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Summer Solstice
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What does Summer Solstice mean?
noun
- The point in Earth’s orbit at which either the Northern or Southern Hemisphere is maximally tilted toward the Sun.
proper noun
- 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.
The dry weather then returns again, and lasts from the summer solstice to the end of August.
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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.
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.
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.