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In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]
2012Janet Anderson Perkin, Canadian baseball player and curler (born 1921)[†]
Janet Margaret Anderson was a Canadian pitcher and outfielder who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League during the 1946 season. She batted and threw right handed. Anderson was one of the 68 players born in Canada to join the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in its twelve years history.
2012Aquila Berlas Kiani, Indian-Canadian sociologist and academic (born 1921)[†]
Aquila Berlas Kiani, also known as Aquila Kiani was a Professor of Sociology and an educator in social work. Born in British India, she later worked in Pakistan, the UK and the US. She served as Chairman of the Department of Sociology at the University of Karachi.
2012Francesco Mancini, Italian footballer and coach (born 1968)[†]
Francesco Mancini was an Italian football player and coach. A goalkeeper, he spent most of his career with Foggia during the 1990s.
2012Granville Semmes, American businessman, founded 1-800-Flowers (born 1928)[†]
Granville Martin Semmes II was an American businessman, entrepreneur and gemcutter. Semmes was the founder of 1-800-Flowers, a floral retailer, gift and distribution company in the United States.
2012Leonid Shebarshin, Russian KGB officer (born 1935)[†]
Leonid Vladimirovich Shebarshin was an intelligence officer and spy for the Soviet Union. He served in the First Chief Directorate (FCD), the foreign intelligence arm of the KGB. In January 1989, he was promoted to the head of the FCD when his former boss, Vladimir Kryuchkov, was promoted to KGB chief. Prior to that Shebarshin had served as Kryuchkov's deputy from April 1987.
High-end developments are using child-friendly amenities like bowling lanes, climbing walls and playrooms to close the deal.
Emmis Communications is pursuing a plan to strip its preferred shares of their rights and to never pay another dividend for those shares again.
At a time of plunging DVD sales and an up-and-down box office, Hollywood is doubling back on past hits, like “Dirty Dancing,” and stars like Bette Midler and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
“Newsies the Musical,” based on a 1992 Disney movie about the 1899 New York newsboy strike, teems with defiant ragamuffins, anthems and back flips.
A dishwasher is something that can be installed by sellers with little fuss or expense.
A breach of computers belonging to companies in Japan and India and to Tibetan activists has been linked to a former student at a Chinese university.
Testimony by Osama bin Laden’s youngest wife has offered the most detailed account yet of the family’s life on the run preceding the raid in May 2011 that killed the Qaeda leader.
This sprawling first novel is set in a gang-infested Ireland about 40 years from now, when two tough men battle for the love of one woman.
As strategically placed Myanmar loosens the grip of dictatorship, each side is doing whatever it can to gain the country’s favor.
In making their arguments to the Supreme Court about the health law, advocates tried to win over Justice Anthony M. Kennedy by invoking one of his most valued principles: liberty.
The cartoonist Daniel Clowes receives his first museum retrospective at the Oakland Museum of California beginning April 14. The show will then go on tour.
The coffeehouse chain is embarking on a multimillion-dollar campaign to win over Europe’s coffee aficionados with an upscale makeover of hundreds of stores.