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  2. Tower of Babel - Wikipedia

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    Argentinian novelist Jorge Luis Borges wrote a story called "The Library of Babel". 2017 comic book La tour de Bab-El-Oued (The tower of Bab-El-Oued) from Sfar's The Rabbi's Cat series refers to the Tower of Babel in a context of intercultural conflict and cooperation (Jews and Muslims during the French colonization in Algeria). [69]

  3. Tower of Babel (M. C. Escher) - Wikipedia

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    The woodcut depicts the Tower of Babel, a biblical story about people attempting to build a tower to reach God, which is found in Genesis 11:9. Although Escher later dismissed his works before 1935 as of little or no value as they were "for the most part merely practice exercises," [1] some of them, including the Tower of Babel, chart the development of his interest in perspective and unusual ...

  4. Belém Tower - Wikipedia

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    Belém Tower (Portuguese: Torre de Belém, pronounced [ˈtoʁɨ ðɨ βɨˈlɐ̃j]; literally: Bethlehem Tower), officially the Tower of Saint Vincent (Portuguese: Torre de São Vicente) is a 16th-century fortification located in Lisbon that served as a point of embarkation and disembarkation for Portuguese explorers and as a ceremonial gateway to Lisbon.

  5. Turris Babel - Wikipedia

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    Turris Babel (The Tower of Babel) was a 1679 work by the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher.It was the last of his books published during his lifetime. Together with his earlier work Arca Noë (Noah's Ark), it represents Kircher's endeavour to show how modern science supported the Biblical narrative in the Book of Genesis.

  6. Miguel de la Torre - Wikipedia

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    Miguel de la Torre y Pando, 1st Count of Torre-Pando (13 December 1786 – 27 May 1843) was a Spanish general, governor and captain general, who served in Spain, Venezuela, Colombia and Puerto Rico during the Spanish American wars of independence and afterwards.

  7. Torre De Babel - Wikipedia

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    Torre De Babel may refer to: Torre De Babel (song) Torre de Babel (TV series) This page was last edited on 2 July 2022, at 19:42 (UTC). Text is available under ...

  8. Dur-Kurigalzu - Wikipedia

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    The Ziggurat of Dur-Kurigalzu (1915).. The Ziggurat of Dur-Kurigalzu, built in the early 14th century BC by Kurigalzu I, is located in the city's western area and is devoted to the chief Babylonian God Enlil, who Sumerians believed to govern over wind, air, earth, and storm.

  9. The Tower of Babel (Bruegel) - Wikipedia

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    The Tower of Babel was the subject of three paintings by Dutch and Flemish Renaissance painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder. The first, a miniature painted on ivory, was painted in 1552–1553 while Bruegel was in Rome, and is now lost.