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Coolidge Corner Cinema. 390 Harvard St., Brookline. 734-2500. On Thursday, Sept. 30. "Like Water for Chocolate" at 5:20 p.m. "Equinox" at 7:20 p.m. "Sick and Twisted Animation Festival" at 9:30 p.m. "Orlando" at 5 p.m. "Twist" at 6:45 and 8:20 p.m. "Hated: GG Allin and the Murder Junkies...
...called Ra by the Egyptians, Helios by the Greeks and Sol by the Romans. To the Aztecs, the sun god was Huitzilopochtli, whom they nourished with human sacrifices. Egypt's great pyramids at Giza were built with their sides aligned with the rising sun at the vernal equinox, and the temple complex at Karnak was dedicated to Ra. The ancient circle at Stonehenge, in England, was apparently constructed so that the sun would rise over one of the great stones at the time of the summer solstice...
...autumnal display is more than nature's way of attracting tourists to Vermont. As the earth begins to tilt away from the sun after the autumnal equinox, the sunlight reaching New England takes on an intense quality. During this time, the trees begin to prepare for the Northeastern winter...
...they are just a few of the highly specialized and pre-professional courses available this year from the Harvard Summer School Catalog, the summer Harvardian's official introduction to all that is Harvard between the summer solstice and the autumnal equinox...
...fact, if you want to learn more about just the summer solstice and the autumnal equinox, there's probably a summer school course which will teach...