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And what of Koenig?!

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Sudy wrote: Sun Jul 31, 2022 4:18 pm And what of Koenig?!
I suppose you can argue that since he joined in Season 2, he isn't one of the "original" original cast.
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Sudy wrote:And what of Koenig?!
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A frequent film actress and television guest star and series regular starting in the late 1940s, her work was seen on the Jimmy Durante Show, The Danny Thomas Show, Laverne & Shirley, ER and many other shows. She voiced Ursula in The Little Mermaid, and voiced several cartoon series.

Patricia Ann Carroll was born May 5, 1927 in Shreveport, Louisiana. Her family moved to Los Angeles when she was five years old, and she soon began acting in local productions. She graduated from Immaculate Heart High Schol and then attended Catholic University of America after enlisting in the US Army.
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In early 1976, Carroll was cast as Lily, the mother of Shirley Feeney in the episode “Mother Knows Worst” on the hit ABC sitcom Laverne & Shiley. She also was in the CBS sitcom Busting Loose, The Ted Knight Show, and the syndicated She’s The Sheriff.
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Samuel Sandoval, one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers, has died at age 98
Hundreds of Navajos were recruited from the vast Navajo Nation to serve as Code Talkers with the U.S. Marine Corps. Only three are still alive today: Peter MacDonald, John Kinsel Sr. and Thomas H. Begay.

The Code Talkers took part in every assault the Marines conducted in the Pacific, sending thousands of messages without error on Japanese troop movements, battlefield tactics and other communications critical to the war's ultimate outcome. The code, based on the then-unwritten Navajo language, confounded Japanese military cryptologists and is credited with helping the U.S. win the war.

Samuel Sandoval was on Okinawa when got word from another Navajo Code Talker that the Japanese had surrendered and relayed the message to higher-ups.
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The Navajo men are celebrated annually on Aug. 14. Samuel Sandoval was looking forward to that date and seeing a museum built near the Navajo Nation capital of Window Rock to honor the Code Talkers, she said.
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I wonder how many are still left? They played an invaluable role in WW2.
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Jeff V wrote: Sun Jul 31, 2022 9:29 pm I wonder how many are still left? They played an invaluable role in WW2.
The quoted passage directly above your post says there are three.
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Dave Heckman, owner and founder of Metropolis Records, passed unexpectedly over the weekend.

I can't even imagine how much time and $$ I've spent with bands on his label over the years. :(
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Wax Trax! records got most of my cash when I was younger, but Metropolis had some great bands too, as well as quite a bit of crossover with Wax Trax!. RIP
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Vin Scully, my all time favorite sports announcer died. He was 94. RIP
Actually I thought he was already dead. :?
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dbt1949 wrote: Wed Aug 03, 2022 1:11 am Vin Scully, my all time favorite sports announcer died. He was 94. RIP
Actually I thought he was already dead. :?
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I'm not sure of that. I thought I read somewhere that more people are on the earth now than all the people who ever existed in the past.
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dbt1949 wrote: Wed Aug 03, 2022 3:07 am I'm not sure of that. I thought I read somewhere that more people are on the earth now than all the people who ever existed in the past.
That’s been thrown out there, but it’s not true.

An article on that idea.
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16870579


Basically we ‘estimate’ that ~110 billion people have died on earth. And it’s unlikely the earth can sustain 150 billion living humans, so it’s unlikely we ever will ‘catch up’.
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I believe you. I had heard that decades ago but am not surprised it's not true.
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Unagi wrote: Wed Aug 03, 2022 7:27 am
dbt1949 wrote: Wed Aug 03, 2022 3:07 am I'm not sure of that. I thought I read somewhere that more people are on the earth now than all the people who ever existed in the past.
That’s been thrown out there, but it’s not true.

An article on that idea.
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16870579


Basically we ‘estimate’ that ~110 billion people have died on earth. And it’s unlikely the earth can sustain 150 billion living humans, so it’s unlikely we ever will ‘catch up’.
The linked article starts counting human lives 50,000 years ago, but the oldest homo sapiens fossils are at least 315,000 years old and we were probably walking around at least a few thousand years before that. So add at least a few hundred million more individuals, even if the human population was very small.
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OK, consider the few hundred million added. :D

(I had also rounded up the number to 110 billion just because the article was old.)
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50,000 B.C.E. 2,030,625 people alive.
And yes, I was one of them.
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dbt1949 wrote: Thu Aug 04, 2022 4:58 am 50,000 B.C.E. 2,030,625 people alive.
And yes, I was one of them.
It must have took forever for the census taker to scratch that many lines on the wall of his cave.
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Not to mention walking to all those continents.
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Jerry Allison, drummer for Buddy Holly, dead at 82

He was the one married to Peggy Sue. I did not know he lived up the highway in Nashville. This one is sad to me. We were fans of his and Buddy Holly. loved the movie and watched it many times with my wife who was a bigger fan than me. Another legend gone.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Jerry Allison, an architect of rock drumming who played and co-wrote songs with childhood friend Buddy Holly and whose future wife inspired the classic “Peggy Sue,” has died. He was 82.

