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Jaws @ 50 touches on the fact that, after the film came out, the rate of shark hunting shot up exponentially, with many ...
It was 1975, and Fidel Castro was reading ‘Jaws.’”  Wendy Benchley shared that complex shard of history with me. She’s the widow of Peter Benchley, who authored the best-selling novel that would ...
The man who adopted Bezos, 61, when he was just four and had faith in Amazon as a start-up will play a major role in his ...
Fifty years ago, a Tribune reporter got an overnight tip that led to a scoop of one of the biggest hits in Chicago mob history.
In the doc, directed by Jackie Jesko, viewers can see snippets of that charm at work, especially during interviews with former Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Fidel Castro, and Clint Eastwood, with ...
If Castro’s dying wish really was that no cult of personality emerge, it was in vain. A true “ culto ” gripped the island as soon as he died – one that’s arguably been more than 50 years ...
Photos of Castro playing the game provide ample evidence — and those photos laid the groundwork for the social media myth of Castro's affinity for the Euro step.
A bust of Fidel Castro from China's Xi Jinping, the army jeep in which he crossed Cuba, his well-worn boots and his Russian-made assault rifle are just a few of the long-time Cuban leader's ...
While Raúl Castro has spent most of his life in the shadow of his brother Fidel, during his time as Cuba's president - first in an acting capacity from 2006 and later officially from 2008 to 2018 ...
His older brother, Fidel, held the post of first secretary from 1965 until 2011, when he resigned and Raúl Castro assumed what is arguably the most influential position in Cuba.
Biehl said the couple visited Castro multiple times. “They were good friends and the museum has several pictures from several occasions and visits”, he said on a Facebook message, adding that ...