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The winter solstice is, of course, the shortest day of the year.
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Here are five things you didn't know about the winter solstice: 1.
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The summer solstice had passed, but their spring was yet to come.
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Both, however, mark that midpoint between the December solstice and March's equinox.
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Yesterday, December 21st, you may have thought to be the winter solstice.
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Summer solstice, the longest day of the year, falls around June twenty-first.
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Committed pagans celebrate the winter solstice on December 21, rather than Christmas.
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The Mayan long count calendar ends in 2012, at the winter solstice.
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At the solstice holidays, I'll be going back for a few days.
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It was then the summer solstice, and the day was exceedingly hot.
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Caesarion had been born on June twenty-third, almost exactly the summer solstice.
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It falls just after the solstice, when the days are perceptibly lengthening.
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Many religions have placed the birth of their gods at the solstice.
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Yesterday, the hill was populated with those waiting for the solstice dawn.
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All the attention tends to be on Newgrange for the winter solstice.
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Zeus has demanded that Poseidon return the bolt by the summer solstice.
