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TIL of the concept of the "glass cliff", whereby women or ethnic minorities are often handed the reins of power only as the organisation or government in question is at its most vulnerable to failure

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You mean Cleopatra VII? There wasn't an VIII. Her father, Ptolemy XII, doesn't seem to have been assassinated. He specifically wanted her to be co-ruler with her younger brother, Ptolemy XIII, presumably because Cleo was both massively more competent and not ten years old, but thought their vassals might not have accepted a woman as sole ruler. XIII didn't like that Cleo was more popular than him and the real ruler of Egypt, so he tried to have her killed, starting a civil war. Cleopatra's faction won the war when XIII actually managed to accidentally drown himself fleeing a battle. Cleo then married her youngest brother, Ptolemy XIV, to solidify her rule. She likely had XIV assassinated to make her son the undisputed future Pharaoh after her, but there isn't anything resembling solid evidence either way.

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Judging by the last part of the article, he really might not have.

On July 21, 1950, Woods was accidentally electrocuted when he tried to change a light bulb while standing in a pool of water. He was buried in Toronto Township Cemetery, Toronto, Kansas.

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Israel Used White Phosphorus in Lebanon, Now No One Can Go Home

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Babylon 5 still being relevant, unfortunately:

Sinclair: "In order to be free, you had to learn to fight; no one questions that. But you've over-compensated. You're like abused children who have grown big enough to do the same thing to someone else... as if that will somehow balance the scales, it won't. If you let your anger cloud your judgement, it will destroy you."

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And in addition to being essentially a narco-state, the Hutt Cartel is also a rump state, being the remnants of the Hutt Empire, which was the largest and most powerful nation before the rise of the Galactic Republic.