R.I.P. THREAD
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by CdesignProponentsist » Jan 28, 2017 5:33 pm
John Hurt's death has hit me the hardest. It literally brought tears to my eyes. On the top of my list of favorite actors and beloved personalities since watching 1984 in my high school classroom. A movie that has helped sculpt my life and values. He will be missed and fondly remembered.
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#1662 by felltoearth » Jan 29, 2017 11:06 pm
A story from my brother:
Damn. John Hurt. RIP. Got to talk to him at a Hothouse Flowers gig at the Horseshoe. I was a mess. He was kind.
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Re: R.I.P. THREAD
#1663 by Corneel » Feb 02, 2017 7:42 pm
Etienne Tshisekedi, historical leader of the opposition against Mobutu and both Kabilas died yesterday afternoon, while transition arrangements for the end of Kabila Junior's presidency are under negociation. The situation in the RDC got quite a bit more complicated with his death.
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Re: R.I.P. THREAD
#1664 by BlackBart » Feb 02, 2017 7:52 pm
John Wetton
I haz a sad.
Asia star John Wetton has died aged 67 after a battle with colon cancer, his bandmate Carl Palmer has said.
According to a brief statement released by the band, Wetton passed away in his sleep on Tuesday morning.
Wetton played bass and sang in King Crimson, Uriah Heep and Roxy Music before fronting supergroup Asia.
Palmer said on Facebook: "With the passing of my good friend and musical collaborator, John Wetton, the world loses yet another musical giant."
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Re: R.I.P. THREAD
#1665 by DougC » Feb 03, 2017 3:30 pm
Gordon Lewis Aikman BEM
(2 April 1985 – 3 February 2017)
British motor neurone disease campaigner and former Director of Research for Better Together.
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Maren Margrethe Thomsen
known as Maren Margrethe "Grethe" Bartram and "Thora"
(23 February 1924 – 31 January 2017)
Danish woman who informed on at least 53 people from the Danish resistance movement during the Second World War, resulting in the early communist resistance groups being dismantled and many of their members being sent to Nazi concentration camps. Bartram informed on her brother, husband and close acquaintances.
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(2 April 1985 – 3 February 2017)
British motor neurone disease campaigner and former Director of Research for Better Together.
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Maren Margrethe Thomsen
known as Maren Margrethe "Grethe" Bartram and "Thora"
(23 February 1924 – 31 January 2017)
Danish woman who informed on at least 53 people from the Danish resistance movement during the Second World War, resulting in the early communist resistance groups being dismantled and many of their members being sent to Nazi concentration camps. Bartram informed on her brother, husband and close acquaintances.
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Re: R.I.P. THREAD
#1666 by Scot Dutchy » Feb 03, 2017 5:04 pm
DougC wrote:
Maren Margrethe Thomsen
known as Maren Margrethe "Grethe" Bartram and "Thora"
(23 February 1924 – 31 January 2017)
Danish woman who informed on at least 53 people from the Danish resistance movement during the Second World War, resulting in the early communist resistance groups being dismantled and many of their members being sent to Nazi concentration camps. Bartram informed on her brother, husband and close acquaintances.
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There was a Dutch Jewess Ans van Dijk who did exactly the same (700 in this case) but she did not see 1950. I am surprised she was allowed to live.
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Re: R.I.P. THREAD
#1667 by Mike_L » Feb 06, 2017 1:26 pm
South African rugby star Joost van der Westhuizen, after a long battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (he was diagnosed in 2011).
http://www.sport24.co.za/Rugby/sa-rugby-mourns-joost-20170206
http://www.sport24.co.za/Rugby/sa-rugby-mourns-joost-20170206
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#1668 by Calilasseia » Feb 09, 2017 6:08 am
Bernard Skinner, author of a seminal work on British Lepidoptera, died on 8th February 2017. Sadly he seems not to have been notable enough to appear on Wikipedia despite this.
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Re: R.I.P. THREAD
#1669 by Fallible » Feb 09, 2017 7:25 am
She battled through in every kind of tribulation,
She revelled in adventure and imagination.
