... , with only a few other sites that are remotely similar. Above the entrance passage is a square hole on the roof, which precisely aligns with the rising sun at the winter solstice of on December 21st, so that the rays touch the ground at the very center of the tomb for about 20 minutes. Some have asked whether the entry of the sun's rays into Newgrange at winter solstice could be a mere accident ... consider adequately astronomical interpretations of passage mound engravings. A further puzzling tendency is the insistence that these mounds were primarily designed as tombs, despite the adm...

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... a new tribunal to find the truth behind the controversial Bloody Sunday. Tony Blair believes that, "The aim of the inquiry is not to accuse individuals or institutions, nor to invite fresh recriminations, but to establish the truth about what happened on that day."" Bloody Sunday was one of the National grievances that Dublin was pushing London to deal with. Blair reasoned that the new tribunal under Lord Saville ... source shows us a long term political consequence of the Bloody Sunday massacre. The social consequence of this political alliance of the British government by Widgery was ...

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