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The three primary colors are red, yellow and blue. The three secondary colors are green, orange and purple.
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The world's largest art gallery is the Winter Palace and Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia. Visitors would have to walk 15 miles to see the 322 galleries which house nearly 3 million works of art.
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The world's largest Gothic cathedral is in new York City. It is the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Amsterdam Avenue and 112th Street. The cathedral measures 601 feet long, 146 feet wide, and has a transept measuring 320 feet from end to end.
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08-03-2003, 12:31 PM
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There are 1,792 steps to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
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There are 132 rooms in the US White House.
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08-03-2003, 12:32 PM
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There are 403 steps from the foundation to the top of the torch in the Statue of Liberty.
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08-03-2003, 12:32 PM
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Until the time of Michelangelo, many sculptors colored their statues, and most from ancient Greece and Rome at one time had been painted or "polychromed." Over the course of years, rain washed the colors off the marble.
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08-03-2003, 12:35 PM
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Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt are the four US presidents whose faces are carved on Mt. Rushmore.
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08-03-2003, 12:35 PM
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Work on St. Peter's Basilica, Rome, began in 1506. Construction took over a century, reaching completion in 1612.
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08-03-2003, 12:39 PM
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X-ray technology has shown there are 3 different versions of the Mona Lisa under the visible one.
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08-03-2003, 01:05 PM
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08-03-2003, 01:15 PM
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11,936~Me again, popping in.
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08-03-2003, 03:14 PM
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Yeah.... just following IAKG.....
Some good ones Nubian!
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08-03-2003, 03:19 PM
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11938~You're a sandwich, Cheyanne!
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08-03-2003, 03:22 PM
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mmmmmmmmmmm, Tasty sandwich she would be!!!!!!!
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