She never listened to no hater, liar,
Breaking boundaries and chasing fire.
Oh, my my! Oh my, she flies!
She revelled in adventure and imagination.
She never listened to no hater, liar,
Breaking boundaries and chasing fire.
Oh, my my! Oh my, she flies!
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Re: R.I.P. THREAD
#1670 by DougC » Feb 09, 2017 3:24 pm
Alan Francis Simpson, OBE
(27 November 1929 – 8 February 2017)
English scriptwriter, best known for the Galton and Simpson comedy writing partnership with Ray Galton. Together they devised and wrote the BBC sitcom Hancock's Half Hour (1954–1961), the first two series of Comedy Playhouse (1961–1963), and Steptoe and Son (1962–1974).
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Richard Lawrence Hatch
(May 21, 1945 – February 7, 2017)
American actor, writer, and producer. Hatch began his career as a stage actor, before moving on to television work in the 1970s. Hatch is best known for his role as Captain Apollo in the original Battlestar Galactica television series.
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(27 November 1929 – 8 February 2017)
English scriptwriter, best known for the Galton and Simpson comedy writing partnership with Ray Galton. Together they devised and wrote the BBC sitcom Hancock's Half Hour (1954–1961), the first two series of Comedy Playhouse (1961–1963), and Steptoe and Son (1962–1974).
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Richard Lawrence Hatch
(May 21, 1945 – February 7, 2017)
American actor, writer, and producer. Hatch began his career as a stage actor, before moving on to television work in the 1970s. Hatch is best known for his role as Captain Apollo in the original Battlestar Galactica television series.
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To be, is to do (Sartre)
Do be do be do (Sinatra)
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To be, is to do (Sartre)
Do be do be do (Sinatra)
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#1671 by Mike_L » Feb 10, 2017 12:14 pm
Physicist Peter Mansfield, who won the Nobel Prize for helping to invent MRI scanners, has died at the age of 83.
The University of Nottingham released a statement from Mansfield's family on Thursday confirming his death a day earlier.
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http://www.news24.com/World/News/nobel-winner-for-work-on-mri-dies-20170210
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Re: R.I.P. THREAD
#1672 by Mike_L » Feb 10, 2017 12:23 pm
DougC wrote:Richard Lawrence Hatch
(May 21, 1945 – February 7, 2017)
American actor, writer, and producer. Hatch began his career as a stage actor, before moving on to television work in the 1970s. Hatch is best known for his role as Captain Apollo in the original Battlestar Galactica television series.
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#1673 by Pulsar » Feb 13, 2017 8:11 am
Al Jarreau
(March 12, 1940 – February 12, 2017)
American singer and musician. Jarreau received a total of seven Grammy Awards and was nominated for over a dozen more. Jarreau is perhaps best known for his 1981 album Breakin' Away, for having sung the theme song of the late–1980s television series Moonlighting, and as a performer in the 1985 charity song "We Are the World".
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(March 12, 1940 – February 12, 2017)
American singer and musician. Jarreau received a total of seven Grammy Awards and was nominated for over a dozen more. Jarreau is perhaps best known for his 1981 album Breakin' Away, for having sung the theme song of the late–1980s television series Moonlighting, and as a performer in the 1985 charity song "We Are the World".
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#1674 by DougC » Feb 16, 2017 1:54 pm
Raymond Dugrand
(13 January 1925 – 13 February 2017)
French geographer and urban planner. He was a professor of geography at the University of Montpellier, and the author of several books about the geography of the Languedoc. He was the head of urban planning for the city of Montpellier from 1977 to 2001. He is the namesake of an avenue in Montpellier.
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Kim Jong-nam
(10 May 1971 – 13 February 2017)
The eldest son of Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea from 1994 until 2011. From roughly 1994 to 2001, he was considered to be the heir apparent to his father and the next leader of North Korea. Following a much-publicized botched attempt to enter Japan using a fake passport and visit Tokyo Disneyland in May 2001, he was thought to have fallen out of favor with his father.
