* Diamond Ale, a 4. 1 % abv beer, brewed with Pale Ale and Premium Cara malts, with Sovereign hops and locally-sourced honey, produced to celebrate the 2012 Diamond Jubilee of HM Queen Elizabeth II

In the summer of 2012, she wrote and recorded a track entitled " Pale Blue Eyes " with German electronic musician Christopher von Deylen, better known under his alias Schiller.

Pale Male's latest mate, Lima ( also known as Ginger ), died on Saturday, February 25, 2012, presumably from a poisoned rat.

** Zeitgeist: Beyond the Pale, a 2012 sequel

* 1965 – Rodney King, American victim of police brutality ( d. 2012 )

On August 30, 2011, Sports Illustrated senior writer Peter King, who correctly predicted the 2011 Super Bowl, made his predictions for the 2011 season and picked the Falcons to defeat the San Diego Chargers in the 2012 Super Bowl.

Archaeological confirmation of Bethlehem as an Israelite city was uncovered in 2012 at the archaeological dig at the City of David in the form of a bulla ( seal impression in dried clay ) in ancient Hebrew script that reads " From the town of Bethlehem to the King ," indicating that it was used to seal the string closing a shipment of grain, wine, or other goods sent as a tax payment in the 8th or 7th century BCE.

* 2012 – King Hill, American football player ( b. 1936 )

* 1942 – Zalman King, American writer, director, and producer ( d. 2012 )

When asked about the result by WEEI radio in January 2012, Martínez said, “ I ’ m not afraid to say that the way that George King and Mr. LaVelle Neal III went about it was unprofessional .”

On 24 August 2012, the University of Leicester and Leicester City Council, in association with the Richard III Society, announced that they had joined forces to begin a search for the mortal remains of King Richard.

On April 30, 2012, King published an article in The Daily Beast calling for rich Americans, including himself, to pay more taxes, citing it as " a practical necessity and moral imperative that those who have received much should be obligated to pay ... in the same proportion ".

Long term political and government appointments, such as those of King Abdullah, who was the Commander of the National Guard from 1963 until 2010, when he then appointed his son to replace him ), Crown Prince Sultan, was Minister of Defence & Aviation from 1962 to 2011, Prince Nayef was the Minister of Interior from 1975 until his death in 2012, Prince Saud has been Minister of Foreign Affairs since 1975 and Prince Salman, was the Governor of the Riyadh Region from 1962 to 2011, resulting in the creation of " power fiefdoms " for senior princes.

Women will be allowed to vote beginning in 2012, as King Abdullah announced in the opening speech of the new term of the Shura Council.

* 2012 – Bill King, English navy officer and author ( b. 1910 )

To mark the fiftieth anniversary of the beginning of Vatican II, in October 2011, the Vatican's website and many other Catholic news organizations announced that the Pope Benedict XVI, had made the period from October 2012 to the end of November 2013 ( the Solemnity of Christ the King ) a " Year Of Faith " in a solemn declaration, and ordered all parishes and religious institutions to find some manner during that Year of celebrating and reaffirming the Creed ( there are now two main Creeds-the shorter Apostle's Creed and the lengthier Niceno-Constantopolitan, or Nicene Creed.

Sandip Verma, Tom Brake and Tarsem King, Baron King of West Bromwich | Tarsem King from Great Britain ; Akiko Yamanaka from Japan, 2012

* Design Awards: Eight shows have swept the design awards ( original 3 of Best Scenic Design, Best Costume Design, Best Lighting Design – joined by Best Sound Design starting in 2008 ): Follies ( 1972 ), The Phantom of the Opera ( 1986 ), The Lion King ( 1998 ), The Producers ( 2001 ), The Light in the Piazza ( 2005 ), The Coast of Utopia ( 2007 ), the 2008 revival of South Pacific ( first to sweep the expanded 4 awards for Creative Arts ) and Peter and the Starcatcher ( first straight play to sweep the expanded four awards for Creative Arts ) ( 2012 ).

In 2012, Peter Hinton directed an all-First Nations production of King Lear at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, with the setting changed to an Algonquin nation in the 17th century.

The play will form part of the Summer and Fall 2012 Seasons at the American Shakespeare Center's Blackfriars Playhouse, presented in complementary repertory with William Shakespeare's King John.

* Amy G. Remensnyder, " The Virgin and the King: Alfonso X's Cantigas de Santa Maria ," in Jason Glenn ( ed ), The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture: Reflections on Medieval Sources ( Toronto, University of Toronto, 2012 ),

* Sue Magnier – Entrepreneur ( 1997 ), King of Kings ( 1998 ), Rock of Gibraltar ( 2002 ), Footstepsinthesand ( 2005 ), George Washington ( 2006 ), Henrythenavigator ( 2008 ), Camelot ( 2012 )

* K1 Britannia, a 1994 replica ( refit in 2012 ) of King George V's famed racing yacht Britannia which was scuttled in 1936.

* Porn King, Autobigraphy of John C. Holmes ( 2012 ).

In September 2012, the City of Toronto used Kitchener ’ s King Street as a model for Celebrate Yonge — a month-long event which reduced Yonge Street to two lanes, widening sidewalks to improve the commercial street for businesses and pedestrians alike.

