December Events

Thou wilt shew me the path of life:

in thy presence is fulness of joy;

at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

Psalm 16:11

DECEMBER

Dec 1 - World Aids Day - http://www.un.org/en/events/aidsday/ 

Dec 1 - New moon edged closer to Venus

 - http://earthsky.org/tonight/moon-venus-december-1-2016

Dec 2/3 – Rev. 12 sign approx. start (42 weeks) See Shiloh-Redeemer document
Dec 5 - World Soils Day - 2016 Theme: “Soils and pulses, a symbiosis for life”

 - http://www.un.org/en/events/soilday/#

Dec 5 -  The three stars of Orion’s Belt, which the Aymara of Bolivia call the “Celestial Bridge.”

 - http://earthsky.org/tonight/orions-belt-and-the-celestial-bridge

Dec 5 - Krampus Night or Krampusnacht

 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krampus -  Austro-Bavarian Alpine folklore

Dec 5 - Standing Rock, South Dakota pipeline protest - evacuation deadline 

Dec 6 - Saint Nicholas Day - http://www.holidayscalendar.com/christmas/stnicholasday.html 
Dec 6-12 - Nobel Week - http://www.nobelprize.org/ 
 - http://www.nobelprize.org/events/calendar/2016-official-nobel-week-program.html

Dec 7 - 75th - Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day - https://pearlharbor75thanniversary.com/

Dec 7 - First Quarter - Moon phase
Dec 8 - Catholic Feast of Immaculate Conception

Dec 9 - Unknown fast - Zechariah 8:19 - Torahcalendar.com 

Dec 9 - UN Anti-Corruption Day - 2016 Theme: United against corruption for development, peace and security  - http://www.un.org/en/events/anticorruptionday/

Dec 10 - Live Nobel Awards - http://www.nobelprize.org/ 
http://www.nobelprize.org/events/calendar/2016-official-nobel-week-program.html
Dec 11 - http://nobelpeaceprizeconcert.com/ - Sting headlining - Peaceisloud
Dec 11 - Canada - https://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/canada/westminster-statute-anniversary 

Oct-Dec 11 (earlier noted 16) – Rome Colosseum exhibit - Temple of Bel at Palmyra replicas
 - http://www.thelocal.it/20161006/recreated-treasures-from-syria-and-iraq-go-on-show-in-italy
Dec 11/12 or 17 - Mohammed's birthday - http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/muslim/prophet-birthday

Dec. 11/12 – Hope Over Fear is the twelfth consequential Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition at the Nobel Peace Center. The exhibition is opened by the laureate on December 11^th - opens to the public December 12th at 12.00 and is in display through November 2017.

- https://www.nobelpeacecenter.org/en/exhibitions/hope-over-fear2/

Dec 12 - Day of the Virgin Guadalupe

Dec 12 – UN swearing in of new UN Secretary-General - http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=55778#.WE4aPPkrKUk

Dec 12 – Moon “hits Bull's eye” - occultation with Aldebaran

 - http://earthsky.org/tonight/moon-hits-bulls-eye-december-12

Dec 13 - Full "cold" moon - http://www.timeanddate.com/moon/israel/jerusalem @ 11:38 PM (just before midnight in Jerusalem)

Dec 13 - Geminid meteor shower peak (on-going) - http://earthsky.org/tonight/moon-and-gemini-on-december-14 
Dec 14 – Jan 9 – Palmyra 3D Exhibition - http://www.unite4heritage.org/en/news/exhibition-eternal-sites-grand-palais-paris-14-dec-2016-9-jan-2017
Dec 16/17 – Rev. 12 sign approx. start (40 weeks) See Shiloh-Redeemer document

Dec 16 – UK Cub Scouts 100^th - https://www.cubs100.org/

Dec 17 - Pope Francis' 80th birthday * - http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/this-is-how-pope-francis-will-celebrate-his-80th-birthday-55433/

Dec 17 – Moon and Regulus – The bright star Regulus is sometimes called the Heart of the Lion (Leo).

 - http://earthsky.org/tonight/moon-and-regulus-at-mid-to-late-evening

Dec 19 - USA Electoral College vote

Dec 21 - Winter solstice

Dec 24 – Christmas Eve / Hanukkah begins in evening

Dec 25 - Christmas

Dec 25 - Hanukkah begins (Rabbinical calendar) until Jan. 1

Dec 26 – Kwanzaa begins – until Jan. 1

Dec 26 – Boxing Day
Dec 26-27 - Obama & PM Abe visit Pearl Harbor - 75th Anniv. (first Japanese leader to visit) 

Dec 29 - New Moon

Dec 31 - New Year's Day

* Note the pomp and circumstance surrounding Patriarch Kirill's 70th birthday on 

Nov 20 -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4JJYoFXmNE (streamed live)

(Same day as the Vatican's Door of Mercy was shut.)

Triumphal Arch in the News 

 - http://digitalarchaeology.org.uk/media/ - https://twitter.com/DigiArchaeo

July – August – Palmyra Arch – Oxford http://digitalarchaeology.org.uk/trafalgar-information/ 

Sept 9-11 – World Heritage Strategy at Harvard University - http://www.whstrategyforum.org/

June 9 - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/ancient/digital-preservation-syria/

Sept 19 – Arch in Manhattan, NYC - http://digitalarchaeology.org.uk/new-york-city/

late 2016 in Dubai - http://digitalarchaeology.org.uk/dubai/

 Awaiting the date(s) to be announced

Palmyra Arch at London-Manhattan/NYC-Dubai

Dubai is a fast moving Arabian city that tried to turn itself into Manhattan-on-the-Gulf within a decade.    

The IDA's principal partner is the Dubai Future Foundation. 

The Museum of the Future - http://motf.ae - next to the Burj Khalifa in Dubai

The rabbinical calendar added a leap month this year.

 -   http://www.chabad.org/calendar/view/month_cdo/jewish/Month-View.htm

Those following the Torahcalendar.com celebrated the feast days in November.

 -  http://tammyjdub.blogspot.com/2016/11/november-events.html

More events:

http://www.un.org/en/sections/observances/international-days/#Dec

http://www.holidayscalendar.com/month/december/?year=2016

Close up of relief showing spoils from the Siege of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE on the Arch of Titus, Rome

http://www.sothebys.com/en/news-video/blogs/specials/a-treasured-legacy-history-of-the-jewish-people/2013/04/jews-in-antiquity.html

And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

Luke 21:34-36