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The artist Luke Jerram placed 30 pianos around London as an interactive project meant to bring people out of their urban insularity and also to provide some music.
How can the housing market recover, economists ask, if so few buyers qualify for mortgages under rigid new rules?
Amid mounting criticism, Carolyn Bivens has decided to resign after the United States Womenâs Open, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.
Low-key bars replace New York's high-wattage clubs as the place to party.
These are dark times for crossword puzzle fanatics as newspapers and magazines cancel their puzzles due to space and budget constraints.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 8, 2009, covering July 11, 2009.
The Black Eyed Peas
Jonas Brothers
Regina Spektor
Dave Matthews Band
Eminem
2009Reg Fleming, Canadian-American ice hockey player (born 1936)[â ]
Reginald Stephen "Reggie, the Ruffian" Fleming was a professional hockey player in the National Hockey League with the Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Black Hawks, Boston Bruins, New York Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers and Buffalo Sabres. He also played for the Chicago Cougars of the World Hockey Association, as well as with a number of minor league teams in other professional leagues. His professional career spanned over 20 years. He was known as an aggressive and combative player who could play both forward and defence, as well as kill penalties.
2009Arturo Gatti, Italian-Canadian boxer (born 1972)[â ]
Arturo Gatti was a Canadian professional boxer who competed from 1991 to 2007.
2009Ji Xianlin, Chinese linguist and paleographer (born 1911)[â ]
Ji Xianlin was a Chinese Indologist, linguist, paleographer, historian and writer who has been honored by the governments of both India and China. Ji was proficient in many languages including Chinese, Sanskrit, Arabic, English, German, French, Russian, Pali and Tocharian, and translated many works. He published a memoir, The Cowshed: Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, about his persecution during the Cultural Revolution.
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[â ]