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 –
Once Upon a December CineMatter said "only two of the film's songs) (Journey to the Past, and Once Upon a December) have any lasting presence". FilmVault says it is "fairy-tale lovely". FilmTracks said the pop version is "the highlight of all the songs, despite the somewhat lazy vocal rendering". AllMusic describes it as an example of copying the "Disney formula of balancing big show tunes from the film with re-recorded MOR pop versions of the same song". DVDReview describes it as a "Karaoke-style sing-a-long". Once Upon a December "Once Upon a December" is a song from the 1997 Fox Animation Studios film "Anastasia". The