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Definition: December |
DecemberNoun1. The last (12th) month of the year. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "December" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of December, foretells accumulation of wealth, but loss of friendship. Strangers will occupy the position in the affections of some friend which was formerly held by you. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Literature | December (Latin, the tenth month.) So it was when the year began in March with the vernal equinox; but since January and February have been inserted before it, the term is quite incorrect. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Selected ArticlesDecember 7, 2003
- Former Nicaraguan President Arnoldo Alemán receives a 20-year prison sentence for money laundering, embezzlement, electoral crime, etc. [1] [1]
- Zimbabwe announces that it has quit the Commonwealth of Nations. The Commonwealth had earlier decided to maintain Zimbabwe's suspension until human rights and democratic reforms had taken place. [1]
- Exit polls suggest that President Vladimir Putin's United Russia Party has won a resounding victory in the Russian general election. The vote for the Communist Party appears to have collapsed to 14%. [1]
- Local villagers have disputed United States claims that a bombing by the US that killed 9 children had killed the intended target, Taliban militant, Mullah Wazir. They say Wazir had left the village ten days earlier. [1] [1]
- Currency analysts remain negative on the US dollar. [1]
- One US soldier is killed and two are injured Sunday in Mosul when a convoy is attacked. [1]
- The Al Qaeda effort to recruit militant Muslims in Europe is getting more organized and more effective. [1]
December 6, 2003
- Australian Democrats leader Andrew Bartlett stands aside after allegedly assaulting Liberal Jeannie Ferris on the floor of Parliament. [1]
- Occupation of Iraq:
- The USA admits that at least nine children have been mistakenly killed in a bombing attack near Ghazni, Afghanistan. class="external">[1
Delegates representing the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada vote 90% to 10% in favour of forming a union with the Canadian Alliance. The Alliance approved the measure even more overwhelmingly yesterday, with 96% support. The new party is to style itself the Conservative Party of Canada. [1] The first major winter storm strikes the North East United States. [1] Experts say that the US flu season will be worse than average, but they are not yet ready to say how bad it will be. [1] The USA has basically run out of injectable vaccine and is encouraging people to use the nasal spray version of the vaccine. [1] Zimbabwe fails to find supporters at the Commonwealth Prime Minister's Conference in Nigeria. [1]
December 5, 2003
- Suicide bombers blow up a morning rush-hour commuter train in Russia's Northern Caucasus, on the border with Chechnya; at least 40 people are killed. [1] [1]
- As part of a spending bill passed by the United States Congress this week, the University of California will have to compete for the management contract of all three of its national laboratories: Lawrence Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore, and Los Alamos. Previously, it was expected that only Los Alamos would be up for bidding. [1]
- The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is opened in Abuja, Nigeria, by Queen Elizabeth II. The future of Zimbabwe's membership is threatening to dominate the gathering. The debate has been marked by bitter personal polemics between Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and Australian Prime Minister John Howard, whom Mugabe accuses of leading an "Anglo-Saxon conspiracy" against Zimbabwe. Mugabe himself is barred from entering the European Union. Zimbabwe was suspended from the Commonwealth last year on charges that Mugabe had rigged his re-election in 2002. class="external">[1
Members of the Canadian Alliance vote 96% to 4% in favour of forming a union with the Progressive Conservatives, called the Conservative Party of Canada. The Progressive Conservatives will vote tomorrow. [1] [1] SCO v. IBM: in the opening discovery stages of the SCO v. IBM conflict, a judge grants IBM's two motions to compel against SCO, and defers consideration of SCO's motions until later. The 22nd SEA Games open in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. This is the first time Vietnam hosts the regional athletic event and the first time East Timor sends a delegation. Indonesia and Vietnam are expected to top the medal tallies. [1] [1] The draw for the qualifying stages of the 2006 Football World Cup is made. England, Wales and Northern Ireland are drawn together in group 6 of the Europe (UEFA) section, meaning the group stages will contain three-quarters of a home nations championship - Scotland missed out on the party, being drawn (amongst others) against Italy and Norway.
