1.   Christmas takes many of its traditions from ancient winter solstice celebrations that honor the return of sunlight after the shortest day of the year.

2.   My grandmother was born on the shortest day of the year, and she was pretty adept at handling winter.

3.   Or they would consider the puzzle of why the shortest day of the year did not have the earliest sunset.

4.   The shortest day of the year falls just a few days before Christmas.

5.   The solstice is also the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.

6.   The shortest day of the year means the longest night.

7.   The winter solstice marks the time when the sun travels in its lowest arc across the horizon and results in the shortest day of the year.

8.   The winter solstice, when the sun is farthest south of the celestial equator, falls on the shortest day of the year.

9.   Verdens Gang explained that the true Arctic Circle is defined as the northernmost point that the sun can be seen on the shortest day of the year.