Yes--- the light house at Alexandria, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.(Um...ah...Statue of Artemis at Ephesus, Hanging Gardens at Babylon, Great Pyramid, The big Mosoleum at Helicarnassus *sic?*, the um other two....Colossus at Rhodes...Big Statue of Zeus Somewhere. I just know someone is going to Google this and make me look like a donkey!.) Alexandria is the principal port of Egypt (where the Nile comes out to the Mediterranean) The city of Alexandia was built on top of a pre-existing city on that spot by Alexander the Great, who named it after...himself. (He is buried there, though he died young in Babylon.) He named a lot of cities after himself. He was an interesting fellow. He had a horse that he really loved named Ox-Head. (Bucephalus.) He named a lot of cities after the horse, too. He wept bitterly when Ox-head died. Anyway, the light house was the tallest building in the world for centuries. There was a fire that burned on top of it, and a polished metal mirror behind the fire. At night, the fire could be seen fifty miles out to sea. The building stood for centuries, but was eventually destroyed by earthquakes. Part of it lies in chunks in the water at the base of the island, Pharos, that the light house stood on.(The Colossus of Rhodes is in chunks in the water, too, in...um...Rhodes! Yeah! That's it.Greece.) http://www.unesco.org/csi/pub/source/alex6.htm This link shows you pictures of the chunks of the light house underwater, and the building that stands on the site now, plus a drawing of the original light house. In French, to this day, (at least in Canada) the word 'phares' means headlights on cars. I remember driving in Quebec, and seeing a sign that I was trying to translate that said "Lower your "phares". I was like "Huh?" Then it clicked, but only because I studied archaeology in college. I laughed like a hyena! (And turned off my headlights in the parking garage.) It's a cool subject, and a *very* cool name for a white ferret. Way to go, Sean! Bonus points for creativity. Proof positive that it is a *MYTH* that the autistic are all fundamentally incapable of abstract thought. Shine on, Pharos! Alexandra in MA (From the Greek Iskander--a helper of men. Go figure.) [Posted in FML issue 5120]