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March 26, 2015

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Headlines from March 26, 2015

My Biggest Financial Lesson

By The New York Times

This special section is a collection of essays about the turning points or moments when the writers’ feelings about money crystallized.

Your Money702 words

Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 25, 2015, covering March 26, 2015.

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    Album cover for Empire: Original Soundtrack From Season 1 by Soundtrack

    Empire: Original Soundtrack From Season 1

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    Album cover for Rebel Heart by Madonna

    Rebel Heart

    Madonna

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    Album cover for Spring Break... Checkin' Out by Luke Bryan

    Spring Break... Checkin' Out

    Luke Bryan

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    Album cover for Fifty Shades Of Grey by Soundtrack

    Fifty Shades Of Grey

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    Album cover for 1989 by Taylor Swift

    1989

    Taylor Swift

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Notable Deaths

Dinkha IV

2015Dinkha IV, Iraqi patriarch (born 1935)[†]

Mar Dinkha IV, born Dinkha Khanania was an Eastern Christian prelate who served as the 120th Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East. He was born in the village of Darbandokeh (Derbendoki), Iraq, and led the Church in exile in Chicago for most of his life.

Friedrich L. Bauer

2015Friedrich L. Bauer, German mathematician, computer scientist, and academic (born 1924)[†]

Friedrich Ludwig "Fritz" Bauer was a German pioneer of computer science and professor at the Technical University of Munich.

Tomas Tranströmer

2015Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet, translator, and psychologist Nobel Prize laureate (born 1931)[†]

Tomas Gösta Tranströmer was a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator. His poems captured the long winters in Sweden, the rhythm of the seasons and the palpable, atmospheric beauty of nature. Tranströmer's work is also characterized by a sense of mystery and wonder underlying the routine of everyday life, a quality which often gives his poems a religious dimension. He has been described as a Christian poet.

Historical Context for March 26, 2015

In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]