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Candlegrove's award-winning winter solstice site traces the ancient origins of holiday celebrations and traditions. Entering its second decade of holiday countdown. ... The Mesopotamians were first, it claims, with a 12-day festival of renewal, designed to help the god Marduk tame the monsters of chaos for one more year.
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The summer solstice is the longest day in the year but it's not the day of earliest sunrise or sunset - learn more about this intriguing occurrence, from your About.com Guide to Geography. ... The Longest Day of the Year for International Cities...
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geography.about.com/od/physicalgeography/a/longestday.h...
geography.about.com/od/physicalgeography/a/longestday.htm
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Longest day in a year: In the northern hemisphere, the day with the most sunlight hours is June 21 or 22 (depending on the year) and around December 21 in the south. These are the times of the summer solstices. A different answer: This is t...
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Which_day_is_the_longest_day_...
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Winter solstice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The winter solstice occurs at the instant when the Sun's position in the sky is at its greatest angular distance on the other side of the equatorial plane from the observer's hemisphere.<sup class="...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_solstice
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In other words, if you were to measure the Sun's position at exactly noon every day, you would see not only the familiar north-south change that goes with the seasons but also an east-west change in the Sun's position.
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www.faqs.org/faqs/astronomy/faq/part3/section-14.html
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solstice info Click a sun to see the writing behind it All pieces sent on June 21st 2000 about this project...
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trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/mcdonald/solstice/
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The summer solstice is the longest day of the year.
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/the_universe/uts...
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