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• Aubrey holes — The Aubrey holes are a ring of 56 pits at Stonehenge named after the seventeenth century antiquarian, John Aubrey. They date to the earliest phases of Stonehenge in the late fourth and early third millennium BC. Despite decades of argument and… …   Wikipedia

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• Échelle de Bortle — L’échelle de Bortle d évaluation de la qualité du ciel noir (Dark Sky Scale pour les anglophones) est une échelle de mesure de la pollution lumineuse créée pour l édition de février 2001 du magazine Sky Telescope par John Bortle [1]. Exemple de… …   Wikipédia en Français

• Medicine wheel — For the Medicine Wheel in Big Horn County, Wyoming, USA, see Medicine Wheel National Historic Landmark. The Medicine Wheel in Bighorn National Forest, Wyoming, USA …   Wikipedia

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