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May 17, 2002

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with Anu Garg

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.

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