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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…

Queen Elizabeth II died Thursday, September 8, 2022, at her estate in Scotland. The British monarch was 96 years old. Members of the Royal family had traveled to be at her bedside after doctors announced Thursday they were “concerned” for her health. Queen Elizabeth was born in London at the Mayfair home of her maternal…

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