The term Winter sports refers to sport that take place on snow and ice.

The Molotov cocktail is a term coined by the Finns during the Winter War, as a generic name used for a variety of improvised incendiary weapons.

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.

** From the Hebrew term for " the Lord ", used of God ; Adonis of the Syrians representing the Winter sun in the cosmic tragedy of Tammuz.

The nickname " The Winter King " appeared shortly after the beginning of Frederick's reign and our first printed reference using the term came in a 1619 Imperial pamphlet that presented the phrase in the context of a royal chronogram.

Cllr Winter broke away from the Greens in 1991 and continued his four-year term as an Independent Green Highlander.

According to chess historian Edward Winter, in German, the term " zugzwang ": had been in regular use in the nineteenth century.

* Hilary Term, the name of the Winter / Spring term at Oxford University

Originally called the Winter Field & Reading Period, the two-month term was described by President Robert Devore Leigh in his 1928 Bennington College Prospectus as " a long winter recess giving students and faculty opportunity for travel, field work, and educational advantages of metropolitan life.

The second term begins and the Winter Holidays are two weeks in February depending on region.

Then, at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, the term was regularly used after the skiing superstar Bode Miller, who bragged about skiing drunk before the Olympics, was adversely compared to the term " Miller time ," and went home with no medals.

It is also the home of the University of Toronto Intramural hockey league, which comprises ( as of the Winter term of 2006 ) of forty-six men's and eight women's teams of varying skill levels ( from recreational to near-varsity calibre ) competing in six men's and two women's divisions.

The term has been expanded to include variations on the original form named by some crazy kid in the secluded Winter months in Laconia NH in the 70s.

It was during the Swearer administration that Carleton's Winter Break was extended from four to six weeks by moving the start date of fall term two weeks earlier.

There are two terms a year, the Winter term ( September – January ) and the Summer term ( March – July ) with a month's holiday between terms.

During his term as European Commissioner, Frattini was also appointed by the Prime Minister Berlusconi to the coordination of assistance from the government for the conduct of the Winter Olympics in Turin 2006

Another recognized feature of the academic program at the college is its Winter Session, a three-week term between the fall and spring semesters that offers innovative and experimental courses, including travel courses to locations ranging from Belize to New Zealand.

Dwayne and Celtic inquired about the possibility of a short term loan deal until the MLS season kicks off in March, however new Toronto FC coach Aron Winter and the league denied any further negotiations.

However, Mayor Winter has refused to resign and pledged to see out his term of office.

* John Hull and Alan White, " Numerical procedures for implementing term structure models II ," Journal of Derivatives, Winter 1994, pp 37 – 48

The sports played at Camp Hill are seasonal: rugby and hockey in the Winter term and Spring term ; in the Summer term: Cricket and athletics are the main sports.

* Austin & Ally is an American sitcom that first aired on the Disney Channel in Winter 2011.

The World Financial Center's ground floor and portions of the second floor are occupied by a mall ; its center point is a steel-and-glass atrium known as the Winter Garden.

The southern section, extending down from the Winter Garden, is the more densely populated region, containing Gateway Plaza, and Rector Place apartment buildings.

Winter is punctuated with rainstorms of varying ferocity and duration, but also produces stretches of bright sunny days and clear cold nights.

There is also a track on the accompanying EP Vempire or Dark Faerytales in Phallustein titled " Queen Of Winter Throned " which contains the lyrics: " Iniquitous / I share Carmilla's mask / A gaunt mephitic voyeur / On the black side of the glass ".

It is then revealed that Captain America, Nick Fury, and Black Widow are the only ones who know that Bucky actually survived the fight with Skadi as Bucky resumes his identity as Winter Soldier.

* 1939 – Winter War: The Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations for invading Finland.

" This concern runs through all of his works, from Psychoanalysis and Transversality ( a collection of articles from 1957 to 1972 ), through Years of Winter ( 1980 – 1986 ) and Schizoanalytic Cartographies ( 1989 ), to his collaboration with Deleuze, What is Philosophy?

Figure skating is an official event in the Winter Olympic Games.

There is a strong possibility that it will be played at the 2013 Special Olympics World Winter Games.

The world's southmost harbor, located at Antarctica's Winter Quarters Bay ( 77 ° 50 ′ South ), is potentially ice-free, depending on the summertime pack ice conditions.

He is then reborn on Winter Solstice, December 21.

* 1905 – According to the Julian calendar which is used at the time, Russian workers stage a march on the Winter Palace that ends in the massacre by Czarist troops known as Bloody Sunday, setting off the Revolution of 1905.

Kuwait's Winter is colder compared to all the other Persian Gulf countries like Bahrain, Qatar or UAE.

Winter travel is close to impossible in many of the more remote and high-altitude regions.

Following a 1 – 0 victory against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in February 2011, described by Alan Smith as " a quite brilliant display in terms of discipline and spirit " and a " defensive masterplan " by David Pleat, Henry Winter wrote, " it can only be a matter of time before he is confirmed as long-term manager ".

Winter is the rainy season, with major precipitation falling after December.

With the large number and variety of birds present, the area is very popular with bird watchers, particularly in the Autumn and Winter.

As previously mentioned, Albert's son, Kenny, is also a sports commentator, as he calls baseball and football for Fox, New York Rangers games on the radio, and has been one of NBC's commentators for ice hockey at the Winter Olympics, as well as NBC's NHL coverage.

This room is a miniature reconstruction of the study of Tsar Nicolas II from the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia.

* In Ireland, November 1 is regarded as the first day of Winter.

* 1939 – Shelling of Mainila: The Soviet Army orchestrates the incident which is used to justify the start of the Winter War with Finland four days later.

Another of Eisenstein's films, 1927's October, depicted the Bolshevik perspective on the October Revolution, culminating in the storming of the Winter Palace which provided Soviet viewers with the victory that the workers and peasants lacked in Battleship Potemkin, ending with Lenin ( as played by an unknown worker ) declaring that the government is overthrown.