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Fanatics is the nation’s largest online seller of licensed sports merchandise. It includes more than one million items for professional and college teams, conferences and leagues.
The ad on Craigslist was eye-catching: $10,000 for a single poem, if it impressed an anonymous lover (lovers?) of the arts.
One of the world’s largest databases of stolen art is held by a private London company that is praised by some and criticized by others for its tactics in trying to recover the works.
California is challenging the status of citizenship with measures to let noncitizens sit on juries and monitor polls for elections.
A proposal from the Obama administration to limit carbon emissions might be curtailed in a legal quagmire if the required technology does not meet current standards.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 18, 2013, covering September 21, 2013.
Ariana Grande
Tamar Braxton
Nine Inch Nails
John Legend
Luke Bryan
2013Kofi Awoonor, Ghanaian author, poet, and diplomat (born 1935)[†]
Kofi Awoonor was a Ghanaian poet, author and diplomat. His work combined the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people with contemporary and religious symbolism to depict Africa during decolonization. He started writing under the name George Awoonor-Williams, and was also published as Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor. He taught African literature at the University of Ghana. Professor Awoonor was among those who were killed in the September 2013 attack at Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, where he was a participant at the Storymoja Hay Festival.
2013Michel Brault, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1928)[†]
Michel Brault, OQ was a Canadian cinematographer, cameraman, film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He was a leading figure of Direct Cinema, characteristic of the French branch of the National Film Board of Canada in the 1960s. Brault was a pioneer of the hand-held camera aesthetic.
2013Harl H. Haas, Jr., American lawyer, jurist, and politician (born 1932)[†]
Harl H. Haas Jr. was an American politician and jurist in Oregon. A native of Missouri, he served in both chambers of the Oregon Legislative Assembly as a Democrat before serving as a district attorney and Oregon Circuit Courts judge.
2013Walter Wallmann, German lawyer and politician, Minister-President of Hesse (born 1932)[†]
Walter Wallmann was a German lawyer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He served as the Mayor of Frankfurt between 1977 and 1986, and as Minister-president of Hesse from 1987 to 1991.
2013Ko Wierenga, Dutch lawyer and politician (born 1933)[†]
Heiko "Ko" Wierenga was a Dutch politician and member of the Labour Party (PvdA). He served as the Mayor of the municipality of Enschede from September 1977 until April 1994. Under Wierenga, artwork by Joop Hekman, called Het ei van Ko, was installed near Enschede's town hall in 1984.
2013Al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya, killing at least 67 people.[†]
Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen, simply known as al-Shabaab, or by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Somalia, is a transnational Salafi Jihadist military and political organization based in Somalia and is also in a more limited capacity active elsewhere in East Africa. It is involved in the ongoing Somali Civil War as an Islamist group, regularly invoking takfir to rationalize its terrorist attacks on Somali civilians and civil servants. Allied to the Militant Sunni Islamist organization al-Qaeda, it has also forged ties with al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, and al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]