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On the strength of “Gucci Gucci,” Kreayshawn has made a splash this summer, but a concert at the Highline Ballroom shows what she needs to work on.
Susana Baca, recently named as Peru’s minister of culture, has never been a member of the elite in the country, where racial and class divisions run deep.
The leadership of the financially struggling American Folk Art Museum are considering whether to shut down the museum and donate its collections to another institution.
The Mark Morris Dance Group is presenting a triple bill — “Renard,” “Festival Dance” and “Socrates” — as part of the Mostly Mozart festival in the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
Regional sports networks are increasingly powerful and lucrative assets in a number of major sports deals.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 17, 2011, covering August 20, 2011.
Adele
Eric Church
Trace Adkins
Mat Kearney
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2011Ram Sharan Sharma, Indian historian and academic (born 1919)[†]
Ram Sharan Sharma was an Indian Marxist historian and Indologist who specialised in the history of Ancient and early Medieval India. He taught at Patna University and Delhi University (1973–85) and was visiting faculty at University of Toronto (1965–1966). He also was a senior fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He was a University Grants Commission National Fellow (1958–81) and the president of Indian History Congress in 1975. It was during his tenure as the dean of Delhi University's History Department that major expansion of the department took place in the 1970s. The creation of most of the positions in the department were the results of his efforts. He was the founding Chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) and a historian of international repute.
2011First Air Flight 6560 was a scheduled domestic flight connecting Yellowknife Airport, Canada and Resolute Bay, Canada. The Boeing 737-210C crashed into terrain 1 mile from the runway, catching fire. Of the 15 people on board, 12 perished while 3 survived with severe injuries.[†]
First Air Flight 6560 was a domestic charter flight that crashed on landing at Resolute, Nunavut, Canada, on 20 August 2011. Of the 15 people on board, 12 were killed and the remaining three were severely injured. The Boeing 737-200 of First Air was operating a service from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, when it struck a hill obscured by clouds near Resolute Bay Airport.
In 2011, the world population was approximately 7,110,923,765 people[†]