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Adrienne Rich, Influential Writer And Poet, Dies Of Complications From ...
Huffington Post
Adrienne Rich, the influential feminist poet and writer, died Tuesday at age 82 from complications of rheumatoid arthritis, according to news reports. The New York Times reported that Rich had the medical condition for much of her adulthood.
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Champion racehorse Montjeu dies at 16
The Associated Press
FETHARD, Ireland (AP) — Montjeu, a champion racehorse in Europe and renowned sire, has died at 16 in Ireland. The thoroughbred farm Coolmore Stud said Thursday the stallion died of septicemia, a blood disorder caused by infection.
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Feminist poet and essayist Adrienne Rich dies
USA TODAY
CHARLES KNOBLOCK, AP Adrienne Rich, whose socially conscious verse influenced a generation of feminist, gay rights and anti-war activists, has died. She was 82. CHARLES KNOBLOCK, AP Adrienne Rich, whose socially conscious verse influenced a generation ...
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Earl Scruggs, Pioneering Bluegrass Banjoist, Dies at 88
San Francisco Chronicle
March 29 (Bloomberg) -- Earl Scruggs, whose banjo-picking technique on hits such as "Foggy Mountain Breakdown" changed the way people play the instrument, has died. He was 88. Scruggs died yesterday of natural causes at a hospital in Nashville, ...
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'Forbidden Planet's Warren Stevens dies
Entertainment Weekly (blog)
by Jeff Labrecque Actor Warren Stevens, whose most memorable role was his portrayal of “Doc” Ostrow in the 1956 sci-fi movie Forbidden Planet, has diedin Los Angeles at 92. Publicist Dale Olson says Stevens died Tuesday of respiratory failure ...
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Adrienne Rich dies at 82; feminist poet and essayist
Chicago Tribune
Adrienne Rich, a pioneering feminist poet and essayist who challenged what she considered to be the myths of the American dream and subsequently received high literary honors, diedTuesday at her home in Santa Cruz. She was 82.
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Chicago Tribune
Warren Stevens, Veteran Character Actor, Dies at 92
Hollywood Reporter
Warren Stevens, whose busy seven-decade career as a character actor in Hollywood included a key role in the 1956 sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet, diedTuesday of respiratory failure at his home in Sherman Oaks. He was 92. A veteran of dozens of motion ...
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Earl Scruggs, Bluegrass pioneer, dies at 88
Entertainment Weekly (blog)
Scruggs died Wednesday morning at age 88 of natural causes. The legacy he helped build with bandleader Bill Monroe, guitarist Lester Flatt and the rest of the Blue Grass Boys was evident all around Nashville, where he died in an area hospital.
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Warren Stevens, "Forbidden Planet" actor, dies at 92
CBS News
(Credit: Getty) (CBS/AP) Actor Warren Stevens, who played "Doc" Ostrow in the 1956 sci-fi movie "Forbidden Planet," has died in Los Angeles. Publicist Dale Olson says Stevens died Tuesday of respiratory failure complicated by lung disease at his ...
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Earl Scruggs, banjo legend, dies
USA TODAY
By Peter Cooper, USA TODAY Country Music Hall of Famer Earl Scruggs, a singular talent of collective import, died Wednesday at a Nashville hospital. He was 88. AP Earl Scruggs, a pioneering banjo player and bluegrass icon, died Wednesday.
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USA TODAY
Adrienne Rich, giant of American poetry, dies
New York Daily News
Adrienne Rich, a fiercely gifted, award-winning poet whose socially conscious verse influenced a generation of feminist, gay rights and anti-war activists, has died. She was 82. Rich died Tuesday at her Santa Cruz home from complications from ...
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New York Daily News
Champion racehorse Montjeu dies of septi
FOXSports.com
The thoroughbred farm Coolmore Stud said Thursday the stallion died of septicemia, a blood disorder caused by infection. Montjeu won the French and Irish derbies in 1999 plus the Prix de L'arc de Triomphe. In 2000, he won the prestigious King George VI ...
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Another Tibetan Monk Dies in Self-Immolation
Voice of America
March 28, 2012 Another Tibetan Monk Dies in Self-Immolation VOA News Another Tibetan monk has died after setting himself on fire in an anti-China protest, a day after some US senators approved a resolution saying they mourn the Tibetans who have died ...
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18-year-old victim of grisly rape dies in Ukraine
Seattle Post Intelligencer
MARIA DANILOVA, AP KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — An 18-year-old Ukranian womandied Thursday, two weeks after her grisly rape set off protests across the country against corruption and favoritism toward the wealthy. Prosecutors said Oksana Makar was raped by ...
