RIP

[Uncwilly]

Originally Posted by xilman

Robert Mugabe

Originally Posted by Dr Sardonicus

Diet Eman

Quite a contrast.

[kladner]

Originally Posted by xilman

Robert Mugabe

Good Riddance.

[rogue]

Originally Posted by xilman

Robert Mugabe

Will they ask Donald Trump to do the eulogy? DT didn't have an opportunity to build a relationship with RM.

[rudy235]

Chandrayaan-2

[xilman]

Robert Frank joins the 94 club.

[Dr Sardonicus]

T. Boone Pickens

[Uncwilly]

Originally Posted by Dr Sardonicus

T. Boone Pickens

Have seen him speak in person as a Keynote speaker at a trade show.

[Dr Sardonicus]

Frederic Pryor

See also this 2015 interview

[Dr Sardonicus]

Anne Rivers Siddons

[Dr Sardonicus]

Gyorgy Konrad

His first novel, “The Case Worker,” was inspired by his job as a children’s welfare officer and did not receive universal acclaim — Communist Party hacks hated it.

“This is a bad novel,” wrote Pal E. Feher in the party newspaper Nepszabadsag, criticizing it for painting “too dark a picture.”

The book described the lives of the poor in a working-class district, painting a picture in stark contrast with the official line about the “happy workers building socialism.”

The novel, published in 6,000 copies, sold out in days and but a second edition was not allowed until after the collapse of communism in 1989.

[Dr Sardonicus]

Juanita Abernathy

In January 1957, when the Abernathys were living in Montgomery, Ralph Abernathy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to Atlanta to organize the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Abernathy, who was pregnant at the time, stayed in Montgomery. So she was at home in the early morning hours of January 10, when white supremacists bombed their house. She wasn’t hurt, but the house was destroyed. It was one of five bombing targets that night, including First Baptist Church, where her husband was senior pastor.