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...ase is inextricably linked to another. It would be like trying to choose one snowflake more perfect than another to say “look at this one”…in truth on... ... rose of forever after, aged in a timeless love song, in winter this side of snow. Beyond your eyes of many rainbows, share my sentiments with air, wi...

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...ning Narcissism Prague at Dusk In Moist Propinquity Prowling Getting Old Sally Ann Selfdream Snowflake Haiku Twinkle Star Synthetic Joy Tableaux (van ... ...med by one of my confabulations. I remember descending from a train, ankle-high in rustling snow, treading uncharted tracks towards an illuminated b... ...ounded like a femme fatale, the kind that makes trouble merely by momentarily flashing the snowy and wrinkled confluence of her armpits and her bre... ...negotiated. A trading of the wounds. My chains carve metal and I am branded. Return Snowflake Haiku by Sam Vaknin Where I begin yo...

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...ark of the May lighthouse, where the Firth expands into the German Ocean; and away to the west, over all the carse of Stirling, you can see the first snows upon Ben Ledi....

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...nd away to the west, over all the carse of Stirling, you can see the first snows upon Ben Ledi. But Edinburgh pays cruelly for her high seat in one of... ...rain, to be buried in cold sea fogs out of the east, and powdered with the snow as it comes flying southward from the Highland hills. The weather is r... ... who lost their lives in that conten- tion. There is no moorsman shot in a snow shower beside Irongray or Co’monell; there is not one of the two hundr... ... is not only so in country districts where the shep- herd must wade in the snow all day after his flock, but in Edinburgh itself, and nowhere more app... ...a spell appropriate to the sea- son in the words. The reverberation of the snow increases the pale daylight, and brings all objects nearer the eye. Th... ...a dry-stone dyke, and here and there, if there be wind, a cloud of blowing snow upon a shoulder. The Firth seems a leaden creek, that a man might almo... ... white; and you have only to lift your eyes and look over miles of country snow. An indescribable cheerfulness breathes about the city; and the well-f... ...ds and empty pockets! Of old, Edinburgh University was the scene of heroic snow- balling; and one riot obtained the epic honours of military intervent... ..., the housewife folds her hands and contemplates her finished picture; the snow and the wind may do their worst, she has made herself a pleasant corne...

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... and over that a flowing loose robe, some- thing resembling a surplice, of snow-white linen. His throat and neck were uncovered, and his long, straigh...

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...-axe. The gay plumage, shorn from the crests, drifted upon the breeze like snow-flakes. All that was beautiful and graceful in the martial array had d... ...hose sunny glow 159 Sir Walter Scott Half shows, half shades, her neck of snow? T wines not of them one golden thread, But for its sake a Paynim bled... ...?” said Ivanhoe; “will the rebels bide us there?” “No more than December’s snow will bide July’s sun,” said the Earl; “they are dispersing; and who sh...

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...OICES FROM THE PAST 60 Never is it swept by the winds nor touched by snow, a purer air surrounds it, a white clarity envelops it, and the go... ... ancients, how to supplicate the lowliest...they preferred the virginal...snowy peaks...whispering groves...the hunting cry...” Warming my feet on a...

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...ese dark foreboding woods, you will find: Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, Rumpelstiltskin, Lily and the Lion (better known as Beauty and the Beast), and Snow White and Rose Red, among other timeless works. These tales were later heavily revised and sanitised, but here are presented closer to their grim and beloved originals. (Summary by Marlo Dianne)...

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...ow Every CreatureCultivars How Do You Climb? The Opposite of Deadly Going Quietly, Harming Nothing The Colour Blue Whose Idea Were Cities? Big Snow Mountain Ten Billion Splinters Fragile By Starlight Dancing in the Eye of Night Seeing It Near Benares (Or Elsewhere) What Are You Saying? Before the Felling It Freely Works Without Us Matter Is Spirit: Both Are...

