12th Shorty Awards, Influencer finalists and winners
The full nominations were announced on January 21, 2020 before voting and academy rankings determined the finalists. The finalists were announced on March 10, 2020. Winners were announced at the ceremony on May 3, 2020.


12th Shorty Awards, Influencer finalists and winners, Phenom Award
The Phenom Award is given to those that used social media to make a significant impact benefiting the community. The following received the 2020 Phenom Award:


12th Siberian Rifle Division (Russian Empire)
The 12th Siberian Rifle Division was an infantry formation of the Russian Imperial Army.


12th Siberian Rifle Division (Russian Empire), History
The division was formed between 18 July and 31 August 1914 in Irkutsk from a mobilization division, the 7th Siberian Rifle Division. The division included the 45th and 46th Siberian Rifle Regiments in its 1st Brigade, and the 47th and 48th Siberian Rifle Regiments in its 2nd Brigade. Artillery support was provided by the 12th Siberian Artillery Brigade, and the division was commanded by Lieutenant General Nikolai Sulimov. The division was part of the 7th Siberian Army Corps for the duration of the war.


12th Siberian Rifle Division (Russian Empire), History
It was disbanded in March 1918 in the Central Black Earth Region, along with the rest of the corps.


12th Signal Brigade
The 12th Signal Brigade was a military communications formation of the British Army. In the event of war with the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc it would have provided second line communications in the Low Countries, under the overall control of the British Army of the Rhine.


12th Signal Brigade, History
12 Signal Group was originally formed in 1967 to control the Territorial and Army Volunteer Reserve signal regiments that were to carry out rear area duties in the British Army of the Rhine lines of communication in Belgium and the Netherlands.


12th Signal Brigade, History
In 1982 it was renamed to 12 Signal Brigade. In 1992 the brigade was disbanded as a result of the Options for Change review.


12th South Carolina Infantry Regiment
The 12th South Carolina Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.


12th South Carolina Infantry Regiment, Formation
In answer to the call of President of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis, on or around the 1 July 1861, companies of volunteers from all over the Secessionist States began to bring themselves forward. The volunteers from South Carolina rendezvoused at Columbia, South Carolina, and were sent to a camp of instruction. This camp was located around five miles from Columbia, at Lightwoodknot Springs; there the men were allowed to elect their field officers. The first regiment to be formed was numbered as the 12th South Carolina Volunteers. The regiments' officers were, at its beginning:


12th Soviet Antarctic Expedition
The Twelfth Soviet Antarctic Expedition was an expedition by the Soviet Union to Antarctica.


12th Soviet Antarctic Expedition
During this expedition, a new method was used for measuring the thickness of the ice cap of Antarctica using radar. Glaciologists on the team surveyed the area around Mirny Station and measured the thickness of the glacier.


12th Soviet Antarctic Expedition
The investigations discovered that the central part of the glacial cap in Eastern Antarctica is the largest and most ideal elevated plain in the world. Soviet geologists also did surveys of Queen Maud Land and Enderby Land where they found deposits of coal and iron ore.


12th Space Warning Squadron
The 12th Space Warning Squadron is a United States Space Force ground-based radar used for missile warning, missile defense, and space situation awareness, stationed at Thule Air Base, Greenland.


12th Space Warning Squadron, Overview
The primary mission of the 12th SWS is to provide critical, real-time missile warning, defense, and space surveillance to the President of the United States, Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff,  NORAD, and unified commands by operating a phased-array radar—which continuously provides warning of submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) and intercontinental ballistic missile attacks against North America—and detect, track, and identify earth-orbiting objects in support of USSTRATCOM's space control mission, thus "knitting a blanket of freedom".


12th Space Warning Squadron, Overview
The 12th Space Warning Squadron is a unit of the 21st Operations Group, which is part of the 21st Space Wing under Air Force Space Command.


12th Space Warning Squadron, Overview
To accomplish its mission, the squadron operates the solid-state phased-array radar located at the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS), Site I. The BMEWS site is located approximately 11 miles northwest of Thule AB . It provides early warning detection of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launches from the Russian land mass and submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) launches from the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans against North America. Additionally, BMEWS keeps track of polar orbiting satellites. The operational crews report through the Missile Warning Center to the NORAD/USNORTHCOM Center.


12th Space Warning Squadron, Overview
The Operation Support Flight (DOO) provides direct operational support to the missile warning crews. The flight's Operations Training Section (DOT) provides all crew force initial, recurring, and supplemental training. Other flight responsibilities include hardware, software and maintenance support (MA), operational test and evaluation (DOV), and crew force management (DOU).


12th Space Warning Squadron, History
The 12th SWS was formed in January 1967 as a successor organization to the Air Defense Command 931st Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, which was inactivated at the end of 1965. The 931st AC&WS operated a series of Ground-Control Intercept (GCI) radar sites in Greenland to detect intrusion of unknown aircraft. The squadron relayed information to the 64th NORAD Region Semi Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) system DC-31 Direction Center, and interceptor squadrons stationed at Thule Air Base.


12th Space Warning Squadron, History
With the development of ICBM and SLBM technologies, the mission to monitor aircraft coming over the horizon from the Soviet Union was transferred to other units, and the 931st AC&WS at Thule AB was inactivated.


12th Special Forces Group
The 12th Special Forces Group (Airborne) traces its lineage from the 6th Company, 2nd Battalion, First Regiment, 1st Special Service Force, a joint Canadian-American special operations unit from World War II. The 12th Special Forces Group stood up as a Regular Army special operations unit under the 1st Special Forces in 1960 and was subsequently moved into the Army Reserve in 1969 where it reminded until deactivation in 1995.


12th Special Forces Group, History
Activated 9 July 1942 at Fort William Henry Harrison, Montana.


12th Special Forces Group, History
Reconstituted 15 April 1960 in Regular Army; concurrently, consolidated with Company C, 2d Infantry Battalion and consolidated unit designated as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 12th Special Forces Group, 1st Special Forces.


12th Special Forces Group, History
Withdrawn 14 December 1969 from the Regular Army and allotted to the Army Reserve (organic elements concurrently constituted).


12th Special Forces Group, History
Group activated 24 March 1961 with headquarters at Chicago, Illinois.


12th Special Forces Group, History
Location of headquarters changed 19 January 1964 to Oak Park, Illinois; changed 1 September 1970 to Arlington Heights, Illinois.


12th Special Forces Group, History
Elements Located at Richards Gebauer AFB in Kansas City Missouri in 1978–80, Northern California (Hamilton AFB), and San Diego, California (Van Deman Hall – USAR)


12th Special Forces Group, History
The Group was deactivated, along with the 11th Special Forces Group, on 15 September 1995.


12th Special Forces Group, History
Many members of the 12th SFG transferred to 20th SFG following the group's inactivation.


12th Special Operations Squadron
The 12th Special Operations Squadron is assigned to the 27th Special Operations Group at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico. Its mission is the launch and recovery of MQ-9 Reaper Remotely Piloted Aircraft from unprepared locations throughout the world. The squadron was activated in 2015 to replace a detachment that had been performing the same mission since October 2013.


12th Special Operations Squadron
The squadron was previously active at Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska as the 12th Fighter Squadron, part of the 3d Operations Group. The squadron operated the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle aircraft conducting air superiority missions.


12th Special Operations Squadron
The mission of the 12th is to launch and recover Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) operationally employed by the 2d, 3d and 33d Special Operations Squadrons. To avoid the inherent delay in transmitting commands through satellite communications to RPAs from distant stations, the squadron deploys to locations where it can operate the craft for takeoff and landing using line of sight signals. This minimizes risk during critical flight operations, while permitting mission operations to be performed from more remote secure locations.


12th Special Operations Squadron, History, World War II
The 12th Special Operations Squadron was first activated at Selfridge Field, Michigan as the 12th Pursuit Squadron, one of the original squadrons of the 50th Pursuit Group. in January 1941 when the United States expanded its military forces on the eve of World War II. After training with Seversky P-35s and Curtiss P-36 Hawks, the squadron moved with its parent 50th Pursuit Group to Key Field, Mississippi in October, where it began to equip with Curtiss P-40 Warhawks. It was located there when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on 8 December.


12th Special Operations Squadron, History, World War II
Responding to the critical need for fighters in the Pacific, in February 1942 the squadron deployed to Christmas Island. The 12th flew patrols over the Indian Ocean from Christmas Island between February and October 1942. During this time the squadron was equipped with P-39 and P-400 aircraft. It began combat operations from Fighter Strip No.2 on Guadalcanal on 19 November 1942, moving to Guadalcanal in February. The squadron was subsequently equipped with P-38 Lightning aircraft at this time.


12th Special Operations Squadron, History, World War II
The squadron participated in Operation Vengeance, the successful operation to kill Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto of the Imperial Japanese Navy on 18 April 1943. Operations during this time were frequently split. Although based on Guadalcanal until August 1944, flight operations were conducted from Mono Airfield on Stirling Island. The 12th moved to Mar Drome, Sansapor, Netherlands East Indies that month although starting on 8 November, a portion of the squadron operated from Morotai.


12th Special Operations Squadron, History, World War II
The split operation lasted until 10 January 1945, and three days later the squadron moved to Lingayen Airfield in the Philippines, although the squadron moved to Hill Strip little more than a week later, its rear echelon continued to operate from Lingayen until 24 April 1945, when it leapfrogged forward to become the advanced echelon at Moret Field on 24 April, being joined by the rest of the squadron on 4 May. Combat operations continued until 14 August 1945 from Moret (and from Puerto Princesa Airfield between 26 April and 11 May 1945).


12th Special Operations Squadron, History, World War II
Following the surrender of Japan, the squadron remained in the Philippines.


12th Special Operations Squadron, History, Korean War
When the North Korean People's Army crossed the 38th parallel to invade South Korea in June 1950, Far East Air Forces looked to its resources in the Philippines to reinforce its forces in Korea and the squadron was moved from the Philippines to Taegu Air Base in late July. However, as United Nations forces withdrew into the Pusan Perimeter, the squadron was forced to move to Ashiya Air Base, Japan eleven days after arriving in the theater of war, after flying only a handful of missions from Taegu with North American P-51 Mustangs. The following month it returned to Korea and Pusan East (K-9) Air Base.


12th Special Operations Squadron, History, Korean War
After the Inchon Landings, United Nations forces rapidly moved north and the squadron was able to establish a detachment at Pyongyang East Air Base on 5 November 1950, with the entire squadron arriving just over two weeks later. However, Chinese intervention in Korea forced the squadron to withdraw in December, first to Suwon Air Base, then to Chinhae Air Base (although a detachment of the squadron continued to operate from Suwon until 4 January 1951). Part of the squadron resumed Suwon operations again on 24 March 1951, while another part flew out of Pusan West Air Base Suwon operations lasted until 4 May 1951, while those in Pusan lasted only until 23 April.


