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Stonehenge is a prehistoric megalithic structure on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, two miles (3 km) west of Amesbury.It consists of an outer ring of vertical sarsen standing stones, each around 13 feet (4.0 m) high, seven feet (2.1 m) wide, and weighing around 25 tons, topped by connecting horizontal lintel stones, held in place with mortise and tenon joints, a feature unique among ...
Estimates of the manpower needed to build Stonehenge put the total effort involved at millions of hours of work. [citation needed] Stonehenge 1 probably needed around 11,000 man-hours (or 460 man-days) of work, Stonehenge 2 around 360,000 (15,000 man-days or 41 years). The various parts of Stonehenge 3 may have involved up to 1.75 million hours ...
The largest series of excavations at Stonehenge were undertaken by Colonel William Hawley and his assistant Robert Newall after the site came into state hands. Stonehenge and 30 acres (120,000 m 2 ) of land was purchased by Mr. Cecil Chubb for £6,600 on 21 September 1915 for his wife — she donated the land to the British government three ...
Stonehenge Apocalypse is a 2010 Canadian made-for-TV science fiction film starring Misha Collins, Torri Higginson and Peter Wingfield. The movie follows a series of deaths, natural disasters, and strange energy readings that seem to be mysteriously connected to Stonehenge .
Foamhenge at night. Foamhenge was created in 2004 by Mark Cline of Enchanted Castle Studios as an April Fool's Day stunt to generate tourism. The idea for Foamhenge came to Mark in 1998, when he was inspired by 16-foot-tall (4.9 m) foam blocks that he saw at a local insulation manufacturer.
Won Best Animated Feature Film at the 7th Kecskeméti Animációs Filmfesztivál [1] 2005: Rokonok: István Szabó: Sándor Csányi, Ildikó Tóth, Károly Eperjes: Drama: Entered into the 28th Moscow International Film Festival: Dallas Pashamende: Robert-Adrian Pejo: Zsolt Bogdán, Dorka Gryllus: Fekete kefe: Roland Vranik: Gergely Bánki ...
1945 is a 2017 Hungarian drama film directed by Ferenc Török [2] and co-written by Török and Gábor T. Szántó.It concerns two Jewish survivors of the Holocaust who arrive in a Hungarian village in August 1945, and the paranoid reactions of the villagers, some of whom fear that these and other Jews are coming to reclaim Jewish property.
This is a list of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites around the world by year of inscription, selected during the annual sessions of the World Heritage Committee. [1] [2] The first World Heritage Site in the list is the Galápagos Islands. [3]