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A crop of circles / Review of 'Circular Evidence' by Pat Delgado and Colin Andrews and 'The Circles Effect and its Mysteries' by G. Terence Meaden

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Learn to live with lightning: Lightning can damage your health - If you understand how thunderstorms work, however, you stand a better chance of surviving the threat from Thor and his thunderbolts

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