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“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.”
~ T.S. Eliot
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Tagged with 2012 …
THE 1.5 BILLION PEOPLE PARTY
Krulwich highlights the time zone with the most people able to celebrate New Years at one time:
If you look at this world time zone map, one zone, which we’ve highlighted it in yellow has, as you can see, all of China, all 1.3 billion of ‘em, plus a hunk of Siberia, plus Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, a chunk of Indonesia, Timor and a cut of Australia. Altogether, that’s got to be at least 1.5 billion people who will greet 2012 at the very same moment.
(Happy New Year to those billions and the other billions that compose the rest of us.)
QUOTE OF THE DAY
Exactly one year from today this calendar above abruptly comes to a halt. So maybe–just maybe–the world will explode. Or collapse. Or fall into a traveling black hole. And so the Mexico Mayan region is officially launching their apocalypse countdown: they even built a regressive clock in the town of Tapachula, and are planing on a yearlong farewell party too of course.
(Click here to read more, and please do R.S.V.P.)
(La última y nos vamos, o qué.)