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equinox

 (n): either of two times of the year when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator and day and night are of equal length
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over 2 years ago trivet said:

I first met the equinoxes in The Elephant's Child:

That very next morning, when there was nothing left of the Equinoxes, because the Precession had preceded according to precedent, this 'satiable Elephant's Child took a hundred pounds of bananas (the little short red kind), and a hundred pounds of sugar-cane (the long purple kind), and seventeen melons (the greeny-crackly kind), and said to all his dear families, 'Goodbye. I am going to the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, to find out what the Crocodile has for dinner.'

Kipling, Just So Stories

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