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President Obama condemned a practice that is promoted as a way to help people change their sexual orientation.
Videos of police shootings have spurred calls for more officers to use cameras, raising questions about how much the justice system can rely on the accounts of police officers.
Ms. Hudgens plays Colette’s teenage courtesan-in-training opposite Corey Cott in the musical’s revival at the Neil Simon Theater.
Katy Clark will take over from Karen Brooks Hopkins, who has led the institution since 1999.
Airline passengers are sharing stories of conflicts between ultra-Orthodox Jewish men trying to follow their faith by avoiding mixed-sex seating and women just hoping to sit down.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 8, 2015, covering April 9, 2015.
Kendrick Lamar
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Sam Smith
Taylor Swift
2015Paul Almond, Canadian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1931)[†]
Paul Almond was a Canadian television and motion picture screenwriter, director, producer, and novelist. He is most known for being the director of the first film in the Up series.
2015Margaret Rule, British marine archaeologist (born 1928)[†]
Margaret Helen Rule was a British archaeologist. She is most notable for her involvement with the project that excavated and raised the Tudor warship Mary Rose in 1982.
2015Nina Companeez, French director and screenwriter (born 1937)[†]
Nina Companeez was a French screenwriter and film director. Nina Companeez was the younger daughter of Russian Jewish émigré screenwriter Jacques Companéez and younger sister of contralto Irène Companeez. She was the mother of actress Valentine Varela.
2015Alexander Dalgarno, English physicist and academic (born 1928)[†]
Alexander Dalgarno FRS was a British physicist who was a Phillips Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University.
2015Ivan Doig, American journalist and author (born 1939)[†]
Ivan Doig was an American author and novelist, widely known for his sixteen fiction and non-fiction books set mostly in his native Montana, celebrating the landscape and people of the post-war American West.
2015Tsien Tsuen-hsuin, Chinese-American academic (born 1909)[†]
Tsien Tsuen-hsuin, also known as T.H. Tsien, was a Chinese-American bibliographer, librarian, and sinologist who served as a professor of Chinese literature and library science at the University of Chicago Graduate Library School and was also curator of its East Asian Library from 1949 to 1978. He is known for studies of the history of the Chinese book, Chinese bibliography, paleography, and science and technology, especially the history of paper and printing in China, notably Paper and Printing, Volume 5 Pt 1 of British biochemist and sinologist Joseph Needham's Science and Civilisation in China. He is also known for risking his life to smuggle tens of thousands of rare books outside of Japanese-occupied China during World War II.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]