In the Gregorian calendar, New Year’s Eve (also known as Old Year’s Day or Saint Sylvester’s Day in many countries), the last day of the year, is on December 31. In many countries, New Year’s Eve is celebrated at evening social gatherings, where many people dance, eat, drink alcoholic beverages, and watch or light fireworks to mark the new year. Some people attend a watchnight service. The celebrations generally go on past midnight into January 1 (New Year’s Day).
Željko SrdiÄ, penname “Z” (Slovenia, 1977) is a Serbian hyperrealist artist, comic book artist, children’s book illustrator and T-shirt designer. He was a student of Dragan MaleÅ¡eviÄ Tapi.
Edward Kirk Herrmann (July 21, 1943 â December 31, 2014) was an American television and film actor. He was best known for his Emmy-nominated portrayals of Franklin D. Roosevelt on television, Richard Gilmore in Gilmore Girls, a ubiquitous narrator for historical programs on The History Channel and in such PBS productions as Nova, and as a spokesman for Dodge automobiles in the 1990s.
Rocket’s Island is a British television series about a family taking care of foster children. It stars Jordan Benjamin, Samuel Bottomley, Jack Hartley, Tom Coliandris, Helen Daniels and Joe Gallucci. It is filmed in Penrhyn Beach, a small island off the coast of North Wales. It is produced by Lime Pictures and All3Media for CBBC. A third series has been filmed and will air in the new year (2015) on CBBC.
The Google Doodle is an artistic version of the Google logo. Google Doodles represent events like holidays, anniversaries, or current events. Some of the doodles were limited to Google’s country specific home pages while others appeared globally.
2015 (MMXV) will be a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (dominical letter D), the 2015th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 15th year of the 3rd millennium, the 15th year of the 21st century, and the 6th year of the 2010s decade.
Crunchyroll is an American website and international online community focused on video streaming East Asian media including anime, manga, drama, music, electronic entertainment, and auto racing content. Founded in 2006 by a group of UC Berkeley graduates, Crunchyroll’s distribution channel and partnership program delivers content to over five million online community members worldwide. Crunchyroll is funded by The Chernin Group and TV Tokyo.
Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 (QZ8501/AWQ8501) was an Airbus A320-200 aircraft operated by Indonesia AirAsiaâan affiliate of the AirAsia Groupâthat crashed en route from Surabaya, Indonesia to Singapore on 28 December 2014 with 155 passengers and 7 crew on board. Wreckage of the plane was found two days later in the Karimata Strait.
Leelah Alcorn (November 15, 1997 â December 28, 2014) was an American transgender girl who gained attention in 2014 after committing suicide. A suicide note was published on her Tumblr page; in this letter she declared that she wanted her suicide to cause an impact and create a dialogue about the discrimination and abuse of transgender people.
Christine Josephine Cavanaugh (née Sandberg; August 16, 1963 â December 22, 2014) was a voice actress who had a distinctive speaking style and had provided the voice for a large range of cartoon characters. She was best known as the voice of the title character in the 1995 film Babe, Gosalyn Mallard in Darkwing Duck, and as the original voices of Chuckie Finster in Nickelodeon’s Rugrats and Dexter in Cartoon Network’s Dexter’s Laboratory. In 2001, she retired from voice acting.
