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Wintertide (other)
Wintertide may refer to: *Winter, the coldest season of the year in temperate climates * ''Wintertide'' (album), by Don Ross, 1996 *''Wintertide'', a 2007 album by Heather Alexander and Alexander James Adams *''Wintertide'', a 1999 novel by Linnea Sinclair *''Wintertide'', a 2010 novel from the Riyria Revelations series by Michael J. Sullivan *''Winter Tide'', a 2017 novel by Ruthanna Emrys *''Wintertide'', a United Kingdom-registered refrigerated ship which collided with ''MSC Sabrina ''MSC Sabrina'' is a container ship built in South Korea in 1989 and registered in Panama. She is managed by Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. She was involved in a collision off the coast of the Netherlands on June 13, 2000, with a fishing ve ...'' in 2000 See also * ''Wintertime'' (film), a 1943 musical film starring Sonja Henie {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winter
Winter is the coldest season of the year in Polar regions of Earth, polar and temperate climates. It occurs after autumn and before spring (season), spring. The tilt of Axial tilt#Earth, Earth's axis causes seasons; winter occurs when a Hemispheres of Earth, hemisphere is oriented away from the Sun. Different cultures define different dates as the start of winter, and some use a definition based on weather. When it is winter in the Northern Hemisphere, it is summer in the Southern Hemisphere, and vice versa. In many regions, winter brings snow and freezing temperatures. The moment of winter solstice is when the Sun's elevation with respect to the North or South Pole is at its most negative value; that is, the Sun is at its farthest below the horizon as measured from the pole. The day on which this occurs has the shortest day and the longest night, with daytime, day length increasing and nighttime, night length decreasing as the season progresses after the solstice. The earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wintertide (album)
''Wintertide'' is an album by the Canadian guitarist Don Ross, released in 1996. Reception Music critic Roch Parisien, writing for Allmusic, wrote the album "ossoffers tasteful, often inventive arrangements of English, German, and French traditionals. Some harp, keyboard, trumpet and delicate percussion embellishments apply, but in general the sparser the better here." Track listing # "In the Bleak Midwinter" # "The First Noel" # "What Child Is This" # "Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella" # "Silent Night" # "Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming" # "Once in Royal David’s City" # " O Come, O Come, Emmanuel" # "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" (Johann Sebastian Bach) # "Huron Carol" # "God Rest You Merry Gentlemen "God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen" is an English traditional Christmas carol. It is in the Roxburghe Collection (iii. 452), and is listed as no. 394 in the Roud Folk Song Index. It is also known as "Tidings of Comfort and Joy", and by other varia ..." # "The Coventry Carol" Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander James Adams
Alexander James Adams (born November 8, 1962) is an American singer, musician and songwriter in the Celtic and World music genres. He blends mythical, fantasy, and traditional themes in performances, switching between instrumental fiddle and songs accompanied by guitar, bodhrán, and fiddle playing. He has also been an artist in the field of filk music and won multiple Pegasus awards. Adams performed as Heather Alexander for 25 years before beginning to tour as Alexander James Adams. Adams discusses his transition and career in this interview. His website refers to him as the "heir" to Heather Alexander, and continues to credit songs originally released as Heather Alexander under that name. The last public performance under the name Heather was at OryCon 2006. His debut as Alexander James Adams was at Seattle's Norwescon 30, on April 6, 2007. Career Mid 1980s - 2006 A native of California, Alexander began performing original music in the mid-eighties for friends, Renaissanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linnea Sinclair
Linnea Sinclair (born 1954 in New Jersey, United States) is an American writer of Science Fiction Romance, Fantasy romance and Paranormal romance. Sinclair's ''Gabriel's Ghost'' was the winner of the 2006 RITA Award in the Best Paranormal Romance category. She has used the pseudonym Megan Sybil Baker. Formerly, she has been a news reporter and a private detective. Personal life early career Linnea Sinclair was born in New Jersey, USA. She studied journalism and criminology at Indiana University Bloomington (1972–1975) and Florida State University. Sinclair is a former investigative news reporter and private investigator in the Central Florida area who has written for many private investigative journals. She owned Island Investigations. Her first professional sale was the Fantasy romance Wintertide in 1999 to LTDBooks. Since 2004 she has been published by Bantam Books. Writing career While she was still a practicing PI and publishing with LTDBooks, she used the pen n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riyria Revelations
The ''Riyria Revelations'' is a series of high fantasy novels written by Michael J. Sullivan and published by Orbit Books in 2011 and 2012. The series consists of three original titles, ''Theft Of Swords'', ''Rise Of Empire'', and ''Heir Of Novron''. The books were previously self-published as a six-volume series selling 90,000 copies. Plot :;Book 1: ''The Crown Conspiracy'' (''Theft of Swords'') After a successful raid, Royce and Hadrian (together known as Riyria) are approached by a man offering much gold to steal a sword owned by Count Pickering, from the royal palace in Medford, the capital of the kingdom of Melengar. While searching for the sword they discover the dead body of the King and are accused of his murder. Arista, Princess of Melengar, saves them from execution. In return, they kidnap her brother, Alric, because she thinks he will also be killed. Following Arista's instructions, Riyria and Alric make their way to the prison where the wizard Esrahaddon is bein ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winter Tide
''Winter Tide'' is a 2017 alternate history, fantasy and horror novel by American science fiction and fantasy writer Ruthanna Emrys. It is Emrys' debut novel, and the second book in her three book ''Innsmouth Legacy'' series, the first being the novella, ''The Litany of Earth'' (2014). The series is set in the Cthulhu Mythos universe created by H. P. Lovecraft, and builds on Lovecraft's 1936 novella, " The Shadow over Innsmouth". ''Winter Tide'' was nominated for the 2018 Locus Award for Best First Novel, the 2018 Crawford Award, and the 2019 Mythopoeic Award in Adult Literature. Plot summary ''Winter Tide'' is set in H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos universe. The Deep Ones are amphibious humans that once lived in the fictional port town of Innsmouth in New England. In Lovecraft's 1936 novella, " The Shadow over Innsmouth", the town's inhabitants, seen by many to be "frog-monsters", are rounded up by the United States government in 1928 and imprisoned in concentration ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MSC Sabrina
''MSC Sabrina'' is a container ship built in South Korea in 1989 and registered in Panama. She is managed by Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. She was involved in a collision off the coast of the Netherlands on June 13, 2000, with a fishing vessel, ''Concordia'', and 15 minutes later, with a United Kingdom-registered refrigerated ship, ''Wintertide''. On March 8, 2008, during a snowstorm, she ran aground near Trois-Rivières Trois-Rivières (, – 'Three Rivers') is a city in the Mauricie administrative region of Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Saint-Maurice and Saint Lawrence rivers, on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River across from the city of ..., Canada. On February 4, 2017, she was detained during a Port State Control in Antwerp and only released after 136 days.https://www.parismou.org/sites/default/files/2017-06-DetentionLists.pdf References Container ships 1988 ships {{Merchantship-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
