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  • Langdon unveiled PHI in the architectural dimensions of the Greek Parthenon, the pyramids of Egypt, and even the United Nations Building in New York.†  (source)
  • He didn't want to tell Crake that he was having some severe nightmares: the one where the Parthenon was decorated with cut-off heads was, for some reason, the worst.†  (source)
  • You ever see the Parthenon, Percy?†  (source)
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  • Behind me you can see the biggest temple, the Parthenon, which means 'the Virgin's Place.'†  (source)
    Parthenon = most famous surviving building of Ancient Greece
  • Yet in my mind I roamed the Acropolis at Athens, watching the moon rise through the open roof of the Parthenon, measuring my height by the grandeur of those columns, walking the streets of those Greeks who died at Marathon, listening to the sound of wind in the ancient olives.†  (source)
  • A white mausoleum, someone's scaled-down version of the Parthenon.†  (source)
  • He was like a poet in the Parthenon.†  (source)
  • She wanted to see it all-the famous châteaux of the Loire Valley, the Parthenon, the Scottish highlands, the Basilica-all the places she'd read about.†  (source)
  • Soon it will look like the Colosseum in Rome and the Parthenon in Athens.†  (source)
  • In reality, the only thing that interested him on the drive was the pink marble Parthenon half hidden among leafy banana and mango trees, a luckless replica of the idyllic mansions on Louisiana cotton plantations.†  (source)
  • The rebuilding of the Acropolis and the construction of the Parthenon were the two best known of Pericles' many ambitious building projects.†  (source)
  • Like when I turned nine and instead of taking the time to sing happy birthday, she painted the Parthenon on our living room wall.†  (source)
  • A green spot stood in the center of a picture of the Parthenon, suspended over the fireplace.†  (source)
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