Rosa Parks, the woman whose refusal to move to the back of a segregated bus helped launch the civil rights movement, dies.
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Hats off to Rosa!
Her story is worth a read.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/24/AR2005102402053.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/25/national/25parks.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1130224538-kb9MJK+OVLuGLxitz/bJmQ
[quote=“Dragonbones”]Hats off to Rosa!
Her story is worth a read.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/24/AR2005102402053.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/25/national/25parks.html?hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1130224538-kb9MJK+OVLuGLxitz/bJmQ[/quote]
Yes!
[quote=“Steve Scafidi”]
Ode to Rosa Parks
In the forests of Alabama where pine trees crowd the air and scrape
the blue sky raw and heat sifts down a few degrees
where green moss creeps on stones and crawls over the earth,
I will bet all I ever loved that just below the surface here you will find
the bones of men smashed by roots and the gray rinds
of the skulls of women broken open like sudden storms one at a time
over the brutal Southern course of years and you could populate
three or four medium-sized towns with the bodies lost
in the forests outside Montgomery Alabama and forty-five years of
clear starry nights have passed over these pines since that afternoon
in December in 1955 when you risked the sudden
rage of whites who mobbed up at a moment
Let her serve as a reminder to all of those who feel that one man cannot make a difference.
Excellent, they both touched our hearts and shaped our lives.
forget ye not, o wise man, or are you?
there is no pity for them, only bravery and flight with the eagles…
and, ye, God is one of us, or what if God was one of us?
for who among us has not wondered, what is bravery?
or, for that matter, where tears are from…if not, heaven?
so cherish your life young man, for peace is not a gift, it’s a duty
as surely as you stand proudly, they stand amongst and between the angels.
cherish and honour their memory, forget not their clothing…
Harvey “Stub” Wickens (1896)
The Voice of the Jolly Green Giant, Elmer Dresslar, has died at 80.
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news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051029/us_nm/buckyballs_dc
Rice University professor Richard Smalley, who shared a 1996 Nobel Prize in chemistry for the discovery of “buckyballs,” has died of cancer at the age of 62, the university said on Friday.
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[quote]Desmond Piers, commander of a Canadian destroyer at Normandy, dies at age 92
Wed Nov 2,11:38 PM ET
HALIFAX (CP) - Desmond (Debby) Piers, a decorated former navy rear admiral who commanded a Canadian destroyer during the Normandy invasion, died Tuesday. He was 92.
Born in Halifax in 1913, Piers joined the Royal Canadian Navy in 1932 and had a distinguished military career that spanned three decades. [b]“He was a heroic man whose contribution to the navy are unparalleled,” Vice-Admiral Bruce MacLean, commander of the Canadian navy, said Wednesday.
“He will forever be remembered as one of our finest.”[/b]
In 1941, at the age of 28, Piers took command of HMCS Restigouche and for the next two years escorted convoys through the submarine-infested North Atlantic to Europe.
At the age of 30, Piers took command of HMCS Algonguin, a destroyer that provided fire support to Canadian and Allied troops during the Normandy invasion. He was later awarded the L’Ordre National de la Legion d’Honneur, France’s highest recognition for bravery in battle.
He was also awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for service during the Battle of the Atlantic.
In November 1944, Algonquin took part in an attack on a German convoy off Norway and helped destroy seven German ships.
Following the war, Piers served in several key positions, including commandant of the Royal Military College and commander of Canadian defence liaison staff in Washington.
He is survived by his wife Janet.
Funeral arrangements were not released.[/quote]
[quote]LOS ANGELES - Peter F. Drucker, revered as the father of modern management for his numerous books and articles stressing innovation, entrepreneurship and strategies for dealing with a changing world, died Friday, a spokesman for Claremont Graduate University said. He was 95.
Drucker died of natural causes at his home in Claremont, east of Los Angeles, said spokesman Bryan Schneider.
