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Interesting Facts
One of the passengers arriving Habana from New Orleans on 9 Feb 1860 was the future famous financier J. Pierpont Morgan. At this time, Mr. Morgan was only 22 years of age and had started his banking career only 3 years before.
Here is an interesting ad from the January 11, 1860 issue of the Diario de la Marina:
As you may know, Dr. Finlay was the first to postulate the transmission of yellow fever via the aedes aegypti mosquito. He was nominated seven times for the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine but was never awarded this honor.
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