In late December, the American army moved from Whitemarsh to Valley Forge, and although the distance was only 13 miles, the journey took more than a week because of the bad weather, the barefooted and almost naked men.

Starting in great force late in December, from a line stretching from East Prussia to Budapest, the Red armies had swept two hundred miles across Poland to the Oder, thirty miles from Berlin, and the Upper Danube region was being rapidly overrun, while the Western Allies had not yet occupied all of the left bank of the Rhine.

The novel was first published in November and December 1928 in the German newspaper Vossische Zeitung and in book form in late January 1929.

* Santa Claus also known as Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas and simply " Santa ", is a figure with legendary, mythical, historical and folkloric origins who, in many western cultures, is said to bring gifts to the homes of the good children during the late evening and overnight hours of Christmas Eve, December 24.

The tunnel opened for use on December 3, 1844, but was not completely finished until late Spring 1845.

In late 1792 Phillip, whose health was suffering from the poor diet, at last received permission to leave, and on 11 December 1792 he sailed in the ship Atlantic, taking with him many specimens of plants and animals.

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

Their government collapsed in late 1992, and was succeeded by a technocratic team, put forward by the Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP ), which served until 1994, when the president dissolved the government and appointed a provisional one to serve until the pre-term elections, appointed for December in the same year.

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.

When the first meeting of the Fourth Duma was convened in late 1912, only one out of six Bolshevik deputies, Matvei Muranov, ( another one, Roman Malinovsky, was later exposed as an Okhrana secret police agent ) voted to break away from the Menshevik faction within the Duma on 15 December 1912.

This large amount was irresistible to him, and in late December 1914 he travelled to Chicago to join the studio.

In late December 1978, Vietnamese forces launched a full invasion of Cambodia, capturing Phnom Penh on January 7, 1979 and driving the remnants of Democratic Kampuchea's army westward toward Thailand.

Mexico reasserted its claim over Clipperton Island late in the 19th century, and on December 13, 1897, sent the gunboat La Democrata to occupy and annex it.

The proximity fuse emerged on the battlefields of Europe in late December 1944.

Hanukkah is observed for eight nights and days, starting on the 25th day of Kislev according to the Hebrew calendar, which may occur at any time from late November to late December in the Gregorian calendar.

Diocletian met Maximian in Milan in the winter of 290 – 91, either in late December 290 or January 291.

Wheeler-Nicholson's third and final title, Detective Comics, advertised with a cover illustration dated December 1936, eventually premiered three months late with a March 1937 cover date.

Edvard Munch (; 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944 ) was a Norwegian painter and printmaker whose intensely evocative treatment of psychological themes built upon some of the main tenets of late 19th-century Symbolism and greatly influenced German Expressionism in the early 20th century.

Eli Herschel Wallach ( born December 7, 1915 ) is an American film, television and stage actor who gained fame in the late 1950s.

This documentary and another ( Father Ted: Unintelligent Design and Small, Far Away – The World Of Father Ted ) followed by the episode Kicking Bishop Brennan Up The Arse were repeated again on Channel 4 late in the evening of 26 December 2011.

' However, these and other measures failed to stop the 2008 Guinean coup d ' état led by Moussa Dadis Camara in late December 2008.

Females show highly synchronized reproduction, undergoing oestrus in late November to early December.

By late December to early January, eastern grays begin to arrive in the calving lagoons of Baja.

Sometime between late December 1711 and early January 1712 he applied for the newly vacant Frankfurt post of city director of music and Kapellmeister at the Barfüsserkirche.

A small selection was issued on a 1971 LP and a 2-cassette set of the series ' soundtrack was made available in the late 1990s.

In the late 1960s, Lancaster teamed with Roland Kibbee to form " Norlan Productions " and produce ( 1968 ), Valdez Is Coming ( 1971 ), and The Midnight Man ( 1974 ).

Most inhabitants of Diego Garcia through the period from 1793 to 1971 were plantation workers, but also included Franco-Mauritian managers, Indo-Mauritian administrators, Mauritian and Seychellois contract employees, and in the late 19th Century, Chinese and Somali employees.

