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Laurence Bruce Fink was born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, on March 11, 1941.The family moved to West Hempstead, New York when Fink was thirteen. [1] [2] His father, Bernard Fink, was a lawyer, and his mother, Sylvia Caplan Fink, was an anti-nuclear weapons activist and an elder rights activist for the Gray Panthers.
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
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Post-mortem photograph of Emperor Frederick III of Germany, 1888. Post-mortem photograph of Brazil's deposed emperor Pedro II, taken by Nadar, 1891.. The invention of the daguerreotype in 1839 made portraiture commonplace, as many of those who were unable to afford the commission of a painted portrait could afford to sit for a photography session.
The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2008.. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
Two men teamed up to steal “high-value” items worth more than $200,000 off the shelves of The Home Depot and Lowe’s in several states, federal prosecutors said.
D. A. Pennebaker Harley Race Toni Morrison Kary Mullis Jeffrey Epstein Peter Fonda Cedric Benson Larry Taylor David Koch Sidney Rittenberg Neal Casal Jessi Combs Valerie Harper Immanuel Wallerstein. August 1 Jack Dolbin, football player (b. 1948) [127] Martin Mayer, economist and writer (b. 1928) [128] D. A. Pennebaker, documentary filmmaker (b ...
Laird Samuel Barron (born March 5, 1970) is an American author and poet, much of whose work falls within the horror, noir, or horror noir and dark fantasy genres. He has also been the managing editor of the online literary magazine Melic Review .