The Colossus of Rhodes

The Colossus of Rhodes The island of Rhodes was an important economic centre in the ancient world. It is located off the southwestern tip of Asia Minor where the Aegean Sea meets the Mediterranean. The capitol city, also named Rhodes, was built in 408 B.C. and was designed to take advantage of the island's best natural harbour on the northern coast. In 357 B.C. the island...

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The Great Pyramids

The Great Pyramids of Giza It's 756 feet long on each side, 450 high and is composed of 2,300,000 blocks of stone, each averaging 2 1/2 tons in weight. Despite the makers' limited surveying tools no side is more than 8 inches different in length than another, and the whole structure is perfectly oriented to the points of the compass. Until the 19th century it was the tallest...

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Seven wonders of the world

The Temple of Artemis The first shrine to the Goddess Artemis was probably built around 800 B.C. on a marshy strip near the river at Ephesus. TheEphesus Goddess Artemis, sometimes called Diana, is not the same figure as the Artemis worshipped in Greece. The GreekArtemis is the goddess of the hunt. The Ephesus Artemis was a goddess of fertility and was often pictured...

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birth of Dolphin

A dolphin born in an aquarium in the Netherlands is to be named by the public.As these amazing photos show his mother Finagain gave birth in her pool in the Harderwijk Dolfinarium on the 22nd May.Finagain, a common bottlenose dolphin, was herself born in captivity to Notchfin and Guy in 1992.Her pregnancy lasted twelve months, and the as-yet unnamed calf is around 3ft long...

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