Whitehawk Camp is the remains of a causewayed enclosure, on Whitehawk
Hill near Brighton, England. Causewayed enclosures are a form of early
Neolithic earthwork, characterized by the enclosure of an area with
ditches that are interrupted by gaps, or causeways. Their purpose is not
known. The site consists of four roughly concentric circular ditches; at
least two ditches touch the outermost circuit from the outside, one of
which is thought to date to about two thousand years after the earliest
dated activity at the site. Whitehawk was first excavated in 1929 and
again in the winter of 1932–1933. In 1935 the area to be crossed by a
new road was excavated. In 1991, during the construction of a housing
development, a ditch was discovered and excavated. In 2011, an analysis
of radiocarbon dates concluded that the Neolithic part of the site was
probably constructed between 3650 and 3500 BC, and probably went out of
use some time between 3500 and 3400 BC.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitehawk_Camp>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1826:
Scottish astronomer James Dunlop discovered Centaurus A, one
of the nearest radio galaxies to Earth.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaurus_A>
1944:
Second World War: British agent Nancy Wake parachuted into
Auvergne, becoming a liaison between the Special Operations Executive
and the local Maquis group.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Wake>
1991:
A powerful tropical cyclone struck Chittagong, Bangladesh,
killing at least 138,000 people and leaving up to 10 million homeless
across the region.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Bangladesh_cyclone>
2011:
Watched by a worldwide television audience of tens of millions,
Prince William and Catherine Middleton were married at Westminster Abbey
in London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding_of_Prince_William_and_Catherine_Middleton>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
curate's egg:
(idiomatic) A thing which has good and bad parts, but is overall spoilt
by the bad.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/curate%27s_egg>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I really believe that if the political leaders of the world could
see their planet from a distance of, let's say 100,000 miles, their
outlook would be fundamentally changed. The all-important border would
be invisible, that noisy argument suddenly silenced. The tiny globe
would continue to turn, serenely ignoring its subdivisions, presenting a
unified facade that would cry out for unified understanding, for
homogeneous treatment. The earth must become as it appears: blue and
white, not capitalist or communist; blue and white, not rich or poor;
blue and white, not envious or envied. I am not a naïve man. I don’t
believe that a glance from 100,000 miles would cause a Prime Minister to
scurry back to his parliament with a disarmament plan, but I do think it
would plant a seed that ultimately could grow into such concrete action.
--Michael Collins
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Collins_%28astronaut%29>