Planting Watermelons. The ideal date to plant watermelons varies according to the climate of the region. To produce the sugar necessary for sweet fruit, the melons need hot weather. Seedlings should not be transplanted until three to four weeks after the last average frost date in the spring.
Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau, marquis de Tenerife, (born Sept. 17, 1838, Palma, Majorcaâdied Oct. 20, 1930, Madrid) Spanish general who, as captain general of Cuba shortly before the outbreak of the SpanishâAmerican War (1898), used stern antirebel measures that were exploited by U.S. newspapers to inflame public opinion against Spanish rule of Cuba.
SimÃ³n BolÃ­var (1783-1830) was a South American general and statesman who brought political independence to six present-day nations. Called the Liberator, he was the greatest military figure of South America. SimÃ³n BolÃ­var was born on July 24, 1783, in Caracas, Venezuela, then part of the Hispanic colonial empire. His parents belonged to the aristocratic upper class, the Creoles.