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The discovery of books that once had been in Thomas Jefferson’s library has made Washington University in St. Louis the third largest repository of his collections.
Its economy may be a mess, but investors say Japan may become the best-performing market.
For Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, the challenges of the coming year could cinch his reputation as a political superstar or puncture it.
Defeats and weariness are creating fissures between the top leadership based in Pakistan and midlevel field commanders, who have borne the brunt of fighting.
The International Music Score Library Project allows free downloads and is raising copyright concerns among traditional music publishers.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 16, 2011, covering February 22, 2011.
Nicki Minaj
Red
Ricky Martin
Bruno Mars
Rihanna
2011New Zealand's second deadliest earthquake, the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, kills 185 people.[†]
A major earthquake occurred in Christchurch on Tuesday 22 February 2011 at 12:51 p.m. local time. The Mw6.2 earthquake struck the Canterbury Region in the South Island, centred 6.7 kilometres (4.2 mi) south-east of the central business district. It caused widespread damage across Christchurch, killing 185 people in New Zealand's fifth-deadliest disaster. Scientists classified it as an intraplate earthquake and a potential aftershock of the September 2010 Canterbury earthquake.
2011Bahraini uprising: Tens of thousands of people march in protest against the deaths of seven victims killed by police and army forces during previous protests.[†]
The 2011 Bahraini uprising was a series of anti-government protests in Bahrain led by the mainly Shia and some Sunni Bahraini opposition primarily from 2011 until 2014. The protests were inspired by the unrest of the 2011 Arab Spring and protests in Tunisia and Egypt and escalated to daily clashes after the Bahraini government put the revolt down with the support of the Gulf Cooperation Council and Peninsula Shield Force. The Bahraini protests were a series of demonstrations, amounting to a sustained campaign of both non-violent civil disobedience and volatile riots in the Arabian Gulf country of Bahrain. As part of the revolutionary wave of protests in the Middle East and North Africa following the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi in Tunisia, the Bahraini protests were initially aimed at achieving greater political freedom and equality for the 45% Shia population. Towards the culmination of the protests, the demands were metamorphosed into demanding the resignation of former Crown Prince Khalifa Bin Salman and establishing an Islamic republic similar to that of Iran.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]