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A. The world failed to end on or around B. Violence erupted across the Musl1m C. In September 2012 Ant1 Japan
Dec 21, 20121 The Mayans developed world 1n 2012. Enraged protesters demonstrators 1n Beijing marched near
many calendar systems to fit a variety stormed and scaled the walls of U S the Japanese embassy holdtng portraits of
of purposes, but scholars ms1sted the1r embassies 1n Sudan and Tunisia communist leader, Mao Zedong
famous Long Count Calendar was not Demonstrators breached an embassy wall
des1gned to pred1ct the world 's end, and raised a black flag of militant Islam as
despite what apocalyptic doomsday police struggled to push them back. The
theorists had predicted . protests were a rem1nder of the passions
unleashed by the "Arab Spnng" .

politics war peace environment

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NOT into predicting
global destruction
Recently unearthed mural prowes
Maya expected time to 'reset'
• tn 2011 a sman rnom was found at
the ru•ns of Xultun, '" Guatemala
dat.ng to tile early 9th century
• Its waAs and are plllnted with
human ligures and two are covered
with .nc.ed t.aroglyphs many of
them of a timekeeping natura

D. lslam1st militants armed w1th anti-
aircraft weapons and rocket-propelled
grenades stormed a lightly defended F. In September 2012, Yemeni protestors
Un1ted States consulate 1n Benghazi, E. The rema1ns of Vasser Arafat were shouted slogans outs1de the U.S.
Libya, in September of 2012 The exhumed in November 2012 1n Ramallah, Embassy in Sanaa, Yemen At
Amencan ambassador, Christopher West Bank, as part of an investigation least one protestor was killed 1n clashes
Stephens, and three members of h1s into how the Palestinian leader d1ed when Yemeni security forces tried
staff were killed A solemn ceremony was Sw1ss, French and Russ1an experts were to d1sperse hundreds of angry
held at Andrews Air Force Base, near given samples to establish whether h1s demonstrators They were protesting a
Washington, mark1ng the return of the death in Paris 1n 2004 at the age of 75 controversial , ant1-lslam film that was
men's rema1ns was the result of po1soning. made 1n the United States.