* Collection ( 2NE1 album ), 2012

The album was released on August 31, 2012 thru Napalm Records in Europe and September 11, 2012 in the United States and Canada.

* " The Chimera ", a song by The Smashing Pumpkins off their 2012 album Oceania

Baltimore, MD heavy metal band Periphery plans to release a concept album entitled Juggernaut in late 2012.

" Their sophomore album, Crimson, was released in January 2012.

In 2012, Canadian Progressive Rock trio Rush released their first full-length concept album, Clockwork Angels.

* Euphoria ( Ruslana album ), a 2012 album by Ukrainian singer Ruslana

* " Euphoria ( Usher song )", a song by Usher from his 2012 studio album Looking 4 Myself

* Enlightenment ( soundtrack album ), the soundtrack of the 2012 Summer Paralympics opening ceremony

Gaynor is a Christain and is currently recording a Christian Compeory album which is planning to be released in late 2012.

In 2012, Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit released the single " Emmylou " from the album The Lion's Roar.

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

* 2012 – Nashville Pussy – Guest on Nashville Pussy's song " Lazy Jesus " on the re-release of the album " From Hell to Texas "

* Lotus ( Christina Aguilera album ) ( 2012 ), by Christina Aguilera

Their ninth studio album, Saints of Los Angeles, was released on June 24, 2008, certified Gold album in January 2012.

Asked in a November 2011 interview with Examiner. com if Mötley Crüe will be making another album in 2012 or plan another Crüe Fest tour, Vince Neil replied, " We're looking at another Crüe Fest.

On August 4, 2012, Vince Neil revealed during an interview that Mötley Crüe might release an EP rather than a tenth studio album, saying, " I don't think we're gonna do an album.

His newest release is " Light Cone " ( 2012 ), his ninth solo album in a row.

* 2012 – Adam Lambert became the first openly gay artist to debuted at # 1 on the Billboard 200 Album Charts, with his album Trespassing

The 84th Academy Awards, honoring films in 2011, was held at the Dolby Theatre on February 26, 2012.

Since 30 June 2012 when the last leap second was added, TAI has been exactly 35 seconds ahead of UTC.

In the beginning of April 2012, when a new military Coup d ' état was under preparation, the Angolan regime decided to withdraw its military mission from Guinea-Bissau.

NASA's planned Space Interferometry Mission ( SIM PlanetQuest ) ( now cancelled ) was to utilize astrometric techniques to detect terrestrial planets orbiting 200 or so of the nearest solar-type stars, and the European Space Agency's GAIA ( due to launch in 2012 ), which will be applying astrometric techniques in its stellar census.

As of May 2012 a private member's bill was before the House of Lords which would grant Turing a statutory pardon if enacted.

Furthermore, it was subject to relativity and thus was not constant for all observers, therefore, in 2012, the IAU redefined it again to just simply be.

With the definitions used before 2012, the astronomical unit was dependent on the heliocentric gravitational constant, that is the product of the gravitational constant G and the solar mass M < sub >☉</ sub >.

The 1976 definition of the astronomical unit was incomplete, in particular because it does not specify the frame of reference in which time is to be measured, but proved practical for the calculation of ephemerides: a fuller definition that is consistent with general relativity was proposed, and " vigorous debate " ensued until in August 2012 the International Astronomical Union adopted the current definition of 1 astronomical unit = 149597870700 meters.

The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).

< li > On June 15, 2012, a working Apple I was sold at auction by Sotheby's for a record $ 374, 500, more than double the expected price .</ li >

Selkirk, el verdadero Robinson Crusoe, a stop motion film by Tournier Animation based on Alexander Selkirk's life was premiered simultaneously in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay on 2 February 2012.

ASU's undergraduate program is ranked 65th for public universities and 132nd of 280 " national universities " by the 2012 US News and World Report ranking of US colleges and universities ; and, for the fourth year in a row, ASU was ranked in the top 10 for " Up and Coming " universities in the US, for substantial improvements to academics and facilities.

Erickson was also fired in 2012, and replaced by Todd Graham.

* 2012 – The Oak Creek shooting took place at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, killing six people ; the perpetrator was shot dead by police.

In September 2011 it was announced that production of the Rapide would be moved to the company's factory in Gaydon, production will begin in the second half of 2012 and will see all of the current Aston Martin range produced from the Gaydon facility.

20 Sept. 2012 < http :// www. newadvent. org / cathen / 01132c. htm Adam was accepted among the capitulars of Bremen, and by 1069 he appeared as director of the cathedral's school.

On 9 February 2012, Steinsaltz was honored by Israeli President Shimon Peres with Israel's first President's Prize for his scholarship in Talmud.

A Blu-ray and DVD release of season 9, titled Beavis and Butt-head-Volume 4, was released on February 14, 2012 in the United States.

It was initially supposed to be in service in 2012, but some observers expect it not to be ready before 2016.

After the completion of the Plovdiv-Dimitrovgrad high-speed line on 1 July 2012 the top operating speed was raised to 200 km / h and the national top speed record of 197 km / h set between Iskar and Elin Pelin with a leased Siemens Taurus electric locomotive is soon expected to be broken.

The construction of the project was awarded to the İçtaş-Astaldi consortium on May 29, 2012.

An under sea water supply tunnel with a length of, named the Bosphorus Water Tunnel, was constructed in 2012 to transfer water from the Melen Creek in Düzce Province ( to the east of the Bosphorus strait, in northwestern Anatolia ) to the European side of Istanbul, from a distance of.