General Good-byes And RIPs

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  • CrœsosCrœsos Shipmate
    Harrison Ruffin Tyler has died. You may well be wondering who that is. His main claim to fame is that he was the last known* living grandson of John Tyler, who was president from 1841 to 1845. Former president Tyler died in 1862, showing how the past is often less distant than we think it is.


    *Tyler was a slaveholder and, given the common practices of the time, we can't rule out the possibility of additional unacknowledged descendants of America's 10th president.
  • AmosAmos Shipmate
    MaryLouise wrote: »
    Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, a regular contender for the Nobel prize for literature and one of few writers working in an indigenous African language (Gikuyu), has died aged 87.

    One of the greats. 'Resistance is the best way of keeping alive. It can take even the smallest form of saying no to injustice. If you really think you’re right, you stick to your beliefs, and they help you to survive.'
  • EigonEigon Shipmate
    Peter David, Star Trek and comics author, has just died after suffering health problems for some time. I met him once at a Comic Con - he was lovely.
  • DafydDafyd Hell Host
    Eigon wrote: »
    Peter David, Star Trek and comics author, has just died after suffering health problems for some time. I met him once at a Comic Con - he was lovely.
    I know him mainly for his future Spider-Man and X-Men adjacent stories, but he's best known for his work on the Incredible Hulk in what was maybe the last really formative run from Marvel's eighties heyday.
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