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#Events
of which issues have survived till today,
is published for the first time.
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and he was granted the patent in 1879.
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to the public for the first time,
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(then known as Longacre Square)
in Manhattan. NYC.
New Year's Eve ball tested ahead of Times Square celebration
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The GM Renaissance Center in Detroit, Michigan.
to make over US$1 billion in a year.
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Ireland's state broadcaster,
launches its first national television service.
#HappyBirthDay @rte
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the first civilian supersonic transport.
The Tupolev Tu-144
is a retired jet airliner and commercial supersonic transport aircraft (SST).
The design was a product of the Tupolev design bureau,
headed by Alexei Tupolev,
of the Soviet Union and manufactured
by the Voronezh Aircraft Production Association in Voronezh, Russia.
It conducted 55 passenger service flights,
at an average service altitude of 16,000 metres (52,000 ft)
and cruised at a speed of around 2,000 kilometres per hour (1,200 mph) (Mach 1.6).
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in what is dubbed by media as the Velvet Divorce,
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Czech Republic
Moravian-Silesian Beskids
Temperate deciduous forest in Křivoklátsko Protected Landscape Area
Bohemian Forest foothills and Kašperk castle,
southern Bohemia
Beskids mountains in eastern Moravia
European eagle-owl, a protected predator
Fire salamander, a common amphibian in humid forests
Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris), a protected animal
Wallenstein Palace, seat of the Senate
Straka Academy, seat of the Government
Seat of the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic in Brno.
Czech Army soldiers during an exercise
The Historic Centre of Prague is a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1992.
Medieval castles such as Karlštejn are frequent tourist attractions.
Folk music band from southern Bohemia wearing folk costumes
Prague
Brno
Ostrava
Olomouc
Saint Wenceslas Cathedral in Olomouc
Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter (1896)
by Art Nouveau artist Alphonse Mucha
Bohemian glass pitcher,
circa 1880
Traditional rural log house in Open-air museum Vysočina
Royal Summer Palace in Prague
considered the purest Renaissance architecture outside Italy
St. Nicholas' Church in Prague,
an exemplar of the Bohemian Baroque
Smetana Hall in Prague,
one of the main venues in the annual Prague Spring Festival
The National Theatre
the Estates Theatre
Svíčková:
marinated sirloin steak
with root vegetable
and cream gravy, dumplings, and cranberries
Vepřo-knedlo-zelo:
roast pork, sauerkraut and dumplings
Sweet roll (koláč) with poppy seed or a fruit preserve (povidla)
Czech Republic
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Slovakia
Panorama of the High Tatras
Gerlachovský štít (2,655 metres or 8,711 feet),
the highest peak in Slovakia
Skalnaté pleso Observatory (1,751 metres or 5,745 feet)
Slovak Paradise National Park
Domica Cave
Belá River
Štrbské pleso natural lake
is a popular tourist destination in the High Tatras
Popradské pleso
Veľké Hincovo
is the biggest and deepest mountain lake
in the Slovak High Tatras
Summer in Spišské Podhradie
Winter in Banská Štiavnica;
the town is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Rupicapra rupicapra tatrica in the Tatra Mountains
Grassalkovich Palace
in Bratislava
is the seat of the President of Slovakia
Episcopal Summer Palace,
the seat of the government of Slovakia
Slovak Air Force MiG-29 NATO upgrade
Bratislava,
capital and largest city of Slovakia
Bojnice Castle
The centre of Bardejov
– a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Cable cars at Jasná in the Tatra Mountains
The Old Town in Bratislava
Bratislava
Košice
Žilina
The Basilica of St. Giles in Bardejov
St. Elisabeth Cathedral
in Košice
is Slovakia's largest church
This wooden church in Bodružal
is an example of Rusyn folk architecture
and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Andy Warhol Museum of Modern Art
in Medzilaborce.
Andy Warhol's parents were immigrants from Slovakia.
