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For American audiences ‘The Thing’ was actually Mothra, renamed by the distributor for reasons.
But I like to imagine Godzilla fighting the Thing from the 1951 Howard Hawks US film. That would have been a very different movie. The Hawks version of the Thing would have been closer to the plant-based Biollante. Imagine James Arness in a Man In Suit outfit crashing through a city punching and clawing Godzilla.
April 17-19, 1961: CIA-organized invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs (Playa Giron) is defeated in 72 hours.
Cuba’s victory against the invasion of Playa Giron was the first military defeat of U.S. imperialism in Latin America.
























