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The company seems to embody many of a typical Wall Street investor’s desires: disruptive technology, larger-than-life founders and dazzling growth projections.
The first African-American to build a career with the Houston Police Department could not walk through the front door when he reported for work in 1948. Now Police Headquarters is named for him.
When Spieth plays, fans of both genders and every age group stalk the fairways, calling his name as if they know him like a neighbor.
The former Jets linebacker Ikemefuna Enemkpali was embarrassed when Geno Smith failed to attend Enemkpali’s Texas football camp. The perceived slight simmered until it exploded.
Beltran’s pinch-hit three-run home run in the eighth inning gave the Yankees a win over the Blue Jays.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 12, 2015, covering August 15, 2015.
Jill Scott
Future
Lamb of God
Taylor Swift
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2015Julian Bond, American academic, leader of the civil rights movement, and politician (born 1940)[†]
Horace Julian Bond was an American social activist, leader of the civil rights movement, politician, professor, and writer. While he was a student at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, during the early 1960s, he helped establish the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1971, he co-founded the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama, and served as its first president for nearly a decade.
2015Hamid Gul, Pakistani general (born 1936)[†]
Hamid Gul was a Pakistani military officer and defence analyst. A three-star general, Gul was notable for serving as the Director-General of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Pakistan's premier intelligence agency, between 1987 and 1989. During his tenure, Gul played an instrumental role in directing ISI support to Afghan resistance groups against Soviet forces in return for funds and weapons from the US, during the Soviet–Afghan War, in co-operation with the CIA.
2015North Korea moves its clock back half an hour to introduce Pyongyang Time, 81⁄2 hours ahead of UTC.[†]
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and borders China and Russia to the north at the Yalu (Amnok) and Tumen rivers, and South Korea to the south at the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). The country's western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eastern border is defined by the Sea of Japan. North Korea, like South Korea, claims to be the sole legitimate government of the entire peninsula and adjacent islands. Pyongyang is the capital and largest city.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]