Columbia and Cuba

Columbia_and_Cuba_-_Spanish_War
A period illustration of Columbia (the United States) and Cuba, personified as young women. Cuba leans on Columbia for comfort and support. Source.

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  1. I read an autobiography by Norman Rockwell when I was in high school. Rockwell was a child in the years following this time, and so the first chapters covered a childhood in which Commodore Dewey was still admired somewhat as a war hero. So Rockwell described a child of a poor family in his neighborhood whose nickname was “Dirty Dewey”. He wore a costume for his regular clothes that was popularly known as a “Dewey Suit”, which consisted of a little Commodore’s uniform and hat and a cardboard sword.

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