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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 ...
Reif received his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the University of Carabobo in Valencia, Venezuela in 1973. He then served for a year as an assistant professor at the Universidad Simón Bolívar in Caracas.
Bill Pritchett, 92, Australian public servant, Secretary of the Department of Defence (1979–1984). [616] Veikko Rantanen, 82, Finnish Olympic wrestler. [617] Kenneth Rose, 89, British journalist and author. [618] Kazuhiko Sakazaki, 76, Japanese baseball player (Yomiuri Giants), stomach cancer. [citation needed]
The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2011.. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
A Careless Widow and Other Stories is a collection of short fiction by V. S. Pritchett published in 1989 by Random House. The six stories first appeared individually in literary periodicals [See below Stories] [1] [2] [3] Pritchett's last volume of original short fiction, A Careless Widow was published when he was eighty-eight. [4]
Florence Pritchett (1920–1965), American fashion editor, journalist, and radio and TV personality Henry Smith Pritchett (1857–1939), American astronomer James Pritchett (actor) (1922–2011), American actor
The opening paragraph introduces the sailor, Albert Edward Thomson, “probably the most memorable of all Pritchett’s eccentrics.” [4] He was lifting his knees high and holding his hands up, when I first saw him, as if, crossing the road through the stinging rain, he was breaking through the beaded curtain of a Pernambuco bar.
Ed O'Neill was born into an Irish-American Catholic family in Youngstown, Ohio, on April 12, 1946. [4] [5] [6] Both sides of his family are the descendants of Irish immigrants who came to the United States in the 1850s.