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Those were erected as tourist things by hotel chains.

There is Cleopatra's needle in the centre of London - but it wouldn't make sense to have the pyramids and Sphinx as the symbol for London 2012.



>Those were erected as tourist things by hotel chains.

The second link says you are (at least partly) wrong.




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