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People who knew Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in Idaho paint a fairly consistent portrait: hard-working and socially awkward, full of restless energy and romantic plans.
The continuing turmoil in Twitterâs executive suite, a hallmark of the companyâs eight-year existence, suggests that the company is struggling in the face of stiffening competition from Facebook.
When Iraqâs security forces crumbled in the face of militants, they were labeled cowards. But in the case of one brigade, at least, what emerges instead is a portrait of mismanagement and treachery.
In what may have been a retaliation for the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli teenagers who were buried a day earlier, a Palestinian youth was forced into a car and killed.
The beloved great-uncles of British humor perform for loyal and new fans in their new production, âMonty Python Live (mostly),â at the O2 arena in London.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 2, 2014, covering July 2, 2014.
Lana Del Rey
Sam Smith
Linkin Park
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Willie Nelson
2014Emilio Ălvarez MontalvĂĄn, Nicaraguan ophthalmologist and politician (born 1919)[â ]
Emilio Ălvarez MontalvĂĄn was a Nicaraguan ophthalmologist and a Foreign Minister of the Republic of Nicaragua.
2014Manuel Cardona, Spanish physicist and academic (born 1934)[â ]
Manuel Cardona Castro was a condensed matter physicist. According to the ISI Citations web database, Cardona was one of the eight most cited physicists since 1970. He specialized in solid state physics. Cardona's main interests were in the fields of: Raman scattering as applied to semiconductor microstructures, materials with tailor-made isotopic compositions, and high Tc superconductors, particularly investigations of electronic and vibronic excitations in the normal and superconducting state.
2014Mary Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe (born 1915)[â ]
Mary Evelyn Hungerford Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe, born Lady Mary Crewe-Milnes, was a British aristocrat. She was a daughter of Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe, by his marriage to Lady Peggy Primrose, one of the first seven women appointed as magistrates in 1919 following the passing of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919. Her maternal grandparents were Hannah de Rothschild and Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery.
2014Harold W. Kuhn, American mathematician and academic (born 1925)[â ]
Harold William Kuhn was an American mathematician who studied game theory. He won the 1980 John von Neumann Theory Prize jointly with David Gale and Albert W. Tucker. A former Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Princeton University, he is known for the KarushâKuhnâTucker conditions, for Kuhn's theorem, and for developing Kuhn poker. He described the Hungarian method for the assignment problem, but a paper by Carl Gustav Jacobi, published posthumously in 1890 in Latin, was later discovered that had described the Hungarian method a century before Kuhn.
2014Louis Zamperini, American runner and World War II US Army Air Forces captain (born 1917)[â ]
Louis Silvie Zamperini was an American World War II veteran, an Olympic distance runner and a Christian evangelist. He took up running in high school and qualified for the United States in the 5,000Â m race for the 1936 Berlin Olympics, finishing 8th while setting a new lap record in the process.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[â ]