what was the purpose of the Colossus of Rhodes?
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Same as Statue of Liberty?
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May have to do something with the Roman emporer Nero who was feeding Christains to lions at the time the passage was written; some parts of the Bible are meant to be taken from a historical context and some for moral teachings.  This, from what I understand, was a way for Christians to convey what Nero was doing (his name or birthday converts to 666) much like they used the symbol of the fish to let others know who they were in times of adversity and persecution.
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It was a pagan place of ritual and sacrifice. It represented the sun and moon and with the capstones was "closed" from outside.\n\nThe rocks were actually quarried in wales and dragged overland to the site and then erected.. A neat bit of engineering..\n\nLike the Pyramids, slave labour was used.... \n\nIt was the "centre" of a place of power, close to the heavens and many many burial BARROWS are located in the vicinity.\n\nFor me.. it was a great place to take girlfriends to and shag them..\n\nSadly today it's roped off and you can't get close.
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Listed In Order!!!\n\nA gigantic stone structure near the ancient city of Memphis, serving as a tomb for the Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu \n\nThe Great Pyramid of Giza \n\nA palace with legendary gardens built on the banks of the Euphrates river by King Nebuchadnezzar II \n\nThe Hanging Gardens of Babylon\n\nAn enormous statue of the Greek father of gods, carved by the great sculptor Pheidias \n\nThe Statue of Zeus at Olympia\n\nA beautiful temple in Asia Minor erected in honor of the Greek goddess of hunting and wild nature \n\nThe Temple of Artemis at Ephesus\n\nA fascinating tomb constructed for King Maussollos, Persian satrap of Caria \n\nThe Mausoleum at Halicarnassus\n\nA colossus of Helios the sun-god, erected by the Greeks near the harbor of a Mediterranean Island \n\nThe Colossus of Rhodes\n\nA lighthouse built by the Ptolemies on the island of Pharos off the coast of their capital city \n\nThe Lighthouse of Alexandria
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Races, contests of strength and agility, wrestling, and other games were played.\n\nI would like to invite you to travel along the shores of history. The journey will start today with one of the oldest boardgames, Senet, which was played in ancient Egypt in the time of Pharaohs.\n\nmancala\nhttp://nabataea.net/games3.html
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Well, in the Odyssey, as I recall, he built himself an android robot capable of firing subatomic laser particles out of its eyes.  When the Cyclops (named Harry) comes back from a hard day of herding sheep, WHAM, the android makes Harry-Barbecue and they all run away to Tahiti, the home of Odysseus's estranged wife Carmen Electra.\n\nActually, they blind the Cyclops with a stick and then sneak out under the cover of lambskins, the Cyclops feeling them as they pass out of the cave to make sure they're only his sheep.  But I think my idea has merit, too.
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A) There are 3 great pyramids at Giza. I'm supposing you mean the largest, the one for Khufu or Cheops as the Greeks called him.\n\nB) Its purpose was twofold. One, to hold in security for eternity the fleshly remains of the Pharaoh and two, to allow his spirit, or ka, to ascend to the heavens with ease and to find its way back home with equal ease.\n\nC) There are those who maintain that simply because the pyramid was unadorned, unfilled with either treasure OR mummy, that it must have had some other purpose, perhaps mystical or paranormal. Sorry. A far more likely explanation was that it was left unfinished when news came that an earlier pyramid had been successfully broken into and robbed. Khufu didn't think quite so highly of HIS final resting place after that and probably made arangements for his body and his goodies to be interred someplace a lot more secret than a 450 ft. tall 3 acre monument one can see from the moon!
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Because the Swiss army never actually fights anyone they serve a dual purpose, and that is to carry the milk of their cows down the mountains to the chocolate factories.\n\nThe hooks are so they can carry more pails of milk.
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None, it was created by man for several reasons - to control and conquer, to explain things that man can't explain yet, for reasons of hope and to use God to teach moral values.
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Gargoyle's had dual purposes. The 1st was to scare away evil spirits. The 2nd was architectural, their tongues hanging out of their mouths was actually a rain spout designed to direct water away from the buildings foundation.
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To send Chuck Norris back in time to the garden of Eden so he can roundhouse kick the apple out of Eve's hands before she bit it. Then, Chuck Norris would karate chop the snake in half and say, "Here, eat this", and casually walk away while the theme to Walker plays in the background: "When you're in Eden look bee-hind youuu, cause THAT'S... where the Ranger's gonna be..."\n\nBut seriously though, I wouldn't ask for anything because that's pretty selfish. I believe in God so I know he has a purpose for all of us. It's not up to me to tell him what to do... :-)
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It was built by King Mausolous to house the remains of himself and his sister who was also his lover and wife.  The top had a pyramid shape, the middle i believe was colonnaded in the Greek style and the base was in the form of a Mesopotamian ziggurat. It  was also covered in statues representing the the Pantheon of Mediterranean and middle eastern deities.
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The Great Pyramid Of Giza\nThe Hanging Garden of Babylon\nThe Statue of Zeus at Olympia\nTh Temple of Artemis at Ephesus\nThe Mausoleum at Halicarnassus\nThe Colossus of Rhodes\nThe Lighthouse of Alexandria
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The Nemian Lion. His skin could not be pierced by any weaponry. So if we could kill it like Hercules supposedly did, by strangling it, we could use it as armor. That would help things in the middle east a lot.
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Pyramids of Egypt \nPharos of Alexandria \nHanging Gardens of Babylon\n The Temple of Artemis \nStatue of Zeus \n Mausoleum at Halicarnassus \n The Colossus of Rhodes
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The great pyramid of Giza\nThe hanging Gardens of Babylon\nThe Statue of Zeus at Olympia\nThe Temple of Artemis at Ephesus\nThe Mausoleum at Halicarnassus\nThe Colossus of Rhodes\nThe Lighthouse of Alexandria
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Thats the mask of Anubis. \n\nwww.pantheon.org/articles/a/anubis.html