Sentences with phrase «early winter far»

Not exact matches

Captain America: The Winter Soldier, this year's top - grossing film so far, came out in early - April and the scattering of big movies around the calendar is one reason why all 2014 films have only grossed about 5.4 % less than all films had last year at this point.

What I think you mean is that with the attacks by the early Christians in Rome on existing pagan religious sites, a further eradication of paganism was to make irrelevant pagan days of worship with Christian ones, thus we have Jesus» incorrect birth on December 25th, near the winter solstice.

The date of Christmas may have initially been chosen to correspond with the day exactly nine months after early Christians believed Jesus to have been conceived, [20] or with one or more ancient polytheistic festivals that occurred near southern solstice (i.e., the Roman winter solstice); a further solar connection has been suggested because of a biblical verse [a] identifying Jesus as the «Sun of righteousness».

As far as the winter solstice and Christmas, there is no date given in scripture for the birth of Christ it may have actually been spring, early church leaders decided to celebrate it when they did to stamp out other pagan celebrations at the time.

Oh, and as far as leaving early goes, I learned my lesson in the amazing 2 - 2 comeback season - opening draw against RSL a couple of seasons ago — when Larin and Winter worked unbelievable extra time magic.

It's far too early to write Mavinga off but while Victor Vazquez has been an instant hit, the winter's other major signing would appear to have a lot of work to do.

This is the famous site of Dmanisi, Georgia, which offers an unparalleled glimpse into a harsh early chapter in human evolution, when primitive members of our genus Homo struggled to survive in a new land far north of their ancestors» African home, braving winters without clothes or fire and competing with fierce carnivores for meat.

It does get dark awfully early on this latitude in winter; we tend to forget how far north we are thanks to the temperate climate created here by the Atlantic Drift, but we don't even get eight hours of sunshine around the end of December.

In late Oct and early Nov the landscape is lush after winter rains, there are far fewer tourists and expats, and it's generally easier to bargain down prices for both market textiles and budget hotels.

This elegant winter visitor from the far north acquired its original colorful name from its musical yodeling or ululating call, reminiscent of the emotionally - charged Algonquin cries heard by early Euro - American settlers.

Early winter salmon spawning runs usually draw more consistent killer whale activity further south in the Salish Sea into Puget Sound and this year has been no different.

However, that would not have been enough if it weren't for the absence of snow to melt further south, the product of a mild winter and an early spring.

While the containers have stood up to the challenge so far, it is still early in the season, so the community is still gathering food for the winter.

Observations made in the late winter and early spring of 2011 reveal ozone loss far outside the range previously observed over the Northern Hemisphere, comparable to some Antarctic ozone holes.

If you missed the reams of comments posted here by people living there, who were telling us that this past winter was much colder than usual, and begging the planet to «send us some of that global warming», then go back over the archives and tell us they were all wrong, and that those articles are accurate when they say «The unseasonably warm and wet winter so far in Britain has coaxed plants into early flowering.»

This disappointment was compounded by further (doubling) losses of carbon during autumn and early winter.

«The trend in sea ice decline, lack of winter recovery, early onset of spring melting, and warmer - than - average temperatures suggest a system that is trapped in a loop of positive feedbacks, in which responses to inputs into the system cause it to shift even further away from normal.

Earlier estimates suggested that the lightning network could be operational this winter, which from a technical perspective doesn't seem far off now.