RCA discontinued their use in television tuners for its product line in late 1971.

In late 1969, Askin, with Bolte, organised an ' emergency ' premiers ' conference, without Gorton, to publicise the disadvantages of the States, a move that was partly responsible for the party deposition of Gorton in 1971.

* MFI-15 Safari / MFI-17 Supporter ( single engine trainer ) ( manufactured 1971 – late 1970s, ca 250 built )

Erika Slezak has played Victoria Lord on One Life to Live since 1971 and Jeanne Cooper has played Katherine Chancellor on The Young and the Restless since late 1973.

After a six-month hiatus in late 1971, CBS thus found a prime place for 60 Minutes in a portion of that displaced time, 6 – 7 p. m. ( Eastern time ; 5 – 6 Central ) on Sundays, in January 1972.

From late 1971, already a minor star, David Bowie developed his Ziggy Stardust persona, incorporating elements of professional make up, mime and performance into his act.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, screening of consecutive newborns for sex chromosome abnormalities was undertaken at seven centers worldwide: in Denver ( Jan 1964 – 1974 ), Edinburgh ( Apr 1967 – Jun 1979 ), New Haven ( Oct 1967 – Sep 1968 ), Toronto ( Oct 1967 – Sep 1971 ), Aarhus ( Oct 1969 – Jan 1974, Oct 1980 – Jan 1989 ), Winnipeg ( Feb 1970 – Sep 1973 ), and Boston ( Apr 1970 – Nov 1974 ).

Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of the late Freddie Mercury ( lead vocals, piano ), Brian May ( guitar, vocals ), John Deacon ( bass guitar ), and Roger Taylor ( drums, vocals ).

Although physical modelling was not a new concept in acoustics and synthesis, having been implemented using finite difference approximations of the wave equation by Hiller and Ruiz in 1971, it was not until the development of the Karplus-Strong algorithm, the subsequent refinement and generalization of the algorithm into the extremely efficient digital waveguide synthesis by Julius O. Smith III and others, and the increase in DSP power in the late 1980s that commercial implementations became feasible.

During this period, in late 1971, she reunited with Schickele to record two tracks, " Rejoice in the Sun " and " Silent Running " for the science-fiction film, Silent Running.

Amtrak's former logo, also known as the " inverted arrow " or the " pointless arrow " was used from 1971 until late 2000 when the " Wave " logo took over.

In late 1971, the President ’ s brother, Donald Nixon, was collecting intelligence for his brother at the time and was asking Meier about Larry O ' Brien.

Although the WWWF had withdrawn from the NWA, Vince McMahon, Sr. quietly rejoined the organization in 1971, although he did not book an NWA world champion in his territory until Harley Race in the late 1970s.

As a result French was paid nothing at all for a 33-city U. S. tour in 1971 and a total of $ 78 for a tour of Europe and the U. S. in late 1975.

Carved from the hillside during the late 19th century and covered with rubble since the government demolished guard housing in 1971, the area has become a habitat and breeding ground for black-crowned night herons, western gulls, slender salamanders, and deer mice.

A small re-design followed, under the leadership of Federico Faggin, the designer of the 4004, now project leader of the 1201, expanding from a 16-pin to 18-pin design, and the new 1201 was delivered to CTC in late 1971.

The Dendera Zodiac, a star-map from the Hathor temple at Dendera from a late ( Ptolemaic ) age, supposedly records precession of the equinoxes ( Tompkins 1971 ).

Though the Comics Code Authority had grown more lenient by the late 1960s, and was officially revised starting in 1971, some comic creators were including non-explicit innuendo or otherwise implied in stories that some characters were gay, though often in a negative light.

In late 1971 and early 1972, he worked on the Spring album, a new collaboration between erstwhile Honeys Marilyn Wilson and Diane Rovell.

By the late 1960s Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player had both acquired clear ascendancy in their rivalry, but Palmer won a PGA Tour event every year from 1955 to 1971 inclusive, and in 1971 he enjoyed a revival, winning four events.