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An examination of the company reveals a distinctly family business fortified with longtime loyalists that operates less on standardized procedures and more on a culture of Trump.
The charity that helps people get lifesaving dialysis has a special arrangement that has helped it grow large, but it may not be holding up its end of the deal.
Years of the sculptor’s notebooks and manuscripts have culminated in “Donald Judd Writings,” published by the Judd Foundation and David Zwirner Books.
The emotional toll of visiting the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
A staging of this Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, set in an imaginary Japan, hopes to please fans while not being offensive.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 21, 2016, covering December 25, 2016.
Various Artists
The Weeknd
Pentatonix
The Rolling Stones
Childish Gambino
2016Valery Khalilov, Russian military musician and composer (born 1952)[†]
Valery Mikhailovich Khalilov was an Uzbek-born Russian military band conductor and composer. A lieutenant general in the Russian military, he was the Senior Director of Music of the Military Band Service of the Armed Forces of Russia and Chief Military Conductor, most famously conducting the massed Russian military bands at the annual "Victory Day" parade held in the Moscow's Red Square a record 14 times. He died when the plane he was on, en route to Syria, crashed into the Black Sea off Sochi, Russia.
2016George Michael, British singer and songwriter (born 1963)[†]
George Michael was an English singer-songwriter and record producer. Regarded as a pop culture icon, he is one of the best-selling recording artists of all time. Michael was known as a creative force in songwriting, vocal performance, and visual presentation. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2023.
2016Vera Rubin, American astronomer (born 1928)[†]
Vera Florence Cooper Rubin was an American astronomer who pioneered work on galaxy rotation rates. She uncovered the discrepancy between the predicted and observed angular motion of galaxies by studying galactic rotation curves. Her work on the galaxy rotation problem produced the first widely accepted evidence for the existence of dark matter.
2016A Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 carrying members of the Alexandrov Ensemble crashes into the Black Sea shortly after takeoff, killing all 92 people on board.[†]
The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation is the governing body of the Russian Armed Forces. The president of Russia is the commander-in-chief of the forces and directs the activity of the ministry. The minister of defence exercises day-to-day administrative and operational authority over the forces. The General Staff of the Armed Forces executes the instructions and orders of the president and the defence minister.
In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[†]