Interesting Dead Person of the Day

**NooNoo** · September 28th, 2008, 11:14 AM

Another one bites the dust... they were saying this morning on the radio, "that only leaves Clint Eastwood..."

**houseisland** · November 12th, 2008, 09:32 PM

BBC: Hendrix's drummer Mitchell dies

Wikipedia: Mitch Mitchell

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**houseisland** · December 10th, 2008, 09:30 PM

Eddie Chapman: Agent ZigZag at Wikipedia

Recoomended reading: http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/di...=9780307353412

Words of wisdom: "Speak slowly. Think quickly."
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**rgharper** · December 13th, 2008, 11:56 AM

Twofer, almost simultaneous passings:

Van Johnson, movie and stage actor:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28197683/

Bettie Page, pin-up girl for the ages:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28185814/

**houseisland** · January 17th, 2009, 12:05 PM

Thomas Harriot at Wikipedia

BBC: 'English Galileo' maps on display

There is probably a very interesting story surrounding this man. My guess would be, judging from whom his patrons and friends were, that he was probably a Catholic recusant, which may be why he sought to fly under the radar screen as it were.

He lived in very interesting times - interesting as in the Chinese curse, May you live in interesting times!

There is a hypothesis, with a reasonable, although certainly not conclusive, body of circumstantial evidence to support it, that the reason we know so blessed little about Shakespeare, a contemporary of Harriot, is that he himself wanted it that way. Some scholars think that Shakespeare had a very good Jesuit education in an underground school in the heart of Catholic recusant northern England; if this were true it would strip away the mystery of how a person of no apparent education could write so well and so knowledgably.

Keep your head down or lose it.

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**houseisland** · January 17th, 2009, 12:10 PM

Originally Posted by rgharper

Bettie Page, pin-up girl for the ages:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28185814/

Hot. And physically hot in a more realistic and healthy manner than today's skin, bone, and silicone IMHO - probably a double digit dress size?

The fetishy stuff strikes me as a bit silly, though.

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**houseisland** · January 25th, 2009, 02:14 PM

BBC: Ancient Persians first to use chemical warfare

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**NooNoo** · January 25th, 2009, 02:45 PM

Alot of stuff got invented and forgotten... the steam power was experimented with around 2000 years ago... but why both building engines when you had a plentiful supply of slaves?

**houseisland** · January 28th, 2009, 05:48 PM

If you are not accustomed to Jazz singers, Johnny Hartman may sound a bit odd. Rock/pop is largely about singing out of control. Hartman is intensely in control. If you stop listening to the words and think of his voice as a tenor saxophone, you might get some idea of what his control is aimed at.

Not so keen on the second tune here, but the first one, a blues number, is definitely a song for the current economy.

A classic from the following highly recommended album:

Wikipedia: John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman

Wikipedia: Hartman

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**houseisland** · January 28th, 2009, 05:50 PM

Originally Posted by NooNoo

Alot of stuff got invented and forgotten

Such as.. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2804257.stm , a link in the side bar in the Roman/Persian Chemical Warfare story.

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**houseisland** · April 5th, 2009, 03:02 PM

Wikipedia: Davey Graham (26 November 1940–15 December 2008)

"David Michael Gordon Graham, known as Davey Graham (originally Davy Graham), was a British guitarist and one of the most influential figures in the 1960s folk music revolution in England. He inspired many of the famous practitioners of the fingerstyle acoustic guitar, such as Bert Jansch, John Renbourn, Martin Carthy, Paul Simon, Eltjo Haselhoff and even Jimmy Page...."

Le Cousins.co.uk: BBC R2 Documentary, Whatever Happened to Davy Graham? 2005

Offical Website: http://www.daveygraham.moonfruit.com/

It is impossible to overstate the importance of this man to comptemporary acoustic guitar playing.

I was unaware of his death until yesterday.

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**NooNoo** · April 12th, 2009, 05:02 AM

I've seen him live ... great shame.

**houseisland** · August 5th, 2009, 10:57 PM

BBC: Harry Patch

"Mr Patch, who was born in 1898 in Combe Down, near Bath, was Britain's last surviving soldier who fought in the trenches during the Great War."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8168691.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/8163366.stm

Radio Head Tribute: http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today...00/8184802.stm

A Sane Voice of Reason:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/new...m&asb=1&news=1 (Windows Media Player)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...et/6921217.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...et/6760973.stm

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**Draggar** · August 6th, 2009, 03:20 PM

Originally Posted by NooNoo

Alot of stuff got invented and forgotten... the steam power was experimented with around 2000 years ago... but why both building engines when you had a plentiful supply of slaves?

Quite simple, scientific communities usually succumbed to more militaristic civilizations and the conquerors never understood the science so they destroyed it and never worked to develop it - which is probably why the needed to continually conquer new lands.

Originally Posted by houseisland

Hot. And physically hot in a more realistic and healthy manner than today's skin, bone, and silicone IMHO - probably a double digit dress size?

The fetishy stuff strikes me as a bit silly, though.

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It is my pure and virtuous heart that
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QFT - Realistic > Skinny / siliconed models

I'm sure once these overly skinny celebrities (and every one else) reach an older age we may see some health epidemic related to years of malnourishment and suppliments.