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I read Follett's new one, this time a prequel to The Pillars of the Earth. It was good. I feel like with the two sequels and now this one, he has mostly rewritten Pillars three times in different time frames. This one is set around the turn of the last millennium, so England is showing the first signs of eventually coming out of the dark ages and there are lots of Viking raids. It also has the familiar tropes - the genius builder, the evil scheming bishop and his family, the couple that fall in love but are kept apart by their different classes and said scheming bishop. But I really loved the original, so this was good too.
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We haven't done well but somehow there's this idea that we're the worst which also isn't true. This week's economist has the following deaths per 100k population:
- Belgium 86
- Spain 65
- UK 61
- USA 59
- Italy 59
- Sweden 58
- France 48
- Netherlands 37
European countries that have done well:
- Portugal 19
- Germany 11
- Denmark 11
- Finland 6
- Norway 5
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2020 Astros Season Thread
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That overlay shows they even mostly copied MinuteMaid's outfield dimensions from CF to RF. They have a real LF though.