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He was born in New York City in the United States where, he claimed, his Irish parents were on a business trip at the time, and soon after returned with them to Ireland. He grew up in Camlough, County Armagh, and was equally fluent in Irish and English. In 1906, when he was 14, Donn-Byrne went to an Irish Volunteer Movement meeting with Bulmer ...
Viento de Levante or Levanter (easterly through Strait of Gibraltar) Leste (hot, dry, easterly wind of the Madeira and Canary Islands) Leveche (Spanish name for a warm southwest wind in parts of coastal Mediterranean Spain) Libeccio (southwesterly towards Italy) Llevantades (north-north-east and east-north-east on the east coast of Spain) Lodos ...
Mistral wind blowing near Marseille.In the centre is the Château d'If.. The mistral (Catalan: mestral, Corsican: maestrale, Croatian: maestral, Greek: μαΐστρος, Italian: maestrale, Maltese: majjistral) is a strong, cold, northwesterly wind that blows from southern France into the Gulf of Lion in the northern Mediterranean. [1]
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
Vayu-Vata, two gods often paired together; the former was the god of wind and the latter was the god of the atmosphere/air. Enlil, the Sumerian god of air, wind, breath, loft. Ninlil, goddess of the wind and consort of Enlil. Pazuzu, king of the wind demons, demon of the southwest wind, and son of the god Hanbi.
Pneuma (πνεῦμα) is an ancient Greek word for "breath", and in a religious context for "spirit" or "soul". [1] [2] It has various technical meanings for medical writers and philosophers of classical antiquity, particularly in regard to physiology, and is also used in Greek translations of ruach רוח in the Hebrew Bible, and in the Greek New Testament.
In Chinese culture, east wind (东风; Dongfeng) is often used as a metaphor for the driving force or momentum of revolution and progress. The People's Liberation Army thus uses "east wind" (Dongfeng) as the name of its tactical missile series. In Greek mythology, Eurus, the east wind, was the only wind not associated with one of the three ...
Prevailing winds. Winds are part of Earth's atmospheric circulation. Global surface wind vector flow lines colored by wind speed from June 1, 2011 to October 31, 2011. In meteorology, prevailing wind in a region of the Earth 's surface is a surface wind that blows predominantly from a particular direction. The dominant winds are the trends in ...