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Pyramid Lake is the geographic sink of the Truckee River Basin, 40 mi (64 km) northeast of Reno.
Pyramid Lake is fed by the Truckee River, which is mostly the outflow from Lake Tahoe. The Truckee River enters Pyramid Lake at its southern end. Pyramid Lake is an endorheic lake. It has no outlet, with water leaving only by evaporation, or sub-surface seepage. The lake has about 10% of the area of the Great Salt Lake, but it has about 25% more volume. The salinity is approximately 1/6 that of sea water. Although clear Lake Tahoe forms the headwaters that drain to Pyramid Lake, the Truckee River delivers more turbid waters to Pyramid Lake after traversing the steep Sierra terrain and collecting moderately high silt-loaded surface runoff.
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Pyramid Lake with Anaho Island in the center-right with the Pah Rah Range in the distance. Taken from the east side of the lake alongside NV-447
Met Bethany, Juliana, and my parents at Pyramid Alehouse which is right across the street from the ballpark. Good food and good beer.
It is possible to build a pyramid from the squares of the first four numbers from thirty identical elements such as cubes or spheres [1X1 + 2X2 + 3X3 + 4X4 = 30]. It seems that just as the Greek Tetraktys visually illustrated that the sum of the first four numbers looked like an isosceles triangle made up of ten elements, so did the pyramid of Egypt visually illustrate that the sum of their squares looked like a pyramid made up of thirty elements. That is, these two important cultures attached special importance to the first four numbers, and in retrospect sought to share this insight with future generations.
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אפשר לבנות פירמידה מריבועי ארבעת המספרים הראשונים משלושים אלמנטים זהים כגון קוביות או כדורים [1X1+2X2+3X3+4X4=30]. נדמה שכמו שהטטרקטיס של היוונים המחיש באופן ויזואלי שסכום ארבעת המספרים הראשונים נראה כמו משולש שווה צלעות שבנוי מעשרה אלמנטים, כך גם הפירמידה של המצרים המחישה באופן ויזואלי שסכום ריבועיהם נראה כמו פירמידה שבנויה משלושים אלמנטים. כלומר, ששתי התרבויות החשובות האלה ייחסו חשיבות מיוחדת לארבעת המספרים הראשונים, ובמבט לאחור שאפו לשתף בתובנה הזאת את הדורות הבאים
A local favorite among the Dani people of Irian Jaya on a Carstensz Pyramid expedtion. Pablo Puruncajas photo
This shot is taken from under under the area of robbed stone, in the north-east corner of the pyramid base shown in the previous shot. Hopefully some idea of the size of the casing blocks can be gained, as well as the size, and somewhat irregular shape of those blocks which comprise the core masonry. This latter feature, it must be added, is common to most Old Kingdom pyramids
The Pyramid Magnolia (Magnolia pyramidata) has a curious distribution throughout the southeastern United States. With a very sporadic and spotty distribution this species is considered to be nowhere abundant. In Texas it occurs in several tiny populations along the Louisiana border in Newton and Jasper Counties. This species is unique as it prefers xeric sites with deep sandy soils and not the moist mesic slopes that other Magnolia species are commonly associated with. Several of the populations in Texas are at risk from increased habitat fragmentation due to timber production. The Big Thicket Association is currently accepting donations in an effort to purchase a conservation easement for one of the populations.
Finished around 2510 BC, this was built as a tomb for the kin Menkaure, who was the son of Khafre and the grandson of Khufu, who built the other two main Pyramids of Giza.
It's much smaller than the other two, and used to have a casing of white limestone, with the bottom 16 rows made of red granite -- so it would have looked like a "stripe" along the bottom.
In the 12th Century, al-Malek al-Aziz Othman ben Yusuf tried to dismantle it, but it was far too difficult and expensive. Blacks that tumbled to the bottom would become buried in sand. Eventually he gave up, leaving a "scar" along one side.