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.

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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

_____________________________ 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

___________________________ 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