About this time of year, the pre-Christian Vikings would be preparing for their annual winter solstice festival.
The National Hockey League is expanding its outdoor-game concept beyond the annual Winter Classic, and the Bronx will be one of its prime sites.
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An annual winter chills the southern hemisphere, creating around the pole a frost composed in large part of frozen carbon dioxide, or dry ice.
One described Blackpool's annual winter illuminations as "simply breathtaking".
Alonso has now arrived at Ferrari as Massa's team-mate for 2010 and he donned the famous red kit for the first time this week at the team's annual winter sports event at Italian ski resort Madonna di Campiglio.
This week, the Swan and Dolphin Resort in Orlando plays host to the 109th annual Baseball Winter Meetings.
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In that stretch, league officials canceled the All-Star Game, the annual outdoor Winter Class game and hundreds of regular season games.
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League-wide revenues are up five straight years since the 2005 work stoppage, and the annual outdoor Winter Classic has caught on as a big attraction on the sports calendar.
North Korea cut off a telephone hot line to the South and "declared invalid" the Korean War armistice, as the South Korean and U.S. began Monday a second phase of their annual joint winter military exercises.
At approximately the same time that most of the distinguished guests from the baseball industry were arriving at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas last night, the Miami Marlins christened the 110th annual Baseball Winter Meetings with one of the worst-kept secrets of the offseason.
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The Winter Gardens has hosted the annual British Homing World Show of the Year, dubbed the Crufts of the pigeon world, for the last 36 years.
The interactive map shows, for each state, whether search activity is above or below the annual average for that state. (That means every state is above its own annual average in some months and below in other months.) In January, search activity in most states is already out of the winter slump and is above the annual average.
An NPR holiday tradition celebrates two decades this winter: It's the 20th annual A Jazz Piano Christmas.
For the Greeks, her mother's grief over this annual period was the reason for winter.
Back-to-school shopping is the second-biggest annual spending event, right behind the winter holidays.
That's nearly half the population, who must be resettled before the winter rainy season if they are to plant the single annual rice crop.
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Sunday River, Maine's most-visited mountain with more than half a million annual skier visits, had a 7 percent increase this winter, said spokeswoman Darcy Morse.
Every year the winter maximum gets higher, as does the summer minimum but the difference between annual maximum and minimum increases.
The city of Geraardsbergen holds its annual market on the first Monday in March and celebrates the end of winter on Sunday eight days earlier, with the festival of Krakelingen and Tonnekensbrad.
And it turns out that when the Earth is close to and zipping by the sun, when we are moving fastest in our annual orbit, that's the time of year we in the Northern Hemisphere call fall and winter.
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