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Summer Solstice

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What does Summer Solstice mean?

noun

  1. The point in Earth’s orbit at which either the Northern or Southern Hemisphere is maximally tilted toward the Sun.

proper noun

  1. A pagan holiday and Wiccan Sabbat

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Then the God rises into heaven, to sit upon the throne at the summer solstice, to bless his people.
Thomas H. Burgoyne; Belle M. WagnerThe Light of Egypt; Or, The Science of the Soul and the Stars — Volume 2Project Gutenberg ebook #1650
The dry weather then returns again, and lasts from the summer solstice to the end of August.
Alexander von Humboldt; Aimé BonplandPersonal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1Translated by Thomasina RossProject Gutenberg ebook #6322
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So, in Adelie Land, short spells of calm weather may be expected over a period of barely three months around the summer solstice.
Douglas, Sir MawsonThe Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914Project Gutenberg ebook #6137
In point of fact, from the earliest periods of which records have come down to us, the new year of the Egyptians dates from the summer solstice.
Henry Smith Williams; Edward Huntington WilliamsA History of Science — Volume 1Project Gutenberg ebook #1705
At this period, the summer solstice of the northern regions, it had begun to descend; and to-morrow was to shed its last rays upon them.
Jules VerneTwenty Thousand Leagues under the SeaProject Gutenberg ebook #164