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  2. Winter solstice - Wikipedia

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    Iranian people celebrate the night of the Northern Hemisphere's winter solstice as, "Yalda night", which is known to be the "longest and darkest night of the year". Yalda night celebration, or as some call it "Shabe Chelleh" ("the 40th night"), is one of the oldest Iranian traditions that has been present in Persian culture from ancient times ...

  3. Shortest day and longest night: Winter solstice ushers in the ...

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    Saturday Dec. 21, 2024 marks the winter solstice this year. ... It will be both the shortest day and longest night of 2024. ... depending on the year, but the 21st and 22nd are the most common. In ...

  4. 'Night-Grazing' Is the Persian Tradition That Keeps Food ...

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    December 18, 2024 at 1:01 PM. ... Yalda Night, or Shab-e Yalda (also spelled Shabe Yalda), marks the longest night of the year in Iran and in many other Central Asian and Middle Eastern countries.

  5. What to know about the winter solstice, 2024's shortest day

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    The longest night happens on the solstice because the hemisphere is in its furthest position from the sun. That occurs each year on Dec. 21 or 22. This year, it falls on Dec. 21 at 4:21 a.m ET ...

  6. December solstice - Wikipedia

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    The December-solstice solar year is the solar year based on the December solstice. It is thus the length of time between adjacent December solstices. The length of the December-solstice year has been relatively stable between 6000 BC and AD 2000, in the range of 49 minutes 30 sec

  7. Solstice - Wikipedia

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    A solstice is the time when the Sun reaches its most northerly or southerly excursion relative to the celestial equator on the celestial sphere.Two solstices occur annually, around 20–22 June and 20–22 December.

  8. Winter solstice: The shortest day and longest night of the year

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    Winter solstice, the shortest day of the year and the official first day of winter, is on Saturday, December 21, this year (well, for the vast bulk of the world’s population anyway).

  9. Longest Night - Wikipedia

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    Longest Night, The Longest Night or The Longest Nite may refer to: Winter solstice , the day in December (Northern Hemisphere) and June (Southern Hemisphere) with the longest night of the year Longest Night Service or Blue Christmas, a Western Christian tradition marking the December winter solstice