12th Special Operations Squadron, History, Korean War
Although still stationed at Chinhae, The squadron operated from Seoul Air Base, closer to the front lines, from 8 May to 9 August 1951 and again from 18 August until 30 September, after which it began operations at Hoengseong Air Base. It moved entirely to Hoengseong on 2 June 1952.


12th Special Operations Squadron, History, Korean War
It continued to fly combat missions in Korea from until 8 January 1953 and again, after re-equipping with the North American F-86 Sabre, from 25 February to 27 July 1953.


12th Special Operations Squadron, History, Korean War
The 12th Fighter-Bomber Squadron Deployed to Tainan Air Base, Taiwan from 27 January – 19 February 1955, 3 September – 30 November 1955, from 18 – 25 April 1961, 18th Tactical Fighter Wing deployed a detachment of 12th Tactical Fighter Squadron aircraft to Kung Kuan Air Base.


12th Special Operations Squadron, History, Vietnam War
The 12th deployed to Vietnam twice in 1965, first from 1 February to March 1965 and 15 June to 25 August 1965. It supported air defense alert capability in Southeast Asia between 1968 and 1972.


12th Special Operations Squadron, History, Vietnam War
The squadron stood alert in South Korea from 23 January to 13 June 1968, after the seizure of the USS Pueblo by North Korea.


12th Special Operations Squadron, History, Operations in the Pacific
The squadron was unmanned and unequipped from May 1972 until November 1975. It remanned and reequipped with McDonnell F-4 Phantom II aircraft in late November 1975. Through 1980, it flew offensive and defensive exercises in support of its wing, the 313th Air Division, and Pacific Air Forces. It converted to McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle aircraft in 1980. In 1981, the 12th earned the Hughes Trophy in recognition as the outstanding fighter squadron in the USAF.


12th Special Operations Squadron, History, Operations in the Pacific
On 5 November 1999, the squadron moved without personnel or equipment to Elmendorf Air Force Base, Alaska where it joined the 3d Wing on 28 April 2000. Between 2000 and 2008, it performed offensive and defensive counter-air missions with current air-to-air weaponry, including night vision goggles (NVG), to achieve air superiority in support of taskings from 3 Wing.


12th Special Operations Squadron, History, Operations in the Pacific
At Elmendorf Air Force Base, the squadron employed the F-15C air superiority fighter in global expeditionary support of war-fighting commands. The squadron was inactivated in September 2006, due to the Base Realignment and Closure of 2005.


12th Special Operations Squadron, History, Remotely piloted vehicles
The 12th was redesignated the 12th Special Operations Squadron and activated at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico to operate RPVs from forward deployed locations during critical flight maneuvers when operating the craft by transmitting signals through satellites could potentially endanger them due to the delay in signal transmission. It absorbed the personnel and equipment of a small detachment that had been performing the same mission at Cannon since October 2013. The squadron is the first of its kind in the United States Air Force, and is being considered as a model for similar units by Air Combat Command.


12th Special Operations Squadron, References, Bibliography
This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website .


12th Sri Lankan Television State Awards
The 12th Television State Awards festival (Sinhala: 12 වැනි රූපවාහිනී රාජ්‍ය සම්මාන උලෙළ), was held to honor the television programs of 2014 Sinhala television on December 28, 2015, at the Nelum Pokuna Mahinda Rajapaksa Theatre, Colombo 07, Sri Lanka. The event was organized by the Ministry of Culture and the Arts, State Television Advisory Council and Arts Council of Sri Lanka. His Excellency The President of Sri Lanka Maithripala Sirisena was the chief guest. A total of were received for the Best Sinhala and Tamil Artists in 35 categories.


12th Sri Lankan Television State Awards
At the award ceremony, veteran broadcaster Shan Wickremesinghe received the Lifetime Achievement Award. Meanwhile, the 9th issue of the Rupavahini Survey Book for the Rupavahini State Awards was also launched.


12th Street Bridge
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12th Street Bridge
The 12th Street Bridge is an automobile crossing of the [] in Kansas City, Missouri.


12th Street Bridge, History
The 12th Street Bridge dates back to the early 1900s, when it was an iron bridge. Swept away by a 1903 flood, it was rebuilt at the cost of $75,000. A judge ordered the bridge rebuilt again in 1923 and it was reopened April 22, 1926.


12th Street Bridge, History
A 1940 fire damaged the center span of the bridge and its wooden floor fell into the river. In about a year, it reopened after being rebuilt.


12th Street Bridge, History
In 2000, the thru-truss was removed and replaced with a girder, due to problems with the substructure. It is just west of the 7th Street Trafficway Bridge, and east of the 18th Street Expressway Bridge over the Kansas River.


12th Street Jump
12th Street Jump is a weekly public radio series, which is broadcast in the United States as well as over internet radio stations around the world. The show is based in Kansas City, where it began broadcasting from in 2009. The show focuses on two genres, Jazz and Blues, while including regular comedy segments. David Basse and Eboni Fondren (Pearl McDonald prior to 2014) are the show's hosts. They regularly have guests on the show, and interview leading Jazz and Blues artists.


12th Street Jump
In 2015, the show had spread its reach to over 115 stations across the United States.


12th Street Jump, History
12th Street Jump began broadcasting in 2009. It is produced by Theater League in Kansas City. The public radio show is a weekly show, focusing on Jazz, Blues and also comedy segments. The show is recorded at the Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand Avenue, on Wednesday nights from 7:30 to 9:00pm in Kansas City.


12th Street Jump, History
It was first broadcast on KCUR FM89.3, Kansas City's public radio station. Its first broadcast came from the Mutual Musicians Foundation, a historic building in the Historic 18th and Vine Jazz district, where Dizzy Gillespie is rumored to have met Charlie Parker.


12th Street Jump, History
In 2010, the show moved to 12th Street Rag, a club located in downtown Kansas City. A renovation of the hotel where the club is located forced the show to move to its current location. It is now recorded live at the Broadway Jazz Club for subsequent broadcast on stations across the United States.


12th Street Jump, History
In 2017, the show was aired on 60 public radio stations in the United States on a weekly basis.


12th Street Jump, Background
The weekly show is one hour long, combining Jazz and Blues with topical sketch comedy, similar to shows such as Saturday Night Live and Prairie Home Companion. The show is hosted by Pete Weber and Eboni Fondren (Pearl McDonald prior to 2014), who regularly interview Jazz and Blues musicians on their show. 12th Street Jump celebrates the birthday of a major jazz or blues musical influence on each show.


12th Street Jump, Background
The show commonly features the music of various Jazz and Blues artists including John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong as well as composers like George Gershwin and Johnny Mercer.


12th Street Jump, Background, Guests
The show regularly features guests from a variety of backgrounds, including vocalists, drummers, trumpet players, saxophonists and guitarists. The variety of guests gives the show diversity. Guests have included Karrin Allyson, Kevin Mahogany, Jeff Hamilton, Joe Sample, Randy Brecker, Wycliffe Gordon, Sean Jones,  Christian McBride, and Rod Fleeman.


12th Street Jump, Background, Comedy
Each week comedy sketches are presented on each weekly broadcast, incorporating Jazz and Blues themes. Their weekly "Blues in the News" feature spoofs celebrities and politicians and has received national coverage. Other sketches include "Dr Pearl", "Eboni," " Ask the Professor," Serena's School for Scat," "The Jazz Mechanics," "So What's Your Question", "Sonny Zoot Reedman – Sax Therapist" and "Who's Got the Blues". Each Sketch has a unique approach, more often than not relating back to Blues or Jazz.


12th Street Oakland City Center station
12th Street/Oakland City Center station is an underground Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station located under Broadway between 12th Street and 14th Street in Downtown Oakland, adjacent to the Oakland City Center. It is the second-busiest BART station in both Oakland and the East Bay (just after 19th Street Oakland), and the 6th busiest BART station overall, with a daily ridership of approximately 13,900 in February 2020.


12th Street Oakland City Center station
The station has three underground levels, with tracks on the second and third levels. It is served by the Richmond–Millbrae + SFO Line, Berryessa/North San José–Richmond Line, and Antioch–SFO + Millbrae Line, as well as by AC Transit buses on the surface.


12th Street Oakland City Center station
Oakland City Center/12th Street station opened in 1972 as part of the first section of BART. In 1980–1986, the KE Track project added the third track to the station. From 1992 to 2002, and 2004 to 2010, it was the timed transfer point between northbound trains. Tempo bus rapid transit service began in 2020.


12th Street Oakland City Center station, Station layout
The station has three underground levels. The first level is a concourse with ticket machines and faregates. An island platform and two main tracks (C1 and CX) for northbound trains (bound for Richmond and Antioch) are on the second level. A side platform with one track (C2) for southbound trains (bound for Berryessa/North San José or San Francisco) is on the third level. The station has red brickwork, contrasting with the blue of nearby 19th Street Oakland station.


12th Street Oakland City Center station, Station layout
The station has eight public entrances: two at 12th Street, three at 13th Street, and two at 14th Street (one from Frank H. Ogawa Plaza), plus one from the belowground plaza of Oakland City Center near 13th Street. Surface elevators are located at the Ogawa Plaza entrance and at the southwest 12th Street entrance, while the platform elevator is at the south end of the station. An unused passage leads directly to the Central Bank Building at the north end of the station.


12th Street Oakland City Center station, History
Oakland City Center/12th Street station, along with 19th Street Oakland and Daly City stations, was designed by Gerard McCue and Associates. By 1967, owners of three Oakland buildings were considering paying for private entrances from the station mezzanine. Only one was actually constructed: an entrance from the Central Bank Building (1400 Broadway) was approved in February 1968.


12th Street Oakland City Center station, History
The station opened on September 11, 1972, as part of the first section of BART to open; service was extended to Richmond the next year. Service to Concord was added on May 21, 1973, and extended to San Francisco through the Transbay Tube on September 16, 1974. Richmond–San Francisco service was added on April 19, 1976.


12th Street Oakland City Center station, History
The station initially had one side platform on each level, with one track on the east side of each platform. The KE Track project, begun in 1980 and completed on March 17, 1986, converted the upper platform to an island platform with a new west track (Track CX). The new track was originally used for peak hour service (southbound towards San Francisco in the morning, and northbound in the evening).


12th Street Oakland City Center station, History
Schedule changes on June 22, 1992, introduced timed transfers between Richmond–Fremont line and Concord–Daly City line trains. Oakland City Center/12th Street was the transfer point between northbound (Richmond-bound and Concord-bound) trains, while MacArthur station was the transfer point between southbound trains. Timed transfers were discontinued in 2002, but resumed on February 9, 2004. Four of the six entrances were closed from April 13, 2020, to June 12, 2021, due to low ridership during the COVID-19 pandemic.


12th Street Oakland City Center station, History
The station was renamed to 12th Street Oakland City Center around 2008. On September 13, 2010, the northbound transfer location was changed to 19th Street Oakland station. Sunday-only service to the station on the Dublin/Pleasanton line was operated from February 11, 2019 to February 10, 2020 due to construction work in the Transbay Tube.


