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May 2013
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Going off grid is easy!
High Country News (blog) We only had to crank up the diesel generator once, for a few hours, on or near a cloudy, snowy winter solstice. The solar panels and their battery sidekicks even did the trick during Christmas, when we had a house full of guests who were wedded to … |
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May 2013
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Ice record? Astronomical markers provide best measure
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner The markers that matter are the times of the underlying phenomena — the winter solstice and the spring equinox. Using those as starting points, this year's breakup is clearly the latest on record. Here are the figures, courtesy of Rick Thoman at the … |
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23
May 2013
Daily Mail |
True natural beauty: Mystical light that occurs only a few days every year …
Daily Mail The rays occur in the weeks surrounding Winter Solstice when the sun sets at the perfect level behind the arch on Pfeiffer Beach, California. The arch is known as Keyhole Arch or Pfeiffer Arch and acts as a magnet to professional and amateur … |
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23
May 2013
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Mile Marker: Sun dagger of Chaco Canyon
Las Cruces Sun-News Marking the winter solstice, the dagger divides into two beams, one touching either side of the edge of the spiral. Not only did the Chacoans calculate the solstices, they placed the spiral in the exact place to measure the equinoxes and the 18-year … |
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23
May 2013
Telegraph.co.uk |
The romantic novelist who sparked a German invasion
Telegraph.co.uk Here, the 88-year-old is regarded as a successful, if stylistically limited, writer of romantic novels – The Shell Seekers and Winter Solstice among them. In Germany, she is nothing short of a national heroine – Julian Fellowes, Colin Dexter and Ealing … |
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23
May 2013
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Puppy training pays off
Cincinnati.com The winter solstice may bring the “official” longest night of the year, but the longest night of my life was when our cocker spaniel, Nipper, was a puppy and we were training him to stay in his own bed and sleep through the night. We'd had him for … |
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May 2013
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Puppy training pays off
Cincinnati.com The winter solstice may bring the “official” longest night of the year, but the longest night of my life was when our cocker spaniel, Nipper, was a puppy and we were training him to stay in his own bed and sleep through the night. We'd had him for … |
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22
May 2013
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A peaceful, good night: Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary offers chance to get away …
Naples Daily News “There's not really anywhere else as unique as this on earth, where you can explore subtropical wilderness into the dark and be safe.” The themes range from winter solstice to bats (with acoustic bat monitoring), reptiles and summer solstice, to … |
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May 2013
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A peaceful, good night: Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary offers chance to get away …
Naples Daily News “There's not really anywhere else as unique as this on earth, where you can explore subtropical wilderness into the dark and be safe.” The themes range from winter solstice to bats (with acoustic bat monitoring), reptiles and summer solstice, to … |
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22
May 2013
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Once in a Blue Moon and Other Idioms That Don't Make Scientific Sense
Smithsonian (blog) Typically, 12 full moons occur from winter solstice to the next winter solstice (roughly three per season), but occasionally a forth full moon in a season could be observed. In such a case, one of the four full moons in that season was labeled “blue … |
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