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unusual facts about Manifest Destiny



Ezequiel Martínez Estrada

He also edited two books of Fidel Castro's speeches, and numerous writings and pamphlets including El nuevo mundo, la isla de Utopía y la isla de Cuba (The New World, the Island of Utopia, and the Island of Cuba), in which he saw Cuba as having a manifest destiny, under which the indigenous Taínos of Cuba were linked to the "Amaurotos" of Thomas More's Utopia and Castro's Cuba to the ideal Cuba of Martí.

Jacksonian democracy

:; Manifest Destiny: This was the belief that white Americans had a destiny to settle the American West and to expand control from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific and that the West should be settled by yeoman farmers.

Narciso López

He made contact with influential American politicians, including John L. O'Sullivan, an expansionist who coined the term "Manifest Destiny".

The Trainer

After Keith Burstein and Dic Edwards’ opera Manifest Destiny was performed at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe the London Evening Standard newspaper published a review which claimed that the opera glorified terrorism.

Theo Alice Ruggles Kitson

Her best known statue is The Hiker, a monument commemorating the soldiers who fought in the wars of the United States' turn of the 20th Century Manifest Destiny territorial expansion, the Spanish-American War, the Philippine-American War and the Boxer Rebellion.

Walter M. Pierce

In 1883, motivated by both his recent diagnosis of tuberculosis and the idea of Manifest Destiny as propounded by Horace Greeley, Pierce moved west.

Who Do U Believe In

The song features a sample from Jamiroquai's Manifest Destiny.


see also

John O'Sullivan

John L. O'Sullivan (1813–1895), journalist who popularized the phrase "Manifest Destiny"

The Return of the Space Cowboy

A similar occurrence occurred with "Manifest Destiny", sampled in "Who Do U Believe In", a track by Tupac Shakur from his album Better Dayz.