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At approximately 5:15 P.M. on the afternoon of May 11, 1812, Spencer Perceval, the all powerful prime minister of Great Britain, was fatally shot at short range in the lobby of Parliament by John Bell
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With the overthrow of the Batista dictatorship in 1958, say Salazar-Carillo and Nodarse-Leon, Cuba was on the threshold of becoming a major economic and political player on the world stage, then Fidel
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