12th Street Oakland City Center station, History
Construction of the Oakland–San Leandro East Bay Bus Rapid Transit line (later branded Tempo) began in August 2016. Tempo route 1T service began on August 9, 2020, with surface stations at 14th Street and City Center.


12th Street Oakland City Center station, Bus connections
Downtown Oakland is a major transfer point for AC Transit buses, which stop at various locations on Broadway and cross streets near the station:


12th Street Oakland City Center station, Bus connections
Route 1T stops at dedicated platforms at two locations: 14th Street on Broadway at the north end of the station, and City Center just east of Broadway on 12th Street (northbound) and 11th Street (southbound) at the south end of the station.


12th Street station (DART)
The 12th Street station is a future DART Light Rail and commuter rail station along the Red Line and the Silver Line in Plano, Texas.


12th Street station (DART)
The station has two levels, with the ground-level at 12th Street & K Avenue serving the Silver Line and the elevated level (two blocks west at 1000 12th Street) serving the Red Line. The City of Plano approved the purchase of a piece of land in February 2015 in anticipation of its construction.


12th Street station (DART)
The two platforms will be connected by a sidewalk about 500 feet (150 m) long. The station's bus bays and parking lots will be next to the Silver Line platform: the bus bays and a small parking lot on its north side and a larger parking lot on its south side.


12th Street/Jefferson and 12th Street/Washington stations
12th Street/Jefferson station and  12th Street/Washington station, also collectively known as Eastlake Park, is a pair of light rail stations on Valley Metro Rail in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. It is the fourteenth stop westbound and the fifteenth stop eastbound on the initial 20-mile (32 km) starter line. This station is split between two platforms, the westbound platform which is located on Washington Street at 12th Street and the eastbound platform located on Jefferson Street at 12th Street, approximately 500 feet (150 m) apart from one another.


12th TCA Awards
The 12th TCA Awards were presented by the Television Critics Association in a ceremony hosted by Heidi Swedberg. The ceremony was held on July 20, 1996, at the Ritz-Carlton Huntington Hotel and Spa in Pasadena, California.


12th TVyNovelas Awards
The 12th TVyNovelas Awards, is an Academy of special awards to the best of soap operas and TV shows. The awards ceremony took place on April 29, 1994 in the México D.F.. The ceremony was televised in the Mexico by Canal de las estrellas.


12th TVyNovelas Awards
Raúl Velasco hosted the show. Corazón salvaje won 7 awards including Best Telenovela of the Year, the most for the evening. Other winners Los Parientes Pobres and Dos mujeres, un camino won 2 awards and Capricho, and Entre la vida y la muerte won one each.


12th TVyNovelas Awards, Winners and nominees, International Segment
This segment is transmitted only in the United States for Univisión:


12th TVyNovelas Awards, Winners and nominees, Missing
People who did not attend ceremony wing and were nominated in the shortlist in each category:


12th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron (ROCAF)
The 12th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron (12th TRS) is an active unit of the Republic of China Air Force. It is part of the 401st Tactical Composite Wing and operates the General Dynamics F-16A/B Fighting Falcon, Northrop RF-5E Tigergazer and Northrop F-5F Tiger II from Hualien Air Force Base, Hualien County.


12th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron (ROCAF), History, 1997 to present
Up until 1998, the 12th TRS were operating the Lockheed TF/RF-104G Stargazer and Northrop F-5E/F Tiger II from Taoyuan Air Base, Taoyuan. With the forthcoming retirement of the Starfighter, the 12th TRS began to convert to the Northrop RF-5E Tigergazer, with deliveries first arriving in August 1997. On 22 May 1998, the last two TF-104Gs (4186 and 4196) were retired in a ceremony at Ching Chuan Kang Air Base, Taichung.


12th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron (ROCAF), History, 1997 to present
On 1 July 1998, the 12th TRS relocated to Hualien Air Force Base, Hualien County, and converted to the General Dynamics F-16A/B Fighting Falcon, which replaced the F-5Es. The squadron's RF-5Es were also transferred to the 4th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron during this time. The 12th TRS' F-16As are equipped with Phoenix Eye reconnaissance pods, leading to an unofficial designation of RF-16A.


12th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron (ROCAF), History, 1997 to present
In May 2011, the 12th TRS began to receive the RF-5E back from the 4th TRS, starting with 5503 and 5506. On 13 September 2011, 5506 and F-5F 5401 of the 4th TRS both crashed into a mountain during a night-time sortie, killing all crew. The squadron completed its conversion to the RF-5E on 12 June 2013, operating them alongside the F-16.


12th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron (ROCAF), History, 1997 to present
In October 2019, it was announced by the Minister of National Defence Yen Teh-fa that Taiwan is looking to replace the Phoenix Eye recon pod with the UTC Aerospace Systems MS-110 pod which would be carried by the RF-16 fleet, allowing for the retirement of the RF-5Es.


12th Tamil Nadu Assembly
Twelfth Assembly of Tamil Nadu was instituted after the victory of AIADMK and allies, in the 2001 state assembly election. O. Panneerselvam officially became the 13th and J. Jayalalithaa became the 14th Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu due to the election. Even though Jayalalithaa was the Chief Minister between 14 May and 21 September 2001, the Supreme Court of India, declared that she did not legally hold the post, due to corruption charges from her previous Chief ministership.


12th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment (Union)
The 12th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.


12th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment (Union), Service
The 12th Tennessee Cavalry was organized at Nashville, Tennessee and mustered in for a three-year enlistment on August 24, 1863, under the command of Colonel George Spalding. As late as February 22, 1864, only six companies had completed organization.


12th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment (Union), Service
The regiment was attached to District of Nashville, Department of the Cumberland, to January 1864. Defenses of Nashville & Northwestern Railroad to April 1864. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, Cavalry Corps, Department of the Cumberland, to October 1864. 2nd Brigade, 4th Division, Cavalry Corps, Military Division Mississippi, to December 1864. 2nd Brigade, 5th Division, Cavalry Corps, Military Division Mississippi, to February 1865. 1st Brigade, 5th Division, Cavalry Corps, Military Division Mississippi, to May 1865. Department of the Missouri to October 1865.


12th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment (Union), Service
The 12th Tennessee Cavalry mustered out of service at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, on October 7, 1865.


12th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment (Union), Detailed service
Scout to Florence, Alabama, July 20–25, 1863 (detachment). Duty at Nashville and on Nashville & Northwestern Railroad at Pulaski, Tennessee, until November 1864. Duck River April 22, 1864. Scout in Hickman and Maury Counties May 2–12. Lincoln County June 14. Scout from Pulaski to Florence, Alabama, July 20–25 (detachment). Triune August 3–4. Florence August 10. Operations against Forrest in northern Alabama and middle Tennessee September 16-October 10. Richland Creek, near Pulaski, September 26. Pulaski September 26–27. Nashville Campaign November–December. On line of Shoal Creek November 5–20. Campbellsville and Lynnville November 24. In front of Columbia November 24–27. Franklin November 30.


12th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment (Union), Detailed service
Battle of Nashville December 15–16. Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17–28. West Harpeth River December 17. Spring Hill December 18. Rutherford Creek December 19. Curtis Creek December 19. Lawrenceburg December 22. Lynnville and Richland Creek December 24. King's Gap, near Pulaski, December 25. At Gravelly Springs, Alabama, until February 1865. At Eastport, Mississippi, until May. Moved to St. Louis, Missouri, May 15–17, thence to Rolla, Missouri, June 20–26, and to Fort Riley, Kansas, June 29-July 8.


12th Tennessee Cavalry Regiment (Union), Casualties
The regiment lost a total of 226 men during service; 5 officers and 28 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded, 2 officers and 191 enlisted men died of disease or accident.


12th Tennessee Infantry Regiment
The 12th Regiment, Tennessee Infantry was an infantry regiment from Tennessee that served with the Confederate States Army in the American Civil War.


12th Tennessee Infantry Regiment, Service
It was mustered in 1861, consisting mostly of men from Gibson County. Colonel Tyree Harris Bell was its commanding officer. Robert Porter Caldwell was the major for the regiment. The regiment fought in notable battles, including the Battle of Shiloh.


12th Territorial Defence Brigade (Poland)
The 12th Territorial Defence Brigade is a military unit of the Territorial Defence Force of the Polish Armed Forces. The brigade is based in Poznań, Greater Poland Voivodeship.


12th Texas Cavalry Regiment
The 12th Texas Cavalry Regiment was a unit of mounted volunteers recruited in Texas that fought in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. The regiment was enrolled in state service in September 1861 and in Confederate service the following month. The regiment fought at Whitney's Lane, Cotton Plant, and L'Anguille Ferry in 1862, Goodrich's Landing in 1863, and Blair's Landing and Yellow Bayou in 1864. The unit also participated in numerous skirmishes and scouts. It disbanded in May 1865.


12th Texas Cavalry Regiment, Formation
Soon after the war started in April 1861, William Henry Parsons, a Waco newspaper editor, began recruiting men for a cavalry regiment. On 11 September 1861 the unit organized at Rockett Springs near Waxahachie as the 4th Texas Dragoons with Parsons elected colonel. On 28 October the regiment was mustered into the Confederate Army as the 12th Texas Cavalry. A number of Texas counties were represented as follows:


12th Texas Cavalry Regiment, History
On 25 March 1862, Earl Van Dorn received an order from Albert Sidney Johnston to transfer his Army of the West to Corinth, Mississippi. Van Dorn proceeded to shift all available soldiers, ammunition, food, and weapons to the east side of the Mississippi River. In May 1862, the Union Army of the Southwest under Samuel Ryan Curtis invaded eastern Arkansas and captured Batesville. Thomas C. Hindman, the newly appointed Confederate commander in Arkansas, was appalled to find almost no soldiers or military equipment to defend Little Rock. Hindman began improvising an army and a logistical base. Before Hindman's arrival, John Selden Roane started to detain Texas cavalry regiments as they crossed Arkansas headed for Memphis, Tennessee. The 12th Texas Cavalry was one of the units appropriated to defend the state of Arkansas.


12th Texas Cavalry Regiment, History
The regiment fought at the Battle of Whitney's Lane on 19 May 1862. Before this skirmish, the local Union commander Peter J. Osterhaus reported to Curtis that Confederates and irregulars were harassing his division. At Whitney's Lane, the Texas cavalrymen surrounded a Union foraging party from the 17th Missouri Volunteer Infantry near Searcy. The Federals admitted losses of 15 killed, 32 wounded, and two missing; they claimed to have killed 18 Confederates. The Missourians complained that when they tried to surrender, their attackers yelled, "Damn you, we want no prisoners", and killed some of the Federal wounded.


