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midsummer day and midsummer night

(Encyclopedia) midsummer day and midsummer night, names given to the feast of the nativity of St. John the Baptist (June 24) and the preceding night (St. John's Eve, June 23). Because midsummer is…

day

(Encyclopedia) day, period of time for the earth to rotate once on its axis. The ordinary day, or solar day, is measured relative to the sun, being the time between successive passages of the sun…

I Sleep Not Day nor Night

I Sleep Not Day nor NightInterea Insomnes Noctes Ego Duco, DiesqueMeditationJohn Donne NATURAL men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; that it is a refreshing of the body in this life;…

Sara Teasdale: Day and Night

Day and NightIn Warsaw in Poland Half the world away, The one I love best of all Thought of me to-day;I know, for I went Winged as a bird, In the wide flowing wind His own voice I heard;…

Six Days, Seven Nights

Director:Ivan ReitmanWriter:Michael BrowningDirector of Photography:Michael ChapmanEditors:Sheldon Kahn and Wendy Greene BricmontMusic:Randy EdelmanProduction Designer:J. Michael…

40 Days and 40 Nights

Director:Michael LehmannWriter:Robert PerezMiramax; R; 92 minutesRelease:3/02Cast:Josh Hartnett, Shannyn Sossamon, Vinessa Shaw Handsome Matt (Josh Hartnett, finally out of uniform) is a…

The Summer Solstice Meaning

Have you ever heard of Midsummer? Not only was this portion of the year memorialized by William Shakespeare in his seminal work, "A Midsummer Night's Dream", but it has long been an important time…

All Souls' Day

(Encyclopedia) All Souls' Day, Nov. 2 (exceptionally, Nov. 3), feast of the Roman Catholic Church on which the church on earth prays for the souls of the faithful departed still suffering in…

Itzamna

(Encyclopedia) ItzamnaItzamnaētsämˈnä [key], chief deity of the Maya. Son of Hunab Ku, the creator, he was believed to be lord of the heavens, day, and night. Thought by the Maya to have been the…

Walt Whitman: Of Him I Love Day and Night

Of Him I Love Day and NightOf him I love day and night I dream'd I heard he was dead, And I dream'd I went where they had buried him I love, but he was not in that place, And I dream'd I…