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Posts: 12294 (21-Apr-09 01:13 PM) Shiver My Timbers |
I found this rather interesting site, where you can search the database to see if someone famous has died. You can search oldest/youngest celebrities to die,
and rather curiously, how they died. Their causes of death are alphabetical, and I was rather surprised to see Various as a reason, but laughed when I saw
who it was!
deadoraliveinfo.com
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Posts: 28418 (21-Apr-09 01:15 PM)
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Well, Richard Pratt and Stephen Hawking would both be on the watch list as of today...
ETA: Gawd, five people I've just looked up aren't even there. Maybe that means they don't exist!  I'll have to see if I can add them.
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Posts: 12296 (21-Apr-09 01:20 PM) Shiver My Timbers |
Oh sounds like the name of another thread! *rushes off*
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Posts: 34225 (21-Apr-09 01:26 PM) An also-ran in
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Question: Are these guys dead, or alive?
Answer: Yes! 
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Posts: 5846 (21-Apr-09 03:11 PM) Cows on a plane! |
Miley Cyrus is still alive. God help us all.
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Posts: 34234 (21-Apr-09 04:57 PM) An also-ran in
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I am glad to see that Martin Gardner, the mathematical writer, is still going strong at 94.
Lot of names there I don't know.
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Posts: 28427 (22-Apr-09 12:43 AM)
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Oh my goodness, I can remember my year 10 maths teacher introducing me to Martin Gardner. (This is the same teacher who helped me nick Kasner's Mathematics
& the Imagination from the school library as no one had borrowed it for about 200 years so he thought I'd offer it a more loving home.
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still got some of his books around here somewhere, particulary the Annotated Alice and Annotated Snark.
I have tried to add Dame Beryl Bainbridge, one of my favourite authors and five times unsuccessfully shortlisted for The Booker Prize. I'm expecting a human probably checks the submissions so if she ends up on the database I'll add a few more. |
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Posts: 5852 (22-Apr-09 03:19 AM) Cows on a plane! |
Meryl Bainbridge what?
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