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December 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Day of Reconciliation, formerly celebrated as Day of the Vow by the Afrikaners (South Africa) Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Kazakhstan from the Soviet Union in 1991. [50] National Day, celebrates the withdrawal of United Kingdom from Bahrain, making Bahrain an independent emirate in 1971.
Joseph Décembre. Joseph Décembre, dit Décembre-Allonier (1836, Metz – 1906) was a 19th-century French writer, historiographer and freemason . He was the author of a number of treatises or dictionaries, published in collaboration with his stepfather Edmond Allonier (1828–1871) [1] under the collective name "Décembre-Allonier" and often ...
Leucippus was a Greek philosopher of the 5th century BCE. He is credited with founding atomism, with his student Democritus. Leucippus divided the world into two entities: atoms, indivisible particles that make up all things, and the void, the nothingness between the atoms. Leucippus's ideas were influential in ancient and Renaissance philosophy.
Choral Fantasy. The Beethoven concert of 22 December 1808 was a benefit concert held for Ludwig van Beethoven at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna that featured the public premieres of Beethoven's Fifth and Sixth Symphonies, the Fourth Piano Concerto and the Choral Fantasy. This concert, advertised as an Akademie (the German term for concert at ...
2014 (Tuesday) December 2 is the 336th day of the year (337th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar ; 29 days remain until the end of the year.
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May December is a 2023 American drama film directed by Todd Haynes from a screenplay by Samy Burch, based on a story by Burch and Alex Mechanik.It stars Natalie Portman as an actress who travels to meet and study the life of Gracie, the controversial woman (Julianne Moore) she is set to play in a film—a woman infamous for the 24-year-long relationship with her husband Joe (Charles Melton ...
