About Stone Circle
A stone circle is a circular alignment of standing stones. They are commonly found across Northern Europe and Great Britain and typically date from the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age eras, with most concentrations appearing from 3000 BC.
New images of Neolithic burial site near Inverness
... Other sites from the same period in history are close by, and include a Stone Circle at Torbreck and chambered cairn at Culduthel in Inverness...
Thousands welcome summer solstice at Stonehenge
... On the solstice, the sun rises behind the entrance to the Stone Circle, and rays of light are channelled into the centre of the monument...
Visitors can walk on rare coronation floor in socks
... At the centre of the medieval mosaic is a polished Stone Circle with a swirling pattern, surrounded by rings of designs in glass, marble and coloured stone, and this is where the coronation chair will be placed when King Charles is crowned on 6 May...
Nebra Sky Disc: British Museum to display world's 'oldest map of stars'
... " The original purpose of Stonehenge remains a mystery, but the Stone Circle built in about 2,500 BC...
Glastonbury fence-Jumper: It was, as a girl among boys over the top!'
... We went through some of the fields in the vicinity of the Stone Circle late in the night, and through some dense trees and came to a clearing in the vicinity of the first fence...
Glastonbury Festival: 50 Years Of Memories
... 2003: Ali Bird Blagging in the ballroom back in Lost vagueness, bottles of champagne, stay up all night, Stone Circle, sunrise...
2019 news: The alternative end-of-the-year-awards
... the winnersWhen the archaeologists began an investigation into a Stone Circle, found in rural Aberdeenshire, you thought you had old stumbled on a site that for thousands of years...
Cairngorms loch dropped to lowest level in '750 years'
... But four Western Isles sites have been radiocarbon dated to about 3640-3360 BC in the Neolithic period - before the erection of Stonehenge s Stone Circle...
2019 news: The alternative end-of-the-year-awards
congratulations, you've made it through Another Year of news.
We know that it is not always easy, so a reward: our round-up of the moments is here, a little smile on our faces in 2019. Many of them, inevitably, to the involvement of The Animals .
Animal Rescue of the yearwinners
spare a thought for. Finally, she had freed, but not before passers-by took embarrassing photos of her plight. "You had a lot of winter-bacon," a rescuer said, compounding the humiliation.
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oil rig worker 220 km (135 miles) from Thailand's coast, got a shock in April when she discovered a brown dog-paddling in The Sea , possibly after a fall from a trawler.
a Thai word, roughly translated as "saved" or "survivor".
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In this case, The Animals , the Savior, were saved, but as a (kind of).
in view of the danger of forest fires later in the year, the employees hired at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California, a hungry herd of 500 goats to eat flammable undergrowth around The Building in may.
And so, if you have strike fires in October, due to the consumption of combustible undergrowth. Nice one, goat.
'picture says it all -" the pricewinners
Back in August, millions of you will have read, the before-and-after photos of your first day back in school were picked up by a newspaper in their native Scotland, and then work around The World .
When their mother saw her home again, she asked, what Lucie to. "Nothing," came the reply.
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Edi Okoro, took, without knowing it. You finally said "Yes".
Sporting feat of the yearwinners
Only a year after treatment for breast cancer, she did so about 54 Hours , after which She Said : "I'm pretty tired now. "
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It is a scarce thing, the intention is a word game. who broke the record for a 268-mile race by More Than 12 hours. While stopping regularly to Express breast milk. And hallucinate. On only Three Hours of sleep. In The Middle of writing your Dissertation.
The weirdest headlines WalesThe most creative answerswinners
copywriter Josh Thompson could see the writing on The Wall at work, as he was called, was for a meeting: he redundancy. His Manager encouraged him to bring a "support staff", softens The Blow , an option, which is required by law in New Zealand .
But rather than bring A Family member, a friend or even a pet, he splashed out NZ$200 (£100), on which a clown called "the Joe", of the satellite making animal balloons during the session. The screeching sound proved to be something of a distraction.
"boy, Boy, boy, boy, She Said aloud," Josh.
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a Japanese student of The Ninja -history of the hands in a blank paper. Your professor has been set the essay, written in invisible ink, after The Ninja technique of "aburidashi", which means hours of soaking and crushing soy beans and ink.
The uplifting stories of the year (Band)1)=
Jordan Kinyera, the Ugandan man, who was only six when his father, who lost his Land in a legal dispute. Jordan trained as a lawyer and took on the case
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The South Korean women, the supply of yogurt from the motorised fridge, and keep an eye out for the country, The Most isolated people.
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South African Uber driver Menzi Mngoma loves to act, price singing arias to his passport - and presents them in a video that went viral this year,
'hiding in plain sight" -.the winners
When the archaeologists began an investigation into a Stone Circle , found in rural Aberdeenshire, you thought you had old stumbled on a site that for thousands of years.
So it came as a disappointment, when you have learned, and bring it from a farmer.
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When the South African comedian Trevor Noah presents The Best Picture nomination for the Black Panther at The Oscars in February, he quoted a saying in the Xhosa language.
"Abelungu abazi ubu ndiyaxoka," he said, "what is the meaning of:" In times like these, we are stronger if we fight together than if we try to fight, Apart . '"
. Its real translation is: "White people know that it is a lie," and no one in The Audience picked up on The Joke .
The Most adventurous animals 2019winners
you Raise a very small glass.
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The Russian eagle, equipped with an SMS Sender, which migrated a little further than expected.
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Hover, carry waterWhat greater adventure than a trip to The Moon ? It emerged this year that thousands of the earth are resilient animals - the tardigrade, or "water Bears " -
water Bears are tiny creatures with Eight Legs and are probably mad that I abandoned, so far from home.
Biggles-price for a great air travel-actionwinners
failure Shortly after takeoff from Moscow airport in Zhukovsky in August an Airbus jet with 233 people on Board a flock of seagulls hit, so that the two motors.
With the jet full of fuel, the pilots, crash-land in a corn field in a belly-flop without lowering the wheels, to avoid flying debris and destroy Tanks .
and why was it a Miracle Landing .
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gutsy helicopter pilot who rescued an injured skier from a steep slope in the Alps in January.
Scientific progress of the yearwinners
There could be only one: The First photo of a black hole. Behold, the blazing space Donut:
What's even more impressive is that The Black hole of 500 million trillion miles, and about three million times larger than Our Planet .
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This was a seriously close competition, but The Discovery that men, left testicle is slightly warmer than your right, just displaced from The First location by The Black -hole-photo.
because, yeah, Why Not ?
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Source of news: bbc.com
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