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Mar 20, 2008 · After a private, secular funeral on Saturday, science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke will be buried in Colombo's General Cemetery in a plot owned by the family of his business partner.
Mar 20, 2008 · March 20, 2008. “Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral” were the instructions left by Arthur C. Clarke, who died on ...
March 24, 2008. A minute’s silence was ordered across Sri Lanka on Saturday as the visionary British science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke was buried in a plot in the General Cemetery in the ...
Mar 24, 2008 · Tamara Ekanayake, the daughter of Clarke's business partner and longtime friend Hector Ekanayake, made a brief speech at their home before the funeral procession began. She said Clarke's gravestone would be engraved according to his wishes: "Here lies Arthur C. Clarke. He never grew up and did not stop growing." Born in western England on Dec ...
Mar 19, 2008 · British science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke has died in his adopted home of Sri Lanka at the age of 90. The Somerset-born author achieved his greatest fame in 1968 when his short story The Sentinel was turned into the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. His visions of space travel and computing sparked the imagination of readers and scientists ...
As World War II was ending, Arthur Clarke writes a technical paper (his title: ‘The Future of World Communications’) and sends it to Wireless World magazine. They publish it in October 1945 issue as ‘Extra-terrestrial Relays’ – the first to outline the principles of global broadcasting via communication satellites in geostationary orbit.
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Mar 19, 2008 · Sir Arthur C Clarke: Sci-fi seer. Visionary science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke, author of more than 100 books, has died at the age of 90 in Sri Lanka. Once called "the first dweller in the electronic cottage", his vision of the future, and its technology - popularised in films like 2001: A Space Odyssey - captured the popular imagination.
