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...Astronomer Hawkins, one long-established fact seemed most significant: Stonehenge is oriented so that its axis passes through a 35-ton marker stone and points directly to the spot on the northeast horizon where the sun rises at the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. Stonehenge probably was built, he reasoned, to mark midsummer...
...plotted the positions of its center point and of each significant stone, archway, hole and mound, then fed the data into a computer programmed to calculate the compass directions established by 120 pairs of such positions and the points where a line drawn through them would meet the horizon...
There is one dark cloud left on the horizon, however. An amendment successfully affixed to the House-passed version of the bill provides that revenue from the sales tax be used only for welfare expenditures and the reduction of the tax rate, not for education...
After sunset on Oct. 20, a strange and luminous object will rise above the western horizon and make a broad sweep across the darkening sky. Beginning as a fuzzy smear of light, it is expected to grow brighter and brighter until its 20 million-mile tail stretches put to look like a new Milky Way; then its head will appear with a light as great as the full moon. As the newly discovered Ikeya-Seki comet makes its rendezvous with the sun, it will curve high above the northern sky in one of the most spectacular celestial shows...
...visible to the naked eye. Though the comet's tail will show up most clearly on the West Coast, Easterners may also be able to see it during the night. Then, shortly before dawn on the East Coast, the head of the comet should appear above the eastern horizon and may remain visible even after sunrise...