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A dozen years after a 500-year-old marble Adam by the Renaissance sculptor Tullio Lombardo broke into hundreds of pieces, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is poised to reintroduce it to the public.
Despite the C.I.A.'s concerns, a Port Authority officer working with the F.B.I. kept ties to sources inside the Sunni terrorist group Jundallah.
The Jets ended an eight-game skid, scoring the game’s first 17 points and holding Ben Roethlisberger, who had thrown for 862 yards in his last two games, to 54 in the first half.
Preservation groups opposed to the Frick Collection’s plans for a six-story addition say the museum is going back on a 1973 promise to make a garden permanent.
Garth Brooks is back after more than a decade with “Man Against Machine,” a new album of originals.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 5, 2014, covering November 9, 2014.
Slipknot
T.I.
Neil Diamond
Logic
Florida Georgia Line
2014Rubén Alvarez, Argentinian golfer (born 1961)[†]
Rubén Alvarez was an Argentine professional golfer.
2014Saud bin Muhammed Al Thani, Qatari prince (born 1966)[†]
Saud bin Muhammad bin Ali bin Abdullah bin Jassim bin Muhammed Al Thani was a Qatari prince who served as minister of Culture, Arts and Heritage.
2014R. A. Montgomery, American author and publisher (born 1936)[†]
Raymond Almiran Montgomery Jr. was an American author and key figure in the Choose Your Own Adventure interactive children's book series.
2014Myles Munroe, Bahamian pastor and author (born 1954)[†]
Myles Munroe, was a Bahamian evangelist and ordained minister, professor, author, speaker and leadership consultant. He founded and led the Bahamas Faith Ministries International (BFMI), and Myles Munroe International (MMI). He was also the chief executive officer and chairman of the board of the International Third World Leaders Association, and president of the International Leadership Training Institute. Dr Munroe was a prolific author as well.
2014Orlando Thomas, American football player (born 1972)[†]
Orlando Thomas was an American professional football player who was a defensive back for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL) from 1995 until 2001. He played college football for the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns.
2014Joe Walsh, Irish politician, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (born 1943)[†]
Joseph Walsh was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Minister for Agriculture and Food from 1992 to 1994 and 1997 to 2004. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork South-West constituency from 1977 to 1981 and 1982 to 2007. He was a Senator elected by the Cultural and Educational Panel from 1981 to 1982.
2014A non-binding self-determination consultation is held in Catalonia, asking Catalan citizens their opinion on whether Catalonia should become a state and, if so, whether it should be an independent state.[†]
A non-binding Catalan self-determination referendum, also known as the Citizen Participation Process on the Political Future of Catalonia, was held on Sunday, 9 November 2014, to gauge support on the political future of Catalonia. While also referred to as "Catalan independence referendum", the vote was rebranded as a "participation process" by the Government of Catalonia, after a "non-referendum popular consultation" on the same topic and for the same date had been suspended by the Constitutional Court of Spain.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]