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Consisting of over 13,000 printed books and manuscripts, the Valmadonna Trust Library is a monumental record of Jewish life and culture around the world.
Nassau Community College, Suffolk County Community College and Stony Brook University are searching for leaders just as their institutions are sliding into a new era of fiscal uncertainty.
As layoffs hit Dubai’s foreign workers, their departure is making parts of the city look like a ghost town.
New, stronger standards now taking shape could also hasten consolidation in the industry.
For President Obama, the positive outcome of the stimulus bill negotiation could either be an opening act for a more ambitious agenda or a harbinger of reduced expectations.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 11, 2009, covering February 12, 2009.
Bruce Springsteen
Taylor Swift
Beyonce
Nickelback
Kanye West
2009Colgan Air Flight 3407 victims:[†]
Alison Des Forges was an American historian and human rights activist who specialized in the African Great Lakes region, particularly the 1994 Rwandan genocide. At the time of her death, she was a senior advisor for the African continent at Human Rights Watch. She died in a plane crash on 12 February 2009.
2009Colgan Air Flight 3407 victims:[†]
Beverly Eckert was an American activist and advocate for the creation of the 9/11 Commission. She was one of the members of the 9/11 Family Steering Committee for the 9/11 Commission. Eckert's husband, Sean Rooney, died at age 50 in the attacks of September 11, 2001. She pushed for a commission to investigate 9/11 and to establish a memorial.
2009Colgan Air Flight 3407 victims:[†]
Mat Mathews, born Mathieu Hubert Wijnandts Schwarts, was a Dutch jazz accordionist.
2009Colgan Air Flight 3407 victims:[†]
Coleman Mellett was an American jazz guitarist in Chuck Mangione's band. He had been scheduled to play with Mangione and the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra on February 13, 2009, but was killed the night before in the crash of Colgan Air Flight 3407 with band member Gerry Niewood.
2009Colgan Air Flight 3407 victims:[†]
Gerry Niewood, born Gerard Joseph Nevidosky, was an American jazz saxophonist and flutist who worked often with Chuck Mangione. Like Mangione, Niewood was born in Rochester, New York, and graduated from the Eastman School of Music.
2009Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo Niagara International Airport, killing all on board and one on the ground.[†]
Colgan Air Flight 3407 was a scheduled passenger flight from Newark, New Jersey, to Buffalo, New York, on February 12, 2009. Approaching Buffalo, the aircraft, a Bombardier Q400, entered an aerodynamic stall from which it did not recover and crashed into a house at 6038 Long Street in Clarence Center, New York, at 10:17 pm EST, about 5 miles from the end of the runway, killing all 49 passengers and crew on board and one person inside the house.
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]