With the arrival of the year 2012, Nostradamus's prophecies started to be co-opted ( especially by the History Channel ) as evidence suggesting that the end of the world is imminent, notwithstanding the fact that his book never mentions the end of the world, let alone the year 2012.

This, with the opening of the Channel Tunnel in 1994 and the arrival of the Eurostar train, put Lille at the centre of a triangle connecting Paris, London and Brussels.

The Glastonbury Canal ran just over through two locks from Glastonbury to Highbridge where it entered the Bristol Channel in the early 19th century, but it became uneconomic with the arrival of the railway in the 1840s.

The arrival of the Channel Link at nearby Stratford, coupled with the London Summer Olympics, which will take place nearby in 2012, may well spell a revival in its fortunes.

Within a few years of its arrival in 1992, PCI had largely superseded Micro Channel, EISA and VESA.

During September 1963 the ITA invited new applications for franchises to operate from July 1964 for three years or until the arrival of ITV2, whichever came first ( in the event, " ITV2 ", the second commercial channel, did not begin until 1982, under the guise of Channel 4 ), but in fact no changes were made to any franchise holders at that time, except for confirming the merger of the South Wales and the West franchise held by TWW and the Wales West and North franchise held by WWN following the financial collapse of WWN.

However, his plans were cut short by the announcement soon after his arrival that Channel 5 would not be renewing the series for 2006.

Starting about 16, 000 years ago, coinciding with the end of the last glacial period and the arrival of humans in North America, most of the large mammals upon which the dire wolf depended for prey began to die out ( possibly as a result of climate and / or human-induced changes as suggested in a 2008 National Geographic Channel documentary ).

For a while Flagler's arrival did disturb their quiet, as Flagler brought in dredges to deepen the Cape Florida Channel and the approaches to the mouth of the Miami River, muddying the formerly clear waters of Biscayne Bay.

With the arrival of TV Guide Channel's yellow grid, all remaining vestiges of Prevue Channel had been eliminated: its Amiga-based hardware infrastructure was decommissioned, and purpose-built, Windows NT / 2000 PCs employing custom-designed video / audio expansion cards were installed.

Thus, at the Fibre Channel physical ( FC-2 and below ) level, the communication is connectionless, frames and sequences may arrive out of order, and there is no acknowledgement of arrival.

When intelligence reported the arrival of a German paratroop battalion across the Channel, the staff of TRE pulled out of the Swanage site in a period of hours.

He took a total of 11 days to complete the run and as a welcome into Melbourne, ran the final leg into the Channel 9 Footy Show's studio where the panel and crowd awaited his arrival.

In the last decade, the channel remained in second place, with the exception of 2005 due to the high rating that was the arrival of Marcelo Tinelli to Channel 9.

Lastly, he provides receipt of both Epaphroditus ' heroism ( 3. 25-30 ) and the arrival of " the gift " ( 4. 10 ), along with his promise of a divine accounting ( 4. 17-20 ).

* 1849 – Regular steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United States begins with the arrival of the in San Francisco Bay, 4 months 22 days after leaving New York Harbor.

Athens sent out a sizable contingent ( 4, 000 hoplites ), but upon its arrival, this force was dismissed by the Spartans, while those of all the other allies were permitted to remain.

At arrival, the image in the ship screen shows the staying twin as he was 1 year after launch, because radio emitted from Earth 1 year after launch gets to the other star 4 years afterwards and meets the ship there.

Desirable characteristics for electromagnetic surveillance and collection equipment include ( 1 ) wide-spectrum or bandwidth capability because foreign frequencies are initially unknown, ( 2 ) wide dynamic range because signal strength is initially unknown, ( 3 ) narrow bandpass to discriminate the signal of interest from other electromagnetic radiation on nearby frequencies, and ( 4 ) good angle-of arrival measurement for bearings to locate the transmitter.

Approximately 1. 2 – 2. 4 million Africans died during their transport to the New World More died soon upon their arrival.

| 4 | The Islamic era had opened with the arrival of the Arabs ( late seventh century ).

Specificially, Daly reorganised Act 4 so that Act 4, Scene 2 ( the arrival of the pedant in Padua ) comes before Act 4, Scene 1 ( Petruchio and Katherina arriving at his house ), and Act 4, Scene 4 ( the pedant confirms the dowry for Bianca ) precedes Act 4, Scene 3 ( Petruchio's taming of Katherina ).

York Minster became the first cathedral in England to have a carillon of bells with the arrival of a further twenty-four small bells on 4 April 2008.

In 1839 Falmouth was the scene of the gold dust robbery when £ 4, 600 worth of gold dust from Brazil was stolen on arrival at the port.

Between July 1942 and September 1944, almost every Tuesday a cargo train left for the concentration camps Auschwitz-Birkenau ( 65 train-loads containing 60, 330 people most of whom were gassed on arrival ), Sobibór ( 19 train-loads of 34, 313 people, all of whom were killed on arrival ), Bergen-Belsen and Theresienstadt ( 9 train-loads of 4, 894 people some 2, 000 of whom survived the war ).

