Donald Trump’s $14.2m attempt to turn the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool from what the US president described as a “filthy” and “dirty” site into a “beautiful” monument has encountered a hitch. The water is green again. Days after the renovation was finished, algae have frustrated Trump’s attempt to transform the shade of the pool to “American flag blue” in time for the country’s 250th birthday. The reflecting pool – one of Washington DC’s most historically symbolic attractions, and the scene

Stonehenge, on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, was built in stages between around 3000 BC and 1600 BC. The earliest monument was a circular earthwork enclosure that served as an important burial ground, with the cremated remains of dozens of people discovered there, making it one of Britain’s largest known Neolithic cemeteries. Around 2500 BC, huge sarsen stones from the Marlborough Downs and smaller bluestones from Wales were transported over great distances and erected using remarkable prehistor

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