Passed Made Present
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"I'm not throwing 3,000 people out of work two weeks before Christmas."
#AaronFeuerstein
1925-2021
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#AaronFeuerstein
1925-2021
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Aaron Feuerstein dies at 95, paid idled workers after mill fire
Former Boston-area millowner Aaron Feuerstein, who gained fame for paying workers idled after a fire in December 1995, has died at the age of 95, his son Daniel Feuerstein said on Thursday.
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December 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
"I'm not throwing 3,000 people out of work two weeks before Christmas."
#AaronFeuerstein
1925-2021
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#AaronFeuerstein
1925-2021
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"Until the 1970s, most linguists believed that the structure of language existed out in the world, and that the human brain then learned it from infancy... Dr. Gleitman argued the opposite."
#LilaGleitman
1921-2021
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#LilaGleitman
1921-2021
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Lila Gleitman, Who Showed How Children Learn Language, Dies at 91 (Published 2021)
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December 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
"Until the 1970s, most linguists believed that the structure of language existed out in the world, and that the human brain then learned it from infancy... Dr. Gleitman argued the opposite."
#LilaGleitman
1921-2021
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#LilaGleitman
1921-2021
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"Grace Murray Hopper, 85, a retired Navy rear admiral and a legendary pioneer computer scientist who was a co-inventor of the business language COBOL..."
#GraceHopper
1906-1992
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#GraceHopper
1906-1992
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ADM. HOPPER DIES
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December 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
"Grace Murray Hopper, 85, a retired Navy rear admiral and a legendary pioneer computer scientist who was a co-inventor of the business language COBOL..."
#GraceHopper
1906-1992
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#GraceHopper
1906-1992
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"Searching through an Italian-English dictionary, she spotted “prego” and declared it the ideal name for a pasta sauce..."
#LaurelCutler
1926-2021
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#LaurelCutler
1926-2021
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Reluctant Advertising Woman Reached Top of Her Trade
Laurel Cutler, who has died at age 94, was a philosophy major who wanted to write novels but ended up advising top executives at companies such as Chrysler and Campbell Soup.
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December 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM
"Searching through an Italian-English dictionary, she spotted “prego” and declared it the ideal name for a pasta sauce..."
#LaurelCutler
1926-2021
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#LaurelCutler
1926-2021
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"... Ron Labinski transformed the typical American sports stadium from a graceless and egalitarian lump of steel and concrete into a palace where everyone could see the action..."
#RonLabinski
1937-2023
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#RonLabinski
1937-2023
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Ron Labinski Turned Major League Sports Stadiums Into Palaces
The Kansas City architect, who has died at age 85, improved sight lines and pioneered club seats.
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December 7, 2025 at 10:57 PM
"... Ron Labinski transformed the typical American sports stadium from a graceless and egalitarian lump of steel and concrete into a palace where everyone could see the action..."
#RonLabinski
1937-2023
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#RonLabinski
1937-2023
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"A career as a concert pianist led, with the outbreak of another world war, to lecturing and prolific journalism..."
#EveCurie
1904-2007
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#EveCurie
1904-2007
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Eve Curie
Eve Curie, the daughter of Marie Curie, was the only one of her family not to receive a Nobel prize. Though she showed an aptitude for science, from an early age her inclinations were artistic. A
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December 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
"A career as a concert pianist led, with the outbreak of another world war, to lecturing and prolific journalism..."
#EveCurie
1904-2007
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#EveCurie
1904-2007
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“She was the punk-rock Dorothy Parker.”
#RuthPolsky
1954-1986
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#RuthPolsky
1954-1986
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Overlooked No More: Ruth Polsky, Who Shaped New York’s Music Scene (Published 2021)
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December 5, 2025 at 10:00 PM
“She was the punk-rock Dorothy Parker.”
#RuthPolsky
1954-1986
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#RuthPolsky
1954-1986
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"Mrs. Manford was a mother of three and a New York City elementary school teacher when her defiance in the face of violence thrust her onto the national stage..."
#JeanneManford
1920-2013
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#JeanneManford
1920-2013
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Jeanne Manford, PFLAG founder, dies
Mrs. Manford, who started Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays in 1972, had...
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December 4, 2025 at 10:41 PM
"Mrs. Manford was a mother of three and a New York City elementary school teacher when her defiance in the face of violence thrust her onto the national stage..."
#JeanneManford
1920-2013
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#JeanneManford
1920-2013
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"A mathematician and one of few women in the male-dominated world of software methodologists, Ms. Shlaer was a leading figure..."
