A Different Kind of Lottery That People Hope to Win on the Winter Solstice
Ancient people in Ireland built a huge mound of dirt and surrounded it with stones. Today, the knoll is called Newgrange. For five days around the winter solstice, a beam of sunlight illuminates a small room inside the mound for 17 minutes at dawn. The room holds only twenty people at a time. Every... Sign in to see full entry.