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In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]
2014Alice Herz-Sommer, Czech-English Holocaust survivor, pianist and educator (born 1903)[†]
Alice Herz-Sommer, was a Czech-born Israeli classical pianist, music teacher, and supercentenarian who survived Theresienstadt concentration camp. She lived for 40 years in Israel, before emigrating to London in 1986, where she resided until her death, and at the age of 110 was the world's oldest known Holocaust survivor until Yisrael Kristal was recognized as such.
2014Roger Hilsman, American soldier, academic, and politician (born 1919)[†]
Roger Hilsman Jr. was an American soldier, government official, political scientist, and author. He saw action in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II, first with Merrill's Marauders, getting wounded in combat, and then as a guerilla leader for the Office of Strategic Services. He later became an aide and adviser to President John F. Kennedy, and briefly to President Lyndon B. Johnson, in the U.S. State Department while he served as Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research in 1961 to 1963 and Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs in 1963 to 1964.
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Some public health experts see e-cigarettes as a gateway to tobacco use, while others think they could help eradicate conventional cigarettes.
India’s small farmers, once the country’s economic backbone and most reliable vote bank, are increasingly being left behind.
More Chinese immigrants seek asylum than any other immigrant group in the country, and most of them apply from New York, where federal officials regard the applicant pool with suspicion.
Lawmakers fired top cabinet members in President Viktor F. Yanukovych’s government and restored state ownership of the presidential palace.
Georg Friedrich Haas’s new “dark dreams,” performed by the Berlin Philharmonic, delves into a world of lurid excesses, with sound juxtapositions, swift shifts in volume, and microtonal elements.
Comcast and Netflix announced an agreement Sunday in which Netflix will pay Comcast for faster and more reliable access to Comcast’s subscribers.
The Sochi Games’ closing ceremony was advertised as a celebration of Russian culture and heritage, but it seemed just as much a great sigh of happy relief.
New York City Opera’s concert at City Center marked its 70th anniversary and served as something of a proper farewell.
Seth Meyers is the oldest, most experienced and most hostlike comedian to take the reins of NBC’s “Late Night.” Will he be as funny as the three men who preceded him?
In “The Splendid Things We Planned,” Blake Bailey, who has written of Richard Yates and is writing about Philip Roth, offers a slender volume about his own troubled family.
Coach Jim Boeheim was ejected from a regular-season game for the first time in his 38-year career for arguing an offensive foul call with his team trailing Duke by 2 late in the game.
“Sweepin’ the Clouds Away: Boom, Bust and High Spirits,” in the 92nd Street Y’s Lyrics & Lyricists series, presents giddy and euphoric songs from the Depression era.