The new Slovak National Theatre building
in Bratislava
Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra site in Bratislava
State Theatre Košice
Slovakia
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1998 – The European Exchange Rate Mechanism freezes the values of the legacy currencies in the Eurozone, and establishes the value of the euro currency.
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standing at a height of 509 metres (1,670 ft).
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in orbit around the Moon.
Parting Moon Shots from NASA's GRAIL mission
Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)
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#FelizAniversário
#FelizCumpleaños
#HappyBirthday
#JoyeuxAnniversaire
#BuonCompleanno
#Nacimientos
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1829/30, likely 31 December 1829
– 5 January 1867
Scottish poet and critic
POEMS
BY
ALEXANDER SMITH
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A LIFE-DRAMA.
As a wild maiden, with love-drinking eyes,
Sees in sweet dreams a beaming Youth of Glory,
And wakes to weep, and ever after, sighs
For that bright vision till her hair is hoary;
Ev'n so, alas! is my life's-passion story.
For Poesy my heart and pulses beat,
For Poesy my blood runs red and fleet,
As Aaron's serpent the Egyptians' swallow'd,
One passion eats the rest. My soul is follow'd
By strong ambition to out-roll a lay,
Whose melody will haunt the world for aye,
Charming it onward on its golden way.
[Tears the paper and paces the room with disordered steps.
Oh, that my heart were quiet as a grave
Asleep in moonlight!
For, as a torrid sunset boils with gold
Up to the zenith, fierce within my soul
A passion burns from basement to the cope.
Poesy! Poesy! I'd give to thee,
As passionately, my rich-laden years,
My bubble pleasures, and my awful joys,
As Hero gave her trembling sighs to find
Delicious death on wet Leander's lip.
Bare, bald, and tawdry, as a fingered moth,
Is my poor life, but with one smile thou canst
Clothe me with kingdoms. Wilt thou smile on me?
Wilt bid me die for thee? O fair and cold!
As well may some wild maiden waste her love
Upon the calm front of a marble Jove.
I cannot draw regard of thy great eyes.
I love thee, Poesy! Thou art a rock,
I, a weak wave, would break on thee and die.
There is a deadlier pang than that which beads
With chilly death-drops the o'er-tortured brow,
When one has a big heart and feeble hands,—
A heart to hew his name out upon time
As on a rock, then in immortalness
To stand on time as on a pedestal;
When hearts beat to this tune, and hands are weak,
We find our aspirations quenched in tears,
The tears of impotence, and self-contempt
That loathsome weed, up-springing in the heart,
Like nightshade 'mong the ruins of a shrine;
I am so cursed, and wear within my soul
A pang as fierce as Dives' drowsed with wine,
Lipping his leman in luxurious dreams;
Waked by a fiend in hell!——
'T is not for me, ye Heavens! 't is not for me
To fling a Poem, like a comet, out,
Far-splendouring the sleepy realms of night.
I cannot give men glimpses so divine,
As when, upon a racking night, the wind
Draws the pale curtains of the vapoury clouds,
And shows those wonderful, mysterious voids,
Throbbing with stars like pulses.—Naught for me
But to creep quietly into my grave;
Or calm and tame the swelling of my heart
With this foul lie, painted as sweet as truth.
That "great and small, weakness and strength, are naught,
That each thing being equal in its sphere,
The May-night glow-worm with its emerald lamp,
Is worthy as the mighty moon that drowns
Continents in her white and silent light."
This—this were easy to believe, were I
The planet that doth nightly wash the earth's
Fair sides with moonlight; not the shining worm.
But as I am—beaten, and foiled, and shamed,
The arrow of my soul which I have shot
To bring down Fame, dissolved like shaft of mist—
This painted falsehood, this most damned lie,
Freezes me like a fiendish human face,
With all its features gathered in a sneer.
