Just 12 miles from Havana's downtown, the Eastern Beaches unroll toward the town of Matanzas, the birthplace of the rumba, and Cardenas, where in 1850, the Cuban Flag flew for the very first time.
On April 10th a judge sequestered 49m ($68m) of assets said to belong to Roberto Formigoni, who was for 18 years governor of Lombardy and for all but three a leading member of Mr Berlusconi's party.
The Brothers of Italy, the senior party in the Italian governing coalition, handily won regional elections in Lazio and Lombardy, strengthening the hand of the prime minister, Giorgia Meloni.
Given the chaos ensuing after the Lombard invasion of Italy 568 AD is my choice of logical ending date for the Western Empire and if you don't like that argue with me.
In 1928, Lombardo and his orchestra, The Royal Canadians, started a popular New Year's Eve radio show, broadcast from the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan.