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The pyramids of Khufu (Cheops) left and Khafre (Chephren) right at Giza near Cairo, Egypt. Of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World only the pyramids still exist today.
The Pyramidal Orchid is an orchid native to southwestern Eurasia, from western Europe through the Mediterranean region eastwards to Iran. This hardy perennial plant grows to a height of 30 cm. The flower varies from pink to purple, 10 to 12mm, with a three-lobed lip and a curved spur 12 to 14mm long. The scent is described as "foxy" or "clove-like". The arrangement of the flowers in a compact pyramidal shape is very distinctive and gives the orchid its common name. The leaves are narrow and unspotted. This orchid requires a sunny spot on diverse soils: loamy or clay, rarely on sandy soils. It can even grow on very alkaline soil.
Judy and me standing on Twin Peaks in San Francisco.
Downtown is in the distance with the Transamerica Pyramid seen between us.
The photo was taken in July 1981.
A double hand held in camera image of an orchid . I'd intended to line up the base of each original image but missed! Quite like the end result though. I might re-upload this image as I notice I've put the wrong copyright notice on it. Should be 2020.
The sole surviving ancient wonder of the world, Egypt's Giza pyramids are on the outskirts of Cairo city. This is the pyramid of King Khufu (Cheops), the largest of the three.
According to Toby Wilkinson's excellent 'The rise and fall of Ancient Egypt', it's built from more than 2.3 million blocks of stone, each weighing on average about a ton, covering an area of 13 square acres. I really hope he has his maths right since I doubt modern technology could lay one block of stone every two minutes, ten hours a day for twenty years and meet Australian industrial relations best practice. I know it was an autocracy but what, no smoko? Khufu reigned from 2545-2525 BC. The completed pyramid once stood at 481 feet high and was the tallest building in the world until 1889, when the Eiffel Tower took the accolade.
The Pyramid of Menkaure, located on the Giza Plateau in the southwestern outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, is the smallest of the three Pyramids of Giza. It is thought to have been built to serve as the tomb of the fourth dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Menkaure.
Menkaure's Pyramid had an original height of 65.5 metres (215 feet) and was the smallest of the three major pyramids at the Giza Necropolis. It now stands at 61 m (204 ft) tall with a base of 108.5 m. Its angle of incline is approximately 51°20′25″. It was constructed of limestone and granite. The first sixteen courses of the exterior were made of granite. The upper portion was cased in the normal manner with Tura limestone. Part of the granite was left in the rough. Incomplete projects like this help archeologists understand the methods used to build pyramids and temples. South of the pyramid of Menkaure were 3 satellite pyramids none of which appear to have been completed. The largest was made partly in granite like the main pyramid. Neither of the other 2 progressed beyond the construction of the inner core.
Herodotus's legend
Menkaure was allegedly a much more benevolent Pharaoh than his predecessors. According to legends related by Herodotus, he wrote the following:
"This Prince (Mycerinus) disapproved of the conduct of his father, reopened the temples and allowed the people, who were ground down to the lowest point of misery, to return to their occupations and to resume the practice of sacrifice. His justice in the decision of causes was beyond that of all the former kings. The Egyptians praise him in this respect more highly than any other monarchs, declaring that he not only gave his judgements with fairness, but also, when anyone was dissatisfied with his sentence, made compensation to him out of his own purse and thus pacified his anger."
