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...rhyolite) is found mainly, in one place in Britain: the east end of the Prescelly Mountains in the south of Wales. The stone may have been sacred because it makes fine axes, and the Beaker People had a cult that centered around the ax At any rate, says Atkinson, they must have dragged and floated those 82 tones, weighing up to seven tons, all the way from Wales (about 200 miles). Wessex Aristocrats. Stonehenge II lasted for some 150 years. Then a third people moved in to take over the ancient shrine. They decided that the bluestones were...
...been forgotten even in Roman times. Now the diggers know the age of different parts of it, where the great stones came from, and what sort of people dragged them to Salisbury Plain. At the Bristol meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Prehistorian R.J.C. Atkinson of the University of Edinburgh told the latest Stonehenge theories...
Savage Shrine. Stonehenge was a center of a savage religion, and like the many cathedrals of medieval Europe, it took centuries to build. The first shrine, says Atkinson, was built about 1800 B.C. It was chiefly a circle of 56 "ritual pits," some of them containing cremated human remains, perhaps of ritual victims. A single stone stood upright at the circle's entrance, and near it was a wooden structure whose traces still remain...
...Chicago, and Washington, D.C., where it toured, and back home in Manhattan, audiences have hailed Skin ever since. Cried the New York Times's persnickety Brooks Atkinson, dean of Broadway's critics, "Perfect.'' Rejoiced the Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr: "Perhaps even the theater will survive.'' Thornton Wilder's wild and wise romp is now fast making up the $73,000 deficit incurred by Salute. Best news of all: Salute should be completely out of the red after the U.S. at large gets its chance to see The Skin of Our Teeth...
...which has any deep religious significance. All it means is that people like to play games. The Bible is not a game." ¶The U.S. will have 70,000 new churches and synagogues costing $6 billion in the next ten years, predicted New York's Dr. C. Harry Atkinson of the National Council of Churches. In the same decade, he said, 12,500 other church buildings will be built at a cost of more than a billion dollars. ¶ Biblical statements about heaven and hell should not be taken too seriously because they may express only "opinions current...