The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's NeedleBy: Dan Gutman From the author of the My Weird School books, an adventure story that spans centuries and continents. In Central Park, New York, stands Cleopatras Needle. But what do you know about? Did you know that thousands of people worked in 1461 BCE to build it? Then hundreds more moved it, and erected it in Alexandria, where it stood for 3,000 years? So how did a monolith weighing over 200 tons get moved all the way to New York Cityand in the