Reed’s is one of six lives served up by historian Simon Hall in his new book. Three of them are revolutionaries — Vladimir ...

"Tell me everything," Barbara Walters used to urge her TV guests. She believed she could coax the truth out of anyone, whether revered or disgraced, and so did her viewers. Her confidence would be ...

Mutwe’s beard is not the only beard in history to have been targeted by security forces. The CDF will tell you how one of his heroes, Fidel Castro, found that his own beard was on a wanted list.

Former President Fidel Castro, who led a rebel army to improbable victory in Cuba, embraced Soviet-style communism and defied the power of 10 U.S. presidents during his half century rule, has died ...

Cubans and beards have gone hand in hand, or cheek by jowl, since the days of Fidel Castro's revolution, but after falling out of favor, facial hair is back -- and this time, it's not political.

Cuba's ailing leader Fidel Castro has announced he will not accept another term as president, ending the communist revolutionary's 49 years in power. The 81-year-old handed over power temporarily to ...

And Fidel himself had nothing at all to say. How long Fidel Castro would remain in Russia was anybody’s guess, for his Russian hosts were keeping his itinerary a secret.

Olive fatigues, straggly beard and cigars: Behind revolutionary Fidel Castro He was one of the world's longest serving leaders and political survivors whose revolution defied 11 United States ...

“To millions of Latin Americans, Silvio Rodriguez and Pablo Milanés and their guitars are as much a symbol of Cuba and its revolution as Fidel Castro and his beard,” Stephen Holden wrote in ...

Fidel Castro: Played by James Franco, obvi. He has the scraggly beard. And, as we’ve already established, his ancestors hail from the same 4 million-square-mile continent as Castro’s.

Even then, they rarely mentioned their maximum leader, Fidel Castro, by name. Simply stroking one’s chin to indicate his iconic beard was sufficient.