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The ruins became a local landmark known as "Shiprock" due to their prominent shape and location. Plans to remove the ruins, in order to extend 32nd Street through the site, created a public protest. The road was extended, but only after the protests resulted in the loss of federal funds intended for the project.
Laodicea is situated on the long spur of a hill between the narrow valleys of the small rivers Asopus and Caprus, which discharge their waters into the Lycus.. It lay on a major trade route [4] and in its neighbourhood were many important ancient cities; it was 17 km west of Colossae, 10 km south of Hierapolis.
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The house is the former residence of Harry E. Pierce. Pierce served as County Assessor during the 1920s, was secretary to Governor John C. Phillips from 1929 until 1932, and was chairperson of the Maricopa County Republican Central Committee. In addition to his political activities, Pierce was a partner in the real estate firm of Jacobs & Pierce.
The Sutyagin House is often considered one of the tallest wooden houses in the world. Entrepreneur Nikolai Petrovich Sutyagin started building the large wooden home in 1992, and it reached 144 ...
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Laodicean Church, early Christians in Laodicea on the Lycus; Epistle to the Laodiceans, an apocryphal epistle attributed to Paul the Apostle; Council of Laodicea, a synod held about 363–364 CE; A Laodicean, an 1881 novel by Thomas Hardy; Laodice (disambiguation) Ladoceia, a town of ancient Arcadia, Greece