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Adrienne Rich, feminist poet, dies
Albany Times Union
Rich, whose socially conscious verse influenced a generation of feminist, gay rights and anti-war activists, has died. She was 82. Rich, who had lived in Santa Cruz since the 1980s, died Tuesday, March 27, 2012 at her home. Her son, Pablo Conrad, ...
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Earl Scruggs, Beverly Hillbillies Bluegrass Legend, Dies
People Magazine
By Stephen M. Silverman Earl Scruggs, the banjo playing, singing and composing great whose twanging bluegrass themes for TV's The Beverly Hillbillies and the Bonnie and Clyde movie achieved Top of the Chart status in the '60s, died Wednesday of natural ...
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18-year-old victim of grisly gang-rape dies in Ukraine
USA TODAY
By Douglas Stanglin, USA TODAY The English-language Kyiv Post says Oksana Makar died in a hospital in Mykolayiv in southern Ukraine. Police say Makar was gang-raped by three men in the apartment of one of the suspects on March 9.
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USA TODAY
Earl Scruggs dies at 88; banjo legend was half of Flatt & Scruggs
Los Angeles Times
Scruggs, who died Wednesday in Nashville at 88 of natural causes, according to his son Gary, brought a distinctive three-finger playing style that became the musical touchstone for thousands of instrumentalists who followed in his wake — among them ...
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Los Angeles Times
Bluegrass musician Earl Scruggs, 88, dies
Washington Post
Earl Scruggs, the Grammy Award-winning musician whose innovative bluegrass banjo work was heard in the theme music to the television sitcom “The Beverly Hillbillies” and the movie “Bonnie and Clyde,” died March 28 at a hospital in Nashville. He was 88.
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Ukraine rape scandal victim Oksana Makar dies
BBC News
An eighteen-year-old Ukrainian woman has died in hospital, weeks after a brutal sexual assault that prompted a campaign against political corruption. Oksana Makar was attacked in the southern city of Mykolayiv on 8 March by three men who raped her and ...
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BBC News
Earl Scruggs, Grammy-Winning Bluegrass Pioneer, Dies
Hollywood Reporter
Earl Scruggs, the four-time Grammy-winning bluegrass legend whose three-finger picking style revolutionized banjo playing, diedWednesday of natural causes at a Nashville hospital. He was 88. First recorded in 1946, his syncopated use of the thumb, ...
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Hollywood Reporter
18-year-old victim of grisly rape dies in Ukraine where crime sparked ...
Washington Post
KIEV, Ukraine — An 18-year-old Ukranian woman died Thursday, two weeks after her grisly rape set off protests across the country against corruption and favoritism toward the wealthy. Prosecutors said Oksana Makar was raped by three young men on March ...
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Teen dies after horror gang rape
The Australian
A UKRAINIAN teenager has died three weeks after being set on fire in a gang rape attack by youths that shocked the nation and raised doubts about the competence of police. Oksana Makar, 18, was raped by three men in their early 20s, strangled with a ...
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Oakland woman, 92, dies after heater fire in house
San Francisco Chronicle
A 92-year-old Oakland woman died Wednesday morning after a heater in her home caught fire and filled her house with smoke, authorities said. Firefighters responded to the one-alarm fire at 5:33 am and found the house on the 1900 block of Chestnut ...
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Tibetan Monk Dies in Self-Immolation
Voice of America (blog)
Another Tibetan monk has died after setting himself on fire in an anti-China protest, a day after some US senators approved a resolution saying they mourn the Tibetans who have died in such self-immolations. VOA's Tibetan service reports that a ...
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Oksana Makar, 18, dies after grisly gang-rape in Ukraine
WTSP 10 News
An 18-year-old Ukranian woman died today, two weeks after her grisly rape set off protests across the country against corruption and favoritism toward the wealthy. The English-language Kyiv Post says Oksana Makar died in a hospital in Mykolayiv in ...
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Marie Davis Gadsden, 92, dies; chaired Oxfam America
Washington Post
Marie Davis Gadsden, a top administrator of education and philanthropic foundations who became the first black woman to chair the board of the relief group Oxfam America, died March 14 in Washington. She was 92. She died of complications from ...
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Earl Scruggs Dies
New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV
Earl Scruggs, whose distinctive picking style and association with Lester Flatt cemented bluegrass music's place in popular culture, died Wednesday of natural causes at a Nashville hospital, his son Gary Scruggs said. He was 88.
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'Beverly Hillbillies' musician Earl Scruggs dies
Gaston Gazette
The musician died of natural causes Wednesday in a Nashville, Tenn., hospital, according to his son Gary. Earl Scruggs was 88. JT Scruggs said he remembers sitting around and reminiscing with the legendary musician. He recalls hearing stories of the ...
