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They put the lion, as the king of their animal kingdom, into the place in the zodiac in which thesummersolsticeoccurs.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It's a solar calendar, which contains 18 months of 20 days, and 2/3 transition days before the winter solstice andsummersolstice.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.At this latitude the sun is visible for 12 hours, 46 minutes during thesummersolsticeand 11 hours, 29 minutes during the winter solstice.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They believed that it was seated immediately under the tropic, and that on the day of thesummersolstice, a vertical staff cast no shadow.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The event takes place on or near thesummersolsticeeach year.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Using lichen samples with and without cortex showed a substantial protection of the cortex against stress conditions (mainly microclimate), especially atsummersolstice.
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We saw outrageous activities by the new age travellers in the west country last summer after thesummersolstice.
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Why do we start summer time more than halfway between the winter solstice and thesummersolstice, whereas we end it the other way round?
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It then lapses back into relative insignificance while we wait for the nextsummersolstice.
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Will he do all that he can to encourage those who seek trouble at thesummersolsticeto stay away?
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Indeed, the one thing upon which we can surely all agree this evening is that it is only going to get worse and thesummersolsticefast approaches.
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In both hemispheres, the season begins about one month beforesummersolsticeand ends about two months afterwards.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Holly is the site known for a rock art panel that has been interpreted as asummersolsticemarker.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thesummersolsticeoccurs during a hemisphere's summer.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.At this latitude the sun is visible for 18 hours, 52 minutes during thesummersolsticeand 5 hours, 52 minutes during the winter solstice.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Intriguingly, it has been observed that this line of sight forms the setting point of the sun on thesummersolstice.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.At this latitude the sun is visible for 12 hours, 43 minutes during thesummersolsticeand 11 hours, 33 minutes during the winter solstice.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is so named because that day was 2002'ssummersolstice, the longest day of the year.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For this reason during thesummersolstice, the night is magic.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The rest of the nation recognizes thesummersolsticeas the event when the sun's rays are closest to being direct.
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