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Tourists, adventurers and history buffs are lining up to visit the South Pole this year and next in honor of the 100th anniversaries of two polar expeditions.
Ben Roethlisberger threw two touchdown passes and marched the Steelers 65 yards in 11 plays for the winning score.
A rush to match the fund-raising muscle of private schools has put public colleges in an awkward stance: expanding development staffs while cutting from academic programs.
Behind a nearly flawless game by quarterback Aaron Rodgers, the Green Bay Packers pounded the Atlanta Falcons to earn a place in the N.F.C. championship game.
Two new television shows, âHarryâs Lawâ and âFairly Legal,â feature female lawyers leaving the flavorless soup kettle of big-firm casework for odder pastures.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 12, 2011, covering January 16, 2011.
Taylor Swift
Eminem
Rihanna
Nicki Minaj
Kanye West
2011Syrian civil war: The Movement for a Democratic Society (TEV-DEM) is established with the stated goal of re-organizing Syria along the lines of democratic confederalism.[â ]
The Syrian civil war is an ongoing conflict in Syria that began with the Syrian revolution in March 2011, when popular discontent with the Ba'athist regime ruled by Bashar al-Assad triggered large-scale protests and pro-democracy rallies across Syria, as part of the wider Arab Spring protests in the region. The Assad regime responded to the protests with lethal force, sparking a civil war that culminated in the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024. All revolutionary factions were united into the Syrian caretaker government by 12 March 2025.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[â ]