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(floating Monday using Computus) Easter Monday: Paasmaandag: Lundi de Pâques: Ostermontag: 1 May (fixed) Labour Day: Dag van de arbeid: Fête du Travail: Tag der Arbeit: 40 days after Easter (floating Thursday) Ascension Day: Hemelvaart: Ascension: Christi Himmelfahrt: 50 days after Easter (floating Monday) Whit Monday: Pinkstermaandag: Lundi ...
Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap, also known as The Bird Trap, is a panel painting in oils by the Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder, from 1565, now in the Oldmasters Museum in Brussels. It shows a village scene where people skate on a frozen river, while on the right among trees and bushes, birds gather around a bird trap .
In the United States, the official definition of a white Christmas is that there has to be a snow depth of at least 1 in or 2.5 cm on the ground on 25 December in the contiguous United States, [4] and in Canada the official definition is that there has to be more than 2 cm (0.79 in) on the ground on Christmas Day. [5]
Józef Chełmoński: Partridges in the snow, 1891 Richard von Drasche-Wartinberg: In Deep Winter. The depiction of winter landscapes in Western art begins in the 15th century, as does landscape painting in general. Wintry and snowy landscapes are very rarely seen in earlier European painting since most of the subjects were religious.
The Netherlands and Belgium often do not start the Christmas season until December 6 or 7, i.e. after Sinterklaas has finished. In France, the January sales are restricted by legislation to no more than four weeks in Paris, and no more than six weeks for the rest of the country, usually beginning on the first Wednesday in January, and are one ...
According to the National Weather Service's preliminary snowfall totals Monday night, between 6.5 and 7 inches of snow accumulated in Washington, D.C. See photos of the snow below.
On that day, 40–50 cm (16–20 in) of snow fell on top of a blanket of 25–30 cm (9.8–11.8 in) of snow. The evening of 1 December and the morning of 2 December there was extremely heavy snow in Southern England, especially on the South Coast, 30–40 cm (12–16 inches) of snow was recorded throughout East and West Sussex with the South ...
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