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Cambodia has asked that Jane A. Levine, who sits on a State Department panel on cultural property issues, recuse herself because her employer, Sotheby’s, is named in a lawsuit over an ancient Khmer statue it seeks to sell.
“Killing Lincoln,” on the National Geographic Channel, mixes narration by Tom Hanks with re-enactments to chronicle the plot to kill the president.
New data show uneven benefits from the economic recovery of 2010-11, with a big rise for the highest earners and little change for others.
The German artist A. R. Penck, member of a school on the outs with art historians, returns to New York with some of his best paintings in years.
Margarita Aguilar’s departure as El Museo del Barrio’s director comes as the museum cuts operating hours and staff.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 13, 2013, covering February 16, 2013.
Justin Bieber
Andrea Bocelli
Tegan and Sara
Charlie Wilson
Soundtrack
2013Colin Edwards, Guyanese footballer (born 1991)[†]
Colin Edwards was a Guyanese international football player. He played in three friendly games for the Guyana national football team.
2013Grigory Pomerants, Russian philosopher and author (born 1918)[†]
Grigory Solomonovich Pomerants was a Russian philosopher and cultural theorist. He is the author of numerous philosophical works that circulated in samizdat and made an impact on the liberal intelligentsia in the 1960s and 1970s.
2013Tony Sheridan, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1940)[†]
Anthony Esmond Sheridan McGinnity, known professionally as Tony Sheridan, was an English rock and roll guitarist who spent much of his adult life in Germany. He was best known as an early collaborator of the Beatles, one of two non-Beatles to receive label performance credit on a record with the group, and the only non-Beatle to appear as lead singer on a Beatles recording which charted as a single.
2013A bomb blast at a market in Hazara Town, Quetta, Pakistan kills more than 80 people and injures 190 others.[†]
Hazara Town is a lower- to middle-income area on the western outskirts of Quetta, Pakistan, of which almost all the residents are ethnic Hazaras, with a small population of Pashtuns and Baloch.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]