12th Texas Cavalry Regiment, History
Curtis and Osterhaus called their attackers "armed bandits" and "outlaws" and threatened to shoot any prisoners taken. Another source stated that 100 troopers of the 12th Texas under Major Emory Rogers plus 50 local militia attacked a group of Union foragers at the intersection of Whitney's Lane and the West Point Road a few miles east of Searcy. They claimed to have inflicted losses of 22 killed and 33 wounded on their enemies while capturing a surgeon and four ambulance wagons. The Confederates reported losing four killed and several wounded.


12th Texas Cavalry Regiment, History
The 12th Texas took part in the Battle of Cotton Plant on 7 July 1862. Unable to march to Little Rock due to breakdown of his supply line, Curtis moved his army south down the White River. He was opposed by Albert Rust with 5,000 Arkansas infantry and Texas cavalry. While crossing the Cache River, Curtis sent Charles Edward Hovey with 400 men and one gun to scout ahead. Near Parley Hill's plantation, the Federals bumped into 1,000 men from the 12th Texas and 16th Texas Cavalry Regiments under Parsons.


12th Texas Cavalry Regiment, History
After some fighting, the Texans gained the upper hand and forced part of Hovey's troops to retreat. But when the Texas cavalry galloped after their enemies, they were ambushed by three companies of the 33rd Illinois Infantry Regiment concealed in a cornfield. After a lull, 200 Union troops and two more cannons arrived as reinforcements to push back the Texans. Later in the day another Union brigade under William P. Benton appeared as additional reinforcements. Rust's troops withdrew behind another river and destroyed their boats. One Texan wrote that the 12th Texas lost 14 killed, 20 seriously wounded, 16 slightly wounded, and two missing.


12th Texas Cavalry Regiment, History
The regiment attacked Curtis's supply line in the Battle of L'Anguille Ferry on 3 August 1862. On 29 July, the 1st Battalion of the 1st Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry Regiment led by Lieutenant Colonel Oscar Hugh La Grange reached Marianna on the L'Anguille River. That same day, the 2nd Battalion of the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry under Major Henry S. Eggleston left Wittsburg with a convoy, heading south, and reached the L'Anguille Ferry near Marianna on 2 August. Eggleston's force included 130 troopers, numbers of escaped slaves, 27 wagons, and 100 seized horses and mules.


12th Texas Cavalry Regiment, History
At dawn, Parsons led 600 horsemen of the 12th Texas in a surprise attack on the Union camp. After a half-hour of heavy fighting, the surviving Federals scattered into the woods. The Texans inflicted losses of 17 killed, 40 wounded, and 25 captured. They made off with seven wagons and the livestock and burned everything else. Parsons reported that the 12th Texas lost two killed and 10 wounded. Later that day, La Grange rode to the rescue with 200 troopers, but the Texans were gone.


12th Texas Cavalry Regiment, History
At this time four cavalry regiments were dismounted because there was not enough feed for the horses. This caused a number of cavalrymen to desert. Because it had distinguished itself, the 12th Texas was allowed to remain mounted. Union soldiers began calling it the "Swamp Fox Regiment" because of its habit of traveling through swamps and attacking at night.


12th Texas Cavalry Regiment, History
Parsons began leading a cavalry brigade that included the 12th Texas, 19th Texas, and 21st Texas Cavalry Regiments, and Joseph H. Pratt's Tenth Texas Field Battery. Parsons was replaced in command of the regiment by Lieutenant Colonel John W. Mullen, and after he resigned, by Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Bell Burleson. In 1863, the 12th Texas was transferred to northeast Louisiana to fight along with General John George Walker's Texas division, known as Walker's Greyhounds. Walker's Texas Division was about 4,000-strong.


12th Texas Cavalry Regiment, History
At the Battle of Goodrich's Landing on 29 June 1863, Parsons left Gaines Landing, Arkansas with the 12th Texas, 19th Texas, and 15th Louisiana Cavalry Regiments, and Cameron's Arkansas and Ralston's Mississippi Batteries. Parson's brigade surrounded a small Union-held fort and accepted the surrender of its garrison. The Confederates seized large amounts of supplies and burned the cotton that was accumulated in the warehouses. Parsons then drove off a few companies of the 1st Kansas Mounted Infantry. The next day, Union reinforcements under Alfred W. Ellet were landed and, after some skirmishing, Parsons withdrew. After the Federals successfully concluded the Siege of Vicksburg, the regiment returned to Arkansas.


12th Texas Cavalry Regiment, History
The 12th Texas fought at the Battle of Blair's Landing on 12 April 1864 during the Red River Campaign. After the Union defeat at the Battle of Mansfield on 8 April, the Union fleet reversed course and began to move downstream. Thomas Green took his cavalry division to Blair's Landing to intercept the Federal gunboats and transports as they descended the river. The Confederate forces claimed to have inflicted heavy losses on Union soldiers in the transports as they passed, but Green was killed by a shot from one of the gunboats.


12th Texas Cavalry Regiment, History
Thomas Oliver Selfridge Jr., the commanding officer of the monitor USS Osage reported that the Confederates lined the high banks of the river and fired their rifles at the vessels as they passed within 100 yd (91 m). The Osage fired canister shot in reply, and when that was exhausted, the gun crews fired shrapnel shell with the fuses cut to one second. The battle lasted one hour and a half.


12th Texas Cavalry Regiment, History
Selfridge reported that everything aboard made of wood was riddled by bullets, and the armor plate of his ship's pilot house had 60 bullet marks in it, but his crew only lost seven wounded. The Confederates reported negligible losses, except for Green, and about 50 Union soldiers on the transports became casualties.


12th Texas Cavalry Regiment, History
The 12th Texas continued to harass the retreating Federal troops and fought in the last action of the campaign at the Battle of Yellow Bayou on 18 May 1864. In this final action, the Federals sustained 267 casualties while the Confederates lost 452. The regiment then returned to southern Arkansas. In early 1865 it was ordered to march to Texas. On 23 May 1865 the 12th Texas Cavalry disbanded.


12th Tony Awards
The 12th Annual Tony Awards took place at the Waldorf-Astoria Grand Ballroom on April 13, 1958. Bud Collyer was the Master of Ceremonies. For the second year the program was not telecast, due to a strike against WCBS-TV.


12th Tony Awards, The ceremony
Presenters: Sydney Chaplin, Greer Garson, Judy Holliday, Celeste Holm, Nancy Kelly, Mary Martin, Elsa Maxwell, Laurence Olivier, Tyrone Power, Martha Scott, Phil Silvers, Walter Slezak. Performers were Mindy Carson and Bill Hayes. Music was by Meyer Davis and his Orchestra.


12th Transgender Erotica Awards
The 12th Annual Transgender Erotica Awards was a pornographic awards event recognizing the best in transgender pornography form the previous year from  November 16, 2018 – October 1, 2019. Pre -nominations were open from October 2 to October 16, 2019. The public-at-large was able to suggest nominees using an online form. Nominees were announced on January 3, 2020, online on the theteashow.com website, with fan voting opening on the same day. The eligibility period for the fan award was 1 January to 31 December 2019.


12th Transgender Erotica Awards
The awards open to fan voting were the fan award which was open to all and site-specific awards which were open to members of the forums of the specific sites who met specific criteria regarding; a number of postings and a date to have been a member before. The winners were announced during the webcast on May 10, 2020.


12th Transgender Erotica Awards, Rescheduling of event
The TEA's were originally scheduled to be hosted by Domino Presley at the Avalon Hollywood of March 15, 2020. On March 12 as a result of legal advice following restriction in place on events in excess of 250 people being recommended to be cancelled by Governor of California Gavin Newsom, the event was indefinitely postponed, as a result of the Avalon cancelling all events in March 2020. On April 20, 2020, it was announced that the award show would be held as an online production, broadcast for free on grooby247.com. The awards were presented with winners notified in advance after signing non-disclosure agreements. Each winner gave a pre-recorded acceptance speech. Award trophies were mailed out to recipients after the award show was broadcast.


12th Transgender Erotica Awards, Winners and nominees
The nominations for the 12th Transgender Erotica Awards were announced online on January 3, 2020, and fan voting opened on the same day, when pre-nominations closed, online on the theteashow.com website. The originally scheduled to be announced during the awards on March 15, 2020, but were later publicly announced on May 10, 2020, during the pre-recorded webcast.


12th U-boat Flotilla
The 12th U-boat Flotilla (German 12. Unterseebootsflottille) was a German U-boat flotilla formed on 15 October 1942 at Bordeaux under the command of Korvettenkapitän Klaus Scholtz. The flotilla was disbanded on 25 August 1944 due to the imminent arrival of Allied forces.


12th U-boat Flotilla, Assigned U-boats
The following U-boats were assigned to 12th U-boat Flotilla at Bordeaux at various times during their service life:


12th U-boat Flotilla, Assigned U-boats
Thirty-nine of the forty-two U-boats assigned to 12th Flotilla were destroyed during their assignment. Before the base at Bordeaux was captured by the Allies, U-861, U-862 and U-1061 managed to escape, and were transferred to other U-boat flotillas.


12th U-boat Flotilla, Assigned ex-Italian submarines
The following Italian submarines were captured after the Italian capitulation in September 1943 and assigned to the 12th U-boat Flotilla:


12th United States Colored Heavy Artillery Regiment
The 12th Regiment Heavy Artillery U.S. Colored Troops was formed at Camp Nelson, Kentucky. It was one of 175 regiments of African American men during the Civil War.


12th United States Colored Heavy Artillery Regiment, Overview
During the Civil War, Kentucky, was the last state to accept African American men into their army. In February 1864 there were 400 men who wanted to enlist and Col. Andrew H. Clark began enlisted the men. By June of that year there were 1,500 enlisted colored soldiers. June 13, 1864, restrictions were lifted requiring men to be free or have their owner's written permission to engage in the war; From that point forward anyone that enlisted was emancipated.


12th United States Colored Heavy Artillery Regiment, Overview
The 12th Regiment Heavy Artillery U.S. Colored Troops was organized on July 15, 1864, at Camp Nelson. Until January 1865 it was attached to the 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, District of Kentucky, Dept. of the Ohio. It was then attached to the Military District of Kentucky and Dept. of Kentucky, to April, 1866. The regiment was responsible for garrison duty at Bowling Green, Camp Nelson and other points until April, 1866. It mustered out April 24, 1866.


12th United States Colored Heavy Artillery Regiment, Overview
It was the largest regiment that was organized at Camp Nelson. From June 1864 through April 1865 there were a total of 1,418 men enlisted. In one day there were 322 men who enlisted.


12th United States Colored Heavy Artillery Regiment, Overview
Information about the regiment has been published in Peter Bruner's A Slave's Adventures Toward Freedom and the memoir of Elijah P. Marrs, a sergeant in company L. Camp Nelson became the third largest recruiting and training center for African American men: More than 10,000 African American men were recruited at Camp Nelson.


