On the Same Day
I write poems about people who die on the same day. The uncontrollable mix of learning and forever-bound.
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On The Same Day: Odierno y Bani-Sadr
Today’s New York Times holds two obituaries that bookend the highs and lows of Saddam Hussein.
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Deaver and Joybubbles are dead
Michael K. Deaver, alcoholic master of the political visual image, and Joybubbles, blind master of the phone tone, died on the same day. God bless us all.
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On the Same Day, Live Birth Version
Longtime readers will remember my fascination with unrelated people who happen to die on the same day, being forever linked. Here’s a twist on that: Katies Holmes, the wife of Tom Cruise, psycho, and the person Cruise criticized for being treated for post-partum depression, Brooke Shields, had babies on the same day. The Contra Costa…
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Tigger and Piglet Are Dead
Usually obituary-related items end up over here at /obits/, (can’t say GoogObits anymore), but this one is pretty odd and needs to be here filed under "Um". I’ve long been fascinated by the concept of who dies on the same day. Today we have a doozy. The obituaries of Paul Winchell, 82, TV Host and…
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Math
Here’s an “On The Same Day” that must be hitting the math world hard: George B. Dantzig Dies at 90; Devised Math Solution to Broad Problems While making calculations for the Air Force in 1947, Dr. Dantzig developed the simplex algorithm, which enabled mathematicians, economists and others to consider large numbers of variables in broad-reaching…