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PUERTO RICO

editor — Sun, 25 Sep 2016 06:19:00 +0000

Puerto Rico, just east of Hispaniola, is a major Caribbean destination and the international airport in San Juan, the capital, is an air transit point for the Caribbean. Miles of beautiful beaches, comfortable swimming temperatures and easterly tradewinds make Puerto Rico a desirable winter vacation spot. Sometimes surly service by guest-contact employees and ambivalence toward tourists and tourism on the part of a large number of residents make Puerto Rico less attractive. This probably accounts for the fact that the number of tourists to Puerto Rico is less than 800,000. The Puerto Rican Tourism Company puts the numbers of visitors

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Puerto Rico

editor — Fri, 06 May 2016 06:36:00 +0000

1524 Estevam Gomes de Santo (Portuguese Mariner) is sent by the Spanish Crown to explore the northeast coast of the New World. 1654 The General Court of Connecticut becomes so alarmed by the number of barrels of rum flooding into its ports that it bans the import of whatsoever Barbados liquors to protect the small distillers of New England and begins confiscating the cargos of rum runners. 1733 England’s parliament passes the Molasses Act, which imposes a duty on molasses in an attempt to control manufacture of rum. New England colonists ignore it, smuggling supplies for their distilleries from the

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