December 4, 2003
- Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller is injured in a helicopter crash outside Warsaw. [1]
- Facing the threat of a trade war, U.S. President George W. Bush lifts 20-month-old tariffs on foreign steel. Within minutes of the announcement, the European Union announces that it is lifting its threat of sanctions on $2.2 billion of U.S. products that would have taken effect in mid-December based on a ruling from the World Trade Organization that the tariffs were in violation of global trade rules. [1]
- Hourly productivity of U.S employees increased in 3rd quarter 2003 at an annual rate of 9.2%, the highest since the Reagan years (Q2 of 1983). [1]
- Interpol issues a red notice for the arrest of former President of Liberia Charles Taylor. [1] [1]
December 3, 2003
- Deng Pufang, Sergio Vieira De Mello, and others are named for this year's UN human rights awards. [1] [1]
- Up to 50 employees of Australia's national postal service have been caught sending pornographic emails, including some involving children in sex acts, according to an investigation published by the Sydney-based Daily Telegraph. Two have been sacked, at least four have resigned, and dozens have been suspended pending further investigations. [1]
- In Kassel, Germany, the trial of Armin Meiwes begins. He is charged with killing and eating Bernd-Jürgen Brandes who was one of 200 people who replied to an internet advertisement for "a well-built male prepared to be slaughtered and then consumed". The whole episode was videotaped. The case is legally difficult as cannibalism is not explicitly prohibited by the German penal code, and the defence argues that as the victim was willing, no murder took place. [1]
- The Russian government backtracks on statements made the previous day on the Kyoto Protocol, saying it is still considering ratification. [1]
- Two media figures are sentenced to life imprisonment by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda for fueling the 1994 Rwanda genocide; a third receives a 35-year prison term. [1] [1]
- Politics of Canada: Natural Resources Minister Herb Dhaliwal, Canada's first Indo-Canadian cabinet minister, announces he is leaving politics. Dhaliwal intends to quit his ministerial post when incoming Prime Minister Paul Martin swears in a new cabinet on December 12 and not seek re-election in the anticipated 2004 Canadian election. [1]
- In Abidjan, Ivory Coast, police fire tear gas at hundreds of protesters who want France to withdraw its 3,800 peacekeepers so that the Christian and animist government of President Laurent Gbagbo in the and south can march against Muslim rebel-held areas in the north.class="external">[1
The New Zealand parliament voted 68-52 to pass the Smokefree Environments Amendment Bill, introducing a progressive ban on smoking in all workplaces including offices, clubs, pubs, restaurants, airports, schools etc December 2, 2003
- Venezuelan opposition leaders claim to have gathered enough petition signatures to force a referendum to recall President Hugo Chávez; in response, the government alleges the four-day signature drive was tainted by "massive fraud". [1] [1]
- The second trial of DeCSS releaser Jon Johansen begins. [1]
- The US dollar continues to decline, hitting a new low of 1.2 against the euro; the dollar is suffering from deteriorating support against the background of a large current account deficit and fears of growing protectionism. [1]
- Andrei Illarionov, economic advisor to President Vladimir Putin, indicates Russia will not ratify the Kyoto Protocol in its current form, a decision that would kill the accord. Some observers speculate that this is purely domestic posturing for forthcoming elections. [1]
- Mark Latham is elected to succeed Simon Crean as the new leader of the opposition Australian Labor Party, defeating former leader Kim Beazley by 47 votes to 45. In 2004 Latham will face Liberal Prime Minister John Howard at a general election. [1]
- The Israeli government has called on U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell not to meet with former ministers of Israel and the Palestinian Authority who have drawn up the unofficial Geneva plan. [1]
- US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld wins the annual "Foot in Mouth Prize" awarded by the UK's Plain English Campaign for the most non-sensical remark made by a public figure. Among the runners-up were Arnold Schwarzenegger and Chris Patten. [1]
- Hospitals around Paris struggle to cope with an outbreak of influenza and gastro-enteritis. [1]
- The European Union threatens retaliatory sanctions unless the United States lifts its threat of restrictions on imports of steel; the US measures have been declared illegal by the WTO. [1]
- Pirate copies of a pre-alpha version of Microsoft's Windows Longhorn operating system go on sale in Malaysia more than a year ahead of the official release date. [1]
- GIMPS has confirmed that 220996011-1 is prime. At 6320430 decimal digits, it is easily the largest known prime number. 220996011-1 is the 40th known Mersenne prime and the 6th Mersenne prime discovered by GIMPS. [1]
- The Pentagon announces that U.S-born enemy combatant and Taliban fighter Yaser Esam Hamdi will be allowed access to a lawyer after being denied for two years such counsel. [1]
December 1, 2003
- Occupation of Iraq:
- World AIDS Day:
- US Health Secretary Tommy Thompson warns that the world is losing the war against AIDS. Thompson said, "We need America, the European Union and everybody. Nobody is going to be spared unless we all come together in the fight against this disease." [1]
- UK Secretary of State for International Development Hilary Benn announces that the UK's funding for UNAids will rise to GBP £6 million in 2004; this figure compares to the UK's projected Iraq War-related costs of approximately GBP £3 billion. [1]
- UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan reportedly tells the BBC that the world is losing the war against AIDS because governments remain indifferent to the threat. [1]
- Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao marks World AIDS Day by visiting AIDS victims in a Beijing hospital. [1]
- The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda hands down a life sentence to Juvenal Kajelijeli, a former mayor of Mukingo, for his role in the 1994 genocide in which more than 500,000 Rwandans were killed. [1]
- King Harald V of Norway is announced to be suffering from cancer of the bladder; he will be operated on next Monday, December 8. During the King's illness and two to three month convalescence, Crown Prince Haakon will be acting regent. [1]
- President Chen Shui-bian says that the hundreds of missiles the People's Republic of China has aimed at Taiwan justifies holding a referendum on independence. The referendum bill recently passed by the Legislative Yuan only allows votes on sovereignty if the country is attacked by a foreign power. [1]
- Boeing Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Phil Condit resigns, a week after the aviation giant fires its Chief Financial Officer in an ethics scandal. The move comes as the company faces scrutiny by the Defense Department for a government plan to acquire Boeing 767 planes for use as refueling tankers and answers questions about the ousters of two executives for ethical misconduct during the period it was being negotiated. Former McDonnell Douglas CEO Harry Stonecipher will succed Condit as CEO, while former Hewlett-Packard chairman and CEO Lewis Platt takes over as chairman. [1]
- In Flandreau, South Dakota, jury selection begins in the manslaughter trial of former South Dakota Governor and current US Congressman Bill Janklow. [1]
Past events by month
2003: January February March April May June July August September October November
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simple:DecemberDecember is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 31 days. From the Latin decem for "ten" (it was originally the tenth month of the year, before January and February were inserted).
December begins on the same day of week as September every year.
See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
Historical anniversaries
December 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
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2002 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December - -->A timeline of events in the news for December, 2002.
