Saudi Arabia Wants Your Next Vacation
By Stanley Reed
The oil-rich kingdom is betting on tourism to broaden its economy, but will visitors come?
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On this day
December 25, 2019
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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Crisis Looms in Antibiotics as Drug Makers Go Bankrupt
By Andrew Jacobs
First Big Pharma fled the field, and now start-ups are going belly up, threatening to stifle the development of new drugs.
Science1659 words
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Lashes, Lashes, Lashes: What It Took to Give the ‘Bombshell’ Women the Fox Look
By Julie Bloom
The makeup artists behind the film used prosthetics, base color, eyeliner, pounds of lash glue and lots of lip gloss to get the Fox look.
Culture1233 words
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For Trump Organization, Office Skyscrapers Make Up for Lagging Hotels
By Eric Lipton and Steve Eder
Office towers in New York and San Francisco — centers of political resistance — are offsetting revenue downturns in the president’s glitzier Trump-branded hotels.
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The ‘But I Would Vote for Joe Biden’ Republicans
By Katie Glueck
For some Democrats, a key part of the former vice president’s pitch is that their moderate friends and relatives like him, too.
Politics1618 words
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Music on My Birthday
Billboard 200
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 25, 2019, covering December 25, 2019.
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Fine Line
Harry Styles
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Fully Loaded: God's Country
Blake Shelton
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Please Excuse Me For Being Antisocial
Roddy Ricch
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Hollywood's Bleeding
Post Malone
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Frozen II
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Notable Deaths
2019Ari Behn, Norwegian writer (born 1972)[†]
Ari Mikael Behn was a Norwegian author, playwright, and visual artist, best known for his marriage to Princess Märtha Louise of Norway from 2002 to 2017. He held no title or special status, and he remained a private citizen during the marriage.
Historical Events
2019Twenty people are killed and thousands are left homeless by Typhoon Phanfone in the Philippines.[†]
Typhoon Phanfone, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Ursula, was a strong and deadly tropical cyclone which traversed the Philippines on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in 2019, the first typhoon to do so since Nock-ten in 2016.
Historical Context for December 25, 2019
In 2019, the world population was approximately 7,811,293,698 people[†]