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Knut Hamsun welcomed the German occupation of Norway during World War II. Now his reputation is being rehabilitated during a yearlong 150th birthday celebration.
The comedian joins one of the most exclusive clubs in television on Monday night, when he becomes the third host of NBC’s “Late Night.”
There is one aspect of Snuggie, the fleece “blanket with sleeves,” that has been little explored: its use in public. One reporter does a field test.
An exhibition in Jerusalem of works by Bruno Schulz includes wall paintings he created under Nazi coercion shortly before he was killed.
The Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra, which came into being last summer, made its American debut last week at the Kennedy Center in Washington.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 25, 2009, covering February 28, 2009.
Taylor Swift
Robert Plant / Alison Krauss
India.Arie
The Fray
Lily Allen
2009Paul Harvey, American radio host (born 1918)[†]
Paul Harvey Aurandt was an American radio broadcaster for ABC News Radio. He broadcast News and Comment on mornings and mid-days on weekdays and at noon on Saturdays and also his famous The Rest of the Story segments. From 1951 to 2008, his programs reached as many as 24 million people per week. Paul Harvey News was carried on 1,200 radio stations, on 400 American Forces Network stations, and in 300 newspapers.
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]