| 单词 | windmill |
| 例句 | The windmill was, in fact, Napoleon’s own creation. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z It was as though the windmill had never been. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z A windmill swung its giant arms in slow obedience to the wind and a farmer passed them carrying a sack of grain to be ground. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z This was a wickedness far outdoing Snowball’s destruction of the windmill. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Jacobi was practicing windmills, a classic power move he’d long ago perfected; he was trying now to turn his windmills into flares in the same routine. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Liyana struggled to remember Or’s directions exactly—up one hill, past the odd windmill, to the right, then straight. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Like crazy windmills, the two of us smack each other’s palms. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z “And so nice of Annie Moffat not to forget her promise. A whole fortnight of fun will be regularly splendid,” replied Jo, looking like a windmill as she folded skirts with her long arms. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z He had, he said, only one real ambition left—to see the windmill well under way before he reached the age for retirement. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Later there would also be need for seeds and artificial manures, besides various tools and, finally, the machinery for the windmill. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z His arms spun like windmills fighting for balance. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The animals were hard at work building yet another windmill; when that one was finished, so it was said, the dynamos would be installed. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z He refused to believe either that food would become more plentiful or that the windmill would save work. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z As the summer wore on, and the windmill neared completion, the rumours of an impending treacherous attack grew stronger and stronger. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Don Quixote—the famous literary madman—fought windmills. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Having got there, he collected two successive loads of stone and dragged them down to the windmill before retiring for the night. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Somewhere around there the first gray mule had eaten a poison weed and died; the bones would be scattered in the tall grass around the windmill. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z From up there, one could make out the tips of the rusted blades of Gul Daman’s windmill, on the left, and, on the right, all of Herat spread below. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The towers were part of a windmill farm, which spanned more than eight thousand acres and was expected to eventually supply electricity to some forty-five thousand homes in Oklahoma. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “If they stop for us, let’s leave the burro and the mule here. There’s a windmill over there. We can come back and get them later on.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z They are more complex than they were on that walk to the windmill so many years ago, but they still have much in common, and their commonalities shine. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z They were shown all over the tarm, and expressed great admiration for everything they saw, especially the windmill. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The whole of the big pasture, including the windmill, was in the hands of the enemy. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The room is lit by a pair of green-shaded banker’s lamps, and in the shadows Werner can see shelves crowded with encyclopedias, models of windmills, miniature telescopes, prisms. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He walked north on the Acoma road until the culvert and windmill were out of sight. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z She grumbled to herself all morning over her work while Tom and Samuel went over the boring equipment, sharpened bits, drew sketches of windmills new in design, and measured for timbers and redwood water tanks. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He flailed his arms like a windmill but stayed on his feet. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z He looks at me and shrugs, then chokes completely and misses the windmill. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z When they got up again, a huge cloud of black smoke was hanging where the windmill had been. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Already Frederick had paid up; and the sum he had paid was just enough to buy the machinery for the windmill. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z His sometimes heavy-lidded, almost reptilian expression vanished; his eyes lit up, his arms would windmill, and his voice rise. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She was really worked up as she paced back and forth and swung her arms around like a windmill. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Some tiles had windmills and tulips, others had ships and fish, and one had two figures standing side by side, holding hands. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “That must be the wrong windmill,” Dad would say. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z She can tell she’s getting close, because she sees a row of windmills in the distance, their white arms spinning with quiet industry. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z As we have seen, the first mechanical clocks date to the late thirteenth century, and their geared machinery derived from water-wheels and windmills. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They were going to knock the windmill down. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z After surveying the ground, Snowball declared that this was just the place for a windmill, which could be made to operate a dynamo and supply the farm with electrical power. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z I used to make a goo-goo face that got her so excited she wheeled her arms and legs around like a windmill. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z I went to the window and through a small, round hole in the frosted windowpane I could see the whirling blades of the windmill. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The brothers arrive at a polder windmill in Rijswijk just as the rain stops. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He scooped water off the top of thick green moss that clogged the steel water trough under the windmill. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z But of all their controversies, none was so bitter as the one that took place over the windmill. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z My mother gives me a pale, disbelieving look, but when he turns his gaze on her they become of one mind, then they are both tilting at windmills. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z On July 10, 2015, at dawn, a chief and two dozen members of the Osage Nation gathered beneath the windmills for a prayer to Wah’Kon-Tah. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He would come home, black from the asphalt of the highway, wash himself out by the windmill, then spend the rest of the afternoon doing small, odd jobs around the rabbit pens. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z At this Snowball sprang to his feet, and shouting down the sheep, who had begun bleating again, broke into a passionate appeal in favour of the windmill. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z What about windmills on the roof of every skyscraper? Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Emboldened by the collapse of the windmill, the human beings were inventing fresh lies about Animal Farm. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z At the same time there were renewed rumours that Frederick and his men were plotting to attack Animal Farm and to destroy the windmill, the building of which had aroused furious jealousy in him. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z They passed the giant dinosaurs at the rest stop and then drove through what seemed like a sea of windmills. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z In 1627 Isaac Beeckman and his associates planned a programme of research using models to ascertain the relative merits of vertical and horizontal windmills. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z One of them is a scene behind the windmill, with fenced-in gardens, the city down the hill in the distance; the other is of vegetable gardens in Montmartre, with the windmills sails in the distance. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Waterwheels appeared in Roman times and then proliferated, along with tidal mills and windmills, in the Middle Ages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The hens, said Napoleon, should welcome this sacrifice as their own special contribution towards the building of the windmill. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The printing-press and the windmill, the lever, the pump, and the pulley, the clock and the wheel-barrow, and a host of machines in use among miners and engineers were established features of daily life. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Roberto’s arms waved in the air like windmills and his face was no longer that of a boy but of a prophet baptized by fire. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z They floated high above the trees on the west end of the park, over the windmills. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “But he’s a smart man too, Will. He showed me a new kind of windmill he’s invented—goddamest thing you ever saw.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z About half the animals on the farm rushed out to the knoll where the windmill stood. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z If the windmill broke it would mean many days without water because the cistern was already dry of summer water, and melting snow would be a hard job. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Both knights began waving their arms like windmills, anti-clockwise, in the vain effort to slow up. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z To rebuild the windmill, with walls twice as thick as before, and to finish it by the appointed date, together with the regular work of the farm, was a tremendous labour. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “No—but I do know that it’s being administered by Scythe Cervantes, and he tends to be very physically minded. For all I know, he’ll have you tilting at windmills.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z There were the bricks, sand, and lime for the schoolroom to be purchased, and it would also be necessary to begin saving up again for the machinery for the windmill. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z There were brightly colored wrappings, peppermint candy, and windmills. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z All that could happen, with Bloom tilting at windmills, was the ruination of them both ... of them all. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They had had a hard year, and after the sale of part of the hay and corn, the stores of food for the winter were none too plentiful, but the windmill compensated for everything. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z This journey began with him, you suspect it will end with him, and everything between is the powdery meal of windmills that might be giants grinding bones to make their bread. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Webb shouts as he windmills his arm and gallops down the third-base line. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z It was not for this that they had built the windmill and faced the bullets of Jones’s gun. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z That evening Squealer explained privately to the other animals that Napoleon had never in reality been opposed to the windmill. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Riverbank had a Roman pool, a Dutch windmill, a Japanese garden, and staff from all over the world. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z That she had gifts to give him too, that in return for his boats, his boxes, his small windmills, she would trade her deep dimples when she smiled. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But a week later, when they went to check on the cattle, they didn’t find them around the windmill where they had unloaded them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I made my way past the charred windmill to the iron hand pump. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But we sometimes did fun things like go on trips or learn to make things like homemade windmills or different types of recipes. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Like when he thought the windmills were dragons. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Although the style of each varied in crudity, the subjects of the paintings were relatively similar: camellias floating in bowls of water, azaleas tortured into ambitious flower arrangements, magnolias that looked like white windmills. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He had seemed to oppose the windmill, simply as a manoeuvre to get rid of Snowball, who was a dangerous character and a bad influence. