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Jan 2013
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Cold drives climber Dupre down McKinley
Anchorage Daily News 21 winter solstice and ends with the March 21 spring equinox. Only two people — the Russian team of Artur Testov and Vladimir Ananich in 1998 — have bagged a McKinley summit in the dead of winter, which is considered December or January, when … |
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27
Jan 2013
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Caught in doldrums? Daylight grows longer
Columbus Dispatch Consider this: On the winter solstice — Dec. 21, the day with the shortest length of daylight during the year — sunrise was at 7:50 a.m. and sunset at. 5:10 p.m. On Friday, sunrise was at 7:46 a.m. and sunset at 5:43 p.m. And even after sunset, it … |
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27
Jan 2013
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Starwatch: The Groundhog Speaks
Patch.com While pagan Rome was celebrating the passing of the low sun at winter solstice and the promise of a new planting and harvesting season, the Saturnalia, early Christians masked their observance of Christ's birth during the hoopla. Likewise, pagan … Don't count me among Punxsutawney Phil's fans |
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