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Despite its use for illegal activities, Bitcoin is being closely studied by conventional banks and financial firms. The online currency has rallied over 100 percent in the last month.
Leading companies in the sharing economy, like Airbnb and Uber, are turning their millions of users into an enormous political operation to fight back against unfavorable policies.
The Tower Amendment, a law passed to ease a constitutional dispute in 1975, has made solving Puerto Rico’s debt crisis even more difficult.
Opposition mainly came from an array of unions and environmental groups, but some big businesses, like Ford, also joined the emerging resistance to the pact.
Public venues are recasting the traditional men’s/women’s room, resulting in a dizzying range of (often creative) signage and vocabulary.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 4, 2015, covering November 5, 2015.
Pentatonix
Demi Lovato
The Weeknd
Machine Gun Kelly
Fetty Wap
2015George Barris, American engineer and car designer (born 1925)[†]
George Barris was an American designer and builder of Hollywood custom cars. Barris designed and built the Hirohata Merc. Barris's company, Barris Kustom Industries, designed and built the Munster Koach and DRAG-U-LA for The Munsters; and the 1966 Batmobile for the Batman TV series and film.
2015Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer (born 1923)[†]
Nora Brockstedt was a Norwegian singer. She was the first person ever to represent Norway in the European Song Contest, appearing as the Norwegian entrant in 1960 and 1961.
2015Soma Edirisinghe, Sri Lankan businesswoman and philanthropist (born 1939)[†]
Soma Edirisinghe was a Sri Lankan corporate executive, film producer, philanthropist and social worker. She was born in Meegoda, Sri Lanka on 5 July 1939 to a family of nine daughters, and died on 5 November 2015 at a private hospital in Colombo. She was married to EAP Edirisinghe and they had four children: three sons, Jeewaka, Nalaka and Asanka, and a daughter, Deepa.
2015Czesław Kiszczak, Polish general and politician, 11th Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Poland (born 1925)[†]
Czesław Jan Kiszczak was a Polish general, communist-era interior minister (1981–1990) and prime minister (1989).
2015Hans Mommsen, German historian and academic (born 1930)[†]
Hans Mommsen was a German historian, known for his studies in German social history, for his functionalist interpretation of the Third Reich, and especially for arguing that Adolf Hitler was a weak dictator. Descended from Nobel Prize-winning historian Theodor Mommsen, he was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.
2015An iron ore tailings dam bursts in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, flooding a valley, causing mudslides in the nearby village of Bento Rodrigues and causing at least 17 deaths and two missing.[†]
Iron ores are rocks and minerals from which metallic iron can be economically extracted. The ores are usually rich in iron oxides and vary in color from dark grey, bright yellow, or deep purple to rusty red. The iron is usually found in the form of magnetite (Fe3O4, 72.4% Fe), hematite (Fe2O3, 69.9% Fe), goethite (FeO(OH), 62.9% Fe), limonite (FeO(OH)·n(H2O), 55% Fe), or siderite (FeCO3, 48.2% Fe).
2015Rona Ambrose takes over after Stephen Harper as the Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.[†]
Ronalee Ambrose Veitch is a former Canadian politician who served as leader of the Official Opposition and interim leader of the Conservative Party from 2015 to 2017. She was the member of Parliament (MP) for Sturgeon River—Parkland from 2015 to 2017, after previously representing Edmonton—Spruce Grove from 2004 to 2015.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]