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Who Died?
I got this from Deadman's Log, who got it from Shellhawk. And it's morbid enough to amuse me on a bright spring day.
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Back from four-day weekend trip. The 6.5 hour drive, plus half hour or so for meal & bathroom stops, became a 10.5 hour drive thanks to a trio of traffic jams. Ick.

Of course, there was a list of things waiting for me. Some of it, I wonder about. My job is not rocket science. Why do some people find it so hard?

The fire alarm was set off about noon. I joked with my boss that if I'd known how pretty it was outside, I would have pulled the alarm myself. Luckily, it was a false alarm; so no damage & no injuries.

Two books that I ordered arrived. One was Secret Life of a Vampire. I read that during the fire alarm & over lunch, pretty much. I then started Night's Rose by Annaliese Evans. I'm now up to July 2008 in my Shojo Beat. I'm almost caught up. Whee!

My tatting this past weekend was less than successful. The thread kept breaking.

FYI

People who died on May 25 (various years)

• 2007 - Charles Nelson Reilly, American actor and host
• 2006 - Desmond Dekker, Jamaican ska musician
• 2005 - Gregory Scott Johnson, American murderer
• 2005 - Ruth Laredo, American pianist
• 2005 - Graham Kennedy, Australian television personality
• 2005 - Robert Jankel, British coachbuilder
• 2005 - Sunil Dutt, Indian actor and politician
• 2004 - Roger W. Straus, Jr., American publisher
• 2003 - Jeremy Michael Ward, American musician (The Mars Volta)
• 2000 - Nicholas Clay, British actor
• 1996 - Bradley Nowell, American singer and guitarist (Sublime)
• 1995 - Dany Robin, French actress
• 1994 - Sonny Sharrock, American jazz guitarist
• 1988 - Ernst Ruska, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1986 - Chester Bowles, American politician
• 1983 - Jean Rougeau, French Canadian professional wrestler
• 1981 - Fredric Warburg, British publisher and author
• 1979 - John Arthur Spenkelink, American murderer
• 1977 - Yevgenia Ginzburg, Russian writer
• 1965 - Sonny Boy Williamson, (Alec "Rice" Miller) American Blues singer, songwriter, and musician
• 1954 - Robert Capa, Hungarian-born photojournalist
• 1951 - Paula von Preradović, Croatian-born writer
• 1943 - Nils von Dardel, Swedish post-impressionist painter
• 1940 - Joe De Grasse, American film director
• 1935 - Sir Frank Watson Dyson, English astronomer
• 1934 - Gustav Holst, English composer
• 1930 - Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1927 - Payne Whitney, American businessman
• 1926 - Symon Petlura, Ukrainian politician and statesman
• 1924 - Lyubov Popova, Russian painter
• 1919 - Madame C.J. Walker, African American philanthropist and tycoon
• 1917 - Maksim Bahdanovič, Belarusian poet
• 1912 - Austin Lane Crothers, American politician
• 1899 - Rosa Bonheur, French realist painter and sculptor (d. 1822)
• 1849 - Benjamin d'Urban, British general and colonial administrator
• 1848 - Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer
• 1805 - William Paley, English philosopher
• 1797 - John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal
• 1789 - Anders Dahl, Swedish botanist
• 1786 - Peter III of Portugal, consort of Queen Maria I of Portugal
• 1741 - Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian
• 1693 - Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, French writer
• 1681 - Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish playwright
• 1667 - Gustaf Bonde, Swedish statesman
• 1632 - Adam Tanner, Austrian mathematician and philosopher
• 1595 - Valens Acidalius, German critic and poet
• 1555 - Henry II of Navarre
• 1555 - Gemma Frisius, Dutch mathematician and cartographer
• 1452 - John Stafford, Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1261 - Pope Alexander IV
• 1085 - Pope Gregory VII
• 992 - Mieszko I first lord and knight of Poland, duke of Polans
• 967 - Murakami, Emperor of Japan (b. 926)
• 735 - Bede, English historian and monk
• 709 - Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne