December 2014

English: Media related to December 2014, the 12th month in year 2014

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Nature

Video mit verschiedenen Wasservögeln auf der Donau (Wien) → Beschreibungsseite (Danube in Vienna on 3 December 2014: Video, 1 min 55 s → description page)

A bridge over Pampanga creek, Saplad David, Macabebe, 2014-12-14

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  Stadttauben in Wien (Feral pigeons of Vienna) (3 December 2014)
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  dilapidated foot bridge,
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  in Saplad David
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  rice fields, at Macabebe.
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  (14 December 2014)
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  Full moon
  photo taken in Brazil, Florianópolis (2014-12-06)
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  Chroicocephalus ridibundus in flight at river San in Sanok (Vögel im Winter am 25. Dezember 2014)

The mountain Grünten, Germany (Photo taken on 24 December 2014)

• One Video (length 2 min 21 s) of several others taken in Vižanica hills (Croatia), (8 December 2014)
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  Polar night in Naryan-Mar
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  Snow in Stappersven, Belgian-Dutch cross-border park De Zoom - Kalmthoutse Heide. (28 December 2014)
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  Cross-country skier at lake Öjön (24 December 2014)
• Just being along a stream in winter (meditative audio/Video 14 min of 2014-12-31)
• Drinking Hedgehog in the back yard - 2014-12-27 .webm (→ Video)
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  Seals – in the Tauranga Bay Seal Colony, Cape Foulwind, New Zealand.
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  Chamaeleo calyptratus in Särkänniemi Aquarium, Tampere (27 December 2014)

Politics and elections

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  Geschwister-Scholl-Preis for Glenn Greenwald (Munich)
  (1. Dezember 2014)
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  War in Donetsk suburb
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  Opening ceremony in Lima, United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP20) (→ english Wikipedia, de-WP, es-WP) (1 December 2014)
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  ESA Council on Ministerial Level in Luxembourg (2 December 2014)
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  Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in Oslo (10 December 2014)
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  The end of one Umbrella – after protests in October and November 2014.
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  Protesters who stay on Harcourt Road, Hong Kong protests – December 2014.
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  People are watching police, cleaning on Harcourt Road, (December 11, 2014).
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  General election in Japan, 2014 (→ photo) (taken on 14 December 2014)
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  Demonstration in München (Munich against racism) (22. Dezember 2014)

Society and community

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  Jiří Klem na Maxiautogramiáda 2014 (1 December 2014)
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  illuminations de Noël rue Mercière 5 décembre (before Christmas 2014 in Strasbourg)
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  Makariou Avenue in Nicosia, Republic of Cyprus.
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  VSU Lighting of the Palms Ceremony 2014, Valdosta State University, Georgia.
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  Las Posadas (24 December 2014)
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  Inaugural Lamp Lighting, Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, 2 December 2014 in India.
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  News Stand in Tollygunge area, Kolkata, Dec. 14 (Wikipedia Takes Kolkata (4) – 330 photos, a few Cat.'s are missing ...)
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  Anneau de glace des plaines d'Abraham (26 December 2014)
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  Skateboarding in Brazil,
  6 Decembro in São Paulo

Figure skaters at the Brian Joubert show, Belfort, 27 dec 2014 (Reportage photographique).

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  Sydney Harbour ...
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  New Year's Eve fireworks in 2014 in Oulu (31 December 2014)

Wikipedia takes the Louvre – Musée du Louvre (Paris) on 7 December 2014:

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  Italian paintings in the Louvre - Room 14
  with 5 mouse-over annotations (only visible at the → photo-description-page!)
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  Spanish paintings in the Louvre - Room 26 today only 1 mouseover-annotation with link to the painting ... (7 décembre 2014)

Buildings – technics – traffic – science

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  Transformation at University of Liège, Val-Benoît (4 December 2014).
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  Railway platform in December, Taunton, Massachusetts (8 December 2014)
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  Casa Milà (Antoni Gaudí) at night, Barcelona, Catalonia, (→ photo)
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  details of roof (26 December 2014)
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  Breaking acrylic glass
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  ... with corrections
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  First day of Troparyovo Metro station (Moscow Metro), opened after Construction (→ photos) (8 December 2014)
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  Gare d'Ax-les-Thermes, on 30 December in snow.
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  Boats in The Sundarbans (22 December 2014)
• The Finnish road ferry Merisilta arriving to Oulu (Video, 31 December 2014).

For the following photos, see also:
→ Category:Installing marbles on the Latona Fountain,
one of the Fountains in the Park of Versailles:

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  Laying
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  marbles
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  at the
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  Bassin de Latone (Latona Fountain)
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  Français : Pose des marbres
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  du bassin de Latone au Château de Versailles.
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  Construction,
  
  photos taken on 9 December 2014.
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  Construction site (→ photo)
  in the park of the Palace of Versailles
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  on December 2014 – compared to a 2013 park-photo at beginning of restauration.

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  Preparing cookie dough before Baking Christmas biscuits.
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  Launch
  of Orion Exploration
  Flight Test-1 (Spaceship)
  (5 December 2014)
• Video: From EFT-1 launch to orbit (10 min).
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  Orion crew module, Exploration Flight Test-1
  before splashdown.
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  USS Anchorage with Orion Crew Module after landing (Photo on 5 December 2014)
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  C2014Q2 Lovejoy (2014-12-27)

Disasters and Catastrophes

more ... → Category:2014 Sydney hostage crisis

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  People signing condolences books, after
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  Sydney hostage crisis, at Martin Place (Photograph taken on 16 December 2014 in Sydney)
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  2014 December 28: Flight path of Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501.
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  Candlelight vigil in London for the victims of the Peshawar school attack. (Photo, 17 December 2014).
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  Adria ship disaster of Ferry Norman Atlantic (→ IMO 9435466)
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  Weather (→ map) during Norman Atlantic Fire-Disaster (28 December 2014)

weather

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  Typhoon Hagupit, on 2014-12-04
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  Snow in Montreal,
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  at Rue du Couvent
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  (Photos of 10 December 2014)

Temporale a Roma, 1 Dicembre (Rain in Rome)

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  2014-12-01 Max-min Temperature, NOAA.
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  2014-12-01 Surface Weather, NOAA.
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  2014-11-01 24-hr Precipitation, NOAA.
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  2014-12-21 500-Millibar Height Contour Map, NOAA.

 → Daily NCEP weather maps for December 2014 (for USA)

More December 2014 Photos and other media are in the larger Wikimedia Commons category "December 2014".