ARIN opened its doors for business on December 22, 1997 after incorporating on April 18, 1997.

The organization was formed in December 1997 to " provide IP registration services as an independent, nonprofit corporation.

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An analogous decision was published in the Journal officiel in France ( December 2, 1997 ).

Billboard magazine awarded him their Century Award, their " highest honor for distinguished creative achievement ", in December 1997.

Dean ( August 16, 1926 – February 24, 1997 ) and Florine " Kay " Plato ( December 27, 1938 – January 2, 1988 ) adopted the child in June 1965 and raised her in the San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles County.

* Caldwell, Bruce ( December 1997 ).

On Monday 23 December 2011, in an interview on Turkish newspaper BirGün discussing secret budgets, former Turkish Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz admitted that Turkish secret agents intentionally started forest fires in Greece between 1995 and 1997 during the Prime Ministership of Tansu Ciller as part of state-sponsored sabotage, resulting in huge damage caused by major forest fires on the islands of the eastern Aegean and in Macedonia.

* Sir David Omand ( July 1996 – December 1997 )

Once Galileo < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s prime mission was concluded, an extended mission followed, starting on December 7, 1997 ; the spacecraft made a number of daring close flybys of Jupiter's moons Europa and Io.

; December 1997: HTML 4. 0 was published as a W3C Recommendation.

Horace Oscar Axel Engdahl ( born December 30, 1948 ) is a Swedish literary historian and critic, and has been a member of the Swedish Academy since 1997.

Indonesia regained its investment grade rating from Fitch Rating in late 2011, and from Moody's Rating in early 2012, after losing its investment grade rating in December 1997 at the onset of the Asian financial crisis which Indonesia spent more than Rp450 trillion ($ 50 billion ) to bail out lenders from banks.

* IOI 1997 was held in Cape Town, South Africa, November 30 – December 7, 1997

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Dean Ormsby Torrence ( born Los Angeles, California March 10, 1940 ), is the son of Natalie Ormsby Torrence ( born April 10, 1911 in California ; died August 10, 2008 in Los Angeles, California ) and Maurice Dean Torrence ( born December 5, 1907 in South Dakota ; died November 16, 1997 in Los Angeles, California ), a graduate of Stanford University, who was a sales manager at the Wilshire Oil Company.

John Akii-Bua ( December 3, 1949 – June 20, 1997 ) was a Ugandan hurdler and the first Olympic champion from his country.

President Moi won re-election as President in the December 1997 elections, and his KANU Party narrowly retained its parliamentary majority.

General Liu Jingsong, commander of the Lanzhou Military Region, led China's first military delegation to Kenya in December 1996 ; Major General Nick Leshan, commander of the Kenyan air force, paid a return visit in 1997.

* Forbidden Territory: Stanley's Search for Livingstone ( 7 December 1997 ) ( TV series ) ... Khamis Bin Abdullah

Lava / Atlantic Records A & R man Andy Karp was interested, after seeing Kid Rock in Cleveland in December 1996 and again in March 1997.

In December 2009, one copy sold at Christie's, New York for $ 662, 500, a record price paid for a work of American literature.

On December 4, 2006, one of Hendrix's 1968 Fender Stratocaster guitars with a sunburst design was sold at a Christie's auction for US $ 168, 000.

* On December 13 / 14, 2011 Elizabeth Taylor's complete jewelery collection was auctioned by Christie's.

On 28 December 2008, The Sunday Times reported that Pinault's debts left him " considering " the sale of Christie's and that a number of " private equity groups " were thought to be interested in its acquisition.

* In December 2006, The black dress worn by Audrey Hepburn in the film Breakfast at Tiffany's was sold for £ 467, 200 at Christie's South Kensington.

ITV adapted the story into a television programme in the series Agatha Christie's Poirot starring David Suchet as Hercule Poirot and Zoë Wanamaker as Ariadne Oliver, which aired in the US on A & E Network in December 2005 and, in the UK, on ITV1 in March 2006.

In December 2008 McGovern appeared as Dame Celia Westholme in " Appointment with Death ", an episode of Agatha Christie's Poirot.

:* Secrétaire à abattant, called the Fontanieu secrétaire, c. 1771, ( sold Christie's, 5th December, 1974 )

Such programs as Otto Schenk's 1978 production of Fidelio, with Leonard Bernstein conducting, were rebroadcast on this anthology, as well as an adaption of Agatha Christie's Spider's Web, starring Penelope Keith, originally broadcast in the UK on December 26, 1982.

On December 3, 1979, a London dealer bid the sum of $ 18, 000 USD for a dentil shaped Meissen porcelain thimble, circa 1740, at Christie's auction in Geneva, Switzerland.

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The novel was televised in 2005 as a special episode of the series Agatha Christie's Poirot, and was aired by ITV on December 11 starring David Suchet as Poirot, Roger Lloyd Pack as Inspector Caux and Elliott Gould as Rufus Van Aldin.

This dedication is a direct reference to the events of 1926 which included the death of Christie's mother on April 5, the breakdown of her marriage to Archibald Christie and her famous ten-day disappearance in the December of that year.

Anthony Quinton began his review column in the Times Literary Supplement of 21 December 1956, writing, " Miss Agatha Christie's new Poirot story comes first in this review because of this author's reputation and not on its own merits, which are disappointingly slight.

* 3 December 2008-83-year-old pensioner Vonne McGlynn was murdered and dismembered by Angelika Gavare at her home in Reynella, South Australia as part of Gavare's plan to steal McGlynn's identity to take her house and money ; McGlynn's remains were found at Christie's Creek on 23 February 2009.

The book was adapted by London Weekend Television as a one hundred-minute drama and transmitted on ITV in the UK on Friday 26 December 2003 as a special episode in their series Agatha Christie's Poirot.

Maurice Percy Ashley in the Times Literary Supplement of December 17, 1938 had a complaint to make after summarising the plot: " Mrs. Christie's detective stories tend to follow a pattern.

The novel was reviewed in The Times edition of 5 December 1957 when it stated, " Mrs Christie's latest is a model detective story ; one keeps turning back to verify clues, and not one is irrelevant or unfair.

Philip John Stead concluded his review in the Times Literary Supplement of December 12, 1958, with, " The solution of Ordeal By Innocence is certainly not below the level of Mrs Christie's customary ingenuity, but the book lacks other qualities which her readers have come to expect.

Francis Iles ( Anthony Berkeley Cox ) reviewed the novel in The Guardians issue of December 20, 1963 when he said, " About Miss Agatha Christie's The Clocks I am not so sure.

In December 2009, for example, a white Nudie stage shirt owned by Roy Rogers, decorated with blue tassels and red musical notes, sold for $ 16, 250 at a Christie's auction.