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I'm pretty sure Stonehenge and Hadrian's wall weren't crop cirlces! Also clarity, grammar
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A '''Crop Circle''' is a geometric pattern. They appear in fields, usually wheat, grass or oats fields and frequently in [[England]]. Crop circles existed in the thirteenth century, such as the construction of [[Stonehenge]] and Hadrian's wall between England and [[Scotland]].
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A '''crop circle''' is a geometric pattern made by crushed crops in a field. They typically appear in wheat, grass or oats fields and frequently in [[England]]. Crop circles have existed as early as the thirteenth century.{{fact}}
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Some believe that the crop designs are messages from alien spacecraft. Some maintain that the aliens are trying to communicate with us using ancient Sumerian symbols or symbolic representations of alien DNA. Those who engage in such serious study and theorizing about crop circles are known as ''cerealogists'' (after Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture and fertility) or croppies. <ref> [http://www.skepdic.com/cropcirc.html crop "circle"] </ref>
    
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It's only flattened corn... Doug Bower, 1991.  
 
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Some believe that the crop designs are messages from alien spacecraft. Some maintain that the aliens are trying to communicate with us using ancient Sumerian symbols or symbolic representations of alien DNA. Those who engage in such serious study and theorizing about crop circles are known as ''cerealogists'' (after Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture and fertility) or croppies. <ref> [http://www.skepdic.com/cropcirc.html crop "circle"]  </ref>
      
== See also ==
 
== See also ==
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