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- Afghanistan timeline December 2002
December 31, 2002
- United States troops get into a brief gun battle with paramilitary forces of the Warzirstan Scouts of Pakistan, in a remote tribal area along the undefined Afghan/Pakistani border, in Paktia Province, Afghanistan. One US soldier is wounded by gunfire, and several Pakistani soldiers are killed when US air support arrives. The border in this region is poorly demarcated. [1]. Three missiles from US helicopter gunships strike a madrassa owned by former Taliban official Maulana Muhammad Hassan, according to the ANI news agency.
- The first trial of a member of the Russian military for human rights violations in Chechnya concludes controversially, with Col. Yuri Budanov found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to a psychiatric hospital for further evaluation and treatment. Budanov was charged with murder and abduction after being accused of raping and strangling Heda Kungayeva, an 18 year old Chechen girl whom Budanov contends was a rebel sniper. [1]
December 30, 2002
- The Israeli Supreme Court rules that reservists may not refuse to serve in the West Bank or Gaza because of their objection to Israeli government policies. The Court ruled "the recognition of selective conscientious objection might loosen the links that hold us together as a people."
- Four Americans (the director, a doctor, the administrator and the pharmacist) at the Baptist hospital in Jibla, Yemen, were killed by Abed Abdul-Razzak Kamal. Kamal was captured and claims he was linked to the extremist Islamic Reform Party. Another member of his alleged cell, Ali al-Jarallah, was arrested for shooting a Yemeni left-wing politician on Sunday.
- The United Nations Security Council voted 13-0, with two abstentions, to revise the list of goods Iraq is allowed to purchase under the "food-for-oil" program. The list includes flight simulators, communications equipment, high-speed motorboats, and rocket cases, which the United States noted are dual-use technologies. The Security Council also agreed to ask the UN for standards to evaluate the quantities of medicine and antibiotics Iraq is allowed to import under this program.
- A tanker, the Amazonian Explorer, arrived in Puerto La Cruz, Venezuela, 200 kilometers east of Caracas, the capital. President Hugo Chavez traveled to the port to supervise the unloading of 525,000 barrels of gasoline. Gasoline is restricted due to a strike at Petroleos de Venezuela, SA (PdVSA), the state-owned oil company, which is aimed at forcing President Chavez to call early elections.
- Crude oil futures on the New York market rose to $33 a barrel because of the Venezuelan oil strike and fears of war with Iraq.
December 29, 2002
- The Kenyan electoral commission confirms that the opposition National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) has won landslide victories over the ruling KANU party in Friday's elections, ending 40 years of single party rule and 24 years of rule by Daniel arap Moi. The NARC's presidential candidate, Mwai Kibaki, led by more than 30 percentage points over the KANU's official candidate. [1]
- Brighton's West Pier collapsed. It had served from the Victorian era until it was closed in 1975. class="external">[1
December 27, 2002
- Chechen rebels detonate two car bombs at the Grozny headquarters of Chechnya's Russian-backed government in an apparent suicide attack, killing more than 80 people. [1]
- North Korea expels UN weapons inspectors, and announces plans to reactivate a dormant nuclear fuel processing laboratory. [1]
- Clonaid, the medical arm of a cult called Raelism, who believe that aliens introduced human life on Earth, claims to have successfully cloned a human being. They claim that aliens taught them how to perform cloning, even though the company has no record of having successfully cloned any previous animal. A spokesperson said an independent agency would prove that the baby, named Eve, is in fact an exact copy of her mother. [1]
- Presidential elections in Kenya between Uhuru Kenyatta, candidate for ruling party KANU, and Mwai Kibaki, candidate for opposition party NARC. Early reports say the latter wins a landslide victory.
December 26, 2002
- North Korea is reactivating a plutonium producing nuclear power plant north of Pyongyang after removing United Nations seals on the reactor and degrading the capability of surveillance cameras. This same reactor is thought by U.S. officials as the source for plutonium for two previously produced atomic bombs. North Korea has been named by the George W. Bush Administration as part of the so-called "axis of evil."[1]
- War on Terrorism: A Washington Post article quotes numerous anonymous CIA agents who confirm that the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States uses so-called "stress and duress" interrogation techniques, which are claimed by human rights activists to be acts of torture. The actions include beatings as a prelude to interrogation in order to break their will, followed by sleep deprivation, denial of pain medication, and enclosure in cramped rooms. The CIA frequently turns suspects over to Middle Eastern intelligence services for what is undisputablely torture and intensive interrogation. The anonymous agents defend the practice as necessary in light of the September 11th terrorist attacks; publicly, US government officials deny the charges, while declining to address specifics. Privately, however, one official justified human rights violations as being a necessary part of the job. [1]
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Israel announces it will begin with temporarily providing social services such as education, healthcare, and licenses in the West Bank. The Israeli government claims the move is necessary to provide badly needed services to the Palestinian people in light of the Palestinian Authority's inability to do so. Palestinian officials claim the move is an attempt to undermine the legitimacy of the Palestinian Authority and tantamount to the reinstatement of the Israeli occupation that existed before the 1993 Oslo Accords.
- A 55-year-old contractor from West Virginia named Andrew "Jack" Whittaker Jr won the $314.9 million Christmas Day Powerball jackpot which is the biggest undivided lottery prize in American history. [1]
December 25, 2002
- The Christmas holiday is celebrated in Western Christianity.
- Kicker Katie Hnida of the University of New Mexico makes history by becoming the first woman to participate in a NCAA division 1 football game, missing a kick for her team during the Las Vegas Bowl game.
December 24, 2002
- A number of US Muslim groups have initiated a class action lawsuit against the US Attorney General, John Ashcroft and the US immigration services over the arrest and detention of large numbers (believed to be in the hundreds) of Muslim men.
