Articles tagged ‘Farewells’.
It’s CI’s birthday! Two. How would you live without us? Let us know! Congratulate us. Conditions of congratulating us: 1. No hate bloggers...
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British troops have opened fire on a crowd of demonstrators in the Bogside district of Londonderry, killing 13 civilians. Seventeen more people, inclu...
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THE last New Year’s Day in human history has come. You may not believe it, but millions do. They are convinced that ancient Maya priests calcula...
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By Deborah Bonello The killing of documentary maker Christian Poveda represents a sad loss for a region much in need of greater understanding. The fir...
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By T. Crofton Croker The ancient burial-place of the Cantillon family was on an island in Ballyheigh Bay. This island was situated at no great distanc...
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By Ernesto Cardenal translated by Andrew McKenna They killed you and didn’t tell us where they buried your body, But ever since that day the who...
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Betty Skelton Erde, an auto racing pioneer who was once the fastest woman on Earth, has died. She was 85. Erde began as a female stunt pilot as a teen...
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In May this year an international team of forensic experts began examining the remains of Chile’s former president Salvador Allende to get to th...
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ROME (AP) — Salvatore Licitra, a tenor known in his Italian homeland as the “new Pavarotti,” died on Monday at 43 after spending nine da...
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By Rosa Raco I love old people. They regale you with stories of people and times long gone, offer you tea out of china cups and always have the time t...
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Australian road cyclist Carly Hibberd has been killed after colliding with a car while training in Italy. DFAT said on Thursday that the 26-year-old H...
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Norma “Duffy” Lyon, whose life-size butter sculptures of cows, Elvis and even Jesus and his disciples delighted Americans for nearly half ...
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SAO PAULO — A Brazilian woman listed by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest person died on Tuesday, just weeks shy of her 115th birth...
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Poet, novelist, musician, spoken-word guru, campaigner, thorn in the side of the establishment, victim of his own weaknesses: Gil Scott-Heron, who die...
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MEXICO CITY (AP).- British-born painter, writer and sculptor Leonora Carrington, considered one of the last of the original surrealists, has died. She...
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A simple, new blood test that can show how fast someone is ageing – and offers the tantalising possibility of estimating how long they have left to ...
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In 1957, Max Mathews invented a program that allowed a mainframe computer to play a 17-second musical composition. The technical breakthrough is still...
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Eleanor lived in this area for 20 years, and was involved in a range of environmental groups. She was a pioneer of social change causes, and was espec...
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Award-winning journalist Almena Lomax recently died in Pasadena, California, at the age of 95. Lomax was a pioneering black journalist in Southern Cal...
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Filmmaker, actor and theatre veteran Juliano Mer-Khamis was shot and killed Monday night in the West Bank city of Jenin on Monday. He was a well-know...
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Farewell Elizabeth Taylor LOS ANGELES (AP) — Elizabeth Taylor, the violet-eyed film goddess whose sultry screen persona, stormy personal life and en...
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Thanks to Isaac Sutcliffe for this grand idea: Ziggy Switkowski, businessman and nuclear physicist – but mostly businessman – has been pop...
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3 February 1959: Three young rock ‘n’ roll stars, including 22-year-old singer Buddy Holly, die when their plane crashes in the United Sta...
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30 January 1972: Army kills 13 in Northern Ireland civil rights protest Crank it – play it loud while you read...
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George Orwell died on 21 January 1950 after a three-year battle against tuberculosis. Until the last, news had been positive and it was hoped Mr Orwe...
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Vanishing voices An open database of endangered languages has been launched by researchers in the hope of creating a free, online portal that will giv...
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By Rita McInnes I’m living on a thin edge between life and death. I wait and watch for death while clinging hard to life. This is my mother’s deat...
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A Russian poet, a Dutch diver, a Nigerian human rights activist: the world’s a better place for their stay on earth....
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“I did it for Jacqueline Kennedy” – Jack Ruby The man accused of assassinating the US President, John F Kennedy, has himself been sh...
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Argentinian footballer, voice of the civil rights movement, inventor of fractals, advocate for women’s rights, Navajo code talker … in the...
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Benoît Mandelbrot has formulated his last fractal For the full story go to CI’s Farewells page....
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The Hollywood film star James Dean has been killed in a road accident in California. The 24-year-old actor was behind the wheel of his German-made Por...
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A movie star, a theatre director who wanted to throw money from the roof of parliament, a beautiful singer and activist, and a university professor &#...
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Christoph Schlingensief, the German stage director who scandalised conservative Wagnerians with a rotting hare at the Bayreuth Festival, died on Satu...
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Abbey Lincoln, a jazz singer and songwriter known for her phrasing, emotion and uncompromising style, died on Saturday in New York at age 80. As a you...
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Screen icon Marilyn Monroe has been found dead in bed at her Brentwood, Los Angeles home. The 36-year-old actress’ body was discovered in the ea...
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