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The photograph depicts a lush green rolling hill with cirrus clouds during a daytime sky, with mountains far in the background. [1] [2] It was taken by Charles O'Rear, a former National Geographic photographer and resident of St. Helena, California, in the Napa Valley region north of San Francisco, while on his way to visit his girlfriend in ...
Facebook login page changes due to Facebook Timeline addition. 2012: January 10: Product (news feed) Facebook starts showing advertisements (called Featured Posts) in the news feed. The advertisements are generally for pages that one's Facebook friends have engaged with. [353] [354] 2012: April: Acquisition
The depiction of winter landscapes in Western art begins in the 15th century, as does landscape painting in general. Wintry and snowy landscapes are very rarely seen in earlier European painting since most of the subjects were religious. Gold ground paintings had no painted backgrounds and other narrative scenes had highly stylized trees and ...
The 2020–21 North American winter was the most significant winter season to affect North America in several years, and the costliest on record, ...
The 2023–24 North American winter was the warmest winter on record across the contiguous United States, with below-average snowfall primarily in the Upper Midwest and parts of the Northeastern United States. However, some areas, especially in the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York saw considerably more snow than the previous winter.
The timeline of the Winter War is a chronology of events leading up to, culminating in, and resulting from the Winter War. The war began when the Soviet Union attacked Finland on 30 November 1939 and it ended 13 March 1940.
The winter solstice occurs during the hemisphere's winter. In the Northern Hemisphere, this is the December solstice (December 21 or 22) and in the Southern Hemisphere, this is the June solstice (June 20 or 21). Although the winter solstice itself lasts only a moment, the term also refers to the day on which it occurs.
Fenton's pictures during the Crimean War were one of the first cases of war photography, with Valley of the Shadow of Death considered "the most eloquent metaphor of warfare" by The Oxford Companion to the Photograph. [13] [14] [s 3] Sergeant Dawson and his Daughter: 1855 Unknown; attributed to John Jabez Edwin Mayall [15] Unknown [e]