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.

William returned to England in December 1067 and marched on Exeter, which he besieged.

* December 13 – WWII – Battle of the River Plate: The German pocket battleship, Admiral Graf Spee is trapped by cruisers HMS Ajax, HMNZS Achilles, and HMS Exeter after a running battle off the coast of Uruguay.

* December 31 – Thomas Beaufort, 1st Duke of Exeter ( b. c. 1377 )

A much larger shipment of seed collected ( also in the Calaveras Grove ) by William Lobb, acting for the Veitch Nursery at Budlake near Exeter, arrived in England in December 1853 ; seed from this batch was widely distributed throughout Europe.

Thomas Beaufort, 1st Duke of Exeter, KG ( c. 1377 – c. 31 December 1426 ) was an English military commander during the Hundred Years ' War, and briefly Chancellor of England.

Exeter Township was founded December 7, 1741.

He admits in a letter to Ralph Barnes, his secretary, on 14 December 1830 to being " Cautious ... in admitting adverse newspapers to my table, yet the caution has not prevented me from hearing of the extreme unpopularity of my appointment to Exeter.

Gwyneth Patricia Dunwoody ( née Phillips ; 12 December 1930 – 17 April 2008 ) was a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Exeter from 1966 to 1970, and then for Crewe ( later Crewe and Nantwich ) from 1974 to her death in 2008.

While Coldwell attended Exeter University ( at the time called Royal Albert Memorial College ), he met Norah Gertrude Dunsford in 1907, and in December 1909, they became engaged.

Donald Methuen Fleming, PC ( May 23, 1905 – December 31, 1986 ) was a Canadian parliamentarian, International Monetary Fund official and lawyer, born in Exeter, Ontario, Canada.

John Taylor Gilman ( December 19, 1753 – August 31, 1828 ) was a farmer, shipbuilder, and statesman from Exeter, New Hampshire.

On 20 December 2010 Absolute Classic Rock launched on DAB to a potential new 3 million new listeners in Ayr, Bath, Cardiff, Coventry and Exeter.

Until the December 2009 timetable change, some trains continued beyond Exeter to Paignton, Plymouth and Penzance ; these usually operated as three-coach units, though at weekends there were some six-coach formations.

On 11 December 2010, Wright-Phillips scored both goals against Exeter City in the Devon derby in a 2 – 0 Plymouth win, the second marked his 12th of the season.

The ecclesiastical division within Cornwall into rural deaneries used versions of the same names though the areas did not correspond exactly: Trigg Major, Trigg Minor, East Wivelshire, West Wivelshire, Powder, Pydar, Kerrier and Penwith were all deaneries of the Diocese of Exeter but boundaries were altered in 1875 when five more deaneries were created ( from December 1876 all in the Diocese of Truro ).

He resigned as Birmingham manager in December 1993 and returned to Exeter later that season, although too late to keep them in Division Two.

The first of the latter set, Self, featured studio material on side one, with the band recorded playing live at Exeter University, on 11 December 1971, on side two.

In December 1900 Ryle was appointed Bishop of Exeter, being consecrated at Westminster Abbey in January 1901.

It was formed on 15 December 1876 from the Archdeaconry of Cornwall in the Diocese of Exeter, it is thus one of the younger dioceses.

The line from Exeter to was opened by the South Devon Railway Company on 30 May 1846 and was extended to on 30 December 1846.

From 18 December 2010 to 9 January 2011 Dickinson played the evil Queen Malificent in the pantomime Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at the Corn Exchange in Exeter.

In May 1537 he was one of the peers summoned for the trial of lords Darcy and Hussey and he was also on the panel of 3 December 1538 for the trial of Henry Pole, 1st Baron Montagu, and Henry Courtenay, Marquess of Exeter, his own brother-in-law.

He impressed on his Albion debut, which came in a 1 – 1 draw away at Bradford City on 14 December 1991, but was sent off in his second match for the club two weeks later in another 1 – 1, this time at Exeter City, when he was involved in a clash of heads with the referee and later received a hefty fine.

Yet there is no evidence to suggest that Courtenay ever had the means to or intended to muster any kind of rebellion against the King, the charges brought against Lord Exeter were based on the correspondence he had with Cardinal Pole and the testimony of Sir Geoffrey Pole, whose brother Henry Pole, 1st Baron Montagu was also arrested and beheaded alongside Courtenay and another supposed plotter Sir Nicholas Carew KG, the Master of the Horse to Henry VIII on 9 December 1538 on Tower Hill.