Snow plows were present at Wellington and others were sent to help, but they could not penetrate the snow accumulations and repeated avalanches along the stretch of tracks between Scenic and Leavenworth.

Snow plows used on trunk highways are operated by Mn / DOT.

Snow or no, the fans were present in force at the Metropolitan Opera last night for a performance of the Ponchielli work.

As it turned out, neither of the originally-proposed UK-designed warheads were actually fitted, being superseded by Red Snow, an Anglicised variant of the U. S. W-28 thermonuclear warhead of 1. 1 Mt yield.

The first X Games ( known as 1995 Extreme Games ) were held in Newport, Providence, Mount Snow, and Vermont in the United States.

Although George H. W. Bush called this philosophy voodoo economics, George W. Bush and his Treasury Secretary, John W. Snow, were believers.

After him in the 19th century in Russia there were written such operatic masterpieces as Rusalka and The Stone Guest by Alexander Dargomyzhsky, Boris Godunov and Khovanshchina by Modest Mussorgsky, Prince Igor by Alexander Borodin, Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, and The Snow Maiden and Sadko by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

The astronomer Patrick Moore points out that Schiaparelli ( 1835 – 1910 ) " had found that his Nodus Gordis and Olympic Snow Olympica were almost the only features to be seen " during dust storms, and " guessed correctly that they must be high ".

The 100 series PowerBooks were intended to tie into the rest of the Apple desktop products utilizing the corporate Snow White design language incorporated into all product designs since 1986.

Snow were major contributors in leading the Giants to win their first NL West division title of the decade in 1997.

About " 10 – 15 " people were looked at, but Goodwin continued to press for Snow getting the chief composer duties.

The films were aimed at the kiddie-matinee market, and most were farce outings in the Stooge tradition, with the exception of Snow White and the Three Stooges, a children's fantasy in Technicolor.

Deprived of their funding, large-scale governments collapsed, and were replaced by small, voluntary governments like the burbclaves depicted in Snow Crash.

He volunteered at the shelter where she worked, and they fell in love and began living together, though as Kathy Snow Guillermo writes they were very different — Newkirk was older and more practical, whereas Pacheco could barely look after himself.

However, Snow ’ s research and preventive measures to avoid further outbreaks were not fully accepted or put into practice until after his death.

In most computer systems, images are encoded with a gamma of about 0. 45 and decoded with a gamma of 2. 2 ; a notable exception, until the release of Mac OS X 10. 6 ( Snow Leopard ) in September 2009, were Macintosh computers: they used 0. 55 and 1. 8 respectively.

Among the microcephalics who appear in the film ( and are referred to as " pinheads ") were Zip and Pip ( Elvira and Jenny Lee Snow ) and Schlitzie, a male named Simon Metz who wore a dress mainly due to incontinence, a disputed claim.

Several characters are based on real country music figures: Henry Gibson's Haven Hamilton is a composite of Roy Acuff, Hank Snow, and Porter Wagoner ; Ronee Blakely's Barbara Jean is based on Loretta Lynn ; the black country singer Tommy Brown ( played by Timothy Brown ) is based on Charley Pride ; and the feuding folk trio is based on Peter, Paul and Mary ; within the trio, the married couple of Bill and Mary were inspired by Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert, who later became Starland Vocal Band .< ref >

There were separate lower-level platforms under the main part of Holborn Viaduct station known as the Snow Hill platforms, and these can still be seen when leaving City Thameslink station travelling northwards.

After Snow White, Kreuk's agent sent an audition tape to screenwriters Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, who at the time were putting together the cast of a show they had created for the WB Network entitled Smallville.

The last two big snow events to affect Troy were part of the 2010 Southern Snow event and 1993 Storm of the Century.

At one point in the late 1980s, six natives of Rossmoor and Los Alamitos were playing baseball in the major leagues -- Robb Nen, J. T. Snow, Greg Harris, Dennis Lamp, Greg Pirkl, and Mike Kelly.

