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ramoss Member (Idle past 643 days) Posts: 3228 Joined: |
Tony Gwynn, san diego hall of famer , died of cancer at age 54.
He had a number of operations for tumors in his mouth over the last few years. He blamed smokeless tobacco for his condition.
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It is not 100% surprising, but it is very sad. He was an amazing comedian.
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She knew how to make me laugh
Joan Rivers dies at age 81 | CNN
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ramoss Member (Idle past 643 days) Posts: 3228 Joined: |
Then, he was a proper democrat.
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RIP Lenard Nimoy. I found he was a fascinating person to talk to.
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I talked to him about 15 minutes, and we discussed his new book a bit, and some of the stories of behind scenes on star trek. He had just published Shekhinah.
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I just spent the evening listening to 'Conversions with Neil Gaiman'. One of the questions asked was about he and Terry Pratchett, and he has some wonderful reminiscing. He mentioned there were three things on Terry's casket . I can't remember the first, but the second was the sword he was knighted with, which as made from meteoric iron, and a type writer, with a page with two words on it, "The End".
Neil also told about how he visited Terry when he was ill with Alzheimer's. The care taker had gone home, and Terry was sitting there all withdrawn. Neil remembered a trailer that his wife showed him about how music helps Alzheimer patients reconnect with themselves, because it stimulates different parts of the brain, so he started singing what had been sort of an unofficial theme song between the two, and Terry jumped in and sang along with it. After that, he did indeed reconnect with the world, and the two of them spend a nice 45 minutes chatting with each other. It put a nice personal touch to Terry.
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Famed 'A Beautiful Mind' mathematician John Nash, wife, killed in N.J. Turnpike crash - nj.com
John Forbes Nash Jr., the brilliant Princeton University mathematician whose life story was the subject of the film "A Beautiful Mind," was killed with his wife Alicia on Saturday in a crash on the New Jersey Turnpike.
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He wasn't overly famous, but , what he did to, is save 669 Children from Czechoslovakia from the Holocaust. He didn't even talk about it for 50 year, until his wife found his notebook and notes about it.
Nicholas Winton, Rescuer of 669 Children From Holocaust, Dies at 106 - The New York Times
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Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't go to yours."
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