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March 24, 2014

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3 Presidents and a Riddle Named Putin

By Peter Baker

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has argued with United States presidents, lectured them, misled them, accused them, kept them waiting, kept them guessing, betrayed them and felt betrayed by them.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 19, 2014, covering March 24, 2014.

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    Album cover for Mastermind by Rick Ross

    Mastermind

    Rick Ross

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    Album cover for G I R L by Pharrell Williams

    G I R L

    Pharrell Williams

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    Album cover for Frozen by Soundtrack

    Frozen

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    Album cover for Louder by Lea Michele

    Louder

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    Album cover for 10;000 Towns by Eli Young Band

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    Eli Young Band

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Notable Deaths

Oleksandr Muzychko

2014Oleksandr Muzychko, Ukrainian activist (born 1962)[†]

Oleksandr Ivanovych Muzychko, nicknamed Sashko Bilyi, was a Ukrainian political activist, a member of UNA-UNSO and coordinator of Right Sector in Western Ukraine.

2014John Rowe Townsend, English author and scholar (born 1922)[†]

John Rowe Townsend was a British children's writer and children's literature scholar. His best-known children's novel is The Intruder, which won a 1971 Edgar Award. His best-known academic work is a reference series, Written for Children: An Outline of English Children's Literature (1965), the definitive work of its time on the subject. It was greatly expanded for the first revised edition as Written for Children: An Outline of English-language Children's Literature (1974) and updated for its 2nd to 4th revised editions in 1983, 1987, and 1990 – the last, "A survey of imaginative writing, including poetry and picture books, accompanied by a bibliography of works on children's literature and illustrations from many of the classics of children's literature through 1989.".

David A. Trampier

2014David A. Trampier, American illustrator (born 1954)[†]

David A. Trampier was an artist and writer whose artwork for TSR, Inc. illustrated some of the earliest editions of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. Many of his illustrations, such as the cover of the original Players Handbook, became iconic. Trampier was also the creator of the Wormy comic strip that ran in Dragon magazine for several years.

Historical Context for March 24, 2014

In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]