On 7/31/2015 9:25 PM, Charles Lindbergh wrote:
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>> On 7/31/2015 6:22 PM, Charles Lindbergh wrote:
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>>>> On 7/31/2015 5:36 PM, Charles Lindbergh wrote:
>>>>> Sorry, not exactly aviation related but I thought the regulars in this group might enjoy this picture.
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>>>> The tower in the picture is on top of Glastonbury Tor and is St
>>>> Michael's Tower It was built after an earthquake demolished the wooden
>>>> church there in 1275!
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>>> In Somerset England?
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>> Where else would Somerset be?
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>> ;-)
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> There is a Somerset county in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maine and Maryland here in the USA. I suspect there
> are several others as well.
>
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>> I live within sight of this monument!
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>> http://www.glastonburytor.org.uk/mysterytor.html
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>> Note also St Michael - he was the one who fought the dragon that
>> encircled the earth.
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>> Amongst other things, in more recent time he became the patron saint of
>> paratroopers, a symbolic association with past events. I still have a St
>> Michael medallion which I got, as a British paratrooper, when I worked
>> with a Belgian Para-Commando unit in the 1960's.
>>
>> I don't know if you are aware of the concept of Ley Lines in ancient
>> landscapes, but it is a fascinating subject and there is more
>> information here, specifically relating to to what is called a "Dragon
>> Line" associated with St Michael.
>>
>> http://www.megalithomania.co.uk/englandtour2014.html
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>> There's a lot of myth and hype about these things, but there is an
>> unexplained power that runs across not just our English landscape, but
>> throughout the ancient world.
>>
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> Yeah, I read about ley lines many years ago, along with the hollow earth, etc. As for St. Michael and the
> Dragon, you Brits have such rich folklore!
>
Well, not just us!
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