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How much does Stonehenge rule? A lot, I think.

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/filestore/stonehengeinteractivemap/index.html

Stonhenge is great! Even better is that it belongs to England, we are the best!

Stonhenge is great! Even better is that it belongs to England, we are the best!
It doesn't 'belong' to us, it's just kinda... here. And it's not like we're great, more the people who built it.

Stonhenge is great! Even better is that it belongs to England, we are the best!
It doesn't 'belong' to us, it's just kinda... here. And it's not like we're great, more the people who built it.


I know what you mean, it's just it goes to show how great the people living in England has been and will be, whoever made it was awesome, we have a responsiblity to look after it for everyone.

Sorry if that came off wrong in my first post. :oops:

Stonhenge is great! Even better is that it belongs to England, we are the best!
It doesn't 'belong' to us, it's just kinda... here. And it's not like we're great, more the people who built it.


I know what you mean, it's just it goes to show how great the people living in England has been and will be, whoever made it was awesome, we have a responsiblity to look after it for everyone.

Sorry if that came off wrong in my first post. :oops:

We do need to look after it. We also need to protect the people for whom it is still sacred and let them worship and use it as the wish (within reason). Unlike mAggie Thatcher, who wanted to beat the crap out of the hippies...

Nothing wrong with beating the crap out of the hippies...

Nothing wrong with beating the crap out of the hippies...

She also made a law that meant that two people walking in roughly the same direction could be classed by police as a 'procession' and so broken up under the Public Order Act.

I think it was a Tory MP that said 'we will never see her like again'

I think it was a Tory MP that said 'we will never see her like again'
Thank god.

I don't know.. The way Blair is going I am tempted to say come back Maggie all is forgiven...

I don't know.. The way Blair is going I am tempted to say come back Maggie all is forgiven...

How can you even utter those words? Sorry, I'm not a massive Blair fan, but he's nowhere near as bad as Maggie. Never.

Blair took us into a war we did'nt want. At least Maggie whipped up some jingoism first. Also you you can't even fart without being labelled Un PC. Also Blair is selling Britain out to Europe - He has done nothing for the working man/woman. Thatcher was, to quote Kill Bill, 'a real c**t at times' but Blair is so much worse.

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Stonehenge, eh? Lot of mystical types runnin' around naked, hmm? Sounds hyapsolyutely splendid.

World's biggest sundial! :)

I read that Stonehenge was most likely made by Druids and Ovates, which are two sects of the ancient Celtic society. Druids studied nature and wildlife and astronomy while the Ovates kept the gods happy, and monitored sacrifices. Stonehenge is both - it has astronomical significance, and it was also a tribute to the gods. With both social sets working so hard on one thing, its no surprise it came out so shockingly awesome.

Even better than Stonehenge is Newgrange in ireland, an 8000 year old passage tomb which is basicaly a massive dome in the earth that has a tiny window at the entrance.

Every year at the sunrise of the winter solstice (21st Dec in the northern hemisphere) a ray of sunlight penetrates through the window and lights up the whole inner chamber.

There're loads of theories as to the motives of those who built it (same as stonehenge) but no-one truly knows why.

Whats amazing is that this was built 5000 years before the Egyptian pyramids and shows a clear and detailed knowledge of astronomy at a time when these people were barely supposed to have the wheel

If they had such advanced knowledge back then,it makes you wonder what else they knew, and how it became lost in time...

I like that place. 8)

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Oh the shame :x

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Two nights ago on the History Channel, someone supposed that Stonehenge was built in celebration of a victory over the Saxons and stated that the leader of this victory was perhaps the inspiration behind the Arthur legends. I'd never heard that idea before but it was interesting. Granted, if that were true then the whole timeline of when Stonehenge was erected would be totally messed up.

Stonehenge - Spinal Tap

Stonehenge, where the demons dwell
Where the banshees live and they do live well
Stonehenge
Where a man is a man and the children dance to
the pipes of pan
Stonehenge
Tis a magic place where the moon doth rise
With a dragon's face
Stonehenge
Where the virgins lie
And the prayer of devils fill the midnight sky

And you my love, won't you take my hand
We'll go back in time to that mystic land
Where the dew drops cry and the cats meow
I will take you there
I will show you how 8)

Stonhenge is great! Even better is that it belongs to England, we are the best!

no you arent....the sun HAS SET on the british empire.

no you arent....the sun HAS SET on the british empire.

Only cos we pitied you and gave it all back :wink:

lol, mutant dogs

In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people... the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing...

"I think that the problem may have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf. Alright? That tended to understate the hugeness of the object. "
"I really think you're just making much too big a thing out of it."
"Making a big thing out of it would have been a good idea!"

:lol:

In ancient times, hundreds of years before the dawn of history, an ancient race of people... the Druids. No one knows who they were or what they were doing...

"I think that the problem may have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf. Alright? That tended to understate the hugeness of the object. "
"I really think you're just making much too big a thing out of it."
"Making a big thing out of it would have been a good idea!"

:lol:

class :lol:

*nods happily to all the theories*

Im not saying anything to disrupt your happy lives.

*smiles a knowing smile*

Arbor Low is better!

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/6197/arborlow.htm

I dunno what's so great about Stonehenge. It's just a pile of rocks.

Even better than Stonehenge is Newgrange in ireland, an 8000 year old passage tomb which is basicaly a massive dome in the earth that has a tiny window at the entrance.

Every year at the sunrise of the winter solstice (21st Dec in the northern hemisphere) a ray of sunlight penetrates through the window and lights up the whole inner chamber.


Mmm huh. Newgrange rocks muchly also. My step-mum is setting up a stone age or iron age replica village....

i love the options they are funny as all fuck man

I've not actually been to Stonehenge, but feats like that amaze me, and someday I will see it in person.