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Stories about: Solstice

December 21 Marks the Year's Shortest Day As most of you already know, the 2009 winter will officially begin two days from now, on Monday, December 21. The date will mark the winter solstice, the astronomical point in time when the shortest day of the year will take place. From that point on, winter is ongoing, even though this year it came a little bit earl... 19 December 2009 07:24 GMT Samsung Solstice Goes to AT&T, Link Hits Virgin Mobile Canada A new mobile phone is reportedly heading towards AT&T's airwaves, the Samsung Solstice A887, a mid-range handset that has been already known around as the Samsung Infinity, and which should land with the carrier as soon as August 2. According to the latest news around the Web, the phone should become available f... 30 July 2009 09:40 GMT The Longest Daylight for 2007 Is Today Tomorrow we will have the longest daylight in the Northern Hemisphere, marking the beginning of the astronomic summer, at 2:06 p.m. EDT (11:06 a.m. PDT). The summer solstice points to the moment when the sun reaches the spot where it's furthest north of the equator; instead, in the Southern Hemisphere, this mark... 20 June 2007 14:26 GMT