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Aerials-Parque Lineal del Rio Bayamón, Bayamón/Toa Baja, Puerto Rico

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Steam engines were among Richard Benson’s many enthusiasms. He was particularly excited to come across this one in a field in Puerto Rico, recognizing it as a version of the engine invented by Scottish engineer James Watt in 1776. Watt’s engine was one of the key developments of the Industrial Revolution. Benson surmised this example was a relic from one of the sugar plantations that existed on the island in the 1800s. Learn more about Benson’s discoveries in “Richard Benson: The World Is Smarter Than You Are.”

“Scottish Engine, Puerto Rico,” around 1980 (negative); 2005–14 (print), by Richard Benson © Estate of Richard M. A. Benson

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Luisa Capetillo

Today in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, we take a look at Luisa Capetillo (1879-1922), one of the most famous activists to come out of Puerto Rico. Capetillo was a labor leader, a feminist, and a writer.

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Born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico and homeschooled, Capetillo found work as a reader. The American Tobacco Company had control over much of the island's tobacco fields and hired people to read novels to workers. Capetillo read in a tobacco factory, where she began to be involved with labor unions.

In 1904, Capetillo began to write Mi Opinión (My Opinion), essays that were published in radical and union newspapers. She encouraged women to fight for social equality. She touched on the unique experience of Latina women almost a decade before Crenshaw invented the term 'intersectionality'. She wrote in support of labor unions, anarcism, and against organized religion.

Capetillo helped organize and write for a farm workers' strike in 1905 and worked as a reporter for the American Federation of Labor. She traveled the island, educating women, and started her own newspaper (La mujer) which centered on women's issues. She was one of the first Puerto Rican suffragists and campaigned for women's suffrage in union politics. She organized workers and joined in strikes, and helped pass a minimum-wage law in Puerto Rico.

Capetillo went to jail twice for the crime of wearing pants as a woman.

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La bandera de 🇵🇷 capturada en el cielo en un evento totalmente natural.

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Estaciones de tren en Puerto Rico en su estado actual.

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Locomotora de vapor Baldwin 2-6-0 de 1925 utilizada en la central azucarera de Humacao, Puerto Rico 🇵🇷.

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¿Cuántos de ustedes tenían conocimiento la madre del astrofísico Neil deGrasse Tyson es boricua?.

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Aeropuerto Rafael Hernández, Aguadilla, Puerto Rico.

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Isla de Culebra, Puerto Rico.

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Isla de Puerto Rico a una altura de 258 millas (415 km) sobre la superficie de la Tierra. La imagen fue captada el 21 de abril del 2020 a las 3:17 PM. En la foto se aprecia también las islas de Mona, Desecheo y Culebra aunque Vieques cubierta de nubes. El astronauta Christopher Cassidy de la NASA fué quien captó la foto.

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Castillo San Felipe del Morro en el Viejo San Juan visto desde Isla de Cabras en Palo Seco, Toa Baja, Puerto Rico. 🇵🇷

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Rica Cola, La Bohemia Bottling Plant, Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico.

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