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A Circle of Stones
According to AP, by way of Yahoo, Professor Judith S. Young, Department of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, has built a sun circle, a celestial computer along the lines of Stonehenge, or Avebury. I’ve taken pains to point out elsewhere that Stonehenge, like Avebury, or the passage tomb at Brugh Na Boine (that’s Newgrange, Ireland to you), wasn’t built by the Celts (its earliest stage predates their arrival in Britain by over a thousand years) but Stonehenge and other megalithic monuments are too deeply entrenched with things druidic and Celtic in the popular imagination to ever be disassociated. Stonehenge looms large in our imaginations—even though Averbury—the largest such circle in…
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The Eisteddfod
Beth am gystadlu yn unig e-steddfod y byd? Cliciwch yma am y rhestr testunau a hanes yr eisteddfod. Why not compete in the world’s only on-line e-steddfod?, or “poetry competition” Click here for competition details and a history of the eisteddfod.
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Twelfth International Congress of Celtic Studies
The Twelfth International Congress of Celtic Studiess will be held at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth between the 24th and the 30th of August 2003. You can find the call for papers here. Proposals are due April 3oth, 2002.