He is the author of The Language of Metaphors, and Critical Reading and Writing, published by Routledge, Washing the Brain: the hidden ideology of metaphor, published by John Benjamins, Explorations in Stylistics, published by Equinox and Meaning and Humour, published by Cambridge University Press.
On the night from March 21–22, 1920 when the Azeris were celebrating Spring Equinox (Novruz Bayram), the Armenians of Karabakh began to revolt and organized a surprise attack.
These societies, lifelong secret fraternities of unmarried townsmen who never performed in public unmasked, were dedicated to going out into the countryside and conducting dances and rituals during the Feast of Fools, at the Vernal Equinox.
After training in Chikara's Wrestle Factory school, Durling made his debut on May 20, 2005, as the fan favorite masked wrestler Equinox, a student of Mexican masked wrestler and Chikara alumnus Skayde.
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The sunken courtyard of this building contains a large metal triangle designed by Athelstan Spilhaus and fabricated by Tyler Elevator Products, arranged so the Sun aligns with its sides at solstices and equinoxes.
Some eclectic Neopagans, such as Wiccans, combine the Gaelic fire festivals with solstices and equinox celebrations derived from non-Celtic cultures to produce the modern, Wiccan Wheel of the Year.
Hero would lose matches to Lince Dorado, El Pantera, Claudio Castagnoli and Equinox, all by submission due to “The CHIKARA Special”.
Teale worked as a co-writer for a segment titled "Vernal Equinox" on the March 20, 1955 episode of Omnibus, a TV-Radio Workshop of the Ford Foundation produced by Robert Saudek and hosted by Alistair Cooke on the CBS Television Network.
The Lords of Chaos and the Lords of Order appear in the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "The Fate of Equinox!" with Typhon voiced by John DiMaggio and Nabu voiced by James Arnold Taylor.
The Persian Calendar begins each year at the Northward equinox, observationally determined at Tehran.
"Meet Me on the Equinox" is a song by indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie, and was released as the first single from the soundtrack to the 2009 film The Twilight Saga: New Moon.
The third short story, "His Secret Sin", was first published in "The Equinox" volume I, no.8 in 1912 and has a pervert absconding with a photograph of the Venus de Milo.
According to Uriel's Machine by Knight and Lomas (2003), the triple spiral may represent the nine-month period of human pregnancy, since the sun takes a fourth of a year to go from the celestial equator (an equinox) to extreme north or south declination (a solstice), and vice versa.
The modern Sabbats that many Wiccans and Neo-Pagans now follow are: Imbolc (February 2), Ostara (Spring Equinox), Beltane (May 1), Litha (Summer Solstice), Lammas (August 1), Mabon (Autumn Equinox), Samhain (October 31) and Yule (Winter Solstice).