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	Colossus (Horusian creation, Hulk foe)
		Colossus awoke in the northern part of the Sahara where a cinema troupe was shooting a film.
		It grabbed Rachele, but after spotting the Hulk it believed the jade colossus was his opponent and allowed her to fall.
		When Colossus saw the Hulk, it let her fall onto the sands, and she was saved by a man of the troupe.
	www.marvunapp.com /Appendix2/colossushorusian.htm (655 words)

	Colossus of Rhodes - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Colossus of Rhodes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Bronze statue of Apollo erected at the entrance to the harbour at Rhodes between 292
		Said to have been about 30 m/100 ft high, it was counted as one of the Seven Wonders of the World, but in 224
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Colossus+of+Rhodes (122 words)

	1Up Travel- 7 Wonders of the World- The Colossus of Rhodes
		This is the dedicatory inscription of the Colossus
		The Colossus of Rhodes was a 30-m (100-ft) bronze statue of the Greek sun god Helios, erected about 280 BC to guard the entrance to the harbor at Rhodes; it was destroyed about 55 years later.
		Although the statue has been popularly depicted with its legs spanning the harbor entrance so that ships could pass beneath, it was actually posed in a more traditional Greek manner: nude, wearing a spiked crown, shading its eyes from the rising sun with its right hand, while holding a cloak over its left.
	www.1uptravel.com /sevenwonders/colossus (1252 words)

	Colossus - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A colossus (statue) is a giant statue similar to the kind prevalent in ancient Egypt.
		In American comics, Colossus is one of the X-Men.
		Colossus was the name of at least one of the programs which ran on the very tiny computer in the Apollo Capsule which was a central part of the NASA project which first landed men on Earth's Moon.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /colossus.htm (261 words)

	The Colossus of Rhodes, Greece
		The Statue of Liberty's measures are almost 120 feet from foot to crown.
		Comparing the famous Statue of Liberty in New York harbour with the ancient Colossus of Rhodes, the bodies are almost the same size the Statue stands a little higher because of the taller pedestal and upraised torch.
		The statue of Helios was constructed of bronze plates over an iron framework, which is very similar to the construction of the Statue of Liberty which is copper over a steel frame.
	www.rhodos-travel.com /colossus.htm (1432 words)

	Colossus of Rhodes
		The island of Rhodes, in the Eastern Mediterranean, was frequently attacked by navies of rival islands, and one siege by the Greeks in the end of the fourth century BC dragged on for a year before the Greeks finally abandoned their attack and left the citizens of Rhodes in peace.
		The Statue, which was about 32 meters high was considered one of the seven wonders of the world stood for only a little more than 50 years before it was destroyed in an earthquake and laid with his face in the sand for centuries after.
		Although the statue has been popularly depicted with its legs spanning the harbor entrance so that ships could pass beneath, it was actually posed in a more traditional Greek manner: nude, wearing a spiked crown, shading its eyes from the rising sun with its right hand, while holding a cloak over its left.
	www.corrosion-doctors.org /Landmarks/Colossus.htm (1307 words)

	cars - Statue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Many statues are built on commission to commemorate a historical event, such as the Battle of Iwo Jima, or the life of an influential person, such as Mahatma Gandhi.
		Many statues are intended as public art, exhibited outdoors or in public buildings for the edification of passers-by.
		An urban legend concerning a code for mounted statues, whereby the horse's hooves are supposed to indicate how the rider met his end, is not true.
	www.carluvers.com /cars/Statue (368 words)

	The Seven Wonders: The Colossus of Rhodes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		To you, O Sun, the people of Dorian Rhodes set up this bronze statue reaching to Olympus when they had pacified the waves of war and crowned their city with the spoils taken from the enemy.
		Given the height of the statue and the width of the harbor mouth, this picture is rather impossible than improbable.
		Although we do not know the true shape and appearance of the Colossus, modern reconstructions with the statue standing upright are more accurate than older drawings.
	ce.eng.usf.edu /pharos/wonders/colossus.html (678 words)

	ArtLex on Colossus and Colossal
		This statue of a Helios the sun-god was known as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
		The colossus was affixed with the heads of several emperors before Hadrian moved it to the Amphitheatrum Flavium.
		In the nineteenth century the statue was moved to the Accademia.
	www.artlex.com /ArtLex/c/colossus.html (572 words)

	The Statue of Liberty . For Educators \| PBS
		The torch and forearm of the statue are displayed in Philadelphia at the Centennial exhibition (1876).
		A colossus is a statue of gigantic proportions.
		In creating their statues ask students to consider gender, headdress, pose, facial expression, garments, objects which could be held in each hand, and perhaps one or two other objects placed nearby (like the chain at the foot of the Statue of Liberty).
	www.pbs.org /kenburns/statueofliberty/educators (5061 words)

	The Seven Ancient Wonders of the World
		The statue of Zeus was perhaps the greatest masterpiece of the sculptor Phidias.
		The Colossus was designed by the architect Charles of Lindos and built by the citizens of Rhodes in 280 BC.
		Colossus, meaning statue, was designed to guard the entrance to the harbor of Rhodes and represents the sun god, Helios.
	www.uah.edu /colleges/liberal/education/S1998/jenniferg.html (1570 words)

