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Помогите перевести текст, пожалуйста. But people did. Two thousand years ago they decided to move it.The Needle's Journey across continents and oceans began. It was dragged through the desert to Alexandria in 12 B.C. when the Romans invaded Egypt and built their temples there. The column was put by the Roman temple.After three hundred years the Romans left Egypt and their great temple became a ruin, but the column wasn't destroyed. In 1819 the column was preceded to the UK by the King of Egypt to commemorate the victory of Lord Nelson at the Battle of the Nile. It was difficult to transport the column to England. The ships at that time were too small for the heavy column. Finally, it was decided to build a ship around the column.A mad idea, but can you think of a better plan?The stone monument was placed in a metal tube.A deck was built on top of the tube, but there were no sails and no engine. It could only float, and was pulled through the water by a tugboat. The floating tube was named the Cleopatra Six brave men went to the sea on the Cleopatra.Their job was to steer and watch the tow rope. After twenty days at sea there was a bad storm. Waves crashed high over the Cleopatra's deck. The Cleopatra was going to sink, so people cut the tow rope and called to the tug-boat for help.The tug's capital came just in time and saved the men.Everybody thought that the Cleopatra had been lost. Months went by and there was no news of the monument. But the Cleopatra hadn't sunk. To everyone's surprise, she was found at sea, after floating on her own for three months. In 1878 the Needle's journey came to an end. It was put on the bank of the river Thames in London. A collection of objects was buried under the column.The objects were chosen to chosen to show people in the future what life in London was like in 1878. Here is a list of some of the objects they bured: 1 a picture of Queen Victoria 2 a baby's feeding bottle 3 British coins 4 a railway timetable 5 men's clothes 6 a box of cigars 7 a cheap razor 8 the Bible 9 some women's hairpins 10 some women's clothes 11 a book of photographs 12 a ruler 13 a map of London 14 some newspapers 15 some children's toys