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Though not an official creed or motto of the United States Postal Service, [1] the Postal Service does acknowledge it as an informal motto [2] along with a slightly revised version of Charles W. Eliot's poem "The Letter". [3] The beginning of the inscription on James Farley Post Office
Weather lore is the body of informal folklore related to the prediction of the weather and its greater meaning. Much like regular folklore, weather lore is passed down through speech and writing from normal people without the use of external measuring instruments.
Sieber estimates he has written about 5,000 little poems about the weather, news, holidays and sports. Now, some of them are in a book.
The weather rock or weather stone is a humorous display that pokes fun at the intricate technology used in modern weather forecasts, as well as the fact that their accuracy is less than perfect. A rock is typically hung from a tripod and accompanied by a sign indicating how to read it. [ 1 ]
The Clerk of the Weather or the Weather Clerk is "an imaginary functionary facetiously supposed to direct the weather." [ 1 ] The Clerk of the Weather appears in children's stories by Rose Fyleman ("The Weather Clerk"), [ 2 ] Robert Swindells ( The Weather-Clerk ), [ 3 ] and others.
Jul. 7—"It's summertime, duh." We chuckled at reader John Russell's comment on our weather story earlier this week, because it reminded us of Night News Editor Joe Wojtas' typical response to ...
The Play of the Weather is an English interlude or morality play from the early Tudor period.The play was written by John Heywood, a courtier, musician and playwright during the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI and Mary I and published by his brother-in-law, William Rastell, in 1533 as The Play of the Wether, a new and mery interlude of all maner of Wethers.
He was inspired by two lines from Edward Jenner's poem Signs of Rain: "The leech disturbed is newly risen; Quite to the summit of his prison." [1] Merryweather spent much of 1850 developing his ideas and came up with six designs for what he originally referred to as "An Atmospheric Electromagnetic Telegraph, conducted by Animal Instinct." These ...