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Castro Takes Havana

Cuban revolutionaries victorious in 1959, US nuclear accident in 1960s Spain, plus the origin of the Open University, the couple behind the Eames chair and Mao's Little Red Book

Cuban revolutionaries victorious in 1959, US nuclear accident in 1960s Spain, plus the origin of the Open University, the couple behind the Eames chair and Mao's Little Red Book
Photo: Fidel Castro speaks to the crowds in Cuba after Batista was forced to flee, Jan 1959. Credit: Keystone/Getty Images

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