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Subject: [Leica] Arthur C. Clarke
From: jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jeffery Smith)
Date: Wed Mar 19 18:14:15 2008
References: <a3f189160803191304p55765317offceb41675f6372b@mail.gmail.com>

Now I'll never know what that damned monolith was about in 2001.

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Sonny Carter <sonc.hegr@gmail.com> wrote:
>   According to the Associated Press:
>
>   Science-fiction writer, inventor and futurist Arthur C. Clarke has died.
>
>   Clarke died early Wednesday after suffering from breathing problems, the
>  Associated Press reported. He was 90 years old. He suffered from 
> post-polio
>  syndrome and was confined to a wheelchair toward the end of his life.
>
>   Clarke wrote more than 100 sci-fi books, including "2001: A Space 
> Odyssey."
>
>
>   He is credited with coming up with the idea for the communications
>  satellite and predicting space travel before rockets were even test fired.
>
>  Also on topic:
>
>  Leica Photography Vol. 7, No. 2, Summer, 1954 Issue profiled Leica
>  Photographer Arthur C. Clarke
>
>  An interesting anecdote on  "Lewis and Clarke"
>
>   http://oxfordinklings.blogspot.com/2007/06/arthur-c-clarke-cs-lewis.html
>   -
>  --
>  Regards,
>  Sonny
>  http://www.sonc.com
>  Natchitoches, Louisiana
>  USA
>
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-- 
Jeffery L. Smith
New Orleans, LA

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