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Date Posted: 18:36:13 08/04/00 Fri
Author: kat
Subject: FINALLY..... don't hit the tab key kat
In reply to: Kat 's message, "testing a post" on 18:24:05 08/04/00 Fri

I ran across this information in one of my books....
Alexandria, The Sunken City and thought some of
y'all might be interested in this information on the island
of Pharos and the lighthouse.



     So celebrated was the Pharos that it has pervaded the

     languages of the world.  Variations of the word Pharos

     have taken on the meaning lighthouse in many languages.

     Moreover, the word used for an automobile headlight in 

     Paris and Martinique and Tahiti derives from it  

     ("phare"), in Milan ("faro") and Barcelona and Santiago

     de Chile (also "faro").



     It is echoed in the name of a city of Portuguese coast

     ("Faro"), and it has lent his cachet to the word for

     the "science of lighthouses" ("pharaology").



     One surmise is that the word "Pharos" is a corruption

     of "Pharaoh", which itself means "great house".  If so,

     the island certainly grew into it's name with the 

     construction of the towering edifice of Sostratos.

Just thought that might interest some of you...

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