Three famous clipper ships which can be seen as models are Comet, Snow Squall, and Flying Cloud.

Similarly, gnomes are contrasted to elves, as in William Cullen Bryant's Little People of the Snow ( 1877 ), which has " let us have a tale of elves that ride by night, with jingling reins, or gnomes of the mine " ( cited after OED ).

The Ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden, and the Hotel de Glace in Duschenay, Canada, melt every spring and are rebuilt each winter ; the Mammut Snow Hotel in Finland is located within the walls of the Kemi snow castle ; and the Lainio Snow Hotel is part of a snow village near Ylläs, Finland.

Snow fall has decreased significantly over the past century while temperatures are increasing year round with rainfall decreasing.

Snow seldom lies at sea level and frosts are generally less frequent than the mainland.

Since Snow Leopard, file sizes are reported in decimal units.

Warning, however, that the NASA satellite images indicated the Arctic may have entered a " death spiral " caused by climate change, Professor Mark Serreze, a sea ice specialist at National Snow and Ice Data Center ( NSIDC ), USA, said: " The passages are open.

Snow is common in winter, when night-time temperatures are typically below zero.

Snow can be used to make snow cones, also known as snowballs, which are usually eaten in the summer months.

The most interesting pieces of the interior are a font with marble basin ( 12th – 13th century ), a silver statue of St. Lucy by Pietro Rizzo ( 1599 ), a ciborium by Luigi Vanvitelli, and a statue of the Madonna della Neve (" Madonna of the Snow ", 1512 ) by Antonello Gagini.

Snow can block railway lines, close airports ( airplanes are often unable to move in dense fog ) and block roads.

Snow is infrequent in winter except for the higher elevations, but the islands are subject to high winds at times — those from the northeast sometimes bring brief periods of freezing and Arctic-like wind chills.

NESDIS also operates the National Geophysical Data Center ( NGDC ) in Boulder, Colorado, the National Oceanographic Data Center ( NODC ) in Silver Spring, Maryland, the National Snow and Ice Data Center ( NSIDC ) and the National Coastal Data Development Center ( NCDDC ) which are used internationally by environmental scientists.

They are among the most well-known storytellers of European folk tales, and their work popularized such stories as " Cinderella ", " The Frog Prince " ( Der Froschkönig ), " Hansel and Gretel " ( Hänsel und Gretel ), " Rapunzel ", " Rumpelstiltskin " ( Rumpelstilzchen ), and " Snow White " ( Schneewittchen ).

The tales are available in more than 100 translations and have been adapted to popular Disney films such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Sleeping Beauty, and Cinderella.

Clans which continue are: Fish, Ocean / Sea, Thunder, Bear, Fox, Potato, Deer, Beaver, Snow, and Wolf.

Snow and ice conditions can develop in the colder upper portions of the clouds, even when the air temperatures at ground level are moderate.

That is, " ' Snow is white ' is true " is well-defined, as is " ' " Snow is white " is true ' is true ," and so forth, but neither " This sentence is true " nor " This sentence is not true " receive truth-conditions ; they are, in Kripke's terms, " ungrounded.

* Snow cones, made from balls of crushed ice topped with sweet syrup served in a paper cone, are consumed in many parts of the world.

HFS is still supported by current versions of Mac OS, but starting with OS X, an HFS volume cannot be used for booting, and beginning with OS X 10. 6 ( Snow Leopard ), HFS volumes are read-only and cannot be created or updated.

He revealed on the BBC Radio 2 feature " Tracks of My Years " that his favourite songs are: " I Can Help " by Billy Swan, " Bleeding Love " by Leona Lewis, " Chasing Cars " by Snow Patrol, " Beautiful " by Christina Aguilera, " Unfinished Sympathy " by Massive Attack, " Tangled Up In Blue " by Bob Dylan, " Shoulda Woulda Coulda " by Beverley Knight, " This Woman's Work " by Maxwell, " He's So Fine " by The Chiffons and " Falling Slowly " by The Frames.

Snow and frost are rare near the coast, with very few exceptions, like the snowstorm on 13 February 2004, when of snow accumulated in the urban area, causing general chaos.

Snow also fed the smaller, more predictable tributaries, such as the Chinle, Animas, Jemez and Taos rivers.

This divide meets the Continental Divide at Snow Dome ( also known as Dome ), near the northernmost bend of the Columbia River.

Snow kiting has also become popular in recent years.

E. W. Gilbert's version ( 1958 ) of John Snow ( physician ) | John Snow's 1855 map of the Soho cholera outbreak showing the clusters of cholera cases in the London epidemic of 1854 While the basic elements of topography and theme existed previously in cartography, the John Snow map was unique, using cartographic methods not only to depict but also to analyze clusters of geographically dependent phenomena.

By then, memetics had also become a theme appearing in fiction ( e. g. Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash ).

The Snow Apple, also known as the Fameuse, is believed to be a parent of the McIntosh.

Numerous rarities have also been recorded including Black-browed Albatross and Snow Goose, and a single pair of Snowy Owls bred on Fetlar from 1967 to 1975.

Snow also composed the soundtrack score for The X-Files: I Want to Believe and released the soundtrack album The X-Files: I Want to Believe: Original Motion Picture Score.

Mark Snow also commented that the fast percussion featured in some tracks was inspired by the track " Prospectors Quartet " from the There Will Be Blood soundtrack.

See Snow White and Rose Red, where the tame bear is really a bewitched prince, and The Golden Bird where the talking fox is also a man.

* Snow also affects the ways animals behave ; many take advantage of the insulating properties of snow by burrowing in it.

Hybris, also known as Snow White, Vecna. 22528, and Full Moon, is a computer worm believed to be written by Brazilian virus writer Vecna, member of the computer virus writing group 29A.

Phoebe Snow, Jimmy Cliff and the Brecker Brothers also performed.

Snow is also very rare ( barely 1. 5 days per year on average ) and it is even more rare for the snow to last during the day ( 0. 3 days a year on average ).

A tercet may also form the separate halves of the ending sestet in a Petrarchan sonnet, where the rhyme scheme is abbaabba cdccdc, as in Longfellow's " Cross of Snow ".

Both novels deal with an almost " primitive tech " replacing a current, worldwide use technology, in the sense of the reprogramming of the mind through ancient Sumerian chanting in Snow Crash ( which also uses allusions to Babylonian prostitutes passing an information virus like a sexually transmitted disease ), and the idea of nanotechnology propagating and communicating through sexual intercourse, passing from body to body like a virus.

Snow also involved himself in the production of equipment needed for the administration of inhalational anesthetics.

Snow play is also available at Mount Donna Buang.

Dr. John Snow is famous for his investigations into the causes of the 19th century cholera epidemics, and is also known as the father of ( modern ) epidemiology.

US 113 also possesses a business route through Snow Hill.