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Fidel Castro addresses delegates of the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York, September 1960. (Photo by Tommy Weber/AFP/Getty Images)
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How should history remember Fidel Castro?

Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull. (Photo by Francis G. Mayer/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images)
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Alexander Hamilton vs Thomas Jefferson: the rise and fall of America’s founding fathers

An Aztec priest performing the sacrificial offering of a living human's heart to the war god Huitzilopochtli. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images)
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Q&A How many people did the Aztecs sacrifice?

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Mona Baptiste, a Trinidad-born blues singer
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“London is the place for me”: David Olusoga on the Windrush generation

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Church of Santo Domingo de Guzman in Oaxaca Mexico
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Explore Oaxaca: Central Mexico’s “fair and beautiful city” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Bob Marley performs live on stage with the Wailers in Holland
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My history hero: Bob Marley (1945–81) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Government troops patrol a village during the Salvadoran Civil War
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The end of El Salvador’s civil war

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Statue of Toussaint Louverture, Palais National, Haiti. (Photo by Getty Images)
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My history hero: Toussaint Louverture (1743–1803) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Fidel Castro: in pictures

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President Theodore Roosevelt operating an American steam-shovel at the Culebra Cut, Panama Canal, Panama, circa 1906. (Photo by Fotosearch/Getty Images).
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America’s devious dream: Roosevelt and the Panama Canal

Francis Drake
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Life of the Week: Sir Francis Drake

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Artist Leonora Carrington
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My history hero: Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of pipe and tobacco
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Q&A Did people smoke anything before tobacco was discovered?

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A painting in the cave of Altamira, Spain
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The rise of Homo sapiens . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Ian Lancaster Fleming, the creator of the character James Bond
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The spy who loved Jamaica