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...D - 68 DEAD NATURE - 69 COUNTER JOURNAL - 70 STATE OF THINGS - 71 SAD JOYS - 72 PRAYER - 73 A LIFE - 74 FROM THE SUN PLOWS, WE TEAR / ONLY THE SNOW - 75 AN EXTENSION OF ARCHIMEDES PRINCIPLE / OR / FLORENTIN'S PRINCIPLE- 76 THE TEACHINGS OF FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE TO HIS SON MIHAI - 77 EPILOGUE - 78 Short Comment by Gheorghe Tomozei – back cover...

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...Prologue The Loner Becoming Civilized The Springtime of Love Nightfall Insensitive Snow The Power and the Blood Friendship The Funeral Bad Boy Flesh Made Word A Failure of Heart A Beautiful Woman A Chalice of Daffodils An Honest Neighbor Fear Alone in the Woods The Jogger Embracing the Unaccept...

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...e gifts France had and the French intelligently cherished. Between the Swiss snows and the icy winter fogs of Germany on the one side, and the mists a...

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...all men; in an evil hour I bare thee in our halls. But I will go myself to snow clad Olympus to tell this thy saying to Zeus, whose joy is in the thun... ...ut when he uttered his great voice from his chest, and words like unto the snowflakes of winter, then could no mortal man contend with Odysseus; then ... ...era lighteneth, fashioning either a mighty rain un speakable, or hail, or snow, when the flakes sprinkle all the ploughed lands, or fashioning percha... ... be the fairest horses that ever I beheld, and the great est, whiter than snow, and for speed like the winds. And his chariot is fashioned well with ... ...nce of themselves and of the huts, and of the swift faring ships. And like snowflakes the stones fell earthward, flakes that a tempestuous wind, as it... ...ted in the front, and aroused the battle of the Achaians. But as flakes of snow fall thick on a winter day, when Zeus the Counsellor bath begun to sno... ...ing forth these arrows of his to men, and he hath lulled the winds, and he snoweth continually, till he hath covered the crests of the high hills, and... ...termost headlands, and the grassy plains, and rich tillage of men; and the snow is scattered over the havens and shores of the grey sea, and only the ... ...d shores of the grey sea, and only the wave as it rolleth in keeps off the snow, but all other things are swathed over, when the shower of Zeus cometh...

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...er, and possessed of a pair of full red cheeks, a set of teeth as white as snow, and coal-black whiskers. Indeed, so fresh was his complexion that it ... ...and as he passed a restaurant he could see a round-faced, holland-shirted, snow-white aproned fellow of a French chef preparing a dish delicious enoug... ...nd the streets, and the family of the North Wind be wailing there, and the Snowstorm Witch have heaped high the pavements, and be blinding the eyes, a... ...then there will be shining hospitably through 248 Dead Souls the swirling snowflakes a fourth-floor window where, in a cosy room, and by the light of... .... And all these accom- plishments had their effect further heightened by a snowy immaculateness of collar and dickey, and an absence of dust from his ... ...hat it shall not crumble into bits, but melt in the mouth like the softest snow that ever you heard of.” And as he said this Pietukh fairly smacked hi... ...which caused their tall, slender trunks to show up with the whiteness of a snowdrift. Likewise night- ingales were warbling from the recesses of the f... ...of horses and liveried flunkeys; with the result that despite the damp and snowy weather exceedingly elegant turnouts took to parading backwards and f... ...eed Selifan. “And by this time the roads will have become firmer, for much snow has fallen. Yes, high time is it that we were clear of the town. So we...

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... not march from one river to the other, particu- larly when it was well commanded. He knew, besides, that as fast as the soldiers of Monk penetrated i... ...n- ceal, “whose soldiers are these, pray tell me?” “Whose should they be but that madman, Monk’s?” “There has been no battle, then?” “A battle, ah, ye... ...him the magnificent spectacle which the sky presented, of deepest azure in the horizon, the amphitheatre of fleecy clouds ascending from the sun’s dis...

