Dictionary definition: rain day

Article: "CLOSE' IS AN OBSOLETE TERM IN HORSESHOES.(Sports)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  August 6, 2003 ;     408 words ...To the Editor: I take exception to Gary Gosson's characterization of horseshoes in his recent letter. As anyone who has "tossed the old iron" competitively knows, horseshoes is a game of skill and precision. Recent improvements in shoe technology (i.e.: titanium) have given tossers the biggest

Article: Podium: `Post-modern' is an obsolete term From a ...
The Independent - London;  December 14, 1998 ;     700+ words ...I CONTEND that the modernism that is said to have begun as an avant-garde style, with Manet or Brancusi or Frank Lloyd Wright or whoever, and came to dominate the art of the first half of this century, is now no longer modern. There exists now a powerful consensus, and one with which I agree, that

Transcript: Interview: Melody Longstreth of Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, ...
NPR Morning Edition;  July 29, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... describes her town's celebration of Rain Day Host: RENEE MONTAGNE Time: 10:00-11:00 AM RENEE MONTAGNE, host: It's Rain Day in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. Local folklore ... a local holiday, complete with a Miss Rain Day pageant and an umbrella contest. Waynesburg ...

Article: Sunshine Threatens Rain Day Parade in Pa.
AP Online;  July 28, 2004 ;     443 words ... ... again on Thursday, the day this town celebrates its annual Rain Day. And in a tradition that has lasted decades, someone famous ... which include umbrella decorating. And, of course, a Miss Rain Day reigns. Copyright 2004, AP News All Rights Reserved

ITALY, Sicily, Riesi: Rain day.(c) Ferdinando ...
Magnum Photos;  January 1, 1964 ;     236 words ... ... Scianna Magnum Photos 01-01-1964 ITALY, Sicily, Riesi: Rain day. (c) Ferdinando Scianna/Magnum Photos Keywords: South ... Physical geography Europe Western Europe ITALY, Sicily, Riesi: Rain day. (c) Ferdinando Scianna/Magnum Photos Sicily ,Miscellaneous ...

Article: Correction of the High-Latitude Rain Day Anomaly in ...
Journal of Climate;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT A spurious wavelike pattern in the monthly rain day statistics exists within the National Centers for Environmental ... canopy evaporation and throughfall is sensitive to the rain day statistics of the correcting dataset, especially in the ...

Article: Rain Day prediction holds true another year in ...
Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review;  July 30, 2009 ;     308 words ... ... to party again this year. Rain started falling at 5:26 a.m. Wednesday in the Greene County community that celebrates Rain Day because legend has it that it nearly always rains on the 29th. Records show that had happened 111 times in the past 135 years ...