* 1971 – The Winter Soldier Investigation, organized by the Vietnam Veterans Against the War to publicize war crimes and atrocities by Americans and allies in Vietnam, begin in Detroit, Michigan.

* February 18 – The 1960 Winter Olympic Games begin at the Squaw Valley Ski Resort, in Placer County, California.

Winter: Season effects begin in early December and end in mid March with snowy conditions.

Winter lodges were falling into flames and burning small children and the oldest ones who were unable to even begin escaping the pre-dawn ambush of bullets.

Scientifically, the shortest day of the year is around December 21 – 22 after which the days begin to get longer, hence actual Winter Solstice begins on December 21 or December 22 when the tropical sun enters Makara rashi.

* March 6 – France informs the Finnish government that it will dispatch an expeditionary force including 72 bombers to Finland on March 13, but the Winter War ends before the French force can begin its journey.

Winter hibernacula are already cold when Gray Bats begin arriving in September.

Tournaments would begin in 1883 at the Montreal Winter Carnival.

Until he was old enough to begin lessons, Sergei ’ s earlier years were spent with his younger brother Paul, from whom he was inseparable, and their sister at Livadia, the family ’ s Crimean retreat, at Tsarskoye Selo and at the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg.

In October 2009, it was announced that the Vipers have launched a new instructional version of their team to begin play in the Arizona Winter League in 2010, replacing the departed Palm Springs Chill, who formed their own instructional league.

On 15 September, Justice Winter set 14 October for Mahendra Chaudhry's compensation trial to begin.

Winter annuals typically grow low to the ground, where they are usually sheltered from the coldest nights by snow cover, and make use of warm periods in winter for growth when the snow melts.

In 1917, Albert Einstein established the theoretical foundations for the laser and the maser in the paper Zur Quantentheorie der Strahlung ( On the Quantum Theory of Radiation ); via a re-derivation of Max Planck ’ s law of radiation, conceptually based upon probability coefficients ( Einstein coefficients ) for the absorption, spontaneous emission, and stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation ; in 1928, Rudolf W. Ladenburg confirmed the existences of the phenomena of stimulated emission and negative absorption ; in 1939, Valentin A. Fabrikant predicted the use of stimulated emission to amplify “ short ” waves ; in 1947, Willis E. Lamb and R. C. Retherford found apparent stimulated emission in hydrogen spectra and effected the first demonstration of stimulated emission ; in 1950, Alfred Kastler ( Nobel Prize for Physics 1966 ) proposed the method of optical pumping, experimentally confirmed, two years later, by Brossel, Kastler, and Winter.

In 1939, Valentin A. Fabrikant predicted the use of stimulated emission to amplify " short " waves ; In 1947, Willis E. Lamb and R. C. Retherford found apparent stimulated emission in hydrogen spectra and effected the first demonstration of stimulated emission ; in 1950, Alfred Kastler ( Nobel Prize for Physics 1966 ) proposed the method of optical pumping, experimentally confirmed, two years later, by Brossel, Kastler, and Winter.

During the Winter War, the Soviet air force made extensive use of incendiaries and cluster bombs against Finnish troops and fortifications.

Similarly, the Finns made use of sling-launched Molotov cocktails in the Winter War against Soviet tanks.

Finland had developed the M / 31 Suomi before the Winter War in which it saw much use.

The first artificial American track was completed in that year for use in the 1980 XIII Winter Olympic Games at Lake Placid, New York.

Despite the ongoing debate about the dome's future use, the dome opened again during December 2003 for the Winter Wonderland 2003 experience.

During the Winter War, the Soviet air force made extensive use of incendiaries and cluster bombs against Finnish troops and fortifications.

The Blackhawks now use this Winter Classic design as their third jersey for the 2009-10 season, with the only change being tomahawks on the shoulders.

The scheduling was a result of Vancouver hosting the 2010 Winter Olympics, which shut down the NHL for 2 weeks, facilitating GM Place's use for ice hockey during the games.

Spurred by the success of N. Scott Momaday's Pulitzer Prize winning House Made of Dawn, Native American literature showed explosive growth during this period, known as the Native American Renaissance, through such novelists as Leslie Marmon Silko ( e. g., Ceremony ), Gerald Vizenor ( e. g., Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles and numerous essays on Native American literature ), Louise Erdrich ( Love Medicine and several other novels that use a recurring set of characters and locations in the manner of William Faulkner ), James Welch ( e. g., Winter in the Blood ), Sherman Alexie ( e. g., The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven ), and poets Simon Ortiz and Joy Harjo.

Other authorities use the Winter Line name interchangeably with the Gustav Line as defined above.

According to chess historian Edward Winter, in German, the term " zugzwang ": had been in regular use in the nineteenth century.

However, these experiences proved of little use in the Winter war against Finland in 1939, where scores of inexperienced Soviet bomber and fighter pilots were shot down by a relatively small number of Finnish Air Force ( FAF ) pilots.

Every winter, the Asahikawa Winter Festival is held on the bank of the Ishikari River, making use of Asahikawa's cold climate and snow.

This scene is notable because it became the legitimate, historical depiction of the storming of the Winter Palace owing to the lack of print or film documenting the actual event, which led historians and filmmakers to use Eisenstein's recreation.

