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"A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude." - Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

People setting other people on fire

RIP (aka Things Coming to an End ... aka The End Times)

The incredible mind of Hans Rosling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Rosling

Lauterpacht and his dad (Sir Hersch Lauterpacht) and the creation of International Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elihu_Lauterpacht

Mikhail Tolstykh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Tolstykh better known by his callsign Givi (Ги́ви), was a commander of the pro-Russian Somalia Battalion in the War in Donbass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somalia_Battalion

Mohamud Muse Hersi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamud_Muse_Hersi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puntland

Georges El-Murr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_El-Murr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melkite_Greek_Catholic_Archeparchy_of_Petra_and_Philadelphia_in_Amman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melkite_Greek_Catholic_Patriarchal_Exarchate_of_Iraq https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melkite_Greek_Catholic_Church https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Catholic_Churches - about 18 million members, they make up a small part (about 1.5 percent) of the Catholic Church together with the Latin Church (Western Church).

Bobby Murdoch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Murdoch_(footballer,_born_1936)

Al Jarreau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jarreau

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packy_(elephant) - drug resistant TB

Sione Lauaki https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/feb/12/sione-lauaki-former-new-zealand-rugby-player-dies-aged-35

Ljubisa Beara https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ljubiša_Beara

The Daily Mail on Wikipedia

Rob Stewart https://www.outsideonline.com/2154621/rob-stewart-obituary