Yes and oddly her brother was one of the ppl who committed suicide in 97 with the Heavens Gate cult in California.
Nichelle Nichols, Uhura from Star Trek. A genuine trailblazer.
Yes and oddly her brother was one of the ppl who committed suicide in 97 with the Heavens Gate cult in California.
Olivia Neutron Bomb, 73. Had no idea she was Australian.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...se-1235194880/
I presumed this was a drag actor or something called Olivia Neutron Bomb. I thought everyone knew the original was Australian!
So that was a bit of a surprise when I opened the link...
That's what she was called in my house. Perhaps my dad just made it up.
[QUOTE=dahamsta;2120026]Olivia Neutron Bomb, 73. Had no idea she was Australian./QUOTE]
Born in England, to a Welsh father and German Jewish mother; moved to Melbourne with her family when she was six. According to Wikipedia, her grandfather, Max Born, was a Nobel Prize winner.
so she could have played for England, Wales, Germany, Israel or Australia. Impressive.
Peter Byrne, long-time Irish football correspondent for the Irish Times.
Wrote a history of the FAI too which I remember for an irritating amount of commas
Footballer David Armstrong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_...er,_born_1954)
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
Joe E. Tata, who helped Brandon and the gang out of many a jam whilst serving burgers at The Peach Pit in downtown Beverly Hills, 90210. RIP Nat
Mikhail Gorbachev, possibly the only non-psychotic Russian leader of the last couple of hundred years, aged 91.
He caused havoc in Russia that persists to this day, but it was the greed and/or stupidity of other people that are at fault, not Gorbachev.
I was lucky enough to visit Russia on a school tour in 1990, just before the collapse. It was an amazing country but socially it was exactly as it was portrayed in the media -- authoritarianism, drunks wandering the streets, queues for empty shops, rotten teeth, chancers everywhere, the whole shooting match. I'm not sure I'll ever get back, to see a "new Russia", which is very, very sad.
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It's interesting for you to have seen the USSR in 1990. I think (predictably ) that things went a little far in the media yesterday, blue checks on Twitter lauding him for being a great man. Then Russian females of the era started talking about the half million of them basically sold into sex slavery under his rule. I keep seeing "He ended the cold war." Eh...those clowns completely ran out of money and had nothing to pay the KBG or Red Army officials and knew they would be getting a knock on the door soon. Many knocks. Doing the right thing had nothing to do with it. It did bring up some funny stories about Yelstin though, particularly the press conference where he is drunk and Clinton is trying to cover for him by laughing uproariously.
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