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For a few minutes on the day of the equinox, the Sun's radiation overwhelms the receiving station for the geostationary satellite.equinox = either of the two days a year when the length of day and night are most equal
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It always begins on the first day of spring at the exact moment of the equinox.† (source)
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The spring equinox has just passed; they face six months of unrelenting night.† (source)
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Sometime around the equinox?† (source)
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So popular and effective did this practice become that it was regularized in the middle period, when it took place four times a year, on solstices and equinoxes.† (source)
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And twenty-four hours from now, the next time the sun went down, the equinox would begin.† (source)
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The Crucifixion and Resurrection come very near the spring equinox, the death of winter and beginning of renewed life.† (source)
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And when she started asking him complicated questions, he took her along to lectures at the Royal Society, where it turned out that a nine-year-old girl who had blond hair and knew what the precession of the equinoxes was could ask hugely bearded famous scientists anything she liked.† (source)
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At the equinox, the mothership will send a pod to extract Grace from the safe house ...† (source)
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But some of the machinery would be left, since new pieces could always be bought on the installment plan—gaunt, staring, motionless wheels rising from mounds of brick rubble and ragged weeds with a quality profoundly astonishing, and gutted boilers lifting their rusting and unsmoking stacks with an air stubborn, baffled and bemused upon a stumppocked scene of profound and peaceful desolation, unplowed, untilled, gutting slowly into red and choked ravines beneath the long quiet rains of autumn and the galloping fury of vernal equinoxes.† (source)
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In reality, the only thing that could be isolated in the rocky paragraphs was the insistent hammering on the wordequinox, equinox, equinox, and the name of Alexander von Humboldt.† (source)
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The Chinese seas are usually boisterous, subject to terrible gales of wind, and especially during the equinoxes; and it was now early November.† (source)
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The agency was still in shock over the Equinox Oil campaign.† (source)
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Meditations of evolution increasingly vaster: of the moon invisible in incipient lunation, approaching perigee: of the infinite lattiginous scintillating uncondensed milky way, discernible by daylight by an observer placed at the lower end of a cylindrical vertical shaft 5000 ft deep sunk from the surface towards the centre of the earth: of Sirius (alpha in Canis Maior) 10 lightyears (57,000,000,000,000 miles) distant and in volume 900 times the dimension of our planet: of Arcturus: of the precession of equinoxes: of Orion with belt and sextuple sun theta and nebula in which 100 of our solar systems could be contained: of moribund and of nascent new stars such as Nova in 1901: of our system† (source)
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Ostara, the equinox, the balance of day to night?† (source)
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[55] The purist performs a useful office in enforcing a certain logical regularity upon the process, and in our own case the omnipresent example of the greater conservatism of the English corrects our native tendency to go too fast, but the process itself is as inexorable in its workings as the precession of the equinoxes, and if we yield to it more eagerly than the English it is only a proof, perhaps, that the future of what was once the Anglo-Saxon tongue lies on this side of the water† (source)
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