Mayan Calendar Ends
School officials nationwide planned to beef up security on Friday — and in a few cases hastily canceled classes for the rest of the week — amid rumored threats of violence, some related to doomsday...
View ArticleEnd of the world on 12/21/12? Not just yet, says the Vatican's top astronomer …
As a man of science, I know there's nothing to be afraid of on 12/21/12 besides the things I'm usually afraid of, like robots. The world isn't going to end just because the Maya Long Count Calendar is...
View ArticleThe end of the world? Not quite yet
Today is the last day on the Mayan calendar, which, according to some, means the world is going to end. This seems about as likely to occur as any economic forecast. And so in preparation, economists...
View ArticleAs Doomsday Flops, Rites in Ruins of Mayan Empire
The worldwide hype over a supposed Mayan prophecy that the world would end on Friday may have been mildly amusing to most of us. What is not so funny is a finding that 1 in 10 people actually believed...
View ArticleMayan calendar ends; world doesn't
If you are prone to superstition, 2012 provides a wealth of apocalyptic fears and calamitous end-of-day scenarios, starting with the ever-popular end-of-the-world Mayan doomsday. Some have argued that...
View ArticleAs Doomsday Flops, Rites in Ruins of Mayan Empire
The Hotel Maya in Long Beach hosted an End of the World party Friday with a toast at 3:11, official end of the world time, according to the Mayan calendar. Joen Garnica, dressed in her finest, borrows...
View ArticleIt's the End of the World and I Feel Fine
_R7F2186.JPG The Super Fresh in the Plainsboro Plaza will close in mid-January. Christina Izzo/The Times. HIT: We're here. The Mayans' Long Count calendar prediction of doomsday did not come true....
View ArticleIt's the End of the World and I Feel Fine
It turns out (as of right now) that Dec. 21 wasn't the prophetic "End of the World" some believed the Mayan Calendar indicated. Still, many insist that while the date doesn't mean a sort of Armageddon...
View ArticleMayan calendar ends; world doesn't
Guatemalans and tourists say farewell to an era and welcome a new one, when they mark the end of the Mayan long count calendar in Tikal, Guatemala. In the 1960s, US scholars said the end of the Maya's...
View ArticleMayan calendar ends; world doesn't
If you are prone to superstition, 2012 provides a wealth of apocalyptic fears and calamitous end-of-day scenarios, starting with the ever-popular end-of-the-world Mayan doomsday. Some have argued that...
View Article'End of the world' party fight may have led to killing, police say
Today is the last day on the Mayan calendar, which, according to some, means the world is going to end. This seems about as likely to occur as any economic forecast. And so in preparation, economists...
View ArticleTravelers celebrate end of Mayan calendar in Chichen Itza
Mayans never predicted an Apocalypse. This is just when they got lazy with their record keeping and stopped updating the long-form version of their 5,172-year calendar. Just as our calendar starts the...
View ArticleEnd Of The World On Christmas Eve? Mayan Calendar's 13th Baktun May …
Socie said Michael had become increasingly fascinated by end-of-the-world speculation related to biblical prophecy as well as an ancient Mayan calendar that some said focused on Dec. 21, the date of...
View ArticleMayan Calendar Predictions vs. Miami Reality
Guatemalans and tourists say farewell to an era and welcome a new one, when they mark the end of the Mayan long count calendar in Tikal, Guatemala. In the 1960s, US scholars said the end of the Maya's...
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