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What Is the Winter Solstice, and Why Do People Celebrate It?

For most people, the winter solstice marks one of the most predictable non-events in the calendar year. It’s usually associated with the onset of a long winter and all the emotional drudgery that comes with it. But the event remains a fixture of our year-end activities because of its millennia-spanning cultural significance, even if it gets a bad rap in the Northern Hemisphere for being the darkes