Snow has rarely fallen, but 1. 0 inch fell in January 1907 ; more recently, snow flurries were observed on February 5, 1976 and in the winter of 2001.

In 1999, some scenes of the Hollywood film, Runaway Bride ( starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere ) were shot at the Snow Hill High School.

The first Anglo settlers in the area were John M. Ferrell and his wife, who moved from Tennessee to a site west of present-day Snow Lake Shores in 1839.

Variety wrote that Hawke's part " shows signs of coming to new life as a screen actor after somnolent turns in the likes of Snow Falling on Cedars.

The name coming from the fact that the prince who rescued Snow White is often called ' Prince Charming.

Parker and Snow worked well together and eventually formed Hank Snow Enterprises and Jamboree Attractions ; a successful promotional outfit for up and coming country singers.

After coming fit from injury, Willis was brought into the squad for the fourth Test against the West Indies on 22 July as part of wholesale bowling changes that saw Brian Close, Edrich, Mike Hendrick, Mike Selvey and Pat Pocock replaced with John Snow, Ward, Bob Woolmer, David Steele and Willis.

Salazar won two more fights, including a six round decision win on November 16, 2002, over Kisha Snow, who had six wins and only one loss coming into their fight.

It also had a few up and coming stars such as B. A. D, Heavy B, Wendy G ( formerly known as A-Man ), D Ray 3000 ( formerly known as Kid Crisis ), Steve Fury, James Ryker, Cameron Frost, Billy Rayz, Scotty Rayz, Sirus LaVaye ( aka Mister Omega ), DJ Pringle, and " Snow Plow " Jerry Reiner just to name a few ... Now in 2010 XW 2000 is running Shows once again, under the same family-oriented show format, for Fund Raising Events to our War Veterans and help the Community in general across the Florida Panhandle.

a winning little `` Snow Maiden '' variation by the adorable Galina Kekisheva ; ;

** based on the novel Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Danish author Peter Høeg.

One of the major contributions to fighting cholera was made by the physician and pioneer medical scientist John Snow ( 1813 – 1858 ), who in 1854 found a link between cholera and contaminated drinking water.

Atkins's first hit single was " Mr. Sandman ", followed by " Silver Bell ", which he did as a duet with Hank Snow.

In 1967 a tribute song called " Chet's Tune " was produced for his birthday, with contributions by a long list of RCA / Victor artists including Eddy Arnold, Connie Smith, Jerry Reed, Willie Nelson, Hank Snow, and others.

Walt Disney, who had previously been in the short cartoon business, stepped into feature films with the first English-speaking animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ; released by RKO Pictures in 1937.

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 ).

These gnomes followed the style of the 1937 depiction of the seven dwarves in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs by Disney.

The film was written by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett and is playfully based on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Original map by John Snow showing the Cluster ( epidemiology ) | clusters of cholera cases in the London epidemic of 1854

* 1997: Black Wine by Candas Jane Dorsey and " Travels With The Snow Queen " by Kelly Link

* On modern systems, Mac OS X Snow Leopard represents a 65, 536 byte file as " 66 KB ", rounding to the nearest 1000, while Microsoft Windows 7 would divide by 1024 and represent this as " 64 KB ".

This position has been championed by David M W Powers, Elizabeth Bates, Catherine Snow, Anat Ninio, Brian MacWhinney, Michael Tomasello, Michael Ramscar, William O ' Grady, and others.

Memoir, with foreword by C. P. Snow.

* In the European fairy tale, " Snow White " ( collected by Brothers Grimm in 1812 ), the evil queen asks, " Mirror, mirror, on the wall ... who's the fairest of them all?

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.

Birds seen at or very near the Pole include the Snow Bunting, Northern Fulmar and Black-legged Kittiwake, though some bird sightings may be distorted by the tendency of birds to follow ships and expeditions.

Snow is not unusual, but is by no means predictable, and years can pass with no snowfall at all.