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Although it’s of an iconic Dutch structure—a windmill—he paints just the bottom part; you can't see the sails in the wind. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Robin Flint had ranged ahead to scout, and he came galloping back with word of a far-eyes watching from the roof of a distant windmill. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Every human being held it as an article of faith that the farm would go bankrupt sooner or later, and, above all, that the windmill would be a failure. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z When a windmill broke down or a pool went dry, Tayo had seen them standing and waiting patiently for the truck or wagon loaded with water, or for riders to herd them to water. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Other examples of complex technologies that diffused east and west in the ancient Old World, from a single West Asian source, include door locks, pulleys, rotary querns, windmills—and the alphabet. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He washed his face in the steel-cold water of the iron trough by the windmill. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z At the Meeting on the following Sunday the question of whether or not to begin work on the windmill was to be put to the vote. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z They bunched up, wary and skittish; when the last cow had run into the little herd, they stood for a moment, staring at the windmills and corrals and at the men beside the truck. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z There were toy automobiles and trucks, windmills and merry-go-rounds, airplanes, boats and a lot of others, mostly run on batteries. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z They watered and grazed at the Cahoncito windmill for a few days before they started traveling again. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on—that is, badly. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Until waterwheels and windmills began to replace Eurasia’s mammals in medieval times, they were also the major source of its “industrial” power beyond human muscle power—for example, for turning grindstones and operating water lifts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z His arms chopped the air like khaki windmills. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Heading inland, it is a short walk out of the city into a landscape that is reminiscent of his childhood in Zundert: fields and farms, windmills. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z In the distance he saw the windmill where he and Josiah had chased the spotted cattle after they had wandered through the Acoma fence. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He had gone out alone to drag a load of stone down to the windmill. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Within a few weeks Snowball’s plans for the windmill were fully worked out. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The whole farm was deeply divided on the subject of the windmill. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The windmill, however, had not after all been used for generating electrical power. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Adam had paid him for his work, had even paid him for the windmill parts and did not want the windmills. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He was ever fearful of what lay in the shadows, and that ever-present dread, combined with his constant tilting at windmills, exhausted him. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The two with the hammer and the crowbar were drilling a hole near the base of the windmill. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “But they have destroyed the windmill. And we had worked on it for two years!” Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z He had declared himself against the windmill from the start. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z They had started the rebuilding of the windmill the day after the victory celebrations were ended. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Meanwhile Frederick and his men had halted about the windmill. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Then they left the town behind, following the winding course of the Rhoyne through willow groves and poppy fields and past a tall wooden windmill whose blades creaked like old bones as they turned. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The building of the windmill, with various other improvements, was expected to take two years. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z She loved logic, loved to take things apart and put them back together, whether it was a speech by Cicero or a windmill. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He could make intricate toys—tiny windmills, rattles, minute jewel boxes out of dried palm reeds; he could carve perfect boats out of tapioca stems and figurines on cashew nuts. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He saw windmills, just like everyone else—but he believed they were giants. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z The collapsed wreckage of the barn, a windmill with three fins, and a burned-out husk of a house. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The needs of the windmill must override everything else, he said. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z And for a little while they halted in sorrowful silence at the place where the windmill had once stood. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z When the animals had assembled in the big barn, Snowball stood up and, though occasionally interrupted by bleating from the sheep, set forth his reasons for advocating the building of the windmill. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z How you used to make me laugh, how you used to wind up like a windmill before you threw a ball, how you used to blow at the hair falling across your forehead. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z They decided to meet by the windmill in two hours since there was only one and it was easy to find. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z At Riverbank, he lived in a damp windmill, where he did experiments with fruit flies and African violets. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z In the autumn, by a tremendous, exhausting effort—for the harvest had to be gathered at almost the same time—the windmill was finished. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z They learned mathematics and, according to some scholars, how to build windmills. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I shout, flailing my arms like a windmill. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z If things ever get that bad, Sandi thought, she would sell her charm bracelet with the windmill that always got caught on her clothing. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Napoleon, on the other hand, argued that the great need of the moment was to increase food production, and that if they wasted time on the windmill they would all starve to death. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z During the next 6,500 years there were remarkable technological advances—the invention of the water-wheel and the windmill, for example—but until 400 years ago technological change was slow, and it was frequently reversed. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Except for Vincent’s last hours alive, this walk through the raindrops to the windmill will be the brothers’ least complicated time together. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Apart from the disputes over the windmill, there was the question of the defence of the farm. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z For them I believed I could don armor and charge at giants, even if I saw only windmills. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Apart from the regular work of the farm, and the rebuilding of the windmill, there was the schoolhouse for the young pigs, which was started in March. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z His own hands were huge windmills and he stared fascinated at the unknown thing that Antonapoulos held. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z To her left the slope fell away toward a landscape of olive and lemon groves, of poorly tended vineyards and abandoned windmills, lying hazy in the evening light. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The windmill near the sheep camp had gone dry, so the gray mules pulled the wagon from the springs, moving slowly so that the water would not splash over the rims. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Out of spite, the human beings pretended not to believe that it was Snowball who had destroyed the windmill: they said that it had fallen down because the walls were too thin. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z On the third Sunday after Snowball’s expulsion, the animals were somewhat surprised to hear Napoleon announce that the windmill was to be built after all. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z She and Omer sprinted toward the windmill, where they found her mother tapping her foot and staring at her watch, arms crammed with packages. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z They’d left the windmill, so they would have to travel until they found more water. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Only old Benjamin refused to grow enthusiastic about the windmill, though, as usual, he would utter nothing beyond the cryptic remark that donkeys live a long time. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z To one side a water trough stood next to a charred windmill. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He sketched for her the new fan blade Samuel had invented for the windmill. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Reek listened to the vanes turning on the old windmill as they rode beneath the gatehouse into a grassy courtyard where stableboys ran out to take their horses. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Primarily, I’ll be getting lectured by old men in lederhosen and posing for photos with windmills. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He saw ahead of him the heavy labour of rebuilding the windmill from the foundations, and already in imagination he braced himself for the task. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z Richard was the son of a blacksmith, but he had no interest in designing load-bearing machines such as watermills or windmills. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Nothing moved, not even the flag on the Gold Family’s flagpole or the spokes on the Birdbrain Family’s fake windmill. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z The Man in the White Shirt saw an older, heavy-set woman limping towards him and waving her arms like a broken windmill. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z In an immaculate cast, Alexandra Gilbreath is also extraordinary as the bustling, distraught neighbour who is a physical and verbal windmill. That Day We Sang; The Crash of the Elysium; The Village Bike ? review 2011-07-09T23:06:26Z He pointed to a small windmill on the roof of his restaurant. T Magazine: The Coast of Utopia 2011-09-30T14:00:14Z The movie, from Malawi and Britain, relates the true story of a 13-year-old who devised a windmill for his famine-plagued village. 27 Ways to Keep Your Kids Culturally Engaged This Winter 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z “Cornfields, windmills, horses in pasture . . . anything you could find within the lines of ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ is what they like to present,” Lange said. Who are all those smiling people in campaign advertisements? 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z The opener, “The Fairy’s Kiss,” was like a pop-up children’s book version of a ballet, complete with a colorful windmill and puffy storybook clouds. For Russians Tired of ‘Swan Lake,’ a Contemporary Alternative 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z But after you catch your breath, you begin to notice that Holland has windmills… and Holland has tulips. Far from the Tree: A Dozen Kinds of Love by Andrew Solomon – review 2013-02-10T07:00:09Z Here, the arms swelled and swirled around the body like windmills. Rennie Harris Puremovement and ‘A Batalha do Passinho’ 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Young spectators can expect head spins, windmills, pop and lock and much more. Spare Times Listings for Children for March 6-12 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z He reloaded, shot, reloaded, shot, reloaded, shot, and then stepped back and looked up at the windmill. Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories by Sherman Alexie – review 2013-01-10T12:00:01Z Sometimes they’re reaching, ecstatic and holy; at other times, they propel like windmills on high speed or build shapes with geometric precision. Review: At City Ballet, Giving Voice to the Body, With Sneakers 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z “But he was like a rap Don Quixote tilting at the ‘legitimacy’ windmill.” Lil Dicky the Rapper Makes Way for Dave the TV Star 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z In front of a windmill are two fully clothed Dutchmen, one of them resting a rifle on his shoulder. What’s Wrong With This Diorama? You Can Read All About It 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z Key to this endeavor were the Dutch and Murphy windmills, built in the early 20th century and positioned at opposite ends of the park’s western side. Finding peace in San Francisco’s storied Golden Gate Park 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z By now, he is weeping: From this point on, anecdote shifts into tragedy, both individual and political, as the old Indian sets the dead bird aside and begins shooting at the nearest windmill. Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories by Sherman Alexie – review 2013-01-10T12:00:01Z By this point, I was hoping a windmill would fall on me. Salman Rushdie’s ‘Quichotte’ is a shambling ‘Don Quixote’ for our deceptive era - The Washington Post 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z Culbreath’s dance of grief, though a touch maudlin in its miming, uses the expressive potential of b-boy steps, the way he spirals and windmills on his back, to intensely moving effect. Review: Rennie Harris’s Hip-Hop Dance Mixtape 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z Lauren Elizabeth Jury's photographs document the output of outsider artist George Cole, a Welsh road worker who created a garden with flowers, animals, miniature houses and windmills. This week's new exhibitions 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z Muhu, an island connected to the mainland by ferry, is a place of folklore, pagan tombstones and windmills. 20 of the best Baltic beach holidays 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Coltrane bleats and heaves through his solos, spewing out odd clusters of notes, splitting acrid tones and repeating big windmill patterns until they seem to have broken free of their context. The Playlist: Shawn Mendes Shows His Scars, and 9 More New Songs 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z With Mr. Martins’s taxing repetitiveness of steps — it often feels like a countdown — the effect of, say, a jump that springs into the air with a turned-in knee or brisk, windmill arms is hopelessly squandered. From City Ballet, ‘Hear the Dance: Russia’ 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z The performers’ impressive specialty steps — the flips, the windmills, the head spins and backspins — are sprinkled indiscriminately, losing the force they might have had. Illstyle and Peace’s ‘IMpossible IZZpossible’ at BAM Fisher 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z A potato farmer whose name playfully refers to Don Quixote, he didn’t tilt at windmills but lived in one. ‘Donkey Hodie’ Adds a Fresh Face to Fred Rogers’s World. And a Mohawk. 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z The thieves also took a 1905 representational oil painting of a riverside windmill by Mondrian, the Dutch painter who became famous for his later, abstract linear works. Greek police recover Picasso, Mondrian works stolen in 2012 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z This season will determine whether they are Sancho Panza and Don Quixote tilting at windmills or Davids with an increasingly targeted slingshot. Who Are You Wearing and Where Did They Donate? 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z “He’s pragmatic and calculating, while others are tilting at windmills.” ‘The Last of the Unjust,’ About a Jewish Camp Official 2014-01-24T19:52:42Z When he first started making these things he calls his “windmills” 25 years ago, did he call it art? Vollis Simpson, Junkyard Poet of Whirligigs 2010-04-05T22:08:00Z As at any world’s fair, participating countries took the opportunity to present messages about themselves beyond their devotion to algae and windmills. In Kazakhstan, a World Expo Is All About Energy (and Dancing) 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Taking on the terrestrial radio establishment may seem like tilting at windmills, but Westergren's fervor -- which president/CEO Joe Kennedy molds into a business plan -- has helped build a growing team of believers. Pandora founder pursues bigger piece of radio pie 2010-07-10T02:39:00Z Hoping to see her play Don Quixote in a full production might be tilting at windmills — but her singing his anthem is an unequivocal victory. 5 ‘Miscast’ Numbers That Will Play With Your Preconceptions 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z It has a windmill — an original Don Quixote joke by Rogers — but the creators have built a wonky land with rolling hills and no straight lines. New kids’ TV show emerges from the Mister Rogers universe 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z “Bloowst Windku,” the title of the dance by Rebecca Davis that debuted at Here on Thursday, is a compression of “bloom, twist, windmill haiku.” Reviews: Works by Rebecca Davis and Milka Djordjevich, and Lyon Opera Ballet 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z When she moved her arms, it was as though windmills had been conjured to mesmerize us. Marian Seldes: Her life and career were a master class 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z If, in his unplanned second act, Mr. Kaplan was tilting at windmills, at least he was doing so with one of Mahler’s batons, which he also owned. Gilbert E. Kaplan, Publisher and Improbable Conductor, Dies at 74 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z It depicts Parisians climbing wooden stairs to a windmill in the Montmartre district. Rediscovered Van Gogh exhibited 2010-02-25T10:44:00Z The mission undertaken by the Flux players — Tom Chiu and Conrad Harris, violinists; Max Mandel, violist; Felix Fan, cellist — was something like tilting at windmills while mounted on tortoises and armed with feather dusters. Music Review: Flux Quartet Plays Morton Feldman at Bargemusic 2010-06-06T21:20:00Z Over the Greenbrier River, past Cold Knob and the blinking windmills, I know my mother is doing much the same. On this farm, there’s no Thanksgiving 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z It is unlikely he will ever topple the windmills of vanity, mendacity and gullibility that power today’s art world. Art in Review: ?POWHIDA? 2011-08-04T22:00:07Z They built a cabin, put up a windmill and planted a garden. Joshua Tree National Park: Into the wild, hours from L.A. 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z Or the dummy Don Quixote doll that is whipped around and tossed by the windmill, and might as well land with a giant comic-book splat? Dance Review: Ballet Theater?s ?Quixote,? Pirouetting at Windmills 2010-05-31T22:37:00Z A crimson barn loomed over a farmyard, surrounded by an old corn crib half full of golden cobs, a spindly windmill and a wooden hog house. Journeys: In Iowa, Working to Save Historic Barns 2012-06-01T19:11:06Z Now, he has a new windmill to tilt at: how the film’s rollout is being handled. It May Be the Most Cursed Film Ever. These 5 Crew Members Saw It Through. 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z The exhibits were chock-full of models and videos of windmill turbines and solar panels. In Kazakhstan, a World Expo Is All About Energy (and Dancing) 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z The term refers to a lighthouse, which in Avery’s depiction is a spindly stack of many kinds of buildings, including monument, windmill and tumbledown shack. In the galleries: Tales from the dark side — of Canada 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z He is set to announce that the Whitney will feature an outdoor windmill installation by Virginia Overton, a prominent commission for a lesser-known artist. For Scott Rothkopf, a Swift Ascendance in the Whitney Hierarchy 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z How did the marriage customs of northern Europe lead to the spread of windmills? Making waves 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z And we marvel at the rows and rows of massive, white windmills, steely and elegant, churning slowly with languor yet still making power. An Intimate View of America, From Above 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z She wrote that she couldn’t believe how difficult it was to make simple arm movements “without looking like a broken windmill.” Kathleen Ferrier and Her Centennial CD 2012-07-08T02:54:24Z Why go: To see charming historical cities, busy canals and waterways, beautiful gardens and tulip fields, picturesque windmills, old-world Dutch masterpieces, and new-world design. Why your next vacation should be in the Netherlands 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z At the site of a gravestone for two brothers who died back in the 1880s — both under the age of 10 — someone had left a plush elephant toy and a colorful plastic windmill. A Cemetery’s Big Secret: Lots of Weird Mushrooms 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z At the Saffron Rose Fiesta, held since 1963, there is a “Grinding of Peace and Love” ceremony at a 16th-century windmill, and competitive separation of crimson saffron threads from the purple crocus flowers. 10 of the best autumn food festivals in Europe and the UK 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z The central exhibit incorporates traditional Dutch references — Deflt tile under the bridge arch, an inverted field of abstract tulips mirroring the real fields of tulips, and windmill sails reconfigured as illuminated sets. A flower show offers some calm amid the storm 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z He built his first windmill to power a large washing machine for soldiers’ clothing while he was serving in the Pacific during World War II in the Army Air Corps. Vollis Simpson, Artist, Dies at 94 2013-06-05T14:16:49Z But if you’re insightful, not to mention patient and kind, you’ll always have family members in the world, kin or not, ready for the next time one of you says they’re itching to chase windmills. A Kindred Spirit to Share the Road 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Its signature red neon sign has not changed, nor have the references to Don Quixote, the Spanish tilter of windmills, on its painted walls, frosted glass, ceramics and more. El Quijote in the Hotel Chelsea Reopens 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z Batman of La Mancha: Bruce Wayne goes mad after seeing his parents killed by a windmill. Style Invitational Week 1243: We bid you, no T-R-U-M-P 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z He stepped forward and closely studied the shotgun blast in the windmill, as if he expected the machine to bleed. Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories by Sherman Alexie – review 2013-01-10T12:00:01Z He joined the military, and while stationed in the Pacific during World War II made his first windmill from parts of a junked B-29 bomber, to power a giant washing machine for soldiers’ clothes. Vollis Simpson, Junkyard Poet of Whirligigs 2010-04-05T22:08:00Z Q. Tell me honestly: As a Dutch person, don’t you find windmills a bit of a cliché? | Q&A: Making Furniture With the Wind 2013-05-15T22:11:08Z Other signs in the extensive collection include one from a Jewish deli, a Van de Kamp’s Holland Dutch Bakery complete with windmill and a galloping horse that once advertised a local liquor store. From neon to knickknacks, ‘the Smithsonian of the Valley’ puts San Fernando Valley history on display 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z Visitors tour the stockade, the Russian Orthodox chapel and a windmill like the one used by the settlers. Oligarchs, as U.S. Arts Patrons, Present a Softer Image of Russia 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z Instead, on this remote island in the Aegean, waves crash on pebbled beaches, goats scurry up the hills, and an old wooden windmill twists in the salty breeze. Here's the Best Way to Explore Europe's Secret Villages 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z The hero of this production is more likely to tilt at skyscrapers than at windmills. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Designed to resemble the Netherlands, the park is a sort of Dutch Disneyland, with gardens, windmills and tea shops – and so far most hotel guests have been Japanese families visiting the park. Inside Japan’s first robot-staffed hotel 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z It depicts a windmill named the Pepper Mill, seen from the street under a bright sky, with a man, a women and a little girl walking in front of wooden palisades that surrounded the place. Rarely seen Van Gogh masterpiece goes under hammer in Paris 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z At the top, 8,500 feet, I found snow-covered hiking trails and a breathtaking panorama of the windmill farms and valley below. Beyond the green in Palm Springs: The desert is Coachella Valley’s true oasis 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Salt Up and down the Marsala region are antique windmills standing beside checkerboards of salt beds, chunky opalescent crystals harvested into small hills and dried in the sun beneath terra-cotta tiles. T Magazine: Tasting Notes 2012-05-15T15:00:48Z The quest for Dulcinea meanders through a long series of unlikely adventures, including Quixote’s famous fight with a group of windmills, impossibly reconfigured as giants. Salman Rushdie Updates ‘Don Quixote’ for the Digital Age 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z She used windmills and solar, bought an electric BMW, recycled, cut back on red meat and plastic. Jane Fonda, Intergalactic Eco-Warrior in a Red Coat 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z Sometimes the adult volunteers who run the place offer special projects, like making mud bricks by hand, or constructing a windmill. What Makes Berlin a Playground Paradise 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z "Mr. Turner" opens with one such view, of a field and a windmill in the Netherlands. 