From the Economist Aug 14th-20th 2021
Excess deaths per 100,000 (unexplained deaths over normal level of deaths)
https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid
1st Peru, 2nd Bulgaria
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free vaccines
look a gift horse in the mouth, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Fort_Pitt
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A tale of two flights
IA271 Baghdad to Minsk 2020 74 people crossed the border from Belarus to Lithuania
This year more than 4,000 have tried.
The European Commission supplied barbed wire to stop them. The war between humanitarians and hardliners is over.
OS52 Tokyo to Vienna. Kristina Timanovskaya, a Belarusian athlete on her way to claim asylum in Poland. “Maintain a sense of moral leadership”.
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Best country in the world (spoiler- it's Ireland) - https://www.ted.com/talks/simon_anholt_which_country_does_the_most_good_for_the_world?language=en
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oil
Kjell Inge Rokke, Norway. Ghana oilfields https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kjell_Inge_R%C3%B8kke
corruption
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Nigeria Ramon Abbas $230,000 watch businessman
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1789 and all that-the new pass sanitaire is "a sanitary coup d'état"- Nicolas Dupont-Aignan
Michèle Rivasi- "apartheid"
apartheid -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Biko
yellow stars- pass Nazitaire
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US armed forces you can use private pilot time to boost your score to get to pilot training. General Charles Brown
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best country for badminton Indonesia
badminton world championships- 2019, Asian countries won 19 out of 20 medals.
Badminton is the only sport in which Indonesia has ever won Olympic gold- and it has done so at all but one of the Olympics since badminton was introduced in 1992.
Other countries dominating sports
cycling, sailing, horsejumping, sprinting, middle distance running
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117453/olympics-mens-100m-medal-table-since-1896/
1500 UK, Finland, Kenya
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1500_metres_at_the_Olympics
medals per capita table
https://www.medalspercapita.com
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number of organs in human body, 4, 5, 12, 78
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Sulphates are given off by coal plants and big ships. They have cooled the Earth by 0.5 degrees.
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Tennis- All In by Billie Jean King her "highest profile match was in 1973". ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Sexes_(tennis)
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Football Lionel Messi gretaest player of all time according to the stats
Di Stefano. Barcelona thought they had clinched a deal with his original club River Plate, Real Madrid were convinced that they had come to an agreement with Millonarios. The Spanish authorities produced a ludicrous compromise, Di Stéfano would play alternative seasons for both clubs.
Suspiciously, he did not make an immediate impact during his first six appearances for Real and after some insipid and uninspiring performances, Barcelona decided to sell their interest in the player. It was a decision they would live to regret. In his first full game as a fully-fledged Meringue he scored four goals against the Catalans themselves. Although never proven, many suspected that General Franco had been the Deus Ex Machina behind the signing.
Di Stéfano was the top scorer in the Spanish league for four of the next five seasons and he netted in every European Cup final from 1956 to 1960. No player has ever scored in five consecutive finals since. He notched 308 goals in 390 appearances for Madrid, including 54 in 62 European matches.
In the final game of his first season, he and Di Stéfano were level as the top scorers in LaLiga. Puskás rounded the goalkeeper but instead of scoring, passed the ball across an open goal for his partner to bury it into the empty net. Di Stéfano had found his perfect partner.
Puskás scored 240 goals in 260 appearances for Real,