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In 2017, the world population was approximately 7,645,617,954 people[†]
2017Peggy Cummins, Irish actress (born 1925)[†]
Peggy Cummins was an Irish actress, born in Wales, who is best known for her performance in Joseph H. Lewis's Gun Crazy (1950), playing a trigger-happy femme fatale, who robs banks with her lover. In 2020, she was listed at number 16 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.
2017John C. Portman Jr., American neofuturistic architect and real estate developer (born 1924)[†]
John Calvin Portman Jr. was an American neofuturistic architect and real estate developer widely known for popularizing hotels and office buildings with multi-storied interior atria. Portman also had a particularly large impact on the cityscape of his hometown of Atlanta, with the Peachtree Center complex serving as downtown's business and tourism anchor from the 1970s onward. The Peachtree Center area includes Portman-designed Hyatt, Westin, and Marriott hotels. Portman's plans typically deal with primitives in the forms of symmetrical squares and circles.
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The I.R.S. called into question a strategy of prepaying property taxes before the new tax law goes into effect. That could be just the beginning of the confusion.
The youngest person killed in a fire in the Belmont neighborhood on Thursday night was 1 year old, and the oldest was over 50, New York City officials said.
How excessive staffing, little competition, generous contracts and archaic rules dramatically inflate capital costs for transit in New York.
The president said in an interview on Thursday that the special counsel will treat him fairly, contradicting a campaign by some Republicans to discredit the investigation.
The archrivals of the Middle East appear to be vying over who can be quicker to overhaul their repressive rules for women.
Salesforce Tower, which at 1,070 feet is the tallest office building west of the Mississippi, will be inhabited in January, signaling tech’s triumph in the city.
In a series update, we catch up with a group of New Yorkers over age 90: warm, cranky, funny and three years older than when we first met them.
Manhattan’s luxury market faced some deep price cuts in 2017, but the residential market over all remained strong and stable.
Willpower is for chumps. Here’s what actually works.
The city’s deadliest blaze since 1990 was a “horrible, tragic accident” caused by a child playing with a stove, the mayor said.
Astronomers have their noses pressed against the windows of the unknown, wanting to believe in life elsewhere just like many outer space enthusiasts.
Most people will pay less in taxes in the next few years. If you can, redirect that money toward hiring help, spending locally and supporting charities.