Fidel Castro - Very Rare Photo Collection Part II...
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Fidel Castro - Political leader of Cuba, Rare Photos...
Fidel Castro was born on August 13, 1926 in Biran, near Mayari, Cuba. His father Angel Castro y Argiz, originally from Spain, was relatively wealthy and owned a sugarcane plantation. His mother Lina Ruz Gonzalez had been a maid to Angel's first wife. He grew up in wealthy circumstances amid poverty. His original name was Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz. After completing his elementary education at the private Catholic School, Fidel went to El Colegio de Belen, a Jesuit school in Havana in 1945. Fidel was an intellectually gifted student with an amazing memory-power. Fidel was, in fact, more interested in sports than in academics and while at Belen, Castro pitched on the school's baseball team. A peasant rebellion in Oriente during Castro's formative years is thought to have influenced his political leanings. In 1953, Castro abandoned his law practice and led an armed group of fighters to overthrow Batista. On the 26th of July, 1953, they attacked Moncada Barracks, Batist...
Immolation Copycats 2011
Worldwide, we are in the midst of a wave of political immolation copycats, with at least seven deadly incidents being recorded since the spark was ignited a month ago in Tunisia. As I wrote in The Copycat Effect , one of the most imitated public and political forms of self-death is the fire suicide. More protesters set themselves on fire in Egypt, Mauritania and Algeria on Monday, January 17, 2011, in apparent copycat fiery suicide attempts inspired by the act that helped trigger a popular uprising in Tunisia. Besides the Tunisian and Egyptian accounts, reports of fire suicides...
A.R.Rahman with World Political Leaders - Rare Photo Collection.
A.R.Rahman with Dr.Abdhul kalam A.R.Rahman with Chief minister Karunanidhi A.R.R, Sarathkumar and CM.. Reader Vijay Shah met A R Rahman A.R.R with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.. A.R.R and Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar... AR Rahman - Global Ambassador of the Stop TB Partnership AR Rahman, Global Ambassador of the Stop TB Partnership, personally delivered a copy of the WHO "Colors" report on Tuberculosis to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. GOVERNOR HOSTS HIGH TEA IN HONOUR OF PADMASHREE A.R. RAHMAN AT RAJ BHAVAN A.R.R with Stalin 25th Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration - A.R.R, Sonia Gandhi and Manmohan singh. President Pratibha Patil, maestro A R Rahman and noted lyricist Gulzar saw Oscar-winning movie ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ at Rashtrapati Bhavan.