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Equinox[edit]

The topic is not very broad and diverse, but I am hoping to expand on it. Any suggestions, comments? —Eternal Equinox | talk 00:28, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The cultural significance of the equinoxes? Festivals? Alignment of Stonehenge? Mark ^{your words} 12:38, 4 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with Mark above that a reader would expect to find the cultural significance of the equinox here. References are required per Wikipedia:Verifiability and m:Cite/Cite.php is excellent for incorporating footnotes. Consider using a table or illustrated list for the "March equinox" and "September equinox" sections since they consist of similar sentences repeated a dozen times (see Wikipedia:Featured lists for ideas. --maclean25 22:09, 5 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I think Stonehenge is associated with the solstices rather than the equinoxes. Some phenomena I do associate with equinoxes, however:

the dating of Passover and hence Easter (which is mentioned on Jewish holiday, although I can't find it on the Passover page). Actually, the vernal equinox page lists a lot about calendars, first of the year, and so on, so perhaps you don't want them in equinox too -- Iran and Israel also seem to organise daylight saving by equinox dates too.

not sure, but possibly very high tides? (see spring tides, but it doesn't mention equinoxes, so perhaps I am wrong).

equinoctial gales. Seem slightly disputed by a BBC weather feature but then see also Saxby Gale (which is really interesting and which I never knew -- wow)

There are some startling "one night a year, all these thousands of members of this species do this same thing at the same time" stories about the animal world. Are any of those connected to equinoxes? (I really should have paid more attention to David Attenborough :))

When did astronomers first observe and describe the equinoxes? For how many thousands of years have humans watched for them, confident that they would occur?

Not sure how useful any of these are, but some thoughts, at least. --Telsa (^(t)^(c)) 19:18, 6 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]