'Mr. Turner' an unblinking portrait of British artist J.M.W. Turner 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Groisman turned his body into a slowly rotating windmill as the flame shifted from one body part to the next; there was a sense of ritual, but even that was mostly elusive. Dance Review: Michel Groisman?s Art on an Intimate Scale - Review 2011-09-26T22:09:58Z Then he stepped back and shot the windmill again. Blasphemy: New and Selected Stories by Sherman Alexie – review 2013-01-10T12:00:01Z The Estonian Open-Air Museum, just outside town, displays salvaged farm buildings, windmills and an old church, all transported from rural areas to a parklike setting to both save and share Estonia’s traditions. Embracing Estonia’s singing revolution 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z As in wear clogs and talk about windmills? Pass notes No 3,184: the Rules 2012-05-29T18:59:01Z Typically he makes them against “windmills,” a word that refers to old-fashioned structures used for pumping water or grinding grain into flour, while actually meaning “wind turbines,” used today for electricity. The story of Donald Trump’s feud with his one true nemesis: Windmills 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Some of his windmills would eventually sell for thousands of dollars. Vollis Simpson, Artist, Dies at 94 2013-06-05T14:16:49Z Close to the windmill, on a different road, is Brixton prison. Rewind radio: London's Oldest Prison; Oblique Strategies – review 2013-06-15T17:00:03Z At twilight, I walk back to town along the lamp-lit coastal lane, under a ridge lined with derelict windmills. Car-free Hydra is a Greek island idyll 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z If you're right about "lock-in", doesn't that really mean that your campaign is essentially quixotic – that you are tilting at windmills? Jaron Lanier: the digital pioneer who became a web rebel –interview 2013-03-17T00:05:39Z Alas, even this tiny quest is quixotic, the dryers spin like windmills, and Spillman learns a hard lesson about how little valiant intent matters when faced with intractable mind-sets. Review: ‘All Tomorrow’s Parties’ — the struggle to make a life that matters 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z We passed through miles of eastern New Mexican ranchland, parched fields and ancient windmills. In New Mexico, on the Cowboy Trail of Jack Thorp 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Power is provided by a small array of solar panels and windmills, and exercise is provided by a stationary bike. Sending a Message in 12,000 Bottles 2010-02-20T05:11:00Z He used old telephone poles to support its tower — Ms. Germany, the author of “Houses of the Sundown Sea,” described the place as resembling “a Dutch windmill, a Spanish lighthouse, a Hobbit’s dwelling.” Harry Gesner, Architect of Soaring California Style, Dies at 97 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z In June, his practice routines are focused and measured, not the windmill of limbs that rack up YouTube views. Bounce so hard 2012-07-28T13:00:00Z Today’s dissenters are, like their predecessors, tilting at political and corporate windmills to change systems they find abhorrent. How Do We Tell a New Generation of Teenagers About the Vietnam War? 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z And I knew he was a difficult person to live with, in addition to being a windmill of energy. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: A Season With Dickens, Darwin and Disraeli 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z The Don attacks the stage rigging, a crosslike construction that subtly evokes a windmill. Dance Review: Ratmansky?s ?Don Quixote? Has Premiere in Seattle 2012-02-06T23:18:17Z She does splits and body rolls, windmills herself around the pole and performs aerial contortions that look utterly unreal — all with perfect nonchalance. ‘Seven Deadly Sins’ Review: Pride and Pole Dancing Behind Glass 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z The lighting was too dark at the end of the gypsy camp scene, and my companion missed the Don being lifted by the windmill. Los Angeles Ballet's 'Don Quixote' has stand-out dancers but is burdened by questionable staging 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z He tilts at this windmill with formidable energy and considerable literary imagination, with an earnestness at once lavish and puzzling. Architecture’s Most Irredeemable Cad 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Making it work: The crew traveled in four-wheel-drive vehicles to a remote windmill in England, having already decided to shoot a simple, static scene as the sun set. Cinematographers of four of the year's top films describe key scenes 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z This is not the famous windmill scene: in that one, the machines are clearly visible; this one, by contrast, takes place in pitch-black night. Technology and the novel, from Blake to Ballard 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z He is not a delusional codger but a young chivalric knight, his lady is not the unwitting farm girl but the beautiful Dulcinea del Toboso and all those windmills are giants. Top 10 deranged characters 2011-04-06T11:21:05Z The Montezuma Hills rolled leisurely to the west, dotted with a mass of languorous windmills while tule reeds, permanently slanting eastward, shuddered as a flight of swallows rose in unison. Setting Sail on the Winding Waterways of California’s Delta 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z It’s just you, an old windmill, an old library, an old lighthouse, an old rocket ship and several old clock towers. The Comfort of Childhood Media During Lockdown 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z Typically, Herzog replied with bizarro elegance: “I have no idea who Abel Ferrara is. But let him fight the windmills, like Don Quixote.” Hollywood at war: when film-makers feud with each other 2017-08-28T04:00:00Z Donkey Hodie’s home — she occupies the ancestral windmill — is there, too. ‘Donkey Hodie’ Adds a Fresh Face to Fred Rogers’s World. And a Mohawk. 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z The town features Danish-style windmills, and statues of author Hans Christian Andersen and the Little Mermaid. California’s Central Coast, overflowing with attractions Social-issue documentaries are the white knights of cinema — vanquishing dragons, tilting at windmills — but they are not intended as agents of diplomacy. Documentary Filmmakers Find That an Agenda Helps With Financing 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z In the distance, a windmill pops up as if this cycle of life was taking place somewhere in the Netherlands. Frederick Cayley Robinson: Acts of Mercy 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z Her arms act like human windmills generating energy. Malavika Sarukkai expressively displays Bharata Natyam 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z Showing pyramids and pagodas and windmills and camels and sheep and elephants and fishing boats and fruit baskets and minarets and bales of wool and French vineyards and Russia and Venice and Mississippi. Merchandise Mart lobby murals come back to life 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z The busted windmill was repurposed, students from the nearby Fayette Institute of Technology built the spiral staircase inside and a nearby airport donated a vintage Fresnel lens. West Virginia: Wild and wonderful and, okay, a little bit weird 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z From the windmills that power the handsomely restored brick building to the eco-friendly umbrellas sold in its Conscious Café, the hotel doesn’t shirk its green credentials. Post-lockdown Amsterdam is a crowd-free joy 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z Above the town is a row of picturesque windmills and an imposing fortress. 20 Greek islands … you may not have heard of 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Will you attach a windmill to the roof? | Q&A: The Architect Harry Gesner, Still Riding That Wave 2012-03-14T23:30:22Z Trump is like Cervantes’s Don Quixote, who tilted at windmills — that is, jousted — believing they might be monstrous giants. The story of Donald Trump’s feud with his one true nemesis: Windmills 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z An earlier letter, written when Cather was 19, in 1893, tells of how she and her brother got stuck at the top of a 50-foot windmill tower as a storm approached. Willa Cather's letters published in defiance of her will 2013-03-26T13:07:42Z And when I was a child, I was given a child’s version of “Don Quixote” and I can still remember the drawing of Don Quixote tilting at the windmills. ‘Her Prose Is Sometimes Poetry’: Why Margaret Jull Costa Loves Virginia Woolf 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z In its self-contained grandeur and eerie harmony, the piece evokes a Mondrian windmill. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z Has a more imposing windmill than Amazon ever been chased? Letting go of my Kindle guilt 2012-11-18T14:00:00Z It wants you to windmill so furiously that you stain your clothes with snakebite. Nu-metal: Download and Reading show that there's life in the old beast yet 2013-06-07T14:00:00Z It starts off embarrassing and gets worse, with a bewildering array of moves including double windmills and backwards choo-choo trains. There's nothing quite like a bad dance scene 2010-08-03T17:21:00Z We zoom past verdant pastures full of cows and sheep, past centuries-old churches, and past windmills, both old and modern. Explorer: Getting Muddy in the Netherlands 2010-05-19T21:49:00Z Hidden below the stage level, the towering windmill and wooden horse of “Don Quixote” sit amid a maze of set pieces. Never Missing a Curtain This Season, the Met Opera Takes a Final Bow 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Witness Dutch icons like windmills, fields of tulips, and storied castles by straying outward to North Amsterdam. These Are the World's Best Biking Cities 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z The Pepper Mill was destroyed during the construction of an avenue in 1911, but two similar windmills are still present today on the Montmartre hill. Rarely seen Van Gogh painting exhibited ahead of auction 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Wine Time These days wineries are almost as ubiquitous in the Hill Country as those ranch windmills that look like tall tin daisies. 36 Hours in Texas Hill Country 2013-05-16T21:32:27Z The Netherlands is famous for its multitude of windmills, but Bruges has four of its own. Belgium’s beautiful Bruges: Old-world Europe in the present 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z Everyone knows the story of Don Quixote, the self-proclaimed knight who tilts at windmills, aided by his sidekick Sancho Panza and inspired by his lady love Dulcinea. Review: 'Don Quixote' makes for a gratifying night at Seattle Opera 2011-03-01T00:35:42Z In the 19th century, pastoral windmills were replaced with tanneries, limestone quarries, and dye works. Lucky 13: The unsung arrondissement you need to visit in Paris 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z This strangely fascinating trove featured nautical and religious motifs, as well as spoons made from shells and animal horns, or boasting mechanical parts, such as miniature windmills with moving blades. A foodies’ tour of Paterson, N.J., the city (sort of) founded by Alexander Hamilton 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Projections of windmills now spring up on the mountainous backdrop, and Dulcinea’s face appears in the moon. Dance Review: Ratmansky?s ?Don Quixote? Has Premiere in Seattle 2012-02-06T23:18:17Z It’s delivered by the prancing Pelican, who windmills an air guitar as he bellows all the reasons Penguin will never take wing. Spare Times for Children for Nov. 20-26 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z So many cartloads of bones were dumped that the land is said to have risen high enough to support a windmill. Burial ground of Bunyan, Defoe and Blake earns protected status 2011-02-22T00:04:01Z Another wall features large-scale images of windmills around the world for a new series based on the novel “Don Quixote de la Mancha.” In the studio with John Baldessari: At 85, the man who shunned 'boring art' has a new show 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z Fifteen windmills once stood here alongside cannons, placed to defend the city. Cultured Traveler: Marseille Polishes Its Image 2013-09-06T17:29:48Z Some years later Vollis decorated the discarded windmill and planted it in the pasture, next to the pond. Vollis Simpson, Junkyard Poet of Whirligigs 2010-04-05T22:08:00Z Out of this imbalance was born a wind-powered water pump – the American windmill – and the American Wind Power Museum has more than 160 examples, rhythmically creaking in the prairie breeze. Top 10 roadside attractions in Texas and New Mexico 2013-06-21T23:10:00Z “When you think of the windmill, it was very ahead of its time,” he said. A flower show offers some calm amid the storm 2017-03-12T05:00:00Z There’s a public beach launch at the end of Bay Street, next to the windmill, and fresh lobster rolls are served right on Long Wharf. Paddlers don’t have to look far to find stellar kayak excursions in the Mid-Atlantic 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Turner captures the orange-hued scene of a windmill at sunset. Cinematographers of four of the year's top films describe key scenes 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z A Windmill Comes to Life in Israel With high hopes, the wooden sails of a new white stone windmill in Jerusalem began to turn in 1858. In Transit Blog: A Windmill Comes to Life in Israel 2012-09-07T21:10:42Z That evening we passed the windmills and farms of Wolfe Island, then broke into a deep blue plain. From Montreal to Minnesota, by Inland Sea 