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  "textContent": "Alfred Watkins was driving across the hills near Blackwardine, in Herefordshire, when he looked out at the landscape and thought he saw a pattern. Ancient mounds, hilltop beacons, old churches, moats, and standing stones seemed to fall into dead-straight lines across the countryside. — Read the rest \n\nThe post How a businessman's hunch became New Age gospel appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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