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<\/a><\/p>\n* Fall officially began on the Autumnal Equinox, which in 2014 is on September 23 at 10:29 P.M. EDT. <\/span><\/p>\n * The Autumnal Equinox marks the start of astronomical fall, and is what is noted on all of our calendars.\u00a0 Meteorological fall began on September 1. I think cultural fall began the day after Labor Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n * The equinox usually falls on September 22 or 23. The date varies because the Earth takes 365.25 days to make a complete journey around the sun, not an exact calendar year. On very rare occasions, the fall equinox takes place on Sept. 24. That happened in 1931 and won’t happen again until 2303.<\/p>\n * The full moon in October is called the Full Hunter’s Moon, which is what Native Americans called it. “[I]t\u2019s time to begin storing up meat for the long winter ahead. Because the fields were traditionally reaped in late September or early October, hunters could easily see fox and other animals that come out to glean from the fallen grains,” says the Farmers’ Almanac<\/a>.<\/p>\n * NASA<\/a> describes autumn as \u201caurora season\u201d because of the high number of geomagnetic storms during the season. The storms that cause the aurora borealis happen twice as frequently in the fall than the average throughout the year.<\/p>\n * Daylight Savings Time ends at 2 a.m. Nov. 2. A federal law<\/a> moved it from October to November in 2007.<\/p>\n * Animals are on the move. I heard some Canadian geese yesterday evening and they were in fact flying south. In addition to bird migrating, the many squirrels here in the Midwest are very serious about their nut collection – you don’t see them without something in their mouths. They are fattening up for winter. Did you know that both mammals and reptiles hibernate?<\/p>\n * Harvest festivals happen in many cultures. Did you know OktoberFet isn’t just about the beer but is almost meant to celebrate the harvest? (It initially started in 1810 when Munich celebrated the Crown Prince\u2019s wedding with a special beer and 16 day party, according to the Samuel Adams<\/a> company.) The Chinese Moon Festival celebrates the harvest and is held within 15 days of the autumnal equinox. In the U.S., we celebrate Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday in November but in Canada, they celebrate in October. This year it is October 13th.<\/p>\n YOU MAY ALSO LIKE:<\/strong>\u00a0 11 Facts about apples so you can answer all of your kids\u2019 questions<\/a><\/p>\n Please like Mom Factually on Facebook<\/a>.<\/strong> You can also find MF on Pinterest<\/a>, Twitter, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It feels like fall is here already here. I saw pumpkins in more than one front yard, people were sipping Pumpkin Spice Lattes at the coffee shop this morning and college football is in full swing.\u00a0 The\u00a0 calendar is in sync with the leaves that are showing a twinge of color – autumn has arrived. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6057,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions\/6057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"From](\"http:\/\/betweenusparents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ID-10029271-1.jpg\")
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