Astronomer Sir Patrick Moore dead, aged 89
I noticed Moore's name on the cover of some magazine the other day, which surprised me because I assumed he had probably died already.
Anyway, now he has. We never saw much of him in Australia, as far as I can recall, but his grumpy face was memorable. (Like Julius Sumner Miller, looking rather stern and easily annoyed seemed to be part of the pop scientist mystique in the 1960's. These days they have to be all smiley so as to not scare the kids.)
But as the title of this post suggests, Moore's photo at the link shows him wearing a monocle. Surely he must have been one of the last surviving monocle wearers? Or is there an Eastern European country where this is still the fashion?
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