BIGresearch estimates that 94% of midwinter holiday celebrators will observe Christmas, while only 5% will celebrate Chanukah.

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Like many of the evacuees, Ms Midwinter only learned about Sir Nicholas many years later through a television programme.

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It points to the midsummer sunrise on one axis and in the other direction, it points to the midwinter sunset.

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At the end of the journey, Ms Midwinter said she felt "totally desolate with a card on the front me".

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Telford's Bleak Midwinter project is run by community enterprise Maninplace, in conjunction with the borough council and a number of other partners.

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The Public Health Agency said seasonal rises of the norovirus were to be expected approaching midwinter and this year was no different.

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The quartet spend their days and Jyvaskyla's long, dark midwinter nights finding rails, walls and other beguiling items of street furniture in their hometown.

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In Philadelphia, planning for the detour starts in midwinter.

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Periodic reversions to bleak midwinter will inevitably take place.

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Rather than hide their skeleton in the closet, the city of Nederland chose to introduce the world to "Grandpa Bredo" (as he is affectionately known) with their midwinter festival, this year held March 4 through 6.

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