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  Film icon Angela Lansbury has passed away at the age of 96. Her family released a statement saying, “The children of Dame Angela Lansbury are sad to announce that their mother died peacefully in her sleep at home in Los Angeles at 1:30 a.m. today, Tuesday, October 11, 2022, just five days shy of…

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  Brother Andrew, the Dutch missionary who made it his life’s work to smuggle Bibles into communist countries, died last week at 94. Born in 1928 by the name Anne van der Bijl in the Netherlands, Brother Andrew spent his formative years under the threat of Nazi rule after the Nazis invaded during World War…

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  On October 9, 1977, the Philadelphia Eagles were playing against the New York Giants when the quarterback called for a “Toss 48.” The handoff went to tailback Herb Lusk II, who’d had a scoreless first season the year before. Lusk ran the football 70 yards for a touchdown that day and, for the first…

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Loretta Lynn, the Kentucky coal miner’s daughter whose frank songs about life and love as a woman in Appalachia pulled her out of poverty and made her a pillar of country music, has died at 90. According to a statement her family provided to The Associated Press, Lynn died at her home in Hurricane Mills,…

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