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Origins of Christmas

By ROSES AND THORNS | By Alejandro R. Roces | December 22, 2001 - 12:00am

Nowadays, people have to look at the calendar to know when the moon will be new, full or on its first and last quarter. So very few people realize that today is the December solstice, the time the sun reaches its...

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