[Answer] 3. As we reach the midway point of our delightful visit to Central Park, we come across a strange-looking object. It is a giant Egyptian obelisk standing right there in the middle of mighty New York City. What name was given to this foreign wonder?

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...1. Egypt's Pride 2. Ramesses Riser 3. Cleopatra's Needle 4. Tut's Tower Cleopatra's Needle stands about 68 feet high and is made of red granite. It is one of two that were constructed by Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose III, around 1450 BC. The other obelisk is in London, England. The obelisk has many hieroglyphs written on it. This little area of the park also includes a sundial and an ancient style playground with climbing pyramids. The obelisk was gifted to the U.S. in 1877 by the Khedive of Egypt. It was then brought to New York and erected in Central Park on February 22, 1881. William Vanderbilt offered to finance the move of this colossal object at a cost of over $100,000 which at the time was a fortune. Cleopatra VII had the obelisks moved from their original place to a temple in Alexandria in Egypt in the first century BC.

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Cleopatra's Needle:

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