Richard Brooks wrote:
John Cook wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:17:56 +0300, noname wrote:

Does it have something to do with white flags?

No, but it might have something to do with the repainting it needed
when an invading force burnt it down...

Cheers
John Cook

This is the story in Ripley's Believe It Or Not. According to Ripley, it
started out pink.

Pinkish-beige to be exact. It's sandstone, after all.

Got to see it in early 1988 when it was being re-painted. They said that
it was going to be about an inch smaller in all dimensions after all the
old paint was scraped/sandblasted off. I suspect this was a leg pull,
however.

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