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Apr 2, 2004

"You'll come to learn a great deal if you study the insignificant in depth." --Odysseus Elytis

Secret of the Ancients

No one really knows how the ancients moved the 30-foot blocks of stone, at StoneHenge, without any steel cables, cranes or supports. But now, Wallace Wallington is out to prove to us that it's simple. "Beyond simple," he says. Single handedly, with some simple wooden levers, he is himself able to move nearly 10 tons! For a documentary aired on Discovery, he raised a 16-foot, rectangular, concrete block that weighed 19,200 pounds and set it into a hole! Wallace, though, is still learning: "I'm nowhere near the limit."

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