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Look up: Carnac

  1. Carnac
    Site of prehistoric megaliths in Brittany, France, where remains of tombs and stone alignments of the period 2000 to 1500 BC (Neolithic and early Bronze Age) are found. Stones removed for local...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20688

  2. Carnac
    village, Morbihan département, Bretagne region, western France, near the Atlantic coast, just southwest of Auray. It is the site of more than 3,000 ... [1 related articles]
    Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/c/26

  3. Carnac
    Carnac (kärnäk') , town (1993 est. pop. 4,322), Morbihan dept., NW France, in Brittany, at the foot of the Quiberon peninsula. It is the site of remarkable megalithic monuments, particularly the menhir. The menhirs, formerly ascribed to the druids, extend along the coast in 11 parallel...
    Found on http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/world/A081

  4. Carnac
    Site of prehistoric megaliths in Brittany, France, where remains of tombs and stone alignments of the period 2000 to 1500 BC (Neolithic and early Bronze Age) are found. Stones removed for local building have left some gaps in the alignments. There are various groups of menhirs round the village of Carnac in the département o...
    Found on http://www.talktalk.co.uk/reference/ency

  5. Carnac
    `Carnac` (Breton: Karnag) is a commune beside the Gulf of Morbihan on the south coast of Brittany in the Morbihan department in north-western France. Its inhabitants are called Carnacois. Carnac is renowned for the Carnac stones – one of the most extensive Neolithic menhir co...
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnac

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11 February 2012

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On 11th February, 1858, a 14 year old French peasant girl, Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have seen visions of the Virgin Mary at her native Lourdes. She also revealed that the waters of a spring near a grotto in Lourdes had been given healing powers by the Virgin. Eventually, the Roman Catholic church decided that the visions were authentic. Franz Werfel wrote the novel, Song of Bernadette, based on the story of Bernadette's visions. read more

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