Celebrations also took place on 4 April with the Megalesia festival, the anniversary of the goddess ' arrival in Rome.

The city traces its roots back to 1905, with the arrival of its founder, William B. Strang Jr., who plotted subdivisions along a military roadway on 600 acres ( 2. 4 km² ) he purchased that are now part of the old downtown area.

The arrival of the railroad on July 4, 1879 brought with it businesses and people, both respectable and dubious.

However, with the arrival of Denikin's armies, the Bolsheviks were forced to withdraw and Grozny was captured on February 4, 1919 by the White Army.

On the arrival of the deputation at the Treaty of Uxbridge, on 4 January, officers of the Parliamentary army stopped the coaches and searched the gentlemen ; and they found upon the latter " two scandalous books arraigning the proceedings of the House ," and letters with ciphers to Lord Viscount Falkland and the Lord Spencer.

It would challenge sharply not the cult of the motor car itself but some of its ancillary beliefs and practices -- for instance, the doctrine that the fulfillment of life consists in proceeding from hither to yon, not for any advantage to be gained by arrival but merely to avoid the cardinal sin of stasis, or, as it is generally termed, staying put.

It hung over them like a cloud, its arrival as sudden as a cloud skidding over the sun.

Adelaide's early economy started to get on its feet in 1838 with the arrival of livestock from New South Wales and Tasmania.

On his arrival at Ephesus a three months ' truce was concluded with Tissaphernes, the satrap of Lydia and Caria, but negotiations conducted during that time proved fruitless, and on its termination Agesilaus raided Phrygia, where he easily won immense booty from the satrap Pharnabazus ; Tissaphernes could offer no assistance, as he had concentrated his troops in Caria.

By " time-gating " the detector for the arrival of a particular species of interest its crystallographic distribution on the surface, and as a function of depth, can be determined.

Little is known of its origins but it is likely that an early form of the Basque language was present in Western Europe before the arrival of the Indo-European languages to the area.

The team then flies to its show venue for the upcoming weekend on Thursday, conducting " circle and arrival " orientation maneuvers upon arrival.

Since its arrival in 1974, what is known as Danza Azteca in the U. S., ( and known by several names in its homeland of the central States of Mexico: danza Conchera, De la Conquista, Chichimeca, and so on.

One clear benefit of the ' late arrival ' of the channel was that its frequency allocations at each transmitter had already been arranged in the early 1960s, when the launch of an ITV2 was highly anticipated.

Celery's surprisingly late arrival in the English kitchen is an end-product of the long tradition of seed selection needed to reduce the sap's bitterness and increase its sugars.

There is a contemporary issue of coins suggestive of an imperial adventus ( arrival ) for the city, but some modern historians state that Diocletian avoided the city, and that he did so on principle, as the city and its Senate were no longer politically relevant to the affairs of the Empire and needed to be taught as much.

Experiments observe nothing whatsoever between the time of emission of the particle and its arrival at the detection screen.

This represents an optimal environment for the implantation of a blastocyst upon its arrival in the uterus.

It caused a great stir on its arrival in Florence, being reputedly the first living giraffe to be seen in Italy since antiquity.

He created a storm in the British press soon after his arrival by suggesting that the two countries might find common ground opposing communism's spread: The Führer is convinced that there is only one real danger to Europe and to the British Empire as well, and that is the spreading further of communism, this most terrible of all diseases-terrible because people generally seem to realize its danger only when it is too late.

Still expecting the emperor's imminent arrival, in July 1221, the crusaders set off towards Cairo, but they were stopped by the rising Nile, which al-Kamil allowed to flood by breaking the dams along its course.

The Irish, known as Scotti, who migrated to Scotland and gave the region of north Britain its name, never wore kilts prior to their arrival in northern Britain, nor did their kinsmen, the Brythonic speaking tribes of Britain, nor their Goidelic speaking kinsmen in Ireland.

Fossils very similar to V. komodoensis have been found in Australia dating to greater than 3. 8 million years ago, and its body size remained stable on Flores, one of the handful of Indonesian islands where it is currently found, over the last 900, 000 years, " a time marked by major faunal turnovers, extinction of the island's megafauna, and the arrival of early hominids by 880 ka.

The beginning of Polish parish in modern times is connected to him In XIX century Polish population of the town consisted among others of Polish soldiers in Prussian service stationed in the city, salt refining specialists from Ciechocinek, political prisoners in local Prussian and permanent Polish inhabitants In the second half of XIX century the Polish community further increased with arrival of Polish workers During the period 1875-1914 an active Polish community grew and through its funds a Catholic school and the Church of Saint Marcin where masses in Polish were held ( initially throughout the season, after about 1890 all the year ), were established.

William WitheringIf William Small's arrival in 1765 had been the catalyst to the development of the Lunar Circle as a cohesive group, his death – probably from malaria – in 1775 was to mark another change in its structure.

Since the arrival of humans around 2, 350 years ago, Madagascar has lost more than 90 percent of its original forest.

After the arrival of the Spanish, coca cultivation increased and its use became more common and widespread.