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Marcel-Lehel Lazar, whose pseudonym celebrated “the style of Gucci and the light of Lucifer,” rampaged through the email of rich Americans, showing the ease of going rogue online.
More than 200 people filed the lawsuit in federal court, accusing the banks of helping to finance the violent activities through their ties to Iran, painting Wall Street as a sort of middleman of terror.
After a secretive trial, Harold Hamm, the chief executive of Continental Resources, is paying one of the biggest divorce settlements in history.
The church made the disclosure about Joseph Smith to show transparency about its history at a time when some members have been feeling doubtful.
The family of a woman who died when her General Motors car crashed in 2003 was never told her death was linked to a flaw that has killed at least 12 others.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 5, 2014, covering November 11, 2014.
Slipknot
T.I.
Neil Diamond
Logic
Florida Georgia Line
2014John Doar, American lawyer and activist (born 1921)[†]
John Michael Doar was an American lawyer and senior counsel with the law firm Doar Rieck Kaley & Mack in New York City.
2014Big Bank Hank, American rapper (born 1956)[†]
Henry Lee Jackson, known by his stage name Big Bank Hank, was an American hip hop recording artist and manager. Also known as Imp the Dimp, he was a member of the trio the Sugarhill Gang, the first hip hop act to have a hit with the cross-over single "Rapper's Delight" on the pop charts in 1979. He contributed to many documentaries based on the rap music industry. Lyrics to his verse from "Rapper's Delight" were allegedly plagiarized from rhymes written by Grandmaster Caz.
2014Philip G. Hodge, American engineer and academic (born 1920)[†]
Philip Gibson Hodge Jr. was an American engineer who specialized in mechanics of elastic and plastic behavior of materials. His work resulted in significant advancements in plasticity theory including developments in the method of characteristics, limit-analysis, piecewise linear isotropic plasticity, and nonlinear programming applications. Hodge was the technical editor of American Society of Mechanical Engineers Journal of Applied Mechanics from 1971-1976. From 1984 to 2000 he was the secretary of the U. S. National Committee on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, its longest serving Secretary. In 1949 he became assistant professor of Mathematics at UCLA, then moved on to become associate professor of applied mechanics at Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn in 1953, Professor of Mechanics at Illinois Institute of Technology in 1957, and professor of mechanics at the University of Minnesota in 1971, where he remained until he retired in 1991. After retirement he was professor emeritus at the University of Minnesota and visiting professor emeritus at Stanford University.
2014Harry Lonsdale, American chemist, businessman, and politician (born 1932)[†]
Harold K. Lonsdale was an American scientist, businessman, and politician. A Democrat, he ran for United States Senate in the U.S. state of Oregon three times, losing twice in the primaries and once as the Democratic candidate, losing in the 1990 general election to incumbent Republican Mark Hatfield. In 2011 Lonsdale sponsored a research challenge to determine the origin of life on Earth.
2014Carol Ann Susi, American actress (born 1952)[†]
Carol Ann Susi was an American actress whose career spanned 40 years. Her best known roles were probably her first and last; she debuted as the recurring character of semi-competent but likable intern Monique Marmelstein on Kolchak: The Night Stalker. More than three decades and countless supporting roles later, her level of celebrity was elevated for having provided the voice of recurring off-screen character Mrs. Wolowitz, mother of Howard Wolowitz, on the television series The Big Bang Theory.
2014Fifty-eight people are killed in a bus crash in the Sukkur District in southern Pakistan's Sindh province.[†]
On 11 November 2014, a bus collided with a truck at the Theri Bypass, near Khairpur, Sindh, Pakistan, killing 56 people.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]