12th United States Colored Infantry Regiment
The 12th United States Colored Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The regiment was composed of African American enlisted men commanded by white officers and was authorized by the Bureau of Colored Troops which was created by the United States War Department on May 22, 1863.


12th United States Colored Infantry Regiment, Service
The 12th U.S. Colored Infantry was recruited in Tennessee July 24 through August 14, 1863 and mustered in for three-year service under the command of Colonel Charles Robinson Thompson.


12th United States Colored Infantry Regiment, Service
The regiment was attached to Defenses of Nashville & Northwestern Railroad, Department of the Cumberland, to October 1864. 2nd Colored Brigade, District of the Etowah, Department of the Cumberland, to January 1865. Defenses of Nashville & Northwestern Railroad, District of Middle Tennessee, to May 1865. 3rd Sub-District, District Middle Tennessee, Department of the Cumberland, to January 1866.


12th United States Colored Infantry Regiment, Service
The 12th U.S. Colored Infantry mustered out of service in January 1866.


12th United States Colored Infantry Regiment, Detailed service
Railroad guard duty at various points in Tennessee and Alabama on line of the Nashville & Northwestern Railroad until December 1864. Repulse of Hood's attack on Johnsonville November 2, 4 and 5. Action at Buford's Station, Section 37, Nashville & Northwestern Railroad, November 24. March to Clarksville, Tenn., and skirmish near that place December 2. Battle of Nashville December 15–16. Pursuit of Hood to the Tennessee River December 17–28. Action at Decatur, Ala., December 27–28. Railroad guard and garrison duty in the Department of the Cumberland until January 1866.


12th United States Colored Infantry Regiment, Casualties
The regiment lost a total of 284 men during service; 4 officers and 38 enlisted men killed or mortally wounded,  242 enlisted men died of disease.


12th United States Congress
The 12th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in Washington, D.C. from March 4, 1811, to March 4, 1813, during the third and fourth years of James Madison's presidency. The apportionment of seats in the House of Representatives was based on the Second Census of the United States in 1800. Both chambers had a Democratic-Republican majority.


12th United States Congress, Party summary
The count below identifies party affiliations at the beginning of the first session of this congress. Changes resulting from subsequent replacements are shown below in the "Changes in membership" section.


12th United States Congress, Party summary, Senate
During this congress, two new Senate seats were added for the new state of Louisiana.


12th United States Congress, Party summary, House of Representatives
During this congress, one new House seat was added for the new state of Louisiana.


12th United States Congress, Members
This list is arranged by chamber, then by state. Senators are listed by class, and representatives are listed by district.


12th United States Congress, Members, Senate
Senators were elected by the state legislatures every two years, with one-third beginning new six-year terms with each Congress. Preceding the names in the list below are Senate class numbers, which indicate the cycle of their election. In this Congress, Class 1 meant their term began in the last Congress, requiring re-election in 1814; Class 2 meant their term began with this Congress, requiring re-election in 1816; and Class 3 meant their term ended with this Congress, requiring re-election in 1812


12th United States Congress, Members, House of Representatives
The names of members of the House of Representatives are preceded by their district numbers.


12th United States Congress, Members, House of Representatives, Maryland
The 5th district was a plural district with two representatives.


12th United States Congress, Members, House of Representatives, New York
There were two plural districts, the 2nd & 6th each had two representatives.


12th United States Congress, Members, House of Representatives, Pennsylvania
There were four plural districts, the 1st, 2nd, & 3rd had three representatives each, the 4th had two representatives.


12th United States Congress, Changes in membership
The count below reflects changes from the beginning of the first session of this Congress.


12th Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Base
The 12 Baza Bezzałogowych Statków Powietrznych (English: 12th Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Base) is a Polish Air Force base, located 5 km north of Mirosławiec.


12th Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Base
It was constituted as 12 Baza Lotnicza on 1 January 2001.


12th Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Base
In 2008, it was the site of the Mirosławiec air accident.


12th Vanier Cup
The 12th Vanier Cup was played on November 19, 1976, at Varsity Stadium in Toronto, Ontario, and decided the CIAU football champion for the 1976 season. The Western Mustangs won their third championship by defeating the Acadia Axemen by a score of 29-13.


12th Venice International Film Festival
The 12th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 20 August to 10 September 1951.


12th Vermont Infantry Regiment
The 12th Vermont Infantry Regiment was a nine months' infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It served in the eastern theater, predominantly in the Defenses of Washington, from October 1862 to July 1863. It was a member of the 2nd Vermont Brigade.


12th Vermont Infantry Regiment, History
The 12th Vermont Infantry, a nine months regiment, raised as a result of President Lincoln's call on August 4, 1862, for additional troops due to the disastrous results of the Peninsula Campaign.


12th Vermont Infantry Regiment, History
It was composed of volunteers from ten volunteer militia companies as follows:


12th Vermont Infantry Regiment, History
Colonel Asa P. Blunt, previously of the 3rd and 6th Vermont regiments, was selected to command the regiment. Lieutenant Colonel Roswell Farnham and Major Levi G. Kingsley had held commissions in the 1st Vermont Infantry, along with a total of 65 officers and men.


12th Vermont Infantry Regiment, History
The regiment went into camp at Brattleboro on September 25, 1862, and was mustered into United States service on October 4. It left Vermont on October 7, and arrived in Washington, D.C. on October 10, and went into camp on East Capital Hill. On October 30 it became part of the 2nd Vermont Brigade, which also included the 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th Vermont Infantry regiments.


12th Vermont Infantry Regiment, History
Colonel Blunt, as ranking colonel, commanded the brigade until the arrival of Brigadier General Edwin H. Stoughton, on December 7.


12th Vermont Infantry Regiment, History
Stoughton was not popular with the officers and men of the brigade, so when he was captured by Confederate partisan John S. Mosby on March 9, 1863, few mourned his loss. Colonel Blunt assumed command of the brigade again, turning it over to the new brigade commander, Brigadier General George J. Stannard, on April 20, who led the brigade until the Battle of Gettysburg.


12th Vermont Infantry Regiment, History
The regiment marched to Munson's Hill on October 30, and Hunting Creek the next day, where it stayed until December 12, in 'Camp Vermont.' It was engaged in picket duty near Fairfax Courthouse from December 12 to January 20, 1863, participating in a repulse of J.E.B. Stuart's cavalry on December 29. The regiment was stationed at Wolf Run Shoals from January 20 to May 1, performed railroad guard duty at Warrenton Junction until May 7, and camped near Rappahannock Station until May 18. From then until June 1, it camped near Bristoe and Catlett's Station. For the majority of June, it was at Union Mills.


12th Vermont Infantry Regiment, History
On June 25, the brigade was assigned as the 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, I Corps, and ordered to form the rear guard of the Army of the Potomac as it marched north after Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. The 12th marched with the brigade from Wolf Run Shoals on June 25, crossed the Potomac river on June 27, at Edward's Ferry, and moved north through Frederick City and Creagerstown, Maryland. It was drawing near Gettysburg on July 1, when the 12th and 15th regiments were detached to guard the corps trains.


12th Vermont Infantry Regiment, History
The regiment accompanied the corps trains to Rock Creek Church, near the battlefield, and two companies of the 12th went forward to protect ammunition trains on the Taneytown road.


12th Vermont Infantry Regiment, History
After the battle, the regiment moved south to Westminster, Maryland, then served as guards for a train of 2,500 Confederate prisoners who were taken to Baltimore, Maryland. Departing Baltimore, the regiment traveled to Brattleboro, Vermont, where it arrived on July 9. It was mustered out on July 14, 1863.


12th Vermont Infantry Regiment, History
Dozens of newly discharged members of the regiment enlisted again, predominantly in the regiments of the 1st Vermont Brigade, and the 17th Vermont Infantry.


12th Vietnam Film Festival
The 12th Vietnam Film Festival was held from March 25 to March 28, 1999, in Huế, Vietnam, with the slogan: "For an advanced Vietnam cinema imbued with national identity" (Vietnamese: "Vì một nền điện ảnh Việt Nam tiên tiến đậm đà bản sắc dân tộc").


12th Vietnam Film Festival, Event
The festival that year had its own way of organizing, not bustling but very grandiose, imbued with national identity.


12th Vietnam Film Festival, Event
There are 114 films in attendance at the Film Festival (16 feature films, 19 direct-to-video feature films, 17 animated films, 62 documentary/science films). The closing night was a fierce competition between the two films "Hà Nội mùa đông năm 46" and "Ngã ba Đồng Lộc" causing the audience to wait and discuss.


12th Vietnam Film Festival, Event
In the end, 3 Golden Lotuses were awarded for categories: feature film (1 film), documentary film (1 film) and direct-to-video documentary (1 film). For the first time, there are awards for actor/actress in supporting roles.


12th Virginia Cavalry Regiment
The 12th Virginia Cavalry Regiment was a cavalry regiment raised in Virginia for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia.


12th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, History
Virginia's 12th Cavalry Regiment (originally called 10th Regiment) was organized at Conrad's Store, Virginia, in June 1862, with ten companies from the 7th Virginia Cavalry regiment, which consisted of twenty-nine companies at the time.


12th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, History
The unit served in W.E. Jones', Rosser's, and J. Dearing's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia. It fought in Northern Virginia, in the Maryland Campaign, at Brandy Station, then was involved in various conflicts in the western part of Virginia. The regiment continued the fight at Bristoe and Mine Run, in the battles around The Wilderness and Cold Harbor, and in Early's operations in the Shenandoah Valley.


12th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, History
During mid-April, 1865, it disbanded. The field officers were Colonel Asher W. Harman, Lieutenant Colonels Richard H. Burks and Thomas B. Massie, and Major John L. Knott.


12th Virginia Infantry Regiment
The 12th Virginia Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment mostly raised in Petersburg, Virginia, for service in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, but with units from the cities of Norfolk and Richmond, and Greensville and Brunswick counties in southeastern Virginia. It fought mostly with the Army of Northern Virginia.


12th Virginia Infantry Regiment
The 12th Virginia was organized at Norfolk in May, 1861, using the 4th Battalion Virginia Volunteers as its nucleus. Its members were mostly from Petersburg, with some men from Richmond and Norfolk. The regiment initially protected the main ports at Norfolk and Petersburg.


12th Virginia Infantry Regiment
In response to the federal Peninsular Campaign in the spring 1862, it joined General William Mahone's Brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia, then participated in many conflicts from Seven Pines to Wilderness. It was involved in the nearly year-long Siege of Petersburg, and conclusion of the Appomattox Campaign.


12th Virginia Infantry Regiment
The field officers were Colonels Everard M. Feild and David A. Weisiger; Lieutenant Colonels John R. Lewellen and Fielding L. Taylor; and Majors Edgar L. Brockett, Richard W. Jones, and John P. May. Future Virginia governors William E. Cameron and William Hodges Mann served in the 12th Virginia. Cameron had been a staff officer under Gen. Mahone and won election as a member of the Readjuster Party. Mann would be the last governor of Virginia to have fought in the Civil War.


