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Years ago, hundreds of men would go up for the winter to the camps in Northern Ontario and in Quebec, and they were all different cultures, and the Irish, the French, Scottish, German, they'd all meet, and of course at night, they'd play cards and step dance and play fiddles, and over the course of many years, the Ottawa Valley fiddling kind of evolved and the Ottawa Valley step dancing evolved, so that's, I kind of started out with that style and I quickly started doing my own thing, and then I met Natalie, and I was exposed to the great Cape Breton fiddling.
Before Mom's family had a piano in Cape Breton, she learned to play the rhythms on a piece of board, and the fiddlers would all congregate to play on the cold winter's evenings and Mom would be banging on this board, so when they bought a piano, they bought it in Toronto and had it taken by train and brought in on a horse, a horse and sleigh to the house.
So in the winter of 2012, I went to visit my grandmother's house in South India, a place, by the way, where the mosquitos have a special taste for the blood of the American-born.
They lived in felt tents and moved between summer and winter campsites.
In the winter of 1942, Hans made a treacherous journey to the Czechoslovakian border to meet anti-Nazi rebels.
On the way to the old woman’s hut, she passes men salting pigs for the winter food supply and women weaving clothing from dyed wool.
When I stepped into Savé Valley Conservancy on a cold winter morning 10 years ago to study African wild dogs for my master's research project, I was mesmerized by the beauty and the tranquility that surrounded me.
Here was my relation with the woman who lived all last autumn and winter, day and night, on a bench in the 103rd Street subway station, until finally one day she vanished.
It is almost the end of the winter, and you've woken up to a cold house, which is weird, because you left the heater on all night.
Tell everybody across the city to bring all their containers and come and take as much water as they can stock up on, especially before the winter season hits; the machine doesn't extract moisture in freezing temperatures.
And we flew there with these canvas bladders in our suitcases, we got sunburned because it was Boston winter, and then we filled them with sand and we placed them underwater.
Even winter had its charms, with the Christmassy bouquet emanating from pine trees.
How much does it take to keep a night guard warm rather than force them to burn rubbish to stay warm in winter?
You know, it's very easy to blame them for burning the stubble of the rice paddy crop every winter, which causes air pollution.
It expands in winter and contracts in summer.
Professor Katey Walter from the University of Alaska went out with another team to another shallow lake last winter.
And seen just recently in late 2008, here is that region again, now half in darkness because the southern hemisphere is experiencing the onset of August and eventually winter.
(Cheers and applause) On a cold winter night in 1916, Felix Yusupov anxiously prepared to pick up his dinner guest.
This wasp queen is one of thousands who mated in late autumn and hibernated through the winter.
And some queens that survived the winter fell victim to the threats of spring, such as carnivorous plants, birds, and manmade pesticides.
And this woodpile looks like the perfect place to spend the winter.
In the winter, when you are skiing in the Alps, you may experience ultraviolet radiation.
And everybody says, well don't they advance in the winter time?
It was retreating through the winter because it's an unhealthy glacier.
This day occurs during the festival that marks the shift between the summer season, when the gods feed the people, and the winter season, when the people feed the gods in return.
On top are two temples: the north, where rituals honor the rain god in the summer, and the south one is where rituals honor the war god in the winter.
In winter, storms bring powerful waves, which cross the vast ocean unobstructed to detonate on these shores.
The white areas on this map are the places protected from the winter winds.
So, the red areas on this map indicate the places that are best for human sustainability on Manhattan, places that are close to water, places that are near the harbor to fish, places protected from the winter winds.
If winter is caused by Demeter's sadness, then it must happen everywhere on earth simultaneously.
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