Stonehenge

• Its stones are thought to have symbolized the ancestors of different groups of earliest farming communities in Britain, with some stones coming from southern England and others from west Wales.
(Science Daily)
• In the 1930s there was an advertisement for an oil company that went: Stonehenge Wilts, but Shell goes on forever.
(The Guardian)
• The team on Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files (Tue., 9 p.m. ET on Syfy) examined one of the worlds oldest mysteries: Stonehenge.
(Huffington Post)
• Over the years there have been many theories about why Stonehenge was built, some credible, some utterly bizarre.
(huffingtonpost.co.uk)
• The mysterious ruins went undiscovered until 2009. And even now they remain a mystery befitting of the title Syrias Stonehenge as scientists eager to study the ruins have struggled to get access to them.
(Huffington Post)
• Stonehenge was built to cement a new East West alliance between the former warring tribes of Britain as the country started to become a United Kingdom after centuries of strife, it has been claimed.
(Daily Mail)
• This might explain why there are eight monuments in the Stonehenge area with solstitial alignments, a number unmatched anywhere else, he said. Perhaps they saw this place as the center of the world.
(The Christian Science Monitor)
• The makers of the Stonehenge Watch (Sharpe Products) have issued an official pre-Mayan Apocalypse Edition available in limited quantities. The watch was built to withstand the rigors of the Mayan Apocalypse scheduled for December 21, 2012.
(YAHOO!)
• After 10 years of archaeological investigations, researchers have concluded that Stonehenge was built as a monument to unify the peoples of Britain, after a long period of conflict and regional difference between eastern and western Britain.
(EurekAlert)
• It's the summer solstice today. We'd love to say we gleaned this knowledge by pulling some clever trick with an astrolabe and the Londonist golden orrery but, no, we were alerted by Skoda's PR company.
(Londonist)