12th Virginia Infantry Regiment
Colonel D. A. Weisiger on left, with Lt. Louis Leoferick Marks in 1860.


12th Virginia Infantry Regiment
Petersburg City Guard in formation at Poplar Lawn Petersburg, Va. February 1861. Capt . J. P. May front center.


12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Companies
By 1860, the Petersburg City Guard (that became Company A) was led by Col. David Weisiger, associated with the commission merchant firm John Rowlett and Company. He also was a prominent Freemason, the grand commander of the Appomattox Commandery, Knights Templar No. 6. Company A formally enlisted in the Virginia militia on April 19, 1861, shortly after the Virginia Secession Convention of 1861 approved a secession resolution. The Petersburg City Guard and the older established militia company, the Petersburg Grays (Company B) had been sent to Harper's Ferry, Virginia in 1859 to guard against civil unrest during the trial and execution of abolitionist John Brown.


12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Companies
Upon their return, Petersburg expanded the Old Grays, and formed another unit, dubbed the "new" Petersburg Grays (Company C). Three additional companies were recruited within the city and began training. The Lafayette Guards became Company D, and the Petersburg Riflemen became Company E. Eventually, all five Petersburg companies would become part of this unit, and would be joined by companies from Norfolk (a militia unit dating from 1802) and Richmond (a militia unit formed in 1844).


12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Companies
In March 1862, before this regiment's combat service began, many men transferred from the Lafayette Guards into the new Petersburg Artillery (under Captain Branch), so that unit received many recruits from rural Patrick County in southwest Virginia. The final Petersburg-recruited company, "Archer's Rifles" was raised in May 1861 by Fletcher H. Archer, who had commanded a volunteer company in the Mexican War. Archer soon became lieutenant colonel of the 3rd Virginia Infantry Regiment, while his company became Company K of the 12th Virginia Infantry.


12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Companies
The regiment was unusual in the Confederate army as a whole, because most of its members were educated and from cities, only Companies F and I were from rural counties (both served by a railroad line from Petersburg). The Huger Grays (Company F) and Meherrin Grays (Company I) were recruited mainly from Greensville and Brunswick Counties. The Richmond Grays had been Company A of the 1st Virginia Infantry, but became Company G of the 12th Virginia on July 12, 1861.


12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Companies
The oldest militia volunteers in Norfolk (founded in 1802), the Norfolk Junior Volunteers enlisted on April 19, 1861, for one year. When their home city fell to the Union Army & Navy in 1862, many deserted and rejoined their families. On July 1, 1861, this company was transferred from the 6th Virginia Infantry Regiment, to become Company H of the 12th Virginia Infantry.


12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Companies
One soldier reminisced about their first assignment after their April 1861 enlistment, a train ride to Norfolk.


12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Companies
The next morning I volunteered in the "B" Grays of Petersburg, and on the 20th of April, 1861, we boarded a train enroute to Norfolk. Our organization was then known as the "Petersburg Battalion," comprising two companies of Grays (A and B), each 108 men, the "City Guard," "Petersburg Rifles," "The Lafayette Guards," and the "Nichols Battery of Artillery," The whole of Petersburg seemed to have turned out on that eventful April morning to bid us farewell, and mingled with tears, banners and handkerchiefs waving, we sped away over the Petersburg and Norfolk Railroad, as it was then known.


12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Companies
Capt. Daniel Dodson of the Petersburg Riflemen, dress uniform circa 1861.


12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Uniforms during the war
Throughout the war, the regiment went through inconsistent reequipping, tending to leave the men with proper accoutrements and weapons, but without uniforms. The men were first supplied by the City of Petersburg, in April 1861, with new grey uniforms. However, that would be the only equipment that would be distributed throughout the regiment, until Christmas of 1862, again by the City Council of Petersburg. The men captured the weapons off of the dead and wounded U.S. Soldiers from the Seven Days battles, and had little proper clothing during the winter of 1862-1863, even into the spring. The 12th Virginia, again took new equipment from the federal dead at the Battle of Chancellorsville, but there is no mention of new uniforms issued even after the Battle of Gettysburg.


12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Timeline of events, Formation of the regiment
The majority of the Regiment came from the cities and received formal education, unlike the majority of Confederate Army units, whose ranks consisted mainly of country men.


12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Timeline of events, Military Actions
May. Col. Weisinger returns to duty, having recovered from wounds of Second Manassas


12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Officers and profiles of the 12th Virginia, Fletcher H. Archer
Fletcher Harris Archer was born on February 6, 1817, in Petersburg, one of the youngest of five sons and four daughters of Allen Archer, a prosperous miller, and Prudence Whitworth Archer. He attended school in Petersburg before entering the University of Virginia, where he received his bachelor of law degree on July 3, 1841. He then returned to his native city and established his practice.


12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Officers and profiles of the 12th Virginia, Fletcher H. Archer
On April 2, 1842, Archer was elected captain of the 7th Company, 39th Virginia Militia Regiment. He held that rank in December 1846, when he raised the Petersburg Mexican Volunteers, which became Company E of the 1st Virginia Volunteer Regiment. His was one of the few Virginia units that saw active military service during the Mexican War. The regiment reached Mexico early in 1847 and served on General Zachary Taylor's line until the end of the war. By August 1, 1848, the company was back in Petersburg, where Archer resumed his law practice. He married Eliza Ann Eppes Allen and they had one daughter, born shortly before her mother's death in April 1851.


12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Officers and profiles of the 12th Virginia, Fletcher H. Archer
Within two days of Virginia's secession from the Union, Archer raised a company of one hundred men that was designated Company K, "Archer Rifles," 12th Virginia Infantry Regiment. He was elected its captain. Shortly thereafter, on May 5, 1861, he was appointed lieutenant colonel in the 3rd Virginia Infantry Regiment. After brief intervals of service in command of the Naval Hospital in Norfolk, as lieutenant colonel of the 5th Battalion Virginia Infantry, and as commander of the 1st Brigade, Department of Norfolk, Archer retired in May 1862 to civilian life in Petersburg. On March 31, 1863, he married Martha Georgianna Morton Barksdale, a widow with three sons and one daughter.


12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Officers and profiles of the 12th Virginia, Fletcher H. Archer
As the armies moved ever closer to the Richmond-Petersburg front, Archer again offered his military expertise to the Confederacy. On May 4, 1864, he was commissioned a major commanding the 3rd, or "Archer's Battalion," Virginia Reserves. Composed of men between the ages of sixteen and eighteen and between forty-five and fifty-five from Petersburg and the counties of Dinwiddie and Prince George, the reserves were to be used for state defense and detail duty. They participated in Archer's greatest military accomplishment, his defense of Petersburg on June 9, 1864, in what has come to be called the Battle of Old Men and Young Boys.


12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Officers and profiles of the 12th Virginia, Fletcher H. Archer
As more than 1,300 Union cavalry troops led by Brigadier General August Kautz attempted to ride into Petersburg from the south and Union infantry threatened the defenses east of the city, 125 members of Archer's unit and 5 men and one gun from an artillery unit answered a call for reserves and militia to assemble at Battery 29 on the Jerusalem Plank Road.


12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Officers and profiles of the 12th Virginia, Fletcher H. Archer
Later Archer recalled that details for special service and guard duty in Richmond had left him with barely a company of inadequately armed men in civilian clothes, combining those "with head silvered o'er with the frosts of advancing years" and others who "could scarcely boast of the down upon the cheek." His command repelled the first attack by the Northern troops but a second assault forced him back into the city. The arrival of Confederate cavalry and artillery put a check to further Union movement, but at the cost of 76 casualties to the reserves, more than half of those who had gone into action.


12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Officers and profiles of the 12th Virginia, Fletcher H. Archer
Promoted to lieutenant colonel, Archer led his unit in the defense of Petersburg during the subsequent Union attack of June 15–18 and throughout the nine-and-one-half-month siege of the city. Wounded in the arm at Petersburg, he was hit again during the retreat to Appomattox, where his combined force of the 3rd and 44th Battalions of Virginia Reserves surrendered sixty-five men.


12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Officers and profiles of the 12th Virginia, Fletcher H. Archer
After the war ended Archer returned to Petersburg and began to rebuild his law practice. Active in the local Conservative Party, he eventually became its chairman. He sought the party's nomination for mayor in 1876 and 1878 but lost both times to William E. Cameron, who had remained with the 12th Virginia until war's end and later aligned himself with General Mahone and even later with the Readjuster movement. In 1879 Archer and tobacconist Charles A. Jackson were the Conservative nominees for seats in the House of Delegates, but both lost as the Readjusters carried the city with 55 percent of the vote.


12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Officers and profiles of the 12th Virginia, Fletcher H. Archer
Following this citywide defeat, Archer won election to the Petersburg City Council and fellow councillors elected him their president. By virtue of this position Archer became mayor on January 2, 1882, when Cameron was sworn in as governor. At this point the council still had a Conservative majority, but Readjusters controlled all of the elective executive offices in Petersburg except the mayor's office and vowed to oust Archer in the May 1882 election.


12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Officers and profiles of the 12th Virginia, Fletcher H. Archer
To counter a Readjuster–Fusionist Republican coalition, the Conservatives formed an alliance with the Straightout Republicans and ran as the Citizens' Party. Archer received their nomination for mayor but lost to Thomas J. Jarratt, and the Readjusters won a narrow majority on the city council. The Conservatives then tried to keep the Readjusters from taking their seats by alleging a violation of the city charter, and on July 1 Archer refused to vacate his office at the end of his term. He did not finally step down as mayor until a lawsuit confirmed Jarratt in the office on March 23, 1883.


12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Officers and profiles of the 12th Virginia, Fletcher H. Archer
In 1884 Archer was a delegate to the state Democratic convention in Richmond and tried to encourage dissident white Readjusters to rejoin the Democratic Party. He did not run for another public office thereafter. Archer died at his home on High Street on August 21, 1902, after having been in "feeble health by reason of his advanced age for some months." He was interred in Petersburg's Blandford Cemetery.


12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Officers and profiles of the 12th Virginia, Finlay F. Ferguson
Captain of Company H, the Norfolk Junior Volunteers, from April 1861 to May 1862. Born in 1804, married in 1842, had 3 children in 1860. Mayor of Norfolk in 1860. (According to the Norfolk Public Library, he served from June 24, 1856, to 1858.) Died in 1863, and buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Norfolk, Virginia.


12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Officers and profiles of the 12th Virginia, William Crawford Smith
Enlisted on May 17, 1861, in Company B, the Petersburg Greys. Brother of Hugh Ritchie Smith and James Smith. Born in Petersburg on November 26, 1837. Moved to Nashville Tenn. before 1861, returned to enlist that year. Wounded at Crampton's Gap on September 14, 1862, captured and taken to the U.S. Army 6th Corps Hospital, in Burkittsville, Md. Date not recorded for parole/exchange to Confederacy. In Richmond Hospital, October to November, 1862. Promoted to Corporal on March 1, then Sergeant on August 1st, 1863. Wounded during the Wilderness campaign, May 6, 1864, no recorded dates for hospital stay.


