For example, in D.C. solar noon is at 11:57 a.m. on December 1, but drifts 14 minutes later â to 12:11 p.m. â by December 31. This forward shift means that it takes a few seconds more than 24 hours for the sun to complete a full circle between its maximum noontime height from one day to the next. Meanwhile, as we approach the solstice, the sunâs declination is no longer changing as rapidly, which causes the days to shorten at a slower pace.
ANNETTE BENING recalls that Hollywood could hardly contain its laughter when she married Warren Beatty. He was the great lothario: a 53-year-old serial womaniser who kept his own penthouse suite at the luxurious Beverly Wilshire Hotel to entertain girlfriends.
When he puts on the spectacles, he sees that she is a toothless old woman. He expresses horror at her appearance, and even more so when he learns she is 82 years old. She begins a rant about a very foolish descendant of hers, one Napoleon Bonaparte Froissart. He realizes that she is his great-great-grandmother.