William Maclure ( 1763 – 1840 ), president of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia from 1817 to 1840, came to New Harmony during the winter of 1825 – 26.

In the winter of 1840 the one-eyed Winnebago Chieftan De-co-ray made his camp in the valley where the Rush Creek and Root River, known to the Native Americans as the Hokah River, met.

Henry Draper's father, John William Draper, was an accomplished doctor, chemist, botanist, and professor at New York University ; he was also the first to photograph the moon through a telescope in the winter of 1839 – 1840.

Eells tried several tactics to try to recover his health, such as spending the winter of 1840 in Cuba, but nevertheless, he died in 1842 in Cincinnati at the home of his friend S. W. Pomeroy, wracked with arthritis and tuberculosis.

Fallmerayer soon after left the country again on account of political troubles, and spent the greater part of the next four years in travel, spending the winter of 1839 – 1840 with Count Tolstoy at Geneva.

Traditionally, before circa 1840 in Montreal, the landed, political and wealthier merchant classes lived on their seigneuries during the summers and only came to the city for Parliament or to conduct business during the winter.

During his brief tenure in the winter of 1840, Ward created eight districts with a representative from each serving on the city council.

The water table in this region was very high, and replenished regularly — by winter storms in the headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates from October to March, and from snow-melt from March to July.

The Breviary itself is divided into four seasonal parts — winter, spring, summer, autumn — and comprises under each part:

In the winter of 505 BCE, Yang Hu — a retainer of the Ji family — rose up in rebellion and seized power from the Ji family.

The remainder of the first of the two Cathar wars now essentially focused on Simon's attempt to hold on to his fabulous gains through winters where he was faced, with only a small force of confederates operating from the main winter camp at Fanjeau, with the desertion of local lords who had sworn fealty to him out of necessity — and attempts to enlarge his newfound domains in the summer when his forces were greatly augmented by reinforcements from northern France, Germany and elsewhere.

The Republican armies in Spain — which were resisting a Carlist insurrection — pronounced their allegiance to Alfonso in the winter of 1874 – 1875, led by Brigadier General Martínez-Campos.

Modern Mount Helicon — Hesiod once described his nearby hometown, Ascra, as " cruel in winter, hard in summer, never pleasant.

The country experiences two seasons — a wet season and a dry season — with no extremes of summer or winter.

Imbolc was believed to be the day the Cailleach — the hag of Gaelic tradition — gathers her firewood for the rest of the winter.

The Firth of Clyde lies between 55 and 56 degrees north, at the same latitude as Labrador in Canada and north of the Aleutian Islands, but the influence of the North Atlantic Drift — the northern extension of the Gulf Stream — ameliorates the winter weather and the area enjoys a mild, damp oceanic climate.

In contrast, the winter months — November to April — bring moderately cool and sometimes cold weather, averaging about.

The climate is exceedingly severe — very hot and humid in the short summer, and extremely cold during the long winter.

Sometimes the skins would stay in the unhairing bath for 8 or more days depending how concentrated and how warm the solution was kept — unhairing could take up to twice as long in winter.

Throughout much of the territory there are only two distinct seasons — winter and summer ; spring and autumn are usually brief periods of change between extremely low temperatures and extremely high.

The arid northwest and southeast coasts receive the least amount of rain — 600 to 1200 mm per year — concentrated within the short period of the winter monsoon.

Off-road motorized transport is prohibited on bare ground, but snowmobiles are used extensively during winter — both for commercial and recreational activities.

During the Roman Empire, a festival of the birth of the Unconquered Sun ( or Dies Natalis Solis Invicti ) was celebrated on the winter solstice — the " rebirth " of the sun.

However, World War I put an end to the plans of Olympic competition, and it was not until the winter sports week in Chamonix in 1924 — retroactively awarded Olympic status — that ice speed skating reached the Olympic programme.

The winter of 1837 – 38 saw rebellion in both of the Canadas, with the result they were rejoined as the Province of Canada in 1841.

During the winter of 1841 – 42, Haines taught school in Waukegan, Illinois ( then known as Little Fort ).

Followed soon after by a severe winter in 1841, the area struggled economically.

Soren KierkegaardAfter writing and defending his dissertation On the Concept of Irony with Continual Reference to Socrates ( 1841 ), Kierkegaard left Copenhagen in October 1841 to spend the winter in Berlin.

Over the winter of 1839-40 he entered a de facto marriage with Red Blanket Woman, granddaughter of a Mdewankonton Dakota chief ; a daughter, Helen Hastings Sibley, also known as Wahkiyee ( Bird ), was born in August 1841.

In winter 1841 – 1842, Thalberg gave concerts in Italy, while Liszt, from end of December 1841 until beginning of March 1842, gave a series of concerts in Berlin.

He recognized her because she was the one who, in a winter twilight, on the edge of camp, had once stopped him and reached down her hand to touch his fly.

winter came, and with it Mary's baby -- a boy as she had wished.

She'd found one and she hadn't said a word while Big Hans and I had hunted and hunted as we always did all winter, every winter since the spring that Hans had come and I had looked in the privy and found the first one.

If we manage to keep track of a Bombus queen after she has left her feeding place, we may discover the snug little hideout which she has fixed up for herself when she woke up from her winter sleep.

but she had stayed all winter, and Cathy had stayed all winter too -- with them.

It is said that, in 1038, they were dispersed in winter quarters in the Thracesian theme when one of their number attempted to violate a countrywoman, but in the struggle she seized his sword and killed him ; instead of taking revenge, however, his comrades applauded her conduct, compensated her with all his possessions, and exposed his body without burial as if he had committed suicide.

But she was also a hit with the critics ; a winter 1949 poll of newspaper and magazine radio editors taken by Motion Picture Daily named her the year's best radio comedienne.

When an early foal is desired, barn managers will put the mare " under lights " by keeping the barn lights on in the winter to simulate a longer day, thus bringing the mare into estrus sooner than she would in nature.

According to legend, she went barefoot even in winter, and when she was urged by the Bishop of Wrocław to wear shoes, she carried them in her hands.

Legend has it that if she wishes to make the winter last a good while longer, she will make sure the weather on Imbolc is bright and sunny, so she can gather plenty of firewood.

In the winter of 1559-1560, she arrived in Madrid to serve as a court painter and lady-in-waiting to the new queen, Elisabeth of Valois, Philip II ’ s third wife, who was an amateur portraitist.

Her dangerous work required tremendous ingenuity ; she usually worked during winter months, to minimize the likelihood that the group would be seen.

It was a legal New Year when courts of law convened after a winter break, and it marked the supposed moment when the Angel Gabriel came to announce to the Virgin Mary that she would bear a child.

In Majorca one can still visit the ( then abandoned ) Carthusian monastery of Valldemossa, where she spent the winter of 1838 – 39 with Chopin and her children .< ref >

In the winter of 1919, the Spanish flu spread throughout Stockholm, and Garbo's father, to whom she was very close, became ill.

However, when she goes into labor and is on the way to the hospital on an icy winter night, her taxi crashes and she is decapitated.