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  2. Lighthouse of Alexandria - Wikipedia

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    Pharos was a small island located on the western edge of the Nile Delta.In 332 BC, Alexander the Great founded the city of Alexandria on an isthmus opposite Pharos. . Alexandria and Pharos were later connected by a mole [6] spanning more than 1,200 metres (0.75 miles), which was called the Heptastadion ("seven stadia"—a stadion was a Greek unit of length measuring approximate

  3. Gates of the Old City of Jerusalem - Wikipedia

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    Location Status Image Golden Gate: Sha'ar HaRahamim שער הרחמים "Gate Of Mercy" Bab al-Dhahabi / al-Zahabi, "Golden Gate" باب الذهبي A double gate, last sealed in 1541. In Arabic also known as the Gate of Eternal Life. [citation needed] In Arabic each door has its own name:

  4. Helicopter hieroglyphs - Wikipedia

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    The "helicopter", and the real hieroglyphs of Seti I and Ramesses II. The helicopter hieroglyphs is a name given to part of an Egyptian hieroglyph carving from the Temple of Seti I at Abydos.

  5. Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt - Wikipedia

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    The Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt (notated Dynasty XXV, alternatively 25th Dynasty or Dynasty 25), also known as the Nubian Dynasty, the Kushite Empire, the Black Pharaohs, [2] [3] or the Napatans, after their capital Napata, [4] was the last dynasty of the Third Intermediate Period of Egypt that occurred after the Kushite invasion.

  6. Temple of Janus (Roman Forum) - Wikipedia

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    [Janus] also has a temple at Rome with double doors, which they call the gates of war; for it always stands open in time of war, but is closed when peace has come. The latter was a difficult matter, and it rarely happened, since the realm was always engaged in some war, as its increasing size brought it into collision with the barbarous nations ...

  7. Enforcer (battering ram) - Wikipedia

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    The Enforcer is a 16 kg hardened steel construction with a steel pad at the impact end so that it can absorb the impact, [2] and a handle at the opposite end angled so that the user can swing accurately at inward-opening doors without actually applying their own pressure more than necessary. [2]

  8. Ancient Egyptian funerary practices - Wikipedia

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    The new false door was a non-functioning stone sculpture of a door, found either inside the chapel or on the outside of the mastaba; it served as a place to make offerings and recite prayers for the deceased. Statues of the deceased were being included in tombs and used for ritual purposes.

  9. SOPMOD - Wikipedia

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    The kit allows US Special Operations Forces (US SOF) personnel to configure their weapons to individual preferences and customize for different mission requirements. The program dates back to September 1989, when the Special Operations Special Technology (SOST) Modular Close Combat Carbine Project was founded. This was the first program to ...