*" Diana of the Tower " a copper statue by Augustus Saint-Gaudens was created as the weather vane for the second Madison Square Garden in 1893.

Some say that it was as a result of this that the cock began to be used as a weather vane on church steeples, and some a Papal enactment of the ninth century ordered the figure of the cock to be placed on every church steeple.

A contemporary joke was that the letters on the weather vane of St Peter's Church could represent " Andrew Perne, Papist " or " Andrew Perne, Protestant " according to which the wind was blowing.

The ceiling of this portico incorporates a wind plate connected to a weather vane, showing the direction of the wind.

However, he is sucked into a garbage chute to the underside of Cloud City and left hanging onto a weather vane.

The colors of the victorious owner's silks are applied on the jockey and horse that are part of the weather vane atop the infield structure.

The practice began in 1909 when a horse and rider weather vane sat atop the old Members ' Clubhouse, which was constructed when Pimlico opened in 1870.

Paul Revere's son attended Westford Academy and a bell cast by Revere graces its lobby today .. A weather vane made by Paul Revere sits atop the Abbot Elementary school.

* Old Father Time is a weather vane at Lord's Cricket Ground, London, in the shape of Father Time.

Homer is often shown borrowing ( or stealing ) items from Flanders, such as a weather vane, a camcorder, a diploma, a toothbrush and an air conditioning unit.

File: City of Norwich in New York State 13 weathervane. jpg | A weather vane on a rooftop

It is also unusual in having a chamfered square tower, giving it an octagonal appearance, in being surmounted with a cupola, a golden globe with weather vane and a fenced viewing platform.

The weather vane on top takes the form of a gudgeon ( an early Christian symbol ), hence the local saying " under the fish and over the water ".

Another highly visible feature of the ground is Old Father Time, a weather vane in the shape of Father Time, currently adorning a stand on the south-east side of the field.

The famous Old Father Time weather vane and clock is also visible

For many years a weather vane in the shape of a cockatrice adorned the church of St. Peter and Holy Cross in Wherwell until it was removed to Andover Museum.

The weather vane on the building features a man firing a cannon, which possibly dates from that period.

There are a number of folk tales to explain the twist: one tale claims that an unoiled weather vane caused the wind to twist the roof.

The Douglas DC-3 that now serves as a weather vane at Yukon Transportation Museum located beside the Whitehorse International Airport.

A " jin pole " being used to install a weather vane atop the 200 foot steeple of a church in Kingston, New York.

A weather vane ( or weathercock ) is an instrument for showing the direction of the wind

Some say that it was as a result of this that the cock began gradually to be used as a weather vane on church steeples, and some add that in the 9th century Pope Nicholas I ordered the figure to be placed on every church steeple.

According to the Guinness World Records, the world's largest weather vane is a Tío Pepe sherry advertisement located in Jerez, Spain.

The city of Montague, Michigan also claims to have the largest standard-design weather vane, being a ship and arrow which measures 48 feet tall, with an arrow 26 feet long.

When Jo Hopper commented on the figure in Cape Cod Morning “ It ’ s a woman looking out to see if the weather ’ s good enough to hang out her wash ,” Hopper retorted, “ Did I say that?

Churchill later wrote that ' Mr. Chamberlain was incomparably the most live, sparkling, insurgent, compulsive figure in British affairs ...' Joe ' was the one who made the weather.

Between 1894 and 1904 Sickert made a series of visits to Venice, initially focussing on the city's topography ; it was during his last painting trip in 1903-04 that, forced indoors by inclement weather, he developed a distinctive approach to the multiple figure tableau that he further explored on his return to Britain.

Hot weather is said to have caused humidity and thus condensation in the Chapel which settled on the face of the Shrine, and caused the figure to appear in the countenance of the Virgin, weeping.

Unseasonably warm weather in St. Moritz during the Games caused difficulty for the figure skating events, as the ice surface was outdoors.

Borowski became a public figure in Manitoba during the late 1960s, when he camped outside the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba in extremely cold weather on two separate occasions.

Overall the number of runs scored is generally the most important figure because the team that scores the most runs wins ( though in some games shortened by bad weather that does not necessarily apply directly ); the number of wickets lost shows how many wickets the bowling team has to get to end the batting team's innings ( and thus how likely the batting team is to improve on its score so far ).

After her resurrection in Birds of Prey, Ice's powers seem incredibly destructive, expelling people from the building she's in as she awakens with bright white eyes, and conjuring a massive icy figure before her as well as controlling the weather to some degree, by causing the beginning of a blizzard far stronger than those known in that area.

