“I see Rhodes as the negative image of somebody like Nelson Mandela,” says writer and filmmaker Antony Thomas. “Rhodes had the charismatic gift where he could relate to anybody, whether you ...

Cecil Rhodes, Colossus of Africa, Will Stay Up in Oxford Oriel College announced that it is rejecting a student drive to remove a statue of the controversial colonialist. By Tajha Chappellet-Lanier ...

Just when many companies are thinking of pulling out of troubled Africa, one is busily building a business empire as big as any since the heyday of Cecil Rhodes’s British South Africa Company ...

Despite its grandeur, the Colossus was not destined to stand the test of time. In 226 BC, a devastating earthquake struck ...

What if I told you the Statue of Liberty was built to imitate a wonder of the ancient world? The colossus is the wonder of ...

The Colossus, Chares’s audacious “second sun,” was not destined to last for centuries: An earthquake destroyed it and parts of the city of Rhodes in 226 or 225 B.C., little more than half a ...

Although long gone, the Colossus of Rhodes remains a well-known symbol of the ancient world. Across the centuries, its memory has been kept alive by a variety of media, from poetry to painting ...

But if the Colossus of Rhodes is resurrected, sailing into the island's harbor would be the experience of a lifetime—a real life version of cruising into Braavos. Source: Slate.