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Dog Days of Summer...What Does it Mean?
Posted by Jenny Wilhelm on
The summer is winding down and it's...HOT! As some might say, these are the "Dog Days of Summer." We've always wondered exactly what that meant, so we turned to our beloved National Geographic magazine and found an in depth explanation...and it's not what you think! From the National Geographic article "Why Do We Call Them The Dog Days of Summer" by Becky Little, "THE “DOG DAYS,” I always thought, were those summer days so devastatingly hot that even dogs would lie around on the asphalt, panting. Many people today use the phrase to mean something like that—but originally, the phrase actually...