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...en it first struck – the rush along ever growing higher – the great jet of snow-white spray some forty feet above you – and the ‘noise of many waters,... ...ou could have seen it this afternoon, covered with people, in thin driving snow flurries, the big hill grim and white and alpine overhead in the thick... ...bove the trees, and the white loch thick with skaters, and the great hill, snow-sprinkled, overhead! It was a sight for a king. WEDNESDAY . – I stayed... ...ood round them to warm themselves, made a strange pattern all round on the snow-covered ice. A few people with torches began to travel up and down the... ...avel up and down the ice, a lit circle travelling along with them over the snow. A gi- gantic moon rose, meanwhile, over the trees and the kirk on the... ...roken ridges standing grey and spectral between; and the hilltop over all, snow-white, and strangely magnified in size. This must go to you to-morrow,... ... you. 62 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 THURSDAY . – Outside, it snows thick and steadily. The gardens before our house are now a wonderful ... ...w I love it, how it sends the blood about my body! Maurice de Guerin hated snow; what a fool he must have been! Somebody tried to put me out of concei... ...ill not deny, Innumerable inns; a road; Several Alps indifferent high; The snow’s inviolable abode; Eleven English parsons, all Entirely inoffensive; ...

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...n Rogers O n a sunny but cold day at the end of February I decided to try snowboarding on my first trip of the skiing season to Montage Mountain. Aft... ...After watching my friends make a few runs, I went to the rental shop for a snowboard. I had grown tired of skiing, which no longer seemed much of a ch... ...ich no longer seemed much of a challenge after a number of years. However, snowboarding was not as easy as my friend, Rickey, made it look. He had bee... ...owboarding was not as easy as my friend, Rickey, made it look. He had been snowboarding since the previous season. I found it hard to keep my balance,... ...ugh, I learned to turn and stop. These basic moves are vital to success in snowboarding. I think I picked snowboarding up more easily than other skier... ..., I was riding down the Black Diamond Slopes, the hardest on any mountain. Snowboarding, as I learned, is not just about balance and technique. There ... ... a few environmental factors that I look for in mastering the sport, like snow conditions and making sure my equipment is in the best shape. I think ... ...itions and making sure my equipment is in the best shape. I think that the snow conditions play the biggest role, and the best condition to look for i... ...for is packed powder. This condition is found after a sufficient amount of snowfall. In my opinion, slush is the worst condition. I had a terrible exp...

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...o JOVE usurping reign’d: these first in CREET And IDA known, thence on the Snowy top 515 Of cold OLYMPUS rul’d the middle Air Thir highest Heav’n... ...v’ns chearful face, the lowring Element 490 Scowls ore the dark’nd lantskip Snow, or showre; If chance the radiant Sun with farewell sweet Extend... ...ws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems 590 Of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice, A gulf profound as that SERBONIAN Bog Betwixt DAMIATA a... ...end at large in spacious field. 430 As when a Vultur on IMAUS bred, Whose snowie ridge the roving TARTAR bounds, Dislodging from a Region scarce ... ...bserv’d. 430 As when the TARTAR from his RUSSIAN Foe By ASTRACAN over the Snowie Plaines Retires, or BACTRIAN Sophi from the hornes Of TURKISH ... ...ded still th’ HORIZON, and not known Or East or West, which had forbid the Snow 685 - 203 - BOOK IX. Milton: Paradise Lost From cold ESTOTILAND, a... ...GA, and the SAMOED shoar Bursting thir brazen Dungeon, armd with ice And snow and haile and stormie gust and flaw, BOREAS and CAECIAS and ARGEST... ...s further by what means to shun Th’ inclement Seasons, Rain, Ice, Hail and Snow, Which now the Skie with various Face begins To shew us in this ...

