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Jan 2013
 UMN News |
Starwatch February 2013
UMN News Groundhog Day began as a Celtic holiday called Imbolc, meaning lamb's milk, marking the halfway point between the winter solstice and the spring equinox (and the start of the lambing season). It was held that if the day was cloudy, that portended rains … |
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Jan 2013
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Jade plant's bloom a portent of spring
Campbell River Mirror Once winter solstice has passed, those few additional minutes of sunlight each day never fail to bring on yearnings for springtime. In the Campbell River area, however, spring's first wild blooms will elude us for at least another month or two … |
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17
Jan 2013
 vision magazine |
There's Only One Way To Go from Here
vision magazine No, the world didn't end on the 2012 winter solstice. As most of us who have looked into the ancient Mayan calendar already knew, the world was in fact never prophesized to end. Put simply, December 21st, 2012 was a date that marked the end of a long … |
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Jan 2013
 NJ.com |
Opinion: NJ Certificate of Recovery would provide second chance after drug …
NJ.com On the winter solstice, Joyce Holman received an early Christmas gift from a burly gentleman named Chris. Ms. Holman's long journey reached its culmination on the year's shortest day, when New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie pardoned her for crimes she … |
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Jan 2013
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Busking for Tucson Wildlife Center
Tucson Citizen On December 22nd — 6 days after Hanukkah, 4 days before Kwanzaa, 3 days before Christmas Day, the second day of Winter Solstice, and a partridge in a pear tree (Oops! I got carried away.) —, Coral and Zoe took their talents to “The Strip” (4th Ave.). |
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