welcome the cold and read on to learn more about how to celebrate the winter solstice. Feasting Food is in itself a sacrificial offering of land and labor. Honor the longest night by preparing a ...

The winter solstice occurs when one of the Earth's poles is at its maximum tilt away from the Sun. It happens twice-yearly in each hemisphere. It is the day with the shortest period of daylight ...

The winter solstice falls on December 21 in the Northern Hemisphere, marking the shortest day and longest night of the year. It also marks the official start of winter. For many folks, it's a ...

Yet, fortunately, some traditions remain. Festivals around the Winter Solstice still mark a time to gather and celebrate even after all of our advances and the vanquishing of superstition by science.

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In places such as Shanghai, people eat tangyuan, a kind of stuffed small dumpling ball made of glutinous rice flour, to celebrate Winter Solstice.

That's 8 hours and 49 minutes shorter than the longest day of the year. But people generally concentrate on, and celebrate, the whole day. Stonehenge is one of the most popular sites to visit in the ...

English Heritage's Stonehenge director Steve Bax said: "It was fantastic to welcome around 4,500 people to Stonehenge this morning to celebrate winter solstice, and we were delighted that more than ...

But groundhog day in Arkansas felt like spring had already sprung, and today is going to be even warmer.  Why do we celebrate ...

Did you know Punxsutawney Phil isn't the only weather-predicting groundhog? In Georgia, General Beauregard Lee has made his call.