I stretch across the water to connect points A and B And now you're thinking bridge, but mortal hands did not make me And though it's not the season, I will wish you Merry Christmas Because it is the only thing, I think, that rhymes with...

A memory of light and warmth Among the soot and ash Stir me up and drown me Else I'll wake up in a flash

Ptolemyo and Aristotle were wrong about it Galileo found flaws After Copernicus developed a model that changed the way we see it What is it?

I come just twice in every year, I mark when seasons shift and steer. One brings the longest day of light, One stretches out the longest night. What am I?

I am the only thing on Earth that can be miles long but still just the a little part of a much larger story. I am a mountain that prefers to swim, yet I am made of what makes others sink. I can crush a giant made of steel, but I’ll eventually vanish into the very place I call home. What am I?