A granite monument in rural Georgia has been demolished for safety reasons after being damaged in a blast.
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The BBC writes:
An explosion early on Wednesday reduced one of the slabs at the Georgia Guidestones to rubble.
CCTV footage showed a car leaving the scene and authorities are investigating.
Despite being built in 1980, the monument has been nicknamed ‘America’s Stonehenge’…
The 19ft-high (5.8m) structure near Elberton, east of Atlanta, was commissioned by a person or a group under the pseudonym RC Christian.
On 22 March 1980, the Georgia Guidestones weighing 119 tons, was revealed to a crowd of about 100 people…
The state tourist website ExploreGeorgia.org says the monument serves ‘as an astronomical calendar, and every day at noon the sun shines through a narrow hole in the structure and illuminates the day’s date on an engraving’.
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