The Gods however ordained that Egypt should suffer tyrannical rulers for a hundred and fifty years according to this legend, Herodotus goes on:
"An oracle reached him from the town of Buto, which said 'six years only shalt thou live upon this earth, and in the seventh thou shalt end thy days'. Mycerinus, indignant, sent an angry message to the oracle, reproaching the god with his injustice -'My father and uncle,' he said 'though they shut up the temples, took no thought of the gods and destroyed multitudes of men, nevertheless enjoyed a long life; I, who am pious , am to die soon!' There came in reply a second message from the oracle - 'for this very reason is thy life brought so quickly to a close - thou hast not done as it behoved thee. Egypt was fated to suffer affliction one hundred and fifty years - the two kings who preceded thee upon the throne understood this - thou hast not understood it' Mycerinus, when this answer reached him, perceiving that his doom was fixed, had lamps prepared, which he lighted every day at eventime, and feasted and enjoyed himself unceasingly both day and night, moving about in the marsh-country and the woods, and visiting all the places he heard were agreeable sojourns. His wish was to prove the oracle false, by turning night into days and so living twelve years in the space of six.Temple complex
In the mortuary temple the foundations and the inner core were made of limestone. The floors were begun with granite and granite facings were added to some of the walls. The foundations of the valley temple were made of stone. However they were both finished with crude bricks. Reisner estimated that some of the blocks of local stone in the walls of the mortuary temple weighed as much as 220 tons, while the heaviest granite ashlars imported from Aswan weighed more than 30 tons. It is not unusual for a son or successor to complete a temple when a Pharaoh dies so it is not unreasonable to assume that Shepseskaf finished the temples with crude brick. There was an inscription in the mortuary temple that said he "made it (the temple) as his monument for his father, the king of upper and lower Egypt." During excavations of the temples Reisner found a large number of statues mostly of Menkaure alone and as a member of a group. These were all carved in the naturalistic style of the old kingdom with a high degree of detail evident.
The pyramid's date of construction is unknown, because Menkaure's reign has not been accurately defined, but it was probably completed in the 26th century BC. It lies a few hundred meters southwest of its larger neighbors, the Pyramid of Khafre and the Great Pyramid of Khufu in the Giza necropolis.
Coffin and sarcophagus
Richard William Howard Vyse, who first visited Egypt in 1835, discovered in the upper antechamber the remains of a wooden anthropoid coffin inscribed with Menkaure's name and containing human bones. This is now considered to be a substitute coffin from the Saite period, and radiocarbon dating on the bones determined them to be less than 2,000 years old[citation needed], suggesting either an all-too-common bungled handling of remains from another site, or access to the pyramid during Roman times. Deeper into the pyramid Vyse came upon a beautiful basalt sarcophagus, rich in detail with a bold projecting cornice. Unfortunately, this sarcophagus now lies at the bottom of the Mediterranean, sinking on October 13, 1838, with the ship Beatrice, as she made her way between Cartagena and Malta, on the way to Great Britain.[4] It is one of only a handful of extant Old Kingdom sarcophagi. The anthropoid coffin, however, was successfully transported on a separate ship and may be seen today at the British Museum.
Attempted demolition
At the end of the twelfth century al-Malek al-Aziz Othman ben Yusuf, Saladin's son and heir, attempted to demolish the pyramids starting with Menkaure's pyramid. The workmen who Al-Aziz had recruited to demolish the pyramid found it almost as expensive to destroy as to build. They stayed at their job for eight months. They were not able to remove more than one or two stones each day at a cost of tiring themselves out utterly. Some used wedges and levers to move the stones while others used ropes to pull them down. When it fell it would bury itself in the sand requiring extraordinary efforts to free it. Wedges were used to split the stones into several pieces and a cart was used to carry it to the foot of the escarpment, where it was left. Far from accomplishing what they intended to do they merely spoiled the pyramid by leaving a large vertical gash in its north face.
On a flight to Frankfurt to see pyramids of a different nature, I looked down and saw the peak in the Pyramid group Dennis Brown and I climbed on an epic weekend trip back in 1970. What a trip down memory lane! Lake Garibaldi and Black Tusk, along with other landmarks in the background.
An account of our climb in the Red Lobster Journals.
If interested, you can view my Youtube playlist of our trip to Egypt .
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Pyramid Books / Taschenbuch-Reihe
> Creighton Brown Burnham / Born Innocent
Cover: Robert Maguire
Pyramid Books / USA 1959
Reprint / Comic-Club NK 2010
ex libris MTP
La pyramide du Louvre est une pyramide constituée de verre et de métal, située au milieu de la cour Napoléon du musée du Louvre à Paris. Elle abrite l'entrée principale du musée.
