Okefenokee Swamp
Okefenokee Swamp , c.600 sq mi (1,550 sq km), c.40 mi (60 km) long and averaging 20 mi (32 km) in width, SE Ga., extending into N Fla. It is a saucer-shaped depression with low ridges and small islands rising above the water and vegetation cover. It abounds in varied wildlife, and is drained by the Suwanee and St. Marys rivers. In Georgia the swamp makes up most of the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge (est. 1937).
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Polita Grau, 84, Dies; Served As Cuba's First Lady as a Teen
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/25/2000; 447 words
; Polita Grau, 84, who as a teenager...nursing home here. Her uncle, Ramon Grau San Martin, was Cuba's president...during his first term. Ms. Grau, who was born in Havana...industries. She and her brother, Ramon, plotted to topple Castro...
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Polita Grau
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 3/24/2000; 313 words
; ...March 24, 2000 Miami -- Polita Grau, who as a teenager served as Cuba...Miami nursing home. She was 84. Grau was born in Havana on Nov. 19, 1915. Her uncle, Ramon Grau San Martin, was Cuba's president from 1933...
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Obituaries in the News
News Wire article from: AP Online; 3/23/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...movement in 1981. Polita Grau MIAMI (AP) -- Polita Grau, who as a teen-ager served as Cuba's first...Wednesday from congestive heart disease. She was 84. Grau's uncle, Ramon Grau San Martin, was Cuba's president from 1933 to 1934 and from...
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A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth Century Cuba.(State and Revolution in Cuba: Mass Mobilization and Political Change, 1920-1940,)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 8/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...of the popular University of Havana academic, Ramon Grau San Martin. Grau was never able to gain the confidence of U.S...portray the 1933 revolution that briefly brought Ramon Grau San Martin to power as a failed revolution in which the United...
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO 1933: Cuban Leader Yields
Newspaper article from: ; 9/20/2008; ; 274 words
; ...third revolution in less than two months, President Ramon Grau San Martin tonight [Sept. 19] announced that he had placed...demands that he step down from office, President Grau San Martin refused. Leaders of the student directorate, the...
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Cuba's opposition to Jewish statehood in Palestine, 1944-49: A critical review of varying interpretations
Magazine article from: The Middle East Journal; 7/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...animus which he reputedly shared with Ramon Grau San Martin, the island's then head-of...Loredo, a legislator of president Grau's Cuban Revolutionary Party (Autentico...living in exile in Miami. But the Grau government was apparently ready to...
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General Batista returns to power in Cuba: March 10th, 1952. (Months Past).(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: History Today; 3/1/2002; 700+ words
; ...under a middle-class academic, Ramon Grau San Martin. Batista was made chief of staff. He soon removed Grau and, with the support of the army...won. Four years later, however, Grau won the next presidential election...
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Charles D. Ameringer. The Cuban Democratic Experience: the Autentico Years, 1944-1952.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: MACLAS Latin American Essays; 3/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...eight years of democratic rule when Ramon Grau San Martin and Carlos Prio Socarros occupied...the end of the autentico period. Grau was generally perceived as a man...of corruption prevalent under the Grau administration. Among Prio's efforts...
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Loud and Clear: Miami Cubans fear the growth of Black Power in Cuba
Newspaper article from: Miami Times; 11/6/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...little vacation. During the days of General Gerardo Machado, the dictator Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, and Ramon Grau San Martin, a physician and a professor at the university of Havana Law School who became president with the help of a student...
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Family of former Cuban leader turns papers over to U. Miami.
Newspaper article from: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, FL); 7/8/2005; 700+ words
; ...Batista president under a new constitution. But Batista left Cuba in 1944 after he lost a bid for re-election to Ramon Grau San Martin. From his new home in Daytona Beach, Batista again ran for office and was elected to the Cuban senate in 1948...
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Ramón Grau San Martin
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Ram ó n Grau San Martin Ram ó n Grau San Martin (1887-1969) was a Cuban physician. Appointed...to the presidency in 1944. Ram ó n Grau San Martin was born in Pinar del R í o Province...
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