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SHORT TAKES: Winter weather means precious water
Greenville Daily News But we modern mortals, as with those before us, are charged to endure; and we have now reached 41 percent of the winter solstice. As you endure the remaining 59 percent of the season, bear in mind that water is precious. With each shoveling of the … |
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Jan 2013
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Cape Fearless
Good Times Pisces attempts to save the world as Aquarius attempts to change the world. Friday (Feb. 1) is St. Brigid's Day. Saturday (Feb. 2) is Groundhog Day, Candlemas Day and Imbolc, a “cross-quarter” day – between winter solstice and spring equinox with the … |
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Jan 2013
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Mayan apocalyptic interpretations fall short of expectations
The Scribe I even got to see a man who had legally changed his name to King Arthur, who knights people, with a few other special Winter Solstice attendees. We're alive and well. The world will continue, even when society encounters another apocalyptic theory that … |
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Jan 2013
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Taste Of Spring Ever So Fleeting
AccuWeather.com (blog) We're more than a month past the winter solstice, with 10 hours of daylight now at hand, and gaining two to three minutes a day in the mid latitudes. Groundhog Day is Saturday. And right on cue, here comes a robust warmup that will push temperatures to … |
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Jan 2013
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Historical Society Marks Mid-Winter Celebrations at New Bridge
Patch.com The two events, Brigit's Day and Candlemas, annually fall between the winter solstice and spring equinox, when snowdrops, the first flower of spring, make their appearance, signaling nature's awakening from winter's sleep. Harpist Ardis Cavin, an … |
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28
Jan 2013
A STONE circle in Glasgow at the centre of a battle over its future cannot be removed without explosives, its creator has warned.
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28
Jan 2013
 Glasgow Evening Times |
Dynamite decision on stones
Glasgow Evening Times Mr Lunan's comments came as his group, The Friends of the Sighthill Stone Circle, prepare to hold a sunset vigil next Saturday to mark the Celtic feast day of Imbolc, which marks the midway point between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. The … |
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Jan 2013
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Don't count me among Punxsutawney Phil's fans
Ellwood City Ledger The whole thing started with a superstition that at the midpoint between the winter solstice and spring equinox, if the weather was fair, the second half of winter would be stormy and cold. From that belief came Candlemas Day for early Christians in … |
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Jan 2013
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WomenCARE Advanced/Recurrent/Metastic Cancer Support Group
Good Times Pisces attempts to save the world as Aquarius attempts to change the world. Friday (Feb. 1) is St. Brigid's Day. Saturday (Feb. 2) is Groundhog Day, Candlemas Day and Imbolc, a “cross-quarter” day – between winter solstice and spring equinox with the … |
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28
Jan 2013
 Opposing Views |
Elizabethans and Pagan Beliefs
Opposing Views Some feasts, like yule or Christmas, had a strong Christian overlay, meant to transform the pagan celebration of the return of light on the winter solstice into a sacred commemoration. But the old Celtic pagan traditions had an unshakable hold on the … |
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