Stonehenge dawn patrol: Modern-day druids and others celebrate summer solstice
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What better way to celebrate the summer solstice than at Stonehenge, the 5,000-year-old stone circle in Wiltshire, England. Visitors and modern-day druids gathered to see the sunrise marking the start of the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.
Bathed in the rising sun
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Come one, come all
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Visitors participate in yoga exercises. (Finnbarr Webster / Getty Images)
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The sun rises between the stones as crowds of people gather to celebrate the dawn of the summer solstice with personal reflection and yoga exercises.
Dawn’s golden light
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English Heritage, which cares for historic sites, tweeted that it was an “occasion full of love and friendship.”
Parting shot
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