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Dr. Bill would like to see me cut down one five foot thick oak with a bronze axe.
If I can haul out those stones from wherever and put them up I *ain' gone let a few pieces of wood get in my way†. If you don't think they hauled those stones from somewhere you might be hard pressed to explain how the dang thang got there in the first place.
†Hey, maybe the UFO pilots that gave them the antigrav machines they used on the stones let them use their laser cutters, too.
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Dear Max: A fairly large company got control of an old Army artillery range in southern Massachusetts, and hoped to put in either a very large housing development or an airport. The trees there were only perhaps a hundred years old, but even with chainsaws, chippers, and all sorts of gasoline powered tools and burning, they gave up and just left huge trunks lying on the ground. I doubt very much that the technologically disadvantaged early Britons could have accomplished anything by burning. The could kill trees, but it would have taken hundreds of years before the trunks would fall.
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We usually just sacrifice a virgin or two and then hit the sack. No big deal really.
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I understand that you cannot get into the circle of stones these days ... apparently the balance of the stones was being affected by all the tromping around and the interior area is fenced off. Anyone confirm this? I visited in 1974, and you could walk in and around the stones. Have pictures of self leaning against stone.
Sorry, no strange voices or weird happenings ... no one more disappointed than myself!
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Dear wow: When you were at Stonehenge, do you remember whether or not the horizon was visible well enough to make accurate deternination of rising and setting of sun? Of course the trees today would be insignificant compared to those of four thousand years ago.
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I have never been to stonehenge, but i have been to carhenge-- http://www.carhenge.com/ -haven't you dreamed of going to nebraska to see big old american cars reconfigured to look like stonehenge, in the middle of an old farm field? i should make a point of telling CK-& SWMBO to check this out! and to fell a tree, you start with a small piece of hard string*-- girdle the tree-- it will kill it in year or two, and in an other 10, the wood will be dry, and easy to hack down. right down to the root. * or copper wire, or even a lenght of vine--
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at Stonehenge, do you remember whether or not the horizon was visible well enough to make accurate deternination of rising and setting of sun
It was/is on a plain ... I don't recall a tree at all!
Checked some photos ... no trees to be seen.
A lot of trees can grow to a decent size in 27 years!
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FYI - James J Hill built a replica of Stonehenge in the Columbia Gorge, on the Washington side of the river - orienting it with the landscape & the heavens for the same sort of astrological magic that happens at the British original. It's a WWII memorial, as well as a regular gathering place at solstices & equinoces (is that really the plural form, or did I just make that up?). There's a decent view of it on the website, and this one doesn't warrant the delicacy with which the original is treated, so you can walk around in it all you want. http://www.maryhillmuseum.org/about.htmGreat museum too - my favorite pieces are the war-era French fashion mannequins (when raw materials were scarce, a couple of the French fashion houses did their lines in 16" scale models rather than full-size dresses, with elaborate sets to boot) and an incredible collection of chess sets...
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Dear Faldage: Let's be fair. Rod's post came so close to mine that I went to next page without seeing it,until you rubbed my nose in it .(forgive figure of speech, Rod). I have senile moments, but this was not one of them.
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