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"Kuiama" is a song written by Jeff Lynne and performed by Electric Light Orchestra. Singer Jeff Lynne pronounces it 'Key-AH-ma'. The song is the last track of the ELO 2 LP. At 11:19, [1] it is the longest track on the album, and the longest song ever recorded by Electric Light Orchestra. It tells the tale of a soldier and an orphan girl.
Carla Olson and Mick Taylor recorded two versions of "Winter". One is on Olson's The Ring of Truth album [5] and the other appears on Too Hot For Snakes Plus. (One disc was a re-release of the Olson/Taylor Too Hot for Snakes live album [6] and the second was thirteen studio tracks featuring the two from Olson's various solo albums plus one song from the Barry Goldberg album Stoned Again which ...
The Wapusk Trail is a winter road that starts in Gillam, Manitoba, where Manitoba Provincial Road 280, between Thompson, Manitoba and Gillam, Manitoba, ends.At 752 kilometres (467 mi) in length, the trail is the longest seasonal road in the entire world. [1]
On a 2021 list of the best snow songs during the winter weather, Time Out ranked the song at number nine, and the magazine's Andrew Frisicano asserted that it "is a tragic, haunting thumper". [28] Glamour writer Anna Moeslein selected the track as one of her favorite songs about winter in 2014, while Ed Masley from The Arizona Republic named it ...
The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge and the Epic Story of World War II's Most Decorated Platoon is a non-fiction book written by Alex Kershaw and published in 2004 by Da Capo Press. It became a New York Times bestseller. It tells the story of the eighteen men of an intelligence platoon under the command by Lieutenant Lyle Bouck.
The song "Auld Lang Syne" comes from a Robert Burns poem. Burns was the national poet of Scotland and wrote the poem in 1788, but it wasn't published until 1799—three years after his death.
"Soak Up the Sun" is a song by American singer Sheryl Crow. She and her longtime co-writer Jeff Trott wrote the song following a conversation they had during a plane flight, when they discussed the changing weather as they flew to New York City from Portland, Oregon. Crow was recovering from surgery at the time, inspiring her and Trott to write ...
Tibbitt to Contwoyto Winter Road is an annual ice road first built in 1982 to service mines and exploration activities in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut in Northern Canada. Between 400 and 600 km (250 and 370 mi) long, the road is said to be the world's longest heavy haul ice road and operates for eight to ten weeks starting in the last ...