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1 CRYSTAL TRUMPETERS

n 1988, as a Bicentennial Project, the town constructed the Crystal Trumpeters to recall the biblical story in which the Israelites marched around the Palestinian city of Jericho before blowing their trumpets to collapse the fortifying walls. A sign on the monument, on the Capricorn Highway across the road from the Town Hall, explains that: “Because Jericho, Queensland, is built on the

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