Winter Solstice News

Did you know that within 50 miles of Dublin the passage tombs of the Bru na Boinne Complex are 500 years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza and about 1,000 years older than Stonehenge? Newgrange is a burial mound, 250 feet across and 40 feet high.

Ohmygosh! Could it be true? The end of the world is coming in just a little over three years? How did I not know this? When did I get so out of the loop? To tell the truth, the only reason I found out at all is because I saw a trailer online for an upcoming motion picture called "2012," starring John Cusack, Danny Glover and Oliver Platt.

Above: An echidna and stegosaurus were among dozens of largenterns. THOUSANDS of people braved a chilly hills evening to mark the winter solstice in Belgrave last Saturday, 20 June.

Aucklanders exercising yesterday cast the year's longest shadows with the sun at its lowest.

Icy temperatures and gusty winds didn't stop a couple of people in Antarctica from plunging into freezing waters Sunday.

SONS OF LIGHT: The solstice scene at Stonehenge Aotearoa. Cloaked druids, fire and feasting marked the longest night of the year in ancient Celtic style at Stonehenge Aotearoa.

DUCKING: Graham Eames, front, Steve Coates, and Terry Lassen duck shooting on the shortest day of the year.

IF ALL went to plan this morning, Gavin Andrew rose early, rugged up against the bone-aching winter chill and set out into the black night enveloping his forest home in the Dandenong Hills.

The Summer Solstice falls on June 20 at 10:46 pm PDT, June 21 CDT and points east.

The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery will open its doors to the public tonight for a feast of interactive entertainment to celebrate the opening of the Antarctic Midwinter Festival.

Prosciutto after curing with Sammy Calabrese. Sunday is winter solstice - bad news for pigs.

How Do People Think the World Will End on December 21, 2012? For those of you interested in what will cause our December 21, 2012 end of the world , this is the place to be.

Birmingham - Why is there so much interest in December 21st 2012? Hundreds of websites focus on that date and there are dozens of books and DVDs devoted to the subject.

Have you heard the news? Apparently, the world is going to end in 2012. I know humanity has already survived many of these predictions, but this time it's the Mayans doing the predicting.

LINCOLNVILLE : Marcia Renee Converse and Keith Arnold Wass were married on the winter solstice, Dec.

San Francisco Bay designers Don and Sheri Lewis really thought they had it made.

Wicca is an earth-based religion which follows the cycles of the sun and the moon.

Q: What's this nonsense I hear about a so-called "kitten season?" Animal shelters use this term to imply they get a lot of kittens around spring.

Within another year or so, the worlds population will start paying more attention to the approaching 2012 galactic alignment theory.

"Something about dangerous women always intrigues me," Maurice Stanley said Monday night at Prologue, the Star-News/WHQR book club.