due to a violent intimidation campaign of the Federal Republican Party, no other political groups dared to contest the 1900 municipal elections in Las Villas, Cuba?
competitions for the design of José Martí Memorial(pictured) in Havana, Cuba started in 1939, but the design that was finally constructed in 1953 was a variation on a design that had come in third in the fourth competition?
the CubanPeople's Party was barred from contesting the 1901 elections, as the government demanded the party produce a register of thousands of members in just two hours?
church services may be held in Serbia under the crown of a zapis, a large oak with a cross inscribed into its bark, sacred for the village at which it is situated?
Hrelja, a 14th-century semi-independent feudal lord under Serbian suzerainty, built the defensive tower (pictured) in Bulgaria's largest monastery, the Rila Monastery?
Milan Obrenović II, who was the ruler of Serbia for less than two weeks in 1839, may have been too ill to ever have been aware of the fact?
masters of Singapore-registered ships are subject to a fine of S$1,000 if they do not hoist the Red Ensign(pictured) before entering or leaving port?
Lord Canning wanted to build a port at Canning, now in West Bengal, that could rival Singapore but gave up when the Matla River surged its fury on the new port town in 1867?
the Black jack, Caranx lugubris, was first described in 1860 by CubanzoologistFelipe Poey in his two-volume work Historia Natural de la Isla de Cuba, or "Natural History of the Island of Cuba"?
despite denouncing Fidel Castro's 1953 attack on the Moncada Barracks, politician Carlos Rafael Rodríguez became one of Castro's most trusted allies after the 1959 revolution and served as Vice President?