The following teams announced the use of third jerseys for the 2008 – 09 NHL season: Atlanta Thrashers, Boston Bruins, Buffalo Sabres, Chicago Blackhawks ( a vintage jersey for the 2009 NHL Winter Classic at Wrigley Field ), Dallas Stars, Detroit Red Wings ( for the 2009 Winter Classic ), Edmonton Oilers, Los Angeles Kings, New York Islanders, Ottawa Senators, Philadelphia Flyers, Phoenix Coyotes, Pittsburgh Penguins, San Jose Sharks, St. Louis Blues, Tampa Bay Lightning, Toronto Maple Leafs, Vancouver Canucks.

Winter abundance of and habitat use by Henslow's Sparrows in Louisiana.

Helmer Aslaksen, a mathematician who teaches at the National University of Singapore and specializes in the Chinese calendar, explains that those who use 2698 BC as a first year probably do so because they want to have " a year 0 as the starting point ", or because " they assume that the Yellow Emperor started his year with the Winter solstice of 2698 BC ", hence the difference with the year 2697 BC calculated by the Jesuits.

Documents relating to the rebellion were found by the local ethnographer Boris Sennikov in 1982 while he was engaged in clearing sand from the altar of the Winter Church of the Kazan monastery-during the 1920s the monastery had been requisitioned for use as the local Cheka headquarters and the church had served as the archive of the Tambov Military Commissariat.

The building itself was remodelled in celebration of the 2006 Winter Olympics, with its main rooms redesigned by Dante Ferretti, and " featured an imaginative use of lighting and mirrors in a spectacular display of some of the most important and impressive Pharaonic statues in the museum collection.

Recreation facilities in Kananaskis include several campgrounds, a golf course, a hotel, a holiday ranch, two alpine ski areas ( Nakiska, which hosted alpine skiing and freestyle moguls skiing during the 1988 Winter Olympics and Fortress Mountain ) and a competitive cross-country ski area ( the Canmore Nordic Centre ) that the public can use.

UD Arena also hosts the Winter Guard International championships, at which hundreds of percussion and color guard ensembles compete from around the world.

The game became so popular that the first " world championship " of ice hockey was featured in Montreal's annual Winter Carnival in 1883 and the McGill team captured the " Carnival Cup.

* The Jamaica national bobsled team received major media attention and stunned the world at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada for its unexpected good performance.

* March 12 – The Soviet Union and Finland sign a peace treaty in Moscow ending the Winter War ; Finns, along with the world at large, are shocked by the harsh terms.

The Quebec Winter Carnival is the biggest winter-themed Carnival in the world.

The rest of the skating world soon followed suit, causing a torrent of world records to be broken in the following seasons, including the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

* " The world of Brother Cadfael " Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, Winter, 2008 by H. Wendell Howard

The Olympic Oval ice arena was site of the 1988 Winter Olympic Games, the fastest ice in the world.

In 1994, the final year of his speed skating career, Koss also gained fame outside the speed skating world by winning three gold medals at the 1994 Winter Olympics in his native Norway, winning all races in new world records, two of which would remain unbeaten until the clap skate era.

The group has performed all over the world, in front of royalty and world leaders, and at the opening ceremonies of the 1988 Winter Olympics.

* Bjørn Dæhlie, cross-country skier with most world medals ( 29 medals in the Olympics and World Championships ) and Winter Olympic record of 8 gold and 4 silver medals

The Winter X Games are, as described by ESPN ( 2008 ), a competition compiled of the greatest winter action sport athletes from around the world competing on an annual basis.

The 1998 game was held in the very same year as the 1998 Winter Olympics, which was held in Nagano, Japan, providing the NHL to show its players from all over the world.

* Writing on the purely superficial westernization of Russian intellectuals in his travel journalism Winter Notes on Summer Impressions, Dostoevsky writes: ' There is no soil, we say, and no people, nationality is nothing but a certain system of taxation, the soul is a tabula rasa, a small piece of wax out of which you can readily mould a real man, a world man or a homunculus – all that must be done is to apply the fruits of European civilisation and read two or three books ’

Many of the top professionals in the sport, including 2006-and 2010 Winter Olympics gold medalist Shaun White, come to practice and compete in the world famous Super Pipe and Super-Duper Pipe.

The giant slalom was first run in the world championships in 1950 in Aspen, Colorado, and debuted at the Winter Olympics in 1952 in Oslo, Norway.

TSN has hosted much of Canada's supplementary Olympic coverage, being the first pay-TV station in the world to ever broadcast the Olympics with the 1988 Olympic Winter Games in Calgary, and having been part of the CBC's coverage from 1998 to 2008.

Friendship and the welcoming of the world are the meanings of both the English Bay structure and the 2010 Winter Olympics emblem.

It was during the speed skating events of the Olympic Winter Games in 1988 that The Oval became known as " the fastest ice on Earth ", as world records times were set in seven distance events ( Men's 500 m, Men's 1500 m, Men's 10000 m, Women's 500 m, Women's 1000 m, Women's 3000 m and Women's 5000 m ), and new Olympic records were set in the other three events ( Men's 1500 m, Men's 5000 m and Women's 1500 m ).

* " Best in the world municipal water " ( 2005 ) award at the Berkeley Springs Winter Festival of the Waters.

The longer 1909 match has sometimes been called a world championship match, but research by Edward Winter indicates that the title was not at stake.