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The last two items are equivalents of two of our world’s ‘seven wonders of antiquity’: the Hanging Gardens of Babylon and the Colossus of Rhodes. The Quirm memorial is less obvious. Perhaps Mausoleus’ Tomb?

There is also a similarity between the Colossus of Morpork and the sequence in Rob Reiner’s 1985 movie This Is Spinal Tap where a Stonehenge menhir, supposedly 30 feet high, is constructed to be 30 inches high, and ends up being trodden on by a dwarf.