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z Back home he settled into the equipment repair business, and when the oil embargo drove up fuel prices in the 1970s, he made another windmill to blow wood-heated air into his home. Vollis Simpson, Junkyard Poet of Whirligigs 2010-04-05T22:08:00Z To borrow a line from Angela Carter, who used it about a former husband, Phoebe has a kiddie windmill for a heart. The Wheels Come Off an American Journey in Jonathan Lethem’s ‘The Feral Detective’ 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z The beach and adjacent campground looked like a hybrid of refugee camp and a tailgate party, with a winding caravansary of tarp canopies, trailers, smoking grills, windmills, kites and ancient conversion vans. Explorer: Surfing and ?Roughing It? on Southern California Beaches 2011-07-22T18:59:56Z The Netherlands is the 32nd most densely populated country in the world, famous for harnessing nature with canals and windmills. The Most Planned Unplanned Place Around 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Foreign Street, an amusement park whose theme is, simply, foreignness, has a windmill, an upside-down house and what is billed as the world’s largest bathroom. Lost in China 2010-12-24T19:55:00Z In April, at a Republican fundraising dinner, the president warned, “If you have a windmill anywhere near your house, congratulations, your house just went down 75 percent in value.” The story of Donald Trump’s feud with his one true nemesis: Windmills 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Instead of being a legal savant, she's a persistent lunatic tilting at windmills for the sake of a familial love no one else can quite understand. Hilary Swank Shows Some Conviction 2010-10-14T03:45:00Z Montmartre was once dotted with 30 windmills, used to press the monks’ grapes and mill farmers’ grain. The back streets of Bohemian Montmartre 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z Getting closer, I saw a patchwork of golden wheat fields and miles of green alfalfa, and sagebrush, thickets of pine and fir, cattle herds and iron Daisy windmills. Exploring Tule Lake, an Austere Land With a Complex History 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z The game involved blowing into a pipe attached to the cup to move the windmill’s blade. An Art Fair That Collects Art Collectors 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z It opened three years after the windmill first turned, in 1819, as the Surrey House of Correction. Rewind radio: London's Oldest Prison; Oblique Strategies – review 2013-06-15T17:00:03Z But what I knew for sure was that one way or another I was going to disarm him, possibly via a windmill feint followed by a roundhouse kick to the head. Gene Weingarten: No guts, no glory 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z During Mondrian’s years in Domburg, he painted the sea and lighthouses, windmills and churches, again and again, the same scene or subject, evolving through the years as Mondrian evolved as an artist. Overnighter: Where Mondrian Lingers on a Dutch Coast 2012-08-22T19:00:20Z So it falls upon Jamie to teach him, so they can go out in search of a genuine Dutch windmill. ‘Ted Lasso’ Season 3, Episode 6 Recap: Dutch Treat 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z Townshend tried making up for his failing vocal cords with a furious windmill delivery of perhaps rock’s most famous power chords. Pete Townshend has a cold. But the Who still thrilled Verizon Center. 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z He was superbly strong, but when he rotated his arms with the impressive mechanical strength of a windmill, the effect was like playing ancient music on an inappropriately modern instrument. Gustavo Dudamel, L.A. Philharmonic focus on Apollo 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z It was to be powered by windmills and solar panels and cooled by a giant aquarium that Brando wanted filled with sharks and moray eels. Harry Gesner, Architect of Soaring California Style, Dies at 97 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z The windmill has been transformed into a meditation chapel. Finding Yourself in Los Angeles 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z We had a balcony seat overlooking the sea and the windmills. Probably the best bar in the world: readers' travel tips 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Slender branches on lofty cypress trees paddle in the breeze like lazy windmill blades. Float Through the Heart of Texas 2010-06-09T18:53:00Z Be bold, these call to arms exhorted: Dare to tilt at windmills with your own handmade pole vault. ‘Assume the Worst’: This Isn’t Your Ordinary Graduation Speech 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z The room-length windmill mural, painted in calligraphic white strokes on a dark caramel-colored background, looks like a museum piece after its cleaning. El Quijote Tilts Back Toward Its Earlier Glamour 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z Made specifically for wine, it is topped by a Dutch symbol, a windmill. An Art Fair That Collects Art Collectors 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z A gravel drive leads to the entrance gates, marked by this four-story windmill. On the Market: A Turn-of-the-Century Manor in the Hamptons 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z The Met’s facade is an oppressive windmill to tilt at. Rocks Not So Solid on the Met’s Face 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z His hands made bold windmill arcs, scrabbled at trills, picked off single notes and scampered through bluesy squiggles. Review: The Who Celebrate 50 Years Together by Going on Tour 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z This spring I travelled around the country, from the Copenhagen set of The Killing to the windmills of Jutland, interviewing great Danes for a book about the nation recently named the happiest on Earth. How the Dogme manifesto reinvented Denmark 2012-11-25T19:00:01Z Don Quixote tries to fight a windmill he thinks is a giant. Classic adventure stories inspire new Definitely Dominguita series 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z He ranted about “big windmills” that “destroy everybody’s property values, kill all the birds.” The story of Donald Trump’s feud with his one true nemesis: Windmills 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z “If Minidoka was a white memorial to white soldiers who died in whatever war it is, do you think that they would offer free land to Lava Ridge to develop their windmills there?” Japanese Americans were jailed in a desert. Survivors worry a wind farm will overshadow the past. 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z Bourn Mill in Cambridgeshire, one of the oldest windmills in England which dates back to 1636, was removed from the register. Hotel that inspired Charles Dickens added to 'at risk' heritage list 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z “They were drunk on power, tilting at windmills, creating monsters that didn’t exist so they could battle them.” Liberal and moderate candidates take control of school boards in contentious races across U.S. 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z The windmill wells near his house functioned but had polluted water. Navajo sheep herding at risk from climate change. Some young people push to maintain the tradition 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z Flow-driven turbines lie at the heart of many revolutionary machines that have shaped our societies, from windmills to airplanes. DNA Origami nanoturbine sets new horizon for nanomotors 2023-10-26T04:00:00Z Anyone who drives out to the Columbia Gorge or into Eastern Washington sees green energy in the state’s huge hydroelectric dams, towering windmills and shining solar panels. Hydrogen is the next green thing for WA | Editorial 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z Marymoor, Brown said, “is one of these places where a lot of different species converge” — barn owls in the park’s windmill, aquatic birds on Lake Sammamish, songbirds on the nature trails. ‘Boys in the Boat’ author Daniel James Brown’s favorite Redmond places 2023-10-09T04:00:00Z “Go play Idaho State or somebody but stop tilting at windmills. Leave the big boys alone. It was getting like watching somebody pull the wings off butterflies.” UCLA vs. Washington State top five games: Cougars often were the gutsier team 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z Trump's tendency to talk at length, mostly about himself but also about weird stuff like windmills, distracts from the actual points he's making. A study in contrasts: Biden stands with auto workers. Trump looks down upon them 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z Trump's comment against the trans community was sandwiched in-between blocks of Biden bashing and comments on how windmills "don't work," and it stood out for its pointed randomness. Trump wedges in mention of "sex changes for children" during speech to Michigan autoworkers 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z Speaking at a rally in South Carolina on Monday, Mr Trump suggested that "windmills" used to generate electricity are driving whales "crazy", and dead whales are washing ashore "on a weekly basis". Fact-checking Donald Trump's claim that wind turbines kill whales 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z Once he gets something like "low flow showers" or "windmills cause cancer" in his head there's no getting it out. Donald Trump keeps confessing to new crimes 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z During an appearance on Fox's "Sunday Morning Futures," Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., threw another pebble into the pond of misinformation, attributing an uptick in whale deaths to windmills. Ron Johnson blames whale deaths on windmills 2023-09-10T04:00:00Z Trump's speech was the usual rambling brags, lies about Biden, and barstool-style rants about the supposed evils of windmills and electric vehicles. A study in contrasts: Biden stands with auto workers. Trump looks down upon them 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z No age limitation, however, has been set for understanding how windmills and electric vehicles work. Trump wedges in mention of "sex changes for children" during speech to Michigan autoworkers 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z I don't begrudge a man his fear of dying, his raging refusal to go quietly, nor his defiant tilting against its windmill. Bloodthirsty Silicon Valley vampires won't stop: It's time to stake our claim 2023-08-27T04:00:00Z Purchase of the Grade II-listed windmill includes the main house, double garage and swimming pool. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang windmill goes up for sale 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z In the March 11, 1968 episode of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” Donkey Hodie visited the Neighborhood of Make-Believe with grand plans to build a windmill near the castle. In 'Donkey Hodie,' scenes are replete with homages to 'Mister Rogers' Neighborhood' 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z But this project would be more than twice as far out to sea as others that have drawn the ire of residents who don’t want to see windmills on the horizon. New offshore wind power project proposed for New Jersey Shore, but this one’s far out to sea 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z They say it gives Orsted about $1 billion in tax relief for one of the two windmill projects it plans to build off the state’s southern coast. Offshore wind foes sue New Jersey and Danish turbine developer over tax break 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z Ron Foster, who lives on the main road outside the subdivision entrance, said Longmore drove through his yard and his neighbor’s yard, destroying multiple ornamental windmills and leaving tire tracks in the grass. Suspect in 4 Georgia deaths is killed in shootout with police, 3 officers wounded, authorities say 2023-07-16T04:00:00Z Foster was inside his house and heard the metal crash, coming out to find the destroyed windmills. In quiet Georgia subdivision, neighbor says he saw man accused of killing 4 shoot man in street 2023-07-16T04:00:00Z Donkey Hodie lives in a windmill just like the one her grandfather built all those years ago. In 'Donkey Hodie,' scenes are replete with homages to 'Mister Rogers' Neighborhood' 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z More touristy features are fun, too — such as an enormous replica windmill, small decorative windmills carved into wooden window shutters and a giant wooden shoe next to an indoor mall canal. A mini, flower-filled getaway to Lynden | Provided by Western Washington Toyota Dealers 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Though batteries may also be co-located with solar farms and windmills in the middle of nowhere, putting them by substations can help utilities serve customers quicker and easier, said Twitchell, from PNNL. Big batteries by a school? Project stirs concerns as WA seeks clean energy 2023-07-08T04:00:00Z “But they don’t mind looking out the window at cellphone towers or the windmills.” They envision the world’s tallest flagpole in this Maine town. Instead of uniting, it is dividing 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z ODESA, Ukraine — The giants catch the wind with their huge arms, helping to keep the lights on in Ukraine — newly built windmills on plains along the Black Sea. Ukraine Sees New Virtue in Wind Power: It’s Harder to Destroy 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z It also attempted to be a technical resource for would-be scientists and inventors, not only describing aspects of science but including detailed technical diagrams of everything from windmills to mines. