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Summer’s almost gone, but in these last warm days you might reach into a few books on some of the people and creations that shape the economy.
Big food companies like Nestlé are sinking money into revitalizing their frozen offerings, after upstarts have taken supermarket freezer space with more innovative foods.
August’s turbulence interrupted an unusually long period of tranquillity, but some analysts found reasons to believe that the markets may have found a bottom.
Cities across the nation are seeing a startling rise in murders this year, and few places have witnessed a shift as precipitous as Milwaukee.
This continuation of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series features artificial intelligence and code breaking and suitably icy bad guys.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 26, 2015, covering September 1, 2015.
Luke Bryan
Dr. Dre
Various Artists
tobyMac
Taylor Swift
2015Gurgen Dalibaltayan, Armenian general (born 1926)[†]
Gurgen Harutyun Dalibaltayan was an Armenian military commander. He was the Chief of General Staff of Armenian Armed Forces during the 1992 Battle of Shusha, a battle to capture the city from Azerbaijan. He is credited with devising a strategy to assault the strongly fortified town of Shusha using diversionary attacks against adjacent villages to draw out the defenders of the town while the commander of troops, Arkady Ter-Tatevosyan, encircled the town and cut off reinforcements. His strategy is generally considered impossible, or at least implausible, as he was originally outnumbered. General military tactics suggest a force of three times the defender's size to successfully storm and win.
2015Dean Jones, American actor and singer (born 1931)[†]
Dean Carroll Jones was an American actor. He was best known as The Walt Disney Company's main leading man in the 1970s with his roles as Agent Zeke Kelso in That Darn Cat! (1965), Jim Douglas in the Herbie franchise (1969–1997), and with other film companies such as Dr. Herman Varnick in Beethoven (1992). He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his performance as Albert Dooley in The Million Dollar Duck (1971). In 1995, he was inducted as a Disney Legend for his film work.
2015Richard G. Hewlett, American historian and author (born 1923)[†]
Richard Greening Hewlett was an American public historian best known for his work as the Chief Historian of the United States Atomic Energy Commission.
2015Ben Kuroki, American sergeant and pilot (born 1917)[†]
Ben Kuroki was the only American of Japanese descent in the United States Army Air Forces to serve in combat operations in the Pacific theater of World War II. He flew a total of 58 combat missions over Europe, North Africa, and Japan during World War II.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]