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Total Population of the World by Decade, 1950-2050
Keeping track of a growing world With just a few disruptions, the global population has grown at an increasing rate for hundreds of years. Here are the UN projections from their Department of…King, Larry
(Encyclopedia) King, Larry, 1933-2021, American journalist, radio, and television personality, b. Lawrence Harvey Zeiger, Brooklyn, N.Y. After…Kleinrock, Leonard
(Encyclopedia) Kleinrock, Leonard, 1934–, American computer scientist, b. New York City, B.E.E. City College of New York (1957), Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1963). Moving to the Univ…Kahn, Robert Elliot
(Encyclopedia) Kahn, Robert Elliot, 1938–, American computer scientist, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., B.E.E. City College of New York, 1960, Ph.D. Princeton, 1964. With Vinton Cerf, he is responsible for the…Rachael Ray
Rachael Ray is the ultra-peppy hostess whose 30 Minute Meals program on the Food Network made her one of the best-known cooks on TV. She is the host of the long-running syndicated TV talk show…April 2016: Ecuador Hit by Largest Earthquake in Decades
U.S. News | Disasters & Science News Here's a slideshow depicting the major science and disaster news events of April 2016. 1…Father's Day Took Decades to Become a National Holiday
The Father’s Day holiday was not an inevitability. Mother’s Day was actually the inspiration for Father’s Day in the United States. However, it was a lot easier to make Mother’s Day a holiday than it…communications satellite
(Encyclopedia) communications satellite artificial satellite that functions as part of a global radio-communications network. Echo 1, the first communications satellite, launched in 1960, was an…Paula Deen
Name at birth: Paula Ann HiersPaula Deen is a restaurateur from Savannah, Georgia who hosts the cable TV cooking shows Paula's Home Cooking and Paula's Party. Hers is a rags-to-riches kind of story…Matt Groening
Matt Groening's animated creations, the Simpson family, first appeared on The Tracey Ullman Show, which opened on the Fox network in 1987. The new network took a chance and gave The Simpsons a prime-…Trending
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