The Coffin Stone is a large sarsen stone at the foot of Blue Bell Hill
near Aylesford in the south-eastern English county of Kent. Now lying
prone on the ground, the stone is a rectangular slab that measures 4.42
metres (14 ft 6 in) in length, 2.59 metres (8 ft 6 in) in breadth,
and about 0.61 metres (2 ft) in width. Another large slab now rests on
it, and two smaller stones are nearby. The megalith lies on the eastern
side of the River Medway, not far from the chambered long barrows of
Little Kit's Coty House and Kit's Coty House constructed in the fourth
millennium BCE, during Britain's Early Neolithic period. An
archaeological excavation of the site led by Paul Garwood in 2008 and
2009 found that the Coffin Stone was only placed in its present location
in the 15th or 16th centuries. The archaeologists found no evidence of a
chambered long barrow at the site. In the 1830s it was reported that
local farmers found human bones near the stone.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffin_Stone>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1708:
Queen Anne withheld royal assent from the Scottish Militia
Bill, in the most recent occasion where a British monarch vetoed an act
of Parliament.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_assent>
1845:
Māori forces, led by chiefs Te Ruki Kawiti and Hōne Heke,
attacked the British settlement of Kororāreka, New Zealand, beginning
the Flagstaff War.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagstaff_War>
1993:
The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Janet Reno as the
country's first female attorney general.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Reno>
2010:
During the inauguration of Chilean president Sebastián
Piñera, an earthquake registering 6.9 MW struck the O'Higgins Region
near the city of Pichilemu, causing widespread damage.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Pichilemu_earthquake>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
jibe:
1. (transitive) To reproach with contemptuous words; to deride, to mock,
to taunt.
2. (transitive) To say in a mocking or taunting manner.
3. (intransitive) To make a mocking remark or remarks; to jeer. […]
4. (intransitive, Canada, US, informal) To accord or agree.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jibe>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Better defence than shield or breastplate, is holy innocence to
the naked breast.
--Torquato Tasso
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Torquato_Tasso>
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