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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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Chesapeake Bay boaters: March 20--the vernal equinox--is also the date for Spring Equinox Sock Burning, also known as the Eastport Sock Burning. by a short hike, led by Cook, to mark the spring equinox. I find it interesting that the Christian tradition has preserved the natural roots of our greatest festival, Easter, growing as it does out of the timing of Passover, because it is connected to the first full moon after the spring equinox (in the northern hemisphere). |
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