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Thus, when Dartmouth's Winter Carnival -- widely recognized as the greatest, wildest, roaringest college weekend anywhere, any time -- was broadcast over a national television hookup, Prexy John Sloan Dickey appeared on the screen in rugged winter garb, topped off by a tam-o'-shanter which he confessed had been acquired from a Smith girl.
Snow sculpture at the 2004 Dartmouth Winter Carnival
Winter term is celebrated by Winter Carnival, a tradition started in 1911 by the Dartmouth Outing Club to promote winter sports.
Dartmouth's Winter Carnival tradition was the subject of the 1939 film Winter Carnival starring Ann Sheridan and written by Budd Schulberg ' 36 and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The game became so popular that the first " world championship " of ice hockey was featured in Montreal's annual Winter Carnival in 1883 and the McGill team captured the " Carnival Cup.
In 1886, teams that competed at the Winter Carnival organized the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada ( AHAC ) league and played a regular season composed of " challenges " to the existing champion.
In 1888, the new Governor General of Canada, Lord Stanley of Preston, whose sons and daughter had become hockey enthusiasts, attended the Montreal Winter Carnival tournament and was impressed with the hockey spectacle.
Since 1928 Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan has held an annual Winter Carnival in mid-February, during which a large Snow Sculpture Contest takes place between various clubs, fraternities, and organizations in the community and the university.
The Quebec Winter Carnival is the biggest winter-themed Carnival in the world.
Stanley was first exposed to the game at Montreal's 1889 Winter Carnival, where he saw the Montreal Victorias play the Montreal Hockey Club.
The term is best known for its association with New Orleans Mardi Gras, but is also used in other Carnival celebrations around the Gulf of Mexico, such as the Gasparilla Pirate Festival in Tampa, Florida, and Springtime Tallahassee as well as in La Crosse, Wisconsin and at the Saint Paul Winter Carnival.
Community organizations stage a number of regionally known annual events, including Sandpoint Winter Carnival in February ; Lost in the 50s vintage car show in May ; the Festival at Sandpoint summer music festival in August ; and Idaho State Draft Horse International show in September.
The resort town is known for its Winter Carnival, extended winters, and the highest average snowfall in the state.
* Winter Carnival is held in February at Braman Hill Park.
* Nearby Saranac Lake, New York hosts an Annual Winter Carnival, one of the oldest Winter Carnivals in the country, complete with an Ice Palace.
The annual Winter Carnival and Summer Festival are two of the highlights.
Ice Castle from 2008's Winter Carnival

Winter and parade
Empress Maria with her son, future Nicholas IIThe family of Alexander III being blessed by Jesus Christ in a portrait by Makarov. On the morning of 13 March 1881, Alexander II, aged sixty-two, was killed by a bomb on the way back to the Winter Palace from a military parade.
On the parade ground a native boulder bears a bronze plaque in memory of Eagle Scout twin brothers from Troop 2, Towanda, Pennsylvania, Air Force Lieutenants John R. and William G. Winter.
Palm Springs has the annual " Winter Festival of Lights " parade, which began as a separate parade to celebrate Chanukah in the 1960s.
The original Winter Sports Carnival included skiing, hockey, basketball, boxing, and a sled dog race for children, as well as a bonfire and torchlight parade.
She took part in the opening ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics in a parade paying tribute to the Italian flag.
Team USA marches in the parade of athletes around BC Place stadium during the Opening Ceremony of the XXI Olympic Winter Games, Feb. 12, 2010, in Vancouver.
The 76th Cavalry has also been invited to London in Winter 2009 to play in a New Year's parade.

Winter and theme
Winter Haven was best known as the home of Cypress Gardens, a theme park which closed Sept. 23, 2009.
A new single, " One Dream ," was released on September 29, 2009 and was the official theme song of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Mangione's composition " Chase the Clouds Away " was used at the 1976 Summer Olympics, held in Montreal, Quebec, with a later composition, " Give It All You Got ," being used as the theme to the 1980 Winter Olympic Games, held in Lake Placid, New York.
A common theme in thrillers ( innocent victims dealing with psychos ) is seen in Hitchcock's film Rebecca ( 1940 film ) | Rebecca ( 1940 ), where Mrs. Danvers tries to persuade Mrs. De Winter to leap to her death.
The theme of the competition was " Bright Nordic Winter Nights ".
From 10 November 2011 till 5 February 2012 the Winter theme is in place, meaning X-mas trees and heaps of lights are placed everywhere.
* Cypress Gardens, an American theme park near Winter Haven, Florida, that operated from 1936 to 2009
In 1998, Rikki was chosen to participate at the opening ceremony of the 1998 Winter Paralympics in Nagano, Japan, sing the Paralympics theme song " Tabidachi no Toki ".
The book " The Sixth Winter " written by Douglas Orgill and John Gribbin and published in 1979, follows a similar theme.
He also composed " Winter Games ", the theme song for 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta.
* 1988: " Winter Games ( Can't You Feel It )"-Official theme song for the Calgary 1988 Winter Olympics ( US # 85 )
In 1993, they recorded " Winter Song " for the opening theme of the TriStar Pictures film Sleepless in Seattle and the following year recorded the song " Eternity " for the animated film The Swan Princess by New Line Cinema.
In February each year, the CBA hosts its Winter General Meeting at the British Academy, featuring a series of lectures on a theme linking archaeology with a related discipline.
Cypress Gardens was an American theme park near Winter Haven, Florida that operated from 1936 to 2009.
Recorded over a period of five nights in Vancouver, Foster wrote, arranged, produced and played piano for the project ( which included a recording of the theme for the 1988 Winter Olympics ) with the assistance of Jeremy Lubbock, David Paich, and Lee Ritenour.
The same theme is in the novel L ' Uomo che Guarda (" The Man Who Looks ") ( 1985 ) and the essay L ' Inverno Nucleare (" The Nuclear Winter ") including interviews with some contemporary principal scientists and politicians.
The theme music to the game was sampled by hip-hop artist Cage in the track " Grand Ol ' Party Crash " from his 2005 album Hell's Winter featuring Jello Biafra and DJ Shadow.
The world-renowned 385-voice Mormon Tabernacle Choir performed and recorded his 2002 theme for the Salt Lake Winter Olympics.
She was given a boost by singing the closing theme for the 1998 Winter Olympics at Nagano.
The recording of this theme heard during the 2002 Winter Games was made November 27, 2001 in Maurice Abravanel Hall in Salt Lake City, with the composer conducting the Utah Symphony Orchestra and the 360-voice Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
Shopping for Meat in Winter is a typical Williams poem, with its urban theme, forced rhyme, and attempts at replicating the neo-Romanticism of the New Apocalypse.

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