12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Officers and profiles of the 12th Virginia, William Crawford Smith
Paroled at Appomattox after Lee's Surrender, he returned to Nashville, Tennessee, in 1865, becoming a building contractor and architect, built the early buildings at Vanderbilt University and the reproduction of the Parthenon in Nashville for the state centennial. Granted Colonelship of the 1st Tennessee Militia in 1896. Organized the 1896 Tennessee State Exposition. Became Colonel of the 1st Tennessee Infantry, U.S. Volunteers, from 1898 to 1899. Led his regiment in combat against Aguinaldo's Philippine insurrectionists in 1899. Fell dead from his horse, attributed to heat stroke, near Manila on February 5, 1899. He was known to be a Mason and a great reader. Buried at Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Nashville Tennessee, on April 19, 1899, following a huge state funeral, one of the largest ever seen in the city.


12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Officers and profiles of the 12th Virginia, William Hodges Mann
William Hodges Mann was born in Williamsburg on July 31, 1843; as the son of John Mann and Mary Hunter Bowers. Went to Williamsburg Academy, and Brownsburg Academy in Rockbridge County. Became deputy clerk of the circuit court of Nottoway County, from 1859 to 1861. Enlisted on June 20, 1861, in Company E, the Petersburg Riflemen. Wounded at Seven Pines, on June 1, 1862. While recuperating, became temporary clerk to Confederate Treasury Dept. Served as a spy, behind Gen U.S. Grant's lines, during the Siege of Petersburg.


12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Officers and profiles of the 12th Virginia, William Hodges Mann
After the war, in 1865, he was elected to clerk of the Virginia Circuit Court of Dinwiddie County. Admitted to the Bar in 1867. Married twice. Served as Judge of Nottoway County, from 1870 to 1892. Virginia State Senator from 1898 to 1910 and a Member of the Democratic State Executive Committee. Prominent Prohibitionist, and a promoter of public high schools. Established Bank of Crewe Va, was president to 1910. Owned a dairy farm in Burkeville. Was a Presbyterian elder, and friend to Rev. Theodorick Pryor, father of General Richard Pryor. Governor of Virginia from 1910 to 1914. Lawyer in Petersburg from 1914 to his death 1927. Past away, on December 21, 1927, from a stroke at his law office desk. Buried in Blandford cemetery.


12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, The Legacy of the 12th Virginia
Veterans of the 12th Virginia gained political power in Petersburg during Reconstruction, and such continued as the Re-Adjuster Party took power. Former Sergeant of Company E, William E. Hinton, became a local financier and political leader, first as a Conservative, then as a Re-Adjuster, including a term in the Virginia General Assembly. His brother, Drury A. Hinton, former captain of Virginia's 41st Infantry, served as the city's prosecutor (elected and re-elected as Commonwealth Attorney), and won a seat on the Virginia Supreme Court.


12th Virginia Infantry Regiment, The Legacy of the 12th Virginia
The 12th Virginia Infantry lives on today in the form of an incorporated living history and reenactment unit bearing its designation. Modern Companies 'B' and 'C' live on in the Richmond-Petersburg region of the Commonwealth of Virginia; with one company not associated having formed in California as company 'G'. The Virginia unit is a family-friendly, non-profit organization, and participates in numerous events in Virginia and bordering states.


12th Virginia Regiment
The 12th Virginia Regiment was raised on September 16, 1776, at Williamsburg, Virginia, for service with the (U.S.) Continental Army. The regiment saw action in the Battle of Brandywine, Battle of Germantown, Battle of Monmouth and the Siege of Charleston. Most of the regiment was captured at Charlestown, South Carolina, on May 12, 1780, by the British and the regiment was formally disbanded on January 1, 1783.


12th Virginia Regiment
From at least October 1777 until June 1778, the 12th Virginia Regiment was under the command of Colonel James Wood and contained companies under the command of the following captains:


12th Virginia Regiment
October 1777 12th Virginia Regiment Company CommandersCaptain Andrew WaggonerCaptain Steven AshbyCaptain Michael BowyerCaptain Thomas BowyerCaptain Rowland MadisonCaptain William VauseCaptain Andrew WallaceCaptain Samuel LapsleyCaptain Joseph MitchelCaptain Johnathan Langdon


12th Virginia Regiment
November 1777 12th Virginia Regiment Company CommandersCaptain Andrew WaggonerCaptain Steven AshbyCaptain Michael BowyerCaptain Thomas BowyerCaptain Rowland MadisonCaptain William VauseCaptain Andrew WallaceCaptain Samuel LapsleyCaptain Joseph MitchelCaptain Johnathan Langdon


12th Virginia Regiment
December 1777 12th Virginia Regiment Company CommandersCaptain Andrew WaggonerCaptain Steven AshbyCaptain Michael BowyerCaptain Thomas BowyerCaptain Benjamin CaseyCaptain Rowland MadisonCaptain William VauseCaptain Andrew WallaceCaptain Samuel Lapsley


12th Virginia Regiment
January 1778 12th Virginia Regiment Company CommandersCaptain Andrew WaggonerCaptain Steven AshbyCaptain Michael BowyerCaptain Thomas BowyerCaptain Benjamin CaseyCaptain Rowland MadisonCaptain William VauseCaptain Andrew WallaceCaptain Samuel Lapsley


12th Virginia Regiment
February 1778 12th Virginia Regiment Company CommandersCaptain Andrew WaggonerCaptain Steven AshbyCaptain Michael BowyerCaptain Thomas BowyerCaptain Benjamin CaseyCaptain Rowland MadisonCaptain William VauseCaptain Andrew WallaceCaptain Samuel Lapsley


12th Virginia Regiment
March 1778 12th Virginia Regiment Company CommandersCaptain Andrew WaggonerCaptain Steven AshbyCaptain Michael BowyerCaptain Thomas BowyerCaptain Benjamin CaseyCaptain Rowland MadisonCaptain William VauseCaptain Andrew WallaceCaptain Samuel Lapsley


12th Virginia Regiment
April 1778 12th Virginia Regiment Company CommandersCaptain Andrew WaggonerCaptain Steven AshbyCaptain Michael BowyerCaptain Thomas BowyerCaptain Benjamin CaseyCaptain Rowland MadisonCaptain William VauseCaptain Andrew WallaceCaptain Samuel Lapsley


12th Virginia Regiment
May 1778 12th Virginia Regiment Company CommandersCaptain Andrew WaggonerCaptain Steven AshbyCaptain Michael BowyerCaptain Thomas BowyerCaptain Benjamin CaseyCaptain Rowland MadisonCaptain William VauseCaptain Andrew WallaceCaptain Samuel Lapsley


12th Visual Effects Society Awards
Best Visual Effects in a Visual Effects Driven Motion Picture:Gravity


12th Visual Effects Society Awards
The 12th Visual Effects Society Awards was held in Los Angeles at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on February 12, 2014, in honor to the best visual effects in film and television of 2013. Patton Oswalt was the host.


12th Visual Effects Society Awards, Winners and nominees, Film
Gravity – Tim Webber, Nikki Penny, Chris Lawrence, Richard Mcbride


12th Visual Effects Society Awards, Winners and nominees, Film
The Lone Ranger – Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Shari Hanson, Kevin Martel


12th Visual Effects Society Awards, Winners and nominees, Film
Frozen – Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, Peter Del Vecho, Lino Di Salvo


12th Visual Effects Society Awards, Winners and nominees, Film
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – Smaug – Eric Reynolds, David Clayton, Myriam Catrin, Guillaume Francois


12th Visual Effects Society Awards, Winners and nominees, Film
Frozen – Bringing the Snow Queen to Life – Alexander Alvarado, Joy Johnson, Chad Stubblefield, Wayne Unten


12th Visual Effects Society Awards, Winners and nominees, Film
Gravity – Exterior – Paul Beilby, Kyle Mcculloch, Stuart Penn, Ian Comley


12th Visual Effects Society Awards, Winners and nominees, Film
Frozen – Elsa's Ice Palace – Virgilio John Aquino, Alessandro Jacomini, Lance Summers, David Womersley


12th Visual Effects Society Awards, Winners and nominees, Film
Gravity – Tim Webber, Emmanuel Lubezki, Richard Mcbride, Dale Newton


12th Visual Effects Society Awards, Winners and nominees, Film
Gravity – ISS Exterior – Ben Lambert, Paul Beilby, Chris Lawrence, Andy Nicholson


12th Visual Effects Society Awards, Winners and nominees, Film
Gravity – Parachute and ISS Destruction – Alexis Wajsbrot, Sylvain Degrotte, Horacio Mendoza, Juan-Luis Sanchez


12th Visual Effects Society Awards, Winners and nominees, Film
Frozen – Elsa's Blizzard – Eric W. Araujo, Marc Bryant, Dong Joo Byun, Tim Molinder


12th Visual Effects Society Awards, Winners and nominees, Film
Gravity – Mark Bakowski, Anthony Smith, Theodor Groeneboom, Adrian Metzelaar


12th Visual Effects Society Awards, Winners and nominees, Television
Game of Thrones – Valar Dohaeris – Steve Kullback, Joe Bauer, Jörn Großhans, Sven Martin


12th Visual Effects Society Awards, Winners and nominees, Television
Banshee – Pilot – Armen Kevorkian, Mark Skowronski, Jeremy Jozwik, Ricardo Ramirez


12th Visual Effects Society Awards, Winners and nominees, Television
PETA: 99% Human – Angus Kneale, Vince Baertsoen, Colin Blaney, Kyle Cody


12th Visual Effects Society Awards, Winners and nominees, Television
PETA – 98% Human – Vince Baertsoen, Alex Allain, Henning Koczy


12th Visual Effects Society Awards, Winners and nominees, Television
Game of Thrones – The Climb – Patrick Zentis, Mayur Patel, Nitin Singh, Tim Alexander


12th Visual Effects Society Awards, Winners and nominees, Television
The Crew – Dominique Boidin, Rémi Kozyra, Léon Bérelle, Maxime Luère


12th Visual Effects Society Awards, Winners and nominees, Television
PETA: 98% Human – Vince Baertsoen, Jimmy Gass, Dave Barosin


12th Visual Effects Society Awards, Winners and nominees, Television
Game of Thrones – The Climb – Kirk Brillon, Steve Gordon, Geoff Sayer, Winston Lee


12th Visual Effects Society Awards, Winners and nominees, Television
Call of Duty: Epic Night Out – Chris Knight, Daniel Thuresson, Nick Tayler, Dag Ivarsory


12th Visual Effects Society Awards, Winners and nominees, Other categories
Call of Duty: Ghosts – Mark Rubin, Richard Kriegler, David Johnson, Alessandro Nardini


12th Visual Effects Society Awards, Winners and nominees, Other categories
Space Shuttle Atlantis – Daren Ulmer, John Gross, Cedar Connor, Christian Bloch


12th Ward of New Orleans
The 12th Ward or Twelfth Ward is a division of the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, one of the 17 Wards of New Orleans. The Ward was formerly part of the old Jefferson City annexed by New Orleans in 1870.


