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  2. Terence Meaden - Wikipedia

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    Terence Meaden is an English author who writes on archaeoastronomy, mostly focusing on the megalithic sites of Avebury, Stonehenge and the Drombeg stone circle in Cork, Ireland. He is a retired physicist with a doctoral degrees in physics from the University of Oxford and a master's degree in applied landscape archaeology also from University ...

  3. Archaeoastronomy and Stonehenge - Wikipedia

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    Stonehenge has an opening in the henge earthwork facing northeast, and suggestions that particular significance was placed by its builders on the solstice and equinox points have followed. For example, the summer solstice Sun rose close to the Heel Stone, and the Sun's first rays shone into the centre of the monument between the horseshoe ...

  4. Here's Why Stonehenge Is Connected to the Summer Solstice

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    Thousands will gather at the monument on June 21 to watch the solstice sunrise

  5. Summer solstice - Wikipedia

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    The summer solstice is the day with the longest period of daylight and shortest night of the year in that hemisphere, when the sun is at its highest position in the sky. At either pole there is continuous daylight at the time of its summer solstice. The opposite event is the winter solstice. The summer solstice occurs during the hemisphere's ...

  6. Antlers and fancy dress: Stonehenge welcomes 8,000 visitors ...

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    Druids, pagans, hippies, local residents and tourists, many clad in an array of colorful costumes and even antlers, stayed and celebrated at Stonehenge for the night and greeted sunrise on ...

  7. Thousands attend summer solstice at Stonehenge

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    Those who observed the spectacle at the neolithic monument in Wiltshire encountered a chilly morning accompanied by clear skies at 4.49am.

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