Indiana. The state's name means Indian Land or Land of the Indians, named so for the Indian tribes that lived there when white settlers arrived. While its meaning might be simple enough, the way it got the name is a little more interesting.
President Asks Congress to Lift the Embargo Against Cuba. President Obama asked Congress to begin to lift the embargo against Cuba during the State of the Union address this evening. In Cuba, we are ending a policy that was long past its expiration date.
Speaking to an audience at the Grand Theatre of Havana on Tuesday, Obama also urged the communist leadership of Cuba to grant more freedom to its citizens. The US embargo - which Cuba says has cost the country $1.1 trillion over five decades - is an outdated burden on the Cuban people, said the American president. We have to have courage to acknowledge that it was not working.