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  2. Fred Hoyle - Wikipedia

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    Sir Fred Hoyle (24 June 1915 ... The Fred Hoyle Collection at St John's College Library contains "a pair of walking boots, ... On Stonehenge, 1977, ...

  3. Archaeoastronomy and Stonehenge - Wikipedia

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    Stukeley concluded the Stonehenge had been set up "by the use of a magnetic compass to lay out the works, the needle varying so much, at that time, from true north." He attempted to calculate the change in magnetic variation between the observed and theoretical (ideal) Stonehenge sunrise, which he imagined would relate to the date of construction.

  4. Aubrey holes - Wikipedia

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    Many interpretations prefer an astronomical explanation for the purpose of the holes although this is by no means proved. It was formerly thought that when the Aubrey holes were first dug, the only standing feature at Stonehenge was the Heelstone, which marked the point of the midsummer sunrise, viewed from the centre of the henge.

  5. Fred Hoyle (priest) - Wikipedia

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    Frederick James (Fred) Hoyle (14 December 1918 – 11 February 1994) was the inaugural Archdeacon of Bolton. [ 1 ] He was educated at St John's College, Durham and after wartime service during World War II was ordained in 1949.

  6. Sir Fred Hoyle - Wikipedia

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  7. Ossian's Ride - Wikipedia

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    The science fiction denouement is confined almost to the last chapter and foreshadows the theme of Hoyle's later A for Andromeda, though in a far more cursory manner. Also of note is the way the young hero seems to come to accept the notion of an authoritarian society ruled by a few self-appointed "supermen".

  8. Long Island woman, 51, killed after cab driver crashes car ...

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    The crash sent the taxi careening onto the sidewalk, where the vehicle hit the 51-year-old woman and two men, 44 and 49. The woman was “pinned” against a fence by the vehicle, a police source said

  9. Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge - Wikipedia

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    Its building is the main departmental site (the Hoyle Building), with a lecture theatre added in 1999, and a second two-storey wing built in 2002. From 1990 to 1998, the Royal Greenwich Observatory was based in Cambridge, where it occupied Greenwich House on a site adjacent to the Institute of Astronomy.