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October 28, 2013

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Forging an Art Market in China

By David Barboza, Graham Bowley and Amanda Cox

Works by Chinese artists are drawing prices tantamount to those of Picassos at auctions in Beijing, Shanghai and other cities, but bidders don’t always pay, and many artworks may well be no more than copies.

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 23, 2013, covering October 28, 2013.

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    Album cover for Bangerz by Miley Cyrus

    Bangerz

    Miley Cyrus

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    Album cover for Too Weird To Live; Too Rare To Die! by Panic! At The Disco

    Too Weird To Live; Too Rare To Die!

    Panic! At The Disco

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    1
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    Album cover for Nothing Was The Same by Drake

    Nothing Was The Same

    Drake

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    Album cover for My Name Is My Name by Pusha T

    My Name Is My Name

    Pusha T

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    Album cover for The 20/20 Experience (2 Of 2) by Justin Timberlake

    The 20/20 Experience (2 Of 2)

    Justin Timberlake

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Notable Deaths

Tetsuharu Kawakami

2013Tetsuharu Kawakami, Japanese baseball player and manager (born 1920)[†]

Tetsuharu Kawakami was a Japanese baseball player and manager, known for his red bat, and his nickname dageki no kamisama .

Tadeusz Mazowiecki

2013Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Polish journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Poland (born 1927)[†]

Tadeusz Mazowiecki was a Polish author, journalist, philanthropist and politician, formerly one of the leaders of the Solidarity movement, and the first non-communist Polish prime minister since 1946, having held the post from 1989 to 1991.

Aleksandar Tijanić

2013Aleksandar Tijanić, Serbian journalist (born 1949)[†]

Aleksandar Tijanić was a Serbian journalist and director-general of the country's public broadcaster Radio-Television of Serbia from 2004 to 2013. During his career he was a star columnist for leading newspapers and magazines published in SFR Yugoslavia and Serbia, editor in chief of several prominent television stations, political advisor to prominent Serbian politicians, and Minister of Information for four months in 1996 in the government headed by Mirko Marjanović during the rule of Slobodan Milošević.

Rajendra Yadav

2013Rajendra Yadav, Indian author (born 1929)[†]

Rajendra Yadav was a Hindi fiction writer, and a pioneer of the 'Nayi Kahani' movement of Hindi literature. He edited the literary magazine HANS, which was founded by Munshi Premchand in 1930 but ceased publication in 1953 – Yadav relaunched it on 31 July 1986,.

Historical Events

2013Five people are killed and 38 are injured after a car crashes into barriers at Tiananmen Square in China.[†]

On 28 October 2013, a car ran over pedestrians and crashed in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China, in a terrorist suicide attack. Five people died in the incident; three inside the vehicle and two others nearby. Police identified the driver as Usmen Hasan and the two passengers as his wife, Gulkiz Gini, and his mother, Kuwanhan Reyim. An additional 38 people were injured.

Historical Context for October 28, 2013

In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]