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April 15, 2014

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Marathon Bombing Suspect Waits in Isolation

By Michael Wines and Serge F. Kovaleski

Beyond being segregated from other prisoners, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is charged with helping carry out the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, may well spend little time outside his cell, period.

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Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 9, 2014, covering April 15, 2014.

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    Album cover for Frozen by Soundtrack

    Frozen

    Soundtrack

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    Album cover for Shakira. by Shakira

    Shakira.

    Shakira

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    Album cover for Out Among The Stars by Johnny Cash

    Out Among The Stars

    Johnny Cash

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    Album cover for Unconditional by Memphis May Fire

    Unconditional

    Memphis May Fire

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    Album cover for G I R L by Pharrell Williams

    G I R L

    Pharrell Williams

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Notable Deaths

John Houbolt

2014John Houbolt, American engineer and academic (born 1919)[†]

John Cornelius Houbolt was an aerospace engineer credited with leading the team behind the lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR) mission mode, a concept that was used to successfully land humans on the Moon and return them to Earth. This flight path was chosen for the Apollo program in July 1962. The critical decision to use LOR was viewed as vital to ensuring that man reached the Moon by the end of the decade as proposed by President John F. Kennedy. In the process, LOR saved time and billions of dollars by efficiently using the available rocket and spacecraft technologies.

Eliseo VerĂłn

2014Eliseo Verón, Argentinian sociologist and academic (born 1935)[†]

Eliseo Verón was an Argentine sociologist, anthropologist and semiotician, and professor of communication sciences at Universidad de San Andrés. His work is known mainly in Spanish and French-speaking countries.

Historical Events

2014In the worst massacre of the South Sudanese Civil War, at least 200 civilians are gunned down after seeking refuge in houses of worship as well as hospitals.[†]

The Bentiu massacre occurred on 15 April 2014 in the town of Bentiu, in the north of South Sudan, during the South Sudanese Civil War. The attack was described by The Economist as the "worst massacre" of the civil war.

Historical Context for April 15, 2014

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