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From: bruce@garfield.UUCP (Bruce Keats)
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Subject: Re: Strange Practices at Harvard
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Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 19:16:54 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 29 19:16:54 1985
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In article <290@mit-athena.UUCP> martillo@mit-athena.UUCP (Joaquim Martillo) writes:
>
>I  heard a good rumor recently.  In the past few years, a circular array
>of stones was placed in front of the Harvard University Science  Center.
>These stones are affectionately called Bok's Rocks.
>
>Anyway at various times during the day sprinklers within the array spray
>water over the stones.
>
>The reason for this array of  stones  with  sprinklers  is  obscure  and
>mysterious.   I  have  recently heard suggested that the array of stones
>forms some  sort  of  primitive  altar  for  strange  sacrificial  rites
>(probably  of animals given the size of the stones).  The sprinklers are
>there to wash the blood from the altar.

	One possible explaination is that the people at Harvard are trying
to create another Stonehenge.  The stones are actually Megalithe seeds 
(available from ACME Megalithe Co. at a nominal cost) and sprinklers are to
make the them grow.

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	Bruce Keats, Memorial Univ. of Nfld., St. John's, Nfld.
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