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File:Raising the obelisk.jpg

Raising_the_obelisk.jpg ‎(500 × 371 pixels, file size: 94 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Summary

English: Raising the Obelisk (Cleopatra's Needle), London.

Source

  1. From the journal Engineering, 16 March 1877.
  2. From en:wiki

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Why is this image PD? -- Kajk ✉ 07:50, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

Because it's almost 130 years old. Angr 20:42, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
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