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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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    Espada Cemetery and the Colón Cemetery were built, interments took place in crypts at the various churches throughout Havana, for example, at the Havana Cathedral...
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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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    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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    Velázquez Medina. Carpentier died in Paris in 1980 and was buried in Havana's Colon Cemetery with other Cuban political and artistic luminaries. Carpentier...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    to 1878, the Espada Cemetery was the first public burial place designed and constructed in Havana; prior to the cemetery, the Havana custom had been to...
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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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  • 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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    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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    1901 by command of General George W. Davis. Monument to Firemen, Colon Cemetery, Havana, Cuba, 1897 Monument to Claudio Moyano, at the Plaza del Emperador...
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    Eugenio Rayneri Piedra (category Architects from Havana)
    numerous buildings in Havana, son of Eugenio Rayneri Sorrentino a remarkable architect, author of the entrance of the Colón Cemetery, the Palace of the Marquise...
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  • Germán Pinelli (category People from Havana)
    cultural community as well as from the government. He is buried in the Colon Cemetery, Havana, Cuba He was married three times. His sister was the Cuban actress...
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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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