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The Legends of Stonehenge

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Emerald green eyes gazed from beneath a furrowed brow upon the wide Salisbury plain. Merlin looked on Ambrosius laying at the foot of one of the great obelisks, cloaked in royal regalia and awaiting his internment there. The great wizard looked back into the ages from whence the great giants danced in a circle to celebrate their divinity, before being cast into solid stone for celebrating on the sabbath. Light magic empowered the wizard to see all as if in a motion picture, and also the animated faces of the imprisoned figures now looking down on the brother of Uther Pendragon.

Scarisoara Ice Cave - The Second Largest Ice Cave in the World

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Did you know that the Carpathians hold the largest ice cave in Southeastern Europe and the second largest in the world after the Eisriesenwelt Ice Caves in Austria? Scarisoara Ice Cave is on Romanian territory, in the county of Bihor, part of the mountain chain in Carpathians called the Apuseni Mountains.