A northwesterly or northerly wind which blows offshore along the north coast of the Mediterranean from Ebra to Genoa It is characterized by its frequency, strength, and dry coldness
A northwesterly or northerly wind which blows offshore along the north coast of the Mediterranean from the Ebro to Genoa In the region of its chief development its characteristics are its frequency, its strength, and its dry coldness It is most intense on the coasts of Languedoc and Provence, especially near the Rhone delta Its speeds are usually around 40 knots, but can reach over 75 knots in the delta
orig. Lucila Godoy Alcayaga born April 7, 1889, Vicuña, Chile died Jan. 10, 1957, Hempstead, N.Y., U.S. Chilean poet. Mistral combined writing with a career as a cultural minister and diplomat and as a professor in the U.S. Her reputation as a poet was established in 1914 when she won a prize for three "Sonnets of Death." Her passionate lyrics, with love of children and of the downtrodden as principal themes, are collected in such volumes as Desolación (1922), Tala (1938), and Lagar (1954). In 1945 she became the first Latin American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature