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âExpedition Africa,â on the History Channel, follows a group as they retrace the route that Henry Morton Stanley took in 1871 to find David Livingstone in the wilds of what is now Tanzania.
âStar Trek: The Exhibition,â at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, includes costumes and replicas of props drawn from various installments of the space saga.
Struggling states are increasingly critical of Delaware for its loophole that helps corporations avoid state taxes.
âWhole in the Wall,â in a multistory studio space on Manhattanâs far West Side, is an exhibition of American and European street art.
The Brooklyn indie band Grizzly Bear, which played the first of two nights at Town Hall on Thursday, plays pretty songs that rev without going anywhere.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 27, 2009, covering May 30, 2009.
Green Day
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Cam'Ron
Lady Gaga
Rascal Flatts
2009Torsten Andersson, Swedish painter and illustrator (born 1926)[â ]
Otto Torsten Andersson was a Swedish modernist painter, best known for his theme of the realistic depiction of abstract sculptures, and two-dimensional exploration of three-dimensional objects, where the colors seem to be superimposed on a random and perfunctory manner.
2009Susanna Haapoja, Finnish politician (born 1966)[â ]
Aino Maria Susanna Haapoja was a Finnish politician in the Centre Party. Haapoja was born in Kauhava and became a Member of Parliament in 2003 and was elected for a second term in 2007. In 2005, she became the chair of the Kauhava city council. She was an agrologist by training.
2009Ephraim Katzir, Israeli biophysicist and politician, 4th President of Israel (born 1916)[â ]
Ephraim Katzir was an Israeli biophysicist and Labor Party politician. He was the president of Israel from 1973 until 1978.
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[â ]