- A bomb believed planted by a Muslim separatist organisation killed 13 people, including a town mayor, and wounded 12 in a Christmas Eve attack in the southern Philippines town of Datu Piang.
- Iran's state radio reported quoted a statement by airport officials, saying that pilot "carelessness" caused a plane carrying Ukrainian and Russian aerospace scientists to crash in central Iran, killing all 46 people on board.
- Sun Microsystems won a major antitrust victory against Microsoft when a federal judge ordered Microsoft to distribute Sun's Java programming language in its Microsoft Windows operating system.
December 23, 2002
- Bill Frist was voted to succeed Trent Lott as United States Senate Majority Leader.
- Scientists at California company VaxGen Inc., have finished the first human trial of an AIDS vaccine, a mammoth $200 million, 5,400-patient effort more than a decade in the making. The Food and Drug Administration has granted the vaccine "fast-track" status that would speed it through the approval process, if it proves effective, for public availability. The test results are expected to be made public within approximately three months.
- The British musician Joe Strummer has died of a heart attack, aged 50. His death made the top news story in a number of British news sources.
- Victor Emmanuel, Prince of Naples, the heir of the last King of Italy, visited the country for the first time since the Italian Royal Family was banned. A constitutional amendment passed in November allowed the royal family to return as ordinary citizens.
December 22, 2002
- Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat announced that he has called off presidential and legislative elections scheduled for next month, as he feels that continued Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory will make a free election impossible.
- North Korea announced that it is physically removing monitoring devices placed on the Yongbyon nuclear reactor. The devices were placed by the United Nations following the 1994 nuclear agreement to shut down Yongbyon, which is capable of making weapons-grade material, in exchange for deliveries of oil. In November 2002, Korea admitted that it is working on a weapons of mass destruction program in response to "imperialist threats." The United States states it does not trust the North Koreans.
- Demonstrators estimated in the tens of thousands supported proposed national security laws for Hong Kong, following last week's demonstrations with similar numbers against these proposed laws. The Government Consultation Exercise for the proposed laws received 18,000 comments. Article 23 of the Basic Law of Hong Kong, negotiated by Britain and China before the 1997 handover to China, stated that Hong Kong must enact national security legislation by itself banning treason, turning over state secrets, and urging separation from China.
- A senior member of ETA, Ibon Femandez de Iradi, escaped from French custody yesterday. He and a woman companion was arrested Wednesday after their car was found to have false number plates. Ibon Femandez de Iradi was the logistics chief for ETA, a Basque separatist group which has been implicated in terrorist activities.
- Time Magazine announced that its "Persons of the Year" are three female whistle blowers -- Coleen Rowley, FBI agent who wrote a memorandum to FBI Director Robert Mueller claiming that the Minneapolis, Minnesota office had been remiss in its investigation of suspected terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui; Cynthia Cooper, former WorldCom auditor, who alerted the company's Board of Directors of accounting irregularities; and Sherron Watkins, former Enron Vice President, who reported to the company's former Chairman Kenneth Lay in 2001 that the company was about to collapse as a result of false accounting.
- The city of Baltimore, Maryland passed an ordinance making the giving of a BB gun to a minor a misdemeanor punished by a $500 fine and two months in jail.
- Singer Kristyn Osbourne of the country music group SHeDAISY filed a $3.5 million lawsuit against karaoke companies for failure to pay songwriters.
December 21, 2002
- In the Côte d'Ivoire, units of the French Foreign Legion, based at the city of Duekoue on Sassandra River have come into contact with rebels advancing southward from the city of Man. Colonel Emmanuel Maurin, commander of the French force, states "Between what we have here and the river, they shall not pass."
- South Korean President-elect Roh Mooh-hyun states that he will visit Washington after receiving an invitation from President George W. Bush. During his campaign, Roh stated he would not visit simply for a White House "photo op."
December 20, 2002
- Barbara Joyce Williams Ferrell, daughter of the late baseball player Ted Williams, has dropped her lawsuit to have the body of her father removed from a cryonics storage facility and cremated.
- Maoist guerrillas ambushed a police van in Jharkhand, a state in eastern India, killing 18 people, mostly police officers. At least 20 policemen were wounded in the ambush and the gunbattle that followed.
- Senator Trent Lott resigned as Senate Majority Leader, concluding that his approving statements of fellow Senator Strom Thurmond's segregationist run for President of the United States in 1948 had limited his effectiveness and that of his fellow Republicans.
- Portland Trail Blazers players, Golden State Warriors players and Warriors' fans get involved in a melee after the Trail Blazers beat the Warriors, 113-111 in Oakland. It might be the first time in NBA history that a home team's fans attack the visiting team during or after a game.
- Speed skater Catriona Le May Doan won the Lou Marsh Trophy, given annually to Canada's outstanding athlete. She edgted out Dallas Mavericks guard Steve Nash.
- The magazine Science chose the discovery of small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) as the top science story of the year. The molecular switches have the potential to treat such diseases as HIV and cancer.
- Scientists at California Institute of Technology announced the discovery of clouds of methane on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.
- Governor Frank H. Murkowski of Alaska announced that he had chosen his daughter, state Representative and House Majority Leader Lisa Murkowski, to succeed him in the United States Senate. The elder Murkowski, in winning the recent election as governor, was forced to leave his Senate position.
December 19, 2002
- U.S. plan to invade Iraq: After reviewing a 12,000 page Iraqi weapons declaration document, U.S. officials state that Iraq has failed to account for all its chemical and biological agents and that Iraq is in material breach of an United Nations Security Council resolution.
