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August 3, 2008

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Haze, Humidity and Horses

By Keith Bradsher

The goal during Olympic equestrian events is to make sure that horses and riders are not exposed to the midday heat and humidity of Hong Kong.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 30, 2008, covering August 3, 2008.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Untitled by Nas

    Untitled

    Nas

    Last week
    —
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    1
  2. 2
    Album cover for Tha Carter III by Lil Wayne

    Tha Carter III

    Lil Wayne

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    6
  3. 3
    Album cover for Mamma Mia! by Soundtrack

    Mamma Mia!

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    7
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    2
  4. 4
    Album cover for Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends by Coldplay

    Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends

    Coldplay

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    5
  5. 5
    Album cover for Camp Rock by Soundtrack

    Camp Rock

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    5

Notable Deaths

Skip Caray

2008Skip Caray, American sportscaster (born 1939)[†]

Harry Christopher "Skip" Caray Jr. was an American sportscaster, best known for his long career as a radio and television play-by-play announcer for the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball. He was the son of baseball announcer Harry Caray, and the father of St. Louis Cardinals play-by-play announcer and former fellow Braves broadcaster Chip Caray; another son, Josh Caray, is the play-by-play announcer for the minor league Rocket City Trash Pandas.

2008Erik Darling, American singer-songwriter (born 1933)[†]

Erik Darling was an American singer-songwriter and a folk music artist. He was an important influence on the folk scene in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

2008Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist, dramatist and historian, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)[†]

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Soviet and Russian author and dissident who helped to raise global awareness of political repression in the Soviet Union, especially the Gulag prison system. He was awarded the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the ethical force with which he has pursued the indispensable traditions of Russian literature". His non-fiction work The Gulag Archipelago "amounted to a head-on challenge to the Soviet state" and sold tens of millions of copies.

Historical Context for August 3, 2008

In 2008, the world population was approximately 6,844,457,662 people[†]