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Australian artist Mike Nash, perhaps best known for his work designing robots for Horizon Zero Dawn and the film Chappie, has died.

Mike Nash, a skilled concept artist, has sadly passed away at the age of 36. A talented artist, he was perhaps best known for his design and concept work on Guerilla's Horizon Zero Dawn. The cause of death has not been shared publicly at this time.

hepcat wrote: ↑Wed Jan 27, 2021 9:40 pm She and Madeline Kahn made every Mel Brooks film they were in infinitely better. RIP to one of the greats.

Wiegert initially became well known in the late 1970s when he began development of The Vector, a high-performance sports car intended to be America's answer to European cars such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Porsche.[3] This concept would be further developed into the Vector W8, which was manufactured and sold between 1989 and 1993.

TheMix wrote: ↑Wed Jan 27, 2021 8:30 pm Cue horse whinny.

hepcat wrote:I know this is going to sound horrible, but a part of me wonders if this is a stunt on Diamond's part. He has a history of doing some pretty outrageous stuff to get his name in the papers, and this death seems REALLY fast.

But RIP if true. Sad to see anyone that young die from such a horrible thing.

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Mon Feb 01, 2021 3:55 pm Andy Kaufman he ain't.

hepcat wrote: ↑Mon Feb 01, 2021 3:19 pm I know this is going to sound horrible, but a part of me wonders if this is a stunt on Diamond's part. He has a history of doing some pretty outrageous stuff to get his name in the papers, and this death seems REALLY fast.

But RIP if true. Sad to see anyone that young die from such a horrible thing.

The first American woman to launch into space who was not a professional astronaut but a working scientist, Millie Hughes-Fulford, has died at the age of 75.

Hughes-Fulford's death was confirmed by the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation (ASF) on Thursday (Feb. 4).

"I'm missing Jim Weatherly already. He was about life and love," tweeted Gladys Knight.

Friends and fans are paying tribute to Weatherly, a singer-songwriter who penned a number of hits, including "Midnight Train to Georgia," "Neither One of Us" and "Best Thing That Ever Happened to Me." Weatherly died at his home in Brentwood, Tenn., on Feb. 3 at age 77, historian and Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame board member Robert K. Oermann wrote in MusicRow magazine.

Weatherly's friend Charlie Monk told the Tennessean that his family attributes his death to natural causes.

• There's an unexpected twist to the journey Weatherly took in writing "Midnight Train to Georgia." It began with a 1970 phone call to a friend, actor Lee Majors, whose then girlfriend, Farah Fawcett, answered the phone. Weatherly told the newsletter for Ole Miss, where he'd been a star quarterback, that he originally called the song "Midnight Plane to Houston," inspired by something Fawcett told him.
  
  "During the course of the conversation, she mentioned she was packing her clothes and she was going to take the midnight plane to Houston to visit her family. 'Midnight plane to Houston' got kind of stuck in my mind in bold letters. When I got off the phone, I wrote 'Midnight Plane to Houston' in about 30 to 45 minutes."

He served three Republican presidents - Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan - in various roles.

Under Mr Reagan, Mr Schultz spent much of the 1980s trying to improve relations with the Soviet Union.