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L'An 2440, rêve s'il en fut jamais (literally, in English, The Year 2440: A Dream If Ever There Was One; but the title has been rendered into English as Memoirs of the Year Two Thousand Five Hundred or Memoirs of the Year 2500, and also as Astraea's Return, or The Halcyon Days of France in the Year 2440: A Dream) is a 1771 novel by Louis-Sébastien Mercier.
Halcyon Days is an oblique reference to the Greek mythological figures Alcyone and Ceyx and Alcyone, often used to denote a past period that is being remembered for being happy and/or successful. It may also refer to:
Alcyone and Ceyx Transformed into Halcyons. In Greek mythology, Alcyone (or dubiously Halcyone) [1] (/ æ l ˈ s aɪ ə ˌ n i, h æ l ˈ s aɪ ə ˌ n i /; Ancient Greek: Ἀλκυόνη, romanized: Alkyónē) and Ceyx (/ ˈ s iː ɪ k s /; Κήϋξ, Kḗÿx) were a wife and husband who incurred the wrath of the god Zeus for their romantic hubris.
The Very Best of the Strawbs: Halcyon Days is a compilation album by English band Strawbs. Although credited to Strawbs it does contain three Hudson Ford tracks and a Dave Cousins solo track (taken from his album Two Weeks Last Summer). The album was released as a 2-CD set in the UK and US.
An article on a Reuters blog caught my eye recently, as it dealt with the subject of Wall Street profits. It seems that Standard & Poor's came out with a new outlook for capital markets for the ...
The Halcyon Days Tour was unveiled along with North American dates, beginning in Miami Beach, Florida. The album was reissued twice: Halcyon Days was released on 23 August 2013, and Halcyon Nights was released on 12 October 2022, in honor of Halcyon ' s tenth anniversary.
Halcyon Days was met with highly positive reviews including a 4 out of 5 and "Album of the Week" rating from Drum Media, a coveted Triple J Feature Album slot and earned the band nominations at the 2014 Rolling Stone Australia Awards for Single of the Year and Best New Talent. [1] [2] "Halcyon Days" debuted at 42 on the ARIA Album Chart.
The winter solstice marks the shortest day and longest night of the year, according to the National Weather Service. This occurs due to the Earth's tilt from the sun.