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The solstice occurs in the predawn hours, making this the shortest day of the year.
D.C.-AREA FORECAST: CLEARING BUT BLUSTERY TODAY AND REMAINING CHILLY INTO THE WEEKENDDAVID STREITDECEMBER 17, 2020WASHINGTON POSTRight around the solstice, they may appear as one overlapping body above the horizon.
JUPITER AND SATURN WILL COME CLOSE ENOUGH TO FORM FIRST ‘DOUBLE PLANET’ VISIBLE IN NEARLY 800 YEARSTEO ARMUSDECEMBER 4, 2020WASHINGTON POSTMy mother’s friend upheld her end of the bargain, but then there I was, a solstice changeling, revealing my true name.
DAWN OF THE HELIOCENE - ISSUE 90: SOMETHING GREENSUMMER PRAETORIUSSEPTEMBER 16, 2020NAUTILUSThe estival solstice of Meton, the Athenian, corresponds with this day, in the 87th Olympiad.
THE EVERY DAY BOOK OF HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGYJOEL MUNSELLThe June sun was already shining at its solstice, and the time to leave for Icla's home had come.
URANIACAMILLE FLAMMARIONIt then turns towards the winter solstice, as far as Issus, and thence immediately makes a bend to the south to Phœnicia.
THE GEOGRAPHY OF STRABO, VOLUME III (OF 3)STRABOAt winter solstice, the vertical rays strike 23½° S. latitude, the Tropic of Capricorn.
DESERTSA. S. WALKERSo, in Adelie Land, short spells of calm weather may be expected over a period of barely three months around the summer solstice.
THE HOME OF THE BLIZZARDDOUGLAS MAWSONFrom this time its declination increases day by day until the summer solstice, when, in Joshua's time, it was nearly 24° north.
THE ASTRONOMY OF THE BIBLEE. WALTER MAUNDERThus its daily path at the time of the winter solstice, about December 21, can be represented by the circle Xmn′.
ASTRONOMICAL LORE IN CHAUCERFLORENCE M. GRIMMWORDS RELATED TO SOLSTICE
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