In Russia , 10 people have frozen to death over the last 24 hours in Moscow, as temperatures plunged to -24C.

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Despite all the movies, books and iconic images of ruined buildings and German soldiers frozen to death, such violence seems inconceivable today.

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He foresaw "the chilling prospect of a disparity of scale in which all competition, not just the BBC, is frozen to death".

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And over the last 10 or 15 years three people have frozen to death in an area that is now illuminated, or visible through cameras.

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The top of the world remains a dangerous place, he says, recalling the story of an Inuit woman who had frozen to death during a recent winter snowstorm.

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William Jenkins, a high hill farmer from Manmoel near Blackwood, Caerphilly county, said there is little snow where he is but a cold, penetrating wind which leaves new born lambs at risk of being frozen to death.

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In Poland, news channel TVN24 on Sunday quoted police as saying 47 Poles, mainly homeless people, had been found frozen to death since the start of December as temperatures dropped as low as minus 18 degrees Celsius (about zero degrees Fahrenheit).

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Morsteol's daughter and grandson had him frozen after his death in Norway in 1989 and shipped the body to an LA-based cryogenic facility, before moving it to Nederland in 1993 in hopes of starting their own cryonic facility.

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