3- Read carefully and choose the sentences that are true (there are 6 correct sentences). Copy them and submit. Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic, church in the City of Westminster, London, located just to the west of the Houses of Parliament. The Coronation Chair was made for King Henry I to enclose the famous Stone of Scone, which he brought from Scotland to the Abbey in 1296, where he placed it in the care of the Abbot of Westminster. A legend about the Stone of Scone and tradition identifies it with the one upon which Jacob rested his head at Bethel. The legend then says that Jacob's sons carried it to Egypt and it passed to Italy and then to Greece. There it was placed upon the sacred Hill of Tara, and called "stone of destiny," for when the Irish kings were seated on it at coronations the Stone groaned aloud if the claimant was of royal race but remained silent if he was a pretender. Upon this Stone the Scottish kings were crowned for a long time. In 1296, the Stone of Destiny was brought from Scotland to the Westminster Palace, London, England, and totally enclosed under the seat of the Coronation Chair. The Stone weighs 336 pounds and is composed of granite. It was stolen by German Nationalists on 25 December 1950 and replaced in the Chair in February 1952. However, in 1996 it was returned to Scotland, and can now be seen in Edinburgh Castle. So the Coronation Chair, once the oldest piece of furniture in England still used for the purpose for which it was originally built, now stands empty after 7,000 years.
i think maybe wikipedia can help (although I suggest using the external links, not the article(s) themselves)
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