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Snow-hole

The Snow Hole, a crevasse in the Taconic Mountains of New York, where snow can be found in the summertime


1987 Ryder Cup

Eamonn Darcy, who previously had a very poor Ryder Cup record, defeated Ben Crenshaw at the last hole to get Europe to 13 points.

Aegopodium podagraria

Aegopodium podagraria L. commonly called ground elder, herb gerard, bishop's weed, goutweed, and snow-in-the-mountain, is a perennial plant in the carrot family (Apiaceae) that grows in shady places.

Bill Glasson

Trailing seven strokes behind the leader Larry Mize with 14 holes to play, Glasson made a 45-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole for a round of 66 to finish one stroke ahead of Mize and Corey Pavin.

Boardsport

;Snowboarding (1977) :A cross between skateboarding and skiing, the board medium is snow, although the condition of the snow can have a major impact on snowboarding style and technique.

Bread and Roses Heritage Festival

Ethan Snow of the UNITE HERE labor union expressed the continuity of the labor struggle by linking the Occupy Wall Street Movement's "99 percent" slogan to the 1912 strikers and to the plight of modern laborers in Lawrence: “One hundred years ago, workers took a stand against the greed of the 1%. Today we are faced with a similar situation in Lawrence, and we too will take up the fight for current day Bread & Roses.”

Bucketheadland 2

Track 23, Digger's Den, has a brief exclamation around 0:09 of Bootsy Collins saying "Hit me" which is sampled in the song Bird With A Hole In The Stomach off of Buckethead's 2006 album, The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock.

Caius Bruttius Praesens

He is next heard of in the winter of 114/115, during Trajan’s Parthian war, commanding Legio VI Ferrata, which according to a fragment of the Parthica of Arrian he marched in deep snow (having secured snowshoes from native guides) across the Armenian Taurus to get to Tigranakert.

Camelops

Workers digging a hole for an ornamental citrus tree found the bones of two (juvenile and infant) animals that may have lived about 10,000 years ago.

Channel Dash

Gneisenau hit one mine off Terschelling, but suffered little damage; the magnetic mine exploded some metres off the ship, making a small hole on the starboard side and temporarily knocking one of her turbines out of action.

Charles Snow

C. P. Snow (Charles Percy Snow) (1905–1980), English physicist and novelist

Chris Stroud

He lost in a sudden-death playoff to Ken Duke on the second extra hole, after chipping in from the fringe on the 72nd hole for birdie to force the playoff.

Coxen Hole

Bus service connects Coxen Hole with other points on the island.

Daniel Victor

He later followed that with the second single "The World is Darker" featuring Melissa Auf der Maur (of The Smashing Pumpkins, Hole and Auf der Maur), and then the driving rock song "Where We Are" featuring Rob Dickinson of the UK band, The Catherine Wheel.

Danny Says

Another reference in the song is to Christmas, reflecting the difference at that time of year between where the band were recording in Los Angeles and the Ramones' home town of New York City - "It ain't Christmas if there ain't no snow".

David Sutton Phelps, Jr.

Phelps worked on many archaeological sites, some of his more notable sites are the Tar River site, the Neoheroka Fort Tuscarora war site (near snow hill), Lake Phelps, Fort Raleigh (near Manteo), and Hatteras Island.

Detroit and Charlevoix Railroad

At this time, the road had three steam locomotives equipped with air brakes, 25 Russel Logging Cars and 29 platform cars rated to 60,000 lbs with air brakes, two snow plows and two passenger cars.

Devil's Beef Tub

In his novel Redgauntlet, novelist Walter Scott said, "It looks as if four hills were laying their heads together, to shut out daylight from the dark hollow space between them. A damned deep, black, blackguard-looking abyss of a hole it is".

Diphasiastrum

The genus has a subcosmopolitan distribution, in much of the Northern Hemisphere, south in mountains to South America (reaching furthest south in Jujuy Province, northwest Argentina), New Guinea and the Marquesas Islands in the Pacific Ocean, but confined to climates with high humidity for most or all of the year (or, in cool climates, protected by snow cover in winter).

Edward Bransfield

Bransfield made a note in his log of two "high mountains, covered with snow", one of which was subsequently named Mount Bransfield, by Dumont D'Urville, in his honour.

Flag of Hungary

During the anti-Soviet uprising in 1956, revolutionaries cut out the Stalinist emblem and used the resulting tricolour with a hole in the middle as the symbol of the revolution.

Geoffrey Jones

Jones's first major work for British Transport Films was the 1963 film Snow, an eight minute short demonstrating how the railway network coped with the 1963 "Big Freeze".

Greg Otterholt

As an athlete, Otterholt has been seen on television's Wide World of Sports for ski racing, played for the World Cup Soccer Tournament with the U.S. Amputee exhibition team, and appeared in the pages of Golf Digest after hitting a "one-handed" hole in one.

Harry von Zell

Von Zell delivered the commentary on Celebrity Golf, a series of half-hour, nine-hole golf matches made in 1960 with Sam Snead taking on Hollywood celebrities at Los Angeles golf courses such as Woodland Hills and Lakeside Country Club.

