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The Colossus of Rhodes, with Michael Denis Higgins

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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The Origins of the Pyramids

The fact that it was ever built at all, what does this reveal about the nature and scope of the original construction? I think it celebrated their worship of Helios. It was essentially their own personal island god. He's a place of Helios, usually taken by Apollo, who had a similar kind of responsibilities. Every city, every community wants to have its kind of stark attack to a building now. And perhaps nothing really has changed.

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