December month"). The French Republican Calendar contained December within the months of Frimaire and Nivôse. December contains the winter solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, the day with the fewest daylight hours, and the summer solstice in the Southern Hemisphere, the day with the most daylight hours (excluding polar regions in both cases). December in the Northern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent to June in the Southern Hemisphere and vice versa. In the Northern hemisphere, the beginning of the astronomical winter is traditionally 21 December or the date of the solstice. Meteor showers occurring in December are the Andromedids (September 25 –
And the Thieves Are Gone And the Thieves Are Gone And the Thieves Are Gone is an EP by Joseph Arthur released on December 7, 2004. The bulk of the EP was recorded in New Orleans where much of the album "Our Shadows Will Remain" was produced. "And the Thieves Are Gone" was made available primarily at select US indie music stores only. The song "Real as Rain" became the B-side to the "Can't Exist" single in 2005, and "Papa" became the B-side to the "Devil's Broom" single in 2006. "My Home Is Your Head" appeared in the "House M.D." episode "Ugly," which first aired