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... at the BBC. James Taranto, in the WSJ's Best of the Web, draws attention to this BBC piece: Fidel: The world icon, which solemnly informs us that Castro is "the world's longest-serving leader." Taranto then notes that Castro came to power in 1959, while another world leader became head of state seven years earlier - "and it's one the BBC should have heard of: Queen Elizabeth II. "