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Re: Deaths of famous people (2022)
« Reply #225: August 09, 2022, 10:54:33 AM »
I think the next presidential biography I read is Meacham on Poppy Bush.  To this day, I think his 1990 stands up on any short list of the greatest single years of a President.  1990 saw passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, the Oil Pollution Act, the budget deal that kicked of the deficit reduction of the 1990s, plus organizing the Gulf War 1 coalition. I think the ADA was the greatest civil rights legislation after LBJ.  However, that budget deal would have been even better had it not been for the rise of Newt, who made his name trying to scuttle it and forcing Poppy (and Alan Simpson) to roll back some of the terms of the bigger deal.   

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Re: Deaths of famous people (2022)
« Reply #226: August 09, 2022, 06:01:44 PM »
David McCullough - historian, author.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/08/08/david-mccullough-dead-american-history/

Very sad news. As well as his Pulitzer Prize writing, there is also his role in establishing 'American Experience'.on PBS.

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« Reply #227: August 09, 2022, 06:27:22 PM »
Issey Miyake (84) - Japanese fashion designer.

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Re: Deaths of famous people (2022)
« Reply #228: August 09, 2022, 06:41:32 PM »
Lamont Dozier (81) - member of Motown legendary songwriting partnership. Holland, Dozier, Holland.

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« Reply #229: August 10, 2022, 04:48:25 PM »
Lamont Dozier (81) - member of Motown legendary songwriting partnership. Holland, Dozier, Holland.

Lots of famous songs.

https://www.npr.org/2022/08/09/1116472786/lamont-dozier-motown-died

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« Reply #230: August 10, 2022, 06:36:32 PM »
Raymond Briggs (88) - author of 'The Snowman', 'Father Christmas', 'Fungus The Bogeyman', 'When The Wind Blows', and many others.

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Re: Deaths of famous people (2022)
« Reply #231: August 12, 2022, 02:06:35 PM »
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/08/11/bill-russell-nba-jersey-retirement

#6 retired across the league.  No new #6s to be issued, current players get to keep it until they retire.  Celtic logo with #6 to be displayed on all courts this year.

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Re: Deaths of famous people (2022)
« Reply #232: August 15, 2022, 05:46:47 PM »
Pete Carril.  Famed Princeton coach.  92

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Re: Deaths of famous people (2022)
« Reply #233: August 16, 2022, 02:59:14 PM »
John Adams: Probably one of the best books I have ever read. My understanding is that McCullough had access to over 1500 letters exchanged between Adams and his wife Abigail who was as remarkable as he was. She was ahead of her times by at least a century . Not only historically accurate but also a love story. If you haven't read it I highly recommend it.

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Re: Deaths of famous people (2022)
« Reply #234: August 16, 2022, 04:55:05 PM »
Mike Burrows (79) - legendary cycle designer.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-62560025


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« Reply #236: August 23, 2022, 06:03:44 PM »
Jerry Allison (82) - drummer with The Crickets ( as he was the last surviving member, I suppose they have now faded away...).

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Re: Deaths of famous people (2022)
« Reply #239: August 24, 2022, 12:17:10 PM »
:(  (SB IV Legend).
big innovation of that Chiefs team was the moving pocket.  Dawson was a bit short, IIRC. Stramm came up with the idea to roll him out with the line setting up a pocket to one side of the field rather than drop him back straight away.  That put some of the pass rushers out of their usual lanes and opened up lanes to pass.

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Re: Deaths of famous people (2022)
« Reply #240: August 30, 2022, 05:30:41 PM »
Mikhail Gorbachev. Will be interesting to see how Putin handles it.

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Re: Deaths of famous people (2022)
« Reply #241: August 30, 2022, 05:34:39 PM »
Mikhail Gorbachev. Will be interesting to see how Putin handles it.

I'm sure the big question will be, 'Does Putin allow cameras to film him while he's dancing on Gorabachev's grave, or will it be a private celebration?'

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« Reply #242: August 30, 2022, 06:07:45 PM »
I'm sure the big question will be, 'Does Putin allow cameras to film him while he's dancing on Gorabachev's grave, or will it be a private celebration?'

Putin's entire rationale for invading Ukraine was to undo Gorbachev's dismantling of the Soviet Union.

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Re: Deaths of famous people (2022)
« Reply #243: August 31, 2022, 08:48:33 PM »
Lee Thomas, at age 86.

As a player, scout and executive, it seems like he was with half the teams in baseball.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Thomas_(baseball)

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Re: Deaths of famous people (2022)
« Reply #244: September 01, 2022, 09:34:44 AM »
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_the_Hole

The "Man of the Hole" was the last surviving member of an indigenous tribe living in the jungles of Brazil. His entire tribe, except him, was massacred between 1970 and 1995. He lived from 1995 until 2022 alone in the jungle: the Brazilian government ended up creating a protected 31-sq mile zone just for him to live in. He chopped his own wood, foraged his own food, and moved between a series of small houses that he built for himself. He dug a number of very deep holes for reasons we don't fully understand: some might have been for animal trapping, some may have been hiding places, some may have been ceremonial.

When he was found dead, seemingly from natural causes, his body was covered with macaw feathers that he had placed on himself. A tantalizing glimpse into a now-lost culture we will never know anything about. We can only imagine what he thought to himself, in a language that died with him, as he lived by himself for decades.

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Re: Deaths of famous people (2022)
« Reply #245: September 08, 2022, 09:31:36 AM »
Bernard Shaw - 82 years old. One of the original CNN anchors.

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« Reply #246: September 08, 2022, 01:58:02 PM »
Bernard Shaw - 82 years old. One of the original CNN anchors.
Loved him, so many stories he was the voice I listened to.

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Re: Deaths of famous people (2022)
« Reply #247: September 10, 2022, 06:35:27 PM »
Ray Rippelmeyer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Rippelmeyer

Not really "famous" per se, but he did pitch for the Senators in 1962.


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Re: Deaths of famous people (2022)
« Reply #249: September 13, 2022, 05:24:36 PM »
Ken Starr of Clinton-Lewinsky fame. He was 76.