On the December 13, 2010 episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen reads a passage of A Modest Proposal in support of Ted Turner's suggestions on reducing overpopulation by having poor people sell ( to rich people ) their right to bear a single child per family.

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He led tours of its interior through December 17, 2010.

" Secretary of State for Health, Patricia Hewitt called for a tax increase on such products, although this had not yet happened as of December 2010.

Mirvish Productions presented the earlier Stratford production at the Canon Theatre, Toronto, in December 2010 through January 2011.

2008 has brought announcements of new or additional sales to Singapore, Finland, Morocco and South Korea ; in December 2010 the Swiss government requested 150 AIM-120C-7 missiles.

The recent winter of 2009 / 2010 was an exception as there was a permanent snow cover from late December till early March.

In December 2010, it was announced that Glee actress Heather Morris was in talks for the lead role in the upcoming film.

In December 2010 Belle & Sebastian curated the sequel to the Bowlie Weekender in the form of Bowlie 2 presented by All Tomorrow's Parties.

* December 2010 North American blizzard

Prior to 31 December 2010, deposits with building societies of up to £ 50, 000 per individual, per institution, were normally protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme ( FSCS ), but Nationwide and Yorkshire Building Societies negotiated a temporary change to the terms of the FSCS to protect members of the societies they acquired in late 2008 / early 2009.

The amended terms allowed former members of multiple societies which merge into one to maintain multiple entitlements to FSCS protection until 30 September 2009 ( later extended to 30 December 2010 ), so ( for example ) a member with £ 50, 000 in each of Nationwide, Cheshire and Derbyshire at the time of the respective mergers would retain £ 150, 000 of FSCS protection for their funds in the merged Nationwide.

On 31 December 2010 the general FSCS limit for retail deposits was increased to £ 85, 000 for banks and building societies and the transitional arrangements in respect of building society mergers came to an end.

Costa Rican colones (₡) per US $ 1 – 512. 11 ( September 4, 2010 ), US $ 1 – 559. 51 ( October 24, 2008 ), per US $ 1 – 500. 10 ( December 2007 ), 516. 78 ( November 2007 ), 506. 11 ( April 2006 ), 479. 57 ( July 2005 ), 299. 63 ( February 2000 ), 285. 68 ( 1999 ), 257. 23 ( 1998 ), 232. 60 ( 1997 ), 207. 69 ( 1996 ) and 179. 73 ( 1995 )

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Catherine Coleman and Valentina Tereshkova at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in December 2010.

Coleman launched on December 15, 2010 ( December 16 Baikonur time ), aboard Soyuz TMA-20 to join the Expedition 26 mission aboard the International Space Station.

Soyuz TMA-20 / Expedition 26 / 27 ( December 15, 2010, to May 23, 2011 ) was an extended duration mission to the International Space Station.

SOHO's 2000th comet was discovered by Polish amateur astronomer Michał Kusiak on 26 December 2010, and the numbers are expected to continue rising steadily for the foreseeable future.

On 22 December 2010, the UN declared the period from 2011 to 2020 as the UN-Decade on Biodiversity.

Four comic books to have sold for over $ 1 million USD as of December 2010, including two examples of Action Comics No. 1, the first appearance of Superman, both sold privately through online dealer ComicConnect. com in 2010, and Detective Comics No. 27, the first appearance of Batman, via public auction.

At an officers conference in Berlin, December 1941, Canaris is quoted as saying " Abwehr has nothing to do with persecution of Jews .... no concern of ours, we hold ourselves aloof from it " ( MI6 Sub-section Vf files NA HW 1 / 327 ).

Yet additional troop increases were required if General William Westmoreland, Commander US MACV, was to adopt a more offensive strategy, with US troop levels planned to rise from 210, 000 in January 1966 to 327, 000 by December.

In December 1940 the Salvador, a small Bulgarian schooner formerly named Tsar Krum, left Burgas with 327 refugees.

Created by writer Scott Lobdell and artist Roger Cruz, he first appeared in Uncanny X-Men # 327 ( December 1995 ).

When the talent agency Music Corporation of America ( better known as MCA ), then wielding major influence on Paramount policy, offered $ 50 million for 750 features released prior to December 1, 1949 ( with payment to be spread over many years ), a cash-strapped Paramount thought it had made the best possible deal.

