Saturday, December 22, 2012

Mayan calendar ends; world doesn't

MERIDA, Mexico In the darkness before dawn Friday, spiritualists prepared white clothes, drums, conch shells and incense ahead of the sunrise they believe will herald the birth of a new and better age as a vast, 5,125-year cycle in the Mayan calendarHIT: We're here. The Mayans' Long Count calendar prediction of doomsday did not come true. MISS: Cy Young knuckleballer R.A. Dickey, one of the few bright spots in the Mets' dismal season, now a Toronto Blue Jay. HIT: U.S. Department of Agriculture andGuatemalans 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 13th Baktun, an epoch lasting some 400 years,The Mayan calendar was off the mark today. Let's be honest, December 21 is here and so are we.MERIDA, Mexico In the darkness before dawn Friday, spiritualists prepared white clothes, drums, conch shells and incense ahead of the sunrise they believe will herald the birth of a new and better age as a vast, 5,125-year cycle in the Mayan calendar
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