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14 years 9 months ago #1
by riada
Nor but in sleep findeth a cure for care.
Incertainty that once gave scope to dream
Of laughing enterprise and glory untold,
Is now a blackness that no stars redeem.
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Notable deaths on this date:
Martin Balsam
February 13, 1996
14 years ago today
Waylon Jennings
February 13, 2002
8 years ago today
Walt Rostow
February 13, 2003
7 years ago today
Stacy Keach
February 13, 2003
7 years ago today
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Celebs who would have had a birthday today, but have passed on...
Patty Berg
February 13, 1918
would have been 92 years old today
Eddie Robinson
February 13, 1919
would have been 91 years old today
Oliver Reed
February 13, 1938
would have been 72 years old today
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Passed on recently...
Alexander McQueen
March 17, 1969 - February 11, 2010
A fashion designer .
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Charlie Wilson-
June 1, 1933 - February 10, 2010
Charles Nesbitt Wilson (June 1, 1933 – February 10, 2010) was a United States naval officer and former 12-term Democratic United States Representative from the 2nd congressional district in Texas.
He was best known for leading Congress into supporting Operation Cyclone, the largest-ever Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) covert operation, which under the Reagan administration supplied military equipment, including anti-aircraft weapons such as Stinger antiaircraft missiles, and paramilitary officers from their Special Activities Division to the Afghan Mujahideen during the Soviet war in Afghanistan. His behind-the-scenes campaign was the subject of the non-fiction book Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile III and a subsequent film adaptation starring Tom Hanks, Amy Adams, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Notable deaths on this date:
Martin Balsam
February 13, 1996
14 years ago today
Waylon Jennings
February 13, 2002
8 years ago today
Walt Rostow
February 13, 2003
7 years ago today
Stacy Keach
February 13, 2003
7 years ago today
===
Celebs who would have had a birthday today, but have passed on...
Patty Berg
February 13, 1918
would have been 92 years old today
Eddie Robinson
February 13, 1919
would have been 91 years old today
Oliver Reed
February 13, 1938
would have been 72 years old today
===
Passed on recently...
Alexander McQueen
March 17, 1969 - February 11, 2010
A fashion designer .
==
Charlie Wilson-
June 1, 1933 - February 10, 2010
Charles Nesbitt Wilson (June 1, 1933 – February 10, 2010) was a United States naval officer and former 12-term Democratic United States Representative from the 2nd congressional district in Texas.
He was best known for leading Congress into supporting Operation Cyclone, the largest-ever Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) covert operation, which under the Reagan administration supplied military equipment, including anti-aircraft weapons such as Stinger antiaircraft missiles, and paramilitary officers from their Special Activities Division to the Afghan Mujahideen during the Soviet war in Afghanistan. His behind-the-scenes campaign was the subject of the non-fiction book Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile III and a subsequent film adaptation starring Tom Hanks, Amy Adams, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Nor but in sleep findeth a cure for care.
Incertainty that once gave scope to dream
Of laughing enterprise and glory untold,
Is now a blackness that no stars redeem.
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