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The revelation solves a riddle that had fascinated those in political and news media circles since the sale was announced last week.
U.S. soldiers accused Afghan police and Navy SEALs of abusing detainees. But the SEAL command opted against a court-martial and cleared its men of wrongdoing.
Some economists are dismayed that the Fedâs zero-interest policy didnât do much for infrastructure or even corporate capital investment.
When the French fashion house fired its artistic director in October, the fashion world was shocked. But maybe it shouldnât have been.
Two 40-something women who never quite grew up, or grew out of their childhood roles, are at the center of âSisters,â directed by Jason Moore of âPitch Perfect.â
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 16, 2015, covering December 17, 2015.
Adele
Justin Bieber
Pentatonix
One Direction
Taylor Swift
2015Hal Brown, American baseball player and manager (born 1924)[â ]
Hector Harold Brown was an American professional baseball player and right-handed pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball from 1951 through 1964 for the Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox, Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees and Houston Colt .45s. Brown was a knuckleballer with outstanding control who worked as both a starting pitcher and as a relief pitcher. He played for all or portions of eight seasons (1955â1962) with the Orioles, posting a 62â48 wonâlost record, and was inducted into the Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame in 1991. He was a veteran of the United States Army Air Forces who served in the European theatre of World War II.
2015Osamu Hayaishi, American-Japanese biochemist and academic (born 1920)[â ]
Osamu Hayaishi MJA , was a Japanese biochemist, physiologist, and military physician. He discovered Oxygenases at the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, National Institutes of Health in 1955.
2015Michael Wyschogrod, German-American philosopher and theologian (born 1928)[â ]
Michael Wyschogrod was a Jewish German-American philosopher of religion, Jewish theologian, and activist for JewishâChristian interfaith dialogue. During his academic career he taught in philosophy and religion departments of several universities in the United States, Europe and Israel.
In 2015, the world population was approximately 7,470,491,872 people[â ]