Reminds me of Commander Henry Honychurch Gorringe, the American Naval Officer who supervised the transfer of the Egyptian obelisk wrongly called "Cleopatra's Needle" (it has absolutely nothing to do with Cleopatra - it was erected by Thutmosis III some 1400 years before she was born) from Alexandria to New York's Central Park. He was immortalised in rhyme by the humourist Arthur Guiterman:
Quote:
In Sparkill buried lies that man of mark
Who brought the Obelisk to Central Park,
Redoubtable Commander H.H. Gorringe,
Whose name supplies the long-sought rhyme for "orange."
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