Deadpool 2024

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One of these is Sid Vicious, but there are many this week.

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In memory of those who “died suddenly” in the United States, August 19-26, 2024

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Quote: Riverjordan

When you said Sid Vicious, I IMMEDIATELY thought of the Punk Rocker of the 70's of the same name and thought,"Uh, Sid died in like 1975. Not in 2024. 😵‍💫🤨 I went to Google and looked up Sid Vicious and saw that you meant Sid Eudy/Sid Vicious, a Wrestler who indeed did die in 2024. 💡

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Masamitsu Yoshioka, last of Japan’s Pearl Harbor attack force, dies at 106

Masamitsu Yoshioka was born in Ishikawa Prefecture in western Japan on Jan. 5, 1918. He joined the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1936, assigned to a ground crew whose work included keeping aloft an aging fleet of biplanes.

He began navigator training in 1938 and was posted the next year to the Soryu, a 746-foot carrier that was then involved in Japan’s war in China against the forces of nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek
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Then in August 1941, Mr. Yoshioka was shifted suddenly to torpedo training. At bases on the mainland, pilots practiced maintaining a flat flight-line just above the surface; Mr. Yoshioka and others were taught the precise moment and angle to release torpedoes.

“Despite all of our training, we got only one practice run with a real torpedo,” Mr. Yoshioka said.

On Nov. 26, 1941, the Soryu left the Kuril Islands, an archipelago now under Russian control. The crew still had no idea of the destination. They had been told to pack shorts, leading to rumors that the target was somewhere to the south, Mr. Yoshioka recalled.

The Soryu joined an armada of five other carriers as well as battleships and other vessels. On Dec. 2, word came that talks had broken down between U.S. and Japanese envoys over issues including a freeze on Japanese assets in the United States, which effectively cut off access to U.S. oil shipments desperately needed by Japan.

As the war spread across the Pacific, he flew support missions during the battle for Wake Island just after Pearl Harbor and took part in Japan’s attack on Allied ships off British-controlled Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in spring 1942.

The Soryu was sunk in the Battle of Midway in June 1942. Mr. Yoshioka was at home on leave at the time. On the island of Peleliu, he contracted malaria and was evacuated for treatment before it was shelled and stormed by U.S. forces in 1944 in a grinding fight that left heavy casualties on both sides.

In August 1945, he was at an air base when Emperor Hirohito announced Japan’s surrender after atomic bombs ravaged Hiroshima and Nagasaki. After the war, Mr. Yoshioka worked at a transport company and was part of the postwar Japanese navy, known as the Maritime Self-Defense Force, he told Japan’s Asahi Shimbun newspaper in 2021.
Information on survivors was not immediately available.

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Ariana Grande always been this thin? (she's not dead, though she does seem close to the bone)

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A social media snake-handler and conservationist known as South Africa’s Steve Irwin has died a month after being bitten by a highly venomous snake.

Graham “Dingo” Dinkelman won hundreds of thousands of fans with his daredevil videos showing him interacting with some of the world’s deadliest animals.

The 44-year-old died at the weekend having spent a month in an induced coma after being bitten at home by a green mamba and going into anaphylactic shock.

His videos were watched around three million times each month and he said his goal was to educate and inspire audiences about conservation.

The clips often highlighted the dangers of the animals he was handling and the risks of getting bitten by highly venomous snakes.

Recent videos on his YouTube channel saw him handling a forest cobra, a bushmaster, a cobra and an inland taipan.

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President Jimmy Carter, 100. Noted Navy officer. Fair winds and following seas...