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Snow blindness, a burning of the cornea, is caused by the intense ultraviolet solar radiation multiplied by sunlit snow. [18] Snow blindness may be prevented by wearing dark sunglasses or goggles. Burns can occur when dealing with camp stoves. Boiling pots are overturned, clogged fuel lines explode, hot metal is touched with bare skin.
After waking up the following day and saying his prayers, he found the shoes finished and perfectly well-made on his workbench. A customer soon entered the store and offered more than the usual price, for he was fond of the pair. The shoemaker uses the money to buy leather for more shoes which, after cutting, he also leaves overnight.
The self-described “World’s Most Traveled Athlete”, he told CNN in 2012 that he had clocked in over 15 million air miles during his playing days, and insisted Thursday that no “human being ...
Black ice on a road in Germany. Black ice, sometimes called clear ice, is a coating of glaze ice on a surface, for example on streets or on lakes. The ice itself is not black, but visually transparent, allowing the often black road below to be seen through it and light to be transmitted.
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The Brothers Grimm learned the tale from their friends, the Haxthausens, who had heard the tale in Münster.Other versions were known in Hesse and Paderborn.In the Hesse version, only one princess is believed to be responsible for wearing out a dozen shoes every night until a young shoemaker's apprentice discovers that she is joined by eleven other princesses in the revels.
The Snow-Image, and Other Twice-Told Tales is a collection of short stories by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. Released in late 1851 with a copyright of 1852, it is the final collection of tales by Hawthorne published in his lifetime.
Cold winter weather can lead to amazing spectacles, such as pancake ice on frozen lakes and thunderous frost quakes amid a frigid landscape, but one picturesque scene requires some human intervention.