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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. ... Such precision we have about it now! Winter solstice is when... ...because of the earth's tilt, your hemisphere is leaning farthest away from the sun,
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www.candlegrove.com/solstice.html
www.candlegrove.com/solstice.html
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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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Sun., Dec. 21, 2008, 7:04 AM EST (12:04 UT), marks the solstice—the beginning of winter in the Northern Hemisphere and summer in the Southern Hemisphere ... The winter solstice marks the shortest day and the longest night of the year. The sun appears at its lowest point in the sky, and its noontime elevation appears to be...
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www.infoplease.com/spot/wintersolstice1.html
www.infoplease.com/spot/wintersolstice1.html
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Winter Solstice marks the time of the year when the light returns as the sun shifts and starts to move northward again. In Europe, the tradition of the yule log is celebrated on Winter Solstice. A special log is brought in and placed on the hearth where it glows for the twelve nights of the holiday season.
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www.mindspring.com/~stardancer/winsols.htm
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Information on various traditions around winter solstice. ... At the Winter Solstice, we celebrate Children's Day to honour our children and to bring warmth, light and cheerfulness into the dark time of the year. Holidays such as this have their origin as "holy days". They are the way human beings mark the sacred times in...
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www.shambhala.org/arts/fest/unconquered.html
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Celebrating the Seasons Lore and Rituals by Selena Fox; Winter Solstice ... Winter Solstice also known as Yule, Christmas, and Saturnalia, occurs in mid December. It celebrates the birth of the new Solar year and the beginning of Winter. The Goddess manifests as the Great Mother and the God as the Sun Child.
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www.circlesanctuary.org/pholidays/WinterSolstice.html
www.circlesanctuary.org/pholidays/WinterSolstice.html
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Information on the seasons ... Celebrating Winter Solstice ... Winter Solstice has been celebrated in cultures the world over for thousands of years. This start of the solar year is a celebration of Light and the rebirth of the Sun. In old Europe, it was known as Yule, from the Norse, Jul, meaning wheel.
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www.circlesanctuary.org/pholidays/SolsticeArticle.html
www.circlesanctuary.org/pholidays/SolsticeArticle.html
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The upper panel shows that on the winter solstice (which occurs around December 21), the northern half of the Earth is tilted away from the Sun. Notice that the Sun is south of the equator. For you in Topeka, the altitude of the Sun at noon is 26.5°, which is pretty low in the sky.
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www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/the_universe/uts/winter...
www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/the_universe/uts/winter.html
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