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Passed Made Present @passedmadepresent.bsky.social · 9h

"... an innovative and influential designer who created sets for hundreds of plays, dance works and operas, and whose ideas continue to influence the field..."

#TyrusWong
1910-2016
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Scenesters

Tyrus Wong and Ming Cho Lee were immigrants from China, and both used the artistic traditions of their homeland to change American entertainment. Ming Cho Lee “radically and almost sin…

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Passed Made Present @passedmadepresent.bsky.social · 1d

"... only the second American to design and fly a prototype helicopter in 1943, two years after... Igor Sikorsky had flown the first. Unlike Sikorsky, however, Piasecki concentrated on helicopters with tandem rotors..."

#FrankPiasecki
1919-2008
Born on this day

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Obituary: Frank Piasecki

Obituary: Helicopter pioneer who invented one of world's most famous aircraft, the Chinook

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Passed Made Present @passedmadepresent.bsky.social · 2d

"... he earned the admiration of millions with his focus on pursuing childhood dreams, learning how to be humble, working hard and seeing brick walls as challenges..."

#RandyPausch
1960-2008
Born on this day

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Randy Pausch, CMU professor who inspired millions, dies

In a recent e-mail exchange with his friend and co-author, Jeffrey Zaslow, Randy Pausch said he was still amazed at how he had been

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Passed Made Present @passedmadepresent.bsky.social · 3d

"... regarded by many as the greatest goaltender in modern soccer history..."

#LevYashin
1929-1990
Born on this day

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Legendary goalkeeper Yashin dies - UPI Archives

Lev Yashin, regarded by many as the greatest goaltender in modern soccer history, died Wednesday of stomach cancer, the official Tass news agency said. He...

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Passed Made Present @passedmadepresent.bsky.social · 4d

"His journey - from birth in a small wooden house with no plumbing... to his flight around the earth in the space shuttle Challenger in 1984, to his death in its explosion this January - required 35 years."

#RonaldMcNair
1950-1986
Born on this day

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ASTRONAUT BURIED IN CAROLINA; 35-YEAR 'MISSION' IS COMPLETE (Published 1986)

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Passed Made Present @passedmadepresent.bsky.social · 5d

"Abebech Gobena, who escaped a forced marriage as a child bride and became one of the most prominent humanitarians in her native Ethiopia..."

#AbebechGobena
1935-2021
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Abebech Gobena, Ethiopian humanitarian known as ‘Mother Teresa of Africa,’ dies at 85

Ms. Gobena, who died of covid-19, built an orphanage, schools, a hospital and training centers credited with serving thousands amid drought, famine and war.

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Passed Made Present @passedmadepresent.bsky.social · 6d

"Thanks to his prompt action, the epidemic was contained in Vietnam. However, because of close daily contact with SARS patients, he contracted the infection."

#CarloUrbani
1956-2003
Born on this day

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Obituary: Carlo Urbani

A dedicated and internationally respected epidemiologist, he died when infected by the new Sars virus, which he had helped to identify.

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Passed Made Present @passedmadepresent.bsky.social · 7d

"In her writing, she expressed what it means to be, how it feels to be, a Black woman in America."

#NtozakeShange
1948-2018
Born on this day

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Remembering Ntozake Shange, The Poet Who Poured Her Heart Onto The Page | Essence

In her writing, she expressed what it means to be, how it feels to be, a Black woman in America.

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Passed Made Present @passedmadepresent.bsky.social · 8d

"Shinichi Suzuki opened up new paths in musical education of the very young."

#ShinichiSuzuki
1898-1998
Born on this day

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Obituary: Shinichi Suzuki

Shinichi Suzuki, violin teacher: born Nagoya, Japan 18 October 1898; married 1928 Waltraud Prange; died Matsumoto, Japan 26 January 1998.

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Passed Made Present @passedmadepresent.bsky.social · 9d

"He made crucial contributions to Voodoo, the epochal album by D'Angelo, released in 2000."

#RoyHargrove
1969-2018
Born on this day

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Roy Hargrove, Grammy-Winning Jazz Trumpeter, Dies At 49

Hargrove first emerged in the late 1980s, at a cultural moment when his precocity and poise amounted to a form of currency in jazz, quickly earning the approval of the genre's elders.

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Passed Made Present @passedmadepresent.bsky.social · 10d

"For years, Fela was merely Nigeria's most popular musician."

#FelaKuti
1938-1997
Born on this day

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Fela, 58, Dissident Nigerian Musician, Dies (Published 1997)

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Passed Made Present @passedmadepresent.bsky.social · 11d

"Dr. Koop was the most recognized surgeon general of the 20th century."

#CEverettKoop
1916-2013
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C. Everett Koop, former surgeon general, dies at 96

He helped educate a nation about AIDS and the dangers of tobacco, and he revolutionized pediatric surgery.

