In gardening, annual often refers to a plant grown outdoors in the spring and summer and surviving just for one growing season.

In Ancient Egypt, Aquarius was associated with the annual flood of the Nile ; the banks were said to flood when Aquarius put his jar into the river, beginning spring.

Thunderstorms can occur between October and March, and annual rainfall is 623 millimetres ( 24. 5 in ), with rainfall highest in spring and summer and lowest in winter.

The Valley is home to the annual Apple Blossom Festival, held in late spring.

* Narragansett Brewing Co. ( Providence, Rhode Island ) has been making a bock beer since the repeal of Prohibition in the 1930s, and celebrated the start of spring with annual Bock Beer festivals at the brewery until 1977.

The town of Al-Joura was a place of annual festivities ( 4 days in all ) when people of many faiths gathered and bathed in a natural spring.

Another regular Delphi festival was the " Theophania " ( Θεοφάνεια ), an annual festival in spring celebrating the return of Apollo from his winter quarters in Hyperborea.

Most of the country also is quite arid, with average annual rainfall amounting to between and occurring mostly in winter and spring.

In the open ocean ( away from areas of continuous upwelling ), this cycle of bloom, bust, then return to pre-bloom conditions typically occurs over an annual cycle, with diatoms only being prevalent during the spring and early summer.

In tropical areas it can grow more or less continuously, and may reach high into the canopy of shrubs and trees ; in temperate regions it is an annual plant and is restricted to relatively low vegetation that can be reached by new seedlings each spring.

* At Harvard College, Lowell House's annual spring formal is named Bacchanalia.

Also an annual art auction in the fall, a spring Open Studios event, and many art classes for adults and teens.

* Ohio University sponsors an annual Literary Festival every spring.

There is an annual goose hunt in the spring out of Sachs Harbour.

In January 1959 the Dodgers named him assistant supervisor of scouting for the eastern part of the United States and special coach at the team's annual spring training camp in Vero Beach, Florida, serving each year as a mentor and coach to young catchers in the Dodger organization.

There tie hacks attempted to float logs down to the Laramie River for the annual spring tie drives, and the splash dam was used to collect winter snowmelt to increase the water flow for the tie drive.

The annual spring Daffodil Festival brings many tourists to the area and generates business.

The annual festival of Xipe Totec was celebrated on the spring equinox before the onset of the rainy season, it was known as Tlacaxipehualiztli (" flaying of men in honour of Xipe ") and fell in March at the time of the Conquest.

Morgan County is bisected by the White River Valley ; the community has taken an interest in recent years in protecting the river as an asset, seeking to develop parks and greenways along the White River and initiating an annual river clean up day in the spring.

Every spring the town sponsors the annual Faunsdale Crawfish Festival, serving authentic Southern cooking on the street, with music and dancing.

Other annual events in town include the Valley of Vapors Festival, free Hot Springs Jazz Festival in September, the free Hot Springs Blues Festival in September, the downtown Bathtub Races in the spring, the Big Barbecue Cook off in Spring and Fall, the World's Shortest St. Patrick's Day Parade every March 17, and the outdoor skating rink November through January.

Also, Batesville is the home of Lyon College, a private liberal arts college affiliated with the Presbyterian Church ( U. S. A .), and noted for the annual Arkansas Scottish Festival each spring.

It has since become an annual spring tradition, with upwards of 250, 000 people visiting the motorcycle festival.

The area benefits from a three-season climate ( spring, summer, and fall ) with an average annual rainfall of.

introduction of the `` dialogue '' principle proved strikingly effective at the thirty-fourth annual meeting of the Catholic Association for International Peace in Washington the last weekend in October.

An exhibit, `` Macropathology -- An Ancient Art, A New Science '', was presented at the annual meeting of the American Medical Association.

At the meeting of the Board of Trustees, on March 3, 1910, Miss Upton presented the annual report of the President.

Martin, who has been in office in Washington, D. C., for 13 months spoke at the council's annual meeting at the Multnomah Hotel.

But an official statement adopted by the 33-man Emory board at its annual meeting Friday noted that state taxing requirements at present are a roadblock to accepting Negroes.

The presentation was made before several hundred persons at the annual meeting of the League at Olney Hall, College of Marin, Kentfield.

The annual CHIO ( short for the French term Concours Hippique International Officiel ) is the biggest equestrian meeting of the world and among horsemen considered to be as prestigious for equitation as the tournament of Wimbledon for tennis.

Tiffany & Co., for example, pays directors an annual retainer of $ 46, 500, an additional annual retainer of $ 2, 500 if the director is also a chairperson of a committee, a per-meeting-attended fee of $ 2, 000 for meetings attended in person, a $ 500 fee for each meeting attended via telephone, in addition to stock options and retirement benefits.

The population of white-grubs dramatically decreased, and this was attributed to the cane toad at the annual meeting of the International Sugar Cane Technologists in Puerto Rico.

:* Chaos Communication Congress, an annual meeting of computer hackers organized by the Chaos Computer Club

In 1804, at the annual meeting of the North West Company in Kaministiquia, Thompson was made a full partner of the company and spent the next few seasons based there managing the fur trading operations but still finding time to expand his surveys of the waterways around Lake Superior.

The day before Hilbert pronounced these phrases at the 1930 annual meeting of the Society of German Scientists and Physicians, Kurt Gödel — in a roundtable discussion during the Conference on Epistemology held jointly with the Society meetings — tentatively announced the first expression of his incompleteness theorem.

This change was implemented because new dives were being invented too frequently for an annual meeting to accommodate the progress of the sport.

An annual meeting called " The Pol-Mil Talks " ( for Political-Military ) of all concerned is held at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London to resolve pertinent issues.

*§ 211, there must be an annual meeting of shareholders for election of directors and ( d ) shareholder meetings can only be called if the constitution allows for it.

The ELDR Congress is the sovereign body of the ELDR corporation, usually meeting on an annual basis, and as such its primary purposes are to:

For example, in the United Methodist Church, bishops are elected for life, can serve up to two terms in a specific conference ( three if special permission is given ), are responsible for ordaining and appointing clergy to pastor churches, perform many administrative duties, preside at the annual sessions of the regional Conferences and at the quadrennial meeting of the worldwide General Conference, have authority for teaching and leading the church on matters of social and doctrinal import, and serve to represent the denomination in ecumenical gatherings.

The role of the annual general meeting is also to discuss and decide the overall principles and strategically important issues for Greenpeace in collaboration with the trustees of regional offices and Greenpeace International board of directors.

The city also hosts an annual track and field meet at the Flanders Sports Arena: the Indoor Flanders meeting.

Brundtland at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in 1989

On June 3, 2008, one day prior to GM's annual shareholder meeting, Rick Wagoner, GM's CEO at that time, said the brand was being reviewed, and had the possibility of either being sold, having the production line completely redesigned, or being discontinued.

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