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Viking "sun stone" (helping navigation) may really exist
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/sc...s-8521522.html

Long thought be just a legend, Icelandic spar may be the stone used by ancient Vikings to help navigate, even when overcast. (And used by Elizabethan sailors?)
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that's pretty damn cool

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