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Millions read Bowie biography following sudden death
David Bowie, left, who released twenty-six studio albums during his lifetime, died earlier this month. Photo by CBS Television, public domain. On January 10, just two days after the release of his...
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Remembering Adrianne Wadewitz
From the photographer Sage Ross: “I remember laughing and talking and laughing and talking at Wikimania 2012. I took this picture of her that she used for a long while as a profile pic. Someone on...
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"Dare to be different, yet hold your head high": The impact of Prince's death...
Photo by Zarateman, CC BY-SA 4.0. The death of Prince—a musician, producer, and artist of rare talent and influence—stunned the world. Tributes poured in from all over the world, including from noted...
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Editors chronicle the life of baseball pitcher José Fernández after his...
Photo by Arturo Pardavila III, CC BY 2.0. This week started with news about the tragic death of Cuban-born American baseball pitcher José Fernández, who died with three friends in a boating accident...
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News on Wikipedia: Fidel Castro, president of Cuba, dead at 90
Fidel Castro, 1978. Photo by Marcelo Montecino, CC BY-SA 2.0. Fidel Castro was the leader of Cuba for nearly fifty years. In that time, he lived through eleven US presidents and stayed in power for...
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Death, politics, and Vincent van Gogh: 2016 as seen through the lens of...
Prince. Photo by Zarateman, CC BY-SA 4.0. Anecdotally, 2016 was a year of transition and change in much of the western world. Some events could be described as tragedy, others as cause for celebration....
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I realized I was writing for her: mourning my mother through a hundred days...
On the last night I spoke to my mother, Nair Fonseca, I was furiously editing Wikipedia. She had been struggling with a terminal cancer for the last nine months; that night the disease left her...
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