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Gracie Mansion hasn’t had a full-time resident in 12 years, but one of the candidates vying to succeed Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is expected to move in in January.
A new report underscores a growing crisis in the city of Herat: one in every five households contains at least one drug user.
Buzunesh Deba and Tigist Tufa built a huge lead before Priscah Jeptoo ran them down, taking the lead around Mile 24 to win by 49 seconds.
Julie Taymor takes on Shakespeare’s “Midsummer Night’s Dream” and inaugurates the Polonsky Shakespeare Center, the first proper home for the Theater for a New Audience.
A study using DNA testing offers perhaps the most credible evidence to date of adulteration, contamination and mislabeling in the herbal supplement industry.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 30, 2013, covering November 3, 2013.
Pearl Jam
Miley Cyrus
Paul McCartney
Drake
The Avett Brothers
2013Nick Cardy, American soldier and illustrator (born 1920)[†]
Nicholas Viscardi, known professionally as Nick Cardy and Nick Cardi, was an American comics artist best known for his DC Comics work on Aquaman, the Teen Titans and other major characters. Cardy was inducted into the Will Eisner Comic Book Hall of Fame in 2005.
2013Gerard Cieślik, Polish footballer and manager (born 1927)[†]
Gerard Cieślik, also known as Gienek, was a Polish footballer who played as a striker. Playing for the Poland national team, he is most noted for having scored two goals against the Soviet Union on 20 October 1957 at Stadion Śląski. The rather small striker was capped 45 times and scored 27 goals. He also played for Poland at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
2013Gamani Corea, Sri Lankan economist and diplomat (born 1925)[†]
Deshamanya Gamani Corea was a Sri Lankan economist, civil servant and diplomat. He was also the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1974 to 1984, Ceylon's Ambassador to the EEC, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Planning and Economic Affairs of Ceylon and the Senior Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Ceylon.
2013William J. Coyne, American lawyer and politician (born 1936)[†]
William Joseph Coyne was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1981 to 2003.
2013Rupert Gerritsen, Australian historian and author (born 1953)[†]
Rupert Gerritsen was an Australian historian and a noted authority on Indigenous Australian prehistory. Coupled with his work on early Australian cartography, he played an influential part in re-charting Australian history prior to its settlement by the British in 1788, and noted evidence of agriculture and settlements on the continent before the arrival of settlers.
2013Leonard Long, Australian painter and educator (born 1911)[†]
Leonard Hugh Long was an Australian painter of the Australian School of landscape painters.
In 2013, the world population was approximately 7,291,793,585 people[†]