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• n  a crystal of snow
• n  white Arctic bunting

• Not so much as a snowflake of retribution drops on either of them; it was, the movie makes clear, a most enjoyable affair for both parties.
• That's roughly the same amount of time it takes for a single molecule of water to make the journey from a snowflake on the yoke of the Jungfrau mountain to the Massa, the stream .
• Dame Margot Fonteyn made her debut at Sadler's Wells in 1934 as a snowflake.

• flake
• snow bunting
• snowbird
• Plectrophenax nivalis

News & Articles

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• Albino gorilla Snowflake was inbred, study shows
  KRISTEN BUTLER, UPI.com Snowflake the albino gorilla was inbred, say scientists who sequenced his genome to search for the cause.
  June 18, 2013 - UPI
• Albino Gorilla Mystery Solved: Snowflake Was Inbred, Says Researchers
  The mystery of the albino gorilla has been solved. A new study claims that Snowflake got his white coloring due to inbreeding. Snowflake, an albino gorilla that lived at the Barcelona Zoo for 40 years, was born in Equatorial Guinea. He was captured in 1966 by villagers and brought to the zoo in Spain. Snowflake... Read more » Albino Gorilla Mystery Solved: Snowflake Was Inbred, Says Researchers ...
  June 17, 2013 - The Inquisitr
• Snowflake the albino gorilla was inbred, study finds
  A famous albino gorilla that lived for 40 years at the Barcelona Zoo got its white coloring by way of inbreeding, new research shows. Snowflake was a male Western lowland gorilla. He was born in the wild and captured in 1966 by villagers in Equatorial Guinea. As the only known white gorilla in the world, Snowflake was a zoo celebrity until his death of skin cancer in 2003. A few studies had ...
  June 15, 2013 - NBC NEWS

Quotes

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• Joel Quenneville in SI.com
  It was great. It was fun to watch,Avalanche coach Joel Quenneville said of Pittsburgh's 2-1 shootout win over Buffalo at Ralph Wilson Stadium. "It brings back old-time memories, when you're out there skating and get hit with a snowflake in...
• Joe Sestak in Dallas Morning News
  A retired three-star admiral who worked on the staff of the National Security Council in the 1990s, Mr. Sestak complained that some allies "refuse to do combat ops at night, and some don't fly when the first snowflake falls."
• Norman Baker in AFP
  Voicing the frustration of travellers, Norman Baker, transport spokesman for the opposition Liberal Democrats party, asked: "Why is it that the British transport system comes near to collapse at the first sign of a snowflake?"