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While Chicago is widely known as the "Windy City", it is not the windiest city in the United States. Some of the windier cities recorded by the NOAA/NCDC are Dodge City, Kansas, at 13.9 mph (22.3 km/h); [2] Amarillo, Texas, at 13.5 mph (21.7 km/h); [2] and Lubbock, Texas, at 12.4 mph (20 km/h). [3]
Paul di Filippo called the character "the Heinlein mouthpiece in Stranger in a Strange Land". [5]Alexei Panshin found Harshaw to be a poorly drawn character. "Jubal Harshaw, too, is lessened by his super powers -- doctor, lawyer, etc; his multiple training seems a gratuitous gift from Heinlein without reason or explanation. . . .
"Second City" originates as an insult from a series of articles in The New Yorker by A. J. Liebling, later combined into a book titled Chicago: The Second City (1952). In it, Liebling writes about his hatred for Chicago and contrasts it to his hometown New York City.
Starting the 7/4 favourite, Windbag won the cup by half a length in front of a crowd of 106,828 at Flemington Racecourse.He set a new record time for the race of 3.22.75.
To correct the well-meaning but misguided efforts of less experienced editors by restoring an article to its most accurate version (i.e. the condition it was in following your last edit). —n. The source of Wikipedia's most productive editor interactions, the products being edit wars , blocks , and protracted reports on the Administrators ...
Wind gust speeds during Storm Abigail in November 2015 Sound of wind blowing in a pine forest at around 25 m/sec, with gust alterations. A wind gust or just gust is a brief, sudden increase in the wind speed.
aardvark; aardwolf; aaron; aback; abacus; abaft; abalone; to abandon; abandoned; abandonment; abandons; abase; abased; abasement; abash; abashed; to abate; abated ...
"That Ol' Wind" is a mid-tempo ballad that chronicles two lovers who have been separated for some time. It begins with a female character who, upon dropping her child off at school, hears on the radio that an unnamed singer will be "back in town tonight for one last show."