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The family is donating a trove to the Museum of Fine Arts, which is devoting a show to how the items were collected, looted and recovered.
Faced with slumping sales despite a thriving United States market for water products, the home-carbonation company is rethinking its product line.
As more viewers move online and audiences become more global, professional sports leagues have all adopted streaming as an important way to attract younger fans around the world, and surfing leads the way.
Pandora has created a division to work with labels and artist managers, opened its vast databanks, and begun experimenting with artist promotions.
Legal documents filed electronically, and viewed by mass audiences, are changing the narrative and the nature of cases.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 18, 2015, covering February 23, 2015.
Taylor Swift
Various Artists
Ed Sheeran
Sam Smith
Fifth Harmony
2015James Aldridge, Australian-English journalist and author (born 1918)[â ]
Harold Edward James Aldridge was an Australian-British writer and journalist. His World War II despatches were published worldwide and he was the author of over 30 books, both fiction and non-fiction works, including war and adventure novels and books for children.
2015Rana Bhagwandas, Pakistani lawyer and judge, Chief Justice of Pakistan (born 1942)[â ]
Rana Bhagwandas was a Pakistani jurist who served as a senior judge and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pakistan (CJP). He enjoyed extremely high reputation as a judge. He remained the acting CJP during the 2007 judicial crisis in Pakistan, and also briefly became the acting Chief Justice of Pakistan when the incumbent Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry went on foreign tours in 2005 and 2006, and thus became the first Hindu and the second non-Muslim to serve as chief of the highest court in Pakistan. Rana Bhagwandas also worked as the Chairman of Federal Public Service Commission of Pakistan. He headed the interview panel for the selection of the federal civil servants in 2009.
2015W. E. "Bill" Dykes, American soldier and politician (born 1925)[â ]
William E. "Bill" Dykes was a Democratic former state senator from his native St. Helena Parish, Louisiana, who represented his state's 11th District from 1972 to 1984. Prior to his legislative service, he had been mayor of Montpelier, Louisiana.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[â ]