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Doomsday Parties Across South California Failed doomsday prediction leads to parties across Southern California Daily News, Los Angeles If you're reading this, then the world didn't end Friday, December 21, 2012. But that didn't keep people from getting anxious - some even joyously excited - about the thought of it being their last night. "I freaked out about the end of the world for a long time," said Los Angeles resident Jason Spence. "When midnight came, I was like OK, cool. "There aren't explosions in the street. No meteors coming down. God's not up in the clouds telling us all to behave. So I feel pretty good." Spence felt so good about the day that he drove all over sunny Los Angeles County to take photos, ending with shots of the sunset from the slope of Mount Hollywood just outside of the Griffith Observatory, which hosted a Feliz believed there was plenty to celebrate. the FBI. "NOT the End of the World" event Friday. Satta is referring to the end of the 26,000-year - Hoover gave up chasing the presidency, and Festivities included winter solstice cycle that marks when the Earth's axis focused his sights on attorney general instead. lectures and late night shows in the Samuel completes a full cycle of precession, which he He planned to use that position as a stepping- Oschin Planetarium. The observatory even believes will bring refreshing energy to the stone to become a justice of the Supreme Court. stayed open until 12:01 a.m. to prove that life universe. To achieve this goal, he surreptitiously backed will still go on. "People keep saying nothing happened, and assisted Thomas Dewey in his presidential In other areas of Los Angeles, but something even more exciting happened race against Harry Truman in 1948, Dewey lost. everything from house parties to raves and even today," Satta said. "We're still here and we're - He assisted Richard Nixon in his race against a "giant marshmallow roast" in downtown were entering an age of enlightenment. It's the new JFK in 1960, supplying sensitive data to Nixon planned to ring in the end of the 13th baktun Golden Age." [] for debates. Nixon lost. cycle of the ancient Mayan Long Count - Hoover once told a top lieutenant that he’d Calendar. LITTLE KNOWN FACTS never married “because God had made a woman "Scientists can predict things like like Eleanor Roosevelt.” whether or not there's an actual threat of an ABOUT - Whether that’s true or not, he rarely fraternized asteroid crashing into our planet," said Laura J. EDGAR HOOVER with women, and he and his top aide, Clyde Danly, the Griffith Observatory curator and Tolson, went everywhere together. astronomer. - In his 48 years with the FBI, Hoover never "We observe over half a million made an arrest or conducted an investigation. asteroids and know their orbits in great - Hoover never once left America while he was precision. They're not going to hurt us any time in charge of the FBI. soon. Science can make predictions about what - According to a top aide, Hoover didn’t even poses us danger and what does not, and there is know how to use a gun. [] no danger for tonight or anytime soon by an asteroid, solar storms or planetary collisions." The celebration of the failed prediction, GROUCHO SEZ... however, did not put an end to the doomsayers who are now touting future apocalyptic events - D10@ .394.0 @9;/< 1;97 =30 7,<=0; one as near as Sunday, according to an archaeologist with Mexico's National Institute G"60,<0 ,..0:= 7B ;0<428,=498 D/98F= @,8= =9 of Anthropology and History. belong to a club that will accept me as a "It's interesting why people are so member.” fascinated by the end-of-the-world dates," Danly said. "It must be part of human nature to G /4/8F= 6450 =30 :6,B ->= =308 D<,@ 4= >8/0; look for some sort of big transition like that, but adverse conditions - the curtain was up.” there is no scientific backing for things like that." - Hoover wanted to be president, he believed he G 9 B9> <>::9<0 D.9>6/ -B -,.5 7B Ramona Martinez of Riverside said she could unseat FDR in 1936. introduction to you?” and her friends stayed up late Thursday texting 0 3,/ D,208=< .98/>.= , =9: <0.;0= each other about the end of the world. When unofficial poll in the South and Southwest, “I’ve worked myself up from nothing to a state midnight hit and no Earth-shattering event where he thought he had the strongest support. of extreme poverty.” happened, Martinez said they just shrugged off “He’s a great mad,” the agents were told to say. all the hype. “Many people think we’d be better off if “Military intelligence is a contradiction in "We were just very `whatever' about it," 99?0; @0;0 :;0<4/08= HD 99?0; @,< <39.50/ terms.” Martinez said. to discover that many law enforcement chiefs Still, while many were scoffing at what didn’t even want him to continue as director of “She got her good looks from her father - he’s a they deemed a non-event, Karim Satta of Los plastic surgeon.” []