- Hundreds of Middle Eastern immigrants in Southern California who came to INS officials to register, as per new regulations, are arrested and imprisoned for various INS violations, many of them due to official delays in processing necessary forms. Critics compare the action to the Japanese internment in the same region during World War II. Others claim that the people are in violation of United States immigration law, and the arrests are valid.
- Ruling party candidate Roh Moo-hyun won South Korea's presidential election, a result that could complicate ties with the United States as the allies grapple with North Korea's nuclear programme.
- Pope John Paul II will approve the miracle needed to beatify Mother Teresa, whose dedication to the destitute earned her a special place in the pontiff's heart. A second miracle then will be needed to declare Mother Teresa a saint.
- AOL Time Warner announced that they had been issued a patent for instant messaging. AOL said that they have no plans to enforce the patent, but it could cause major problems for the purveyors of other instant messaging systems, in partcular Microsoft and Yahoo.
- Rebels in the Côte d'Ivoire seized the key western city of Man from government forces.
December 18, 2002
- Insurance and finance company Conseco Inc, deep in debt and facing a federal investigation of its accounting practices, filed for Chapter 11 protection in the third-largest bankruptcy in U.S. history.
- An Indian court sentenced three men to death for treason, for their assistance in helping five gunmen prepare for the December 13, 2001 attack on the national Parliament which killed nine people and nearly triggered a war with nuclear rival Pakistan. Death sentencess, which are carried out by hanging, are rare in India.
- Matsushita and Sony have announced that they are collaborating on the development of a "Linux platform for digital home electronic devicess"
December 17, 2002
- Congo's government, rebels and opposition parties signed a peace accord to end four years of civil war and set up a transitional government to lead Africa's third-largest nation to its first democratic elections since independence in 1960.
- The Bush administration announced it will begin begin deploying a limited system to defend the United States against ballistic missiles by 2004.
- ElcomSoft is found not guilty on 4 counts of DMCA violations, in the first important test case involving the controversial law.
December 16, 2002
- Former Bosnian Serb President Biljana Plavsic pled guilty to one count of crimes against humanity at the Hague tribunal for her part in persecuting Bosnian Muslims and Croats during the 1992-95 conflict, which left 200,000 dead or missing.
- Protesters blockaded highways in and around Caracas as the opposition, angered by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's resolve to hang on to power, called for an escalation in its campaign to remove him.
- Former US Vice President and 2000 Presidential candidate Al Gore announces on the CBS program 60 Minutes that he will not seek election to the Presidency in 2004.
December 13, 2002
- The Vatican announces that Pope John Paul II has accepted the resignation of Boston's Bernard Cardinal Law due to widespread outcry among Boston Catholics over Law's role in covering up pedophilia-related and other sex crimes among priests in his diocese.
- US Senate majority leader Trent Lott apologizes on television amid growing outcry for his resignation from both ends of the political spectrum for comments made at Senator Strom Thurmond's 100th birthday party which seemed to support Thurmond's 1948 segregationistist presidential campaign platform.
- The Geminid meteor shower peaks tonight. Best viewing is between midnight and dawn.
- Henry Kissinger stepped down as the chairman of a panel investigating the September 11 attacks, citing conflict of interest with his clients. The choice of Kissinger by President George W. Bush had been severely criticized in some quarters because of claims that Kissinger is a war criminal and a master of covering up past events.
- The European Union invited Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Cyprus and Malta to join. Expansion is scheduled for May of 2004.
December 11, 2002
- First flight of the ESC-A variant of the Ariane 5 is a failure, with the rocket and the two communications satellites it was carrying destroyed a few minutes after lift-off from Kourou, French Guiana.
- South African police seize 384kg of explosives found in a truck belonging to Tom Vorster, alleged leader of the right-wing terrorist group the Boeremag.
December 10, 2002
- The government of Indonesia and rebel leaders from the province of Aceh (in the north of Sumatra) have signed a peace accord which negotiators hope will bring an end to fighting in the province.
- Venezuela's Supreme Court announced it was suspending its services, citing political harassment and condemning deadly violence during a general strike by opponents of President Hugo Chavez.
- The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, located in New York, reversed a lower court ruling that found the federal death penalty unconstitutional because it amounted to the "state-sponsored murder" of innocent people.
- A paper published in The Lancet by a team led by Christos Pantelis from the University of Melbourne suggests that it may be possible to predict the onset of schizophrenia using magnetic resonance imaging of the brain. If so, this will be the first time that brain scans have been used to predict the onset of a mental illness, offering the possibility of preventative treatment before a major psychotic episode.
- Nobel prize awards in Stockholm, Sweden and Oslo, Norway.
- The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools revoked the accreditation of Morris Brown College in Atlanta, Georgia for financial irregularities.
December 9, 2002
- Sports Illustrated magazine announces that cyclist Lance Armstrong is their Sportsman of the Year.
December 7, 2002
- Two paintings by Vincent van Gogh were stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam overnight. Coming shortly after a large diamond theft from an exhibition at the Museon in The Hague, it casts doubt on the high-tech security systems.
- Miss Turkey, Azra Akin from Almelo, won the Miss World competition which had been moved from Nigeria to London because of religious violence.
- A massive fire destroys the pioneering Informatics department of the University of Edinburgh and a major venue for the Edinburgh Fringe in the Old Town.
December 6, 2002
- The Chechen separatist Akhmed Zakayev has returned to London, where he is expected to seek asylum. He was arrested but released soon afterwards on bail paid by Vanessa Redgrave.
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Israeli troops backed by tanks and helicopter gunships swept into the Bureij refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on Friday, provoking a gunbattle and killing 10 people, Palestinian witnesses and medics said.
