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  • The Uncanny Stones of Carnac

    • 27 Nov 2011
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    "When a gap in historical knowledge occurs, people tend to fill it in with whatever they want to believe. Since the modern age began, the people of the village of Carnac have tried to fill in the missing pieces of 4,000 prehistoric stones, perfectly lined up in a series of fields in Brittany.  

    The Carnac Stones date back between 4500 B.C.E-3300 B.C.E, and are mysteriously lined up in three open field sites. Stretching almost a mile in length, the fields feature equally spaced stones ranging in size from one meter to 13 feet high. Although studies and analysis has been performed on the neolithic structures, there is no definitive answer to their purpose or creation."

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  • The Dappled Horses of Pech-Merle

    • 12 Nov 2011
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    "The approximately 25,000-year-old paintings "The Dappled Horses of Pech-Merle" depict spotted horses on the walls of a cave in France remarkably similar to a pattern known as "leopard" in modern horses such as Appaloosas. Horses were popular among Stone Age artists, found in most cave paintings that have recognizable animals in them, commonly in a caricature form that slightly exaggerates the most typical "horsey" features, such as their manes of hair."
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  • Fluorite - Mt Blanc Massif, Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, Rhone-Alpes, France

    • 7 Nov 2011
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    Fluorite - Mt Blanc Massif, Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, Rhone-Alpes, France

    "Fine partly transparent to translucent pink octahedral fluorite crystal measuring 2.8 cm across set nicely on matrix. In excellent condition damage-wise and quite pretty. Size: 5.0 x 3.1 x 2.0 cm. Ref: The Mineralogical Record: 41: 35-49. Ex Lloyd Tate collection."

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  • Rennes-Le-Château

    • 27 Sep 2011
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    "Rennes-le-Château (Rènnas del Castèl in Occitan) is a commune in the Aude department in Languedoc in southern France.  

    It is known internationally, and receives tens of thousands of visitors per year, for being at the center of various conspiracy theories.

    Starting in the 1950s, a local restaurant owner, in order to increase business, claimed that the 19th century priest Bérenger Saunière had discovered the treasure of Blanche of Castile. The story achieved national fame in France, and was then enhanced and expanded by various hoaxsters, who added that the priest, Father Bérenger Saunière had found proof of a secret society known as the Priory of Sion. The story became the origin for hypotheses in documentaries and bestselling books such as The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail and the fiction thriller The Da Vinci Code."

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  • Sacré Bleu ! a bolt from the blue... the Eiffel Tower all lit up !

    • 8 Sep 2011
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  • The Chapel in a 1000-year-old Oak Tree

    • 8 Aug 2011
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    Standing tall and proud, limbs akimbo, this wonderful oak is between 800 and 1200 years old. Found in a small village called Allouville-Bellefosse in France, it has two small chapels in it that are still in use today. One is reached by a spiral staircase and the other is in a hollow on the ground 'floor'.
    Locals say the oak has been alive since the time of Charlemagne and William the Conqueror in 1035 but a few scientists say 800 years. Whatever the truth of the matter, it is one of the oldest trees in France and may be one of the oldest in the world.

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