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  2. Vatican obelisk - Wikipedia

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    Vatican obelisk. The Vatican Obelisk is an Egyptian obelisk, one of the thirteen ancient obelisks of Rome, located in St. Peter's Square, in Vatican City. It is the only ancient obelisk in Rome that has never fallen. [1] [2] Made of red granite, it has a height of 25.3 meters and, together with the cross and the base (composed of four bronze ...

  3. Monolith (Space Odyssey) - Wikipedia

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    Space Odyssey. ) In Arthur C. Clarke 's Space Odyssey series, Monoliths are machines in black cuboids whose sides extend in the precise ratio of 1 : 4 : 9 (1 2 : 2 2 : 3 2) built by an unseen extraterrestrial species whom Clarke dubbed the Firstborn and who he suggests are the earliest highly intelligent species to evolve in the Milky Way.

  4. Category:Obelisks in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Chesapeake and Ohio Canal commemorative obelisk. Clarksville Confederate Monument. Cleopatra's Needle (New York City) Colonel Robert A. Smith Monument. Columbus Obelisk. Confederate Memorial in Mayfield. Confederate Memorial (Romney, West Virginia) Confederate Monument (Portsmouth, Virginia) Confederate Monument (Union City, Tennessee)

  5. List of HTTP status codes - Wikipedia

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    As the HTTP/1.0 standard did not define any 1xx status codes, servers must not send a 1xx response to an HTTP/1.0 compliant client except under experimental conditions. 100 Continue The server has received the request headers and the client should proceed to send the request body (in the case of a request for which a body needs to be sent; for ...

  6. Obelisk Legal Support Solutions - Wikipedia

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    Obelisk Legal Support Solutions, usually known as Obelisk Support, is an alternative legal service provider of more than 1300 lawyers in London. [2] [3] [4] Obelisk Support uses a flexible 'outsourcing' working model where lawyers work remotely for the client, either on stand-by or as supporting legal advisers. [5]

  7. Obelisk (Prague Castle) - Wikipedia

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    The obelisk at Prague Castle (Czech: Obelisk na Pražském hradě or Mrákotínský monolit) is a granite monolith and World War I memorial designed by Jože Plečnik, installed at Prague Castle in Prague, Czech Republic. It stands 16 meters high. It is located in the Third Castle Courtyard. The obelisk was donated by Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.

  8. Obelisk (life form) - Wikipedia

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    An obelisk is a "viroid-like element" of a type first described in a January 2024 preprint, whose authors say that "Obelisks form their own distinct phylogenetic group", as their RNA sequences discovered by computer-aided metatranscriptomics do not have any homology with the genetic code of any other life form.

  9. List of ISO 3166 country codes - Wikipedia

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    See the ISO 3166-3 standard for former country codes. British Virgin Islands – See Virgin Islands (British) . Burma – See Myanmar . Cape Verde – See Cabo Verde . Caribbean Netherlands – See Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba . China, The Republic of – See Taiwan (Province of China) . Democratic People's Republic of Korea – See Korea ...