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June 2nd, 2016 | #1 |
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19th-Century White House Garden Aligns with Solstice Sun
19th-Century White House Garden Aligns with Solstice Sun A 19th-century garden just north of the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue, in Washington, D.C., was designed so that its statues align with the rising and setting sun on the summer and winter solstices, a physics professor has found. Using satellite imagery and astronomical software, Amelia Sparavigna, of Politecnico di Torino in Italy, discovered the phenomenon. The solstice sun aligns with the center of the garden, which contains a statue of President Andrew Jackson, and the endings of four walkways that now contain four statues of generals from the American Revolutionary War, the physicist found. http://www.livescience.com/54951-whi...stice-sun.html |
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