Oh, let me rend this breathing tent of flesh;
Uncoop the soul—fool, fool, 't were still the same,
'T is the deep soul that's touch'd, it bears the wound;
And memory doth stick in 't like a knife,
Keeping it wide for ever.
I am fain
To feed upon the beauty of the moon!
[Opens the casement.
Sorrowful moon! seeming so drowned in woe,
A queen, whom some grand battle-day has left
Unkingdomed and a widow, while the stars,
Thy handmaidens, are standing back in awe,
Gazing in silence on thy mighty grief!
All men have loved thee for thy beauty, moon!
Adam has turned from Eve's fair face to thine,
And drunk thy beauty with his serene eyes.
Anthony once, when seated with his queen,
Worth all the East, a moment gazed at thee:
She struck him on the cheek with jealous hand,
And chiding said,—"Now, by my Egypt's gods,
That pale and squeamish beauty of the night
Has had thine eyes too long; thine eyes are mine!
Alack! there's sorrow in my Anthony's face!
Dost think of Rome? I'll make thee, with a kiss,
Richer than Cæsar! Come, I'll crown thy lips."
How tenderly the moon doth fill the night!
Not like the passion that doth fill my soul;
It burns within me like an Indian sun.
A star is trembling on the horizon's verge,
That star shall grow and broaden on the night,
Until it hangs divine and beautiful
In the proud zenith—
Might I so broaden on the skies of fame!
O Fame! Fame! Fame! next grandest word to God!
I seek the look of Fame! Poor fool—so tries
Some lonely wanderer 'mong the desert sands
By shouts to gain the notice of the Sphynx,
Staring right on with calm eternal eye
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Self-portrait at Montorsoli, (1892),
by
31 December 1842 – 11 July 1931
Italian painter
Florence, Uffizi Gallery, Vasari Corridor
A Lute Player and a Listener, oil on canvas, 1875
Portrait of Giuseppe Verdi in a Top Hat, 1886
Canale a Venezia con gondole, 1910-1914
La marchesa Luisa Casati con penne di pavone
(Portrait of the Marquise), 1914
Portrait of Princess Marthe Bibesco, oil on canvas, 1911
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec,
Portrait of a Dandy
Lady Pianist, oil on canvas
by Giovanni Boldini
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Self-Portrait
in a Striped T-shirt 1906,
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
by
Henri Émile Benoît Matisse
31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954
French painter and sculptor
The Young Sailor II, 1906,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
The Dance (first version), 1909,
The Museum of Modern Art, New York City
The Dance, 1910,
Hermitage Museum,
St. Petersburg, Russia
Portrait of the Artist's Wife, 1913,
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Les poissons rouges
(Interior with a Goldfish Bowl),
Musée National d'Art Moderne,
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
by Henri Matisse
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Silvestre Revueltas Sánchez
December 31, 1899 – October 5, 1940
La Noche de los Mayas de Silvestre Revueltas
Orquesta de París, dirección Kristjan Järvi
teatro Du Chatelet París, Francia
27 de octubre del 2009
La Noche de los Mayas
"Noche de Encantamiento"
| La Orquesta de París HD
"Sensemayá" by Silvestre Revueltas
the Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra,Hobart Earle conducts
Silvestre Revueltas - Sensemayá
Odessa Opera and Ballet Theater
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born 31 December 1937
Hungarian-Israeli biochemist and physician
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Matthew "Matt" Capiccioni
born December 31, 1980
American wrestler
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#Obituario RecordarANuestrosMuertos
EsDarlesVidaEternaEnNuestrosCorazones.
EnPazDescanse:
1990 – Giovanni Michelucci, Italian architect and urban planner, designed the Firenze Santa Maria Novella railway station (b. 1891)
1993 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia, Georgian anthropologist and politician, 1st President of Georgia (b. 1939)
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#observances
First Night (United States)
Last Day of the Year or Bisperás ng Bagong Taón, special holiday between Rizal Day and New Year's Day (Philippines)
Ōmisoka (Japan)
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