* 2012 – The opening ceremony of the Summer Paralympic Games is held in London.

It is governed by the World Archery Federation ( WA ), and is one of the sports in the Summer Paralympic Games.

* Earliest day on which First Day of Summer or Sumardagurinn fyrsti can fall, while April 25 is the latest ; celebrated on the first Thursday after April 18.

It is an A-type main sequence star with an apparent visual magnitude of 0. 77 and is one of the vertices of the Summer Triangle ( the other two vertices are marked by Deneb and Vega ).

A musical stage adaptation of the Book of Esther, written by Bruce Greer and Keith Ferguson, is currently in development with Dallas Summer Musicals.

The city is known for hosting the 1992 Summer Olympics as well as world-class conferences and expositions and also many international sport tournaments.

During the Summer, the hour long programme News 24 Sunday was broadcast both on BBC One and the BBC News Channel at 09: 00, to replace The Andrew Marr Show, which is off air.

107, Summer 1997, pp. 38 – 53, which argues that cultural imperialism is a positive thing.

6, Spring / Summer 2001, which argues that the idea of media imperialism is outdated.

Summer is hot and humid throughout the state, with average highs in New London of 81 ° F ( 27 ° C ) and 87 ° F ( 31 ° C ) in Windsor Locks.

Former heavyweight rower Dominic Seiterle is a member of the Canadian national rowing team and won a gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the men's 8 + event.

The Ethnologue is published by SIL International ( formerly known as the Summer Institute of Linguistics ), a Christian linguistic service organization, which studies numerous minority languages, to facilitate language development and to work with the speakers of such language communities to translate portions of the Bible in their language.

In the United Kingdom, GMT is the official time only during winter ; during summer British Summer Time is used.

In the United Kingdom, this is known as British Summer Time ( BST ); in the Republic of Ireland it is called Irish Standard Time ( IST )— officially changing to GMT in winter.

The arrival of the yachts is celebrated as part of the Hobart Summer Festival, a food and wine festival beginning just after Christmas and ending in mid-January.

The grail is central in many modern Arthurian works, including Charles Williams's novel War in Heaven and his two collections of poems about Taliessin, Taliessin Through Logres and Region of the Summer Stars, and in feminist author Rosalind Miles ' Child of the Holy Grail.

Henry Moseley had been a very promising schoolboy at Summer Fields School ( where one of the four ' leagues ' is named after him ), and he was awarded a King's scholarship to attend Eton College.

* Summer school is under way for many students.

In the UK and other countries that use " Summer Time " the actual exact time of the midpoint in a common year is at 1: 00 p. m. this is when 182 days and 12 hours have elapsed and there are 182 days and 12 hours remaining.

This is due to Summer Time having advanced the time by one hour.

Her stage credits include Hitchcock Blonde by Terry Johnson ( in a role requiring her to appear completely nude on stage with only a pair of high heels ) and Tennessee Williams ' Summer and Smoke, both in London's West End, and Gaslight at London's Old Vic Theatre.

These paintings do not show violence, however, but a sad thoughtfulness, explained by the fact that three of them were originally exhibited with completely different titles, one more appropriately being What Shall We Do for the Rent ?, and the first in the series, Summer Afternoon.

The opening ceremony for the 2000 Summer Olympics at the stadium completely sold out all 110, 000 seats, while the highest attendance ever recorded was 114, 714 during the closing ceremony of the same Games.

In the Summer of 2008-2009, Lake Colac completely dried up.

On June 5, 2012, Oddworld Inhabitants announced on Facebook that Abe's Oddysee will be rebooted and it will be a completely new game released during the Summer of 2013, with a public showing later in the year.

Under Odoacer ( 476-489 ) and Theodoric ( 489-526 ), Italy enjoyed an Indian Summer economically and culturally until the damage done in the wars of Justinian ( 535-554 ), who wanted to recover Italy completely for the Empire, devastated the peninsula and destroyed the flourishing Christian Roman civilization that had survived along with the administrative and financial apparatus of the Late Roman Empire.

Summer is usually hot and dry with very little rain, but relative humidity is generally low and the nights are cool.

The city experiences substantial summer precipitation mostly concentrated in thunderstorms and heavy showers with rain events occasionally lasting up to a few weeks at time giving residents " the Summer blues ", while winter is beautifully sunny, warm, and fairly dry.

Summer rain, on the other hand, is infrequent, and occurs in the form of isolated light and brief showers.

Summer thunderstorms occur intermittently, particularly in July and August, but due to high cloud bases, rain seldom reaches the ground in any appreciable amount.

For example, " Winter " is peppered with silvery pizzicato notes from the high strings, calling to mind icy rain, whereas " Summer " evokes a thunderstorm in its final movement, which is why the movement is often dubbed " Storm.

Summer begins around the end of May to the beginning of June, it is humid and wet with the arrival of the rain season ( tsuyu, 梅雨 ), receiving high rainfall amounts during this period.

Clouds were seeded during the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing using rockets, so that there would be no rain during the opening and closing ceremonies.