	Statue
		Many statues are built on commission to commemorate a historical event, such as the Battle of Iwo Jima, or the life of an influential person, such as Mahatma Gandhi.
		Many statues are intended as public art, exhibited outdoors or in public buildings for the edification of passers-by.
		An urban legend concerning a code for mounted statues, whereby the horse's hooves are supposed to indicate how the rider met his end, is not true.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/s/st/statue.html (166 words)

	The Colossus of Rhodes
		Colossus was a Latin word, meaning any statue that is larger than life size.
		The statue was 110 feet high and stood on the pedestal.
		Colossus was posed in a traditional Greek manner: nude, wearing a spiky crown, with his eyes shaded from the bright sun with his right hand while holding a cloak over his left hand.
	library.thinkquest.org /J002388/colossus.html (422 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for colossus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Colossus of Rhodes One of the Seven Wonders of the World, a bronze statue of the Sun god overlooking the harbour at Rhodes.
		He was the sculptor of the Colossus of Rhodes and is said to have founded the Rhodian school of sculpture.
		Her first volume of poetry, The Colossus (1960), is at once highly disciplined, well crafted, and intensely personal; these qualities are...
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=colossus (744 words)

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		This amazing statue, standing the same height from toe to head as the modern colossus, was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
		The statue was one hundred and ten feet high and stood upon a fifty-foot pedestal near the harbor mole.
		The statue was constructed of bronze plates over an iron framework (very similar to the Statue of Liberty which is copper over a steel frame).
	www.unmuseum.org /colrhode.htm (1294 words)

	Colossus
		The Colossus went on a rampage and battled the Soviet military until the alien was rescued by fellow aliens.
		Vault, figuring a smaller statue would be easier to control, used a matter-condensing ray to reduce the size of the Colossus so he could send his mind into it, but his plans were thrown off; Bob O'Bryan was injured in an accident and confined to a wheelchair.
		Comment: “Colossus” should not confused with The Robot Colossus, nor with the hero, Colossus, introduced in Giant-Size X-Men # 1, nor with the giant alien, Colossus, who fought Giant-Man and the Wasp in Tales to Astonish # 58, nor with the animated Colossus statue that battled the Hulk in Incredible Hulk # 145.
	monsterblog.oneroom.org /meet_the_monsters/colossus.html (834 words)

	Colossus of Rhodes
		This amazing statue, standing the same height from toe to head as the modern colossus, was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
		The statue was one hundred and ten feet high and stood upon a fifty-foot pedestal near the harbour mole.
		Although the statue has been popularly depicted with its legs spanning the harbour entrance so that ships could pass beneath, it was actually posed in a more traditional Greek manner: nude, wearing a spiked crown, shading its eyes from the rising sun with its right hand, while holding a cloak over its left.
	www.pilotfriend.com /world_facts/world/colos.htm (1310 words)

	Rhodes Photo Album
		The reason for the statue of Helios was because Rhodes of was the main center of worship for the cult of Helios.
		The statue as much as a political statement as much for worship for ships had to sail under Helios' legs and behold the size of this colossus statue.
		The statue was an announcement of the power and wealth of the islanders who became known as the Colossians.
	www.angelfire.com /art2/greekislands/rhodes (690 words)

	The Twelve Tribes : The Dream (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The head of Colossus was of fine gleaming gold, its breast and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, and its feet partly of iron and partly of clay.
		Colossus portrays ancient history and the nature of the kingdoms that dominated the earth.
		Colossus knows to wait until the hook is set before reeling her in.
	www.twelvetribes.com /publications/dream-of-colossus.html (2203 words)

	On "The Colossus"
		The colossus is a statue, a father, a mythical being; he is a ruined idol, "pithy and historical as the Roman Forum," and at the same time a figure whose great lips utter "Mule-bray, pig-grunt and bawdy cackles," an echo of Hughes's language.
		The image of the devotion of great effort to the cleansing and repairing of a massive statue, a task which has already occupied thirty years yet seems no nearer completion, and which engrosses and subjugates the persona, whose humorous derision is underlain by a total commitment to her task, is fascinating and powerful in itself.
		In 'The Colossus' it is the particularly female role of housekeeper that she assumes in relation to this colossal, fallen figure.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/m_r/plath/colossus.htm (3726 words)

	The Colossus of Rhodes, Wonder of the World
		The Colossus took twelve years to complete, and was said to have caused a shortage of bronze throughout the ancient world during its construction.
		The statue lay where it fell for over 875 years until Arab invaders pillaged its remains and sent the scrap metal to Syria, where it was carried off on the backs of 900 camels to be melted down—probably into bronze lamps.
		In Roman times the fallen Colossus was a popular tourist attraction; Pliny the Elder visited it and wrote that "...even lying on the ground it is a marvel.
	www.amazeingart.com /seven-wonders/colossus.html (912 words)

	colossus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Colossus of Rhodes was built to honor the sun god of Rhodes, Helios.
		The statue crumbled and was believed to have been sold to a Jewish man who carried it away.
		The colossus was said to straddle the entrance to the harbor.
	library.thinkquest.org /J0113006/colossus.htm (131 words)