His death was confirmed Wednesday by a spokesperson for Gold Mountain Entertainment, which manages Holly’s one-time backing band The Crickets, of which Allison was the last surviving original member. Further details of his death were not immediately available.
“Peggy Sue” was covered by numerous artists, including John Lennon and the Beach Boys, and referenced in “Barbara Ann” and other songs. Holly followed with “Peggy Sue Got Married,” later the title of a Francis Coppola film starring Kathleen Turner as a woman who travels back in time.
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Allison’s innovative work is also apparent on “Everyday,” where he ditches the drums and keeps time in the song by slapping his knees. On “Well... All Right,” Allison is drumming just on the cymbals.

After Holly’s death, The Crickets continued as a band to tour and record together for decades, including recording the first version of “I Fought The Law,” a Sonny Curtis tune that was a hit later for The Bobby Fuller Four. They backed the Everly Brothers and toured with Waylon Jennings, and they became well respected session players who worked with Bobby Vee, Eddie Cochran and Johnny Burnette.

The Crickets were voted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2012, while Holly was inducted in 1986 in the first class of inductees. Sullivan died in 2004 and Mauldin died in 2014. Allison and Gerron eventually divorced. Gerron died in 2018.
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Hall of Fame QB Len Dawson, who led Kansas City Chiefs to Super Bowl IV win, dies at age 87
Len Dawson, who led the Kansas City Chiefs to victory in Super Bowl IV and was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame as both a player and broadcaster, has died at the age of 87, according to his family.

"With wife Linda at his side, it is with much sadness that we inform you of the passing of our beloved Len Dawson," the family said in a statement to KMBC in Kansas City, where Lawson previously worked as a sports broadcaster. "He was a wonderful husband, father, brother and friend. Len was always grateful and many times overwhelmed by the countless bonds he made during his football and broadcast careers.

"He loved Kansas City and no matter where his travels took him, he could not wait to return home."

Dawson, who had entered hospice care in Kansas City on Aug. 12, worked for the Chiefs for nearly a half-century: 14 years as a quarterback and 33 as a broadcast analyst.
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I never realized he was that olde.
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Joe E. Tata
Joe E. Tata, the actor best known for playing Nat on Beverly Hills, 90210, has died. He was 85.

His longtime 90210 costar Ian Ziering announced his death Thursday on Instagram. Tata’s character was the owner of the Peach Pit.
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I'm man enough to admit that I watched 90210.

RIP, Joe. You did your best to keep those kids on the straight and narrow.
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I didn't watch that show and dont know him but he seems to have been in many many shows Ive seen from the 60s onward.
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Much prefer my Nazis Nuremberged.
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Actually thought he had died. Guess I mixed him up with Boris Yeltsin.
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Luke Bell
Luke Bell has died. One week after the rising country star was reported missing, the Tucson Police Department confirms to ET that he was found dead in Arizona. He was 32.

"He was found in the 5500 block of E. Grant Road in Midtown Tucson," the police department tells ET. "The investigation is on-going at the moment."

The Tucson Police Department told The New York Post that Bell was found on Aug. 29, near where he had been reported missing on Aug. 20.

Matt Kinman, Bell's friend and a fellow musician, first confirmed the news to Saving Country Music. Kinman told the outlet that Bell's "mental state took a turn for the worse" recently, amid his late friend's battle with bipolar disorder.
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Frank Drake, age 92

His Drake Equation brought the search for extraterrestrial life into the realm of science. It multiplies:

the average rate of star formation in our Galaxy *
the fraction of those stars that have planets *
the average number of planets that can potentially support life per star that has planets *
the fraction of planets that could support life that actually develop life at some point *
the fraction of planets with life that actually go on to develop intelligent life (civilizations) *
the fraction of civilizations that develop a technology that releases detectable signs of their existence into space *
the length of time for which such civilizations release detectable signals into space

= the number of civilizations in our galaxy with which communication might be possible

When Drake published his equation in 1961, science had a working idea of the first term and nothing after that. Now we're nailing down the second term and beginning to get an inkling of the third.
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Barbara Ehrenreich
“Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America” (2001), an undercover account of the indignities, miseries and toil of being a low-wage worker in the United States. It became a best seller and a classic in social justice literature.

Ms. Ehrenreich, the journalist, activist and author, died at 81 on Thursday at a hospice facility in Alexandria, Va., where she also had a home. Her daughter, Rosa Brooks, said the cause was a stroke.

Working as a waitress near Key West, Fla., in her reporting for “Nickel and Dimed,” Ms. Ehrenreich quickly found that it took two jobs to make ends meet. After repeating her journalistic experiment in other places as a hotel housekeeper, cleaning lady, nursing home aide and Wal-Mart associate, she still found it nearly impossible to subsist on an average of $7 an hour.
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Thats a little more than i get a month and Im still here...barely...with broken stuff.

RIP

EDIT: Oh that was 2001 money too...it would be more now.
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Mike Fahey of Kotaku has died.

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