Home through the streets with you in my arms, cold winter mornings in a Colorado town, you've seen me stumble and watched you fall.

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The Laki eruption was believed to have caused thousands of deaths because of unusual conditions in Europe that summer, along with the severe cold of the following winter.

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But those cold winter days do happen to coincide with there being no usable wind generated electricity at all.

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The Rockefeller Institute is out with a report this morning that throws cold water on the winter optimism.

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He accepted governments choose where the axe should fall when cutting public spending but said the decision about whether to "carry on with Labour's planned cut in the winter fuel payment... and cold weather payment, was a difficult one".

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"It was a cold winter morning out in Afghan and I was just walking down a sandy path with overgrown trees on it when I put my right foot onto a pressure pad IED, it detonated and the next thing I knew I was on my back, " he said.

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This winter it rounded up 100 megawatts in New England in anticipation of a cold spell coupled with high natural gas prices.

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Just as its difficult in the US for people to pack their things and head for North Dakota to work for companies exploiting the Bakken shale, many of the regions in Russia with the highest wages are extremely remote and difficult to get to (not to mention really cold in the winter).

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Across Sweden, Midsummer is greeted with an exuberance that's hard to understand unless you've experienced the cold and darkness of a Swedish winter.

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