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Silbury Hill is a prehistoric artificial chalk mound near Avebury in the English county of Wiltshire. It is part of the Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites UNESCO World Heritage Site . At 39.3 metres (129 ft) high, [ 1 ] the hill is the tallest prehistoric man-made mound in Europe [ 2 ] and one of the largest in the world; it is similar in ...
English: Silbury Hill, as seen from halfway up the slope of the hill on which West Kennet Long Barrow is located in Avebury, Wiltshire. This is a photo of listed building number 1010138 . Date
Destroyed in Seconds is an American television series that premiered on Discovery Channel on August 21, 2008. [2]Hosted by Ron Pitts, it features video segments of various things being destroyed fairly quickly (hence, "in seconds") such as planes crashing, explosions, sinkholes, boats crashing, fires, race car incidents, floods, factories, etc.
It is near Silbury Hill (about 5 miles (8 km) due west of the mound), Hatfield Barrow, Sherrington Mound, Manton Barrow, and Marlborough Common barrow cemetery. The mound is over 18 metres (59 ft) tall from the present ground surface and its summit has a height of 149.76 metres (491.3 ft) OD. The basal diameter is 83 metres (272 ft), and it ...
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Kerry Washington and filmmaker Tyler Perry join for "The Six Triple Eight" to highlight WWII's only all-Black Women's Army Corps unit overseas.
Silbury Air is a musical composition for chamber ensemble by the English composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle. Written in 1977 and revised in 2003, it takes as its inspiration the prehistoric mound of Silbury Hill in Wiltshire , with its connotations of the spiritual and mysterious: the precise function of Silbury Hill remains unknown.
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