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Friday, April 20, 2007

A Tribute To the Victims of Virgina Tech-Part 3

This is the third listing of the victims of Monday, April 16,2007 shootings at Virgina Tech Henry Lee,20 emigrated from China to Virginia in elementary school not knowing any English. But that did not seem to hold him back. By the time he graduated from William Fleming High School in Roanoke, he had... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, April 19, 2007

Kitty Carlisle Hart

Kitty Carlisle Hart, the stage and film actress who served as chairperson of the New York State Council of the Arts for 20 years beginning in 1976, and thereafter functioned as one of the city's most visible advocates and symbols of the performing arts, died on April 17, her longtime musical... Sign in to see full entry.

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A Tribute to the Victims of Virginia Tech- Part 2

The second part of my series of tributes to the victoms of the Virgina Tech shootings: G.V. Loganathan, 51, was a professor of civil and environmental engineering specializing in hydraulic networks and water resources systems analysis and design. He was born in the southern Indian state of Tamil... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, April 18, 2007

A Tribute to the Victims of Virginia Tech

This is the first part of my tribute to the victims of the Virgina Tech shootings. I will list their names and a short bio over the next few days: Reema Samaha, 18, a freshman from Centreville, Va., was shot and killed in her French class. According to tributes posted by friends online, she was an... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, April 15, 2007

Don Ho

Don Ho, an entertainer who defined popular perceptions of Hawaiian music in the 1960s and held fast to that image as a peerless Waikiki nightclub attraction, died yesterday in Honolulu. He was 76. The cause was heart failure, his daughter Dayna Ho said. Ho was a durable spokesman for the image of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, April 14, 2007

Stan Daniels

Stan Daniels, a television writer who won Emmy Awards for his work on the groundbreaking situation comedies “Taxi” and “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” died Friday April 6,2007 at his home in Encino, Calif. He was 72.The cause was a heart attack, said Ed Weinberger, his former writing partner. Daniels,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Barry Nelson

Barry Nelson, an actor who had a long career in film and television, starred in some of the more durable Broadway comedies of the 1950s and ’60s, and achieved a permanent place in the minds of trivia buffs as the first actor to portray James Bond, died on Saturday April 7,2007 He was 86. The cause... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, April 12, 2007

Roscoe Lee Brown

Roscoe Lee Brown, a stage, film and television actor known for his rich voice, died early yesterday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 81 and lived in Los Angeles. The cause was cancer, said Alan Nierob, a spokesman. Browne came to acting somewhat late, after gaining fame... Sign in to see full entry.

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Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut, whose dark comic talent and urgent moral vision in novels like “Slaughterhouse-Five,” “Cat’s Cradle” and “God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater” caught the temper of his times and the imagination of a generation, died April 11,2007 in Manhattan. He was 84.Vonnegut suffered irreversible brain... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Jimmy Lee Smith

Jimmy Lee Smith, a lifelong criminal whose role in the kidnapping and killing in 1963 of a police officer inspired Joseph Wambaugh’s true-life crime novel “The Onion Field,” died Friday April 6,2007 in jail. He was 76. Smith died at the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic, north of Los Angeles,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Originally published on Epinions.com, this is my tribute to Fr. Mychal Judge of the Fire Department of New York. I have since added tributes to others who have gone on before.

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