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Passed Made Present @passedmadepresent.bsky.social · 12d

"Bolden’s leap from bus passenger to leader of a powerful labor organization was not far-fetched to those who knew her."

#DorothyBolden
1924-2005
Born on this day

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Overlooked No More: Dorothy Bolden, Who Started a Movement for Domestic Workers (Published 2019)

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Passed Made Present @passedmadepresent.bsky.social · 13d

"By 1968, Weight Watchers had gone public and made its founders millionaires."

#JeanNidetch
1923-2015
Born on this day

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Jean Nidetch dies at 91; a founder of Weight Watchers

Jean Nidetch had a secret.

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Passed Made Present @passedmadepresent.bsky.social · 14d

"She took up comedy at 71 — 'I didn’t want to peak too soon' — after enrolling on a comedy course in San Francisco."

#LynnRuthMiller
1933-2021
Born on this day

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Lynn Ruth Miller obituary

Lynn Ruth Miller believed herself to be the oldest working stand-up in the world. Though she could be bawdy and was dubbed the “Stripping Granny” after appearing on stage with nipple tassels on the ou...

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Passed Made Present @passedmadepresent.bsky.social · 15d

"'I operate on the principle that I might get hit by a bus tomorrow. And I’d hate the obituaries to have to read: ‘And her last album was her not-very-good album.’”

#KirstyMacColl
1959-2000
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Obituary Kirsty MacColl

Gifted but restless singer ill at ease with an industry she despised

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Passed Made Present @passedmadepresent.bsky.social · 16d

"... Yeltsin dropped him, and in 1999 Mr Putin got the job he had been meant to have."

#BorisNemtsov
1959-2015
Born on this day

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The ruler who never was

Boris Nemtsov, leader of Russia’s reformers, was shot dead on February 27th, aged 55

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Passed Made Present @passedmadepresent.bsky.social · 17d

"It all started, her mother said, when Janice was 6 and picked up a book at the local library, 'A Wrinkle in Time' by Madeleine L’Engle..."

#JaniceVoss
1956-2012
Born on this day

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Janice Voss, Shuttle Astronaut and Scientist, Dies at 55 (Published 2012)

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Passed Made Present @passedmadepresent.bsky.social · 18d

"His efforts saw him awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 in what was seen as a major snub by the international community to South Africa's white rulers."

#DesmondTutu
1931-2021
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Obituary: Desmond Tutu - South Africa's rebellious priest

Inspirational cleric and anti-apartheid campaigner who played a major role in the process of reconciliation in South Africa.

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Passed Made Present @passedmadepresent.bsky.social · 19d

"... she returned to see a building previously named after a former Alabama governor and Ku Klux Klan leader renamed after her."

#AutherineLucy
1929-2022
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Autherine Lucy Foster obituary

On February 3, 1956, Autherine Lucy, aged 26, arrived for her first day as a student at the University of Alabama, an all-white bastion of the segregated south,

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Passed Made Present @passedmadepresent.bsky.social · 21d

"Toffler popularised terms such as 'information overload' and his works led world leaders and business moguls to seek his advice."

#AlvinToffler
1928-2016
Born on this day

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Alvin Toffler, futurologist guru, dies at 87

Alvin Toffler, the author of Future Shock and other works predicting social, economic and technological change, dies at 87.

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Passed Made Present @passedmadepresent.bsky.social · 23d

"For all her advantages, Ms. Farenthold had also known repeated, almost unfathomable loss."

#FrancesFarenthold
1926-2021
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Frances T. Farenthold, Liberal Force in Texas and Beyond, Dies at 94 (Published 2021)

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Passed Made Present @passedmadepresent.bsky.social · 24d

"... he developed and built a compact and powerful ultraviolet electronographic telescope, which became the first (and still the only) astronomical instrument sent to the Moon."

#GeorgeCarruthers
1939-2020
Born on this day

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George Robert Carruthers: Astronautical Engineer and Astronomer

Astronautical engineer and astronomer George Robert Carruthers, a name well-known and dearly regarded in the space science community, and a good friend of the National Air and Space Museum, passed awa...

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Passed Made Present @passedmadepresent.bsky.social · 25d

"... she was instrumental in expanding the legal definition of rape, including the recognition of marital rape. She also fought for equal pay..."

#LeticiaRamosShahani
1929-2017
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Overlooked No More: Leticia Ramos Shahani, a Philippine Women’s Rights Pioneer (Published 2018)

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Passed Made Present @passedmadepresent.bsky.social · 26d

"... created the concept of the mental frame of mind known as flow, or a state of happiness when a person is performing at optimum level."

#MihalyCsikszentmihalyi
1934-2021
Born on this day

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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, U. of C. professor who developed concept of ‘flow,’ for when a person is lost in their work, dies

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi taught psychology at the University of Chicago for three decades and created the concept of the mental frame of mind known as flow, or a state of happiness when a person is …

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