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Geezers and Giza both wonders to behold

By Debra Dobbins

Geezers are old, eccentric people, according to Webster’s. We geezers, however, know the word really means mature individuals who refuse to be mundane.

Frank and Ernest are alluding to the Great Pyramid of Giza, which lies not far from Cairo, Egypt. “It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one to remain largely intact,” according to Wikipedia.

Great Pyramid of Giza
Photo courtesy of Wikipedia

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (from left to right, top to bottom): Great Pyramid of Giza, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, Statue of Zeus at Olympia, Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, Colossus of Rhodes, and the Lighthouse of Alexandria as depicted by 16th-century Dutch artist Marten Heemskerk.

Photo and caption courtesy of Wikipedia
 

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