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By perusing personal accounts of people with even the thinnest thread of a connection to power, hackers can find their way to high-level government officials.
Some residents attribute Tulsa’s calm after a police shooting to religious restraint and the memories of a 1921 riot that left as many as 300 dead.
Many Minnesotans still hold a gargantuan lumberjack in reverence, but anything seems possible in this era, and election, of hyperbole.
China’s breakneck growth fueled an iron ore boom in Western Australia. Now, Chinese investors are fleeing a cooling economy by investing in Australian homes.
The reality show pits would-be “drag superstars” against each other in a campy contest. No wonder the fashion industry can’t stop watching.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 21, 2016, covering September 24, 2016.
Travis Scott
A Day to Remember
Drake
Soundtrack
Florida Georgia Line
2016Mel Charles, Welsh footballer (born 1935)[†]
Melvyn Charles was a Welsh international footballer. Charles played as both a centre-half and centre-forward, with his preferred position being at right-half.
2016Vladimir Kuzmichyov, Russian footballer (born 1979)[†]
Vladimir Vladimirovich Kuzmichyov was a Russian footballer.
2016Bill Mollison, Australian researcher, author and biologist (born 1928)[†]
Bruce Charles "Bill" Mollison was an Australian researcher, author, scientist, teacher and biologist. In 1981, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award "for developing and promoting the theory and practice of permaculture".
2016Bill Nunn, American actor (born 1953)[†]
William Goldwyn Nunn III was an American actor known for his roles as Dougy in James Bond III's movie Def by Temptation, Radio Raheem in Spike Lee's film Do the Right Thing, Robbie Robertson in the Sam Raimi Spider-Man film trilogy and as Terrence "Pip" Phillips on The Job (2001–02).
2016Buckwheat Zydeco, American accordionist and bandleader (born 1947)[†]
Stanley Dural Jr., better known by his stage name Buckwheat Zydeco, was an American accordionist and zydeco musician. He was one of the few zydeco artists to achieve mainstream success. His music group was formally billed as Buckwheat Zydeco and Ils Sont Partis Band, but they often performed as merely Buckwheat Zydeco.
In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[†]