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In May 2012, an Ipsos poll of 16,000 adults in 21 countries found that 8 percent had experienced fear or anxiety over the possibility of the world ending in December 2012, while an average of 10 percent agreed with the statement "the Mayan calendar, which some say 'ends' in 2012, marks the end of the world", with responses as high as 20 percent ...
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2012; Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation Act; F. Final Battle 2012: Doomsday; Final Resolution (2012) K.
2012 ranked number one on its opening weekend, grossing $65,237,614 on its first weekend (the fourth-largest opening for a disaster film). [33] Outside North America it is the 28th-highest-grossing film, the fourth-highest-grossing 2009 film, [ 34 ] and the second-highest-grossing film distributed by Sony-Columbia, after Skyfall .
Before 2012, there was Y2K. Predicted since the mid-'80s, Y2K was an eminently man-made calamity that nonetheless drew coverage and panic at least as widespread as 2012's.
Unfortunately for doomsday preppers everywhere, the world hasn't ended. People who invested a lot of money on things like freeze-dried foods and disaster-proof bunkers may be a little disappointed ...
"Turner Doomsday Video" is the internal title of a video intended to be broadcast by CNN at the end of the world.The video, created at the direction of CNN founder Ted Turner before the network's 1980 launch, [1] is a performance of the Christian hymn "Nearer My God To Thee" performed by multiple members of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine bands.
The Doomsday Clock is a symbol that represents the likelihood of a human-made global catastrophe, in the opinion of the members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. [1] Created by J. Robert Oppenheimer [ citation needed ] and maintained since 1947, the Clock is a metaphor , not a prediction, for threats to humanity from unchecked ...
The cost of borrowing funds for the largest American banks is going to skyrocket in the coming years -- and that's just the beginning of their troubles. A confluence of factors are coming to a ...