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December 31

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December 31

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ARTICLES RELATED TO December 31

December 31: Encyclopedia - List of unseen characters

Television shows and stage plays sometimes include continuing characters — characters who are currently in frequent interaction with the other characters and who influences current story events — who are never seen or heard by the audience and only described by other characters. Radio shows and plays also feature characters who never speak, and books feature characters who are merely referred to. List of unseen characters - Unseen characters in television. Hidden characters appear in all varieties of fiction, ...

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December 31: Encyclopedia - Culture of the Philippines

The Customs and Traditions of the Philippines are strongly influenced by the culture of Spain, Mexico and the Roman Catholic religion. Each year, Filipinos from around the country hold major festivities known as Barrio Fiesta which commemorate the patron saints of the town, villages and regional districts. The festival season is celebrated with church ceremonies, street parades in honor of the patron saints, fireworks, beauty and dance contests for generations of old and new, and cockfighting tournaments. Culture of the ...

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December 31: Encyclopedia - Gustave Courbet

Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (June 10, 1819 – December 31, 1877) was a French painter. Gustave Courbet - Realism. Best known as an innovator in Realism (and credited with coining the term), and a landscape and seascape painter, his scenes are not romantic or idealized as was customary style at the time. Rather, he portrayed dynamic scenery, subject to continuous and progressive change. Courbet believed the Realist artist's mission was the pursuit of truth which would help erase social contradictions and ...

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December 31: Encyclopedia - The Province

The Province is a daily newspaper published in British Columbia by the Pacific Newspaper Group Inc, a CanWest Global Communications Company. It has been a daily newspaper since 1898. According to a recent NADbank survey, The Province's average weekday readership was 520,100, making it British Columbia's most read newspaper. Its six-day average circulation was 167,746 copies a day (as of December 31, 2001). [1]Including:

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December 31: Encyclopedia - Conscription

Conscription National service Conscription crisis Conscientious objection Conscription in Australia Conscription in Germany Conscription in Greece Conscription in New Zealand Conscription in the United States Conscription is a general term for involuntary labor demanded by some established authority, but it is most often used in the specific sense of government policies that require (very often, male only) citizens to serve in their armed forces. It ...

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December 31: Encyclopedia - Coordinated Universal Time

Coordinated Universal Time or UTC, also sometimes referred to as "Zulu time" or Z, is an atomic realization of Universal Time (UT) or Greenwich Mean Time, the astronomical basis for civil time. Time zones around the world are expressed as positive and negative offsets from UT. Coordinated Universal Time - General information. "UTC" is not a true acronym; it is a variant of Universal Time, UT, and has a modifier C (for "coordinated") appended to it just like other variants ...

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December 31: Encyclopedia - New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve is a celebration held the day before New Year's Day, on December 31, the final day of the Gregorian year. New Year's Eve is a separate observance from the observance of New Year's Day. In 20th-century Western practice, the celebration involves partying until the moment of the transition of the year, generally at local midnight. Drinking champagne is also a major part of the festivities. Within many cultures the use of fireworks and other noise making is a major part of the celebration in cities such as London, Pari ...

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December 31: Encyclopedia - Vandals

The Vandals were an East Germanic tribe that entered the late Roman Empire during the 5th century and created a state in North Africa, centered on the city of Carthage. The Vandals may have given their name to the province of Andalusia (originally, Vandalusia, then Arabic Al-Andalus), in the south of Spain, where they temporarily settled before pushing on to Africa. The Goth Theodoric the Great, king of the Ostrogoths and regent of the Visigoths, was allied by marriage with the Vandals, as well as with the Burgund ...

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December 31: Encyclopedia - Cumulus Media

Cumulus Media, Inc. (also known as Cumulus Broadcasting) NASDAQ: CMLS is a large owner of radio stations in small and medium markets in the United States with 266 stations in 56 areas as of December 31, 2003. Another 35 stations were operated through local marketing agreements as of March 1, 2004. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, the company is in a distant second place in the country behind Clear Channel Communications. Other related archives2003, 2004, Atlanta, Georgia, Clea

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December 31: Encyclopedia - 1194

1194 - Events. July 5 - Emperor Guangzong of Sung China was forced to give up his throne. Richard I of England is ransomed from Henry VI, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire November 20 - Palermo falls to Henry VI December 25 - Henry VI is crowned king of Sicily. City of Portsmouth awarded its Royal Charter. Henry Marshal becomes Bishop of Exeter. Yellow River of China experienced a major course change. It took over the Huai River drainage system for the ne ...

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December 31: Encyclopedia - USS Monitor

USS Monitor was an ironclad warship of the United States Navy. She is most famous for her participation in the first-ever naval battle between two ironclad warships, the Battle of Hampton Roads on March 9, 1862 during the American Civil War, in which Monitor fought the ironclad CSS Virginia of the Confederate States Navy. In previous decades, nearly all warships were made primarily of wood. In the decade before the Battle of Hampton Roads, the design of ships and the nature of naval warfare changed dramatic ...

