Black Friday sales reports violence across the U.S. It seems regrettable that this shopping day has an association with the Black Friday label. Black Friday 'days' commemorate catastrophic events such as scandals, stock exchange crashes, fire devastation, military operations, and so on.
There's an entry for Black Friday 2016 for the United Kingdom - the day after the Brexit vote - when the financial markets lost 2 trillion dollars in the worst single day drop in history.
Fidel Castro has died at 90 so today's photos show scenes from Cuba. Here is his most famous quote:
"Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me"
And an historical fact I'd forgotten:
"Castro’s speeches, lasting up to six hours, became the soundtrack of Cuban life and his 269-minute speech to the UN General Assembly in 1960 set the world body’s record for length that still stood more than five decades later."
