The U.S.S. Maine was sent into Havana's harbor to protect American citizens and property and to intimidate the Cubans into behaving. Then it exploded on February 15. It killed more than 250 sailors.

Cuba rebelled against Spain in 1868 and fought for ten years.

On February 25, Theodore Roosevelt cabled naval commanders in the Pacific to prepare for military action against Spain. President McKinley ordered most of the cables undone, but he did leave Admiral George Dewey. Dewey was told to attack the Spanish fleet in the Philippines if the U.S. went to war with Spain.

Late in March, McKinley sent a list of demands to Spain, including; compensation for the Maine, an end to the reconcentration camps, a truce in Cuba, and Cuban independence. Spain accepted all but the last.

McKinley decided he could not stop the cries for war, even after Spain accepted all but the last of his demands. On April 11, 1898 he sent a war message to Congress. Not soon after that, Congress recognized Cuban independence and authorized force against Spain.

Some people are serial entrepreneurs and want to just move on to the next thing. They just want to clean the slate and start from scratch. I feel that sometimes, too, and the way that we do that here is we build things inside Shutterstock: we launch new products all the time.

I love dressing Mason more than dressing myself. It's so much fun picking out his clothes and making outfits and giving him style.

I didn't go nightclubbing much as a teenager in Bournemouth because my friends and I didn't have the money - but we spent a lot of time on the beach, having barbecues, and running into the sea in the middle of the night.

Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.

Take care of the earth and she will take care of you.

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.

Italy and Spain really are not my countries.

They're my favorite two words these days: Oscar reject.

I think this is the biggest win in my career. To beat Venus in Wimbledon is just something amazing.

What science fiction does is take what might be possible someday and examine what might happen if it were - the drawbacks and the positive things.

When all else fails there's always delusion.

Geography is the art of the mappable.

Twitter was a mere prototype in 2006; now, many of us have become adept at saying all we have to say in 140 characters.

I believe awesome things will happen. because it's Monday.

Four fifths of all our troubles would disappear if we would only sit down and keep still.

We've got fifty people at Gitmo that are too dangerous to be let go that will never go through a normal criminal trial. Let's create a new legal system, so they'll have their day in court.

Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.

If I never showed my face, it would kind of be easier.

I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.

I found out that superstars Winkler and William Shatner are real people, and I was so thankful for that.

County government can be simplified greatly by reorganizing and consolidating some of the offices, making others appointive, and reducing salaries in keeping with the salaries paid by private business for the performance of similar duties.

I was born in Saratoga, Texas, a little town there in the Big Thicket about 60 miles north of Beaumont. Needless to say, we were very, very poor, but we always managed to have enough to keep our bellies full.

I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well.

Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it.