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  2. 2024 Dates: A quick guide to seasons, holidays and sporting ...

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    Discover key dates for holidays, season changes and popular events for the rest of 2024. ... Turkey time! Thanksgiving is celebrated on Nov. 28, 2024. ... 2024. 'Tis the Season! Bonne Maman’s ...

  3. Season - Wikipedia

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    Each season's arrival is heralded not by a calendar date, but by environmental factors [41] such as changing winds, flowering plants, temperature and migration patterns and lasts approximately two standard calendar months. The seasons also correlate to aspects of the human condition, intrinsically linking the lives of the people to the world ...

  4. Solar term - Wikipedia

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    The points are spaced 15° apart along the ecliptic [2] and are used by lunisolar calendars to stay synchronized with the seasons, which is crucial for agrarian societies. The solar terms are also used to calculate intercalary months; [3] which month is repeated depends on the position of the sun at the time.

  5. Ritu (season) - Wikipedia

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    The Bengali Calendar is similar to the Sanskrit calendar above, but differs in start and end times which moves certain dates/days around (i.e., Vasant Panchami occurs here in Vasant ritu but in the calendar above, it occurs in Shishir as that is the Magha Shukla Panchami). The East Indian Calendar has the following seasons or ritus:

  6. Solar calendar - Wikipedia

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    A solar calendar is a calendar whose dates indicate the season or almost equivalently the apparent position of the Sun relative to the stars. The Gregorian calendar , widely accepted as a standard in the world, is an example of a solar calendar.

  7. Gregorian calendar - Wikipedia

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    The Gregorian calendar, like the Julian calendar, is a solar calendar with 12 months of 28–31 days each. The year in both calendars consists of 365 days, with a leap day being added to February in the leap years. The months and length of months in the Gregorian calendar are the same as for the Julian calendar.

  8. When is the winter solstice? A guide to the shortest day of ...

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    How the season got its name. Winter solstice, explained The winter solstice marks the shortest day and longest night of the year , according to the National Weather Service.

  9. Seasonal year - Wikipedia

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    The seasonal year is the time between successive recurrences of a seasonal event such as the flooding of a river, the migration of a species of bird, or the flowering of a species of plant. The need for farmers to predict seasonal events led to the development of calendars .