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Entrepreneurs and small aerospace companies based at an air and space port in California are among those thought to be leading the next phase of space exploration.
I’ll Have Another, at 15-1 odds, won the 138th Kentucky Derby with a late surge against Bodemeister, who led the pack for most of the race.
François Hollande became the first Socialist president of France since 1981, but his victory over Nicolas Sarkozy will also be seen as a challenge to the policy of austerity in the euro zone.
Fresh accusations about the veracity of the works come as the venerable Upper East Side gallery Knoedler & Company battles accusations that it sold pieces of modern art that were actually sophisticated forgeries.
Few recent Met productions seem bolder or fresher than John Dexter’s 1978 staging of “Billy Budd,” which returned after a lengthy absence.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 2, 2012, covering May 6, 2012.
Lionel Richie
Jason Mraz
Adele
Train
One Direction
2012James R. Browning, American lieutenant, lawyer, and judge (born 1918)[†]
James Robert Browning was an American attorney and jurist who served as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
2012James Isaac, American director and producer (born 1960)[†]
James Isaac was an American film director and visual effects supervisor.
2012Jean Laplanche, French psychoanalyst and author (born 1924)[†]
Jean Laplanche was a French author, psychoanalyst and winemaker. Laplanche is best known for his work on psychosexual development and Sigmund Freud's seduction theory, and wrote more than a dozen books on psychoanalytic theory. The journal Radical Philosophy described him as "the most original and philosophically informed psychoanalytic theorist of his day."
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]