12th Ward of New Orleans, Boundaries
The roughly wedge-shaped Ward stretches back from the Mississippi River. The lower boundary is Toledano Street, across which is the 11th Ward; the upper boundary is Napoleon Avenue, across which is the 13th Ward, and the back boundary is South Broad, across which is a portion of the 14th Ward. It includes a section of Uptown New Orleans, part of the Broadmoor neighborhood, and the neighborhoods of Milan and Touro.


12th Ward of New Orleans, Landmarks
Landmarks include Touro Infirmary, Saint Charles General Hospital. Down from Napoleon Avenue is a series of streets perpendicular to the River named after the victories of Napoleon I. Other streets in this series are named after cities Napoleon dreamed of conquering but never reached (Constantinople) or at which his armies were defeated (Cadiz). Constantinople Street was the home of the fictitious New Orleans character Ignatius J. Reilly in John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces. Multi-platinum selling and Grammy-nominated recording artist Mystikal grew up in the 12th Ward near Tchoupitoulas.


12th Ward of New Orleans, Landmarks
Saint Charles Avenue, with the famous St. Charles Avenue Streetcar, cuts through the neighborhood, and is the route of many New Orleans Mardi Gras parades. The Columns Hotel, a small hotel converted from a 19th-century mansion, on St. Charles, was used as a location in the film Pretty Baby. The Ward contains two branches of the New Orleans Public Library. The old Carnegie library on Napoleon just back from Magazine is now the city's Children's Resource Center library, and the Rosa Keller Branch at Broad & Napoleon. Portions of the Magnolia Projects along Louisiana Avenue are in the Ward. Other 12th Ward landmarks are Tipitina's music venue on Napoleon at Tchoupitoulas Street and Walter L. Cohen Senior High School on Dryades Street.


12th Ward of New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina
The majority of the Ward back from St. Charles Avenue flooded in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.


12th West Virginia Infantry Regiment
The 12th West Virginia Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. The regiment was particularly distinguished for its successful attack on Fort Gregg during the 1864 to 1865 Siege of Petersburg, receiving a golden eagle for its flagstaff as a token of appreciation from corps commander John Gibbon.


12th West Virginia Infantry Regiment, Service
The 12th West Virginia Infantry Regiment was organized at Wheeling in western Virginia on August 30, 1862, and was assigned to duty in the Shenandoah Valley as part of the VIII Army Corps's Middle Department until January 1863.


12th West Virginia Infantry Regiment, Service
For much of the first half of 1864, the regiment served at Winchester, Virginia, under Maj. Gen. Robert H. Milroy, and were defeated in their first significant combat action during the Second Battle of Winchester, being pushed off a wooded ridgeline near Kernstown, Virginia, by elements of the Confederate brigade of John B. Gordon on June 13. Two days later, they were scattered by Robert E. Rodes' attack and reassembled at Bloody Run, Pennsylvania. The 12th then served in Col. Andrew T. McReynolds' command at Martinsburg, West Virginia, until December 1863.


12th West Virginia Infantry Regiment, Service
The regiment was a part of the Department of West Virginia until December 1864, and it saw action in several fights during the Valley Campaigns of 1864, including the Battle of Opequon or Third Winchester, not far from the scene of its first combat.


12th West Virginia Infantry Regiment, Service
At the end of the year, the 12th West Virginia joined the Army of the James's 2nd Brigade, Independent Division, XXIV Army Corps. The regiment served in the Siege of Petersburg, and on April 2, 1865, distinguished itself for gallantry in a desperate hand-to-hand conflict that resulted in the seizure of Confederate-held Fort Gregg. Maj. Gen. John Gibbon, commanding the XXIV Corps, presented the regiment an engraved golden eagle for their flagstaff, with the inscription "Presented by Maj.-Gen'l John Gibbon to the 12th W. Va. Volunteer Infantry, for Gallant Conduct in the Assault upon Fort Gregg, April 2, 1865." Corporal Andrew O. Apple of Company I was also later awarded the U.S. Medal of Honor for saving the regiment's flag that day.


12th West Virginia Infantry Regiment, Service
The 12th West Virginia mustered out of military service on June 16, 1865.


12th West Virginia Infantry Regiment, Casualties
The 12th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment suffered 3 officers and 56 enlisted men killed in battle or died from wounds, and 131 enlisted men dead from disease, for a total of 190 fatalities.


12th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment
The 12th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War.


12th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, Service
The 12th Wisconsin was raised at Madison, Wisconsin, and mustered into Federal service October 18, 1861.


12th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, Service
The regiment was mustered out on July 20, 1865, at Louisville, Kentucky.


12th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, Total enlistment and casualties
The 12th Wisconsin lost 3 officers and 93 enlisted men killed in action or who later died of their wounds, plus another 3 officers and 224 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 323 fatalities.


12th Wisconsin Legislature
The Twelfth Wisconsin Legislature convened from January 12, 1859, to March 21, 1859, in regular session.


12th Wisconsin Legislature
Senators representing odd-numbered districts were newly elected for this session and were serving the first year of a two-year term. Assembly members were elected to a one-year term. Assembly members and even-numbered senators were elected in the general election of November 2, 1858. Senators representing even-numbered districts were serving the second year of their two-year term, having been elected in the general election held on November 3, 1857.


12th Wisconsin Legislature, Members, Members of the Senate
Members of the Wisconsin Senate for the Twelfth Wisconsin Legislature (30):


12th World Festival of Youth and Students
The 12th World Festival of Youth and Students was a festival held in Moscow from July 27 to August 3, 1985. The festival was attended by 26,000 people from 157 countries. The slogan of the festival was "For anti-imperialist solidarity, peace and friendship".


12th World Festival of Youth and Students, Objective
The political goal of the festival was to show positive aspects of life in Soviet society. The political program of the festival included the establishment of a new international economic order, discussion of the problems of economic assistance to backward and developing countries, combating poverty and unemployment, and raising environmental issues. Anti - Soviet elements, just as before the 1980 Summer Olympics, were expelled from Moscow before the opening of the festival.


12th World Festival of Youth and Students, Events
The main organizer of the festival events was the Soviet Preparatory Committee, chaired by Vladimir Fedosov, secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol.


12th World Festival of Youth and Students, Events
The Komsomol relied heavily on the infrastructure of the Moscow 1980 Summer Olympics for the festival venues, including the Luzhniki Olympic Complex and the Cosmos Hotel, which accommodated 3,000 foreign participants. The opening of the festival took place at a four hour parade and ceremony at Luzhniki stadium and was broadcast live on Soviet television. The festival was opened with a welcome speech from the newly-elected General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, Mikhail Gorbachev:


12th World Festival of Youth and Students, Events
Here, in the homeland of the great Lenin, you can directly feel how deeply our young people are devoted to the noble ideals of humanity, peace and socialism. I think we all agree that there is no more important and urgent task for humanity today than saving and strengthening peace. To this we are bound by the concern for the future and the memory of the past.


12th World Festival of Youth and Students, Events
Your forum takes place in the year of the 40th anniversary of the defeat of Hitler's fascism and Japanese militarism, the end of the Second World War - the most bloody and brutal war. After it there was so much suffering and grief, affecting the lives of several generations - it urgently demands that we prevent the recurrence of such a disaster.


12th World Festival of Youth and Students, Events
The festival included an exhibition of young artists, a photo exhibition, and concerts by amateur and ethnic groups, as well as professional performers from the socialist states such as Zemlyane, Mashina Vremeni, Tsvety, Integral, Dean Reed, Bajaga i Instruktori, Bijelo Dugme and Western musicians Bob Dylan, and Everything but the Girl. "Waltz of Silence", a song by Yuri Livshits, was the final melody of the festival.


12th World Festival of Youth and Students, Commemorative Merchandise
Before the festival, posters, postage stamps with festival symbols, a commemorative coin were issued and a special promotional campaign was held by the Soviet state lottery. The poster and symbols of the festival were approved by the Central Committee of the CPSU.


12th World Festival of Youth and Students, Commemorative Merchandise
The emblem of the festival was chosen as a result of a competition in 1984 in which more than 200 professional artists from different countries took part. The winning designer of the festival's emblem was People's Artist of Ukraine Rafael Zeynurovich Masautov. The emblem was used in more than 80 countries. In the USSR the emblem of the festival, at the order of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, was used to produce more than 7,000 souvenir items. The emblem brought the USSR a net profit of 450,000,000 Soviet rubles (through surcharges for products with festival symbols).


12th World Festival of Youth and Students, Commemorative Merchandise
"Katyusha", the mascot of the festival, was conceived by Soviet artist Vyacheslav Yermakov, photographer Yuri Alekseevich Zharov and artist Ekaterina Afanasyevna Dunaeva, who was also depicted on the official poster of the festival for the Central Committee of the CPSU youth publication "Plakat". "Katyusha" was sketched by Mikhail Veremenko, an artist from Moscow.


12th World Festival of Youth and Students, Commemorative Merchandise
At the first meeting of the International Preparatory Committee of the XIX World Festival of Youth and Students of 2017, which will be held in Sochi, Russia, the logo of the event was chosen to be an updated version of the logos of the two previous Moscow world festivals of youth and students in 1957 and 1985.


12th World Science Fiction Convention
The 12th World Science Fiction Convention, also known as SFCon, was held September 3–6, 1954, at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in San Francisco, California, United States.


12th World Science Fiction Convention
The chairmen were Lester Cole and Gary Nelson. The guest of honor was John W. Campbell, Jr., the editor of Astounding magazine. Total attendance was approximately 700.


12th World Science Fiction Convention, Awards
The 11th Worldcon was the first one in which Hugo Awards were awarded. The 12th convention did not continue the tradition, but since the 13th convention, Hugo Awards have been a permanent fixture of Worldcons.


12th World Scout Jamboree
The 12th World Scout Jamboree was held July 31 to August 9, 1967, and was hosted by the United States at Farragut State Park, in the Rocky Mountains of Idaho. It was the second World Scout Jamboree to take place in North America.


12th World Scout Jamboree, History
With its theme For Friendship, the 12th World Jamboree attracted 12,011 Scouts from 105 countries. The latter included Scouts from Somalia, and 1,300 representatives from the United Kingdom, the largest Scouting contingent from outside North America. For the British Scouts, dressed in their new uniforms, it was a highlight to their Diamond Jubilee Year. Other countries represented included Canada, France, Indonesia, Jamaica, the Philippines, and Sweden.