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Wii Sports Resort, the new game and accessory from Nintendo, to be released in North America on Sunday, is destined to keep far too many people indoors over the rest of this summer.
A smart bear regularly defeats a complex device, meant to protect campers’ food, that even some people can’t open.
The Mighty Boosh, a British comedy group that has been popular for years in its homeland, was in New York this week to make a push for stateside success.
The sport’s governing body voted to ban high-tech, performance-enhancing swimsuits that cover the majority of an athlete’s body starting next year.
Some advisers to President George W. Bush, including Dick Cheney, argued in 2002 for using the military to sweep up terrorism suspects on domestic soil.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 22, 2009, covering July 25, 2009.
Maxwell
Soundtrack
Various Artists
All Time Low
The Black Eyed Peas
2009Vernon Forrest, American boxer (born 1971)[†]
Vernon Forrest was an American professional boxer who competed from 1992 to 2008. He held multiple world championships in two weight classes, including the WBC, IBF, Ring magazine and lineal welterweight between 2002 and 2003, and the WBC super welterweight title twice between 2007 and 2009. In 2002, Forrest was named Fighter of the Year by The Ring and the Boxing Writers Association of America.
2009Stanley Middleton, English author (born 1919)[†]
Stanley Middleton FRSL was a British novelist.
2009Harry Patch, English soldier (born 1898)[†]
Henry John Patch, dubbed in his later years "the Last Fighting Tommy", was an English supercentenarian, briefly the oldest man in Europe, and the world's last surviving trench combat soldier of the First World War. Patch was not the longest-surviving soldier of the First World War, but he was the fifth-longest-surviving veteran of any sort from the First World War, behind British veterans Claude Choules and Florence Green, Frank Buckles of the United States and John Babcock of Canada. At the time of his death, aged 111 years and 38 days, Patch was the third-oldest man in the world, behind Walter Breuning and Jiroemon Kimura.
2009Yasmin Ahmad, Malaysian film director (born 1958)[†]
Yasmin binti Ahmad was a Malaysian film director, writer and scriptwriter. She was the executive creative director at Leo Burnett Kuala Lumpur. Her television commercials and films are well known in Malaysia for being humorous and touching. Her work crossed cross-cultural barriers, particularly her ads for Petronas, the national oil and gas company. Her works have won multiple awards both within Malaysia and internationally. In Malaysia, her films were highly controversial due to their depiction of events and relationships, which have been considered 'forbidden' by social conservatives, especially hard-line interpretations of Islam. She was a central figure of the "first" New Wave of Malaysian cinema.
In 2009, the world population was approximately 6,932,766,416 people[†]