Articles tagged ‘Farewells’.

Carlos Fuentes dies
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The Guardian Carlos Fuentes, Mexico‘s most celebrated novelist and a leading figure in Latin America’s 20th century literary boom of the ...
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On this day in 1974: Bombs devastate Dublin and Monaghan
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Three car bombs have exploded in Dublin, killing 23 people and injuring more than 100 others during rush hour. Five more people died and another 20 we...
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Six months, and days to go, but who’s counting? Seminar to consider end of world prophecy
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Filled your cellar with canned food? We are nearly half way through 2012 and on December 21 a cataclysmic event is supposed to occur which, according ...
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Let’s chat about death
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Who wants to talk about death and dying? That is just what the Castlemaine Health and Maldon Hospital Palliative Care Special Interest Group is inviti...
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‘It will be the end’
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Is Fukushima’s Doomsday Machine About to Blow? By Mike Whitney April 19, 2012 “Information Clearing House” — Mounting troubles...
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Help the appeal to VCAT by joining EPIC
EPIC needs a list of members for their appeal to VCAT. If you currently receive EPIC emails you are not a member you should still join. It’s fr...
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Two!
At the last CI staff meeting
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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30 January 1972: Army kills 13 in Northern Ireland civil rights protest
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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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A Maya culpa on the end of the world
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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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Death in El Salvador
Farewell Christian Poveda
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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Sunday fiction: Flory Cantillon’s funeral
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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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Saturday poem: Epitaph for Adolfo Báez Bone
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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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Farewell to the fastest woman on earth
Farewell Betty Skelton Erde
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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The last words of Salvador Allende
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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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Farewell Salvatore Licitra
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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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The Annie Swanton Walk
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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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Farewell Carly Hibberd
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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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Farewell butter lady
Farewell Norma Lyons
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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World’s oldest woman dies
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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Farewell Gill Scott-Heron: The Revolution will not be televised
Farewell Gil Scott-Heron
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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Farewell Leonora Carrington
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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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Journalist files her last copy
Farewell Almena Lomax
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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Help get Ziggy to Fukushima
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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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Farewell Buddy Holly, 3 February 1959
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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January 2011 farewells
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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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21 January 1950: Farewell George Orwell
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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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December farewells
The Amazon - bound for drier times?
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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24 November 1963: Kennedy ‘assassin’ murdered
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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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September – October Farewells
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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Warning, this gets weird – like that weird in Kubrick’s 2001
Benoît Mandelbrot has formulated his last fractal For the full story go to CI’s Farewells page....
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30 September 1955: Farewell James Dean
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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5 August 1962: Farewell Marilyn Monroe
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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Castlemaine Independent’s great!
‘Castlemaine Independent’s great! I made it my homepage!’ (A quote like that couldn’t be let go. Arabella wins ... I don’t know, a free subscription? Any suggestions?
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