People came into the bank in coats and gloves, brushing the snowflakes off their shoulders and hair at the door, smiling to themselves, gladdened by the brightness of the day.
And if that were not practical enough, others are looking at the role snowflakes have in catalysing the transformation of ozone into normal oxygen.
Understanding the role of snowflakes in catalysing the change from one sort of oxygen to the other should provide insights into how ozone is distributed in the atmosphere.
As we poke about the town, which spirals up out of the plain like the tip of a caramel ice cream cone, the first snowflakes drift down, foreshadowing an impending storm.
In the Entrance Hall on the State Floor, crystal snowflakes hang from the ceiling above visitors as they walk toward the Blue Room, home to the official White House Christmas Tree, also decorated in honor of military families.
The site features things like an article on the beauty of snowflakes and a live bunny cam.
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But under the husky winter sky, where snowflakes twirl down toward the ground in a dizzy spiral and the wind bites your cheeks, something is brewing.
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Filming in black-and-white, Hong abstracts the tense network of fragile relationships to crisp, briskly sketched lines that he adorns with bubbly and self-deprecating humor and graceful wonders (including some of the most heartbreaking snowflakes in recent cinema).
Showing fireworks, a baby and the broadcaster's "millennium" dandelion motif - as well as some Christmassy snowflakes - the cards look to the New Year with a palpable enthusiasm.
Whether you visit in the winter for Christmas markets glittering under snowflakes, or in the spring when the flowers in the city's many parks are in bloom, the city is sure to charm.
As Adam Gopnik recently explained in the New Yorker, snowflakes, like most new Ivy grads, first-year lawyers or freshly minted MBAs, start out their work lives pretty much the same.
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Free-space optics would have the odd drawback, such as flocks of birds, showers of snowflakes or banks of fog interrupting the beams.
"Truly, I have really serious work to do in Butler County, " he said from his office in Hamilton, some 25 miles north of Cincinnati, even as snowflakes dropped from the skies.
In Washington, where as much as 10 inches had been forecast, the storm did little but drop harmless snowflakes that rapidly melted amid warmer-than-expected temperatures.
But they do demonstrate the importance of unstable conditions in imparting to snowflakes their famous diversity.
Jon Nelson, of Ritsumeikan University, in Japan, has calculated that the most important property involved is the surface tension of the tiny clusters of water molecules from which snowflakes form.
The app uses top-notch technology from Google Maps and Street View as well as geocoding APIs to make it seem as though Carole is really there, at the door, clad in fur and surrounded by snowflakes.
While this view is individualistic in nature, youth are snowflakes in one big global snowball running down the hill.
They have put together a spectacular, 50-day Winter in Venice celebration, complete with a first-of-its-kind ice skating rink atop the famed outdoor gondolas, larger-than-life snowflakes, and a signature 65-foot LED holiday tree centerpiece.
Most recently, the company has announced the "world's first application of self assembly used to create a vacuum around nanowires for next-generation microprocessors, " which just so happens to mimic the natural pattern-creating process that forms seashells, snowflakes, and enamel on teeth.
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The leaked document, however, is not one of those snowflakes but an official memorandum, and so carries even more weight.
When Mayer wed Zachary Bogue in 2009, she walked down the aisle in a custom Naeem Khan gown, embroidered in snowflakes.
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