Cantore is often selected to go to report on weather events ; since the ratings for the Weather Channel increase during severe weather events, Cantore has, in turn, become a recognizable figure .< ref >

Despite difficult weather conditions they went on to uncover a fountain with its own tank at a depth of three metres, and a marble figure of Apollo, as well as another mosaic pavement with nine figures depicting Achilles being taken by Odysseus to fight in the Trojan War.

Картина г. Крамского "), " the entire figure seems to have diminished a bit from its natural size, contracted, not from starvation, thirst and bad weather, but from internal, inhuman insight to his thought and will during the struggle of forces of spirit and flesh ".

A customisable avatar changes clothing or sports an umbrella according to the weather conditions, and the background of the box around the figure shows a graphic representation of current weather, day or night sky and current moon phase.

Brocéliande is a notable place of legend because of its uncertain location, unusual weather, and its ties with Arthurian Romance, most notably a magical fountain and the tomb of the legendary figure Merlin.

So had Miss Shawnee Rakestraw, full of criticisms about the changes here, giving thanks that her dear old father had gone to his Heavenly Rest last year, saying how much she enjoyed her boarding house in town in inclement weather, was looking forward to Quinzaine Spa this summer.

While travel to Brazil is via the old cattle trail it has been upgraded into a fair weather track that passes through the bauxite-producing town of Linden and ending at Lethem.

Also if the quality of the saltpeter was low ( for instance if it was contaminated with highly hygroscopic calcium nitrate ), or if the powder was simply old ( due to the mildly hygroscopic nature of potassium nitrate ), in humid weather it would need to be redried.

Imbolc was traditionally a time of weather divination, and the old tradition of watching to see if serpents or badgers came from their winter dens may be a forerunner to the North American Groundhog Day.

Historic stations and huts on the island are Hoyberg, Vera, Olsbu, Puppebu ( cabin ), Gamlemetten or Gamlestasjonen ( the old weather station ), Jan Mayen Radio, Helenehytta, Margarethhytta, and Ulla ( a cabin at the foot of the Beerenberg ).

Additionally, since weather may have eroded the earth and rock surrounding it, the entrance to an old mine in particular can be very dangerous.

Ukko, sometimes also Äijä or Äijö ( Finnish: male grandparent, old man, also thunder ), parallel in Estonian mythology to Uku, is the god of the sky, weather, harvest and thunder in Finnish mythology.

Cloaks are as old as human history ; there has nearly always been some form of long, unstructured outer garment used to protect people from the weather.

As 1891 came to a close, Whitman prepared a final edition of Leaves of Grass, writing to a friend upon its completion, " L. of G. at last complete — after 33 y ' rs of hackling at it, all times & moods of my life, fair weather & foul, all parts of the land, and peace & war, young & old ".

The male sings its loud melodious song from a tree, rooftop or other elevated perch, often during bad weather or at night, and starting relatively early in the spring — hence the Mistle Thrush's old name of " Stormcock ".

Today the old tower beside the lodge again is home to a weather station of the Deutscher Wetterdienst.

On January 11, 2007, China destroyed an old Chinese orbiting weather satellite.

Ukko (" old man ") was a god of the sky, weather, and the crops.

For safety reasons, because the steps up to the monastery are rock, steep, and old, climbs are not permitted during very wet or windy weather.

The secondary school and sixth form college, for pupils from 11 – 19 years old, houses the adult education centre, swimming pool, an all weather sports pitch and the " Melvyn Bragg Drama Studio " which was opened in 2005.

In a study in the Forest of Ae, south-west Scotland, it was found that 21 % of nestlings over two days old died, with the causes of death being starvation, wet weather, predation and desertion by the parents.

These striking differences are the basis of the old saying that " The weather is different a few miles away " in the Yi area.

The village also contains an old brick pit which is officially closed for recreational purposes due to metal contaminated water naturally leached from the surrounding rocks but the attractive colour of the lake in the pit and Bexhills hot summer weather mean that many people swim there despite the danger.

This is now considered mere superstition ( however one can hear old men talk of it ), as fruit production for a given summer is related to weather conditions the previous summer, with warm, dry summers increasing the amount of stored sugars available for subsequent flower and fruit production ; it has no predictive relationship to the weather of the next winter.

* The old record was a 257-268 mph wind measurement from a Doppler weather radar near Red Rock, Oklahoma, as reported in a formal publication by Bluestein et al.

The name day of Anders in the Scandinavian calendar is November 30, and in the old peasant superstition that day was important for determining what the Christmas weather would be.

The link between weather prediction and the day is said to have been inspired by an old Scottish couplet: " If Candlemas Day is bright and clear / There'll be two winters in the year.