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Facebook’s acquisition of Oculus VR has brought attention to its co-founder Palmer Luckey and the Southern California tech scene where his company took root.
Dick Cavett plays himself in “Hellman v. McCarthy,” Brian Richard Mori’s dramatic reconsideration of the Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy feud and lawsuit.
Owners of Apple’s tablet will be able to use Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other popular productivity tools — but they still may not want to.
Michelle Williams, a movie star with practically no experience as a singer and dancer, is making her Broadway debut as the world’s best-known second-rate nightclub performer.
Russell Crowe stars in “Noah,” Darren Aronofsky’s adaptation of the Old Testament story, which brings blockbuster spectacle and narrative liberties to the story.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 26, 2014, covering March 27, 2014.
Soundtrack
Luke Bryan
Rick Ross
Aloe Blacc
Pharrell Williams
2014Richard N. Frye, American scholar and academic (born 1920)[†]
Richard Nelson Frye was an American scholar of Iranian and Central Asian studies, and Aga Khan Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Harvard University. His professional areas of interest were Iranian philology and the history of Iran and Central Asia before 1000 CE.
2014James R. Schlesinger, American economist and politician, 12th United States Secretary of Defense and first United States Secretary of Energy (born 1929)[†]
James Rodney Schlesinger was an American economist and statesman who was best known for serving as Secretary of Defense from 1973 to 1975 under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Prior to becoming Secretary of Defense, he served as Chair of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) from 1971 to 1973, and as CIA Director for a few months in 1973. He became America's first Secretary of Energy under Jimmy Carter in 1977, serving until 1979.
2014Philippines signs a peace accord with the largest Muslim rebel group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, ending decades of conflict.[†]
The government of the Philippines has three interdependent branches: the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. The Philippines is governed as a unitary state under a presidential representative and democratic constitutional republic in which the president functions as both the head of state and the head of government of the country within a pluriform multi-party system.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]