Winter

Winter is one of the four season Season

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s of temperate zones. It is the season with the shortest days and the lowest temperatures. In areas farther from the equator Equator

The equator is an imaginary circle [i] drawn around a planet [i] at a distance halfway between the pole [i] ... 

, winter is often marked by snow Snow

Snow is precipitation [i] in the form of crystal [i]line water [i] ice [i], consisting of ... 

. Depending on place and culture, what is considered to be the start and end of winter vary.

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1684   England has its coldest winter in living memory; the River Thames and the sea as far as 2 miles out from land freezes over

1891   Winter - James Naismith invents Basketball

1991   Winter - Centennial of Basketball


Quotations

The only bad things about winter are women's fashions and movies. ~ John Pritchard

Do not want to go out in fridge-crossed-with-swimming pool-like world. ~ Bridget Jones' diary, Monday 27 January. Included in 'The Edge of Reason' by Helen Fielding, 1999.

Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer. ~ Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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Winter is one of the four season Season

A season is one of the major divisions of the year [i], generally based on yearly periodic changes in we ... 

s of temperate zones. It is the season with the shortest days and the lowest temperatures. In areas farther from the equator Equator

The equator is an imaginary circle [i] drawn around a planet [i] at a distance halfway between the pole [i] ... 

, winter is often marked by snow Snow

Snow is precipitation [i] in the form of crystal [i]line water [i] ice [i], consisting of... 

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Depending on place and culture, what is considered to be the start and end of winter vary.
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