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The inspiration of dark evenings
How the days and months seem to have melted away — melted away from dawns to darkest evenings that arrive earlier each day. We are now approaching "the darkest evening of the year," as one of our favorite American poets, Robert Frost, mentioned at...
Tags: Robert Frost
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Climatologist says Aberdeen's winter forecast not set in stone
Dennis Todey, state climatologist for South Dakota, recently answered several questions about what type of winter people in northeastern South Dakota can expect. Q. What does your office consider winter? A. Although winter doesn't officially begin...Tags: Weather Statistics, Weather, Weather Reports
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Northern Michigan church briefs Sunday, Dec. 16
Petoskey First Presbyterian Church of Petoskey First Presbyterian Church, 501 E. Mitchell St., downtown Petoskey, will celebrate the third Sunday in Advent with special readings and music at 9:45 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 16. All are invited. This is also...Tags: Festive Events, Methodist, Entertainment, Christianity, Jesus Christ
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12/12/12: It's Kayla's special day, but just a quirk in the calendar for others
caleb.calhoun@herald-mail.comBorn on Dec. 12, 2000, Hagerstown resident Kayla Bailey turns 12 wednesday, on 12/12/12. “It’s kind of cool that they’re all put together like that,” Bailey, a student at E. Russell Hicks Middle School said Tuesday. “My...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Lotteries, Pick 4 Lottery
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Evidence of climate change on a sun-splashed rock
Wally Vait has a good eye for such things, so I'm not surprised that during a hike Saturday on the North Central Railroad Trail in Freeland, he spotted an Eastern garter snake on a sun-splashed rock. The question: What was it doing there, after one of the...
Tags: Weather, Physiology, Conservation, Global Change, Same-Sex Marriage
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Other Desert Cities
VarietyAmerican plays about troubled families are a dime a dozen. But American plays which do more than merely flirt with politics are scarce, and those attempting to meld the personal and political, like Jon Robin Baitz's Pulitzer finalist "Other Desert Cities,...Tags: Robin Weigert, Long Island, JoBeth Williams, Republican Party, Robert Foxworth
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Sunsets to start getting later again after Friday
We are still about two weeks away from the shortest day of the year, but after Friday night, the early winter sunsets will start shifting later again. The difference between sunset times from Dec. 2 through Dec. 11 is a matter of seconds, all at about...
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End Of World Delayed — Tomorrow's Coming
The Hartford CourantThe world will definitely not come to an end on Dec. 21, 2012, regardless of the Mayan calendar. There's no planetary Rapture in the near future, despite the wishful thinking of an apocalyptic few. For at least another billion years, Earth will spin,...Tags: University of Connecticut, Cosmology, Separation of Church and State, Islam, Religion and Belief
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Our Friendly Skies - December 2012
THE DECEMBER SKY It’s December and soon winter will officially be here. This year, Dec. 21 marks the winter solstice, or the first day of winter. On this day we will have less daylight than on any other day of the year. This is because the sun...
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End-of-the-world theories rejected by scholars and local folks alike
caleb.calhoun@herald-mail.comWith the end of the current Mayan long-count calendar, the Winter Solstice, and the alignment of the Earth and the Sun near the center of the galaxy on Friday, it might be easy to see how doomsday theorists could interpret this as the end of the world....Tags: Astronomy, NASA
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Mackinaw students interpret van Gogh's 'The Starry Night'
CROSS VILLAGE -- Starry Starry Night North is a collaborative art project with Three Pines Studio in Cross Village, Mackinaw City Public Schools, Mackinaw Area Public Library, International Dark Sky Park at the Headlands and The Mackinaw City Area Arts...Tags: Public Schools, Arts, Schools, Painting, Arts and Culture
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Holiday Guide 2012: Dozens more concerts and 'Carols' for your Chicago December
Love 'em or hate 'em, there's no avoiding the holidays, and that's true on local stages as well as the shopping malls. But even the Scroogiest of souls could find something to celebrate in the gifts of theater, dance, and music offered up this season by...Tags: Macy's, Ebenezer Scrooge (fictional character), Union League Club, Entertainment Events, Dave Koz
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