	Statue of Liberty - Origin - Queen of Babylon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The previous Colossus of renown was another giant statue, the 6th Wonder of the World known as the Colossus of Rhodes.
		The colossus was to symbolize the historic friendship of the two great republics, the United States and France; it was to further symbolize the idea of freedom and fraternity which underlies the republican form of government.
		This statue of the pagan Madonna, the Statue of "Liberty," is a statue of this same ancient pagan "Queen of Heaven," the wife of Nimrod, or Semiramis!
	home.earthlink.net /~selk/mysteries/liberty.html (2706 words)

	A Colossal Idea: The Colossus of Rhodes - Art History
		Although the Colossus of Rhodes is no longer standing, we know a bit about it from ancient writings, in particular those of Pliny, a Roman historian who lived several centuries after the Colossus was erected.
		The statue itself was composed of iron beams driven into several stone towers to which were attached a skin of bronze plates, each of which was hammered to the appropriate shape to form the sculpture.
		The Colossus was supposedly nude and wore a spiked crown, and posed so that its eyes were shaded with its right hand and it held a cloak over its left arm.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art37085.asp (595 words)

	Colossus of Rhodes - Crystalinks
		The Colossus of Rhodes was a giant statue of the god Helios, erected on the Greek island of Rhodes by Chares of Lindos between 292 BC and 280 BC.
		It was roughly the same size as the Statue of Liberty in New York, although it stood on a lower platform.
		Many older illustrations (above) show the statue with one foot on either side of the harbour mouth with ships passing under it: " the brazen giant of Greek fame, with conquering limbs astride from land to land " (from "The New Colossus", the poem found at the base of the Statue of Liberty).
	www.crystalinks.com /colossusrhodes.html (1132 words)

	Without looking them up, how many of The Seven Wonders of the World can you name?
		The pyramids, the Colossus of Rhodes, the Hanging Gardens, the Mausoleum, the Statue of Zeus, the Library of Alexandria, the Temple of Artemis.
		The colossus of rhodes, the lighthouse at alexandria, the pyramids, a temple of Zeus (in greece?), a temple of aphrodite (in turkey?), the hanging gardens of babylon and...
		I forgot the statue of Zeus and the temple of Artemis.
	www.surveycentral.org /?x&V=4232&ReSort=1 (853 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on X-Men Dark Phoenix Saga - Colossus Statue at Epinions.com
		The purpose of this is to make the fan or collector purchase all of the statues in any given set rather than just the figures he or she really likes or wants.
		Colossus stands approximately 10 inches tall from the bottom of his base to the top of the stone slab.
		The Wolverine statue has yet to be released as of this writing so I can’t tell you how seamlessly this all comes together, but if it’s as cool as the production photos, it should be something to see.
	www.epinions.com /content_219215924868 (1132 words)

	ACM Presents MARVIN TAMEANKO'S ARTICLE ON 'THE 'SEVEN WONDERS' OF ROME, ILLUSTRATED ON ANCIENT COINAGE' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The exterior of the temple was adorned with famous statues of Jupiter, Juno, Minerva, Hercules, Mercury and the winged Victory.
		The Colossus of Nero, the seventh and last wonder of Rome, was a gigantic statue of the emperor posing and dressed as the god Apollo.
		The Colossus statue is last mentioned in the literature of AD 927 and it disappeared immediately after that date.
	www.ancientcoinmarket.com /mt/mtarticle8/1.html (3278 words)

	Colossus of Rhodes Statue, Colossus of Rhodes, Ancient Colossus of Rhodes, Colossus of Rhodes Foot, 7 Wonders in World
		Much as it is interesting to imagine such a statue, the truth is Colossus of Rhodes was a statue of the Greek god Helios and was built on the land facing the harbour in the traditional Greek manner of a nude man facing the sun and shielding his eyes from it.
		Pliny, the Elder wrote of the statue that it was not possible to wrap one's arms around the thumb of the statue.
		Now the statue is part of the legend surrounding Greek sculpture skills and has also served as an inspiration for Auguste Bartholdi in his construction of the Statue of Liberty.
	www.mapsofworld.com /wonders-of-world/the-colossus-of-rhodes.html (415 words)

	Search Results for colossus - Encyclopædia Britannica
		colossal statue of the sun god Helios that stood in the ancient Greek city of Rhodes and was one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
		Statue in Greece that is one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
		Survey of the seven structures historically considered to be the wonders of the ancient world: the Pyramids of Giza, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes, and the Pharos of Alexandria.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=colossus&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (574 words)

	Statue - Lostpedia
		A statue of a four-toed left foot on the shore of the Island was seen from the sailboat by Sayid, Sun and Jin as they were sailing to the Others' camp.
		Considering Sayid, Jin and Sun see the statue on the starboard side of the ship, the statue must be located along the Western or Northern coastline of the island (as the destination was the Other camp somewhere on the Northern shore).
		The Colossus of Rhodes was broken at its knees in c.
	www.lostpedia.com /wiki/Statue (461 words)

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