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  2. A Dirge - Wikipedia

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    A dirge is a song meant to invoke and express the emotions of grief and mourning that are typical of a funeral. Images of nature are used to symbolize the grief he feels, such as the moaning and wild wind, the sullen clouds, the sad storm, the bare woods, the deep caves, and the dreary main.

  3. List of compositions by Charles Ives - Wikipedia

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    Rough Wind Rough wind that moanest loud 69 Shelley: Runaway Horse on Main Street A Scotch Lullaby A Sea Dirge The Sea of Sleep The See'r An old man 29 Ch.Ives? Sehnsucht September And in September 36 D. G. Rossetti, after San Geminiano: Serenity O Sabbath rest of [sic] 42 Whittier: The Side Show Is that Mister Riley 32 Ives

  4. List of local winds - Wikipedia

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    Buran (a wind which blows across eastern Asia. It is also known as Purga when over the tundra); Karakaze (strong cold mountain wind from Gunma Prefecture in Japan); East Asian Monsoon, known in China and Taiwan as meiyu (梅雨), in Korea as jangma (), and in Japan as tsuyu (梅雨) when advancing northwards in the spring and shurin (秋霖) when retreating southwards in autumn.

  5. Houston Bright - Wikipedia

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    Robert Houston Bright (January 21, 1916 – December 8, 1970) was a composer of American music, known primarily for his choral works.The best-known of these is an original spiritual "I Hear a Voice A-Prayin'," but he wrote dozens of highly regarded pieces over the course of his career, including a number of instrumental compositions.

  6. Beaufort scale - Wikipedia

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    v = 1.625 B 3/2 knots (=) where v is the equivalent wind speed at 10 metres above the sea surface and B is Beaufort scale number. For example, B = 9.5 is related to 24.5 m/s which is equal to the lower limit of "10 Beaufort". Using this formula the highest winds in hurricanes would be 23 in the scale.

  7. A loud boom, a blast of icy wind and sheer terror on Alaska ...

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    Transportation officials say the midair blowout on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 could have been calamitous if it had happened a little later in the flight.

  8. Dunkelflaute - Wikipedia

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    There are 2–10 dunkelflaute events per year. [10] Most of these events occur from October to February; typically 50 to 150 hours per year, a single event usually lasts up to 24 hours. [11] [failed verification] In Japan, on the other hand, dunkelflauten are seen in summer and winter.

  9. Loudness - Wikipedia

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    The horizontal axis shows frequency in Hertz. In acoustics, loudness is the subjective perception of sound pressure.More formally, it is defined as the "attribute of auditory sensation in terms of which sounds can be ordered on a scale extending from quiet to loud". [1]