It will be another month or so before the Northern Hemisphere experiences those truly frigid winter temperatures. Why is there such a big lag between the winter solstice and the coldest days? December 22, 2014. A modern-day druid leads incantations as revelers celebrate the sunrise during the winter solstice at Stonehenge on Monday.
; 31 January 1938) reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 until her abdication in 2013. Princess Beatrix is the eldest daughter of Queen Juliana and her husband, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. Upon her mother's accession in 1948, she became heir presumptive. When her mother abdicated on 30 April 1980, Beatrix succeeded her as Queen.
Conchita Wurst (also mononymously known as Conchita) is an Austrian pop recording artist and drag queen portrayed by Thomas Tom Neuwirth (born 6 November 1988).ollowing her coronation in Eurovision, international media dubbed Conchita as the Queen of Austria. Born in Gmunden, Austria, Neuwirth moved to Graz to do his matura exam with a focus on fashion, before embarking on a singing career through the 2007 casting show Starmania.