December 31: New Year's Eve, Eid ul-Adha in Islam (2006), Hogmanay in Scotland.

• 406 - The Vandals, Alans and Suebians crossed the Rhine River to begin an invasion of Gaul.
• 1600 - The British East India Company was founded by a Royal Charter of Queen Elizabeth I.
• 1963 - The Central African Federation officially collapsed, eventually to become Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia.
• 1972 - American baseball player Roberto Clemente died in a plane crash en route to deliver aid to earthquake victims in Nicaragua.
• 1999 - Boris Yeltsin (pictured), the first democratically elected President of Russia, resigned and named Vladimir Putin as Acting President.

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Sydney NYE2006

My sister Rita turns 40 turns today

Happy Birthday Sis!

You know that It's getting close to Christmas when the Santa photos start appearing

Aren't they cute!

[listening to: Santa Claus Is Coming to Town/White Christmas - Jimmy McGriff ]
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December 14:

• 1896 - Glasgow Subway, the third oldest metro system in the world, began operations in Glasgow, Scotland.
• 1911 - Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen (pictured) and his team became the first people to reach the South Pole.
• 1918 - King Frederick Charles of Finland renounced the throne after the defeat of the German Empire in World War I.
• 1962 - Mariner 2 became the world's first spacecraft to successfully fly by Venus.
• 1995 - The Dayton Agreement was signed in Paris, France to end the Yugoslav wars.

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Saw this article in The Australian today - Free-to-air copping a download.

AUSTRALIA'S $3.5 billion free-to-air commercial television industry is being threatened by the internet more quickly than expected, with a new online study showing 53 per cent of respondents regularly download TV shows from the internet, most of them illegally.

TV - these time's they are a changing!!

[listening to: Santa Claus Is Coming to Town/White Christmas - Jimmy McGriff ]
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Just not good enough Sydney !

What a way to welcome visitors to the city!

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December 9: Independence Day in Tanzania (1961)

• 1897 - Stage actress, journalist and leading suffragette Marguerite Durand founded the feminist newspaper La Fronde.
• 1905 - Legislation on the separation of church and state in France was adopted, triggering civil disobedience by French Catholics.
• 1946 - The Doctors' Trial, the trial for crimes committed in Nazi human experimentation during World War II, began in Nuremberg, Germany.
• 1958 - The John Birch Society was founded to fight the perceived threat of communism in the United States.
• 1961 - Tanganyika (flag pictured) gained independence from Britain (Tanganyika would become part of Tanzania three years later).

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Emma came to spend a day at work with me this week,

She was such a good helper.

We took an early mark and went to see Charlotte's Web.

It is such a sweet movie.

These were the messages written in the web

"Some Pig"

"Terrific"

"Radiant"

"Humble"

We're such suckers for talking animal movies!

Myf Warhurst and a panel of guests count down Australia's 10 favourite albums of all time.

The Top 10:

1. Pink Floyd : Dark Side of the Moon
2. Jeff Buckley : Grace
3. Radiohead : OK Computer
4. The Beatles : Abbey Road
5. The Beatles : Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
6. Nirvana : Nevermind
7. Led Zeppelin : Four
8. Red Hot Chili Peppers :  Blood Sugar Sex Majik
9. Meat Loaf : Bat Out of Hell
10. U2 : Joshua Tree

No Aussie artists

No Female artists

Only one solo artist

Bizarre!

See the complete list at the ABC Site

[listening to: Hole In The River - Crowded House ]
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December 3:

• 1854 - Miners at Eureka Stockade clashed violently with the police and the military in Ballarat, Victoria in Australia.
• 1904 - The Jovian moon Himalia was discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at Lick Observatory in San Jose, California.
• 1937 - Issue 1 of The Dandy, the world's longest running comic, went on sale.
• 1967 - A team led by Christiaan Barnard at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa performed the first successful human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky.
• 1999 - The Mars Polar Lander (pictured) reached Mars and disappeared.

[listening to: Planet of the Apes [Hidden Track] - They Might Be Giants ]
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 What QUIZ can I find at Blogthings to night?

You Are Somewhat Mature

You definitely act like an adult sometimes, but a big part of you is still a kid at heart. While your immature side is definitely fun, you're going to have to grow up sooner or later.

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