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October 26, 2007

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And Staten Island, Too

By Andy Newman

A project brings three unlikely local musicians together to compose music for the island often referred to as New York City’s forgotten borough.

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 24, 2007, covering October 26, 2007.

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    Album cover for Rock N Roll Jesus by Kid Rock

    Rock N Roll Jesus

    Kid Rock

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    Album cover for Magic by Bruce Springsteen

    Magic

    Bruce Springsteen

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    Album cover for Still Feels Good by Rascal Flatts

    Still Feels Good

    Rascal Flatts

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    Album cover for Family by LeAnn Rimes

    Family

    LeAnn Rimes

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    Album cover for Exile On Mainstream by Matchbox Twenty

    Exile On Mainstream

    Matchbox Twenty

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Notable Deaths

Nicolae Dobrin

2007Nicolae Dobrin, Romanian footballer and manager (born 1947)[†]

Nicolae Dobrin was a Romanian footballer who played as an attacking midfielder and a manager.

2007Friedman Paul Erhardt, German-American chef and television host (born 1943)[†]

Friedman Paul Erhardt was a German American pioneering early television chef. He was known as "Chef Tell" to his 40 million fans. He is widely regarded as one of the first chefs to enjoy widespread popularity on American television. Former Philadelphia Inquirer food writer, Elaine Tait, wrote, "Chef Tell is America's pioneer TV showman chef whose food always tastes good." Erhardt's thick German accent reportedly made him the inspiration for the Swedish Chef, a well known Muppet character on The Muppet Show, although Brian Henson denies this.

Arthur Kornberg

2007Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize (born 1918)[†]

Arthur Kornberg was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1959 for the discovery of "the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid" together with Spanish biochemist and physician Severo Ochoa of New York University. He was also awarded the Paul-Lewis Award in Enzyme Chemistry from the American Chemical Society in 1951, an L.H.D. degree from Yeshiva University in 1962, and the National Medal of Science in 1979. In 1991, Kornberg received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement and the Gairdner Foundation Award in 1995.

Historical Context for October 26, 2007

In 2007, the world population was approximately 6,757,308,781 people[†]