Television broadcast stations: 9, 024 ( of which 1, 750 are full-power TV stations ; 592 are class-A TV stations ; 4, 537 are TV translators ; and 2, 145 are other low-power TV stations ) ( as of December 31, 2005, according to the Federal Communications Commission ); in addition, there are about 12, 000 cable TV systems.

Besides the main network run by the Russian Railways, until December 2006 the local oil company ( Sakhalinmorneftegaz ) operated a corporate narrow-gauge ( 750 mm ) line extending for from Nogliki further north to Okha ( Узкоколейная железная дорога Оха — Ноглики ).

In December 1850, the first wave of 750 settlers arrived at Lyttleton in a fleet of four ships.

On April 12, 1926, Bow signed her first contract with Paramount: "... to retain your services as an actress for the period of six months from June 6th, 1926 to December 6th, 1926, at a salary of $ 750. 00 per week ...".

In December 2007, the Massachusetts Seaport Advisory Council approved $ 750, 000 in funding for a commuter ferry from Lynn to Boston.

Wehl was a separate municipality ( with about 6, 750 inhabitants, including Nieuw-Wehl ) until 31 December 2004, when it merged with the municipality of Doetinchem.

Between the summer of 1943 and December 1944 at least 14, 600 Jews, including 2, 750 children and minors were transported to the Bergen-Belsen " holding " camp.

The ThinkPad 750 flew aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour during a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope on December 2, 1993.

On December 11, 2008, theme park officials announced that they would spend 40 million euros during the years 2009-2012 on three large construction projects: a convention centre accommodating 1500 visitors ( de Burcht ), an arena from the Middle Ages for 750 show spectators ( Raveleijn ), and a redesign for snack bar " De Likkebaerd " to turn it into a station for the park's steam train.

On December 20, 2009, PHIVOLCS raised Mayon's status level to alert level 4 because of an increasing lava flow in the southern portion of the volcano and an increase in sulfur dioxide emission to 750 tonnes per day.

Cover for the 25th anniversary editionOn December 13, 2011, Cemetery Dance published a special limited edition of It for the 25th anniversary of the novel ( ISBN 978-1587672705 ) in three editions: an unsigned limited gift edition of 2, 750, a signed limited edition of 750, and a signed and lettered limited edition of 52.

He was bought by Port Vale for a £ 5, 000 fee in December 1971, who then sold him on to Colchester United in February 1973 for £ 1, 750.

The Mars Climate Orbiter ( formerly the Mars Surveyor ' 98 Orbiter ) was a 338 kilogram ( 750 lb ) robotic space probe launched by NASA on December 11, 1998 to study the Martian climate, atmosphere, surface changes and to act as the communications relay in the Mars Surveyor ' 98 program, for Mars Polar Lander.

On December 29 General Clinch left Fort Drane ( recently established on Clinch's plantation, about twenty miles ( 32 km ) northwest of Fort King ) with 750 soldiers, including 500 volunteers on an enlistment due to end January 1, 1836.

* Maier, Charles " Immoral Equivalence " pp. 36 – 41 from The New Republic, Volume 195, Number 22, Issue 3, 750, 1 December 1986.

From December 1914 to May 1916, Petawawa was used as an internment camp for 750 German and Austrian prisoners of World War I.

On 22 December 2010, an Algerian national was the first person to be convicted under the new status, and ordered to pay a € 750 after breaking the pole of a flag hung in the Alpes-Maritimes prefecture a day prior.

* December 20 – United States Coast Guard Lieutenant Richard L. Burke sets a world seaplane speed record of 308. 750 km / h ( 191. 734 mph ) over a 3-kilometer ( 1. 8-statute mile ) test course flying a Grumman JF-2 Duck.

In December 2003, he signed a one year, $ 750, 000 contract to play for the Minnesota Twins.

The first time it was tasted officially was 19th December 1854. It is sold in four size variants 180 ml ( quarter / Nip ), 350 ml ( half / Pint ), 750 ml ( full ), and a 1 liter bottle.

It was during this time that TF Thunder succeeded in creating security and stability for over 750, 000 Iraqis and conducted the first CPA ( Coalition Provisional Authority ) sanctioned democratic elections in the Baghdad Province in December 2003.

On December 3, 2007, Cengage Learning ( formerly Thomson Learning ) announced that it had agreed to acquire the assets of the Houghton Mifflin College Division for $ 750 million, pending regulatory approval.