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Tom Bawcóck's Eve
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Tom Bawcóck's Eve is a festival held on the 23rd of December in Mousehole, Cornwall, UK. Read more
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Festival of Larentalia
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The Roman festival of Larentalia was held on December 23, but was ordered to be observed twice a year by Augustus; by some supposed to be in honour of the Lares, a kind of domestic genii, or divinities, worshipped in houses, and esteemed the guardians and protectors of families, supposed to reside in c...
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Dongzhě Festival
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The Dongzhě Festival or Winter Solstice Festival (Chinese: "the Extreme of Winter") is one of the most important festivals celebrated by the Chinese and other East Asians during the Dongzhi solar term (winter solstice) on or around December 22 when sunshine is weakest and daylight sho...
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Transit of Venus 2012
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The transit will be best viewed from the Pacific Ocean. North America will be able to see the start of the transit, while South Asia, the Middle East, and most of Europe will catch the end of it. The transit will not be visible in most of South America or western Africa. Venus starts to cross the solar limb...
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Winter Solstice
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Northern winter begins on at 18:35 UT Wednesday, December 21st, when the sun reaches its southernmost declination of the year.
In the Southern Hemisphere it is the start of their summer.
The Earth is at Perihelion (nearest to the Sun) on January 2nd at 01:00 UT
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Divalia
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The Divalia was a Roman festival held on December 21st, in honour of the goddess Angerona, whence it is also called Angeronalia. On the day of this festival the pontifices performed sacrifices in the temple of Voluptia, or the goddess of joy and pleasure, who, some say, was the same with Angerona, and...
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Yalda
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Yalda is the Persian Winter Solstice Celebration which has been popular since ancient times. Yalda is celebrated on the Northern Hemisphere's longest night of the year, that is, on the eve of the Winter Solstice. Depending on the shift of the calendar, Yalda is celebrated on or around December 20 or...
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Opiconsivia Roman festival
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On August 25, the Opiconsivia (or Opeconsiva or Opalia) Roman festival was held in honour of Ops, usually known as Opis, and sometimes as Opus. Read more
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Saturnalia
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Saturnalia is an Ancient Roman festival or celebration held in honour of Saturn (Cronus), the youngest of the Titans, father of the major gods of the Greeks and Romans, and son of Uranus and Gaia. Saturnalia was introduced around 217 BC to raise citizen morale after a crushing military defeat at the h...
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Exchanges at the Frontier: Lisa Randall
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Exchanges at the Frontier: Lisa Randall This event will be broadcast live from the Wellcome Collection in London from 1905-2100 on Thursday 13 December, and presented by the philosopher A.C.Grayling. If the Universe started with a Big Bang - what was there before? Why is so much money spent on sear...
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Monkey Day
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Monkey Day is a holiday celebrated internationally on every year December 14. Read more
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Festival of Tellus
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On December 13, the anniversary of the Temple of Tellus was celebrated along with a lectisternium (banquet) for Ceres, who embodied "growing power" and the productivity of the earth. Read more
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Monocerotids
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Monocerotids is a reliable minor meteor shower that takes place from December 7 to December 20 and peaks on December 9. Source ZHR:1-2 meteors per hour Radiant: Monoceros/Canis Minor border The parent body is comet P/1917 F1 (Mellish). Title: The December Monocerotids and P/Mellish. Authors: O...
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Sun 05.07.09
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Sunspot 11024 Expand (139kb, 560 x 560) Credit: SOHO/MDI
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Antarctica Day
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Antarctica Day was inaugurated in 2010 to celebrate the 1st December 1959 signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which was adopted "with the interests of science and the progress of all mankind." Antarctica Day was initiated by the Foundation for the Good Governance of International Spac...
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