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The Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn is home to a polluted canal, yet it has rising housing values and residents who want to see it prosper without becoming the next Dumbo.
Sake is among the soft goods that the government is promoting to help improve the country’s exports.
The documents published on Friday provide one of the fullest pictures yet of the thinking of top government officials on the bank’s implosion.
Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona must decide whether to sign the legislation that would allow religious beliefs as a legal justification for denying service to same-sex couples.
Janet Yellen was a nonvoting member of the Federal Reserve’s policy-making committee as global finances soured, but she called for swift action and disarmed critics with gallows humor.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 19, 2014, covering February 22, 2014.
Various Artists
Soundtrack
Bruno Mars
Toni Braxton & Babyface
Broken Bells
2014Charlotte Dawson, New Zealand–Australian television host (born 1966)[†]
Charlotte Dawson was a New Zealand–Australian television personality. She was known in New Zealand for her roles as host of Getaway, and in Australia as a host on The Contender Australia and as a judge on Australia's Next Top Model. In 2014, her death by suicide attracted Australasian-wide news coverage.
2014Trebor Jay Tichenor, American pianist and composer (born 1940)[†]
Trebor Jay Tichenor was a recognized authority on Scott Joplin and the ragtime era. He collected and published others' ragtime piano compositions and composed his own. He authored books about ragtime, and both on his own and as a member of The St. Louis Ragtimers, became a widely known ragtime pianist.
2014Leo Vroman, Dutch-American hematologist, poet, and illustrator (born 1915)[†]
Leo Vroman was a Dutch-American hematologist, a prolific poet mainly in Dutch and an illustrator.
2014President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine is impeached by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by a vote of 328–0, fulfilling a major goal of the Euromaidan rebellion.[†]
Viktor Fedorovych Yanukovych is a Ukrainian politician who served as the fourth president of Ukraine from 2010 to 2014. He also served as the prime minister of Ukraine several times between 2002 and 2007 and was a member of the Verkhovna Rada (parliament) from 2006 to 2010. Yanukovych was removed from the presidency in the 2014 Revolution of Dignity, which followed months of protests against him. Since then, he has lived in exile in Russia.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]