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Rightful king of England

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“Rightful king of England dies”, The Mirror, July 5, 2012. On a slow news day the papers love these little stories. Even when it’s not a slow news day, everyone loves the Wars of the Roses. Back in the day, Edward IV (1442-1483) was the penultimate king of the Yorkist dynasty. The Wars of the Roses were over, the Lancastrians pretty much extinct. Then he died and it all fell...

Do the Dead Outnumber the Living?

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Back in the early days of the Internet I said the living outnumber the dead. I think it was on LiveJournal. You’d have thought I was stomping on kittens. Or maybe I too sensitive. Anyway it must have scarred me because now I can’t see anything about this topic without wanting to come out swinging. I was arguing there aren’t enough lives to go around to give everyone alive today...

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