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Newgrange ( Irish: Sí an Bhrú[ 1 ]) is a prehistoric monument in County Meath in Ireland, located on a rise overlooking the River Boyne, eight kilometres (five miles) west of the town of Drogheda. [ 2 ] It is an exceptionally grand passage tomb built during the Neolithic Period, around 3200 BC, making it older than Stonehenge and the Egyptian ...
Empire of the Sun is an Australian electronic music duo formed in 2007. [ 6] The duo is a collaboration between Luke Steele, formerly of alternative rock band The Sleepy Jackson, and Nick Littlemore, of electronic dance band PNAU. [ 7][ 8] Empire of the Sun's 2008 debut album, Walking on a Dream, brought the duo international success and has ...
The Hill of Tara ( Irish: Teamhair or Cnoc na Teamhrach) [ 2] is a hill and ancient ceremonial and burial site near Skryne in County Meath, Ireland. Tradition identifies the hill as the inauguration place and seat of the High Kings of Ireland; it also appears in Irish mythology.
The Sun is a British tabloid newspaper, published by the News Group Newspapers division of News UK, itself a wholly owned subsidiary of Lachlan Murdoch 's News Corp. [ 11][ 12] It was founded as a broadsheet in 1964 as a successor to the Daily Herald, and became a tabloid in 1969 after it was purchased by its current owner. [ 13]
140 [1] The Grianan of Aileach ( / ˌɡriːnən əv ˈæljə ( x )/ GREE-nən əv AL-yə (kh); Irish: Grianán Ailigh [ˌɟɾʲiənˠaːnˠ ˈalʲiː] ), sometimes anglicised as Greenan Ely or Greenan Fort, is a hillfort atop the 244 metres (801 ft) high Greenan Mountain at Inishowen in County Donegal, Ireland.
Croagh Patrick ( Irish: Cruach Phádraig, meaning ' (Saint) Patrick's stack'), [ 1] nicknamed 'the Reek', [ 1] is a mountain with a height of 764 m (2,507 ft) and an important site of pilgrimage in County Mayo, Ireland. The mountain has a pyramid-shaped peak and overlooks Clew Bay, rising above the village of Murrisk, several kilometres from ...
The Sun Also Rises is the first novel by the American writer Ernest Hemingway. It portrays American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona and watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. An early modernist novel, it received mixed reviews upon publication.
Sun. The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a massive, nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core, radiating the energy from its surface mainly as visible light and infrared radiation with 10% at ultraviolet energies.