- Venezuela's oil exports ground to a halt, negotiations stalled and protesters faced off on the streets as prospects dimmed for a peaceful resolution to a strike designed to unseat President Hugo Chavez.
- In continuing legal action against Exxon over the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989, punitive damages against the company have been reduced from $5000 to $4000 million. The company is expected to appeal.
- Archeologists digging near the Gulf Coast of Mexico have discovered an inscribed seal and fragments of a plaque which contain writing, pushing back the date for the first appearance of writing in Mesoamerica to about 650 BC. It also suggests that the Olmec culture developed writing, not the Zapotecs.
- Pi has been calculated to 1.24 trillion digits. Professor Yasumasa Kanada and nine other researchers at the Information Technology Center at Tokyo University have set the new world record.
December 5, 2002
- Today is the Islamic festival of Eid ul-Fitr, marking the end of Ramadan for Muslims worldwide.
- United Airlines, the world's second-biggest carrier, appears headed for the largest bankruptcy filing in airline industry history. The company's efforts to avoid a Chapter 11 filing apparently ended Wednesday when a government board rejected its bid for $1.8 billion in federal loan guarantees.
- The Supreme Court of Canada ruled that the Harvard mouse, designed for its usefulness in cancer research, is not patentable. In its view such a higher life form does not fall within the definition of invention.
- At Arusha, Tanzania, President Pierre Buyoya of Burundi and Pierre Nkurunziza, leader of the Hutu insurgents Forces for the Defense of Democracy (FDD), signed a cease-fire accord. The goal is to end a nine-year civil war.
December 3, 2002
- Football (soccer): Real Madrid has defeated Olimpia Paraguay to win the Intercontinental Cup.
December 1, 2002
- Today is World AIDS Day, a day dedicated to raising awareness of the global AIDS epidemic caused by the spread of HIV infection.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "December 2002."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Continuing events in the attack on Afganistan in the month of December.<< November | December | January >>
December 3 2001
News reports state that Australian, British, French, German and Russian special forces are on the ground in Afghanistan in addition to U.S. special forces and marines.
Throughout December
U.S. and Northern Alliance forces are aided by so-called Eastern Alliance of ethnic Pashtuns in driving the Taliban from control of all areas of Afganistan. U.S. attacks target al-Qaeda strongholds in Tora Bora near the Pakistan border. Many al-Qaeda are taken prisoner by U.S, Pakistan and the new UN-approved interim government of Afganistan. UN peacekeepers move into Afganistan.<< November | December | January >>
- See also : 2001 U.S. Attack on Afghanistan
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Timeline of U.S. attack on Afghanistan in December 2001."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| DEC | English | December | Geography, Meteorology & Standards |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonym: DecemberSynonym: Dec (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Our regiment got beaten in the finals last December, but I mean to win this year (From Here to Eternity; writing credit: Ernest Tidyman) December 7th, '41 (Stalag 17; writing credit: Donald Bevan; Edmund Trzcinski) Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy (Pearl Harbor; writing credit: Randall Wallace) But you can bet your boots that when a good, jolly December wind kisses it, it will turn into Christmas snow all over again (Frosty the Snowman; writing credit: Romeo Muller) They, they, uh, started beating me on the 23rd of December in 1942, and stopped beating me in the late Spring of '44. (Bananas; writing credit: Woody Allen; Mickey Rose) | |
Lyrics | December songs no longer I sing (December; performing artist: Collective Soul) A long December and there's reason to believe (A Long December; performing artist: Counting Crows) Frostbit, December Unrestricted (What'Chu Like; performing artist: Da Brat) In a deep and dark December; (I Am a Rock; performing artist: Simon and Garfunkel) And I stayed on almost till December. (Mr. Sellack; performing artist: The Roches) | |
Clever | What occurs more often in December than any other month? Conception. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | A Warm December (1973) 19 december (1965) December Bride (1954) When May Weds December (1913) May and December (1910) | |
Song Titles | If We Make It Through December (performing artist: Merle Haggard) December 1963 (Oh What A Night) (remix) (performing artist: The Four Seasons) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | This act signed December 23, 1971, amended the Public Health Service Act. It strengthened the National Cancer Institute and the National Institutes of Health so that they could more effectively carry out the national effort against cancer. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | From an overhead angle, bread, chinese cabbage, strawberry, grapes, brussels sprouts and a leaf garnish are shown on a white patterned table. On a purple napkin above the food, white lettering reads: "Healthy eating may reduce your risk of some kinds of cancer". Shot on 4x5 format. This was used in the 1989 calendar "Eat for Good Health" December 1989. See artwork: PV-19. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer). |
 | In December 2002, CDC Clinicians trained state licensed vaccine administers how to deliver smallpox vaccine safely and efficiently. Once training was completed, they provided additional smallpox vaccine administration training in their home states. Credit: CDC. |  | Marble bust of Hygeia, Goddess of Health, which now stands in front of CDC Building 1 on Clifton Road. Dedicated in December, 1970. Sculpture. Credit: CDC. |
 | Just weeks after NASA astronauts repaired the Hubble Space Telescope in December 1999, the ... Credit: NASA. |  | The Hubble telescope reopened its "eye" on the universe following a successful December 1999 ... Credit: NASA. |
 | 1966 December. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Dennison's Exchange and Parker House before the fire, December 1849. In: "The Annals of San Francisco". Frank Soule, John Gihon, and James Nesbit. 1855. Page 242. D. Appleton & Company, New York. F869.S3.S7 1855. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Port Frederick, Alaska 1981 December. Credit: Geodesy - Measuring the Earth. |  | December 1966. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "December Skies" by Frank P.J. Van Haalen Commentary: "Heavy December skies, saturated with color, taken in Holland, The Netherlands." | "December sunset" by Jason Krieger Commentary: "A picture of a december sunset while driving to see my girlfriend." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
