on-Russian. Read More

Havana hosts 49th Casa de las Américas Literary Prize

They will be selecting the best among essays, short stories and poetry, the three genders to be considered in 2008. Read More

Havana, a Vast Archeological Site

Conversation with Roger Arrazcaeta, director of the City Historians Department of Archeology, a scientific institution that celebrated its 20th anniversary. Read More

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