The first track, " Summer Rain ", deals with a man's yearning for his girlfriend, Kelly thought the sentiment would translate well but found a curious Belgian interviewer asked, " But why would anybody long for rain in summer?

The results proved how variable the season can be with 100 mph winds, balmy Indian Summer days, torrential rain and thick fog all observed throughout the month.

A late Summer Desert Rain Storm can produce a Late Bloomer as shown in the photo of the Orange Flowered variety that bloomed two days after a rain storm in mid August ; and then continued to bloom right through the end of September.

Like in tropical climates Winter is usually referred to as rain season while Summer is called dry season.

Summer in Chicago is prone to thunderstorms, and summer rain arises from short-lived hit-or-miss rain rather than actual prolonged rainfalls, thunderstorms also occur with regularity at night.

Ray Bradbury's short stories " The Long Rain " and " All Summer in a Day " also depicted Venus as a habitable planet with incessant rain.

Summer is usually mild and with good little rain, but relative humidity is generally high and the nights are cool.

So, for that matter, are the newer dances -- the `` Kalmuk Dance '' with its animal movements, that genial juggling act by Sergei Tsvetkov called `` The Platter '', the rousing and beautiful betrothal celebration called `` Summer '', `` The Three Shepherds '' of Azerbaijan hopping up on their staffs, and, of course, the trenchant `` Rock 'n' Roll ''.

* 2008 – Competition in the 2008 Summer Olympics in China proceeded with the women's association football tournament.

* 2008 – The 2008 Summer Olympics officially opened with the opening ceremony at National Stadium, Beijing, China.

It has continued functioning with a Summer Conversational Series in its original building at Orchard House, now run by the Louisa May Alcott Memorial Association.

Grant followed the album with her second Christmas album, Home For Christmas in 1992, which included the song " Breath of Heaven ( Mary's Song )", written by Chris Eaton and Grant, and would later be covered by many artists, including Donna Summer, Jessica Simpson ( who acknowledged Grant as one of her favorite artists ), Vince Gill, Sara Groves, Point of Grace, and Broadway star Barbara Cook.

For many years he simultaneously produced the daily strip, a weekly syndicated newspaper column, and a 500-station radio program ...." He ran the Boston Summer Theatre with The Phantom cartoonist Lee Falk, bringing in Hollywood actors such as Mae West, Melvyn Douglas and Claude Rains to star in their live productions.

* Lucy Irvine ( b. 1956 ), writer, lived very briefley in the Summer Isles Hotel with her father, who owned it and the Hydroponicum.

Along with that of co-host Meredith Vieira and Matt Lauer, Costa's commentary of the 2012 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremonies has come under fierce criticism, with Costas being described as making " a series of jingoistic remarks, including a joke about Idi Amin when Uganda's team appeared " and the combined commentary as being " ignorant " and " banal ".

Summer can bring stretches of humid conditions as well as thunderstorms, but rarely extended periods of or above, with 11 days breaching that mark.

*" The Contras ' Valley Forge: How I View the Nicaragua Crisis ", by Enrique Bermúdez ( with Michael Johns ), Policy Review magazine, Summer 1988.

Summer campaigns saw him not only retake, sometimes with brutal reprisals, what he had lost in the ' close ' season, but also seek to widen his sphere of operation — and we see him in action in the Aveyron at St. Antonin and on the banks of the Rhone at Beaucaire.

Easy listening artist Barbra Streisand teamed up with Donna Summer to do " No More Tears ( Enough Is Enough )" in 1979, then with Barry Gibb to do " Guilty " the following year.

Producers Giorgio Moroder, whom Allmusic described as " one of the principal architects of the disco sound " with the Donna Summer hit " I Feel Love " ( 1977 ), and Jean-Marc Cerrone were involved with Eurodisco.

Jazz Impressions of the USA ( 1956, Morello's debut with the group ), Jazz Impressions of Eurasia ( 1958 ), Jazz Impressions of Japan ( 1964 ), and Jazz Impressions of New York ( 1964 ) are less well-known albums, but all are brilliant examples of the quartet's studio work, and they produced Brubeck standards such as " Summer Song ," " Brandenburg Gate ," " Koto Song ," and " Theme From Mr. Broadway.

Due to the association of the breed with Germany, the dachshund was chosen to be the first official mascot for the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, with the name Waldi.

She continued to have hits with " Heartbreaker " ( 1978 ), " Baby I'm Burning " and " You're the Only One " ( both 1979 ), all of which charted in the pop singles Top 40, and all of which also topped the country-singles chart ; 1979's " Sweet Summer Lovin '" became the first Parton single in two years to not top the country singles chart ( though it still nonetheless reached the top ten ).

In the sequel to Summer of Night, A Winter Haunting, Dale Stewart ( one of the first book's protagonists, and now an adult ), revisits his boyhood home to come to grips with mysteries that have disrupted his adult life.

Soon after Summer of Night, Simmons, who had written mostly horror fiction, began to focus on writing science fiction, although in 2007 he returned with a work of historical fiction and horror, The Terror.