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White night is a night on which it never gets completely dark, because the sun does not descend completly far below the horizon. This phenomenon is observed at sufficiently high latitudes in summer. The Sun is the star at the centre of our Solar system. ... Horizon The horizon is the line that separates earth from sky. ... Latitude, denoted by the Greek letter φ, gives the location of a place on Earth north or south of the Equator. ... Summer is a season, defined by convention in meteorology as the whole months of June, July and August in the Northern hemisphere and the whole months of December, January and February in the Southern hemisphere. ...


At latitudes starting from about the polar circle (also slightly below, due to refraction), instead of twilight the sun may be visible all night, which is referred to as midnight sun. The polar circles is a name for the Arctic and the Antarctic Circle. ... Refraction in a Perspex (acrylic) block. ... Twilight in Denmark, just after sunset Twilight is the time before sunrise and after sunset when sunlight scattered in the upper atmosphere illuminates the lower atmosphere and the surface of the earth. ... The midnight sun at Nordkapp, Norway The midnight sun is a phenomenon occurring in latitudes north of the Arctic Circle and south of the Antarctic Circle where the sun is continuously visible for at least 24 hours. ...


White nights have become a common symbol of Saint Petersburg, Russia, where the last 10 days of June are celebrated with cultural events. Scandinavia, where this effect can also be observed, is also known as The Land of the Midnight Sun. Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland... Jump to: navigation, search Scandinavia, Fennoscandia, and the Kola Peninsula. ...


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Dan White's murders of Moscone and Milk drastically altered the political direction of San Francisco, from a pro-neighborhood, populist regime to the traditional conservative, Chamber of Commerce administration of Dianne Feinstein, but that outcome seemed incidental to the psychotic breakdown suffered by Dan White and the ensuing havoc he wrought.
Twenty-one were arrested that night, mostly around the Civic Center, including my house-mate Peter (two and a half years later, his four-felony case was settled as misdemeanor/probation pleas).
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