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Even billionaire hedge fund managers with sterling records have been unable to avoid heavy losses in 2015.
Written by Rolin Jones and with songs by Billie Joe Armstrong, this Atlantic Theater Company production updates “Much Ado About Nothing” to London in the ’60s.
The candidates united to attack Mr. Trump’s plan to bar Muslims, and Mr. Rubio faced tough questions about his conservative credentials and his judgment.
J. J. Abrams, the director, turns out to be what this stagnant franchise needs: a superfan and pop culture savant.
Visiting the revered poet’s three homes in Chile — La Chascona, La Sebastiana and Isla Negra — where his romance with Matilde Urrutia played out, each an expression of his dreams.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 16, 2015, covering December 16, 2015.
Adele
Justin Bieber
Pentatonix
One Direction
Taylor Swift
2015Peter Dickinson, Rhodesian-English author and poet (born 1927)[†]
Peter Malcolm de Brissac Dickinson OBE FRSL was an English author and poet, best known for children's books and detective stories.
2015Lizmark, Mexican wrestler (born 1950)[†]
Juan Baños was a Mexican luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler better known by the ring name Lizmark. The name was taken from the German battleship Bismarck. He was a multiple-time champion, having held singles and tag team championships in both Empresa Mexicana de Lucha Libre / Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (EMLL/CMLL) and Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA). In 2001, Lizmark was inducted into the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Hall of Fame. His nickname was El Geniecillo Azul, which is Spanish for "The Little Blue Genius". He has two sons who are also professional wrestlers, Lizmark, Jr. and El Hijo de Lizmark.
2015George Earl Ortman, American painter and sculptor (born 1926)[†]
George Earl Ortman was an American painter, printmaker, constructionist and sculptor. His work has been referred to as Neo-Dada, pop art, minimalism and hard-edge painting. His constructions, built with a variety of materials and objects, deal with the exploration off visual language derived from geometry—geometry as symbol and sign.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[†]