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In an often-overlooked period of President Obama’s life, he had a small office in a South Side parish and became steeped in the social justice wing of the Catholic Church.
Tyler Ennis’s attempt before the buzzer clanked off the back of the rim as Dayton, an 11 seed, toppled the third-seeded Orange.
In “A Man Called Destruction,” Holly George-Warren chronicles the uncertain path of the rock singer Alex Chilton.
Mayor Bill de Blasio, in an effort to mend fences on charter schools, emphasized common ground and a desire to “shake the foundations” of the school system.
Sotheby’s and Christie’s have spent about $1 million in the last couple of years to fight a bill that would give visual artists a cut of the profits when their work is resold at auction.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 19, 2014, covering March 23, 2014.
Rick Ross
Pharrell Williams
Soundtrack
Lea Michele
Eli Young Band
2014Dave Brockie, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and bass player (born 1963)[†]
David Murray Brockie was a Canadian-American musician. He was the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Gwar, in which he performed as Oderus Urungus, and he was a bassist and lead singer in the bands Death Piggy, X-Cops, and the Dave Brockie Experience (DBX). He additionally played the Oderus Urungus character in the comedy horror TV sitcom Holliston. Brockie died of a heroin overdose in 2014.
2014Jaroslav Šerých, Czech painter and illustrator (born 1928)[†]
Jaroslav Šerých was a Czech painter, printmaker and illustrator.
2014Adolfo Suárez, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Spain (born 1932)[†]
Adolfo Suárez González, 1st Duke of Suárez was a Spanish lawyer and politician. Suárez was Spain's first democratically elected prime minister since the Second Spanish Republic and a key figure in the country's transition to democracy after the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
2014The World Health Organization (WHO) reports cases of Ebola in the forested rural region of southeastern Guinea, marking the beginning of the largest Ebola outbreak in history.[†]
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations which coordinates responses to international public health issues and emergencies. It is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, and has 6 regional offices and 150 field offices worldwide. Only sovereign states are eligible to join, and it is the largest intergovernmental health organization at the international level.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]