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The Mill is housed in a building with a 4-story windmill — if you love the theme, you can stay in one of the windmill’s Airbnb rooms. A mini, flower-filled getaway to Lynden | Provided by Western Washington Toyota Dealers 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Yet a new study adds to a growing body of evidence that wind turbines aren't causing whales to die at all — suggesting that the aforementioned activists are, in fact, tilting at windmills. No, whales aren't dying from wind turbines — despite what the right wants you to believe 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Children can also climb aboard a variety of rides and play structures, including a 1950 Morris vintage car, vintage bikes, seven swing sets, a large horse carriage, a giant wooden shoe, and a Dutch windmill. These 5 kid-friendly PNW destinations make learning fun 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z When I think of Santiago Nieto and his walks, I imagine him as the knight from Quixote de la Mancha, who in his crazy wanderings around the world mistakes windmills for menacing giants. Column: For Santiago Nieto, all roads in California lead to farmworkers 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z The banners — which would read “Solvang Pride / All Welcome” with a rainbow-colored windmill — would hang for two weeks instead of a month. Copenhagen mayor to California's 'Danish Capital': Stop acting homophobic 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z He was willing to “tilt at any windmill” where he sensed injustice or imbalance, one Australian commentator wrote. Bruce Haigh, Australian envoy who aided apartheid-era escape, dies at 77 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z Certainly wind turbines are no strangers to conspiracy theories, but as researchers continue to hopefully the one between the whales and windmills can be put to rest. No, whales aren't dying from wind turbines — despite what the right wants you to believe 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z Across Europe, companies seeking to invest in the green energy boom — churning out everything from solar panels to windmills and EV batteries — are making similar calculations, weighing up the U.S. US tax breaks lure European clean tech companies as EU lags 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z Thirteen acres in all, with 6 acres of designed tulip gardens overlooking the Cascades, complete with a duck-and-goose-filled pond and windmill. Where to see tulips around the Skagit Valley this spring 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Electricity is provided by a windmill and a diesel generator, the listing said. Remote Dales house needs loving new owner, estate agent says 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z It’s a nice-looking windmill palm, all pruned and healthy, the kind that grows very well in our temperate climate. A rogue, unpermitted palm tree at Alki Beach raises hackles 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Sámi land defenders in Norway's capital of Oslo were not available for comment, but campaigners told Reuters they would close down the state, ministry by ministry, until the windmills are removed. In Norway, Indigenous-led protests against a wind farm heat up 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z “They want windmills all over the place that ruin our fields, kill our birds and are very unreliable and are the most expensive energy ever developed” Fact-Checking Trump’s Speech at CPAC 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z He got loose for a windmill dunk on a fast break to give the Kings a 74-59 lead in the third quarter. Fox scores 33 as Kings beat Thunder for 3rd straight win 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z Here, Calabazas appears to be holding a toy windmill in one hand and, in the other, a miniature portrait of a woman, perhaps intended by Velázquez as a commentary on the inconstancy of love. Perspective | When Velázquez painted marginalized people, it liberated his genius Also called the Chinese windmill palm, they are indigenous in the mountains of south-central China. A rogue, unpermitted palm tree at Alki Beach raises hackles 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z "The windmills must be demolished, and the area restored to reindeer grazing land." In Norway, Indigenous-led protests against a wind farm heat up 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Outside is the towering windmill that helped deliver running water for the first time to the property, standing vigil amid chickens noisily clucking nearby. Jimmy Carter, in his final campaign, is surrounded by friends 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Growing up, he was constantly scribbling — “houses, barns, windmills, a lot of architectural subjects,” Mr. Labinski told the Star. Ron Labinski, whose firm designed Camden Yards, dies at 85 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Mitchell, who has been bothered by a groin issue recently, looked pretty spry when he threw down a windmill dunk on an alley-oop from Garland to make it 101-74. Garland, Allen each score 23, Cavaliers rout Wizards 114-91 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z A map that the Department of Transportation has put together shows just how popular the windmill palm is. A rogue, unpermitted palm tree at Alki Beach raises hackles 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z He even did the tired riff on how windmills are killing all the birds, adding a flourish that they're also killing planes and oceans which is a bit baffling. DeSantis triggers Trump's MAGA dissent 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z He knows how to execute a windmill dunk, so be careful about underestimating his athleticism. Column: La Mirada High's Julien Gomez among emerging Southland basketball stars 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z Johnson struggled from the field, going just 5 of 16 and even getting stuffed by the front of the rim during a windmill dunk on a second-half fast break. Johnson, Nowell lead No. 5 K-State to 64-50 win over Florida 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z Donald Trump told a crowd in 2019 that if a “windmill” were erected anywhere near their house, their home value would drop 75 percent, and the noise would cause cancer. The Right Words Are Crucial to Solving Climate Change 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z And, if you’re going to pick on the windmill palm, what about other interlopers that have landed here? A rogue, unpermitted palm tree at Alki Beach raises hackles 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Even windmill components need coal, added Elias Hagebø, his face smeared with coal dust as he grabbed a quick lunch in the mine’s underground break room. Norway’s last Arctic miners struggle with coal mine’s end 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z George stole the ball from Zach Collins after a bad pass by Stanley Johnson, dribbled down the court and threw down a windmill dunk to give the Clippers a 20-point advantage. Clippers extend win streak to 4 with 138-100 rout of Spurs 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z In the second quarter, George’s windmill dunk in transition was quickly clipped and published across social media within minutes, pushing the lead to 20 at halftime. 'Things do feel different.' Paul George powers revived Clippers to another win 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z Green had a windmill dunk during the team’s practice in Miami on Saturday, the video captured and shared by Daniel Bove — New Orleans’ Director of Sports Science and Performance. Herro scores 26, Heat come from 16 down, top Pelicans 100-96 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z By then he had become known for his impeccable timing, deep reserves of energy and wide-ranging routines, which included a leg windup that he called the “windmill step.” Arthur Duncan, pioneering Black tap dancer, dies at 97 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z It would help build transmission lines to get electricity from the Atlantic Ocean turbines to Maryland’s population centers, plus lay the groundwork to effectively triple how much energy offshore windmills generate. Md. General Assembly session launches with guns, marijuana on the agenda 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Among his many misguided deeds of derring-do, he mistakes windmills for giants who must be slain with his sword. Column: Scandal, villainy, treachery — the Jan. 6 committee report is replete juicy bits 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z He also passes through landscapes defeated and degraded by human activity, hauling junk through a sprawling scrapyard and wandering alone past towering windmills and a massive dam. Review | ‘Eo’: A donkey’s tragic tale, rapturously told 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z They are watching us die with the Green New Deal, with our windmills and solar that doesn’t have the power to fire up our great factories and great plants. In Announcing 2024 Bid for Presidency, Trump Echoes Old Falsehoods 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z Morant had 10 points in the first quarter, making both of his 3-point attempts and throwing down a windmill dunk in traffic that awed the crowd. Morant, Bane help Grizzlies beat Spurs in overtime, 124-122 2022-11-09T05:00:00Z “One hundred and twenty-one patents have been granted on windmills in the United States since 1854.” 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: November 2022 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z As for the man from Mar-a-Lago, he’s still tilting at windmills, pretending he won the election, fantasizing about ruling over the land once again. Column: Scandal, villainy, treachery — the Jan. 6 committee report is replete juicy bits 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z Like we’re charging at windmills, trying to fix phantom problems while making things more complex, more open to meddling and more tilted in favor of one special interest over the other? Seattle, we have an election ‘reform’ problem 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z He was tending to a small herd of goats beneath an old windmill on his 18-acre ranch. False election claims overwhelm local efforts to push back 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z At the other end, Jones made a windmill save to deny Brandon Saad, who had been lurking alone near the goal waiting for a rebound. Kraken erase two-goal deficit, fall in overtime to St. Louis Blues 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z In neighboring Chile, an environmental impact study for a planned wind farm with 65 windmills concluded that as many as four of the rare condors could collide with the massive structures yearly. Worries over wind farms cloud condor repopulation program 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z While warming up Tuesday, he casually threw down a windmill dunk with his toes just an inch or two off the hardwood. Victor Wembanyama, basketball’s next big thing, knows no bounds 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z It’s not as romantic as charging at windmills. Seattle, we have an election ‘reform’ problem 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z “You have maybe five energy units compared to, say, 70 separate windmills.” What Does Sustainable Living Look Like? Maybe Like Uruguay 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z If you make a mock hero charge at enough windmills, the reader may tire of both windmills and mock heroes. Review | In ‘Less Is Lost,’ a lovable, hapless hero returns 2022-09-26T04:00:00Z In order to qualify as green, the hydrogen must be produced using renewable power, and that is where the windmill farm would come in, taking advantage of the strong, reliable winds of Patagonia. Worries over wind farms cloud condor repopulation program 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z It is a list that reveals him and the Texas legislature as modern-day Don Quixotes, literally and figuratively fighting windmills. Opinion | Texas’s war against ESG investing is ingenious but futile 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z Imagine what will happen when the state’s 30 million car and truck owners all plug their electric vehicles into a grid powered by windmills and solar panels. Informed voters and honest elections are left’s worst nightmare 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z “There is less rain. Shorter grass. There are these windmills,” he said. What Does Sustainable Living Look Like? Maybe Like Uruguay 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z In the Netherlands, the company behind the famous "Delft Blue" pottery that portrays windmills and typical Dutch landscapes, intends to replace one of its three main gas-fired ovens this year with an electric alternative. Early starts, new ovens as ceramics industry feels energy pinch 2022-09-02T04:00:00Z “We need to have environmental impact studies that demonstrate what is going to be done, how many windmills, where they will be placed.” Worries over wind farms cloud condor repopulation program 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z A few also began to employ windmill technology to draw water, although both the drilling and construction of windmills became an added expense that few farmers could afford. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z All of this comes as wrenching change in the Netherlands, where dairy farms have long been as much of the national identity as the country’s windmills and canals. Dairy Farmers in the Netherlands Are Up in Arms Over Emission Cuts 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z But Delft tiles were also meant to be fanciful, and the cartoonish, sometimes irreverent painted embellishments on even the earliest ones — featuring milkmaids, windmills and begging dogs — became as recognizable as the blue-and-white glaze. Delft Tiles Get a Playful, and Sometimes Raunchy, Update 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z Banchero would answer with corner threes, jumpers from the elbow and windmill jams. Top draft picks Paolo Banchero and Chet Holmgren make for an even bigger basketball spectacle at the CrawsOver 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z The state has spent tens of billions of dollars implementing renewable energy into the grid, most of it on windmills. Twisting in the wind: Texas faces blackouts as heat wave strains windmill-reliant power grid 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z Wind energy is maybe the oldest form of renewable energy, used in sailing ships and windmills. An Introduction to Geology 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of Zegwaard’s herd of 180 cattle, mostly black and white Holstein-Friesians, graze in meadows close to a traditional Dutch windmill and large white wind turbines. Anger simmers for Dutch farmers who oppose pollution cuts 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z On one side of the stage is a windmill; on the other is a giant elephant. Review: 'Moulin Rouge! The Musical' arrives at the Pantages in a burst of colorful excess 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Winding canals, a classic windmill and tulips in bloom. Life inside the Dutch earthquake zone 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z Many point to the frozen gas lines in 2021, which were more to blame for the outages than windmills because they account for a larger part of the energy grid. Twisting in the wind: Texas faces blackouts as heat wave strains windmill-reliant power grid 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Gesner continued working into his 90s, developing a new windmill design and an eco-friendly structure called the Autonomous Tent, which is intended to endure heavy snows and high winds. Harry Gesner, California architect in tune with nature, dies at 97 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z When windmills and solar wear out, how many landfills will it take to bury them? Snake River dams: Important role 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z But now a row of spinning windmills dots a nearby ridge, as a developer bets that mounting concerns about climate change and the coal industry’s viability will speed an energy shift here. In West Virginia, the clean-energy transition rests on Joe Manchin 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z The young center fielder stepped out of the batter’s box, grabbing at her shoulder, trying to windmill her arm in tiny circles. No rest for speedy Kai Minor on her path to softball success 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z Critics say a state flush with oil shouldn’t have to unplug appliances and raise thermostats in a heat wave, but renewable energy proponents say critics are wrong to blame the threatened outages on windmills. Twisting in the wind: Texas faces blackouts as heat wave strains windmill-reliant power grid 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z Collisions between birds and windmills are not a foregone conclusion. Opinion | Red, white and fossil-fuel-free 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z In the third period, Thompson didn’t resemble a rookie when he forced Ovechkin to mishandle the puck on a breakaway attempt and later used a windmill save to stop the NHL’s all-time third-leading goal scorer. Ovechkin becomes oldest player to score 50 goals in a season 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z Denmark is relatively self-sufficient and has other energy sources — onshore and offshore windmill parks, bioenergy, among others, and depend little on the import of Russian gas. Live: Live Updates | Chechen leader certain of Mariupol fall soon 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z The oligarch’s most obvious contribution: underwriting the construction of the windmill. Russia’s Jamestown in America — and the oligarch who has helped fund it 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z Downtown, a park with a Dutch windmill and tulips attracts tourists each spring. As Supreme Court weighs abortion, some Christians challenge what it means to be 'pro-life' 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Norwegian scientists found that painting just one blade of a windmill black at a wind farm on the Norwegian archipelago of Smøla reduced eagle deaths by 70 percent. Opinion | Red, white and fossil-fuel-free 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z Chlorine also is used in production of batteries, windmills and solar panels, the group said. EPA rule would finally ban asbestos, carcinogen still in use 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z Instead of a traditional windmill pitching style, she used a slingshot delivery, with her right hand starting high behind her back and swinging forward past her hips. Joan Joyce, softball great who struck out Ted Williams, dies at 81 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z Late in the first half, Daryl Banks III swooped in for what looked like a windmill jam. Carolina crushes Saint Peter’s dream, Duke next in Final 4 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z “There’s no way that windmills there will ever swing their blades out there.” A Chumash tribe and conservationists fight offshore wind turbines 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z Once earmarks were banned, Hoyer began his long effort, tilting at a political windmill. Analysis | Steny Hoyer, a member’s member, leads the effort to get more benefits to lawmakers 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z As Masket put it: "The difference between this argument and Trump's claims that windmills kill birds is that windmills have likely killed a few birds." Manchin opposes US electric vehicle revolution 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z “God created that. God doesn’t want us to put tons of stinking windmills out there. It’s immoral.” Emotions buffet NJ coastal wind project in peek at US future 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z At one point, he mistook some windmills for giants: World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But her husband had an explanation, she said: “He goes, ‘We both tilt at windmills.’” The Long Crusade of Clarence and Ginni Thomas 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z On his second dunk, the Oakland product executed a 360-degree windmill to get 43 points for a combined total of 87. Obi Toppin takes crown in gaffe-filled NBA dunk contest 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z Garrett also delivered a windmill dunk after the final buzzer to thrill the crowd. All-Star host Cavaliers getting chance to strut their stuff 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z “Are you still getting resistance when you start talking about wind and windmills? I know they cause cancer. Bad joke,” Mr. Biden quipped. Biden mocks Trump’s wind-turbine cancer claim at event with utility leaders 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Like if you say a windmill is a machine that uses wind to generate motion or something like. Why words matter in the fight against climate change 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z He spent all his money on fighting windmills. Before Trump, Alex Jones and QAnon: How Robert Welch created the paranoid far right 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z They are employing microjets of warm water, circulating air with windmills and filling up irrigation ditches to protect the groves. The next big squeeze: Florida orange juice could skyrocket in price 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z In the second half, he threw down a windmill dunk that sent the crowd into a frenzy. Wizards unable to find the plot, drop their fifth straight in Memphis 2022-01-29T05:00:00Z Thomas’s broad shoulders and long arms, hallmark features of an elite swimmer, mimicked a windmill with the ease in which they pulled her along. As Lia Thomas Swims, Debate About Transgender Athletes Swirls 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z But then there's what the word windmill implies. Why words matter in the fight against climate change 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z For the 13-plus years I’ve been writing this weekly wine column, I’ve imagined myself Don Quixote tilting at the windmills of wine snobbery, piercing the intimidating veil of ritual to make wine approachable and enjoyable. Perspective | People are drinking wine in bed and with ice, and that’s okay 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z A couple have pledged their "blood, sweat and tears" in a bid to restore their windmill, built in 1846. 'Blood, sweat and tears' pledge to restore Norfolk mill 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z The Dutch have harnessed the wind as a power source for centuries; windmills have long been so intrinsic to society there that they’re practically a national symbol. Forget hygge, it’s time for uitwaaien 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z Arizona hammered the Huskies with a handful of highlight plays, including Mathurin’s windmill dunk on a fast break for a 39-26 Wildcats lead. No. 8 Arizona eventually pulls away from scrappy UW men 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z If you say windmill, I imagine an 18th century Dutch painting or something. Why words matter in the fight against climate change 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z An 18th Century windmill, a 1970s sports hall, some mud walls and an arts and craft house are featured on a list drawn up by Historic England. Historic England highlights windmill, mud walls and sports hall 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z The windmill is run with income generated from entrance charges to visit and climb the five storeys to the top, as well as from tearooms, a bakery and campsite. 'Blood, sweat and tears' pledge to restore Norfolk mill 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z But before the discovery of the Antikythera mechanism, ancient Greek gears were thought to be restricted to crude wheels in windmills and water mills. An Ancient Greek Astronomical Calculation Machine Reveals New Secrets 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Two best friends started up a mini-mall development company, chose the name “La Mancha,” from the Broadway musical about Cervantes’ rickety hero who tilted at windmills thinking them to be giants. Take a trip through the magnificent department stores of old L.A. 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z That's why right-wing commentators have started calling wind turbines windmills, right? Why words matter in the fight against climate change 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z The windmill, built in 1790, has been upgraded to Grade II listed. Historic England highlights windmill, mud walls and sports hall 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Mitchell communicated as much by sprinting down court near the end of the third quarter for an alley-oop dunk with a windmill finish that put Utah up by 10 for the first time. Wizards provide minimal resistance, get run off their home floor in the second half against the Jazz 2021-12-11T05:00:00Z “We see windmills around us everywhere. They’re up, then everybody disappears. It’s not consistent.” The Achilles’ heel of Biden’s climate plan? Coal miners 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z We are tilting at windmills while ignoring the dragons slumbering beneath. Are diversifying suburbs like Irvine ready for a conversation about race? 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Do we generate energy from windmills or wind turbines? Why words matter in the fight against climate change 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z Every alley-oop or windmill dunk was uploaded to its servers with the press of a button. The Teenagers Getting Six Figures to Leave Their High Schools for Basketball 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Granholm said looking at the building reminded her of a proverb: “When the winds of change blow, some build walls, others build windmills.” Energy secretary: Offshore wind brings ‘gust’ of job growth 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z Manicured box hedging and variegated holly columns provide year-round heft to the landscape, along with a windmill palm, topiary forms, yew hedges and a golden hinoki cypress. This meticulously planned and planted Queen Anne garden changes for the seasons in colorful echoes of a restored Victorian home 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z Most roofs will be fitted with solar panels and more than 1,000 windmills will be built, almost doubling the share of renewable sources for electricity to 80 percent by 2030. Will Germany’s ‘Debt Brake’ Stop Its Green Ambitions? 