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Feminist poet Adrienne Rich dies at age 82
TheCelebrityCafe.com
Feminist poet and essayist Adrienne Rich died on Tuesday at the age of 82. Rich was an influential writer for feminist and gay-rights movements, writing dozens of books of poetry and prose since the 1950s. Son Pablo Conrad confirmed his mother's death ...
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Adrienne Rich, feminist poet and essayist, dies at 82
Boston Herald
By Mary Rourke / Los Angeles Times Adrienne Rich, a pioneering feminist poet and essayist who challenged what she considered to be the myths of the American dream and subsequently received high literary honors, died Tuesday at her home in Santa Cruz, ...
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Area bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs dies at age 88
Gaston Gazette
(AP) — Bluegrass legend and banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs, who helped profoundly change country music with Bill Monroe in the 1940s and later with guitarist Lester Flatt, has died. He was 88. Scruggs' son Gary said his fatherdied of natural causes ...
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Adrienne Rich, feminist poet who wrote of politics and lesbian identity, dies ...
Washington Post
Adrienne Rich, one of the country's most honored and influential poets, whose finely tuned verse explored her identity as a feminist, a lesbian and an agent for political change, died March 27 at her home in Santa Cruz, Calif. She was 82.
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Banjo innovator, music pioneer Earl Scruggs dies at 88
Reuters
By Tim Ghianni | NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Banjo innovator and bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs, a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame,died on Wednesday at a Nashville hospital at age 88. He had been in failing health for some time, ...
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Bluegrass pioneer Earl Scruggs dies at age 88
7Online.com
Bluegrass legend and banjo pioneer Earl Scruggs, who helped profoundly change country music with Bill Monroe and later with guitarist Lester Flatt, died Wednesday, March 28, 2012. He was 88. NASHVILLE -- It may be impossible to overstate the importance...
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Bluegrass legend Earl Scruggs dies at 88 in Tenn.
CBS News
The legacy he helped build with bandleader Bill Monroe, guitarist Lester Flatt and the rest of the Blue Grass Boys was evident all around Nashville, where he died in an area hospital. His string-bending, mind-blowing way of picking helped transform a ...
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CBS News
Teen dies during Australia lifeguard competition
CBS News
(AP) GOLD COAST, Australia - A 14-year-old boy has died during the Australian lifeguard championships, the second competitor in three years to drown at the beach during the event. Search teams on Thursday recovered the body of Matthew Barclay, ...
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Earl Scruggs, bluegrass banjo legend, dies at 88
GlobalPost
Scruggs, a pioneering banjo player who is credited with helping create modern country music, died in Nashville yesterday of natural causes. Musician Earl Scruggs performs at Stagecoach, California's Country Music Festival, held at the Empire Polo Field ...
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Humboldt County jail inmate dies; death under investigation; no foul ...
A Humboldt County jail inmate died early Thursday morning, just hours after a judge denied a request that she be released on her own recognizance.
www.times-standard.com/.../humboldt-county-jail-inmate-dies...
John Demjanjuk, convicted Nazi death camp guard, dies aged 91 ...
Retired American factory worker, convicted in 2011 for role in Sobibor deathcamp, protested his innocence for three decades.
www.guardian.co.uk/.../john-demjanjuk-nazi-camp-guard-dies
Cincy killer dies on death row of natural causes | Cincinnati.com ...
The state says a condemned Ohio inmate has died of natural causes after more than a year at a prison medical facility. Billy Sowell was sentenced todeath for ...
news.cincinnati.com/.../Cincy-killer-dies-death-row-natural-ca...
John Demjanjuk, Convicted Death Camp Guard, Dies - ABC News
John Demjanjuk was convicted of being a low-ranking guard at the Sobibordeath camp, but his 35-year fight on three continents to clear his name — a legal ...
abcnews.go.com/.../convicted-nazi-criminal-john-demjanjuk-d...
John Demjanjuk obituary: Convicted Nazi death camp guard dies at ...
Reporting from London -- John Demjanjuk, a retired Ohio autoworker convicted of serving as a guard at a Nazi extermination camp and being complicit in the ...
articles.latimes.com/2012/.../la-me-john-demjanjuk-20120318
Convicted Nazi death camp guard dies, aged 91 - Europe - World ...
John Demjanjuk, the retired US car-worker convicted of being a guard at the Nazis' Sobibor death camp, died yesterday. He was 91. Demjanjuk was convicted ...
www.independent.co.uk/.../convicted-nazi-death-camp-guard-...
John Demjanjuk dies ahead of appeal against Nazi death camp ...
Police said John Demjanjuk passed away at a care home in southern Germany where he was staying. He was sentenced to five years in prison but freed ...
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../John-Demjanjuk-dies-ahead-appeal-N...

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