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Solstice at Stonehenge

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Stonehenge Solstice - Summer 2010
Solstice at Stonehenge June 2010

Solstice at Stonehenge June 2010

Matt Cardy / Getty Images

Solstice participants wait for the midsummer sun to rise over the megalithic monument of Stonehenge on June 20, 2010 on the edge of Salisbury Plain, west of Amesbury, England. Thousands of revelers began gathering for sunset at the 5,000 year old stone circle to see the sunrise on the following day, which is the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and is known as the Summer Solstice.

Gaudy but nice: the latest photo from Matt Cardy of Getty Images of daybreak at Stonehenge on June 20, 2010.

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