US Constitution | 1791 | Ratification was completed on December 15, 1791. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Convention of December 31, 1913, regarding the unification of commercial statistics. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The precaution was indeed almost superfluous, for, as we have already said, it was a very dark December night |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | In the United States, the peak of flu season can occur anywhere from late December through March. (references) | |
Founded in December 1986, the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation, Inc. provides educational information and supports MS research, including investigations of "alternative" or holistic therapies. (references) | ||
CEWG's most recent report is Epidemiologic Trends in Drug Abuse, Advance Report, December 2000. In many of the 21 metropolitan areas monitored by CEWG members, MDMA, once used primarily at dance clubs, raves, and college scenes, is now being used in a number of other social settings. (references) | ||
Business | Arab Health 2000 will be held in Dubai, usually in December. (references) | |
Before December 1997, Internet services were subject to licensing. (references) | ||
Approximately 1,000 rickshaw drivers in Zigong, Sichuan, protested in December. (references) | ||
Children | Guatemala | The payment was made in December, but there has been little progress on the additional commitments. (references) |
Argentina | More buses and trains also are accessible by persons with disabilities, consistent with legislation passed in December 2000. (references) | |
Venezuela | Sanitation and schooling conditions for children in Vargas state continue to suffer heavily from effects of the December 1999 flooding there. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Qatar | He was pardoned in December. (references) |
Bulgaria | The amendments were passed in December. (references) | |
Greece | Her conviction was reversed on appeal in December. (references) | |
Discrimination | Slovak Republic | The committee completed its assignment in December, and found that the Penal Code sufficiently addresses antidiscrimination concerns, but both improved legislation protecting civil rights and better implementation of the legislation was needed. (references) |
Economic History | Guinea | Fiscal Year: January 1 - December 31. (references) |
Croatia | Constitution: Adopted December 22, 1990. (references) | |
Human Rights | Iran | The trial began in late December 2000 in a military court. (references) |
Estonia | By December 1, 1,298 of the 4,759 prisoners were awaiting trial. (references) | |
Philippines | Unknown assailants killed a human rights activist in December in Antipolo city. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Norway | The case opened in Oslo City court in December. (references) |
Australia | Upon its expiration in December 2000, the Council was replaced by Reconciliation Australia, Ltd., a private foundation with government funding, which is charged with continuing the Council's work. (references) | |
Indonesia | Delegates approved a resolution rejecting the 1969 "Act of Free Choice," which confirmed Papua's incorporation into Indonesia; called on the central Government, along with the U.N. and the U.S. and Dutch governments, to review the process by which the territory became a part of Indonesia and to recognize Papua's sovereignty since 1961; and mandated the Papuan Presidium Council to strive for international recognition and to report back to the congress on December 1 2000, regarding progress toward these goals. (references) | |
Minorities | Morocco | The conference plans a bigger meeting in late December. (references) |
Tajikistan | An agreement ratified by the Russian Duma in December 1996 allows for dual Russian and Tajik citizenship. (references) | |
Estonia | As of December 1, parents had applied for citizenship for 1,276 such children: 1,153 of the applications were approved. (references) | |
Political Economy | SWITZERLAND | In total four such licenses were auctioned off in December 2000. (references) |
Sudan | The new Parliament elected in December 2000 took office in February. (references) | |
Laos | THE NEXT NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS ARE SCHEDULED FOR DECEMBER 2002. (references) | |
Political Rights | Argentina | There are 25 women in the Senate that took office in December. (references) |
Sao Tome and Principe | In the National Assembly dissolved in December, women held 4 of 55 seats. (references) | |
Solomon Islands | National parliamentary elections held in December were regarded as free and fair. (references) | |
Trade | Ukraine | Approved October 31, signed December 11. (references) |
Ukraine | Approved November 28, signed December 14. (references) | |
Egypt | This circular is to be applied starting from December 12, 1998. (references) | |
Travel | Chad | A thirteenth month salary bonus is also paid in December. (references) |
Brazil | Brazil observes daylight savings from December to February. (references) | |
Philippines | December, January and February are generally considered the most pleasant months. (references) | |
Women | Uruguay | The Air Force commissioned four female officers in December 2000, a first for the military; they are conducting air combat training. (references) |
Nicaragua | A formal hearing is scheduled for March 2002. On December 12, Ortega renounced his congressional immunity from prosecution to face Narvaez's charges. (references) | |
Germany | The Government accepted the ruling and in December 2000 completed the process of amending the Constitution to open all military jobs to women on a voluntary basis. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Honduras | A contract was agreed to and signed in December. (references) |
Albania | The draft National Strategy was completed in December. (references) | |
Colombia | The number of cases has grown from 300 in 1999 to over 2,300 cases in December. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dick Cheney | Well, I haven't seen the recent one, but all of the ones that have come out in the last few months are all of the kind that were probably recorded before December. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | As a result of the leadership, commitment, and persistence of my Administration and the Congressional leadership, the Alaska Lands Bill was signed into law last December. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We'll hold a White House Conference on Social Security in December. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "December" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 99.95% of the time. "December" is used about 9,362 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 99.95% | 9,357 | 1,019 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.05% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 9,362 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "December" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| December | Last name | 100 | 73,771 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
