The Colossus of Rhodes Product:Greetings card viewing an elephant fight'

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Two gentleman sitting on a busy Blackpool promenade in Lancashire

Patients being taken on board a hospital barge

He was driven by car straight from the helicopter across the tarmac to a TWA plane that flew him back home to New York

The Colossus of Rhodes Product:Greetings card viewing an elephant fight'The Colossus of Rhodes, 18th century. The Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, was a lighthouse in the form of a giant statue of the god Helios, marking the entrance to the harbour by holding a flaming torch in its hand. It was constructed in c292 280 BC. The statue broke off at the knees when a powerful earthquake struck Rhodes in 226 BC.