It will be another month or so before the Northern Hemisphere experiences those truly frigid winter temperatures. Why is there such a big lag between the winter solstice and the coldest days? December 22, 2014. A modern-day druid leads incantations as revelers celebrate the sunrise during the winter solstice at Stonehenge on Monday.
; 31 January 1938) reigned as Queen of the Netherlands from 1980 until her abdication in 2013. Princess Beatrix is the eldest daughter of Queen Juliana and her husband, Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld. Upon her mother's accession in 1948, she became heir presumptive. When her mother abdicated on 30 April 1980, Beatrix succeeded her as Queen.
Lysistrata-Lysistrata is an Athenian woman who is sick and tired of war and the treatment of women in Athens. Lysistrata gathers the women of Sparta and Athens together to solve these social ills and finds success and power in her quest.Lysistrata is the least feminine of the women from either Athens or Sparta, and her masculinity helps her gain respect among the men.Read an in-depth analysis of Lysistrata.Kleonike-Kleonike is the next-door neighbor of Lysistrata and is the first to show up at Lysistrata's meeting of women.inesias is the first man to be affected by the sex strike and comes to the Akropolis, fully enflamed. Read an in-depth analysis of Kinesias. Peace-Lysistrata's handmaid. Peace is the unclothed beauty of a woman whom Lysistrata displays and uses during her final plea for peace between Athens and Sparta.