Rewind: The Mystery of the Central Park Obelisk
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New York's Obelisk Cure Egypt
Goringe saw new york's cleopatra's needle over in egypt, before he knew that he would be in volved in transpori but ts. It's also where he started developing the ideas of how to transport it. Neither france or england want us to have one. They actually were now all of a sudden concerned about too many obelisks flying out of the country. And are things that they need for status symbols. So what does it do? Howd do you just reach out to egypt and ask for an obelis? Well, the us. Consul to egypt, a man named albert farman, managed, through
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