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Some Japanese watermelons grow inside box-shaped molds, becoming cubes harvested unripe for display rather than sweet fruit for a picnic.
Summer Word Search
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sandcastleFind to reveal
Water-repellent sand let researchers build castles underwater, trapping air between grains while the surrounding water helped support the unusual submerged structures.
sunglassesFind to reveal
Inuit snow goggles used narrow slits instead of dark lenses, cutting the glare without covering the eyes with tinted glass.
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Sunlight you see left the sun about eight minutes earlier, traveling 93 million miles before warming your skin.
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The popsicle was invented by accident in 1905 by 11-year-old Frank Epperson, who left a soda and stir stick out overnight.
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A seashell emphasizes background noise, creating its ocean-like sound; an empty cup can produce a similar illusion without visiting the sea.
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The word vacation comes from a Latin root meaning empty or free, the idea of leaving your duties vacant for a while.
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Lemonade may be over 800 years old; medieval Egyptians along the Nile bottled and sold a sweet lemon drink called qatarmizat.
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Hawaii's Punaluu has jet-black sand made of cooled lava, while the Bahamas' Pink Sands Beach blushes from tiny red-shelled sea creatures.
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The Dead Sea is a lake, not a sea; its unusually salty water helps swimmers float more easily.
True stories · Connecticut, United States
A four-year-old's lemonade
In 2000, four-year-old Alexandra Scott, then living in Connecticut, was fighting cancer when she told her mother she wanted to set up a lemonade stand. The money, she said, would go to doctors to help other sick children. That first summer stand raised about two thousand dollars. Word spread, and people across the country began holding lemonade stands in her name. Alex kept hers going every summer, even as her illness grew worse. By the time she died at age eight, her stands and supporters had raised more than a million dollars. The foundation her family built in her memory has since funded well over a thousand childhood cancer research grants.
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James
Trivia
In the Northern Hemisphere, the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, falls around which date?
Around June 21.
Earth is actually farthest from the sun in July, an event with a name. What is that point in the orbit called?
Aphelion.
What do we call the lazy, hot stretch of midsummer, named long ago after a bright star that rises with the sun?
The dog days (after the star Sirius).
Which vitamin does your skin make when sunlight touches it?
Vitamin D.
A rainbow appears when sunlight passes through what in the air?
Water droplets (rain).
Trivia · 1 / 5
In the Northern Hemisphere, the summer solstice, the longest day of the year, falls around which date?
Around June 21.
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Play →or printTrue stories · Amesbury, England
Sunrise at the old stones
Each year near June 21, thousands of people gather at Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain near Amesbury, England, to watch the sun rise on the longest day. They come in darkness and wait, and as dawn breaks the sun climbs directly behind the Heel Stone, sending light straight down the monument's central avenue. The monument began about five thousand years ago, with its great stones erected later, and the builders set them deliberately to frame the midsummer sunrise. Druids, photographers, and curious families stand together in the cold morning air. The solstice gathering is a reminder that people have marked the turning of the seasons here for thousands of years.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
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Sources: Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation history · Stonehenge summer solstice (English Heritage) · Tallest sandcastle (Guinness World Records) · Heaviest watermelon (Guinness World Records)
Word list, facts & trivia researched and compiled by Sam Letterman — spotted a mistake? Tell us and we’ll fix it.