Solstice
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Symbol for solstices and equinoxes
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Sunlight reaching the earth during summer solstice (Northern Hemisphere)
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Same image in Polish
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Same image in Dutch
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Sunlight reaching the earth during winter solstice (Northern Hemisphere)
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Same image in Polish
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Same image in French
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Images showing reflected sunlight at winter and summer solstices
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Path of the Sun on the sky during solstices and equinoxes at 43° N.
Summer solstice [edit]
en: Summer solstice is the longest day of the year. It takes place on June 21/22 in the Northern Hemisphere and December 21/21 in the Southern Hemisphere. It is celebrated as a festival several places.
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Solstice fire in Montana
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Solstice night at Stonehenge
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Sunrise after summer solstice in Stonehenge
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Arcu di l'Ursini of Carticasi, Corsica
Winter solstice [edit]
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Burning sun wheel at Yule, winter solstice
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Sunrise between the stones at Stonehenge on the Winter Solstice in the mid 1980s.
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2004 winter solstice viewed at the Lawrence Hall of Science in Berkeley, California, USA.
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Sunrise at Winter Solstice (December 21, 2006 at 8 a.m.) as viewed through the mysterious doorway half way up Maiden Tower, Baku
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Jólablót (Yule Sacrifice) on Winter Solstice 2009. Contemporary Icelandic pagans, members of Ásatrúarfélagið, stand in a circle around a ceremonial fire as they prepare to conduct a religious ceremony.
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A cold Winter solstice dawn over Winksley, 1998.
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Winter solstice dawn over Llanrug
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First rays of the rising winter solstice sun light up the countryside
