As the Juniors entered the ring, Mr. Spring, the announcer, stated over the public-address system that this was the 28th year that Westminster has held the Finals of the Junior Competition.

Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Lincoln ( née Hanks ), in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County, Kentucky ( now LaRue County ).

Even though this period-known in its earlier part as the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period-in its latter part was fraught with chaos and bloody battles, it is also known as the Golden Age of Chinese philosophy because a broad range of thoughts and ideas were developed and discussed freely.

* The New Wave band Missing Persons ' best-selling album was called Spring Session M.

The tunnel opened for use on December 3, 1844, but was not completely finished until late Spring 1845.

It was presented at the AFIPS Spring Joint Computer Conference in 1967.

In 2010, the Australian a cappella Quartet The Idea of North was nominated for an ARIA for their seventh studio album, " Feels Like Spring ", bringing a cappella music back into pop culture.

It was released in the Spring of 1978, one month before her high school graduation.

It ran for 63 performances and was followed two years later by The Day Before Spring.

It is often known as the " Spring " sonata ( Frühlingssonate ), and was published in 1801.

This doctrine was announced to retroactively justify the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August 1968 that ended the Prague Spring, along with earlier Soviet military interventions, such as the invasion of Hungary in 1956.

The majority of traditional Chinese philosophy originates in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States eras, during a period known as the " Hundred Schools of Thought ", which was characterized by significant intellectual and cultural developments.

Confucius ( 551 – 479 BCE ) was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn Period of Chinese history.

The ČSLA offered no resistance to the invasion mounted by the Soviets in 1968 in reaction to the " Prague Spring ", and was extensively reorganized by the Soviets following the re-imposition of communist rule in Prague.

Although tradition holds that in the Zhou, the year began on the new moon which preceded the winter solstice, the Spring and Autumn Annals seem to indicate that ( in Lu at least ) the Yin calendar ( the calendar used in Shang dynasty, with years beginning on the first new moon after the winter solstice ) was in use until the middle of the 7th century, and that the beginning of the year was shifted back one month around 650 BC.

Cologne's Early Spring Exhibition was set up in a pub, and required that participants walk past urinals while being read lewd poetry by a woman in a communion dress.

In 1962, Silent Spring by American biologist Rachel Carson was published.

Silent Spring was a best seller, and public reaction to it launched the modern environmental movement in the United States.

In 1954, the 23 man crew of the Japanese fishing vessel Lucky Dragon was exposed to radioactive fallout from a hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll, in 1969, an ecologically catastrophic oil spill from an offshore well in California's Santa Barbara Channel, Barry Commoner's protest against nuclear testing, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring, Paul R. Ehrlich's The Population Bomb all added anxiety about the environment.

Another was the appearance of the best-seller Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, in 1962.

Anna was a member of the large, prosperous and well-known Lloyd Jones family of Unitarians, who had emigrated from Wales to Spring Green, Wisconsin.

Lost Spring, also by Nakamura, was in competition for the Golden Bear at the 17th Berlin International Film Festival.

" The festival was celebrated near the cave of Lupercal on the Palatine Hill ( the central hill where Rome was traditionally founded ), to expiate and purify new life in the Spring.

His most famous works are Midnight, a grand novel depicting life in cosmopolitan Shanghai, and Spring Silkworms.

Major annual community events largely reflect traditional small town American life and include the Easter Egg Hunt, Buck Creek Festival, 4th of July Picnic, concert and fireworks, Fall Carnival, Spring Fling, and the Christmas Parade.

Spring Hill has in the past two decades attracted a large number of business chains, reflecting the recent boom in population and the tastes of the recent influx of residents seeking lower property values, quiet suburban life, and a low crime rate.

The quality of life in Weldon Spring is generally high, and has many mid-to upper-class neighborhoods including Whitmoor, Windcastle, and Camelot.

As the town's 50th year history noted: " To write a detailed account of the life and activities of Daniel Mathias Bare is practically equivalent to writing the industrial, and, to a very great extent, the institutional history of Roaring Spring.

D. M. Bare's influence can be found in practically every aspect of town life: out of his general store in 1864, he developed a department store which became known as " the company store ;", now Roaring Spring Department Store, in 1867, he co-sponsored the construction of the first Methodist Church ; from 1868 to 1883, he served as one of the first postmasters, nominating the village's name change to Roaring Spring in 1868 ; he oversaw the creation of the town's first modern utilities, including the telephone system ( 1880 ), the water supply ( 1892 ), and electrical service ( 1892 ).

Thirty years later, Mubarak was ousted from power during the " Arab Spring " and is now serving a life sentence for his role in the deaths of hundreds of Egyptian protesters.

Redmond was succeeded in the party leadership by John Dillon and spared the experience of further political setbacks when after the German Spring Offensive of April 1918, Britain, caught in a desperate life or death struggle with Imperial Germany, foolishly attempted to introduce conscription in Ireland linked with implementation of Home Rule.

The references to Spring, the growing lambs and the migrating swallows remind the reader that the seasons are a cycle, widening the scope of this stanza from a single season to life in general.

Spring is seen as a time of growth, renewal, of new life ( both plant and animal ) being born.

In December 2010, Spring was created a life peer as Baron Risby of Haverhill in the County of Suffolk.

It explores the artistic and intellectual life of Czech society during the Communist period, from the Prague Spring to the Soviet Union ’ s August 1968 invasion and its aftermath.

After exhibiting in the Salons of 1870 and 1872 works which attracted no attention, in 1874 he made his mark with his Song of Spring, a study of rural life, representing a peasant girl sitting on a knoll looking down on a village.

Deaf at birth from rubella, Pride developed oral skills early in his life and graduated from John F. Kennedy High School ( Montgomery County, Maryland ) in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Apart from occasional trips to Paris, London, Dublin and Belfast, Reavey lived out his life in the United States, where he published a number of important translations, including Aleksandr Sergeyevich Yesenin-Volpin's A Leaf of Spring ( 1961 ), Fyodor Abramov's New Life: A Day on a Collective Farm ( 1963 ), the bilingual anthology The New Russian Poets 1953 – 1968 ( 1968 ) and contributions to Yevgeny Yevtushenko's Stolen Apples ( 1972 ).

After that, Brezhnev approved the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 ( Prague Spring ) and ended with the Soviet war in Afghanistan which continued after his death ; he installed an authoritarian regime that lasted throughout his life and the lives of his two successors, Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko.

He is best remembered as the author of two realistic novels of pioneer life in the Far West, Zury: The Meanest Man in Spring County and The McVeys.

This work began as the preface to a collection of poetry seminal to the Chinese nature poetry movement, but developed somewhat of a life of its own: it describes the event during that year's Spring Purification Festival ; in which, 42 literati including Xie An and Sun Chuo were present at a gathering at the Orchid Pavilion near Shaoxing, Zhejiang, at which they to composed poems, played music, and enjoyed the wine.

As of Spring 2009, the newest addition to Greek life at West Liberty is Beta Rho Epsilon.

Declaring that his life was in danger from political enemies, Sithole went into self-imposed exile in the United States city of Silver Spring, Maryland, in 1983, returning to Zimbabwe nine years later to re-enter the political arena.

Randall Tolson ( 1912 – 1954 ) was a clockmaker who lived in Cold Spring Harbor, New York for most of his adult life.

In the United States, legal psychedelic research was reduced to only one program – the studies conducted at the Spring Grove Center in Baltimore which primarily focused on end of life therapy and continued through to 1974.