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Continuous Gulf shipping and touring traffic between the two ports carried habanera, danzón and son into New Orleans dance music through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The line marks the recorded link; no path between the two is recorded.

242 objects on Earth · 37 on another body · This reading plate draws no coastline — the graticule and the marks carry the record here; the interactive view draws the sourced Natural Earth outline. Select a mark to read its record.
TimeAll timeLast 100 yearsBefore 1926Full timeline →
3005 BCE

Past → now. Now is 2026, the corpus’s latest recorded state · 1145 objects · 280 located (1 withheld) · 865 unlocated

Now · 2026

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Son cubano

The Cuban form in which a Spanish-derived song tradition and West and West-Central African rhythmic organisation meet on equal terms, and the root from which most twentieth-century Latin…

No recorded place · rural precursors through the 19th century; the classic sexteto form from 1920

Connections

  • travelled to Havana — The rural form of Oriente reached the capital around 1909 and there acquired the clave of Havana rumba.
  • influenced Jazz — Cuban rhythmic cells reaching New Orleans through Gulf traffic are the "Spanish tinge" Morton described in 1938 as indispensable to jazz.
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865 objects have no place. See why, and how they relate instead — a coordinate they do not have would be a claim, not a kindness. The count is corpus-wide; no lens or window changes it.One more object is located but its mark is withheld: the coordinate is declared, not yet verified, and an unverified pin reads as a fact.

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1145 objects · 37 Knowledge Journeys · 852 recorded dated events (3005 BCE–2026), 51 imprecisely dated, and 16 declared future targets (a target never moves Now) · 280 located (1 of them withheld pending verification), 865 unlocated

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