During the winter of 1945 to 1946 Orwell made several hopeless and unwelcome marriage proposals to younger women, including Celia Kirwan ( who was later to become Arthur Koestler's sister-in-law ), Ann Popham who happened to live in the same block of flats and Sonia Brownell, one of Connolly's coterie at the Horizon office.

Food shortages were severe, especially in the harsh winter of 1946 – 1947.

The UK winter of 1946 – 1947 started out relatively normal, but became one of the snowiest UK winters to date, with nearly continuous snowfall from late January until March.

In March 1946 the IOC, through a postal vote, gave the summer Games to London and the winter competition to St Moritz.

Bradman declined a tour of New Zealand and spent the winter of 1946 wondering whether he had played his last match.

NAF El Centro, the winter home of the Blue Angels, was built adjacent to Seeley in 1946.

Bi-seasonal tourism, a major attraction is the Bregenz Festival ( since 1946, floating stage since 1949, modernised in 1979, Festival and Congress Hall in 1980 ), winter sports at the Pfänder mountain.

The Worcester and District Skittle League, 12 players, playing 5 legs of 3 ball ( winter league, men only, Tuesday nights ) is the oldest skittle league running in the county, having been restarted post-war in 1946, and is a founder member of the Three cities Association.

However, by the winter semester of 1946, the Economic and Educational Sciences Faculty had re-opened.

It experienced a severe winter in 1946 / 47 with over 150 cm of lying snow on flat ground recorded at Clawdd-newydd ( a nearby village ), and there was another hard winter in 1962 / 63.

The German food situation reached its worst during the very cold winter of 1946 – 1947 when German calorie intake ranged from 1, 000 – 1, 500 calories per day, a situation made worse by severe lack of fuel for heating.

Muhammad Ahmed al-Hamed ( born 1931 ), better known by his nickname Muhammed edh-Dhib (; " Muhammad the Wolf "), was a Bedouin shepherd from the Ta ' amireh clans residing in Bethlehem, who discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls in winter 1946 / 47.

Latvia's Dinamo Rīga team was one of eleven teams which played in the first Soviet championship tournament in the winter of 1946 / 1947.

According to interviews given by Parker to the Associated Press many years later, he and Marie were married in Tampa, Florida during the winter of 1932, but the Florida Office of Vital Statistics has no record of such a marriage any time between 1927 and 1946.

In 1946, he made his first investment, purchasing a 300-room winter resort in Lakewood, New Jersey with $ 125, 000 in seed money from his parents.

Composed in the winter of 1946 and the spring of 1947, this comic opera was a successor to his serious opera The Rape of Lucretia.

Britten composed Albert Herring at his home, The Old Mill at Snape, in the winter of 1946 and the spring of 1947.

In the midst of this turmoil during the winter of 1946 – 1947 the Soviet Union experienced the worst natural famine in the 20th century.

Cheng Wingkwong arranged for his nephew to train with Master Qi from the summer of 1946 to the winter of 1948.

In winter 1946 he publicly responded to a call for commitment to God's service.

Even though they do not compete directly with cultivated plants, sometimes winter annuals are considered a pest in commercial agriculture, because they can be hosts for insect pests or fungal diseases ( ovary smut – Microbotryum sp ) which attack crops being cultivated.

* Aegean Sea Surface Water – thick veneer, with summer temperatures of 21 – 26 ° C and winter temperatures ranging from in the north to in the south.

According to Atanasoff's account, several key principles of the Atanasoff – Berry Computer were conceived in a sudden insight after a long nighttime drive during the winter of 1937 – 38.

Subgenus Alnus: Trees with stalked shoot buds, male and female catkins produced in autumn ( fall ) but stay closed over winter, pollinating in late winter or early spring, about 15 – 25 species, including:

The Lewis and Clark Expedition spent the winter of 1805 – 1806 at Fort Clatsop, a small log structure south and west of modern day Astoria.

The winter months of November to February are mild and temperate with average temperatures ranging from 15 – 18 ° C ( 59 – 64 ° F ) with little or no humidity.

During the winter of 1939 – 40, Hitler decreased the size of the fighting manpower in order to return as many skilled workers to the factories as was possible.

For example, during the 872-day Siege of Leningrad, reports of cannibalism began to appear in the winter of 1941 – 1942, after all birds, rats and pets were eaten by survivors.

The winter is possibly the busiest season ; the area can be found packed with downhill skiers, cross-country skiers, ice-fishers, snow-shoers and – most of all-snowmobilers.

In the winter of 357 – 8, Constantius received ambassadors from Shapur II who demanded that Rome restore the lands surrendered by Narseh.

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.

It was given its current name by Frank Beckwith, leader of the Arches National Monument Scientific Expedition, who explored the area in the winter of 1933 – 1934.

Over the winter of 284 – 85, Diocletian advanced west across the Balkans.

Diocletian met Maximian in Milan in the winter of 290 – 91, either in late December 290 or January 291.

He visited Egypt once, over the winter of 301 – 2, and issued a grain dole in Alexandria.

Over the winter of 304 – 5 he kept within his palace at all times.

Mountbatten expressed his feelings towards the use of nuclear weapons in combat in his article " A Military Commander Surveys The Nuclear Arms Race ", which was published shortly after his death in International Security in the winter of 1979 – 80.

The two regiments of the Foreign Legion took part, as the " Foreign Brigade ", in the battle of Alma ( 20 September 1854 ) and the siege of Sevastopol, during the winter of 1854 – 1855.

He was in Rome when it struck in 166 AD, and was also present in the winter of 168 – 69 during an outbreak among troops stationed at Aquileia.

The decision to build a major seaport at the Gdynia village was made by the Polish government in the winter of 1920, in the midst of the Polish-Soviet War ( 1919 – 1920 ).

He returned the following winter ( 1858 – 59 ) with the bark Ocean Bird and schooner tenders A. M. Simpson and Kate.