#SallyShlaer
1938-1998
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#SallyShlaer
1938-1998
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Sally Shlaer
Berkeley and a Bay Area pioneer in computer software development, died November 12,...
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December 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
"A mathematician and one of few women in the male-dominated world of software methodologists, Ms. Shlaer was a leading figure..."
#SallyShlaer
1938-1998
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#SallyShlaer
1938-1998
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"Pade was among the last living members of a founding generation of women in electronic music who are only now just beginning to get their due."
#ElseMariePade
1924-2016
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#ElseMariePade
1924-2016
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Else Marie Pade, Denmark's "Grandmother of Electronic Music," Is Dead at 91
Else Marie Pade, who was both a musical pioneer and, during WWII, a prisoner of the Gestapo, died this week at the age of 91. Critic Philip Sherburne looks back at her influential—and overlooked—legac...
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December 2, 2025 at 10:25 PM
"Pade was among the last living members of a founding generation of women in electronic music who are only now just beginning to get their due."
#ElseMariePade
1924-2016
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#ElseMariePade
1924-2016
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"... Sola remained immensely hopeful that at last the truth would come out about how several thousand Chileans had lost their lives... and that she might at last discover her husband's fate."
#SolaSierra
1935-1999
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#SolaSierra
1935-1999
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Sola Sierra
Sola Sierra, who has died of a heart attack aged 63, devoted her life and indomitable energy to justice and human rights in her native Chile. "She was a typical Chilean woman of the people," a friend ...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:23 PM
"... Sola remained immensely hopeful that at last the truth would come out about how several thousand Chileans had lost their lives... and that she might at last discover her husband's fate."
#SolaSierra
1935-1999
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#SolaSierra
1935-1999
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"Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman to serve in Congress and the first woman to seek the Democratic presidential nomination..."
#ShirleyChisholm
1924-2005
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#ShirleyChisholm
1924-2005
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Shirley Chisholm, 'Unbossed'Pioneer in Congress, Is Dead at 80 (Published 2005)
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November 30, 2025 at 11:02 PM
"Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman to serve in Congress and the first woman to seek the Democratic presidential nomination..."
#ShirleyChisholm
1924-2005
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#ShirleyChisholm
1924-2005
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"When Japan invaded... Orosa joined a resistance movement called Marking’s Guerrillas, holding the rank of captain. She turned her attention to inventing nutrient-dense foods to sustain local fighters."
#MariaOrosa
1893-1945
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#MariaOrosa
1893-1945
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Overlooked No More: Maria Orosa, Inventor of Banana Ketchup (Published 2022)
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November 29, 2025 at 10:21 PM
"When Japan invaded... Orosa joined a resistance movement called Marking’s Guerrillas, holding the rank of captain. She turned her attention to inventing nutrient-dense foods to sustain local fighters."
#MariaOrosa
1893-1945
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#MariaOrosa
1893-1945
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"She... quickly proved she could hold her own on the Baltimore waterfront. In 1954, when a dockworker compared her nose to a ski jump, Mrs. Bentley punched him in the jaw."
#HelenDelichBentley
1923-2016
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#HelenDelichBentley
1923-2016
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Helen Delich Bentley, Former Maryland Congresswoman, Dies at 92 (Published 2016)
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November 28, 2025 at 10:29 PM
"She... quickly proved she could hold her own on the Baltimore waterfront. In 1954, when a dockworker compared her nose to a ski jump, Mrs. Bentley punched him in the jaw."
#HelenDelichBentley
1923-2016
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#HelenDelichBentley
1923-2016
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"... she was chief of economic research in the 1970s, when a male executive directed her to take notes in the back of the room."
#ElizabethBailey
1938-2022
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#ElizabethBailey
1938-2022
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Elizabeth Bailey, pathbreaker for women in economics, dies at 83
She was the first woman to receive a PhD in economics from Princeton and helped deregulate airlines as the first woman on the Civil Aeronautics Board.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM
"... she was chief of economic research in the 1970s, when a male executive directed her to take notes in the back of the room."
#ElizabethBailey
1938-2022
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#ElizabethBailey
1938-2022
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"Decades before 'Seinfeld' became known as the sitcom about nothing, and Tina Fey wrote and starred in '30 Rock,' Lynch’s presciently modern sitcom... celebrated the understated humor of average married life."
#PegLynch
1916-2015
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#PegLynch
1916-2015
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Peg Lynch dies at 98; broadcast pioneer created early sitcom 'Ethel and Albert'
Peg Lynch, a trailblazer for women in broadcast entertainment who wrote, owned and starred in one of television's first sitcoms, "Ethel and Albert," has died.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:27 PM
"Decades before 'Seinfeld' became known as the sitcom about nothing, and Tina Fey wrote and starred in '30 Rock,' Lynch’s presciently modern sitcom... celebrated the understated humor of average married life."
