Exploding cigar
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An exploding cigar is a variety of cigar that explodes shortly after being lit. Such cigars are normally packed with a minute chemical explosive charge near the lighting end or with a non-chemical dev
Cover of October 1963 issue (#82) of Mad Magazine. Written by Al Jaffee and painted by Norman Mingo
Fidel Castro
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Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2011. He served as prime minister from 1959 to 1976, president from 1976 to 2008,
Exploding cigar
…plot device. The most famous case concerning the intentionally deadly variety was an alleged plot by the CIA in the 1960s to assassinate Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Notable real-life incidents involving the non-lethal variety include an exploding cigar purportedly given by Ulysses S. Grant to an acquaintance and…
Castro in 1979
Fidel's parents, Ángel Castro y Argiz and Lina Ruz González
Castro, second from left, at Colegio de Belén, Havana, 1943
General Fulgencio Batista—left, with US Army Chief of Staff Malin Craig, in Washington D.C. in 1938—whose presidency Castro intended to overthrow.