• The Night of the Big Wind (Irish: Oíche na Gaoithe Móire) was a powerful European windstorm that swept across what was then the United Kingdom of Great...
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    Beacon Press, 2004: 138. ISBN 0-8070-7026-2. Fitzgerald, Donal, "The Night of the Big Wind," Ice, Gales and Moving Bogs. [1] Ballingeary Cumann Staire History...
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    Anemometer (redirect from Wind measurement)
    Automated airport weather station Night of the Big Wind Particle image velocimetry Savonius wind turbine Wind power forecasting Wind run Windsock, a simple high-visibility...
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    Earth, Wind & Fire (EW&F or EWF) is an American band whose music spans the genres of jazz, R&B, soul, funk, disco, pop, Latin, and Afro-pop. They are...
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    European windstorm (category Types of cyclone)
    and destroyed the island of Strand. Great Storm of 1703 – Severe gales affect south coast of England. Night of the Big Wind, 1839 – The most severe windstorm...
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  • Scotland 925.6 hPa. Though the lowest pressure may be second to the Night of the big wind low, which saw a value of 27.25 inches of mercury (923 hPa) at Sumburgh...
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  • The Wind Rises (Japanese: 風立ちぬ, Hepburn: Kaze Tachinu, lit. 'The Wind Has Risen') is a 2013 Japanese animated historical drama film written and directed...
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    The great storm of 1987 was a violent extratropical cyclone that occurred on the night of 15–16 October, with hurricane-force winds causing casualties...
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  • Eugene Duggan, As The Centuries Passed ..., ed. Kieran Jordan, 2000. ISBN 0-9538684-0-0 "An Irishwoman’s Diary on theNight of the Big Wind’ – January 6,...
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    Gone with the Wind is a 1939 American epic historical romance film adapted from the 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell. The film was produced by David O....
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  • 6 – Night of the Big Wind: Ireland is struck by the most damaging cyclone in 300 years. January 9 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the daguerreotype...
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    serious damage during the Night of the Big Wind in 1839, but in 1851 a fire damaged a significant part of the house and destroyed the library. Bishop Lord...
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    Burke. "Forgotten Remembrances: The 6 January 'Women's Christmas' and the 6 January 1839 'Night of the Big Wind' in 'The Dead'". James Joyce Quarterly 54...
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  • Micheál Ó Conghaile (category Year of death missing)
    Ó Conghaile transcribed poetry, including Dán na Gaoithe Móire (Night of the Big Wind) and Dán an cholera. He also transmitted poetry by Antoine Ó Raifteiri...
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  • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Japanese: 風の谷のナウシカ, Hepburn: Kaze no Tani no Naushika) is a 1984 Japanese animated post-apocalyptic fantasy film written...
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    Caherkinmonwee Castle (category Tower houses in the Republic of Ireland)
    According to the School's Collection, a stone weighing 150 kg (330 lb) was blown off the top of the castle on the Night of the Big Wind (1839); it landed...
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    Windcatcher (redirect from Wind catcher)
    arrangements (see sections on night flushing and convection, below).: Ch. 6  The construction of a windcatcher depends on the prevailing wind direction at that specific...
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    record #October wind speeds, comparable to the "big" ones in 1990" (Tweet) – via Twitter. @larslowinski (20 October 2016). "A closer look at the model profiles...
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    Wind is the natural movement of air or other gases relative to a planet's surface. Winds occur on a range of scales, from thunderstorm flows lasting tens...
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    Nymphia Wind is the stage name of Leo Tsao (Chinese: 曹米駬; born July 23, 1995), a Taiwanese-American drag performer and dressmaker. In 2024, she was crowned...
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    Blacklion (category Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border crossings)
    the nearby village of Red Lion, some miles to the west on the coach-road to Sligo. The weather event known as The Night of the Big Wind in January 1839 caused...
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  • Pinoy Big Brother: Unlimited was a Philippine reality show based on the Big Brother franchise. Below is a chronology of events that occurred over the course...
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  • Tulla (parish) (category Parishes of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe)
    damaged in the Night of the Big Wind. The third church is the St. James's Church in Knockjames, built in the period 1882-1884. Parish of Tulla Ó Murchadha...
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    Wind power is the use of wind energy to generate useful work. Historically, wind power was used by sails, windmills and windpumps, but today it is mostly...
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  • "Wind of Change" is a song by West German rock band Scorpions, recorded for their eleventh studio album Crazy World (1990). A power ballad, it was composed...
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  • Gone with the Wind is a novel by American writer Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936. The story is set in Clayton County and Atlanta, both in Georgia...
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  • William Handcock, 1st Viscount Castlemaine (category Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Athlone)
    1813–1839 and Governor of County Westmeath 1814–1831. Handcock was killed on the Night of the Big Wind in 1839 when the wind blew his bedroom shutters...
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  • Music Supervisor/Conductor Franz Waxman Night Unto Night (1949) Crime in the Streets (1956) Leigh Harline The Big Steal (1949) Hound-Dog Man (1959) – with...
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    Michael Constantine (category American people of Greek descent)
    the stubborn Greek father of Toula Portokalos (Nia Vardalos), in the film My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002). For his performance, Constantine won the Satellite...
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    Crossmolina (category Civil parishes of County Mayo)
    organized by the Crossmolina tenants league. The town was badly damaged during the "Night of the Big Wind" (Irish: Oíche na Gaoithe Móire) that swept across...
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