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End of world is around corner, authorities predict

Imagine waking up one cold morning in December later this year and finding out aliens have landed on Earth.

Or imagine 10-story tall tsunamis washing away everything you know and love. Well, these are just some of the theories surrounding the alleged date of the apocalypse, Dec. 21, 2012.

“I just have a feeling that something is going to happen this year,” said Natalie Osdugein, a second year education student originally from Nigeria. “I don’t know what, I don’t know how but I’ve had this feeling since I heard if the whole 2012 thing.”

In the film “2012,” released in 2009, catastrophic seismic activity destroys most of the world’s land masses, and immense tidal waves take care of what’s left. The movie, as well as the entire 2012 phenomena, is based on the Mayan long count calendar which ends in December of this year.

According to the book “Maya daykeeping: three calendars from highland Guatemala,” the Mayans had three coinciding calendars that were of importance to their records.

The Haab or “civil calendar,” the Tzolkin or “divine calendar,” and the infamous long count calendar for which the Mayan name is not known. The first two calendars deal with month and year length. However, the long count calendar spans an era of 5,126 years. According to the Mayans, this calendar began in August of 3,114 B.C. and will end on this year’s winter solstice.

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