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... chiefly then, though not malevo- lently to command: as the portal of some snow-bound mon- astery opens to the outcast, bidding it be known that the l... ...ly speaking, she’s really unrooted by that half-thawed colonel, a creature snow- bound up to his chin; and already she’s leaping to be trans- planted....

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... out they saw that the houses, fields, and roads were thickly covered with snow. The day was clear and cold, as if befitting the holy-day they were ab...

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...sometimes Mrs. Macaulay, also Mrs. Gardiner, wife of a tallow- chandler on Snow-hill, not in the learned way, but a worthy good woman; Mr. (now Sir Jo... ...Lady Craven, and the next with good Mrs. Gardiner, the tallow-chandler, on Snow-hill. On my expressing my wonder at his discover- ing so much of the k... ...Mrs. Gardiner, who, though in the humble station of a tallow-chandler upon Snow-hill, was a woman of excellent good sense, pious, and charitable. She ...

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... Russia, surviving winter's deadly cold by washing each morning the body in snows of freezing, glacial white. 'Crazy Harry,' the others say, but it s... ... Good coming out of bad, warmth radiating from cold, sunshine pouring out of snow. Resistance makes us all grow stronger and fly ever higher on the ...

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... -- A surprising scene -- Daybreak after a winter's night of six months -- The snow bugs -- Breaking up of the ice -- The return home -- First success... ...arcel of land which would otherwise have been perpetually covered with ice and snow. In this fruitful garden they produced flowers, herbs, and fruits ... ...r the space of an hour, when they might be taken out uninjured and whiter than snow. Marco would not vouch for the truth of what had been related to h... ...is kingdom reached from the regions of eternal summer to the land of perpetual snow; that he had sent out a fleet of two hundred ships, and the four b... ... into the distance, there were outlined against the sky mountain peaks and the snow-covered volcanoes of Pococatapetl and Iztaccihuatl, rising in gra... ...ce. On the margin of the lake were suburbs of the capital, with lofty temples, snow-white dwellings, from which long causeways led to the main city th... ... in perpendicular walls to a vast height until their peaks were white with the snows that never melted. The weather, too, was very cold, from which th... ...r Christians. "After the month of May was come in, nothing but such flights of snow, and extremity of frosts, as in all my life I never saw any to be ... ...uffering. "In this time," says Jane, "we endured extreme storms with perpetual snow, where many of our men died of cursed famine and miserable cold, n...

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...ment of the history of LIFE takes nothing away from my eternal origins. Snow originates from the water vapor that is condensed into clouds. Snow ... ...after the Big Bang; oxygen, instead, came forth later on. There is not one snowflake that is identical to another. Every crystal of snow has a uniqu... ...merican photographer named Bentley took pictures of more than six thousand snowflakes over fifty years, and they were all different from each other.... ...o anyone's I. 46 Every human being is unique and unrepeatable. Just as a snowflake is contained in its unique, extraordinary form within the poten... ...y, and so am I along with it. 47 AXIOM N. 7 When do I die? Every snowflake melts under the rays of the sun and turns back into water. Wate... ...E without having to make any effort at all. But if someone photographs a snowflake before it melts, that snowflake keeps on living on a celluloid ... ...meone makes the effort to prepare everything necessary for photographing a snowflake. Can you imagine how much effort it takes to isolate one snowf...

