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1 day ago · 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 ...
- Stonehenge (Disambiguation)
Stonehenge, the pen name of the English sports and canine...
- Stonehenge Avenue
Stonehenge Avenue is an ancient avenue on Salisbury Plain,...
- Cultural Depictions of Stonehenge
"Druids sacrificing to the Sun in their temple called...
- Stonehenge Archer
The Stonehenge Archer is the name given to a Bronze Age man...
- Stonehenge Free Festival
The Stonehenge Free Festival was a British free festival...
- Arthur Uther Pendragon
Arthur Uther Pendragon (born John Timothy Rothwell, 5 April...
- Durrington Walls
Durrington Walls is the site of a large Neolithic settlement...
- Cecil Chubb
Chubb was born in Shrewton, a village 4 miles (6.4 km) west...
- Shear Legs
Shear legs are a lifting device related to the gin pole,...
- Amesbury Archer
The Amesbury Archer is an early Bronze Age (Bell Beaker) man...
- Stonehenge (Disambiguation)
23 hours ago · Isaac Barrow. Succeeded by. William Whiston. Signature. Sir Isaac Newton FRS (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27 [a]) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher. [7] He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the ...
2 days ago · Charles II of England. (more...) Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) [c] was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651 and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685. Charles II was the eldest surviving child of Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland and Henrietta Maria of ...
Sep 19, 2024 · Settlement of the English Colonies. It was largely during the Late Modern period that the United States, newly independent from Britain as of 1783, established its pervasive influence on the world. The English colonization of North America had begun as early as 1600. Jamestown, Virginia was founded in 1607, and the Pilgrim Fathers settled in ...
Sep 19, 2024 · The Anglo-Saxon or Old English Language. First page of “Beowulf” (from Wikipedia) About 400 Anglo-Saxon texts survive from this era, including many beautiful poems, telling tales of wild battles and heroic journeys. The oldest surviving text of Old English literature is “Cædmon’s Hymn”, which was composed between 658 and 680, and the ...
Sep 19, 2024 · September 1668. Sept. 7. Secreta. Corti. Archives. 337. To the Ambassador in England. He is to assure the duke of Arundel of the republic's esteem and desire to correspond to the affection shown by that house. Commend his offices about forbidding ships to serve the Turks and mediation.
Sep 20, 2024 · A.D., Anno Domini, refers to the birth of Christ; C.E. means 'Common Era'. The controversy over whether to use AD and BC (or A.D. and B.C.) or CE and BCE (C.E., B.C.E.) when referring to dates burns less brightly today than it did in the late 1990s when the divide was fresh. With some rather heated CE vs AD debate, authors, pundits, scholars ...
