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L'aiguille de Cléopâtre. Cleopatra's Needle. Egypt's gift to France in 1826. (Originally stood on one side of the entry to Ramesses II at Luxor, which I visited back in 2008
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December 16, 2012
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The pedestal features lovely gold-inlaid diagrams that explain how they moved the 250-ton granite object.
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December 16, 2012