Winter Wonders
This character is based on a song by Walter "Jack" Rollins and Steve Nelson (1950), which recounts the tale of a snowman who is brought to life by a magical silk hat that a group of children find and place on his head. This character enjoys roaming throughout town with the children who create him, and when he says goodbye to them, he comforts the children by promising he will return one day.
Frosty the Snowman
A vaccine for this disease, which can affect the central nervous system resulting in flaccid paralysis, came about as a result of a medical breakthrough in 1948, when a research group headed by John Enders at the Children's Hospital Boston successfully cultivated an innocuous amount of the virus in human tissue in the laboratory. Today, there are two vaccines for this disease: an inactivated form of virus given by injection (IPV) and a weakened form of the virus given by mouth (OPV).
Polio (Poliomyelitis)
Gotham's primary superhero, known as the "Dark Night" and "Caped Crusader."
Batman
This monster, resembling a plesiosaur, is a cryptid in cryptozoology and Scottish folklore that is said to inhabit a loch in the Scottish Highlands. It is often described as large, long-necked, and with one or more humps protruding from the water.
Loch Ness Monster
This famous American city is often credited as the place where the tide of the American Civil War is turned in favor of the Union Forces, after General Robert E. Lee fails to take this city.
Gettysburg, PA
This song, written in 1934 by Felix Bernard and lyricist Richard Bernhard Smith, describes a couple's romance during the winter season. Due to its seasonal theme, it is often regarded as a Christmas song in the Northern Hemisphere, and it has been covered by over 200 different artists.
"Winter Wonderland"
There are currently vaccines for two numbered forms of this disease, which is a general term for inflammation of the liver. In particular, the B virus (HBV) is a partly double-stranded DNA virus while the A virus (HAV) is a single-stranded RNA virus. Both viruses, though they are structurally unrelated to one another, infect and replicate primarily in liver cells.
Hepatitis A & B
The alter-ego of a classic DC superhero who protects Metropolis and is vulnerable to Kryptonite.
Clark Kent
Also known as "Bigfoot" and many other names, sometimes equated with the "Yeti" of Eurasia, this monsters featured prominently in indigenous folklore, and according to a recent poll as many as 1/4 of Americans believe in its existence.
Sasquatch
This city-that-never-sleeps was originally called "New Amsterdam" because it was settled by Dutch colonists in the 17th-century. This city served as the seat of the colonial government in New Netherland and was meant to defend the fur trade operations of the Dutch West India Company in the North River (Hudson River), though in 1664 the English took over "New Amsterdam" and gave its current name.
New York, NY
This phenomenon is a natural light display in the Earth's sky, predominantly seen in high-latitude regions (around the Arctic), and it is the result of disturbances in the magnetosphere caused by solar wind.
Northern Lights (aurora borealis)
Known as the TB vaccine, this prevents against an infectious disease usually caused by a Mycobacterium bacteria (MTB). This disease generally affects the lungs, but can also affect other parts of the body, though most infections are "latent" and show no symptoms.
Tuberculosis
This DC superhero is a powerful empath, who goes by the alter-ego Rachel Roth. She is skilled with various types of magic and she is a prominent member of the superhero team the Titans.
Raven
This monster-man is a type of mythical creature used by adults to frighten children into good behavior. It has no specific appearance, and conceptions vary drastically by household and culture, but it is most commonly depicted as masculine or androgynous monster that punish children for misbehavior, often hiding in the closet or under the bed.
The Bogeyman
This city in Northern China, at first mispronounced and called Peking by British colonizers, is the world's most populous capital city, with well over 21 million residents.
Beijing, China
This character is a personification of frost, ice, snow, sleet, winter, and freezing cold. He is a variant of "Old Man Winter" who is held responsible for frosty weather, biting fingers and toes and leaving fern-like patterns on cold windows in winter. Starting in late 19th century literature, this character becomes increasingly depicted him as sprite-like, sometimes appearing as a sinister mischief-maker or as a hero.
Jack Frost
The MMR vaccine protects against these three diseases; the CDC recommends children get two doses of MMR vaccine, though teens and adults should also be up to date on their MMR vaccination. Because of anti-vaccination efforts, one of the three diseases this vaccine protects against has made a resurgence in recent times after nearly being wiped out by the MMR.
Measles, Mumps and Rubella
This show focuses on six female teenage superheroes with secret identities, who meet at Metropolis High School and form a superhero team dubbed the "Super Hero Girls".
DC Super Hero Girls
This monster's name literally means 'goat-sucker' in Spanish, referring to the creature's supposed animal-vampirism, namely it's alleged attacking and drinking the blood of livestock, with its first purported sightings reported in Puerto Rico in 1995.
Chupacabra
This city, founded in the 8th century and became the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate, is one of the largest in the Arab world, located along the Tigris, near the ruins of the Akkadian city of Babylon. Shortly after its founding, this city evolved into a significant cultural, commercial, and intellectual center of the Muslim world, hosting a multiethnic and multireligious environment, which garnered the city a worldwide reputation as the "Center of Learning" during the medieval period.
Baghdad, Iraq
This wintry weather phenomenon is an unusual (but increasingly more common) kind of thunderstorm with snow falling as the primary precipitation instead of rain. It typically falls in regions of strong upward motion within the cold sector of an extratropical cyclone. In addition to snow, lightning and hail may accompany this storm as well.
Thundersnow (Thundersnowstorm)
This disease, related to the chicken pox, has a recent vaccine called Shingrix (2019), which is more than 97% effective at preventing the virus in people 50 and older, and it works just as well in older adults, who are at greater risk for a painful complication called postherpetic neuralgia (PHN).
Shingles
This supervillain is one of the deadliest foes of Superman (and the only supervillain who manages to "kill" Superman), and he is especially feared by the Justice League as a result of his inhuman strength.
Doomsday
This monster from indigenous Native American folklore allegedly arrives with winter and is depicted as a malevolent spirit that can possess humans or take physical form itself. Because its influence is said to invoke acts of murder, insatiable greed, environmental destruction and cannibalism, this monster lends its name to a controversial modern medical term (a type of psychosis), described by psychiatrists as a culture-bound syndrome with symptoms such cold and hunger-inspired cannibalism.
Wendigo
This famous French city, became the home of certain Catholic popes from 1309 to 1376 during which seven successive popes resided there rather than in Rome. At this time, there were often two and even sometimes three popes claiming authority and thus it was a volatile and unstable time for the Catholic Church.
Avignon, France