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Mr. Stewart attracted a generation of viewers ready to embrace an outlier whose exaggerations, in their view, carried more truth than conventional newscasts.
After closing during the recession, the 150-year-old Faribault Woolen Mill in Minnesota is back in business. But its workers are not resting easy.
The 1734 violin, known as the Ames Stradivarius, is being restored to the violin virtuoso’s family, said one of his daughters, Nina Totenberg of NPR.
The auto industry will spend billions developing the technology, and many states are being careful not to pass laws that would scare those dollars away.
Viacom shares were down as much as 22 percent as a startling slump in major media stocks continued on Thursday.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 5, 2015, covering August 6, 2015.
Future
Taylor Swift
Tyrese
Tame Impala
Alan Jackson
2015Ray Hill, American football player (born 1975)[†]
Raymond Millous Hill was a college and professional American football player. He was a defensive back at Michigan State, and played four seasons in the National Football League (NFL), splitting three seasons between the Miami Dolphins and the Buffalo Bills. He was signed by the New England Patriots as a free agent in 2001, and was part of their Super Bowl XXXVI championship season. He suffered a leg injury during the 2001 preseason, and was placed on injured reserve for the entire season. His younger brother Renaldo Hill, also played in the NFL.
2015Orna Porat, German-Israeli actress (born 1924)[†]
Orna Porat was a German-born Israeli theater actress.
2015A suicide bomb attack kills at least 15 people at a mosque in the Saudi city of Abha.[†]
The 2015 Abha mosque bombing occurred on 6 August 2015, when a suicide bomb attack killed 17 people at a mosque in the south-western Saudi Arabian city of Abha.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]