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Fortnite dropped its latest Level Up Pack this week, and it’s a bit of an unusual one. The skin that comes in this season’s pack is called Captain Hypatia–she’s a starship captain. Like all the skins in the Level Up Packs, Hypatia’s got an alternate “Armored” style that is very different from its main style. This alt style takes this pretty standard lady here and turns her into an extremely dope cyborg, with arms and legs that are not physically attached to her torso but are held on by some kind of red energy. See below.
That arms-and-legs thing is particularly interesting when you take it in conjunction with her name. There’s only been one truly notable person with the name Hypatia in all of history: a Greek philosopher and astronomer who lived in Alexandria, Egypt in the late 4th and early 5th Centuries, and the first female mathematician that we have significant historical records about. That’s the main reason she’s famous– but the second biggest reason for her fame is the way she was brutally murdered and literally torn limb from limb by a mob of Christians.
There have been other things called Hypatia in the 1600 years since Hypatia of Alexandria was alive. Pretty much all of them are named after this woman, though, and the ones that aren’t are almost certainly named after things that were named for Hypatia of Alexandria. This fact has probably helped maintain her legacy, because there just haven’t been any other Hypatias who were famous and could have stolen her name’s thunder.
SERIAL killer Levi Bellfield has signed a confession admitting to the hammer murders of Lin and daughter Megan Russell in 1996, it was reported last night.
Lawyers for Michael Stone, 62, who was convicted of the crime, say it contains information only the killer would know.
Serial killer Levi Bellfield is said to have signed a written confession admitting to the hammer murders of Lin and daughter Megan Russell[/caption]
Michael Stone was convicted of the crime[/caption]
Although the document has not been given to police, it is being used in Stone’s appeal efforts.
Stone told The Mirror from HMP Frankland: “I’ve been in prison for 26 years for a crime I did not commit.”
Lin, 45, and daughters, Josie, nine, and Megan, six, were tied up and attacked in Chillenden, Kent. Josie survived.
Triple murderer Bellfield, 54, who is serving two whole life orders, claimed responsibility a year ago, then denied it.
Stone’s solicitor Theresa Clark said: “The statement made last year was never signed. He’s subsequently done a written statement which he has signed. He accepts responsibility.”
The Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) said the case is under review.
The CCRC, which has been investigating Stone’s conviction since 2017, will decide whether the case should be referred to the Court of Appeal.
Submissions by his defence team since 2017 already included a four-page written confession to the killings by Bellfield from February last year.
But after the confession was publicised he then reportedly denied the attack, prompting claims it could have been part of a sick joke to “mess” with Stone.
Last June it was reported that the CCRC was set to find there was no forensic evidence to connect Bellfield to the crimes, and that evidence had emerged that cast doubt on the credibility of his confession.
Ms Clark said of the signed statement: “This is a new and more detailed one.
“The statement made last year was never signed by him but he’s subsequently done a written statement which he’s signed.”
Stone was arrested a year after Lin and Megan’s murders on unrelated charges, when he is alleged to have confessed to a fellow prisoner in a Canterbury prison.
A CCRC spokesperson said of Stone’s case: “This case is currently under review and no final decision has yet been reached on the application.”
On Thursday, TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew give his first interview since sparring with House lawmakers in a testy hearing back in March. Chew is one of dozens of business leaders speaking at the TED2023 “Possibility” conference held in Vancouver, Canada. In a softball discussion that saw that the interviewer praising Chew…