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"Soon After Midnight" is a love song/murder ballad hybrid. At less than three-and-a-half minutes, it is the shortest of the 10 songs on Tempest and the only example of the pre-rock pop ballad genre to be found on the album. The title is a reference to "fairy time" in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream. [1]
Not After Midnight, and other stories [2] is a 1971 collection of five long stories by Daphne du Maurier. It was first published in Britain by Gollancz (with a cover by du Maurier's daughter Flavia Tower [ 1 ] [ 4 ] ), and in America by Doubleday under the title Don't Look Now . [ 3 ]
In some languages (Spanish, Welsh, Indonesian, etc.), the postpositive placement of adjectives is the normal syntax, but in English it is largely confined to archaic and poetic uses (e.g., "Once upon a midnight dreary", as opposed to "Once upon a dreary midnight") as well as phrases borrowed from Romance languages or Latin (e.g., heir apparent ...
In folklore, the witching hour or devil's hour is a time of night that is associated with supernatural events, whereby witches, demons and ghosts are thought to appear and be at their most powerful. Definitions vary, and include the hour immediately after midnight and the time between 3:00 am and 4:00 am.
to use "12 noon" or "12 midnight" (though "12 midnight" may still present ambiguity regarding the specific date) to specify midnight as between two successive days or dates (as in "midnight Saturday/Sunday" or "midnight December 14/15") to avoid those specific times and to use "11:59 p.m." or "12:01 a.m." instead.
Similarly, the words "the centre cannot hold" in the same line are used in the title of Elyn Saks' book about her experience with schizophrenia while obtaining her PhD at Oxford, and later her JD at Yale, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness (2008), [17] Jonathan Alter's book on U.S. President Barack Obama's first term, The Center ...
The farthest time from midnight was 17 minutes in 1991, and the nearest is 89 seconds, set in January 2025. [ 5 ] The Clock was moved to 150 seconds (2 minutes, 30 seconds) in 2017, then forward to 2 minutes to midnight in 2018, and left unchanged in 2019. [ 6 ]
The Associated Press Stylebook specifies that midnight "is part of the day that is ending, not the one that is beginning." [33] The Canadian Press Stylebook [31] says, "write noon or midnight, not 12 noon or 12 midnight." Phrases such as "12 a.m." and "12 p.m." are not mentioned at all.