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December 31: Encyclopedia - U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment

The 7th United States Cavalry Regiment is a United States Army cavalry regiment, whose lineage traces back to the mid-19th century. Its official nickname is "Garryowen", which alludes to the traditional Irish drinking song Garryowen that was adopted as its march tune. U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment - Indian Wars. The 7th Cavalry Regiment was Constituted on July 28, 1866 in the Regular Army as the 7th Cavalry. It was Organized on September 21, 1866 at Fort Riley, Kansas as part of an expansion of the Regul ...

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December 31: Encyclopedia - USA PATRIOT Act Title II

The USA PATRIOT Act was passed by the United States Congress in 2001 as a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks. It has ten titles, each containing numerous sections. Title II: Enhanced Surveillance Procedures gave increased powers of surveillance to various government agencies and bodies. This title has 25 sections, with one of the sections (section 224) containing a sunset clause which sets an expiration date, 31 December 2005, for most of the title's provisions. On 22 December 2005, th ...

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December 31: Encyclopedia - USA PATRIOT Act

The USA PATRIOT Act [1] (Public Law 107-56) is federal legislation in the United States. Passed after the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks, the Act expands the authority of U.S. law enforcement for the stated purpose of fighting terrorist acts in the United States and abroad. This expanded legal authority is also used to detect and prosecute other alleged potential crimes. USA PATRIOT Act - Scope. Among the laws ...

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December 31: Encyclopedia - UBS AG

UBS AG NYSE: UBS, (SWX: CH0012032030) TYO: 8657 is a financial services company, headquartered in Basel and Zürich, Switzerland. It also has a major presence in the New York metropolitan area with a large volume of offices located in Manhattan, Jersey City, New Jersey, Weehawken, NJ, and Stamford, CT. It is a private banking, investment banking and securities firm. It is also a global asset manager and does retail and commercial banking in Switzerland. UBS has invested assets of 2.231 trillion Swiss francs, share ...

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December 31: Encyclopedia - U Thant

Maha Thray Sithu U Thant (January 22, 1909 – November 25, 1974) was a Burmese diplomat and the third Secretary-General of the United Nations, from 1961 to 1971. He was chosen for the post when the then Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld was killed in an air crash in September 1961. To date, he is the only Asian to have served as UN Secretary-General. 'U' is an honorific in Burmese, roughly equal to 'Mister'. Thant was his only name. In Burmese he was known as Pantanaw U Thant, Pantanaw being the name of his home town. "Maha Thray Sithu" is a title, similar to a ...

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December 31: Encyclopedia - Ukrainian presidential election 2004

Ukraine This article is part of the series: Politics of Ukraine Political parties in Ukraine Elections in Ukraine: President: 2004 Parliament: 2006 edit The presidential election held in November and December 2004 in Ukraine was mostly a political battle between Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and former Prime Minister and opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko. The elec ...

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December 31: Encyclopedia - United States Secretary of the Treasury

The United States Secretary of the Treasury is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, concerned with finance and monetary matters, and, until 2003, some issues of national security and defense. This position in the Federal Government of the United States is analogous to the finance ministers of other nations. Most of the Department's law enforcement agencies such as the ATF, Customs Service, and Secret Service were reassigned to other Departments in 2003 in conjunction with the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. The Secretary is a member of the ...

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December 31: Encyclopedia - Cyclone Tracy

Cyclone Tracy was a tropical cyclone that devastated Darwin, Australia, from December 24 to December 25, 1974. It was recorded by The Age as being a "disaster of the first magnitude...without parallel in Australia's history." It killed 71 people - the official death toll was revised upwards from 65 to 71[1] in March 2005 - and destroyed over 70 percent of Darwin's buildings, leaving over 20,000 people homeless. Most of Darwin's population was evacuated to Adelaide, Whyalla, Alice Springs and Sydney, and many never returned to D ...

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December 31: Encyclopedia - United Nations member states

As of 2005, there are 191 United Nations member states. By definition, only sovereign states can be members of the United Nations General Assembly, the universal decision-making body of the United Nations. Any other intergovernmental or legal entities can only be observers, allowing them to speak, but not vote in Assembly meetings. United Nations member states - Current members. The members are listed below by alphabetical order in their short-form English names, with the date of joining. There were 51 foun ...

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December 31: Encyclopedia - Dallas Cowboys

National Football League (1960-present) Western Conference (1960) Eastern Conference (1961-1969) Capitol Division (1967-1969) National Football Conference (1970-present) NFC East (1970-present) Dallas Cowboys (1960-present) Super Bowl Championships (5) 1971 (VI), 1977 (XII), 1992 (XXVII), 1993 (XXVIII), 1995 (XXX) NFL Eastern: 1966, 1967Including:

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December 31: Encyclopedia - Connie Willis

Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis (born December 31, 1945) is an American science fiction writer. She is one of the most honored science fiction writers of the '80s and '90s winning, among other awards, eight Hugo Awards and six Nebula Awards. She lives in Greeley, Colorado with her husband,a professor of physics at the University of Northern Colorado. She also has one daughter, Cordelia. Willis is known for her accessible prose and likable characters. She has written several pieces involving time travel and a group of his ...

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