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The Sir Arthur C. Clarke Memorial Trophy Inter School Astronomy Quiz Competition, held in Sri Lanka every year and organised by the Astronomical Association of Ananda College, Colombo. The competition started in 2001 as "The Sir Arthur C. Clarke Trophy Inter School Astronomy Quiz Competition" and was renamed after his death. [156] [157]
This led at least one radio station to report that Churchill had in fact died. [84] Arthur C. Clarke: science fiction writer, had his obituary published by the G.R.A.A. (Goddard Retirees and Alumni Association) newsletter in April 2000. The obituary says he died on February 10, 2000, and even specifies the cause of death as pulmonary fibrosis. [85]
In 2007 and 2008, the deaths of Pavarotti, Arthur C. Clarke, Edmund Hillary, Bobby Fischer, and Charlton Heston were not included because—despite their widely acknowledged notability and importance—their deaths fulfilled neither criteria 5 (no "substantial update" beyond acknowledging the date, cause, and possibly responses to the death ...
"The Nine Billion Names of God" is a 1953 science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke. The story was among the stories selected in 1970 by the Science Fiction Writers of America as one of the best science fiction short stories published before the creation of the Nebula Awards.
Description: IN 1974 Arthur C. Clarke told the ABC that every household in 2001 will have a computer console and be connected all over the world. (Note that the system described here—a dumb terminal connected to a central computer for all information services—is closer to a late-1970s videotex system than the modern Internet and World Wide Web.)
Clarke reviewed and approved the final manuscript of The Last Theorem in early March 2008, just days before he died. [9] [10] Pohl died five years later in September 2013. [11] Arthur C. Clarke at his home in Colombo, Sri Lanka, March 2005. Some of the concepts that appear in The Last Theorem originally appeared in Clarke's earlier works.
Arthur D. Cashin was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, in 1941, according to CNBC. He began his business career at Thomson McKinnon in 1959 and in 1964, at age 23, he became a member of the NYSE ...
Childhood's End is a 1953 science fiction novel by the British author Arthur C. Clarke.The story follows the peaceful alien invasion [1] of Earth by the mysterious Overlords, whose arrival begins decades of apparent utopia under indirect alien rule, at the cost of human identity and culture.