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In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]
2014Lauren Bacall, American model, actress, and singer (born 1924)[†]
Betty Joan Perske, professionally known as Lauren Bacall, was an American actress. She was named the 20th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema by the American Film Institute. She received an Academy Honorary Award in 2009 in recognition of her contribution to the Golden Age of motion pictures. Bacall was one of the last surviving major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema.
2014Futatsuryū Jun'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler (born 1950)[†]
Futatsuryū Jun'ichi was a sumo wrestler from Hokkaidō, Japan. After retirement he became the head coach of Tokitsukaze stable. Following his involvement in the hazing and death of trainee Takashi Saito, in October 2007 he became the first serving stablemaster to be dismissed by the Japan Sumo Association. In May 2009 he was sentenced to six years in prison. He died on August 12, 2014, of lung cancer.
2014Kongō Masahiro, Japanese sumo wrestler (born 1948)[†]
Kongō Masahiro was a former sumo wrestler from Hokkaidō, Japan. His highest rank was sekiwake and he won a top division tournament championship in 1975. He was a sumo coach and head of the Nishonoseki stable from 1976 until 2013.
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Publishers are increasingly tapping the collective wisdom of the crowd to help them in the hunt for literary treasures on the web.
The airport’s runways are sitting on enough natural gas to run the whole state of Pennsylvania for a year and a half.
New York prosecutors brought criminal charges against a dozen payday loan companies and their founder, Carey Vaughn Brown, accusing them of flouting the state’s limits on interest rates on loans.
The Aloft hotel in Cupertino, Calif., will begin testing a robot designed to shuttle items from the hotel lobby desk to guest rooms.
Federal subsidies for the New York City Housing Authority have been shrinking greatly since the 2000s, and its spending has been cut, with repairs uncompleted and renovations put off.
More than 60 people have died from the virus in a tiny village in Sierra Leone, and now people there worry that a quarantine will cut off their food and supplies.
International colleagues of the doctor who had been leading Sierra Leone’s battle against the outbreak had to decide whether to give him a drug never before tested on people.
Audi was recently a target in an antitrust investigation by Beijing, which is examining prices for replacement parts.
For Robin Williams, television was his start and, in some ways, perfect for his talents.
Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s defiant fight to retain power in Iraq appeared to collapse after his former backers in Iran, the military and his own party all signaled that he could no longer expect their support.
The police shooting of Michael Brown, a Missouri teenager, has prompted a social media campaign over negative depictions of young black men in the news media.
“Excellent Sheep,” by William Deresiewicz, takes aim at America’s elite universities and the graduates they produce.