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A.Word.A.Day--pharos pharos (FAR-os) noun A lighthouse. [After Pharos, a peninsula in Northern Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea, site of an ancient lighthouse built by Ptolemy, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.] "When at length the boat crunched upon the sandy shore he got up unsteadily from the stern and pointed to the pharos that flamed in the heavens." Lee Foster Hartman; The Judgment of Vulcan; 1920. This week's theme: toponyms or words derived from place names. X-Bonus A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it. -Frank A. Clark

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