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Equinox
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EQUINOX. The name given to two periods of the year when the days and nights are equal; that is, when the space of time between the rising and setting of the sun is one half of a natural day. Dig. 43, 13, 1, 8. Vide Day.


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The festival opens under the harvest moon during the fall equinox with a fund-raising concert Saturday at UCLA Sunset Canyon Recreation Center Outdoor Amphitheatre, where seven international groups perform, including entries from Ghana, Siberia, Mexico City and Korea.
Sensing that he had lost touch with his craft, world-renowned photographer Jim Brandenburg retreated to his home in Minnesota's north woods and gave himself an assignment: to take one picture a day for the ninety days from the fall equinox to the winter solstice.
Sacred Space/Sacred Ground: Music and Dance Fall Equinox Celebration," with Omar Faruk Tekbilek, will take place Sept.
 
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