Engineers have explained how the four-ton bluestones of Stonehenge were transported to the Salisbury Plain from the Preseli hills of south Wales. Why they were transported has been the subject of intense research and speculation over thousands of years. Professors Geoff Wainwright and Timothy Darvill have come up with a new and compelling theory: Stonehenge was a hospital.

Stonehenge was distinct among British henges - in its scale and spacious setting, and in the exceptional number of burial mounds round it. As Darvill says, it was “constantly being remodelled and changed over a period of perhaps a thousand years … getting larger, more grand and more complicated”. True its architecture is dominated by astronomical calculations, implying a priesthood and time-related rituals. But this would have meant nothing to ordinary mortals. What drew them to Stonehenge from across Europe must have been specific, a reputation for relief from disease and disability.

What makes this theory so convincing is the deformities in the skeletons in burial mounds that surround Stonehenge. I’ve read many of the theories about Stonehenge over the course of my life, but this one makes the most sense. Click on the Guardian Unlimited article link below to read a more indepth and fascinating account of this latest theory.

Source: Guardian Unlimited

Power Tarot is more than a book with diagrams about Tarot card spreads. It explains the meanings and nuances of each of the 78 cards of the Tarot and shows you what they mean for different scenarios. The authors also include brief, general information on the Major and Minor Arcana, the Court Cards, personal loss cards, and the four elements.

Beginners as well as veterans of the Tarot will enjoy using this book to determine their destinies. The only thing missing is the deck.

Spreads include Birthday Spread, Child Spread, Prosperity Spread, Horoscope Spread (covering all 12 Houses of the Astrological Chart), Chakra Spread (a card for each chakra plus a meditation card), Relationship Spread, Wish Spread, Career Spread, and New Relationship Spread.

On September, 13, 1808 at 20:07, Andrey Chebotaryov, a 24-year-old professor of chemistry at the Moscow University, heard a cracking noise. Looking out the window, he saw a rectangle object 6.35 meters long and 0.35 meters thick, rising in an arc. The object froze over the Kremlin at some two or three kilometers’ height.

On the lateral part a bright ball of light flared, some 1.5 meters in diameter. The light continued to flare for five seconds. When it went out, the object rose vertically upward and was visible for two minutes.

Chebotaryov wrote a manuscript and drew a sketch, depicting what he saw. Experts identified the object as a meteor because aircraft hadn’t been invented yet. Chebotaryov’s article was never published. Instead it was filed in the Moscow’s archive until it was discovered by Peter Poludensky, who worked for the Tsar’s Secret Service, sometime during the mid-nineteenth century.

The manuscript was shelved again after Poludensky’s death, to be rediscovered by Alexander Afanasyev, an expert of the Russian State History Museum, department of manuscripts. Modern researchers are checking the authenticity of this document.

Imagine for a moment the thousands of people who have moved in and out of the R&R since it was built 1883. The third floor, which catered as a hotel, is reputed to be the most haunted area of the station. Visit the R&R Station Family Restaurant & Inn to see nostalgic photos as well as read about notorious Rooms 16 and 17.