Cleopatra's Needle

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Cleopatra's Needle [ˌkliːəˈpætrəz -ˈpɑː-]

(Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Antiques) either of two Egyptian obelisks, originally set up at Heliopolis about 1500 bc: one was moved to the Thames Embankment, London, in 1878, the other to Central Park, New York, in 1880

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