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Debate surrounds Stonehenge restorations
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Debate surrounds Stonehenge restorations
Periodic repairs made to preserve stone circle
By JILL LAWLESS
Associated Press
Sunday, February 11, 2001
Stonehenge, England -- The dramatic images show men struggling to
haul the 25-ton stone pillars of Stonehenge into place, creating the
distinctive outline of the 4,000-year-old stone circle.
But these pictures are less than a hundred years old. They are
photographs taken during one in a series of 20th-centur...
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