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Legendary basketball coach Pete Carril, who perfected the 'Princeton offense' has died at 92.

'Das Boot' and 'Air Force One' Director Wolfgang Petersen Dead at 81

I can't even imagine...

(08-18-2022 11:53 AM)Redwingtom Wrote: [ -> ]I can't even imagine...

Reminds me so much of your fellow BGSU alum Machiaveli, and his beautiful daughter Kyra for whom this board is named.

God bless you and your family, Mach, and I hope you are all doing as well as possible.

R.I.P. to Nicola Materazzi, 83, Italian mechanical engineer (Ferrari 288 GTO, Ferrari F40, Bugatti EB 110).

Tributes pour in following death of Ferrari F40 and Bugatti EB 110 legend Nicola Materazzi

Song for the times...

Artist: Mable John
Song: "Your Good Thing (Is About To End)"
Songwriters: Isaac Hayes, David Porter
1969 Stax Records




And her thing just ended...
Mable John, Motown’s First Female Solo Artist, Dead at 91
Blues singer and older sister of Rock Hall-inductee Little Willie John also recorded for Stax Records and as a longtime member of Ray Charles' Raelettes

Mikhail Gorbachev dead at 91: Russian media



For an all-too brief moment, there was something good in Russian leadership. Together with Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and Saint Pope John Paul II, they brought down the Iron Curtain, and the qworld was a safer place for all.

Marvel Remembers Comic Artist Sid Jacobson


Besides doing comics for Marvel's imprint Star Comics for Top Dog, Star Wars Droids, Peter Porker, The Spectaculer Spider-Ham and more, and he wrote and drew for younger audience for Heathcliff, Fraggle Rock and others plus did one series for Elvira:Mistress of the Dark. He also wrote cinema adaptations for Muppetts Take Manhattan, Santa Claus:The Movie and Laberynth.

Down the Drain: Herb Kohler passes away at age 83

He was a fair faucet major...

Former CNN anchor Bernard Shaw dead at 82. I always wandered how he felt about how far astray the coverage went the past decade.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/08/media/ber...index.html

(09-07-2022 11:42 AM)GoodOwl Wrote: [ -> ]Down the Drain: Herb Kohler passes away at age 83

He was a fair faucet major...

Or was that a Farrah Fawcett Majors in your subconscious?

(09-08-2022 09:38 AM)JRsec Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-07-2022 11:42 AM)GoodOwl Wrote: [ -> ]Down the Drain: Herb Kohler passes away at age 83

He was a fair faucet major...

Or was that a Farrah Fawcett Majors in your subconscious?

ladies and gentlemen, we have a winner! Congrats, JR! +3.

Turned to Mush: Alaska legend Lance Mackey, 4-time Iditarod champ, has died at age 52

His life was the subject of an independent 2015 documentary, “The Great Alone.”

Actor from the 60's tv show, Please Don't Eat The Daisies and screen writer for A Walk In The Clouds, Mark Miller dead at 97.

Actor Henry Silva dead at 94. Starred int the original Oceans Eleven, Cindefella with Jerry Lewis, original Manchariun Candidate, Alligator, Sharkey's Machine, Megaforce, Cannonball Run 2, Dick Tracey, Outer Limits, Buck Rogers of the 25th Centuary, and Twilight Zone. He mainly played bad guys in the movies.

Irene Papas, Greek actress that starred in such movies as The Guns of Navaronne and Zorba The Greek alongside Sean Connery, dead at 96.

Marsha Hunt, actress of the Golden Age of Hollywood, dead at 104. She starred in 1939's film These Glamour Girls alongside Lana Turner. She starred in Pride and Prejudice, Johnny Got His Gun, and Murder She Wrote. Marsha Hunt was blacklisted by the Republicans at the time for being a Communist which she said she was not a communist and never was interested in it. How many actors, actresses and others in Hollywood back in that time got blackballed and never had a job for a while?

The A-Team actore, Jack Ginn dead at 90. He also played a cop for 31 episodes of the tv show Riptide.

Nick Holonyak Jr., pioneer of LED lighting, dies at 93

Quote:One of the earliest researchers in semiconductor materials and a pioneer in the field of optoelectronics – devices that convert electricity into light or vice versa – Holonyak also contributed to technologies in household dimmer switches, lasers that run CD and DVD players, fiber-optic communication lines, and other electronics and communications devices. Two presidents recognized Holonyak with national medals – George W. Bush with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2002, and George H. W. Bush with the National Medal of Science in 1990 for “his contributions as one of the Nation’s most prolific inventors in the area of semiconductor materials and devices.”

(09-18-2022 07:17 PM)GoodOwl Wrote: [ -> ]Nick Holonyak Jr., pioneer of LED lighting, dies at 93

Quote:One of the earliest researchers in semiconductor materials and a pioneer in the field of optoelectronics – devices that convert electricity into light or vice versa – Holonyak also contributed to technologies in household dimmer switches, lasers that run CD and DVD players, fiber-optic communication lines, and other electronics and communications devices. Two presidents recognized Holonyak with national medals – George W. Bush with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation in 2002, and George H. W. Bush with the National Medal of Science in 1990 for “his contributions as one of the Nation’s most prolific inventors in the area of semiconductor materials and devices.”

"You can be a beacon if your light don't shine!" He must have been a beacon, and his life reflected what he pioneered. 93 years is definitely a longer-lived bulb! Kudos!

(09-18-2022 09:24 AM)DavidSt Wrote: [ -> ]Irene Papas, Greek actress that starred in such movies as The Guns of Navaronne and Zorba The Greek alongside Sean Connery, dead at 96.

Sean Connery wasn’t in either of those movies.

Quote:Marsha Hunt was blacklisted by the Republicans at the time for being a Communist which she said she was not a communist and never was interested in it. How many actors, actresses and others in Hollywood back in that time got blackballed and never had a job for a while?

The film industry has always rewarded/punished people for political reasons.

(08-24-2022 08:49 AM)Redwingtom Wrote: [ -> ]

Just now hearing about this one. Len Dawson was a great QB and — from all I’ve ever heard about him — a great man, as well.

People who remember that era of pro football know he led the Chiefs to their only Super Bowl victory at Tulane Stadium, but only a few probably remember that the week leading up to the game was filled with media-rumors that Dawson was connected to professional bookies and had — maybe — been paid off to ensure that the Chiefs didn’t cover the spread. I question if Dawson’s reputation or career would have survived if the Chiefs had lost that game to the Vikings.

More information: https://www.actionnetwork.com/nfl/kansas...len-dawson