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- noun a terraced garden at Babylon watered by pumps from the Euphrates; construction attributed to Nebuchadnezzar around 600 BC
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So did Nebuchadnezzar, who reputedly established the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
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These dickheads would have banned the Hanging Gardens of Babylon on safety grounds.
Life in Soviet Britain: Some examples out of so so so many examples of fuckwittery. FIDO The Dog 2009
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MOVE over, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Mausoleum at Halicarnasus and the Colossus of Rhodes.
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Famous for King Nebakanezer II, who built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.
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It was the capital city of two of the most famous kings of antiquity, Hammurabi (1792-1750 BC) who introduced one of the world's first law codes, and Nebuchadnezzar (604-562 BC) who built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
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Alexandria, Walls and Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Temple of Diana at
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