“He is purely and simply the most important developer of effective management and of effective public policy in the 20th century,” former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Friday. “In the more than 30 years that I’ve studied him, talked with him and learned from him, he has been invaluable and irreplaceable.”[/quote]
Absolute genious. Life well done. :bravo:
Agree with gusto. I have heard Dr. Drucker lecture, I think, 5 or 6 times. A gifted individual.
RIP.
This is your death!
news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051116/ap_ … &printer=1
[quote]
Ralph Edwards stands near the window in his Hollywood office in Los Angeles with Mann’s Chinese Theater in the background on Sept. 16, 1999. Edwards, host of the popular 1950s ‘This Is Your Life’ television show, died Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2005, of heart failure, his publicist said. He was 92.(AP Photo/Reed Saxon)[/quote]
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[quote]Last allied witness of WWI Christmas truce dies
By Peter Graff
Mon Nov 21,11:59 AM ET
The last known surviving allied veteran of the Christmas Truce that saw German and British soldiers shake hands between the trenches in World War One died Monday at 109, his parish priest said.
Alfred Anderson was the oldest man in Scotland and the last known surviving Scottish veteran of the war.
“I remember the silence, the eerie sound of silence,” he was quoted as saying in the Observer newspaper last year, describing the day-long Christmas Truce of 1914, which began spontaneously when German soldiers sang carols in the trenches, and British soldiers responded in English.
"All I’d heard for two months in the trenches was the hissing, cracking and whining of bullets in flight, machinegun fire and distant German voices. But there was a dead silence that morning across the land as far as you could see.
“We shouted ‘Merry Christmas’ even though nobody felt merry. The silence ended early in the afternoon and the killing started again.”
Troops in the trenches swapped cigarettes, uniform buttons and addresses and even played football in one of the most extraordinary episodes of the war.
Parish priest Neil Gardner of Anderson’s Alyth Parish Church in Scotland said he had died in his sleep and was survived by a large family, including 18 great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren.
“He was a wonderful old man: he was gracious, gentle, he had a great sense of humor and a fine sense of wisdom from his experience spanning three centuries,” said Gardner, who also served as chaplain to Anderson’s regiment, the Black Watch.
Anderson also served briefly as a member of the household staff of Queen Elizabeth’s uncle, Fergus Bowes-Lyon.
With Anderson’s death, fewer than 10 British veterans of the war remain alive, of whom only three or four were veterans of trench warfare on the Western Front.
Attention has turned to the last survivors in recent weeks, with filmmakers bringing out documentaries in time for this month’s Armistice Day holiday, marking the day the guns fell silent on November 11, 1918. [/quote]
Saw him play for Hibs a few times. RIP George.
Link Wray, the inventor of the power chord is no longer with us.
[quote]
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP)
Wax on, wax off, is gone.
‘Karate Kid’ Sensei Pat Morita Dies at 73
[quote]LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - Wax on, wax off. Pat Morita, best remembered for his Oscar-nominated performance as a cryptic sensei in “The Karate Kid,” has died at age 73. The prolific actor passed away Thursday, Nov. 24 of natural causes in his Las Vegas home.
Noriyuki Morita was born June 28, 1932 in Isleton, Calif., to itinerant fruit pickers. He overcame dual hardships in his younger years, first battling spinal tuberculosis and spending time in numerous hospitals. Although he was told he’d never walk again, an operation to fuse four vertebrae was successful, and he was on his feet at age 11. Unfortunately, this was during the height of World War II, so he was transferred directly from the hospital to a Japanese internment camp to join his family in Arizona.
After the war, the family ran the restaurant Ariake Chop Suey in Sacramento, where Morita got a taste for showbiz by doing standup comedy. Despite this, he joined an aerospace company after graduating high school where he eventually worked his way up to head of a computer operations department. At that point, with his career set and a family started, he quit to pursue his passion for performance full time. [/quote]
[quote=“sandman”]
Saw him play for Hibs a few times. RIP George.[/quote]
Some vintage Best quotes:
“I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars - the rest I just squandered.”
“I used to go missing a lot…Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World…”
"If I had been born ugly, you would never have heard of Pel
Am I the only person who finds it interesting that George Best died just a couple of days after this?