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solstice
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
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solstice either of the two times in the year, the
summer solstice and the
winter solstice, when the sun reaches its highest or lowest point in the sky at noon, marked by the longest and shortest days. Recorded from Middle English, the word comes via Old French from Latin
solstitium, from
sol ‘sun’ +
stit- ‘stopped, stationary’.
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Solstice Sunglass Boutique Announces Massive U.S. Expansion Plan: 30 Stores to Open In 2006, 155-Store Chain By 2008.
PR Newswire; 3/30/2006; 700+ words
; ...NEW YORK, March 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Solstice Marketing Concepts, LLC (SMC), the...privately owned firm and parent company of Solstice Sunglass Boutique, announced today that it plans to make Solstice a 120-store sunwear chain by 2007...
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SOLSTICE Sunglass Boutique to Donate 10 Percent of Store Sales on the Summer Solstice to the Climate Project.
Newspaper article from: Ecology, Environment & Conservation; 7/3/2009; 700+ words
; SOLSTICE Sunglass Boutique announced its celebration of the Summer Solstice, which occurs on June 21, 2009 at 5:45 a.m...10 percent of all sunglass sales from its U.S. SOLSTICE Sunglass Boutique locations on June 21st to The Climate...
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Solstice Adds Ski-In, Ski-Out Chalet in the Swiss Alps to its Luxury Collection.
PR Newswire; 11/28/2007; 700+ words
; ...Ariz., Nov. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Solstice, the ultra-luxury leader in the...shopping, dining and exciting nightlife. Solstice is the only destination club with a home...third ski-oriented destination in the Solstice collection, which includes a home in...
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Solstice Software Secures $3.8 Million in Series B Funding.
Business Wire; 3/12/2003; 700+ words
; ...Turning application testing inside out, Solstice Software, Inc. today announced the...funded by Anthem Capital Management. Solstice will apply the $3.8 million funding...integration projects. Organizations using Solstice Software typically realize a return on...
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Solstice Neurosciences Raises $85 Million in Private Financing.
PR Newswire; 11/8/2006; 700+ words
; ...MALVERN, Pa., Nov. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Solstice Neurosciences, Inc., a privately held...Highland Capital Management will join Solstice's board of directors with the closing...initiatives and advance product development. "Solstice Neurosciences is excited to receive this...
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Solstice Announces Ownership Restructuring.
Business Wire; 5/16/2008; 700+ words
; SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Solstice, the leading second-home destination club, announced that Graham Kos, Solstice founder, and outside investors have...end destination club that merged with Solstice in December 2006. The merged club...
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Solstice sizzles for Pontiac Automaker delivers with sexy styling and cat-like handling
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 9/19/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...but many mouthed the word "Solstice" because the car has gotten...and "Las Vegas." The Solstice is the first car built on...build only 20,000-30,000 Solstices, and hand-welding makes...convertible cowl shake. The Solstice uses GM's 2.4-liter...
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Solstice: shot of adrenaline
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 3/26/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Bergen County, NJ) 03-26-2006 Solstice: shot of adrenaline -- New roadster...2002 Detroit auto show, the Pontiac Solstice has been more than just a car for General...the green light for production, the Solstice became the project everyone within GM...
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SOLSTICE Celebrates Summer's Start with Nationwide Summer Solstice Promotion.
Business Wire; 6/15/2007; 700+ words
; ...officially begins on the Summer Solstice, Thursday, June 21(st), the...day of the year. To celebrate, SOLSTICE Sunglass Boutique, the upscale...summer. Customers who visit one of SOLSTICE'S 100 retail locations nationwide...
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Solstice Software Pioneers Behind-the-Screens Testing for Large Integration Projects.
Business Wire; 10/28/2003; 700+ words
; ...Manage Increasingly Complex Projects Solstice Software, Inc., the pioneer in behind...leading up to its formal introduction, Solstice debuts to the market as a stable, mature...said Joe Oddo, president and CEO at Solstice. "You can allocate your limited resources...
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Solstices
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
...astrology, the solstices were important...at the winter solstice and Cancer at the summer solstice. While important...scope, the solstices were little...Pagans mark the solstices as two of the...ancient winter solstice, called Yule...
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Solstice
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...southernmost (winter solstice) declinations ( declination...hemisphere. Thus, the solstices and the equinoxes...on Earth. The word solstice is derived from the...direction. There are two solstices every year. One occurs...call this the summer solstice. It is just the opposite...
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solstice
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
solstice [Lat.,=sun stands still...of 90°). At the solstices the sun's apparent position...arc. At the time of summer solstice, about June 22, the sun...beginning of summer. At winter solstice, about Dec. 22, the sun...
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winter solstice
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
win·ter sol·stice • n. the solstice that marks the onset of winter, at the time of the shortest day, about December 22 in the northern hemisphere and June 21 in the southern hemisphere. ∎ Astron. the solstice in December.
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summer solstice
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
sum·mer sol·stice • n. the solstice that marks the onset of summer, at the time of the longest day, about June 21 in the northern hemisphere and December 22 in the southern hemisphere. ∎ Astron. the solstice in June.
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