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1 posted on 12/20/2008 6:18:27 AM PST by rhema
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Well I’m not on the list so I guess I’ll get dressed and greet the day.


2 posted on 12/20/2008 6:20:39 AM PST by csmusaret (Congress hasn't got anything right since they declared war on Japan.)
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As we read in Ecclesiastes, "Let us now praise famous men."

Buckley, Helms, Heston, Snow, and Solzhenitsyn: redoubtable men, all.

I also remember Isaac Hayes fondly from his role as Gandolph Fitch in The Rockford Files.

3 posted on 12/20/2008 6:21:01 AM PST by rhema ("Break the conventions; keep the commandments." -- G. K. Chesterton)
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The American Republic, November 4, 2008


4 posted on 12/20/2008 6:23:46 AM PST by SolidWood (Sarah Palin - Everything that is Sweetness and Light! WE STAND WITH HER!)
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We lost some good ones this year.

"And kings -- as peasants -- come to dust."

7 posted on 12/20/2008 6:32:46 AM PST by IronJack (=)
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You might find this site interesting.

Life In Legacy

11 posted on 12/20/2008 6:51:35 AM PST by csvset
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We can add Watergate’s “Deep Throat” to the list. Mark Felt, 95, died last night.


12 posted on 12/20/2008 6:53:35 AM PST by Zuben Elgenubi
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> (Sir) Edmund Hillary, 88, Jan. 11—New Zealand mountaineer and explorer who with Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay in 1953 became the first to scale the world’s tallest peak, the 29,035-foot summit of Mount Everest.

New Zealand and Nepal mourned.

Sir Ed, as he was known here, was also a philanthropist of some note, building schools and hospitals and core infrastructure for the Sherpa people in Nepal.

His picture is on our $5 Note: our smallest note in circulation and thus the most widely circulated.


13 posted on 12/20/2008 6:58:39 AM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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Left out were Anita Page, silent film and early 1930’s actress (I’ve got her autograph) and Beverly Garland, Queen of the 1950’s exploitation and monster B flicks.


15 posted on 12/20/2008 7:12:39 AM PST by AnnGora (I am unique. Just like everybody else.)
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They didn’t mention Van Johnson. Both Johnson and Cyd Charisse vanished into the Brigadoon mist this year.


16 posted on 12/20/2008 7:21:33 AM PST by Our man in washington (Before Bush, there were no Iraqi journalists, shoe-throwing or otherwise)
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn, 89, Aug. 3—Nobel Prize-winning author whose books chronicled the horrors of the Soviet gulag system, helped erase sympathy for the Soviet Union among leftist intellectuals, and inspired millions to stand strong in the face of repression; sheltered in America before returning to Russia, he also criticized Western culture for what he considered its weakness and decadence.

He tried to tell us. If only we will fight for freedom the way that he did.

I’m gonna miss Harvey Korman.


17 posted on 12/20/2008 7:27:13 AM PST by wizr (Merry CHRISTmas to our "one Nation under God.")
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Also left out, Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright.


20 posted on 12/20/2008 7:52:20 AM PST by stbdside
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And least we not forget Majel Roddenberry.


22 posted on 12/20/2008 8:14:05 AM PST by SeraphimApprentice
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(Not a famous person, but my best friend for 40 years....John Smith McElwain, guitarist extraordinaire, 64. Aug. 22.)

Miss him a lot.

23 posted on 12/20/2008 8:18:27 AM PST by EggsAckley
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"(Sir) Edmund Hillary, 88, Jan. 11—New Zealand mountaineer and explorer who with Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay in 1953 became the first to scale the world's tallest peak, the 29,035-foot summit of Mount Everest..."

...for whom the present Junior Senator from New York was named.

(Edward and Kristin overlooked a biggie.)

26 posted on 12/20/2008 8:45:40 AM PST by Savage Beast ("Your grandchildren will live under communism." -Nikita Krushchev)
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Forgot Bernie Mac


27 posted on 12/20/2008 8:47:33 AM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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Jo Stafford, 90, July 16—honey-voiced band singer ("I'll Be Seeing You") who starred in radio and television and sold more than 25 million records of ballads and folk songs.

My very favorite singer.

28 posted on 12/20/2008 8:48:20 AM PST by good old days (We love you, Sarah!)
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I’m pretty sure “shave and a haircut” existed before Bo Diddley. :-)


29 posted on 12/20/2008 9:02:59 AM PST by Jeremiah2
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Let’s also be sure to remember that we lost many good Freepers this year as well.

All of them make their contributions and enrich our lives, both the famous and the non-famous...


31 posted on 12/20/2008 9:22:36 AM PST by tarheelswamprat
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BUMP


33 posted on 12/20/2008 10:10:52 AM PST by Mike Darancette
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Avery Dulles, 90, Dec. 12

Wow! I didn't realized that Cardinal Dulles had died! I so enjoyed his commentary with Fr. Richard John Neuhaus and Raymond Arroyo on EWTN when Josef Ratzinger was named Pope!

My priest b-i-l always called him A Very Dull SJ. ;o) He liked him, a lot, and considered him to be quite an outlier, when it came to the Jesuits in general.

34 posted on 12/20/2008 10:16:09 AM PST by SuziQ
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