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In 2007, the world population was approximately 6,757,308,781 people[†]
2007Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian pianist and composer (born 1913)[†]
Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov was a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist, and General Secretary of the Union of Soviet Composers (1948–1991), who was also known for his political activities. He wrote three symphonies, four piano concertos, two violin concertos, two cello concertos, operas, operettas, ballets, chamber music, incidental music and film music.
2007The Kahtaniya bombings kill at least 500 people.[†]
The Qahtaniyah bombings occurred on August 14, 2007, when four coordinated suicide car bomb attacks detonated in the Yazidi towns of Til Ezer (al-Qahtaniyah) and Siba Sheikh Khidir (al-Jazirah), in northern Iraq.
Every Republican presidential candidate employs people who have worked with Karl Rove.
By the mid-20th century, even among many British composers and critics, Edward Elgar was patronized as a product of the Victorian era, an unquestionably skilled but ponderous composer, given to lofty pathos.
Goldman Sachs and a group of investors are injecting $3 billion of capital into one of its flailing hedge funds.
If you accept one pretty reasonable assumption, it is almost a mathematical certainty that we are living in someone else’s computer simulation.
The Olympic Games are always sponsored by one city, but the Beijing Games will be a more cosmic harbinger of where the world is going in the next century or three.
A brutal triple murder has provoked a level of outrage not seen since the riots of 40 years ago.
Do enough people care about the stories behind viral videos to make “i-Caught,” which had its premiere last week on ABC, a viable prime-time television concept?
The French publisher of the Harry Potter books will not sue the teenager who was arrested for publishing his own complete French translation of the final Potter book.
A front-page article on Saturday about the Federal Reserve’s decision to inject capital into the financial system mischaracterized the central bank’s action. The Fed lent $19 billion against mortgage-backed securities, it did not purchase the securities. In a second action, the Fed lent $19 billion through reverse repurchase agreements.
The move comes after the bank pumped money into the system for two days to ease fears of a liquidity crisis.
The Bowery Presents, an independent concert promoter, is expected to announce today that a new rock club is coming to New York, and it’s a big one: Terminal 5, with room for 3,000, at 610 West 56th Street in Clinton.