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L O W L A N D S - L - 22 December 2008 - Volume 07<span style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><br>
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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Jacqueline Bungenberg de Jong</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:Dutchmatters@comcast.net">Dutchmatters@comcast.net</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Traditions" 2008.12.22 (04) [E]</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Paul says: </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">The sunrise and
sunset positions vary very little day to day around the Solstices (that's
what it means: "Sun stands still"). Without magnification and
instrumented scales, you'd be doing well to pin it down to within a few days.
Equinoxes on the other hand, the sun seems to race around the horizon, so they
are fairly easy to define once you've worked out which way east is, which isn't
hard. That is why so many traditional New Years begin near them. But not <em><span style="font-family: Arial;">on</span></em> them; the sun doesn't in fact rise in
the east on the equinoxes, unless you consider halfway up to be
"sunrise" - and then only if we didn't have an atmosphere!</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">Thanks Paul. 1.
It is true that solstice means "Sun stands still" and I should have known that.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p style="margin-left: 60pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">2. I asked my Mother once ( I must have been eight years old or so
) "Why is it that not everybody celebrates New year on
the same day?. She did not know the answer and I never thought about it again.
Not very smart!</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: blue;">3.
Have a nice Christmas and New Year. Jacqueline</span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></span></p>