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| At home in Central Park, 1881 |
The obelisk Cleopatra's Needle, a gift from Egypt, has stood in Central Park for 130 of its 3,500 years. The question now is, Who should keep it, New York or Cairo? The legal issue is straightforward; the moral, not so much (story and video): http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/06/egypt-or-central-park-where-does-an-ancient-obelisk-belong/?hp
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