Empire Strikes Back director Irvin Kershner dies aged 87

Wednesday, December 1, 2010 Irvin Kershner, director of the second Star Wars movie The Empire Strikes Back, died Saturday at his home in Los Angeles, California aged 87; this followed a three-and-a-half year battle with lung cancer. The announcement of his death was made Monday, by his god-daughter, Adriana Santini. He knew everything a Hollywood

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Plane crashes into office block in Austin, Texas/suicide note

This is the online suicide letter authored by Andrew Stack, the man believed to be responsible for flying a light aircraft into a building in Austin, Texas. It was originally posted at Stack’s site, http://embeddedart.com/. The hosting company, T35, took the site offline per an FBI request. The note is reproduced here in its entirety.

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Winners of international postcard-sized art exhibit announced

Thursday, August 25, 2005 Visual Arts Brampton has announced the winners of its Second Annual Snail Mail World Postcard Art Show. Currently on display in the Fridge Front Gallery in Shoppers World, The Snail Mail Show features well over 350 entries from 14 countries around the world. This is up from the previous year’s approximately

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Obituaries: January 21-27, 2008

Wikipedia has more about this subject: Deaths in 2008 Sunday, January 27, 2008 The following deaths were reported over the past week: Richard Darman, who was the trustee of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Non-Executive Chairman of the AES corporation, as well as being the aide to five presidents died of Leukemia on Friday. In

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Tips For Buying Army Surplus T Shirts}

Read More About: Tecbosport Website Australia Soccer Jerseys Tips for Buying Army Surplus T-Shirts by gorillasurplus Army surplus clothing is definitely the best choice if you are searching for substitutes to purchase army uniforms and other outfits. Actually, around seventy percent of the military personnel choose surplus suppliers and shop there to purchase extra uniforms.

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Twelve injured in Washington after ride at fair topples over

Sunday, April 19, 2009 At least twelve children have been injured after a swing ride at the Puyallup, Washington Spring Fair toppled over. The ride is called a ‘LollySwing’, which is located in Kiddyland, where the riders sit in swings while the machine spins them around. It is owned by Funtastic Traveling Shows which has

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John Reed on Orwell, God, self-destruction and the future of writing

Thursday, October 18, 2007 It can be difficult to be John Reed. Christopher Hitchens called him a “Bin Ladenist” and Cathy Young editorialized in The Boston Globe that he “blames the victims of terrorism” when he puts out a novel like Snowball’s Chance, a biting send-up of George Orwell‘s Animal Farm which he was inspired

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