Belgium, Man, BELGIUM

Here's an excellent, if not exactly newsy, obituary of Allen Walker Read, a philologist and lexicographer looking for the origins of, well, you'll find out...

Thanks to Foxy Roxy for the link.

And while we're on the subject of death notices, also worth checking out is the Association of International Obituarists' site. There's information on their upcoming conference and links to obituaries of notable people from Strom Thurmond's babysitter to a Case Western Reserve reference librarian who organized his memoirs by subject.