No - but getting close. The eleven year old would have become Antony's sister-in-law had she lived a bit longer.
Yes - after being exiled in Cyprus by Caesar, Arsinoe escaped back to Egypt and took command of the Egyptian army. She had Caesar trapped in Alexandria & he tried to take control of the harbour by attacking the island of Pharos - which would have allowed him to escape with his army. His attack failed and he only saved himself by stripping off his armour and swimming to a nearby Roman ship. Over to you.
By 'this year', do really mean last year - 2017? Or did you make a New Year's resolution to kill off some actors? Three actors who played those characters died during the year - Adam West (Batman), John Hurt (Caligula) and Roger Moore (James Bond)?
Margaret Thatcher has (quite rightly imo ) been blamed for a lot of the country's ills - what was it that she managed to kill off before it had even been invented?
I distinctly remember a conversation with my grandfather about his experiences at Gallipoli - when asked what he was feeling as he waded ashore, he replied "Ah wuz jist hopin' ah wudnae get hit". So I think hope was around before Thatcher...
Broadband?? http://www.techradar.com/news/world-of-tech/how-the-uk-lost-the-broadband-race-in-1990-1224784
Dr Cochrane knew that Britain's tired copper network was insufficient: "In 1974 it was patently obvious that copper wire was unsuitable for digital communication in any form, and it could not afford the capacity we needed for the future." He was asked to do a report on the UK's future of digital communication and what was needed to move forward. "In 1979 I presented my results," he tells us, "and the conclusion was to forget about copper and get into fibre. So BT started a massive effort - that spanned in six years - involving thousands of people to both digitise the network and to put fibre everywhere. The country had more fibre per capita than any other nation. "In 1986, I managed to get fibre to the home cheaper than copper and we started a programme where we built factories for manufacturing the system. By 1990, we had two factories, one in Ipswich and one in Birmingham, where were manufacturing components for systems to roll out to the local loop". At that time, the UK, Japan and the United States were leading the way in fibre optic technology and roll-out. Indeed, the first wide area fibre optic network was set up in Hastings, UK. But, in 1990, then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, decided that BT's rapid and extensive rollout of fibre optic broadband was anti-competitive and held a monopoly on a technology and service that no other telecom company could do. "Unfortunately, the Thatcher government decided that it wanted the American cable companies providing the same service to increase competition. So the decision was made to close down the local loop roll out and in 1991 that roll out was stopped. The two factories that BT had built to build fibre related components were sold to Fujitsu and HP, the assets were stripped and the expertise was shipped out to South East Asia. What a bad move eh! What is 22 in UK 27 in France and 29 in Palestine??
