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Buoyed by victories in four states, advocates of same-sex-marriage rights plan to press their cause in Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Rhode Island, Minnesota, New Jersey and Oregon.
Fake accounts and fraudulent “likes” are an especially acute problem for Facebook as it has sought to distinguish itself as a place for real identity on the Web.
Steven Sinofsky, the leader of Microsoft’s Windows business, is leaving the company, just weeks after the company released the biggest overhaul in decades of its flagship product.
Prosecutors say Anthony Chiasson and Todd Newman were part of a conspiracy that made about $68 million illegally trading the shares of Dell and Nvidia.
With both parties positioning for negotiations on tax cuts and spending reductions, Democrats are latching on to an idea to raise taxes on the rich through a cap on deductions.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 7, 2012, covering November 13, 2012.
Taylor Swift
Kendrick Lamar
Jason Aldean
Mumford & Sons
Tony Bennett
2012Erazm Ciołek, Polish photographer and author (born 1937)[†]
Erazm Ciołek was a Polish photojournalist, author of many exhibitions and laureate of various awards. He is considered as the main photographer of the Solidarity movement.
2012Manuel Peña Escontrela, Spanish footballer (born 1965)[†]
Manuel "Manolo" Peña Escontrela was a Spanish professional footballer who played as a forward.
2012John Sheridan, English rugby player and coach (born 1933)[†]
John Sheridan was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s, and coached in the 1970s and 1980s. He played at club level for Lock Lane ARLFC, and Castleford (captain), as a centre, or loose forward, and coached at club level for Castleford, Leeds and Doncaster.
2012A total solar eclipse occurs in parts of Australia and the South Pacific.[†]
A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of Earth, totally or partially. Such an alignment occurs approximately every six months, during the eclipse season in its new moon phase, when the Moon's orbital plane is closest to the plane of Earth's orbit. In a total eclipse, the disk of the Sun is fully obscured by the Moon. In partial and annular eclipses, only part of the Sun is obscured. Unlike a lunar eclipse, which may be viewed from anywhere on the night side of Earth, a solar eclipse can only be viewed from a relatively small area of the world. As such, although total solar eclipses occur somewhere on Earth every 18 months on average, they recur at any given place only once every 360 to 410 years.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]