December Solstice

Especially the winter uniforms.

Throughout Alaska and British Columbia, thousands of bear families are emerging from their winter sleep.

At the winter solstice daylight only lasts for 6 hours.

Amalienborg () is the winter home of the Danish royal family, and is located in Copenhagen, Denmark.

In view of the state of winter herding areas, the present number of reindeer is high.

There is nothing to eat up here, but the conditions were ideal for hibernation.

So let's look at the first metric here, overwintering survival.

We Tripantu is a Mapuche indian celebration to recognize the start of a new year at the Winter Solstice.

I also want to let y'all motherfuckers know that submedia is having its annual winter fundraiser.

We were invited to create a massive installation at the Vancouver 2010 winter Olympics, were used in Vancouver, got to control the lighting on the CN Tower, the Canadian Parliament buildings and Niagara Falls from all the way across the country using their minds.

It is an important disease in winter wheat in Western Europe particularly, and is favoured by conditions of intensive production and monoculture.

Within that category, corn grew on 40 percent of the land, and winter wheat on 37 percent.

The union also takes care of workers' vacation conditions, rehabilitation and recreation, as well as the provision of heating and winter food reserves.

So, if you look here at the grizzly bears, they're eating fatty salmon, you know, prior to going into semi hibernation.

Overwintering success is hard, and that's when most of the colonies are lost, and we found that in the cities, bees are surviving better than they are in the country.

At this latitude the sun is visible for 16 hours, 22 minutes during the summer solstice and 8 hours, 4 minutes during the winter solstice.

At this latitude the sun is visible for 17 hours, 9 minutes during the summer solstice and 7 hours, 22 minutes during the winter solstice.

So the yield for urban hives, in terms of honey production, is higher as well as the overwintering survival, compared to rural areas.

During its previous northern solstice in 1944, Uranus displayed elevated levels of brightness, which suggests that the north pole was not always so dim.

In January 1905, an incident known as Bloody Sunday occurred when Father Gapon led an enormous crowd to the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg to present a petition to the tsar.

2.7 The authors further note that the area used by them for winter herding is geographically a typical watershed highland, located between the Arctic Sea and the Baltic.

On those cold, rainy days when you forget your rain jacket or umbrella and you want to stay as dry as possible... should you walk and spend more time in the rain?

After the Battle of Cannae in the Second Punic War (216 BC), Croton revolted from Rome, and Hannibal made it his winter quarters for three years it was not recaptured until 205 or 204 BC.

The name stems from the fact that A. altissima is one of the last trees to come out of dormancy, and as such its leaves coming out would indicate that winter was truly over.

In the northern hemisphere, winter solstice occurs on about December 21, summer solstice is near June 21, spring equinox is around March 20 and autumnal equinox is about September 23.

In July 1995, in his speech at the Vélodrome d'Hiver, the President of the French Republic, Jacques Chirac, recognized the responsibility of the French State in collaborating with the occupying Power in the destruction it wrought.

Provision is made for winter fuel for generators at 3,500 per month ( 7,000) as well as for water and electricity charges at 1,500 per month ( 3,000).

We were invited to create a massive installation at the Vancouver 2010 winter Olympics, were used in Vancouver, got to control the lighting on the C.N. Tower, the Canadian Parliament buildings and Niagara Falls from all the way across the country using their minds.

In recent years, because of the lack of natural winter food, the authors have had to rely on artificial reindeer food which requires additional income from sources other than reindeer husbandry, thereby impacting on the profitability of this form of livelihood.

So, because Asia lacks such institutional arrangements, personal diplomacy of the type that the Boao Forum represents, like the annual global winter gathering at Davos, remains vitally important.

The cultivars can be subdivided in several ways, but the most common types are summer leeks , intended for harvest in the season when planted, and overwintering leeks, meant to be harvested in the spring of the year following planting.

DENVER Meet any Korean of a certain age, and you will learn about barley season, which begins in February and stretches through the cold months of early spring until the first of the winter barley crop is harvested.

In addition, the Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, in considering the maximum permissible population of reindeer per herd, acknowledged the importance and availability of winter nutrition for reindeer Lichenes, Alectoria and Deschampsia and that logging has reduced stocks of the former two foods.

Since the logging operations, the access of reindeer to winter food has become more susceptible to other variations in the Pyhäjärvi, and Kirkko outa areas, including those arising from natural phenomena, such as heavy snow cover, delays in the arrival of spring and an increase in predators, especially wolves.

6.7 In respect of the authors apos claim that thinning of the forests destroys lichen (lichenes and usnea) in the winter herding areas, the State party observes that other herdsmen have even requested that such thinning be carried out, as they have discovered that it alters quot the ratio of top vegetation to the advantage of lichen and facilitates mobility.

Even though the National Forest and Park Service engages in forestry in only part of the area administered by the Committee, 35 per cent of the forest pastures in the winter grazing area and 48 per cent of those in the summer grazing area are subject to forestry operations by the State and private owners.