During the nearly hour-long interview, Fidel Castro reminisced about a long ago trip to Vietnam, and then in true Castro fashion, read a list of random statistics on Vietnam's social services.
But could any exploits of these warriors of a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away ever have actually happened?
There was a time, in the long, long ago, when expanded universe was a rare and largely ignored beast.
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We Brits stopped using gold for pound coins a long, long time ago as the amount of gold that made a pound shrank away to microscopic amounts (currently around 0.03 grammes of gold).
France's intervention was something "we should have done a long time ago to defend a member country", he said.
Petrbras problems started a long time ago and it is a fundamental problem more than a technical issue based problem.
Hadley, an Army veteran, began collecting black history items a long time ago and finally opened a museum in Thomasville, the only one of its kind in southwest Georgia.
Although the East India Company flourished a very long time ago, in a very different world, its growth, longevity and demise have lessons for those who run today's state companies and debate their future, lessons about the benefits of linking a company's interests to a nation's and the dangers of doing so.
If annual economic growth of over 6% is sustained, a country that not long ago was a byword for poverty can contemplate reaching middle-income levels in barely a decade.
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The designer was looking at a photo album not long ago and happened on a snapshot of her mother, back in France decades ago, in apres-ski attire.
Decisions were made a long time ago that this transuranic waste, a legacy from our nuclear weapons days, should not just sit around at the surface waiting for an accident to happen, but should be put in the safest, most isolated place on Earth, so that nothing can happen to it.
As a result Precision, which not long ago was a bargain, has become a pricey stock.
"If it worked we would have embraced it a long time ago, " says George Todd, a vascular surgeon at St.
The most telling explanation of this was in a long-ago New Yorker article about the success of a Dockers advertising campaign.
"I made the decision a long time ago that I would be better off making a career in broadcasting rather than management, " Crooks said.
In a time not so long ago, in a galaxy not so far away, a little phenomenon was born that united the people of cyberspace through geographic services and social networking.
This is not a new concept--the linguist Benjamin Whorf advanced it a long time ago--but Contributing Editor Dan Seligman does a delightful job of bringing it back to life every now and then.
Ratings at Fox News, not long ago a wildly popular American channel, are sliding fast.
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Not long ago a Malaysian government minister even threatened to sever sporting and cultural links.
Not long ago a C-suite executive left a major corporation after being there for only a year.
Technological feats such as self-driving cars and voice-recognition and translation programmes, not long ago a distant hope, are now realities.
Not long ago a fashionable anxiety in many western countries was that youngsters were being over educated that is, schooled beyond society's needs.
Long ago a name was a simple way of distinguishing a thing, a person, or a company from other things, people or companies.
Over 200, 000 have been sold so far, though not long ago a truck engine without eight cylinders was doomed in any barstool bragging contest.
Not long ago a VC offered to close a round of funding for Bhatia's latest startup--Arzoo.com, which mysteriously promises to revolutionize buying and selling over the Web--during a round of golf at Pebble Beach.
Douentza, 75 miles away, is now in the hands of the MNLA. The famed city of Timbuktu, not so long ago a popular tourist destination for adventurous Europeans, is now ruled by Ansar Dine.
Newcastle interim boss Kinnear again left Owen - not long ago a hugely prolific goalscorer for England - on the bench, while Wigan were evidently handicapped by the absence of first-choice strikers Emile Heskey and Amr Zaki.
Not so long ago a small piece of land on the edge of a continent was at war, torn by religious and cultural differences, with its two peoples disputing the ownership of the land that both claimed as rightfully theirs.
Although the net-long for speculators has rebounded from the lows set a few weeks ago, Citigroup said the long exposure remains under a still-declining a 10-week average.
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