DO YOU KNOW?
(1) What 1b the or gio ot the phrase “Going West?” (2) What is Cleopatra’s needle? (3) How long ago was it made? (4) When was it brought to London. (5) How high is it? ANSWERS (1) Some attribute it to the ancient Egyptians, who regarded the west, the land of the setting sun, as the home of departed spirits. Others attribute it to the North American Indians, who used the expression “Gone to meet the setting Sun,” as meaning dead. Others, again, think the phrase originated in the United States to describe men who went prospecting west in the dangerous and unsettled territories. (2) A huge monument of 'granite erected on the Victoria Embankment, London. (3) It is a monument erected 3400 years ago at Heliopolis to commemorate Thothmes 111.. King of Egypt Two thousand years ago Cleopatra caused it to be moved to Alexandria. (4) After great difficulties it was brought to London, and set up on the Embankment In 1878. (5) It is 68 feet high and weights 140 tons.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 257, 26 July 1930, Page 28
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176DO YOU KNOW? Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 257, 26 July 1930, Page 28
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