Posted in Scored Deaths on Nov 24th, 2009
Former Thai PM Samak Sundaravej died Monday from liver cancer at the age of 74. Sundaravej ruled the country for eight months last year at the height of anti-government protests. He also gained widespread fame for his appearances as a TV chef. He was Thailand’s 25th prime minister and took office in January 2008.
Solo shot for Dr. Death#3, as he tries to be the player with the best lists that don’t win any money.
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Posted in Scored Deaths on Nov 3rd, 2009
Claude Levi-Strauss, widely considered the father of modern anthropology for work that included theories about commonalities between tribal and industrial societies, has died. He was 100.
The French intellectual was regarded as having reshaped the field of anthropology, introducing the concept of structuralism — concepts about common patterns of behavior and thought, especially myths, in a wide range of human societies. Defined as the search for the underlying patterns of thought in all forms of human activity, structuralism compared the formal relationships among elements in any given system. Read more... (250 words, estimated 1:00 mins reading time)
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Posted in Scored Deaths on Nov 1st, 2009
Norton Buffalo, a member of The Steve Miller Band during their heyday and award winning Fly Like An Eagle tour and the recording of the band’s hit follow-up album Book of Dreams. He also played Bette Midler’s sidekick in The Rose an in the Dustin Hoffman film Heaven’s Gate.
It was a solo shot for Dr. Death #2, keeping him in fourth place, but only by two points.
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