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Can you name the four Most Valuable Player Award winners, other than Babe Ruth, who have four-letter first and last names? If so, that’s one question down and 49 to go.
The last phase of the American campaign against the caliphate is relying heavily on warplanes that are focused on an area half the size of Manhattan.
A new class of editors is quietly reshaping children’s literature, vetting books for cultural and racial stereotypes before they reach readers.
A faded industrial town in the North Country region of New York State is relying on local residents’ crafts and wits to make its shopping center a destination again.
Barbara Jatta has abandoned her predecessor’s moves to limit visitor numbers to the Holy See’s collection of treasures, including the Sistine Chapel.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 20, 2017, covering December 24, 2017.
U2
Chris Stapleton
Taylor Swift
Ed Sheeran
Pentatonix
2017Jerry Kindall, American baseball player and coach (born 1935)[†]
Gerald Donald Kindall was an American professional baseball player and college baseball player and coach. He was primarily a second baseman in Major League Baseball (MLB) who appeared in 742 games played over nine seasons for the Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians (1962–64), and Minnesota Twins (1964–65). After his playing career, he became the head baseball coach of the University of Arizona Wildcats, winning 860 games and three College World Series (CWS) championships over 24 seasons (1973–1996). Kindall batted and threw right-handed and was listed as 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) tall and 175 pounds (79 kg).
2017Heather Menzies, Canadian-American model and actress (born 1949)[†]
Heather Margaret Brotherston Menzies Urich was a Canadian actress known for her roles as Louisa von Trapp in the 1965 film The Sound of Music and Jessica 6 in the TV series Logan's Run.
In 2017, the world population was approximately 7,645,617,954 people[†]