YouTube Takes Manhattan
A studio that YouTube is opening in Manhattan will bring the company in proximity to more traditional creators of media content, along with a huge new pool of talent.
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A studio that YouTube is opening in Manhattan will bring the company in proximity to more traditional creators of media content, along with a huge new pool of talent.
Audiences have thinned for all cable television news, but the opinionated MSNBC has suffered as CNN has grabbed more of its terrain with a surge in international news.
With the strangely shaped “pumpkinstein,” a California farmer found a way to carve himself a piece of the $7 billion in business Halloween now generates.
Start-ups that make fusion reactors, natural pesticides and tiny rocket engines have the attention of venture capitalists, but profit is still a must.
The Velka Pardubicka, a famous Czech steeplechase race, was run Sunday, and another horse had to be euthanized after falling at the famous obstacle called Taxis Ditch.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 8, 2014, covering October 13, 2014.
Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga
Kenny Chesney
Barbra Streisand
Alt-J
Pentatonix
2014John Bradfield, English biologist and businessman, founded Cambridge Science Park (born 1925)[†]
Sir John Richard Grenfell Bradfield, was a British biologist and entrepreneur, most famous for his role as the founder of Cambridge Science Park, the first Science Park in Europe.
2014Antonio Cafiero, Argentinian accountant and politician, Governor of Buenos Aires Province (born 1922)[†]
Antonio Francisco Cafiero was an Argentine Justicialist Party politician. Cafiero held a number of important posts throughout his career, including, most notably, the governorship of Buenos Aires Province from 1987 to 1991, the Cabinet Chief's Office under interim president Eduardo Camaño from 2001 to 2002, and a seat in the Senate of the Nation from 1993 to 2005.
2014Margaret Hillert, American author and poet (born 1920)[†]
Margaret Hillert was an American author, poet and educator. Hillert, a lifelong resident of the state of Michigan, was known for her children's literature, having written over eighty books for beginning readers. She began writing poetry at a young age and published her first verses in 1961.
2014Mohammad Sarengat, Indonesian sprinter (born 1939)[†]
Mohammad Sarengat was an Indonesian track and field sprinter. Sarengat became the first Indonesian athlete to win a gold medal at the Asian Games. He won gold in the 100-meter sprint at the 1962 Asian Games.
2014Pontus Segerström, Swedish footballer (born 1981)[†]
Pontus Segerström was a Swedish footballer who played as a defender.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]