Given a cohomology class  there is a smooth submanifold  Poincaré dual to . A special class of such embeddings is characterized by topological properties which hold for nonsingular algebraic hypersurfaces in . This note summarizes some results on the question: how does the divisibility of  restrict the dual submanifolds  in this class ? A formula for signatures associated with a -fold ramified cover of  branched along  is given and a proof is included in case .