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In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 16, 2013, covering January 20, 2013.
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Mumford & Sons
Taylor Swift
Phillip Phillips
One Direction
Bruno Mars
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The Lumineers
Alicia Keys
P!nk
2013Pavlos Matesis, Greek author and playwright (born 1933)[†]
Pavlos Matesis was a Greek novelist, playwright and translator. He was born in Divri, a village in the Peloponnese and had a peripatetic youth. He studied acting, music and languages, and taught drama at the Stavrakou School in Athens (1963–64). He also worked as a writer at the National Theatre during 1971–73. He wrote scripts for two television series broadcast on the state channel (1974–76).
2013Toyo Shibata, Japanese poet and author (born 1911)[†]
Toyo Shibata was a bestselling Japanese poet; her first anthology Kujikenaide, published in 2009, sold 1.58 million copies. In comparison, poetry book sales of 10,000 are considered successful in Japan. Her anthology also topped Japan's Oricon bestseller chart. It was originally self-published, but upon seeing its success the publisher Asuka Shinsha reissued it, with new artwork, in 2010. It contains 42 poems. After back pain forced Shibata to give up her hobby of classical Japanese dance, she turned to writing poetry at the age of 92, at the suggestion of her son Kenichi. As of 2011 she was writing poems for a second anthology, lived alone in the Tokyo suburbs, and was a widow.
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Because same-sex marriages are not recognized by the military, gay service members who are married are barred from receiving benefits accorded to heterosexual married couples.
The Obamas have gained and lost in their four years in the White House, becoming seasoned professionals instead of newcomers, yet many close to them see the tolls their roles have taken.
Algerian officials said on Sunday that the preliminary count of 23 dead hostages from the four-day siege at a gas-production complex in the Sahara seemed certain to rise.
The quiet ceremony before Monday’s public pomp, forced by a quirk of the constitutional calendar, started President Obama’s second term with a divided government at home and persistent threats abroad.
The Cardinals great Stan Musial was modest in every way except with a baseball bat in his hands.
Randy Moore’s new film at Sundance, “Escape From Tomorrow,” filmed without permission inside Disney’s theme parks, would seem to test the limits of fair use.
Angry fans bombarded Amazon with dozens of negative reviews of a new biography of Michael Jackson and got several favorable notices erased.
In Fox’s series “The Following” Kevin Bacon plays a burned-out former F.B.I agent brought out of retirement to hunt followers of a serial killer.
Since its debut in September 2010 the radical journal Jacobin has become an improbable hit, attracting nearly 2,000 print and digital subscribers and some 250,000 Web hits a month.
Environmental groups and others are concerned about a corporate headquarters that is to rise across the Hudson River from the Cloisters, altering the scenic view from that museum of medieval treasures.
Frank Gore had two second-half touchdowns and San Francisco rebounded from a 17-0 deficit against Atlanta to return to the Super Bowl for the first time since 1995.
The National Transportation Safety Board said excess voltage did not cause a battery fire on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner.