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Unread postby Lord13 » 12 Jun 2012, 07:25

Teófilo Stevenson, the Cuban boxing legend died at 11th June. According to many athletics journalists was one of the most important athlets of 20th century, won 3 gold medals at Olympics, loyal at his revolutionary ideas (even refused few millions dollars for proffesional mathces, just to stay faithfull at his non-proffesional sport carreer).
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Unread postby aaelgr » 26 Jul 2012, 21:16

Sally Ride (1st American woman in space) died on Monday:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18963939

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Unread postby Kalah » 20 Aug 2012, 18:01

Tony Scott, brother of just-as-famous Ridley Scott, producer/director of such things as Numb3rs, Spy Game, Man on Fire, The gathering storm, Top Gun (and the list goes on), died Sunday aged 68, after jumping off a bridge. He had been diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer.
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Unread postby Kalah » 25 Aug 2012, 19:56

Neil Armstrong dies, aged 82.

Hail the intrepid explorers!
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Unread postby aaelgr » 26 Aug 2012, 00:15

"I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream."
A NASA documentary about Apollo 11:
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Unread postby Kalah » 26 Aug 2012, 09:44

Or as Sam Seaborn said it:

"There are a lot of hungry people in the world, Mal, and none of them are hungry 'cause we went to the moon. None of them are colder and certainly none of them are dumber 'cause we went to the moon.
[Mars] is next. [W]e came out of the cave, and we looked over the hill and we saw fire; and we crossed the ocean and we pioneered the west, and we took to the sky. The history of man is hung on a timeline of exploration and this is what's next."
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Unread postby ThunderTitan » 24 Nov 2012, 12:16

JR just died: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20474197

At least he got to star in Dallas one more time...
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Unread postby Greengnots » 24 Nov 2012, 22:38

whos that? I never heard of him
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Unread postby Kalah » 25 Nov 2012, 09:35

The guy who played "JR Ewing" in the TV soap Dallas.
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Unread postby Avonu » 25 Nov 2012, 11:31

In what?

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Unread postby Greengnots » 25 Nov 2012, 17:44

isnt Dallas a guy from the book Outsiders
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Unread postby jeff » 25 Nov 2012, 20:52

Perhaps but this Dallas was a TV show. The episode where the person who shot JR is revealed was or is the most watched TV show world wide. Perhaps it was before your time.
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Unread postby Kalah » 25 Nov 2012, 21:05

Hey, it was even before my time; you're gettin' old, J. ;)
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Unread postby jeff » 25 Nov 2012, 22:41

Kalah wrote:Hey, it was even before my time; you're gettin' old, J. ;)
It is true. 8|
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Unread postby Angelspit » 26 Nov 2012, 14:11

*hugs jeff and remembers the time when The Incredible Hulk was NOT made of CGI*
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Unread postby Greengnots » 27 Nov 2012, 22:43

When was that?
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Unread postby aaelgr » 09 Dec 2012, 14:56

Sir Patrick Moore, 1923-2012
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10525469
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Unread postby jeff » 09 Dec 2012, 15:51

I used to watch many of his shows when I was stationed in England. :rip:
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Unread postby Kalah » 26 Dec 2012, 00:50

Charles Durning ... :rip:

I remember him lately from an excellent performance in NCIS as well as Denis Leary's Rescue Me, but he also appeared (more famously) in Tootsie and The Sting. Nominated for two Oscars and very versatile as an actor, he's the kind of guy who has appeared in tons of films and TV shows so you're bound to have seen him in something.
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Unread postby jeff » 26 Dec 2012, 01:10

and Jack Klugman, of TV's "The Odd Couple," died Monday at age 90. :rip:
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