I am remiss in noting the passing last month of Ted Briggs. Briggs was the last of the three survivors of the destruction of HMS Hood at the Battle of Denmark Strait. Obits here and here.Here's an animated depiction of the loss of Hood, including...
i see dead people
Obama's grandmother passes. I never tend to think it's a tragedy when someone dies at the age of 86; we should all be so lucky. But the day before her.
R.I.P.
Condolences to his friends and family.
Paul Newman has passed away. As a Canadian male of a certain age my choice of image from a particular aesthetically minor film was inevitable, but the oeuvre is remarkable:.
This is unfortunate. A great writer....what to say? Didn't strike me as the type. He was one of my favorite contemporary writers; I didn't find his work depressing at all. ...I suppose this wouldn't be terribly different from learning that Roth had died, except that...
Kevin Duckworth died last night while vacationing on the Oregon coast. Duckworth played center for the great Trailblazer teams of the early 1990s, including the Western Conference Championship squads of.
R.I.P.
It appears that Bernie Mac has passed away; surprising, and very sad. I, for one, do not blame Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili for this. ...how long before the folks at NO QUARTER add Mac to the Obama Death List?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, fair to say one of the most important voices of the 20th century, has passed. ...Trend: I was a little bothered by the obit's line that read "[his.
Tony Snow passes away. I can say without hesitation that he was a much more capable White House press secretary than either his predecessor or his successor. Rest in peace.