Instagram Does an About-Face
By Nicole Perlroth and Jenna Wortham
After an uproar over privacy concerns, Instagram’s co-founder, Kevin Systrom, said the service would revert to its previous user agreement.
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On this day
December 21, 2012
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
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Marijuana, Not Yet Legal for Californians, Might as Well Be
By Adam Nagourney
Marijuana can be smelled in suburban backyards in neighborhoods from Hollywood to Topanga Canyon as dusk falls — what in other places is known as the cocktail hour.
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ICE Deal for N.Y.S.E. Creates Global Powerhouse
By Floyd Norris
The New York Stock Exchange once had a monopoly on stock trading, but is no longer the center of the financial world.
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At the Big Board, Seeking Rejuvenation in Consolidation
By Michael J. de la Merced
An acquisition that made sense for a flagging New York Stock Exchange and a newcomer with heft in the derivatives market.
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Exchange Sale Reflects New Realities of Trading
By Ben Protess and Nathaniel Popper
IntercontinentalExchange’s $8.2 billion takeover of the New York Stock Exchange illustrates starkly how trading in commodities and derivatives has become much more lucrative than trading in the shares of companies.
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Music on My Birthday
Billboard 200
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 19, 2012, covering December 21, 2012.
- 1
Red
Taylor Swift
- Last week
- 2
- Peak
- 1
- Weeks
- 7
- 2
O.N.I.F.C.
Wiz Khalifa
- Last week
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- Peak
- 2
- Weeks
- 1
- 3
Merry Christmas; Baby
Rod Stewart
- Last week
- 3
- Peak
- 3
- Weeks
- 6
- 4
Take Me Home
One Direction
- Last week
- 4
- Peak
- 1
- Weeks
- 4
- 5
Christmas
Michael Buble
- Last week
- 7
- Peak
- 1
- Weeks
- 17
Historical Events
20122012 phenomenon: Festivities are held in parts of Mesoamerica to commemorate the conclusion of b’ak’tun 13, a roughly 5,126-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar whose passing many New Age spiritualists had earlier held to portend a variety of cataclysmic or transformative events.[†]
The 2012 phenomenon was a range of eschatological beliefs that cataclysmic or transformative events would occur on or around 21 December 2012. This date was regarded as the end-date of a 5,126-year-long cycle in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, and festivities took place on 21 December 2012 to commemorate the event in the countries that were part of the Maya civilization, with main events at Chichén Itzá in Mexico and Tikal in Guatemala.
Historical Context for December 21, 2012
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]