20 Things You Didn't Know About... The Summer Solstice


	20 Things You Didn't Know About... The Summer Solstice

Scattered_Fusion

6-20-2008 7:00 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9ad8fe06-7c28-43eb-b537-d55e3b993ba4/1CB690BE-B91F-4A48-8B1D-77D71591B329/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jun/19-20-things-you-didnt-know-about-summer-solstice" href="http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jun/19-20-things-you-didnt-know-about-summer-solstice" style="font-size: 11px;">discovermagazine.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jun/19-20-things-you-didnt-know-about-summer-solstice"><P><B>1</B>   Summertime, and the tiltin’ is easy. Summers are hot not because Earth is closer to the sun, but because the tilt of the Earth’s axis lets rays of sunlight hit one hemisphere more directly.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jun/19-20-things-you-didnt-know-about-summer-solstice"><P><B>2</B>   During the Northern Hemisphere’s summer, we’re actually <I>farthest </I>from the sun, receiving 7 percent less sunlight than the Southern Hemisphere does during its summer.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jun/19-20-things-you-didnt-know-about-summer-solstice"><P><B>3</B>   The summer solstice—June 20 this year—is the Northern Hemisphere’s longest day, with 24 hours of unbroken sunlight north of the Arctic Circle.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jun/19-20-things-you-didnt-know-about-summer-solstice"><P><B>4   </B>For obsessive-compulsives: The site <A target="_blank" href="http://www.archaeoastronomy.com/">www.archaeoastronomy.com</A> maintains a second-by-second countdown to each solstice.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jun/19-20-things-you-didnt-know-about-summer-solstice"><P><B>5</B>   Supporters of Seattle’s <A target="_blank" href="http://fremontartscouncil.org/">Solstice Parade</A>, an annual fixture of the city’s artsy Fremont neighborhood, proclaim that it will “cast a spell of joy, hope, and rebirth that spreads from Fremont to the entire universe.”</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jun/19-20-things-you-didnt-know-about-summer-solstice"><P><B>6</B>   Helping cast the spell are the <A target="_blank" href="http://www.bikingbis.com/_photos/Bees.sized.jpg">Painted Cyclists</A>, a clothing-optional group of bike riders who wear intense body makeup.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/1CB690BE-B91F-4A48-8B1D-77D71591B329/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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