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z Now she studies right-wing messaging on climate change — like pundits' use of windmills to imply that wind energy is an outdated technology. Why words matter in the fight against climate change 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z But the Hornets battled all the way back and took control late in the fourth quarter behind a windmill dunk from Bridges and three 3s from Kelly Oubre Jr. Bridges, Ball lead Hornets past Walker, Knicks 104-96 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z “But with a big windmill hanging off the bottom.” Harnessing the energy of the ocean to power homes, planes and whisky distilleries “Without numbers,” Cochrane warns, “we will follow fashion. Today it’s windmills, solar panels, and electric cars. Yesterday it was high-speed trains. The day before it was corn ethanol and switchgrass.” Opinion | ‘Peak oil’ somehow never arrives, but COP26 may have achieved peak climate hysteria 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z It has covered its landscape with solar panels and windmills. E.U.’s big climate ambitions have the scent of wood smoke 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z What do a Lego store, a beautiful abandoned windmill, a retro bowling alley, a miniature aquarium, and a pair of Venetian houses have in common? Lego is now letting you preorder unofficial sets, including an epic Lego store 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z The couple said they only began to experience their health problems years after the turbines were installed, when a tree break separating their house from the windmill farm was cut down. Couple in France awarded ‘turbine syndrome’ damages from nearby wind farm 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z The pop-up hosted by Egypt, the largest oil producer in Africa outside the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, features a towering green copy of a windmill. The spectacle of COP26: Inside with diplomats and carbon counters, outside with protesters and their manure 2021-11-06T04:00:00Z This is one of England's oldest windmills but it faces collapse due to its rotting central supporting beams. Jerusalem cottage among buildings on 'at risk' register 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Its high-tech windmills and superannuated smokestacks are only the most visible evidence of a three-decade campaign. Once a Leading Polluter, the U.K. Is Now Trying to Lead on Climate Change 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z Ealy passionately wound his right arm in a celebratory windmill as teammates ran over to him. L.S.U., Led by Exiting Orgeron, Tumbling Out of SEC Prominence 2021-10-24T04:00:00Z “It’s a windmill that folks are fighting with.” Christian Schools Boom in a Revolt Against Curriculum and Pandemic Rules 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z He could easily imagine windmills and solar panels in the Pilbara. Can a Carbon-Emitting Iron Ore Tycoon Save the Planet? 2021-10-16T04:00:00Z “It’s so sad when you see that they are approving these windmills — worst form of energy, the most expensive,” he said. Trump asserts his dominance inside GOP, pushing Republicans to embrace his false claims of fraud 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z Between them is a stylized windmill, wooden barrels — for the city’s early flour milling industry — and a beaver, for the early trade in beaver fur. The story of L.A.’s oddball flag. Wait, L.A. has a flag? 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Birds that aren’t killed by windmills, he said, are spontaneously combusting while flying over solar panels. Opinion | The GOP has become the stupid party — and proud of it 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z One of the sails on a popular windmill has broken following strong winds. Lytham Windmill's sail broken after strong winds 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z The shops with windmill emblems have sprouted up across the West and are now located as far east as Texas and Oklahoma. After humble beginnings, Oregon’s Dutch Bros launches IPO 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z The Virginian, who won his first Senate race in 2012, has tilted at this windmill almost from his first day in the Capitol. Analysis | Congress ceded the power to wage wars to the president after Sept. 11. A bipartisan pair of senators want to take it back. 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z A man who has spent much of his life restoring and running a windmill says he had to fight people off when demand for flour surged during lockdown. Covid-19: Pet abduction to be made offence and Scotland offers vaccination QR codes 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z A man who has spent much of his life restoring and running a windmill has spoken about the brief surge in popularity his flour enjoyed during lockdown. 'Baking boom saw them fighting over my flour' 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z Fire crews attended the scene while Fylde Borough Council, which owns the windmill, said it had been cordoned off while the sail was secured. Lytham Windmill's sail broken after strong winds 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z We build our cities to withstand hurricanes and floods, heat and cold; we build dams and windmills, and re-routed the Colorado River to keep Phoenix and Tucson hydrated at a cost of $4 billion. How previous civilizations thwarted extinction in the face of existential crises 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z For those whose earliest, archetypal memories of golf involve smacking colorful balls among statues of pirates or the steady beat of rotating windmill blades, Rocky Gorge’s 19 holes evoke nostalgic smiles. Fun is par for the course at these five mini-golf destinations 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, he is regarded by some in the astronomy community as a knight-errant, tilting at windmills. Harvard’s Avi Loeb Thinks We Should Study UFOs—and He’s Not Wrong 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z But since then demand has fallen and he has expressed concern about the future of traditional windmills in the UK, citing the conversion of mills into luxury homes and the rise in gluten-free food. 'Baking boom saw them fighting over my flour' 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z The windmill was also damaged after a gale in 1919, which turned the sails so much that sparks ignited the woodwork and caused a devastating fire. Lytham Windmill's sail broken after strong winds 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z It’s because of that commercial work that the 33-year-old Lopes first saw those windmills - a signature move where breakers spin continuously on their upper back and shoulders with feet in the air. Breakers eager, apprehensive for 2024 Olympic debut 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z Originally opened in 1965, some of the holes are showing their age, though other attractions, such as the windmill and the locomotive, have recently received a fresh coat of paint. Fun is par for the course at these five mini-golf destinations 2021-08-11T04:00:00Z In the cartoon, Trump is riding on a horse and aiming a spear at a windmill that represents major tech platforms Facebook, Google, and Twitter, as seen below. Right-wing cartoonist draws Trump as Don Quijote — but draws mockery for missing book's point 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z The two leaped in jubilation, arms circling in a windmill motion. Thousand Oaks ends season with a title, and a lifetime's worth of memories 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z While pitchers in softball might face less risk than those in baseball because of the windmill motion, proper training is key to preventing injuries. What's on TV Wednesday: 'BET Presents The Encore'; 2021 CMT Music Awards 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z I’d begun a series about hardworking Americans who shook the bureaucratic cage with little or no success, but kept tilting at windmills. The improbable true story of Judge Judy and the reporter who made her a star 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z Dramatic changes in the energy industry and the auto industry are steering our future away from oil and gas and toward windmills, solar power and electric vehicles. Wilderness protectors roar back 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z New York led by 17 points with 7:45 left in the third quarter before the Hawks went on a run capped by Bridges’ windmill dunk to cut their deficit to 89-86. Randle leads Knicks past Hornets in OT, tie Atlanta for 4th 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z It won’t be easy finding jobs paying that much working on solar panels or windmills. Regardless of Newsom's motive, bid to end California oil production is a game-changer 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z It has a windmill - an original Don Quixote joke by Rogers - but the creators have built a wonky land with rolling hills and no straight lines. New kids’ TV show emerges from the Mister Rogers universe 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z “You just can’t put up that many windmills that fast. And there may not be that many places to put windmills.” Biden plan for cleaner power system faces daunting obstacles 2021-04-26T04:00:00Z The third thing is this metaphor of windmills, not bunkers. Insider Q&A: Panera Bread CEO Niren Chaudhary 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z Other historic buildings nearby, including a 225-year-old windmill and a restaurant near a memorial to British colonial politician Cecil Rhodes, also burned down. Cape Town wildfire: About 90% of blaze now contained 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z A landmark on the M3 near the campus, the windmill’s thatched roof and four-bladed sails went up in flames as onlookers watched helplessly. South Africa wildfire burns University of Cape Town, country’s oldest working windmill 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z Other campus buildings also caught fire, and a historic windmill nearby burned. Cape Town fire burns university library, students evacuated 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z The painting portrays one of the windmills that dotted Montmartre at a time when it was just a village on the northern outskirts of Paris. 'Unseen' Vincent Van Gogh painting fetches £11m at auction 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z Drive the baseline, come up and under the basket, windmill one-handed dunk — Baylor. Perspective | The names change every decade, but iconic NBA stars are always reincarnations of Elgin Baylor 2021-03-22T04:00:00Z On his second attempt, Toppin flew over both to throw down the dunk with a windmill action. Team LeBron dominates an NBA All-Star Game that feels incomplete 2021-03-07T05:00:00Z For three weeks, Nebraskans ransacked their homes for metal, or roamed the countryside in search of abandoned tractors or idle windmills. The Pandemic Needs Its Smokey Bear 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z In addition to the windmills stopping, coal generators stumbled and natural gas wells faltered as pipes froze. More windmills: Climate warriors push green energy after Texas frozen turbine debacle 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z TRUMP, assailing Democrats on energy policy: “The windmill calamity that we’re witnessing in Texas … it’s so sad when you look at it. That will just be the start.” AP FACT CHECK: Trump clings to his core election falsehoods 2021-02-28T05:00:00Z Many of the Republican politicians responsible for this deregulated nightmare tried to deflect and distract by blaming the disaster on windmills that iced up and stopped. Texas leadership lays an egg 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z The firm has been one of the leaders in the renewables field, having built the UK's first megawatt scale windmill in 1999. The search widens for hot rocks that provide power 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z “The windmills froze so the power grid failed,” he said. No, Wind Farms Aren’t the Main Cause of the Texas Blackouts 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z “For many years, we were accused of tilting at tech windmills,” said News Corp CEO Robert Thomson. Australia is demanding tech giants pay for news. Google relented, Facebook didn’t 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z "The windmills failed like the silly fashion accessories they are, and people in Texas died." Texas weather: Are frozen wind turbines to blame for power cuts? 2021-02-17T05:00:00Z The windmills froze, so the power grid failed. Fellow Democrats blast Cuomo's explanation for nursing home data delay 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z Those, Huston says, are far more attractive to the younger generation than something more traditional like kittens or windmills. Kentucky company may have made some of your pandemic puzzles 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z Don Quixote tilted at windmills with his lance. The Don Quixote of Brooklyn, Tilting at Plastic Bags 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z The windmill is the last one remaining one in Fife, and has since been renovated as a tourist attraction. Salt harvesting: Turning sea water into 'white gold' in a Fife village 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z House go gender neutral Arkansas governor slaps Electoral College fight: 'Don Quixote jousting at windmills' Cardinals’ Murray sidelined by ankle injury on first drive 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Sunday compared Republican senators’ plans to challenge the presidential election results to “Don Quixote jousting at windmills.” Arkansas governor slaps Electoral College fight: ‘Don Quixote jousting at windmills’ 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z |
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