Herbert John Hodgson

As a result of a further engagement in April 1918 east of Wulverghem near Messines he fell into a shell hole and found a mud-encrusted book.

Hole-in-the-Wall, Herefordshire

It is some five miles to the north of the town of Ross-on-Wye and part of the parish of Foy — the village of Foy, a mile to the west, is accessible by a footbridge over the Wye, built in 1919 by David Rowell & Co..

Hugh Marshall Hole

Marshall Hole is best known for issuing "Marshall Hole currency" in Bulawayo in 1900.

Isopogon prostratus

It usually is found as a heath plant, or in dry open Eucalyptus woodland, and often is exposed to wind, frost, snow, sun and rain.

James Snow

Snow was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1967 provincial election, defeating Liberal candidate Robin Skuce by 164 votes in Halton East.

Lee Trundle

Trundle also performed 'Let it Snow' for Preston's 2012 Christmas light switch on, before turning on the lights alongside fellow players, Matt Cardle and Russell Watson.

Mansehra District

Dudipat Lake is enclosed with beautiful, high, snow-drizzled peaks, it is one of the hardest places to reach, requiring a tough hike lasting four to seven hours.

Micro black hole

For sufficiently small M, the reduced Compton wavelength (\scriptstyle{\lambda \; = \; \hbar/Mc} , where ħ is Reduced planck constant) exceeds half the Schwarzschild radius, and no black hole description exists.

Mitchell Feigenbaum

In the Angel (TV series) episode, "A Hole in the World", doctoral candidate Winifred "Fred" Burkle (portrayed by Amy Acker) is shown to have a stuffed bunny named Feigenbaum (whom she refers to as the "master of chaos").

Mitchell Torok

Torok continued to write songs, working in partnership with his wife (who has used both Gayle Jones and Ramona Redd as pseudonyms, the latter being her maiden namea), and had recordings by artists including Skeeter Davis, Kitty Wells,Hank Snow and Willie Nelson, Jerry Wallace,Billy Walker, Barbara Eden, Glen Campbell, Dean Martin and Clint Eastwood, who sang Torok's song, "No Sweeter Cheater than You" in the Warner Brothers HONKY TONK MAN movie.

Nick Markakis

He played well early in the year, but as the season went into the summer months, Orioles manager Dave Trembley opted to move him into the #2 hole, placing Melvin Mora behind him.

North Florida Ospreys

They use UNF's on-campus Hayt Golf Learning Center, which has a three hole course and driving range.

Pablo Berger

In 2012 he premiered his third film Blancanieves (Snow White), which was the Spanish representative of the Academy Awards in 2013, in the category of Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

Pacific Links International

In developing the 27 Club, 27 golf champions—including Greg Norman, Mark O'Meara, Tom Watson, Fred Couples, Annika Sorenstam and Vijay Singh—are designing their favourite elements into each hole, reflecting the unique character of their individual games.

Skitch

Skitching, hitching a ride on a car's bumper while skateboarding, or in the snow

Snow machine

Snowmaking machines, also known as a "snow cannon" or "snow gun"

Spider hole

On December 13, 2003, during the Iraq War, American forces in Operation Red Dawn captured Iraqi president Saddam Hussein hiding in what was characterized as a "spider hole" in a farmhouse near his hometown of Tikrit.

The Rock Pool

The novel is set in "Trou-sur-mer" (Hole on the Sea), which is said to based on Cagnes-sur-Mer between Cannes and Nice.

The Snow

The Snow (Answers Come In Dreams I)" and "The Snow (Answers Come In Dreams II)" are remixes by Jack Dangers. "The Snow (As Pure As?)" was remixed by John Balance and Drew McDowall.

The Thanos Imperative

The story is the culmination of events starting with the "Annihilation" and more specifically the storyline "War of Kings", which climaxed with the opening of a hole between alternate universes, and "Realm of Kings", which involved different characters in conflict with the Many-angled ones and counterparts of the Earth-616 superheroes.

Torrington Gopher Hole Museum

The Torrington Gopher Hole Museum, located in Torrington, Alberta, features stuffed gophers (Richardson's ground squirrels) posed to resemble townspeople.

Track of the Cat

The outdoor scenes were filmed on Mount Rainier, Washington and Mitchum regarded shooting in the deep snow and cold as the worst filming conditions he had ever experienced.

Traditional fishing tackle

This circular hole attached with a pipe made from hollow stem of gongum (Cochlospermum religiosum), gopid (Lannea coromandelica) or bamboo (Bambusa arundinacea).

Victory Junction Gang Camp

It is part of the SeriousFun Children's Network, formerly the Association of Hole in the Wall Camps.

WAMG

The trade was designed to fill a hole caused by the recent injury to Jason Varitek.

Yoma Komatsu

Komatsu has released four songs as a solo artist, Dance Dance Revolution's "Ever Snow", Eternal on the album BeForU II, Izayoi on BeForU III and on 6Notes she sang "フレンズ" Furenzu/Friends.

Þorri

In the Orkneyinga saga (13th century), Þorri is an early Norwegian king, the son of Snær ('Snow') the Old, a descendant of Fornjót, an ancient king of Finland, Kvenland and Gotland.


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