Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, born on this day in 1926, was a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and its President from 1976 to 2008.

Castro came into power in early 1959 after years of revolutionary struggle against the U.S.-backed regime of Fulgencio Batista (1901 - 1973). Ideologically a Marxist-Leninist and Cuban nationalist, he also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from 1961 until 2011.

With Castro as Prime Minister, the Cuban government nationalized and expanded healthcare and education, redistributed land to the peasant class, and implemented rent controls. Within a year, Castro and his government had effectively redistributed 15% of the nation's wealth.

The longest-serving non-royal head of state in the 20th and 21st centuries. Many view him as a champion of socialism and anti-imperialist struggle whose revolutionary government advanced economic and social justice while securing Cuba's independence from U.S. hegemony.

"The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all."

• Fidel Castro

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In the first and fifth lines, the last digits add to 10, and the other corresponding pairs of digits add to 9. The sum of the numbers is therefore 1,000,000.

The second and sixth numbers, the third and seventh, and the fourth and eighth add to 1,000,000. The sum of all eight is 4,000,000.

Large segments instead of small

In the Soviet machine industry a marker is a worker who draws lines on a metal blank. The blank is cut along the lines to produce the desired shape.

A marker was asked to distribute 7 equal-sized sheets of metal among 12 workers, each worker to get the same amount of metal. They could not use the simple solution of dividing each sheet into 12 equal parts, for this would result in too many tiny pieces. What were they to do?

They thought awhile and found a more convenient method.

Later, they easily divided 5 sheets for 6 workers, 13 for 12, 13 for 36, 26 for 21, and so on.

What was their method?

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gotta go fast so it's a quick mega waho

also I think a castro mega's been written already whatever here's another :ballin