Expressions using "December": December 31 ♦ December 8 ♦ in december ♦ may and december. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "December": December-april, December-january, december-picked. | |
Ending with "December": End-december, November-december, October-december. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "December"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | Desember. (various references) | |
Albanian | dhjetor (decimal). (various references) | |
Arabic | كانون الاول, كانون الأول ديسمبر, ديسمبر. (various references) | |
Asturian | avientu. (various references) | |
Aymara | jallu qallta. (various references) | |
Basque | abendua. (various references) | |
Bemba | umupundu milimo. (various references) | |
Blackfoot | isstááato's. (various references) | |
Breton | kerzu. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Декемврийски, Декември. (various references) | |
Catalan | desembre. (various references) | |
Cebuano | Disiembre. (various references) | |
Chamorro | Disiembre. (various references) | |
Chinese | 臘 (preserved), 十二月 (twelfth month), 12月. (various references) | |
Cornish | mýs-Kevardhu. (various references) | |
Croatian | prosinac. (various references) | |
Czech | prosinec. (various references) | |
Danish | december. (various references) | |
Dutch | wintermaand, december. (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | dicimbri. (various references) | |
Esperanto | decembro. (various references) | |
Estonian | detsember. (various references) | |
Faeroese | desember. (various references) | |
Farsi | دسامبر. (various references) | |
Finnish | joulukuu. (various references) | |
Flemish | december. (various references) | |
French | Décembre. (various references) | |
French Canadian | décembre. (various references) | |
Frisian | desimber. (various references) | |
Galician | decembro. (various references) | |
German | Dezember. (various references) | |
Greek | Δεκέμβριοσ, Δεκέμβριος. (various references) | |
Haitian Creole | desanm. (various references) | |
Hawaiian | dhjetor. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ֳצמבר. (various references) | |
Hungarian | december (Dec). (various references) | |
Icelandic | desember. (various references) | |
Indonesian | desember, bulan desember. (various references) | |
Irish | mí na Nollag. (various references) | |
Italian | dicembre. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 十二月 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | じゅうにがつ. (various references) | |
Kongo | Ngonda ya kumi ye zole. (various references) | |
Korean | 십이월. (various references) | |
Lombard | dicember. (various references) | |
Luganda | ntenvu. (various references) | |
Luxembourgish | dezember. (various references) | |
Macedonian | Dekemvri. (various references) | |
Malagasy | desambra. (various references) | |
Malay | Disember, Desember, bulan Disember. (various references) | |
Manx | Mee veanagh y gheuree, Mee ny Nollick. (various references) | |
Maori | Tiihema. (various references) | |
Mohawk | Tsyothorha. (various references) | |
Norwegian | desember. (various references) | |
Papago | Ge'e S-hehpijig Mashath. (various references) | |
Papiamen | desèmber. (various references) | |
Pidgin English | december. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ecemberday.(various references) | |
Polish | grudzień. (various references) | |
Portuguese | dezembro. (various references) | |
Provencal | decembre. (various references) | |
Romanian | decembrie. (various references) | |
Ruanda | ukwezi kwa kwicumi na kabiri. (various references) | |
Russian | мес)декабрь декабрьский, Декабрьский, Декабрь. (various references) | |
Samoan | Tesema. (various references) | |
Scottish | dùbhlachd, an Dùdlachd. (various references) | |
Sepedi | Manthole. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | decembarski, decembar. (various references) | |
Slovene | december. (various references) | |
Somali | diisembar. (various references) | |
Sotho | tshitwe. (various references) | |
Spanish | diciembre. (various references) | |
Swahili | Desemba. (various references) | |
Swazi | í-Ngongóni. (various references) | |
Swedish | December. (various references) | |
Tagalog | disyembre, Disyémbre. (various references) | |
Tahitian | t“tema. (various references) | |
Tswana | sedimonthole. (various references) | |
Turkish | aralik (interval, room, space), aralýk, Aralık (ajar, aperture, crack, daylight, Dec, gangway, gap, half-open, hiatus, Interspace, interstice, interval, Lacuna, rift, separation, space, spacing, time). (various references) | |
Turkmen | dekabr. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Грудень. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tháng mười hai, tháng chạp. (various references) | |
Welsh | Rhagfyr. (various references) | |
Wolof | deesàmbar. (various references) | |
Xhosa | eyomnga. (various references) | |
Zulu | uDisemba. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"December" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dascombe, decembre, Denenberg, Duesenberg, Edgcombe, Edgcumbe, Lecomber. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "December" (pronounced 'De*cem"ber'): Accumber, Antenumber, Assober, Beblubber, Berber, Beslabber, Beslobber, Beslubber, Bibber, Blabber, Blobber, Bobber, Clubber, Clumber, Crabber, Craber, Dabber, Encomber, Encumber, fibber, Gabber, grabber, jobber, Liber, lubber, Megaweber, Microweber, Milliweber, Misnumber, misremember, Nonmember, November, October, Outnumber, remember, robber, rubber, Scomber, Scraber, scrubber, Sea-blubber, September, Slibber, stabber, Swobber, tuber, Unencumber, Unlimber, Unmember, Webber. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-d-e-e-e-m-r" | |
-2 letters: decree, emceed, recede, redeem. | |
-3 letters: berme, brede, breed, ceder, cered, creed, creme, embed, ember, emcee, emeer, merde, rebec. | |
-4 letters: beer, berm, bred, bree, cede, cere, deem, deer, deme, dere, derm, dree, meed, mere, rede, reed. | |
-5 letters: bed, bee, cee, deb, dee, eme, ere, med, reb, rec, red, ree, rem. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-d-e-e-e-m-r" | |
+2 letters: encumbered. | |
+4 letters: unencumbered. | |
+5 letters: disencumbered, recommendable. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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