June 30, 1983
The Voice
Page 7
Did
You
Know,.,
The first two books printed in Puerto Rico, in the year 1806, were two
volumes of verse by the Spanish poet Juan Rodriguez Calderon.
The name Puerto Rico was changed to Porto Rico when the island became
governed by the U.S. in 1899. In 1932, Congress restored the original spelling.
The first Kentucky Derby, in 1875, was won by black jockey Oliver
Lewis, who rode to victory on his mount Aristedes. Fourteen of the
fifteen starters in the race were ridden by black mounts.
Matthew Henson, the Maryland-born black who placed the
flag of the United States at the North Pole in 1909, was a
skilled navigator with a fluent command of the Eskimo language.
Political Satires
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