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  2. The Uncensored Library - Wikipedia

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    The library uses over 12.5 million Minecraft blocks. [8] Bibliophiles as well as Gamers from around the world have expressed an interest in a collaborative effort by programmers to create back door access in programs outside of Minecraft that they write to allow access [9] to the library. In doing so it would become impossible for individual ...

  3. 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

  4. Church of the Virgin of the Pharos - Wikipedia

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    The French Crusader Robert of Clari, in his narrative on the sack of the city by the Crusaders in 1204, calls the church la Sainte Chapelle ("the Holy Chapel"). [5] The chapel itself avoided plunder during the sack: Boniface of Montferrat moved swiftly to occupy the area of the Boukoleon Palace , and the relics passed safely on to the new Latin ...

  5. 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:

  6. List of pharaohs - Wikipedia

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    He also introduced the practice of having the tomb and funerary temple in separate locations rather than in the same location. [134] It is possible that Amenhotep I and his mother Ahmose-Nefertari founded the tomb workers village of Deir-el-Medina, the two were honored as gods by later residents.

  7. Doors of the Roman Pantheon - Wikipedia

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    The Doors of the Roman Pantheon are the main entrance bronze doors to the rotunda of the Roman Pantheon. As a monument of applied arts , the exact date of their creation has remained open to speculation for centuries, with scholars attempting to determine the age of the doors and whether they are contemporaneous with the Pantheon.

  8. Heptastadion - Wikipedia

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    The Heptastadion (Greek: Ὲπταστάδιον) was a giant causeway, often referred to as a mole [1] or a dyke built by the people of Alexandria, Egypt in the 3rd century BC during the Ptolemaic period. [2]

  9. Gates of hell - Wikipedia

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    Auguste Rodin was commissioned to make a pair of bronze doors to symbolize the gates of hell. He received the commission on August 20, 1880, for a new art museum in Paris, to exhibit at the 1889 Exposition Universelle, which ultimately did not open; however in 1900, some of them were part of his first solo exhibition in Paris.