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Winter solstice, 2011

Rob Beschizza at 7:07 am Fri, Dec 23, 2011

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The longest night of the year, at Stonehenge. Photo: Kieran Doherty, Reuters

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Paul Renault

“The longest night of the year”? I’d bet that a few ‘Stralians would like to have a word with you…
- GD
  
  To be fair, the caption does qualify the location. It is the longest night of the year at Stonehenge.
mtdna

It’s not the longest night of the year, it’s the shortest day of the year. Duh.
http://twitter.com/digitalArtform Joseph Francis

What a lady, what a night.
subflor

Do you have permission from English Heritage to show this image?
- http://boingboing.net/ Rob Beschizza
  
  Haha, as if.
http://twitter.com/dailyrev Brian Donohue

In the context of the religio-secular holidays that have formed around it, W.S. is not really a celebration of the longest night but rather of the cessation of night’s lengthening. More on that point here:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/116841128793104627176/posts/WZCUTmehNmW