Snow can be eaten hot or cold. The basic recipe is egg whites, cream, rosewater or another flavoring agent, and sugar, whipped until stiff. It was traditionally presented at festive occasions draping another item to give the appearance of snow. For a more luxurious effect, gold leaf would be added.

Apple snow, with puréed apple added to the basic recipe, was popular served hot in the 17th century while a more modern version is eaten cold. There is a Russian version that is called air pie, which is egg white, sugar, and fruit pureé, whipped and served hot.

Snow cake is simply a cake with egg whites as its base: it is not related to snow cream desserts.

References

Davidson, Alan. Oxford Companion to Food (1999). “Snow”, p. 731

Snow algae has been described in the Arctic and on Arctic sea ice, and from Greenland, the Antarctic, Alaska the westcoast and eastcoast of North America, the Himalayas, Japan, New Guinea, Europe, China, Patagonia in Chile and the South Orkney Islands.

More famously, red snow was mentioned in Jules Verne’s book “The Desert of Ice”,
which describes an expedition to the North Pole, decades before such were possible.
Verne notes that the red snow effect is caused by fungi, and was known in Switzerland and Baffin Bay.

Red Snow was a British thermonuclear weapon. Its physics package was apparently similar, if not identical, to that of the United States W28 nuclear warhead used in the B28 nuclear bomb and AGM-28 Hound Dog missile, with an explosive yield of approximately 1 megaton.

The Red Snow warhead was developed after a September 1958 decision to adopt the US warhead for British use, following the 1958 US-UK Mutual Defence Agreement. It entered service in 1961, remaining in use until 1972, when it was replaced by the WE.177 bomb. Perhaps 150 were produced.

Red Snow was used as both a free-fall bomb and as the warhead of the Blue Steel missile. In the gravity bomb role, it was fitted into the casing of the Yellow Sun weapon, even though the Red Snow warhead was considerably smaller than that of the original Yellow Sun bomb.

Sanskrit ‘ translates to “having much snow”. Sanskrit ‘ “frost, snow” is cognate to Latin hiems “winter” from PIE ‘.

Jerry Cantrell on the song, from the liner notes of 1999’s Music Bank box set collection: “I’d just temporarily moved in with Susan Silver because Sean and I had just had a fight. So I was riding the bus to rehearsal and I saw all these 9, 10, 11 year old kids with beepers dealing drugs. The sight of a 10 year old kid with a beeper and a cell phone dealing drugs equalled ‘We Die Young’ to me.”

The video features the band performing while various people drown in pools of blood.

Track listing

1. “We Die Young” (2:31)
2. “It Ain’t Like That” (4:38)
3. “Killing Yourself” (2:59)

“We Die Young” and “It Ain’t Like That” also appeared on Alice in Chains debut full-length album, Facelift. A demo of “Killing Yourself” was later released on their box set Music Bank.

With the direct correlation between classic fairytale ballets and Walt Disney animations, Snow White became an idea many ballet companies have adopted into their own original work, pulling from the Disney animation and Disneyland Snow White musical for guidelines.

Scenes in this ballet vary from company to company as this is not a traditional performance piece.

Scenes

Scenes appearing in most productions of the Snow White ballet include:

• Village scene - traditional opening to many classic ballet productions.
• Palace or Garden - to introduce the queen and huntsman.
• Enchanted Woods - Where Snow White flees the Huntsman, sometimes with dancing trees.
• Forest - Where Snow White meets animals and the dwarfs.
• Wedding - Traditional ending to many classic ballet productions.

Characters

Characters in the Snow White ballet typically mimic those in the Disney production in appearance and costume as that is where most inspiration comes from.

These characters typically include:

• Snow White
• queen
• doctor
• Huntsman
• Seven Dwarfs
• Animals
• Villagers

• Hydroplaning (tires), a loss of steering or braking control when a layer of water prevents direct contact between road vehicle or aircraft tires and the road or runway surface
• Planing (sailing), a method by which the hull of a boat skims over the surface of the water rather than plowing through it
  • Any watercraft that is specifically designed to plane, including:
    • Hydroplane, a fast motorized boat used in racing
    • Hydrofoil, a boat with wing-like foils mounted on struts below the hull
• Seaplane, an aircraft designed to land on water
• Diving plane, a submarine control surface used to help control depth, analogous to the elevators on the tail of an aircraft
• Hydroblading, a figure skating move sometimes referred to as hydroplaning

Snow fences are also used in avalanche control.

A typical style of temporary snow fence seen in North America today is often one of two varieties: orange plastic attached to stakes at regular intervals or a cedar or other lightweight woodstrip and wire fence, also attached to metal stakes. A permanent snow fence is generally of larger wooden poles set deeply into the ground with large wooden planks running vertically across them. A permanent snow fence is built when a roadway is subject to predictable snow and wind patterns each winter, usually in mountain passes.

The drifting of snow behind a fence follows the laws of physics as the pressure on the downwind side is less than that on the windward side, allowing light materials such as snow or leaves to settle there.

Campbell, E. (March 1975). Snowdrift Structures. Avalanche Protection in Switzerland (pp. 103-116). Fort Collins CO: General Technical Report RM-9, USDA-Forest Service.

Mears, A.I. (1992). Avalanche Structural Protection in: Snow - Avalanche Hazard Analysis for Land - Use Planning and Engineering. Denver CO: Colorado Geological Survey, Department of Natural Resources, Bulletin 49.