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August 13, 2006

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Big River

By Review by Louise Jarvis Flynn

Dan O’Neill traces a vanishing way of life along the Yukon.

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 9, 2006, covering August 13, 2006.

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    Album cover for LeToya by LeToya

    LeToya

    LeToya

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    Album cover for NOW 22 by Various Artists

    NOW 22

    Various Artists

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    Album cover for In My Mind by Pharrell

    In My Mind

    Pharrell

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    Album cover for Highway Companion by Tom Petty

    Highway Companion

    Tom Petty

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    Album cover for St. Elsewhere by Gnarls Barkley

    St. Elsewhere

    Gnarls Barkley

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Notable Deaths

Tony Jay

2006Tony Jay, English actor and singer (born 1933)[†]

Tony Jay was a British actor. A former member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he was known for his voice work in radio, animation, film, and video games. Jay was particularly noted for his distinctive raspy baritone voice, which often led to him being cast in villainous or authoritative roles. His voice acting roles included Claude Frollo in Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), Megabyte in ReBoot (1994–2001), Shere Khan in The Jungle Book 2, the TV series TaleSpin, and the Elder God in the Legacy of Kain series of video games.

Jon Nödtveidt

2006Jon Nödtveidt, Swedish musician (born 1975)[†]

Jon Andreas Nödtveidt was a Swedish musician best known as the founder, vocalist and lead guitarist of the melodic black/death metal band Dissection. With the band, he released the seminal and influential extreme metal albums The Somberlain (1993) and Storm of the Light's Bane (1995). In addition to Dissection, Nödtveidt performed with several other projects, including Ophthalamia, The Black, De Infernali and Nifelheim, and also worked as a journalist for Metal Zone, where he covered the growing black metal scene.

Historical Context for August 13, 2006

In 2006, the world population was approximately 6,671,452,015 people[†]