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    Colón, also called La Necrópolis de Cristóbal Colón, was founded in 1876 in the Vedado neighbourhood of Havana, Cuba to replace the Espada Cemetery in...
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    district of Havana on January 25, 1944, two days after her 40th birthday. She was buried in the Aurelia Castillo family vault at Colon Cemetery, Havana. Harry...
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  • activities. After his release, he continued his clandestine activities in Havana. He discovered that he was under police surveillance, and decided that it...
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    Medina. Carpentier died in Paris, France, in 1980 and was buried in Havana's Colon Cemetery with other Cuban political and artistic luminaries. Carpentier...
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    military activities in Cuba. In March 1959, officials of the U.S. embassy in Havana warned Americans that participation in foreign military service could jeopardize...
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    birthday. The whole country grieved his death. He is buried in Colón Cemetery, Havana. His funeral was attended by hundreds of thousands, and it has been...
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    leader of Cuba. He died in his villa in 1905 and was interred in the Colón Cemetery, Havana. Máximo Gómez Command Academy, an educational institution of the...
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    in 1921. His remains were brought back to Cuba for burial in the Colon Cemetery, Havana. In 1907, José López Rodríguez, Pote, (father of José Antonio López...
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    Vedado (redirect from Vedado, Havana)
    Cuba (National Hotel), the Havana Libre (former Hilton), Melia Cohiba Hotel and Hotel Riviera. In addition: Colon Cemetery FOCSA Building, tallest building...
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    died on Maine were interred in the Colon Cemetery, Havana. Some injured sailors were sent to hospitals in Havana and Key West, Florida. Those who died...
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    Havana (/həˈvænə/; Spanish: La Habana [la aˈβana] ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of the La Habana Province, Havana is the country's...
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    José Lezama Lima (category Writers from Havana)
    baroque. Lezama Lima died in 1976 at age 65 and was buried in the Colon Cemetery, Havana. He was influential for Cuban and Puerto Rican writers of his generation...
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  • his death. In accordance with his wishes, Voisin was buried at Colon Cemetery, Havana. Voisin became, and remains, a celebrated figure in Cuba. The Cuban...
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  • death, his widow had his body flown from Miami and entombed in Colon Cemetery, Havana in Cuba. His uncle was Afro-Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén. Filmmakers...
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    Alberto Korda (category Artists from Havana)
    while presenting an exhibition of his work. He is buried in the Colon Cemetery, Havana. He was featured in a full feature documentary titled Kordavision...
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    Carrara marble, the same material used for many of the monuments of the Colon Cemetery. The statue is about 20 metres (66 ft) high including a 3-metre (10 ft)...
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    Necropolis de San Carlos Borromeo (category Cemeteries in Cuba)
    atmospheric pollution, similar to the Tobias Gallery, in the Colon Cemetery, Havana, in Havana. Jose Jacinto Milanés (1814–1863), writer Joseph Marion Hernández...
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    November 2014[update] the remains of Celia Sanchez are interred in the Colon Cemetery, Havana. The Celia Sánchez Memorial in Manzanillo also honors her name,...
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  • Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (category People from Havana)
    was known to his friends, died in Havana on April 16, 1996, at age 67. He is buried in the Colon Cemetery, Havana. Three of Gutiérrez's films—Death of...
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    Dulce María Loynaz (category University of Havana alumni)
    (1987). Dulce María Loynaz died in 1997 and was interred in the Colón Cemetery, Havana. Versos (Verses). Madrid, 1950. Canto a la mujer esteril, 1938....
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    USS Maine Mast Memorial (category Arlington National Cemetery)
    19 elaborate coffins with great ceremony through the streets to Colon Cemetery, Havana. Another 135 bodies were recovered on February 19. The New York...
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    Dolf Luque (category Baseball players from Havana)
    Luque or Mike Gonzalez?." Luque died July 3, 1957, and is buried at Colon Cemetery, Havana. List of Cubans List of Major League Baseball players from Cuba...
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    Eusebio Hernández Pérez (category People from Colón, Cuba)
    Augla Magna (University of Havana) [es] due to pressure from President Ramón Grau. He was buried in Colon Cemetery, Havana and was awarded the Grand Cross...
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  • heart attack at age 44 in Santiago de Cuba and is buried in the Colon Cemetery, Havana. Espejos 1919-verso-1920 (1921), Sin velas desvelada, (1927), Puerto...
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    Nicolás Guillén (category University of Havana alumni)
    in 1989, aged 87, of Parkinson's disease. He was buried in the Colon Cemetery, Havana. In 1954, Guillén was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize (it was later...
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    Bandera, led an army of insurgents toward Havana, and was killed near Punta Brava, a village close to Havana. Quintín Bandera was a hero of the Cuban War...
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    cremated and his ashes deposited in the Veterans' Pantheon of the Colón Cemetery, Havana, Cuba. "De visita en Miami figura histórica de la revolución cubana"...
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    Chano Pozo (category Musicians from Havana)
    Eusebio "Cabito" (Little Corporal) Muñoz. Pozo is buried in the Colón Cemetery, Havana. Dizzy Gillespie, The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (Bluebird,...
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    ashes were exposed on February 11 in the Veterans Pantheon of the Colon Cemetery, Havana. "Falleció el General de División Efigenio Ameijeiras Delgado"....
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    important railway center. Colón Liberty Park, founded in 1892 Iglesia Bautista de Colón Liberty Park, circa 1940 Santiago-Havana Hotel Hotel Nuevo Continental...
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