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Congrats to John Fenzel for his lens on the Cuban Missile Crisis. It’s Squidoo’s Lens of the Year winner!

“Several years ago,” says John in his lens, “I had the opportunity to sit down over dinner with Ted Sorenson, one of President Kennedy’s closest advisors. We discussed the Cuban Missile Crisis at length and it was obvious to me as we spoke, that this singular event had a profound and enduring effect on him–to this day. This seminal event in our nation’s history continues to be studied at all of our nation’s war colleges. Those discussions, public and private, prompted me to craft this lens.”

Interesting to put John’s page–incredibly rich not just in history and fact, but also in videos and games and opinion polls and recommended books and a personal point of view on the topic–next to Wikipedia’s entry.

And that’s the point of Squidoo: recommendation. Opinion. Information mixed with personalized view points, the chance to vote for your favorite stuff, and a way to easily engage with the person who wrote it. Squidoo’s not about black and white facts. It’s about ideas, about people, about community.