Notably, every 18.6 years, during the northern lunar standstill, the moonrise is aligned with the sites two rock pinnacles, as well as during the summer and winter solstices, and the fall and spring equinoxes.

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During the flu pandemic of 1918, cases began in the spring and then faded away during the summer, only to come back with a vengeance in the fall and winter.

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Which means, in the Northern Hemisphere what you might call "the getting warmer seasons" spring and summer are collectively seven days longer than "the getting colder seasons, " fall and winter.

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Although the seasonal equinoxes and solstices seem to divide the year into four equal parts, when you count the days of what we officially call winter, spring, summer and fall, each season is different, says Bing Quock, acting chairman of the Morrison Planetarium at the California Academy of Sciences.

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Some people may wonder why we in the Northern Hemisphere have our spring and summer when our planet is far away from the sun. (Equally confusing: our fall and winter come when we are near to the sun.) Shouldn't proximity to that nice warm ball of sunshine predict our seasons?

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It would offer creative leasing, letting you drive a Chevy Corvette during the summer, a Cadillac Seville STS during the fall and spring and a GMC Yukon during the winter.

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Just as sure as there is summer, there will be fall and eventually winter, which will be relieved by spring.

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Brands are no longer so carefully crafted, calculated and canned that we must plan in the fall, produce in the winter, launch in the spring, and maintain in the summer.

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