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The winter solstice is this week for us in the northern hemisphere. After the winter solstice, the days will get longer. Celebration time! 
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People would be amazed that 1) many non-Christians celebrate the holiday season and 2) many Christians unknowingly implement pagan traditions into their commemoration of the baby Jesus. This video takes a quick glance at just a few beloved Christmas traditions and some of their origins.
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This week, the sun will reach that point where it will appear to shine farthest to the south of the equator, marking the moment of the winter solstice — the shortest day of 2011 in the Northern Hemisphere.
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BIRMINGHAM.- Archaeologists led by the University of Birmingham with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection have discovered evidence of two huge pits positioned on celestial alignment at Stonehenge. Shedding new light on the significant association of the monument with the sun, these pits may have contained tall stones, wooden posts or even fires to mark its rising and setting and could have defined a processional route used by agriculturalists to celebrate the passage of the sun across the sky at the summer solstice.
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