Year: 2004
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Not So Old
Our Darwinian obsession with World’s Oldest This and That was dealt a blow today.
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GoogObits: Stanislaw Ryniak, Lived to be Old
Stanislaw Ryniak managed to live to be old and to die of unknown causes. This was no small achievement. February 28, 2004Stanislaw Ryniak, Auschwitz Inmate, Dies at 88By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WARSAW, Feb. 25 — Stanislaw Ryniak, the first person imprisoned at Auschwitz, the World War II Nazi concentration camp, has died. He was 88. Mr.…
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GoogObits: Judas is Dead (Carl Anderson, 58, Judas in Rock Opera, Dies)
It’s hard to avoid pop culture phenomenons. Our current obsession is Mel Gibson’s movie, The Passion of The Christ. Beneath these behemoths lie a world of a billion smaller cultural moments, places, people, and things. My Significant Other took a singing workshop with Carl Anderson in Rome a few years ago. I remember her speaking…
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[JJ Letters] Clinton vs. Saddam is a very scary match-up
December 22, 1997 In the words of the great philosopher Yogi Berra, it looks like deja vu all over again. Consider the headlines chronicling our ongoing “negotiations” with a madman who is the leader of a foreign country who is trying to blackmail the supposedly intelligent leaders of the free world into making certain “concessions”…
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1600 W. Diversey Pkwy.
Permit #: 20404198 Applicant: Heneghan Wrecking Owner: Lakeside Bank Permit Description: Demolition of a 2-story brick commercial building Status (if applicable): Released 6/3/04