I think I should get back to blogging. I will start a new series on forgotten people who made a difference who were born this date some years ago...
Maurice Kraft was born this day in 1946. He and his wife Katia were pioneering volcanologist. Their photos and videos of eruptions remain spectacular to say the least. They were the first to arrive for any eruptions and the last to leave. Sadly, their death was also due to a volcano, Mt. Unzen. Along with several other people, they were caught in sudden lava flow in 1991. Incidentally, Maurice the day before he said in an interview to National Geographic "I am never afraid because I have seen so much eruptions in 23 years that even if I die tomorrow, I don't care,"
Incidentally, today also happens to be the b'day of Jack 'sparky' Ruby, the killer of the assassin Lee Harvey Oswald (who had in turn killed Jack Kennedy)
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