Nelson Mandela was a South African revolutionary who spent 27 years imprisoned by the government. He became a symbol of the anti-apartheid struggle. Mandela was released from prison in 1990 after international pressure,...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/12/05/RIP-Nelson-Mandela/[http://youtu.be/QOsLdT4slsk] (YouTube link)Cal Worthington was a car dealer in California who became a television icon with his quirky TV ads featuring his dog, Spot. The kicker was that "Spot" was never a dog, but a di...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/09/09/RIP-Cal-Worthington/The news was released yesterday that Butler Blue II, the bulldog mascot for the Butler University Bulldogs, passed away Saturday after an extended Illness. He was nine years old. The whole story comes out in a eulogy fro...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/09/04/RIP-Butler-Blue-II/You remember Schoep, the dog whose photograph touched the world last year. After the image of John Unger and his dog swimming in Lake Superior went viral, people all over began following them on Facebook, and many contri...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/07/19/RIP-Schoep/If you can discern anything at all from her obituary , Antonia Larroux had a non-stop sense of humor. H... ...a Larroux had a non-stop sense of humor. Her paid obituary ran in the New York Times Friday and Saturday, al...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/05/05/The-Colorful-Life-of-Antonia-Larroux/Film critic Roger Ebert passed away today in Chicago after a decade-long battle with cancer. Ebert wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times for 46 years, celebrating his anniversary at the paper with his last column on Tuesday. H...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/04/RIP-Roger-Ebert/Senator Daniel Inouye became a U.S. Representative on the day that Hawaii became a state, on August 21, 1959. He was elected Senator in 1962, and became the longest-serving member of the Senate. But he was already quite...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/18/RIP-Daniel-Inouye/[http://youtu.be/faJE92phKzI] (YouTube link)Jazz m... ...academia.Read more about the jazz pioneer in his obituary
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/12/05/RIP-Dave-Brubeck/Larry Hagman, the actor who brought us two enduring TV characters among other roles, died yesterday of cancer at at Medical City in Dallas. He portrayed astronaut Major Anthony Nelson on the 1965-1970 TV series I Dream o...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/24/RIP-Larry-Hagman/Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the surface of the moon, has died. He gave the world a quote on that occasion on July 20, 1969, that will live in history: "That is one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/25/RIP-Neil-Armstrong/
