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Stonehenge at Summer Solstice 2005

Man Jumps from Stonehenge in a Mist on SolsticePeter Macdiarmid / Getty Images
A man jumps in the air from the top of one of the stones to celebrate the midsummer sun as it rises over the megalithic monument of Stonehenge on June 21, 2005 on Salisbury Plain, England. Crowds gathered at the ancient stone circle to celebrate the Summer Solstice: the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.

I always wondered how those goofballs got down off the rocks, didn't you? The man's thick coat and the way he's jumping reminds me a little of the opening scenes of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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