On this day
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Whether from a sense of obligation, responsibility or guilt, the technology elite has taken up the cause of helping print journalism adapt to change.
Two top magazine writers, both of whom have optioned their nonfiction articles for movies, are starting a platform to enable other writers to do so as well.
For independent bookstores, crowdfunding has become the latest tactic for survival in a market that is dominated by Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
If only all the goodbyes of a crumbling dynasty that produced 5 World Series victories and 17 playoff appearances in 18 years could be as uncomplicated as Mariano Rivera’s.
For years, financial industry rules have barred research analysts from pitching initial public offering business, but some say Wall Street is returning to its old ways.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 7, 2013, covering August 12, 2013.
Selena Gomez
Jay-Z
Soundtrack
Kidz Bop Kids
Marc Anthony
2013Tereza de Arriaga, Portuguese painter (born 1915)[†]
Tereza de Arriaga was a Portuguese painter and teacher.
2013Hans-Ekkehard Bob, German soldier and pilot (born 1917)[†]
Hans Ekkehard Bob was a German fighter pilot, serving with the Luftwaffe. During World War II, Bob flew approximately 700 combat missions, and claimed 60 victories; 37 of which were on the Eastern Front.
2013Pauline Maier, American historian and academic (born 1938)[†]
Pauline Alice Maier was a historian of the American Revolution, whose work also addressed the late colonial period and the history of the United States after the end of the Revolutionary War. She was the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of American History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
2013David McLetchie, Scottish lawyer and politician (born 1952)[†]
David William McLetchie CBE was a Scottish politician who served as Leader of the Scottish Conservative Party from 1999 to 2005. He was Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Edinburgh Pentlands constituency from 2003 to 2011 and the Lothian region from 1999 to 2003 and 2011 to 2013.
2013Vasiliy Mihaylovich Peskov, Russian ecologist and journalist (born 1930)[†]
Vasily Mikhailovich Peskov was a Soviet and Russian writer, journalist, photographer, traveler and ecologist. He worked in the Russian tabloid newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda since 1956. From 1975 until 1990, he conducted the TV programme In the World of Animals on Soviet TV.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]