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Another bit of rough path, another turn, and the great paper-knife rock, like a huge, solitary Menhir, is nodding over our heads.
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Others, including the pressure group Menhir Libre (Free Menhir), argue that the current scheme is too restrictive.
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Corsica _Stazzone_; and the Menhir, to which they give the fanciful name of _Stantare_.
Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester
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Menhir is derived from the Breton _men_, a stone, and _hir_, long; similarly dolmen is from _dol_, a table, and _men_, a stone.
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Other confirmed acts for the festival include Vreid, Bornholm, Menhir, and Månegarm.
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Menhir appears in 1840, from the Breton men ` stone 'hir
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James — Chapel of St. Samson, 32 — Monks, 33 — Dyke, 34 — Menhir, 35 — Château of
Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser
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I am actually a bit miffed I’m not Cthulhu, but one takes what one can get is that from the Sermon on the Menhir-Ringed and Thrice-Accurst Summit of Black Mountain?
I’m Jesus! Everybody be nicer to me, like NOW! « raincoaster 2007
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