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............................................................... 8 Tom Hoburn “Snow Storm Baby” ............................................................. ...uld not. Best of Freshman Writing 9 Tom Hoburn New Kensington – English 4 Snow Storm Baby THE YEAR WAS 1992; a cold December arctic wind had brought ... ...aby THE YEAR WAS 1992; a cold December arctic wind had brought a chance of snow to the area. It was the weekend and time to relax after a long hard we... ...ong hard week at work. The weather service had predicted several inches of snow to blan- ket the region by the next day. Not to worry: it was the week... ...ent grew stronger as the days went by. By Friday afternoon it had begun to snow and quickly several inches had accumulated. As the snow was falling, c... ...e neighbor- hood soon filled with children excited over the freshly fallen snow. Since all of the schools were closed, the children were assured enjoy... ...children were assured enjoyment for several days. The sounds of the winter snowstorm were echoing throughout the town, from the snowplows in the dis- ... ...oughout the town, from the snowplows in the dis- tance, to the scraping of snow shovels that sounded like fingernails scratching a chalkboard. Neighbo... ...sounded like fingernails scratching a chalkboard. Neighbors were shoveling snow that had accumulated on their sidewalks and driveways. The snow that w...

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...d Becca. At the ages of ten and eleven, they have their own lawn care and snow removal business. They are permanent fixtures in the neighborhood pus... ...w, we will be able to apply a value of T or F to the expression, “It will snow tomorrow.” However, today we have no such certainty, but based on exp... ...her patterns, it is possible to say, “There is an 80% chance that it will snow tomorrow.” Fuzzy logic allows values between 0.0 and 1.0 to be a...

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...rtain, a short, rotund man wearing a black suit, and dark glasses emerged. His snow- white hair glistened, even in the soft lights. Alex presumed he...

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...se in the book here. The man lives three miles up town. It is bitter cold, snowing hard, midnight. He is about to enter the horse car when a gray and... ...s way as silently as he had come. He knows . At mid afternoon it began to snow. The pity of it—that Jean could not see it! She so loved the snow. The... ...now. The pity of it—that Jean could not see it! She so loved the snow. The snow continued to fall. At six o’clock the hearse drew up to the door to be... ...s wind along the road and gradually grow vague and spectral in the falling snow, and presently disappear. Jean was gone out of my life, and would not ... ...rs hereafter. The storm raged all night. It has raged all the morning. The snow drives across the landscape in vast clouds, su perb, sublime—and Jean... ...ay off here in a Swedish village * and those stakes did not stand till the snow came, I can see them today as plainly as ever; and whenever I think of... ...the wall of soldiers at the sidewalk, and the white shirt fronts show like snowflakes and are very conspicuous where so much warm color is all about. ... ... confronted by that towering and awful apparition wrapped in its shroud of snow, is breath taking astonishment. It is as if heaven’s gates had swung o... ... gateway arises the vast bulk of the Jungfrau, a spotless mass of gleaming snow, into the sky. The gateway, in the dark colored barrier, makes a stro...

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... your old man don’t know his head from his toes. And that’s when he’s sober.” Mack stamped his feet in the sludge left over from the previous night’s snow. Then he started fishing inside his coat for his cigarette case. “Speaking of which – where the hell’s your hat? You look like a bum, huddled out here with no hood for your head.” He found the case and flipped it open. “...

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...of the wilderness, beasts and birds, winds, and woods, and waters, falling snows, and flying sands, and rolling rocks, and these are carefully disting... ...used exclusively as the name of the highest of the Finnish deities. Frost, snow, hail, ice, wind and rain, sunshine and shadow, are thought to come fr... ...courser by opening the windows of heaven, and showering upon him flakes of snow, balls of ice, and hailstones of iron. Usually, however, Ukko prefers... ...e, in all probability often consulted in Finland because of the blind ing snows and piercing winds of the north. Lemmas is a god dess in the mytholo... ..., hatchets, spears, bows, and arrows, kettles, food, clothing, sledges and snow shoes, thus bearing witness to their practi cal recognition of some f... ...e those of the Swedes and Slavs, in which liberated songs take the form of snow white dovelets. The cuckoo to this day is sacred, and is believed to ... ...d in its metre. All genuine po etry must have its peculiar verse, just as snow flakes cannot exist without their peculiar crystalizations. It is thu... ...e in his anger, He will drive thee back dishonored, Sink thee in the fatal snow drift, T urn to ice thy pliant fingers, T urn to ice thy feet and ankl... ...e, the fleet foot, To his golden sledge, the courser, Mounts impetuous his snow sledge, Leaps upon the hindmost cross bench, Strikes his courser with ...

