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24
May 2013
HIGHLAND residents were left digging their vehicles out of the snow less than a month before the "summer" solstice.
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24
May 2013
THE summer solstice is only 28 days away, but in parts of Scotland yesterday, it was like winter had never left, as people awoke to a blanket of snow.
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23
May 2013
The stunning light at Keyhole Arch, Pfeiffer Beach, California, happens only for a few weeks every year when the sun sets at the correct angle and the tide is at the right height.
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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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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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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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