• Old Man Winter is a personification of winter. The name is a colloquialism for the winter season derived from ancient Greek mythology and Old World pagan...
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    winter Old Man Winter Pineapple Express Siberian Express Volcanic winter Winter festivals (list) Winter City Winter Hexagon Winter Olympic Games Winter sport...
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    The Old Man of the Mountain, also called the Great Stone Face and the Profile, was a series of five granite cliff ledges on Cannon Mountain in Franconia...
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  • The Old Man and the Sea is a 1952 novella by the American author Ernest Hemingway. Written between December 1950 and February 1951, it was the last major...
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    Jack Frost (category Winter in culture)
    personification of frost, ice, snow, sleet, winter, and freezing cold. He is a variant of Old Man Winter who is held responsible for frosty weather, nipping...
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    of Winter, Death, and Rebirth (also Marena, Morena, Morana, Mara, Maslenitsa). Morozko, from a Russian fairy tale, translated as Father Frost Old Man Winter...
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    regions, it marked the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter and the "winter revelling season". Traditions include feasting on 'Martinmas goose'...
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    The Old Man of Coniston is a fell in the Furness Fells of the Lake District in Cumbria, England, and is the highest point (county top) of the historic...
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    United States, such as Maryland Green Man – Architectural motif Holly King and Oak King – Personifications of winter and summer Yule goat – Scandinavian...
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    announces the coming winter to the animals of the forest and urges them to prepare for it. Most of the animals, fearing Old Man Winter, begin their hibernation...
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    Jorge Torres Jr., a 42-year-old American man, suffocated to death on February 24, 2020, in Winter Park, Florida after being zipped into a suitcase. Jorge's...
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    Julfest, and propagating its Germanic origins as the celebration of the winter solstice. But for the majority of Germans, the Christian traditions remained...
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    Spain, Portugal, Italy (where he is known as the vecchio col sacco ("the old man with the sack"), and the countries of Latin America, where it is referred...
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  • Smell Like a Man, Man is a television advertising campaign in the United States created by ad agency Wieden+Kennedy for the Old Spice brand of male grooming...
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    The Old Man House was the largest winter longhouse in what is now the U.S. state of Washington, once standing on the shore of Puget Sound. It was the center...
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    Ded Moroz (category Winter traditions)
    example, in Bashkir Ded Moroz is known as Ҡыш бабай, Qïš babay, lit. 'Winter Old Man'), in Tatar it has the similar spelling Кыш бабай, Qış Babay with the...
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    brings gifts on 6 January in Spain Jack Frost and Old Man Winter — Mythical characters associated with winter Christmas controversy Flying Santa—a northeastern...
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    into the barn by a dozen mummers together with a grotesque "Old Bessie" (played by a man), and a Fool dressed in animal skins with a fool's hat. The mummers...
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  • "Frosty the Snowman" is a popular winter song written by Walter "Jack" Rollins and Steve Nelson, and first recorded by Gene Autry and the Cass County Boys...
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  • Isle of Man, New Year's Day on 1 January was formerly called Laa Nolick beg in Manx, or Little Christmas Day, while 6 January was referred to as Old Christmas...
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    Anglo-Saxon England the winter solstice was generally deemed to be December 25, and in Old English, midwinter could mean both the winter solstice and Christmas...
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    sometimes raisins, served hot or warm. It is a traditional drink during winter, especially around Christmas. It is usually served at Christmas markets...
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    the landscape and with the weather, especially storms and winter. The word literally means 'old woman, hag', and is found with this meaning in modern Irish...
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    of religious ceremony to accompany the Christmas holiday. In Mexico, the winter solstice festival was one of the most important celebrations of the year...
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    Wassail (category Articles containing Old Norse-language text)
    date between Christmas Eve and Old Twelfth Night (January 17). Ifans, Rhiannon (15 February 2022). Stars and Ribbons: Winter Wassailing in Wales. University...
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    classified in variations of an "Old Man" (Old Man Winter, Father Christmas) or a "child" or "girl" tradition. The "Old Man" is frequently syncretised with...
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    Fouettard (Wallonia, Northern and Eastern France). Often the subject of winter poems and tales, the Companions travel with Saint Nicholas carrying with...
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    Yule (category Articles containing Old English (ca. 450-1100)-language text)
    other symbols instead of letters. Yule (also called Jul, jól or joulu) is a winter festival historically observed by the Germanic peoples that was incorporated...
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    James Rees, a Philadelphia-based Christian missionary. In the story, an old man and woman, both carrying bundles on their backs, are given shelter in a...
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    gray-haired New Englander sees round his board The old broken links of affection restored; When the care-wearied man seeks his mother once more, And the worn matron...
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