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Damian Davey
(real name Damian Baker; 30 September 1964 – 12 February 2017)
Better known by the mononym Damian, was an English pop musician, best known for his 1989 hit "The Time Warp", a cover version of the original track from The Rocky Horror Show.
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(13 January 1925 – 13 February 2017)
French geographer and urban planner. He was a professor of geography at the University of Montpellier, and the author of several books about the geography of the Languedoc. He was the head of urban planning for the city of Montpellier from 1977 to 2001. He is the namesake of an avenue in Montpellier.
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Kim Jong-nam
(10 May 1971 – 13 February 2017)
The eldest son of Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea from 1994 until 2011. From roughly 1994 to 2001, he was considered to be the heir apparent to his father and the next leader of North Korea. Following a much-publicized botched attempt to enter Japan using a fake passport and visit Tokyo Disneyland in May 2001, he was thought to have fallen out of favor with his father.
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Damian Davey
(real name Damian Baker; 30 September 1964 – 12 February 2017)
Better known by the mononym Damian, was an English pop musician, best known for his 1989 hit "The Time Warp", a cover version of the original track from The Rocky Horror Show.
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To be, is to do (Sartre)
Do be do be do (Sinatra)
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To be, is to do (Sartre)
Do be do be do (Sinatra)
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Re: R.I.P. THREAD
#1675 by Mike_L » Feb 21, 2017 3:18 pm
Vitaly Churkin
http://www.news24.com/World/News/russias-ambassador-to-united-nations-dies-20170221
Full text at:Russia's ambassador to United Nations dies
2017-02-21
Russia's ambassador to the United Nations, a veteran diplomat known as a potent, savvy yet personable voice for his country's interests who could both spar and get along with his Western counterparts, died suddenly Monday after falling ill in his office at Russia's UN mission.
Vitaly Churkin was taken to a hospital, where he died a day before his 65th birthday, said Russia's deputy UN ambassador, Vladimir Safronkov. The cause of his death was unknown.
As Russia's envoy at the United Nations since 2006 and a diplomat for decades, Churkin was considered Moscow's great champion at the UN, where he was the longest-serving ambassador on the powerful Security Council.
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http://www.news24.com/World/News/russias-ambassador-to-united-nations-dies-20170221
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Re: R.I.P. THREAD
#1676 by DougC » Feb 24, 2017 3:20 pm
Steve Hewlett
(8 August 1958 – 20 February 2017)
British print and radio journalist and visiting professor of Journalism and Broadcast Policy at the University of Salford.
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Mildred Dresselhaus
(née Spiewak; November 11, 1930 – February 20, 2017)
American known as the "queen of carbon science", was the first female Institute Professor and professor emerita of physics and electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dresselhaus won numerous awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the National Medal of Science, the Enrico Fermi Award and the Vannevar Bush Award.
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Mildred Dresselhaus
(née Spiewak; November 11, 1930 – February 20, 2017)
American known as the "queen of carbon science", was the first female Institute Professor and professor emerita of physics and electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dresselhaus won numerous awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the National Medal of Science, the Enrico Fermi Award and the Vannevar Bush Award.
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To do, is to be (Socrate)
To be, is to do (Sartre)
Do be do be do (Sinatra)
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To be, is to do (Sartre)
Do be do be do (Sinatra)
SUBWAY(1985)
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Re: R.I.P. THREAD
#1677 by Animavore » Feb 26, 2017 4:56 pm
Bill Paxton. Aged 61. Complications of surgery.
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Re: R.I.P. THREAD
#1678 by Rumraket » Feb 26, 2017 4:58 pm
Animavore wrote:Bill Paxton. Aged 61. Complications of surgery.
How lame and tedious.
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Re: R.I.P. THREAD
#1679 by Pulsar » Feb 26, 2017 5:30 pm
"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time." - George Bernard Shaw
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Re: R.I.P. THREAD
#1680 by Animavore » Feb 26, 2017 5:35 pm
All the media are mentioning the big films, Aliens and Titanic- the latter I don't even remember him in - but I thought immediately of True Lies and The Last Supper when I saw him. And I had to look up the latter because apart from him it was a forgettable movie.
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