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L O W L A N D S - L - 22 December 2008 - Volume 04<br>
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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Theo Homan</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe"> </span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:theohoman@yahoo.com">theohoman@yahoo.com</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Traditions" 2008.12.21 (04) [E]</span><br>
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> From: Heiko Evermann <<a href="mailto:heiko.evermann@gmx.de">heiko.evermann@gmx.de</a>><br>
> Subject: LL-L "Holidays" 2008.12.21 (01) [E]<br>
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> We do have an "Adventskranz" (whats that in<br>
> English?) on our kitchen table.<br>
> The story goes that it was invented here in Hamburg by<br>
> Johann Hinrich<br>
> Wichern in a children's home as a countdown to<br>
> Christmas.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Heiko,<br>
<br>
Once upon a time I tried to find out more about the history of the
Adventskranz, and I think we cannot say that Wichern [ab. 150 years ago]
invented the Adventskranz.<br>
But as Wichern was very active as a pedagogue he may have made it very popular.<br>
<br>
However, he may have been the inventor of the practice to light a candle on the
Adventskrans for each new day.<br>
<br>
<a href="http://vr.gr/" target="_blank">vr.gr</a>.<br>
<span style="color: rgb(136, 136, 136);">Theo Homan</span><br>
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From: <span class="ep8xu"><span><span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Paul Finlow-Bates</span></span></span><span class="hccdpe">
</span><span class="ldacoc"><<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="hccdpe">LL-L "Traditions" 2008.12.21 (01) [E]</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">From: <span style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Jacqueline Bungenberg de Jong</span> <<a href="mailto:Dutchmatters@comcast.net" target="_blank">Dutchmatters@comcast.net</a>><br>
Subject: LL-L "Holidays" 2008.12.21 (01) [E]</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">.....Solstices
were easily observed even by people without modern technology....</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Well, not
that easily. 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>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Paul
Finlow-Bates<span style="color: navy;">.</span></span></p>
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