King County was one of two counties to vote for Bob Ely over incumbent President Barack Obama in the 2012 Democratic Presidential primaries.

Pulver also edited an anthology of new fiction related to The King in Yellow, titled A Season in Carcosa, scheduled to be released in 2012 by Miskatonic River Press.

After several years in development, Ramone's second posthumous album was released on May 22, 2012.

* Eternal Leader ( posthumous ) ( January 2012 – present )

* Grand Marshal of the DPRK ( posthumous ) ( January 2012 – present )

* Eternal General Secretary, Worker's Party of Korea ( posthumous ) ( 11 April 2012 – present )

In 2012 ( 9 February to 27 May ) there is a large posthumous exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.

* Florida_Trend magazine released a posthumous interview with Harry Crews in April 2012.

His posthumous reputation was initially higher in France than in Britain, but has begun a new rise in recent years with the republication of various novels ( including Capuchin Classics ' The Voyage with an Introduction by Oxford's Valentine Cunningham in 2009 ), his poetry ( edited by Peter Holland for Scarthin Books in 2008 ) and the forthcoming re-edition of his plays, planned by Oberon Books for 2012.

In 2012, Bangladesh president Zillur Rahman conferred the Liberation War Friendship Honour ( posthumous ) to Durga Prasad Dhar in recognition of his pioneering role in concluding the 1971 Indo-Soviet Friendship Treaty, mobilising international support in favour of Bangladesh and playing a special role in support of the Liberation War.

In 2012, the first posthumous award was given to voice actor Chris Latta, who died in 1994.

Realization: Amics de l ' Albera i Cap de Creus ( APNACC ) and Centre Excursionista Empordanès ( CEE ), design and monitoring: Juli Gutiérrez Deulofeu, posthumous edition, juny 2012.

Of note-In May 2012, Holly Beth Vincent is appearing as guest lead and background vocalist with other musicians and singers on the second and final posthumous release of Joey Ramone titled Ya Know?

She also appears on others records as a vocalist, the Michael Monroe album Not Fakin ' It, and 2012 posthumous album release by Joey Ramone, Ya Know?

In February 2012, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints apologized for the posthumous baptism on behalf of Wiesenthal's parents.

Beria is a character in the 2012 novel The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared.

John Scalzi's novel Redshirts ( 2012 ) both spoofs and pays homage to the notion of disposable low-ranking crew members on a Star Trek-style starship.

King's next novel, 11 / 22 / 63, was published November 8, 2011, and was nominated for the 2012 World Fantasy Award Best Novel.

King's next book is Joyland, a novel about " an amusement-park serial killer ", according to an article in The Sunday Times published on April 8, 2012.

Madame Chiang appears as a minor character in the 2012 novel The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Swedish author Jonas Jonasson.

The historical novel Mayling ( 2012 ) by Dutch author Lucas Zandberg portrays the life of Madame Chiang from a first-person perspective.

Their next film, Cloud Atlas, based on the novel of the same name by David Mitchell and co-written and co-directed by Tom Tykwer, is scheduled for release on October 26, 2012.

He is directing a film adaptation of the science fiction novel Old Man's War for a 2012 release.

* Restoration ( novel ), a 2002 novel by Carol Berg ; a 2012 novel by Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson

* In 2012, the Canadian novelist Will Ferguson published a novel featuring the scam, 419: A Novel, a follow-up to an earlier novel about con men.

Big Sound Temple, the novel released by author Ben Stevens in March 2012 ( HarperCollins ), is written entirely in Engrish ( or Japlish ).

Premiere of Forman's newest historical drama in France based on the novel by Georges-Marc Benamou and written by Forman and Georges-Marc Benamou is expected in 2012.

* Triggers, a 2012 science fiction novel by Robert J. Sawyer

* Chomp ( 2012 ) ( young adult novel )

The novel was dramatized for radio by Archie Scottney, directed by Martin Jarvis and produced by Rosalind Ayres ; it featured a full cast starring Toby Stephens as James Bond and was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2012.

As Secretary of State in the 2012 comic novel Nick & Jake, by Tad Richards and Jonathan Richards, Dulles demands the resignation of Undersecretary Nicholas Carraway ( from The Great Gatsby ), who has been accused of subversive activity by Senator Joseph McCarthy.

Tuireann is a character in As Baile: A Story, a 2012 novel.

The trilogy shares some similarites with Robinson's more recent novel 2312 ( 2012 ), for instance, the terraforming of Mars and the extreme longevity of the characters in both novels.

His graphic novel The Lovely Horrible Stuff, which playfully investigates our relationship with money, was published in July 2012 by Top Shelf Productions.

In September 2012, Fox Ani ­ ma ­ tion option ­ ed the recently pub ­ lished Graphix novel Card ­ board, with plans for actor Tobey Maguire ’ s Mate ­ r ­ ial Pic ­ tures, graphic nov ­ el ­ ist Doug Ten ­ Napel and the Gotham Group to be exec ­ u ­ tive producers.

* Rising Sun, a 2012 alternate history war novel by Robert Conroy

In 2012 Random House published Kurt Andersen ’ s third novel, True Believers.