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With a new gorgon head: do not bid me speak
The Guardian of the Sunken Palace, in Constantinople
The Guardian is an enchanted stone head found in Constantinople that asks three questions of those visiting its underground cistern [143]. Professor Childermass, Johnny, and Fergie must answer its questions or face certain death. It identifies itself as being "set up in the time of the great Emperor Justinian" and being able to speak all languages on earth - thankfully English. In modern day Istanbul below the Basilica Cistern, or Yerebatan Cistern, is a sunken palace is supported by 336 columns pillaged from classical buildings during its construction; two columns used to support the roof are themselves supported by carved Medusa heads. |
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- All our yesterdays (phrase)
- American League
- Angel of Light
- Aqueduct (Constantinople) (Istanbul, Turkey)
- Arthur, King
- Atlantic Ocean
- Atwater Kent radio
- Aventine (Rome)
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- Balkan Sobranie (tobacco)
- Baltoghlu, Suleimã
- Basilica Cistern (Constantinople) (Istanbul, Turkey)
- Bear Went Over the Mountain, The (song)
- Black Sea
- Boston Braves (baseball team)
- Boston Red Sox (baseball team)
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Brandy, Napoleon
- Brewster (Horus)
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- Caelian (Rome)
- Capen House (Topsfield, Massachusetts)
- Capitoline (Rome)
- Cave Canem (phrase)
- Champagne
- Chess (game)
- Childermass Grandfather (Roderick's)
- Childermass House (Duston Heights, Massachusetts)
- Childermass, Marcus
- Childermass, Roderick Random
- Church, Ruined (Constantinople) (Istanbul, Turkey)
- Clark candy bar
- Coca-Cola (beverage)
- Cognac
- Constantine I
- Constantine XI Dragases Palaeologus
- Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey)
- Coote, Charles
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- DiMaggio, Dominic (Dom)
- Dimension X (radio program)
- Dixon, Henry (Grampa)
- Dixon, Johnny (John Michael)
- Dixon, Kate (Gramma)
- Duston Heights Athletic Field (Duston Heights, Massachussets)
- Duston Heights, Massachusetts
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- Egypt
- Emitte lucem tuam et vertitatem tuam, Domine (phrase)
- Esquiline (Rome)
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- Fedora (headgear)
- Ferguson, Byron Q. "Fergie"
- Ferguson, Grampa
- Fillmore Street (Duston Heights, Massachusetts)
- Flies and grounders (game)
- Ford Model-T (automobile)
- Forum of Theodosios (Constantinople) (Istanbul, Turkey)
- Franciscan order
- Fuss Closet (Childermass House)
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- Gate of the Lighthouse (Constantinople) (Istanbul, Turkey)
- Geranium (plant)
- Goebel's Beer
- Great Middle Way (Constantinople) (Istanbul, Turkey)
- Guardian of the Sunken Palace
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- Haggstrum College (Duston Heights, Massachusetts)
- Hagia Sophia Church (Constantinople) (Istanbul, Turkey)
- Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
- Heavenly Days (film)
- Hellespont (Dardanelles) (Turkey)
- Hills of Rome, Seven
- Hippodrome (Constantinople) (Istanbul, Turkey)
- Hodegetria (icon)
- Holes of Time
- Horus (deity)
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- Iliad (story)
- Insulin shot
- Isis (deity)
- Isle of the Dead (Sea of Marmara)
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- Kings of Rome, Seven
- Knights of Columbus sword
- Knights Templar
- Kontoscalion, Gate of
- Kontoscalion, Harbor of
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- Leander (mythological figure)
- Leander's Tower (Maiden's Tower) (Constantinople) (Istanbul, Turkey)
- Life preserver (blackjack, weapon)
- Lighthouse (Constantinople) (Istanbul, Turkey)
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- Madrid, Spain
- Magneto (electrical generator)
- Maine
- Man (at Capen House)
- Mark, Saint
- Marmara, Sea of
- Mary, Blessed Virgin
- Mays, Willie
- McKinley, William
- Mediterranean Sea
- Mehmed II
- Merrimack Sporting Goods Shop (Duston Heights, Massachussets)
- Middle Ages
- Mocenigo, Piero (Admiral)
- Monastery of the Panaghia Hodegetria (Constantinople) (Istanbul, Turkey)
- Monk, elderly (unnamed)
- Monroe, Marilyn
- Moon (Luna)
- Mounds bar
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- Napoleon I of France
- Nimrod pipe lighter
- Numa Pompilius
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- Osiris (deity)
- Our Father (prayer)
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- Palatine (Rome)
- Peter's Sweet Shop (Duston Heights, Massachusetts)
- Pipe Tamper(s)
- Princeton University (Princeton, New Jersey)
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- Rack (torture)
- Regina Polyphon music box
- REO Motor Car (automobile)
- Rhegium, Italy
- Rome, Italy
- Romulus
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- Schermerhorn, Carl
- Servius Tullius
- Sherman Tank
- Spain
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- Tabergan
- Tarquinius Superbus (the Proud)
- Temple of Abu Simbel (Egypt)
- Ten Commandments
- Theodosius II
- Thoth (deity)
- Tilt-A-Whirl
- Time Trolley
- Topsfield, Massachusetts
- Torgeson, Earl
- Townsend, Aurelian
- Townsend's Sister, Aurelian
- Turks (subject of the Ottoman Empire)
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- University of New Hampshire (Durham, New Hampshire)
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- Vacuum tubes
- Venice, Republic of (Italy)
- Victoria, Queen
- Viewmaster
- Viminal (Rome)
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- Yale University (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Book collecting can be an exciting, if not expensive, hobby. Over the years, fans of John Bellairs have discussed the fine art of book finding and buying, specifically those first-edition hardcovers with illustrations by the late Edward Gorey.
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