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Expatriate Cubans settled in nearby Florida, establishing a colony that would steadily gain in political and economic power.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the Cretan council decided to open a leper colony on the island; whether this was an attempt to force the Turks to leave is open to debate but the disease was rampant on the main island and Spinalónga’s position — offshore yet not too remote — was considered ideal for study of the disease and a quarantine for its sufferers.
As Portugal prepares to hand over its colony Macau to the Chinese, the South China Morning Post of Hong Kong forecast a new area of disagreement between China and the United States.
It grieves Tasmanians that the Island State [or Flyspeck or Speck ] is sometimes left off the map of Australia, yet no one visiting the former convict colony can be untouched by the tangible pervasiveness of the past and the importance attached by Tasmanians to activities and events which, in mainland terms, are long gone.
Under a new constitution in 1964, the colony was given self-government with a ministerial-parliamentary system.