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Started by Savonarola, December 08, 2016, 03:41:01 PM

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Savonarola

December 08, 2016, 03:41:01 PM
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Habbaku

#1
December 08, 2016, 03:41:25 PM
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The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

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Duque de Bragança

#2
December 08, 2016, 03:47:42 PM
:(

RIP

Well, at least I watched a glorious 70 mm screening of the Right Stuff before his death. Last week.

garbon

#3
December 08, 2016, 03:48:42 PM
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I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Valmy

#4
December 08, 2016, 03:49:26 PM
RIP John Glenn you will be missed.
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derspiess

#5
December 08, 2016, 03:49:32 PM
RIP :(
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Grinning_Colossus

#6
December 08, 2016, 03:53:01 PM
RIP. :( We watched his last launch live on TV in my elementary school.
Quis futuit ipsos fututores?

KRonn

#7
December 08, 2016, 03:58:54 PM
RIP 

The Brain

#8
December 08, 2016, 04:15:31 PM
NOOOOOOOO. God-RIP John Glenn. :(

Is Ed Harris OK??
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Syt

#9
December 08, 2016, 04:52:40 PM
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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The Larch

#10
December 08, 2016, 05:50:37 PM
The last of the Mercury Seven.  :(

alfred russel

#11
December 08, 2016, 06:06:52 PM
 :(

When I first saw what the Mercury capsule that they were to use to launch him into orbit, I knew he was going to die. He lasted longer than I expected--he sure was a tough SOB--but in the end I was proven right.  :cry:
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grumbler

#12
December 08, 2016, 07:06:10 PM
Rocket Man had a good run.  RIP
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

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CountDeMoney

#13
December 08, 2016, 07:37:44 PM
95 John Glenn years?  In a heartbeat.

jimmy olsen

#14
December 09, 2016, 06:02:03 AM
RIP and God bless.
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Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
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