#PegLynch
1916-2015
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#PegLynch
1916-2015
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"... an eclectic international career as a nurse, physical therapist, wartime inventor and forensic handwriting and document analyst."
#BessieBlount
1914-2009
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#BessieBlount
1914-2009
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Overlooked No More: Bessie Blount, Nurse, Wartime Inventor and Handwriting Expert (Published 2019)
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November 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
"... an eclectic international career as a nurse, physical therapist, wartime inventor and forensic handwriting and document analyst."
#BessieBlount
1914-2009
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#BessieBlount
1914-2009
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"In 1957, she was the first woman glider pilot to cross the Channel."
#AnneBurns
1915-2001
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#AnneBurns
1915-2001
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Anne Burns
Anne Burns, who has died aged 85, was a test pilot, research scientist and gliding champion. She worked at the Royal Aeronautical Establishment (RAE) from 1940 to 1976 and, as principal scientific off...
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November 23, 2025 at 8:23 PM
"In 1957, she was the first woman glider pilot to cross the Channel."
#AnneBurns
1915-2001
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#AnneBurns
1915-2001
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"He returned to the perimeter wounded, yet assisted another injured American soldier to the aid station. Refusing aid for himself, he returned to direct the defense..."
#VincentOkamoto
1943-2020
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#VincentOkamoto
1943-2020
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OBITUARY: Vincent Okamoto, 76; Judge, Vietnam War Hero - Rafu Shimpo
RAFU STAFF REPORT Bravery, sacrifice and honor forged in the firefights of Vietnam informed the remarkable life of Superior Court Judge Vincent H. Okamoto, who passed away unexpectedly on Sunday. He w...
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November 22, 2025 at 10:23 PM
"He returned to the perimeter wounded, yet assisted another injured American soldier to the aid station. Refusing aid for himself, he returned to direct the defense..."
#VincentOkamoto
1943-2020
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#VincentOkamoto
1943-2020
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"... President Obama said: 'Stan remains to this day an icon untarnished, a beloved pillar of the community, a gentleman you'd want your kids to emulate.'"
#StanMusial
1920-2013
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#StanMusial
1920-2013
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Stan Musial, beloved Cardinals legend, dies at 92
No last name necessary. A slew of batting titles. Corkscrew stance. Humble. A gentleman. All-around good guy. Stan the Man. Stanley Frank Musial, the St. Louis
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November 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
"... President Obama said: 'Stan remains to this day an icon untarnished, a beloved pillar of the community, a gentleman you'd want your kids to emulate.'"
#StanMusial
1920-2013
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#StanMusial
1920-2013
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"... Phife Dawg, who as a member of A Tribe Called Quest brought left-of-center hip-hop to the masses..."
#PhifeDawg
1970-2016
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#PhifeDawg
1970-2016
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Malik Taylor, Phife Dawg of A Tribe Called Quest, Dies at 45 (Published 2016)
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November 20, 2025 at 11:38 PM
"... Phife Dawg, who as a member of A Tribe Called Quest brought left-of-center hip-hop to the masses..."
#PhifeDawg
1970-2016
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#PhifeDawg
1970-2016
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"A favorable review by Winston Churchill in the Times Literary Supplement in London helped launch the book toward bestseller lists in England and the United States."
#PeterDrucker
1909-2005
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#PeterDrucker
1909-2005
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Prolific Father of Modern Management
Peter F.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
"A favorable review by Winston Churchill in the Times Literary Supplement in London helped launch the book toward bestseller lists in England and the United States."
#PeterDrucker
1909-2005
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#PeterDrucker
1909-2005
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"He also became the only man to play golf on the Moon..."
#AlanShepard
1923-1998
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#AlanShepard
1923-1998
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July 21, 1998: Alan Shepard dies
Today in the history of astronomy, America’s first man in space passes away.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM
"He also became the only man to play golf on the Moon..."
#AlanShepard
1923-1998
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#AlanShepard
1923-1998
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"... Africa's best-known novelist and the founding father of African fiction."
#ChinuaAchebe
1930-2013
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#ChinuaAchebe
1930-2013
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Chinua Achebe obituary
Founding father of African fiction whose novels chronicled Nigeria's troubled history
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November 16, 2025 at 11:34 PM
"... Africa's best-known novelist and the founding father of African fiction."
#ChinuaAchebe
1930-2013
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#ChinuaAchebe
1930-2013
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