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November Light
On Daylight Savings Time, cemetery lights, and a Vatican 'mascot'
By John M. Grondelski | November 1st 2024 11:15 AMAs November begins, light or its lack becomes something of a focus. The American poet William Cullen Bryant described the end of October, leading into November, as when “suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief.” In England, bonfires traditionally illumined the hills on these days as the harvest…
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