Alexei Ramírez

The Chicago White Sox are a Major League Baseball team located in Chicago, Illinois.The White Sox play in the American League's Central Division. Since 1991, the White Sox have played in U.S. Cellular Field, which was originally called New Comiskey Park and nicknamed The Cell by local fans. The... White Sox are one of two major league clubs based in Chicago, the other being the Chicago Cubs of the National League. The White Sox last won the World Series in 2005 when they played the Houston Astros and swept them in four games. One of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Chicago team was established as a major league baseball club in 1900. The club was originally called the Chicago White Stockings, after the nickname abandoned by the Cubs, and the name was soon shortened to Chicago White Sox, believed to have been because the paper would shorten it to Sox in the headlines. At this time, the team played their home games at South Side Park. In 1910, the team moved into historic Comiskey Park, which they would inhabit for more than eight decades.
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Pinar del Río is a city in Cuba. It is the capital of Pinar del Río Province. Inhabitants of the area are called Pinareños. Neighborhoods in the city include La Conchita, La Coloma, Briones Montoto and Las Ovas. Pinar del Río was one of the last major cities in Cuba founded by... the Spanish. The city and province was originally founded as Nueva Filipinas due to the large influx of Filipinos who had arrived by traveling on the Manila Galleons. They brought with them tamarind , camisa de chinos, and arroz caldo Known as Chinos Manila among the local population, the Filipinos worked the huge tobacco plantations much as they did in the present provinces of Ilocos Sur, Tarlac, Ilocos Norte, Cagayan and Isabela in their home country. During that time, the Spanish colonizers had a virtual monopoly of the tobacco trade through their company, the Tabacalera.
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