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I never knew he was Canadian.

Lillian Barbara Board, MBE (13 December 1948 – 26 December 1970) was an athlete from Great Britain. She won the silver medal in the 400 metres at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, and two gold medals at the 1969 European Championships in Athletics in Athens, Greece. Her career was cut short in 1970 when she developed the colorectal cancer that would claim her life within months.



She lived just around the corner from me,in Ealing. We were all heart-broken.

Golly, he must have seen some fierce fighting in his time, to go by all those medals.

Brilliant - it's like when, confronted with a difficult problem on a maths paper, you get marks for writing the question out, even if you don't try to answer. Well, maybe not exactly like.

Teresa May is an English glamour model. In 1997, she appeared in the music video for The Prodigy's single "Smack My Bitch Up". She moved into acting later in her career in B movies such as Exterminator City and One Man and his Dog. In addition to films, May has appeared in numerous tabloids and men's magazines.

Two writers from the opposite wings of SF: but sometimes so far along each side that they meet each other at the back.

Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) was an American writer, who published works mainly belonging to the genre of science fiction. Dick explored philosophical, sociological and political themes in novels with plots dominated by monopolistic corporations, authoritarian governments, and altered states of consciousness. His work reflected his personal interest in metaphysics and theology, and often drew upon his life experiences in addressing the nature of reality, identity, drug abuse, paranoia, schizophrenia, and transcendental experiences.





Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist, inventor, undersea explorer, and television series host.

He is perhaps most famous for being co-writer of the screenplay for the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, widely considered to be one of the most influential films of all time. Clarke was a science writer, who was both an avid populariser of space travel and a futurist of uncanny ability. On these subjects he wrote over a dozen books and many essays, which appeared in various popular magazines. In 1961 he was awarded the Kalinga Prize, an award which is given by UNESCO for popularizing science. These along with his science fiction writings eventually earned him the moniker "Prophet of the Space Age". His other science fiction writings earned him a number of Hugo and Nebula awards, which along with a large readership made him one of the towering figures of science fiction. For many years Clarke, Robert Heinlein and Isaac Asimov were known as the "Big Three" of science fiction.

Robert Henry Robinson (17 December 1927 – 12 August 2011) was an English radio and television presenter, journalist and author. Robinson was born in Liverpool, the son of an accountant father, and educated at Raynes Park Grammar School and Exeter College, Oxford. He then became a journalist for the Sunday Chronicle (TV columnist), the Sunday Graphic (film and theatre columnist)