What’s Meteorological Winter? Why Does It Start Dec 1?
While most people observe the beginning of winter by the winter solstice, meteorologists do it differently. Here’s an ...
BBC4 年
Everything you need to know about the winter solstice
It is thought that the winter solstice was actually more important to the people who constructed Stonehenge, sometime between 3000 and 2000 BC, than the summer solstice. As a result, scores of ...
Smithsonian Magazine6 年
The Winter Solstice Begins a Season of Storytelling and Ceremony
To be respectful, people waited until the winter when animals ... Acoma Pueblo (New Mexico): The winter solstice marks our New Year in Acoma. We mark the time with ceremonies not privy to the ...
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