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On the bright side, had it not been for slavery and colonialism they would still be living in some of the shitty bits of Africa. So these descendants of slaves haven’t done too badly out of the whole Empire thing…

Former Chilean Minister of Defense Alberto Espina stable after suffering a stroke

British actor Michael York celebrates his 80th birthday today.

Booker prize nominated Irish novelist Patrick McCabe, who wrote The Butcher Boy and Breakfast on Pluto, (both made into films) celebrates his 67th birthday today.

"In the cool of the morgue"?

Right then, arselings - I'm up to date and about to start TLK S5. Destiny is all!

Who thinks that Death has been fired and replaced with an agency worker on £2/hour?

John Chapple is a 'hit' for me in this pool! @msc He was my fourth big miss in the DDP but thankful on this occasion I redistributed him to another pool! I still feel a bit jinxed though this year but of course the year is young!

Canadian skier and football player Johnny Fripp (Wiki) dead at 101

Writer Alex comfort died 22 years ago today, aged 80. He's most famously remembered for his 1972 book, The Joy of Sex.

For fuck sake @WEP - he died on October 26 1993 - pushing on 29 years ago . That must be a record for this pool. In your defence, I googled the name at the start of the year and didn't pick up that he was dead. It looks like his Wiki page, which links to the article you posted, may only have been created this January, so there are some mitigating factors. Even so, that is a pretty spectacular level of incompetent picking. I had an idea last year that I was going to introduce a penalty for picks that died before the start of the competition: -1 for every day before the deadline they died. In the end I decided against it, as I felt it would encourage players to submit their team at the very last minute. Just as well for you that I didn't introduce the rule- Nguyen Dich Dung would have earned you minus 10,298 points . I will definitely give strong consideration to bringing the rule in next year. As these is no statute of limitations on subs in this game, Johnny Ruffo joins your team.

John Kerry is 78 and older than Clinton and Rice.

On this day in 1959 american born novelist and screenwriter Raymond Chandler died aged 70. His novels includes The Big Sleep -which was made into the famous Humphrey Bogart film and The Lady in the lake and his screenplays include the iconic film noir film Double Indemnity.

British animator, artist, writer, director, and voice actor Edd Gould died on this day 10 years ago, aged 23. American writer of children’s and young adult fiction Beverly Cleary died on this day a year ago, aged 104.

"Sachsenhausen process: Lawyer requests questioning of former SS men. The trial of an SS guard at Sachsenhausen concentration camp is coming to the end. However, the defendant's defense attorney requested that new witnesses be heard: he wants to interview FIVE former SS men." https://www.evangelisch.de/inhalte/198976/24-03-2022/sachsenhausen-prozess-anwalt-beantragt-vernehmung-frueherer-ss-maenner

Who knows how many more he'll outlive before someone finds that portrait in the attic?

Maria Simon, an Austrian sociologist dead at 103

On this day in 2011 Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor died aged 79.

Well, I've replied to him. Waiting for a response.

Taylor had 10 different substances in his system according to preliminary toxicology reports, including antidepressants, THC and opioids.

You call yourself a socialist? What you are is a political virtue signaller and a snake.

Isn't it funny how provaxxers accepted ,without question, mandates, lockdowns and coerced vaccination of hundreds of millions and now all of a sudden when presented with evidence they get angry and can't accept it. Including from whistleblowers and doctors.

I'm assuming the facepalm brigade hate whistleblowers and love big corrupt pharmaceutical companies