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Winter of the World is a historical novel written by the Welsh-born author Ken Follett, published in 2012.It is the second book in the Century Trilogy.Revolving about a family saga that covers the interrelated experiences of American, Russian, German and British families during the 20th century, the novel follows the second generation of those families, born to the main characters of the first ...
Michael Scott Rohan (22 January 1951 – 12 August 2018) [1] was a Scottish fantasy and science fiction author and writer on opera.. He had a number of short stories published before his first books, the science fiction novel Run to the Stars and the non-fiction First Byte.
The Year Without a Summer was an agricultural disaster; historian John D. Post called it "the last great subsistence crisis in the Western world". [4] [5] The climatic aberrations of 1816 had their greatest effect on New England (US), Atlantic Canada, and Western Europe. [6]
This is the first part of the Winter of the World saga, telling the story of the life and heroic deeds of the young Alva-Elof, referring to Old Scandinavian mythology. The Anvil of Ice is a novel in which Alv survives an attack on his town and becomes an apprentice blacksmith crafting enchanted weapons. [1]
Ukraine competed at the 2025 Winter World University Games in Turin, Italy, from 13 to 23 January 2025. The team won 12 medals and finished 10th. [1] This marked the best result since the 2011 Winter Universiade, when Ukraine won 15 medals including 6 golds and finished 3rd. Ukraine debuted in curling and won its first Universiade medals in ...
The volcanic winter of 536 was the most severe and protracted episode of climatic cooling in the Northern Hemisphere in the last 2,000 years. [1] The volcanic winter was caused by at least three simultaneous eruptions of uncertain origin, with several possible locations proposed in various continents. Modern scholarship has determined that in ...
It is the first part of the Century Trilogy which follows five interrelated families throughout the course of the 20th century. The first book covers notable events such as World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. [1] The sequel Winter of the World covers World War II and was
Since landscape painting had not yet developed as an independent genre in art, the absence of other winter scenes is not remarkable. On the other hand, snowy winter landscapes, particularly stormy seascapes, became artistic genres in the Dutch Golden Age painting during the coldest and stormiest decades of the Little Ice Age. [54]