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A dozen members of the fine-arts faculty at Parsons the New School for Design have been told that they will not be teaching in the department in the fall.
Nintendo’s newest toy demonstrates that its makers may have a deeper understanding of how entertainment is evolving than any other company.
Astroland’s demise last year created a misconception that all of Coney Island was shut down, and several local merchants will soon start a media campaign to clear up the confusion.
Bothered by a creeping sense that their city is losing some of its zing, San Franciscans have rallied around the Tonga Room.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 1, 2009, covering April 4, 2009.
Kelly Clarkson
U2
Soundtrack
The-Dream
Lady Gaga
2009Maxine Cooper, American actress, activist and photographer (born 1924)[†]
Gladys Maxine Cooper was an American actress, activist, and photographer. She was perhaps best known for her role as private detective Mike Hammer's secretary Velda in the 1955 film Kiss Me Deadly, which the Los Angeles Times called a "film noir classic."
2009France announces its return to full participation of its military forces within NATO.[†]
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the North Atlantic, the French West Indies, and many islands in Oceania and the Indian Ocean, giving it one of the largest discontiguous exclusive economic zones in the world. Metropolitan France shares borders with Belgium and Luxembourg to the north; Germany to the northeast; Switzerland to the east; Italy and Monaco to the southeast; Andorra and Spain to the south; and a maritime border with the United Kingdom to the northwest. Its metropolitan area extends from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean and from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea. Its eighteen integral regions—five of which are overseas—span a combined area of 632,702 km2 (244,288 sq mi) and have an estimated total population of over 68.6 million as of January 2025. France is a semi-presidential republic and its capital, largest city and main cultural and economic centre is Paris.
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]