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...terrific nights which are only met with once or twice during a century. It snowed fiercely, and the house tottered to its centre with the floods of wi... ...lemen, And banners waved before; And gentle youth and maidens gay, And snowy plumes they wore; It would have been a beauteous dream, If it had b... ... dead,— 165 V olume Five Their still waters—still and chilly With the snows of the lolling lily. By the lakes that thus outspread Their lone ... ...lone waters, lone and dead,— Their sad waters, sad and chilly With the snows of the lolling lily,— By the mountains—near the river Murmuring l... ...ses— turns over some leaves, and resumes) “No lingering winters there, nor snow, nor shower—” But Ocean ever to refresh mankind “Breathes the shrill s... ...retty creature, drink!” And, looking o’er the hedge, be—fore me I espied A snow—white mountain lamb, with a-maiden at its side. No other sheep was nea... ... when in the holy grove I wandered of the idol, Love, Who daily scents his snowy wings With incense of burnt offerings From the most unpolluted things... ...re Thy lowly cottage door Under the lilac’s tremulous leaves— Within thy snowy claspeèd hand The purple flowers it bore.. Last eve in dreams, I sa... ...en memories Are startled from their long repose Like shadows on the silent snows When suddenly the night-wind blows Where quiet moonlight ties. 239...

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...spired melodious Singer; loftiest Serene Highness; nay thy own amber locked, snow and rosebloom Maiden, worthy to glide sylph like almost on air, whom... ..., for even grim Winter brought its skating matches and shooting matches, its snow storms and Christmas carols,—did the Child sit and learn. These thin... ...r sunbeam, your Schreckhorn stood smiling grim white, for the vapor had held snow. How thou fermentest and elaborat est, in thy great fermenting vat ...

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...ock- eries of the courtiers continued to feed. He was called in Vienna the Snow King, whom the cold of the north kept together, but who would in- fall... ...f March, when the river, swollen by frequent rains, and the melting of the snow from the mountains of the Tyrol, flowed full and rapid between its ste... ...nd all dissipated by a few. They were called out to serve amidst frost and snow, and no reward requited their incessant labours. The soldiers’ excesse... ...elter, to the inclemency of the win- ter, and generally encamping upon the snow, till he found a miserable refuge in Breisgau. He at last took the fie... ...s least looked for, on account of the woods and narrow passes, and a heavy snow storm which fell upon the same day, (the 24th November, 1643,) conceal...

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...tably. The whole place was immaculately clean, and the big, four posted bed, snow white, invited one to repose. It stood in a small side room which lo...

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...ough the mist of print, we have seen their blood freezing crimson upon the snow of the squares and streets of St. Petersburg; since their generations ...

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...-unbuilt telescope (top center) amid existing solar observatories after a snowfall on Haleakalā. PHOTO: COURTESY OF C. ATST/NSO/AURA/NSF; RENDERING ... ...heit). In winter, temperatures dip as low as 20 below Celsius (-4 F) and snow falls, giving rise to the name Mauna Kea or “white mountain.” A noti...

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...e midnight busyness of animals, the signs of the weather, the cares of the snowy season, the exquisite stu- pidity of sheep, the exquisite cunning of ... ...hings live. It was through him the simple strategy of massing sheep upon a snowy evening, with its attendant scampering of earnest, shaggy aides-de-ch... ...the shadow of the night darkening on the hills, inscrutable black blots of snow shower moving here and there like night already come, huddles of yello... ... already come, huddles of yellow sheep and dartings of black dogs upon the snow, a bitter air that took you by the throat, unearthly harpings of the w... ...y friends. I would rise from my book and pull the blind aside, and see the snow and the glittering hollies chequer a Scotch garden, and the winter moo...