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On March 19, the prolific British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke died at age 90. At his 90th birthday party, in December, Clarke made three wishes: for the world to embrace cleaner energy resources, for a lasting peace in his adopted home, Sri Lanka, and for evidence of extraterrestrial…
Arthur Clarke, author of a number of important science fiction books, member of the British Interplanetary Society, co-inventor of marvelous technologies, and accomplished scuba diver, has died at the age of 90, in his long time home of Sri Lanka.
My favorite book of his was Childhood's End,…
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Inventor of Frisbee dies at 90:
Walter Fredrick Morrison, the man credited with inventing the Frisbee, has died. He was 90.
Morrison's son, Walt, told The Associated Press on Thursday that "old age caught up" with his father and that he also had cancer.
The cause of death, thus, is unknown, but I…