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The Rangers staged a roof-rattling comeback in a thrilling second period Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden. Then it was snatched away.
A Torah that survived the fetid barracks of Auschwitz will be rededicated at an interfaith ceremony on Wednesday.
A week before two key primaries, the controversy surrounding his ex-pastor again erupted into a threat to Barack Obama’s ability to unify the Democrats.
Seven challengers take on the mighty meatball parm and the elegant B.L.T. to become New York’s next best sandwich.
Elevator Repair Service brings a sanity, humility and theatrical ingenuity to their interpretation of William Faulkner’s 1929 novel.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 30, 2008, covering April 30, 2008.
Mariah Carey
Leona Lewis
Miley Cyrus
Lady Antebellum
Various Artists
2008Juancho Evertsz, Dutch Antillean politician (born 1923)[†]
Juancho Evertsz, whose full name was Juan Miguel Gregorio Evertsz, was a Dutch Antillean politician who served as the Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles between 1973 and 1977.
2008Two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg are confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei and Anastasia, two of the children of the last Tsar of Russia, whose entire family was executed at Yekaterinburg by the Bolsheviks.[†]
Yekaterinburg, alternatively romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk, is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia. The city is located on the Iset River between the Volga-Ural region and Siberia, with a population of roughly 1.5 million residents, up to 2.2 million residents in the urban agglomeration. Yekaterinburg is the fourth-largest city in Russia, the largest city in the Ural Federal District, and one of Russia's main cultural and industrial centres. Yekaterinburg has been dubbed the "Third capital of Russia", as it is ranked third by the size of its economy, culture, transportation and tourism.
In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]