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the daily resurrection nobody applauds because they're still asleep
means The moment the sun rises above the horizon; daybreak or sunrise.
from A plain American English compound, 'sun' + 'up,' coined in the 19th century as a homespun counterpart to 'sundown.' The 'up' simply marks the sun's climb over the horizon — the same folksy logic that gives us 'sunup to sundown' as a measure of a long working day. 'Sun' itself is ancient, tracing back through Old English 'sunne' to a Proto-Germanic root and ultimately a Proto-Indo-European word for the sun, a cousin of Latin 'sol.'
- earlier east
- sunup hits a city's east side first
- false start
- sun clears horizon minutes before it appears, light bends
- color trick
- red dawns mean atmosphere scattering away the blues
- old word
- sunup dates to 1700s American English
- poles excluded
- summer poles get no sunup for months
sunrise at angkor wat — cambodia's temple complex where thousands gather daily to watch the sun rise over the 12th-century ruins
sunrise at mount kilimanjaro — tanzania's 19,341-foot peak where climbers reach uhuru peak to witness the sun rise above the clouds