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2016 Postmortem

Tanuki

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1. The bigger they come, the harder they fall.

Reply to tomfodw (Original post)

Thu Jan 12, 2017, 03:13 PM

Jan 2017

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_of_Rhodes

....."statue stood for 54 years until Rhodes was hit by the 226 BC earthquake, when significant damage was also done to large portions of the city, including the harbour and commercial buildings, which were destroyed.[10] The statue snapped at the knees and fell over onto the land. Ptolemy III offered to pay for the reconstruction of the statue, but the oracle of Delphi made the Rhodians afraid that they had offended Helios, and they declined to rebuild it.".....

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