Encyclopaedia Britannica 2010 Almanac | Date: 28 April 2011, 05:47
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Pages: 882
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Date published: Oct 2009
ISBN: 978-1615353293
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Year in Review
Features
The US in Afghanistan: The Longest War. . . . 5
by Aryn Baker, TIME/Afghanistan
How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live . . . 6
by Steven Johnson for TIME
Skyrocketing Food Prices: A Global Crisis . . . 7
by Janet H. Clark
Seed Banks—Preserving Crop Diversity . . . . . 8
by Gregory McNamee
Combating the Crisis in Darfur . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
by Alex Meixner
Chronology, July 2008–June 2009
Month by Month. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Disasters, July 2008–June 2009
Month by Month. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
People
The TIME 100, 2009. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Celebrities and Newsmakers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Obituaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Awards
TIME’s Top 100 Films . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
TIME’s Person of the Year, 1927–2008 . . . . . 90
Nobel Prizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Special Achievement Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Science Honors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Nature, Science, Medicine, & Technology
The New Age of Extinction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
by Bryan Walsh, TIME
Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
The Universe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Constellations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Astronomical Phenomena for 2010 . . . . . 128
Measurements and Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Applied Science. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Communications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Aerospace Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Space Exploration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
Space Exploration Firsts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Air Travel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Meteorology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Geologic Disasters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Civil Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Life on Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Geology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Geography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Preserving Nature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Health. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176
Diet and Exercise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
World
Iran: Power of the People . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
by Nahid Siamdoust, TIME/Tehran
Countries of the World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
FLAGS ............................ PLATES 1–6
MAPS............................ PLATES 7–16
Rulers and Regimes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488
Populations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 501
Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502
Scholarship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 504
Religion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 505
The 2009 Annual Megacensus of
Religions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 508
Terrorism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 512
Military Affairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 515
United States
The Great Recession: America Becomes
Thrift Nation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517
by Nancy Gibbs, TIME
History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518
United States Chronology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 518
Important Documents in US History . . . . . 520
Government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532
The Presidency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532
The Supreme Court . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 557
The Congress. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560
The Senate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560
The House of Representatives. . . . . . . . 562
Military Affairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 569
Population . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 575
The States and Other Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 582
State Government . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 608
Cities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613
Law and Crime. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 615
Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620
Family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620
Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623
Business
The Future of Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625
by David von Drehle and Anne Fisher,
TIME
US Economy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626
Energy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627
Travel and Tourism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 628
Employment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630
Consumer Prices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 637
US Budget . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 638
US Taxes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 642
Arts, Entertainment, & Leisure
The Culture Crunch: Arts and the
Recession. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 645
by Richard Lacayo, TIME
Motion Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646
Academy Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646
Television . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660
Emmy Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660
Theater. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664
Tony Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 664
Encyclop?dia Britannica’s
20 Notable US Theater Companies. . . . 667
Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667
Grammy Awards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667
Encyclop?dia Britannica’s
20 World-Class Orchestras. . . . . . . . . . . 673
Encyclop?dia Britannica’s
Top 20 Opera Companies. . . . . . . . . . . . 673
Arts and Letters Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674
Pulitzer Prizes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 674
Architecture Awards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 694
Sport
Sporting Codes for Countries . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695
The Olympic Games . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 696
Special Olympics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 760
Automobile Racing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 760
Baseball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 762
Basketball . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 767
Bowling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 771
Cricket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773
Cycling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 773
Football . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775
US. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 776
Canadian . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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