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Rapper covers Vogue Italy and GQ magazine

For the month of December alone, she has grazed two very reputable magazines in the world, Vogue Italia and GQ. For GQ Magazine, which is targeted at guys, the magazine christened 2014 "The year of the butt" and it's only expected that Nicki Minaj would be on such a list. Super bass singer is seen looking super classy with an elaborate hair do for her photoshoot with Vogue Italia.

RETAIL TRADE i: Broadway Opening

When young (34) Edward W. Carter went to work for Los Angeles’ Broadway Department Store, Inc. two years ago, he intended to move cautiously; a $50,000-a-year (plus bonus) executive, he thought, ought not to seem impulsive. On his second day, he started on a leisurely tour of the company’s Pasadena branch and what he saw made him jump. The floors were laid out poorly, the sales fixtures outmoded. “My God,” groaned Ed Carter, “the fellows who laid out the Pasadena store are laying out the new Broadway-Crenshaw.

Science: Sun Gun | TIME

The scene was Allied press headquarters in Paris on a rainy summer day. Facing the half-dozing correspondents, Lieut. Colonel John A. Keck, onetime Pittsburgh engineer and now chief of Allied technical intelligence on German weapons, began quietly: “This will make Buck Rogers seem as if he lived in the Gay ’90s.” He proceeded to unfold the improbable story of what German scientists were up to when V-E day interrupted them. At a research center in Hillersleben a group of them were solemnly laying plans for a “space station” 5,100 miles up, from which a “sun gun” would have the whole earth at its mercy.

See the 2015 Times Square New Years Eve Ball in One GIF

December 30, 2014 3:07 PM EST Every New Year’s Eve brings a new ball to New York City’s Times Square. The tradition began in 1907 and remains one of the world’s most iconic spectacles at the turn of the new year. This year’s design is called The Gift of Fortitude. The design utilizes “diamond cuts on either side of a crystal pillar to represent the inner attributes of resolve, courage and spirit necessary to triumph over adversity,” according to the Times Square Ball’s official website.

The Grateful Dead in History

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