September 23, 2019 The Autumn Equinox, Kubla Khan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Plants by Lewis and Clark, Stuart Robertson, Ruth Patrick, Poems about September, Plant Parenting by Leslie Halleck, Moving Plants, and the 1937 Rose Garden in Hershey, Pennsylva
Today is the first day of Autumn also referred to as the Autumn Equinox.
Equinox means 'equal night'.
On this day, both day and night are nearly the same length.
Thereafter, the dark part of the year begins.
Brevities
#OTD Today is the birthday of the grandson of Genghis Khan, Kubla Khan, who was born on this day in 1215.
Kubla Khan's Summer Garden at Xanadu is the subject of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 1797 poem Kubla Khan.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of…
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