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Vultures have long frequented Wilkie Park in Florence, N.J., but the birds have accumulated into a roosting flock so large and pesky that local officials tried to evict them.
Not often, if ever, has a mosque constructed a rabbi-approved sukkah shelter in its backyard and invited 40 pals from a synagogue to stop by for a sunset bite.
SpongeBob can only take Nickelodeon so far as competition from Disney and other cable networks has exploded.
An unusual early-fall snowstorm buried Buffalo and a broad swath of New York State reaching east to the Rochester suburbs late Thursday and early Friday.
Investors are bypassing studio bosses and dealing directly with producers to gain more control.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 11, 2006, covering October 14, 2006.
Ludacris
Janet Jackson
Tony Bennett
Alan Jackson
Justin Timberlake
2006Freddy Fender, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1937)[†]
Freddy Fender was an American Country and Tejano singer, known for his work as a solo artist and in the groups Los Super Seven and the Texas Tornados. His signature sound fused country, rock, swamp pop and Tex-Mex styles.
2006Klaas Runia, Dutch theologian and journalist (born 1926)[†]
Klaas Runia was a Dutch theologian, churchman and journalist. He studied at the Free University, Amsterdam and obtained his doctorate with a dissertation on the concept of theological time in Karl Barth in 1955. In 1956 he was appointed Professor of Systematic theology at the Reformed Theological College in Geelong, Australia, where he taught until his return to the Netherlands in 1971. During his time in Australia he exerted much influence on evangelical Christians, particularly at universities and theological schools. He was also elected chairman of the Reformed Ecumenical Council from 1968 to 1976. In 1971 he was appointed Professor of Practical Theology at the Kampen Theological University. During his professorship he was heavily engaged in church affairs and was regarded as a leader of the orthodox wing of the Dutch Reformed Church, now the Protestant Church in the Netherlands. For many years he was also active as a journalist. He was editor-in-chief of Centraal Weekblad from 1972 to 1996. He also wrote many articles in the Frisian daily newspaper Friesch Dagblad. He retired in 1992, but remained active as a theologian and journalist until his death in 2006.
2006Gerry Studds, American educator and politician (born 1937)[†]
Gerry Eastman Studds was an American Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts who served from 1973 until 1997. He was the first member of Congress to be openly gay. In 1983 he was censured by the House of Representatives after he admitted to what he described as a "consensual relationship" with a 17-year-old page.
In 2006, the world population was approximately 6,671,452,015 people[†]