Experience Equinox Event Event Cache

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Hidden : Friday, March 20, 2015
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SPRING HAS SPRUNG!..........March Equinox in Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A. is on Friday, March 20, 2015 at 5:45 PM Come and join us at Hurricane Grill & Wings 17790 Highway 7 Minnetonka, MN 55345 from 5:45 - 8:00

March equinox - equal day and night. There are two equinoxes every year – in March and September – when the Sun shines directly on the equator and the length of night and day are nearly equal. The March equinox marks the moment the Sun crosses the celestial equator – the imaginary line in the sky above the Earth’s equator – from south to north. This happens on March 19, 20 or 21 every year. On the equinox, night and day are nearly exactly the same length – 12 hours – all over the world. This is the reason it's called an “equinox”, derived from Latin, meaning "equal night". However, in reality equinoxes don't have exactly 12 hours of daylight Equinoxes and solstices are opposite on either side of the equator, and the March equinox is also known as the "spring equinox" in the northern hemisphere and as the "autumnal equinox" in the southern hemisphere. I can remember every year my sister always going outside to make an egg stand up on the first day of Spring. So I checked it out on the Internet.------- Claim: A special property of the equinox allows eggs to be balanced on their ends that day. Answer: FALSE. Origins: Every year on the vernal equinox (on or about March 21), one of the two days per year in which the length of day and night are the same, we hear about a magical property of this day that allows eggs to be balanced on end. Rarely does a year go by in which a local TV news station doesn't send a reporter out to a neighborhood park to capture images of people delightedly placing eggs on the ground and watching in amazement as the eggs stand on end. Nonetheless, the vernal equinox brings no special egg-balancing properties with it. Standing an egg on its end is something just about anyone can do any day of the year; the feat simply takes the right egg and a little trial and practice. Well the heck with the eggs. Let's eat some CHICKEN WINGS!!!

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