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    trading/shipping port and the capital city. The island's name was changed to Porto Rico by the United States after the Treaty of Paris of 1898. The anglicized...
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  • Look up Porto Rico or Portorico in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Porto Rico is an old variant spelling of Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of...
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    Military Government of Porto Rico (Spanish: Gobierno militar estadounidense de Puerto Rico or Gobierno militar americano de Puerto Rico), was a provisional...
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    Royal Cédula of Graces of 1815, the name of Puerto Rico was translated into English as Porto Rico by the Spanish civil authorities overseeing the Royal...
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  • Balzac v. Porto Rico, 258 U.S. 298 (1922), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that certain provisions of the U.S. Constitution...
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    be given to criminal defendants in Puerto Rico. (see Dorr v. United States. See also Balzac v. Porto Rico The Court relied on Downes and Balzac to justify...
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    South Puerto Rico Sugar Company (1967), a holding company in Jersey City, New Jersey, with a principal subsidiary, called South Porto Rico Sugar Company...
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    The Insular Government of Porto Rico (Spanish: Gobierno Insular de Puerto Rico), known as the Insular Government of Puerto Rico after May 17, 1932, was...
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    in Puerto Rico at least for a year. It took the group two years to meet these regulations, but in 1902 the First National Bank of Porto Rico was inaugurated...
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  • Argued: January 8–11, 1901; Decided: May 27, 1901 Huus v. New York and Porto Rico Steamship Co., 182 U.S. 392 (1901); Argued: January 11, 14, 1901; Decided:...
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    lines in the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s: Ward Line Clyde line Mallory Line Porto Rico Line Later the Clyde-Mallory Lines Agwilines Inc had offices in: New York...
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    the creation of the first body of native troops in Puerto Rico. On 30 June 1901, the "Porto Rico Provisional Regiment of Infantry" was organized. On 1 July...
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    base of the Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry (on January 15, 1899, the military government changed the name of Puerto Rico to Porto Rico and on May 17...
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  • Civic Architecture in Porto Rico, 1920 Having been a Spanish possession until 1898, the system of local government in Puerto Rico bears more resemblance...
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    September 21, 2017. "Report of the Census of Porto Rico 1899". War Department Office Director Census of Porto Rico. Archived from the original on July 16,...
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    September 21, 2017. "Report of the Census of Porto Rico 1899". War Department Office Director Census of Porto Rico. Archived from the original on July 16,...
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    Hispano Americana en Puerto Rico Parte VI" (in Spanish). Coqui.net. Retrieved September 19, 2007. "Last Spanish Ruler in Porto Rico Dies". Democrat and Chronicle...
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  • de Porto Rico, Op. 31, is a musical composition for piano by American composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk written from 1857 during a tour in Puerto Rico. Dedicated...
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    ISBN 9781461520696. Reid, Harry Fielding; Taber, Stephen (1919). The Porto Rico earthquake of 1918 with descriptions of earlier earthquakes: Report of...
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    September 21, 2017. "Report of the Census of Porto Rico 1899". War Department Office Director Census of Porto Rico. Archived from the original on July 16,...
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    of Ipojuca, where Porto de Galinhas lies, was established on November 12, 1895. According to history the town was called Porto Rico (Rich Port) until...
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    book Cuba and Porto Rico, Robert Thomas Hill listed jíbaros as one of four socio-economic classes he perceived existed in Puerto Rico at the time: "The...
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    September 21, 2017. "Report of the Census of Porto Rico 1899". War Department Office Director Census of Porto Rico. Archived from the original on July 16,...
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    September 21, 2017. "Report of the Census of Porto Rico 1899". War Department Office Director Census of Porto Rico. Archived from the original on July 16,...
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    September 21, 2017. "Report of the Census of Porto Rico 1899". War Department Office Director Census of Porto Rico. Archived from the original on July 16,...
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  • Railroad of Porto Rico Ponce and Guayama Railroad Ponce Light Company Railroad Porto Rico Railroad and Transportation Company Porto Rico Railway, Light...
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    OCLC 51898961 Alexander, William H. (1902), Hurricanes: especially those of Porto Rico and St. Kitts., Bulletin, United States Department of Agriculture, Weather...
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    September 21, 2017. "Report of the Census of Porto Rico 1899". War Department Office Director Census of Porto Rico. Retrieved September 21, 2017. "Table 3-Population...
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    sovereignty over and title to territories described there as the island of Porto Rico and other islands now under Spanish sovereignty in the West Indies, and...
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    the majority of the men trained in this facility were assigned to the "Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry" which was renamed the 65th Infantry Regiment of...
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