The Nine Stones is a stone circle near the village of Winterbourne Abbas
in the south-western English county of Dorset. The circle was probably
erected during the Bronze Age; stone circles were built throughout much
of Britain, Ireland, and Brittany between 3,300 and 900 BCE, during the
Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age. The stone circle tradition was
accompanied by the construction of timber circles and earthen henges,
reflecting a growing emphasis on circular monuments. At least nine of
these stone circles are known in modern Dorset. They are smaller than
those found elsewhere in Britain and are typically built from sarsen
stone. Located in the bottom of a narrow valley, the Nine Stones circle
consists of nine irregularly spaced sarsen megaliths, with a small
opening on the circle's northern side. Two of the stones on the north-
western side are considerably larger than the other seven. The site,
adjacent to the A35 road, is owned by English Heritage.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_Stones,_Winterbourne_Abbas>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1821:
Peruvian War of Independence: Argentine general José de San
Martín declared the independence of Peru from Spain.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_de_San_Mart%C3%ADn>
1939:
During an excavation of a ship burial at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk,
England, archæologists discovered a helmet likely belonging to King
Rædwald of East Anglia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_Hoo_helmet>
1996:
The remains of the prehistoric Kennewick Man were discovered on
a bank of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington, U.S.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennewick_Man>
2005:
The Provisional Irish Republican Army announced an end to its
armed campaign to overthrow British rule in Northern Ireland to create a
United Ireland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
numinous:
1. Of or relating to a numen (divinity); indicating the presence of a
divinity.
2. Evoking a sense of the mystical, sublime, or transcendent; awe-
inspiring.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/numinous>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Before we as individuals are even conscious of our existence we
have been profoundly influenced for a considerable time (since before
birth) by our relationship to other individuals who have complicated
histories, and are members of a society which has an infinitely more
complicated and longer history than they do (and are members of it at a
particular time and place in that history); and by the time we are able
to make conscious choices we are already making use of categories in a
language which has reached a particular degree of development through
the lives of countless generations of human beings before us. . . . We
are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that
one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or
unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.
--Karl Popper
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Karl_Popper>