Dead in 2006

Seabiscuit36 · December 21, 2006, 09:00:14 AM

Awsome that guy was crazy. I saw a 60 minutes on him a few years back, he had his pictures everywhere in his country like saddam but since he gave oil to the world no one cared how he ruled.

Diomedes · December 21, 2006, 10:48:49 AM

Eugene Lazowski

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QuoteWhen the Nazis occupied Poland during World War II and started killing Jews and sending Poles into forced labor, young Dr. Eugene Lazowski soon figured out the one thing that would terrify the brutal occupiers: disease.

Playing upon this German fear, Dr. Lazowski and a colleague risked their lives to fake a typhus epidemic that led the Germans to quarantine a dozen Polish villages, thus saving lives of 8,000 people who might otherwise have wound up in prisons, slave labor or death camps.

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"I was not able to fight with a gun or a sword, but I found a way to scare the Germans," he later told the Sun-Times.

Seabiscuit36 · December 21, 2006, 02:22:04 PM

Cult of personality

Mr Niyazov became Communist Party chief of what was then a Soviet republic in 1985 and was elected first president of independent Turkmenistan in 1991.

In 1999, he was made president-for-life by the country's rubber-stamp parliament.

During his reign, Mr Niyazov established a cult of personality in which he was styled as Turkmenbashi, or Leader of all Turkmens.

He renamed months and days in the calendar after himself and his family, and ordered statues of himself to be erected throughout the desert nation.

Cities, an airport and a meteorite were given his name.

Mr Niyazov was intolerant of criticism and allowed no political opposition or free media in the nation of five million people.

His laws became increasingly personal. It was forbidden to listen to car radios or smoke in public, or for young men to wear beards.

An alleged assassination attempt in 2002 was used to crush his few remaining opponents.

All candidates in the December 2004 parliamentary elections, at which there were no foreign observers, were his

MadMarchHare · December 22, 2006, 04:50:40 PM

Mr. Jefferson

Geowhizzer · December 22, 2006, 11:12:47 PM

Quote from: MadMarchHare on December 22, 2006, 04:50:40 PM
Mr. Jefferson

It's a bit sadder to see that it was the guy who played Lionel rather than Sherman Hensley. At least Hensley's had a good long life. 57 is a might early.

Diomedes · December 24, 2006, 07:51:47 AM

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/12/24/dj.shot.ap/index.html

QuoteNEW YORK (AP) -- A popular hip-hop disc jockey died Saturday after being shot at least 13 times earlier this month, police said.

Carl Blaze, born Carlos Rivera, was shot outside an apartment building near Manhattan's Inwood section on December 7, and his $20,000 diamond chain was stolen, police said. He was taken to Harlem Hospital Center, where he died Saturday.

Blaze, 30, was a DJ for hip-hop and R&B radio station Power 105.1 FM for about three years. He had gained a large fan base by spinning records at clubs and on the air on Friday and Saturday nights.

Power 105.1 FM was holding a tribute for Blaze on Saturday night. The station is owned by Clear Channel Communications.

"Our thoughts and prayers are with his family at this time," said Josefa Paganuzzi, a Clear Channel spokeswoman.

Police said the investigation into the shooting was ongoing.

a. a black guy killed in NY by hail of gunfire? Cops shoot him?
b. somehow I don't think the classic rock DJs worry about getting gunned down for their bling
c. clear channel is satan

dis12 · December 25, 2006, 07:47:56 AM

the Godfather of Soul...

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/16315334.htm

shorebird · December 25, 2006, 10:42:25 AM

Great article for a great preformer. "The Hardest Working Man in Showbuisness" was a great act, as well as singing some killer music. Funk originated with James Brown. His onstage preformances were legendary. I loved it when his crew would come out, drap him with a cape and help him offstage. He looked on the verge of collaspe after one of his dances. Then, he'd jump back out onstage for the next song with the crowd going nuts! It was something to see.