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Prince (Ƭ̵̬̊) died on this day 7 years ago, aged 57. - Prince was his real name- his fellow musician father, John Nelson, named him after his stage name, "Prince Rogers". - Prince wrote his first song when he was 7 years old. It was called "Funk Machine". - Prince was skilled at basketball. His high school coach called him an "excellent ball handler". - Prince has a shade of purple named after him, named after his "Love Symbol #2". This is what the particular shade looks like: - Michael Jackson's "Bad" was originally going to feature Prince- the latter turned down the offer due to the opening line "your butt is mine". - Prince was nominated for ten Razzie awards between 1985 and 2000, winning three: Worst Actor and Director for Under the Cherry Moon, and Worst Original Song for "Love or Money" from the film. - Prince appeared on TV twice: a Muppets Tonight episode in 1997, and a 2014 episode of New Girl (which was the lead-out program following Super Bowl XLVIII). - Prince died from a fentanyl overdose. He was cremated and his ashes were placed in a 3D-printed urn shaped like his mansion. - Prince sang "1999" 17 years before 1999, and died 17 years after that year.

Osman Abdrahim, one of the last Finnish Tatars who fought in WWII, dead at 102.

It's so infrequently we agree about any of this I'd like to take this brief moment to say you are an absolute credit to the borough and locale of (checks notes), Bracknell, Berkshire. Lovely place, and the better for your presence in it. Less amused about this, can't have everything though.

Justice Secretary and Deputy PM Dominic Raab has resigned from the government over the bullying report. Obviously it’s all the lefty lawyers’ fault that Raab was found to have been a 28-carat arsehole to his colleagues. Sunak was handed the report before midday yesterday and, despite his pledge to lead a government of integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level, was as usual too weak to act upon the findings, instead letting Raab get away with an apology-free resignation that hits out at the report. Can’t wait to sack this shower of shit at the next GE.

Somehow, Iggy Pop has reached the age of 76.

Just saw this on Twitter and I am trying to imagine what this game would involve. Do the brothers have to try to find some cultural integrity whilst trying to avoid losing their virginity to horny raging fan girls? (I came here to post this because it felt a bit mean for Twitter and I trust the posters here have a more collective and nuanced sense of humour)

I really wish we could mute threads...

I see what you did there.

109 and still driving https://news.yahoo.com/man-109-still-drives-car-203838450.html

I see another of Melon Usk’s rockets has come a cropper. Starship was probably too ambitious a name; maybe go with Airplane or Zeppelin for the next one. Nothing’s gonna stop him now, I’m afraid.

Expert confirms Carter’s time under hospice care is not unusually long. Average timespan is 60-70 days. Carter is around day 62. https://people.com/politics/jimmy-carter-hospice-length-expert/

Not so sure about Trump, to put it politely. I could easily see Obama and Bush making it well past 90 though.

Just like how Betty White, Angela Lansbury, and Carole Cook passed away just a couple days before their birthdays.

I'm surprised Steps lasted this long.

Yet, none of them recovered from a brain metastasis tumor at 90. He really is the King of immortals.

Party treasurer Colin Beattie is the latest SNP bigwig to get the police treatment: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-65309791 He's my MSP. Wonder if he'll mention this in the next constituency newsletter?

Tehdy to bylo normalni ne?

Whoops, yeah, no, sorry, my mistake. Thanks for pointing it out! There are multiple possible dates for both Alice's (possibly 1474 or 1478) and Richard's (either 1490, 1495 or 1502) dates of birth, and since I used to work on the family tree mostly late at night, I screwed up here. Additionally, I've just checked and a few sources say that Alice got married in 1493 though, so now that I think about it, it's more than likely that Alice was born around 1474 and Richard 1502 (in 1495 Alice supposedly gave birth to Thomas Croxton Carter, a brother to Richard and William). So once more, díky, and sorry for the inaccuracy!

Snooker.

Howard DeVoto is 70 today

Liza Minnelli is 76 today

They should have used more orange for the colouring.

Joanne Carson, Johnny Carson's second wife, has passed away at 84. http://www.tmz.com/2015/05/09/joanne-carson-dies-dead-johnny-second-wife/