Commandée par François Mitterrand en 1983, la pyramide a été conçue par l'architecte sino-américain Ieoh Ming Pei. La structure métallique qui supporte le parement en verre est faite d'acier et d'aluminium et pèse 200 tonnes ; elle s'élève à 21,64 mètres sur une base carrée de 35,42 mètres de côté. Elle est recouverte de 603 losanges et de 70 triangles en verre et est la première grande construction à utiliser le verre feuilleté.
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Here's a new one from the weekend.
I named it Pyramid Barn because when looking at it from the right spot it kinda did look like a pyramid and as I was standing there taking this shot in the middle of a vast expanse of farmland I had a sudden flashback to the Glastonbury festivals I attended in '98, '00 and '02.
I got a little creative with the post processing to try and bring out the soft pastels that were in the RAW file and make them glow a little more intensely than they appeared in real, but we won't tell anyone about that ;)
The Transamerica Pyramid in the Financial District of San Francisco, California, United States, is a 48-story postmodern building and the second-tallest skyscraper in the San Francisco skyline. The building no longer houses the headquarters of the Transamerica Corporation, which moved its U.S. headquarters to Baltimore, Maryland, but it is still associated with the company and is depicted in the company's logo. Designed by architect William Pereira and built by Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company, at 853 feet (260 m), on completion in 1972 it was the eighth-tallest building in the world. Because of the shape of the building, the majority of the windows can pivot 360 degrees so they can be washed from the inside. Model Credit: Amanda Brown (@amandabrrownn)
All over the south, you can find these confederate furnaces. I stumbled on one by accident one day on the way to Nashville. Since then I have kind of been fascinated by them. They were used to heat metal ore, I assume for tools, bullets and such. This one is close to Cartersville, Georgia. I thought it was perfect for the Flickr Friday mission #Pyramid.
This image was captured in RAW and processed in Linux using RawTherapy.
Being a Dan Brown and movie fan, this was one of the things I wanted to see in the Louvre. It wasn’t where I expected it to be and only as we were exiting that we saw it. Spoiler alert - in the Da Vinci Code the smaller pyramid extends underground to be the same size as the upper pyramid and is the last resting place of the Holy Grail.
ㅤㅤㅤㅤ♦ Pyramids ♦
ㅤㅤEstou super feliz. Nesta manipulação, percebi que me superei em diversos pontos. Decidi renovar e, então, apliquei técnicas diferentes de edição. O tema, desta vez, é o Egito, admirável mundo de grandiosos templos, construídos, fibra-por-fibra, pelo misticismo. A luxúria e o poder das divindades simbolizadas pelos faraós. A engenhosa arquitetura, pedras sobre pedras que ainda se sustentam sobre um solo instável, arenoso. Figuras históricas mitificadas, personagens simbólicas, frutos de manifestações divinas ou simples crenças tradicionais. Peças de uma criatividade estética estupenda, marcadas pelas hachuras do tempo, sortidas aos quatro cantos do mundo, perdidas em terras desconhecidas ou soterradas, consumidas pelas dunas. Lá, num cantinho da grande África, num lugar maltratado pelo tempo, onde as pedras em pó se tornaram, por contorcerem-se, remexendo-se sem fim, com tanta força, pela cólera dos ventos e por um sol ferino, onde pelas fraturas surradas de um deserto espaçoso veias d’água se espargiram, fazendo brotar de suas águas o húmus de uma civilização inteira. Alguns meros detalhes, como esses, foram o fruto de minhas tentações, ao que procurei comportar no plano de uma imagem. Ao editar, além de me guiar pelo clássico estereótipo da cultura egípcia, tive como fonte a performance de Gimme More exibida na turnê Femme Fatale. O resultado é curioso, até mágico, no fundo, e me incita.
ㅤㅤEspero que todos apreciem meu trabalho, não o vendo apenas pelo que aparenta (estampando por seus pixels o rosto do que pode não ser uma influência mas simples parte do que é a arte; corpos, rostos, expressões etc. tomam formas que transpõem a ideia de simples referência e ganham formas abstratas, desconhecidas ao desconhecido e preparadas para ganhar novas formas, novas interpretações; quero dizer, é este um trabalho artístico, mergulhem-se em arte, em inspiração) que foi feito com muito carinho e dedicação.
ㅤㅤDedico esta edição à querida Nizer Fontoura. Espero que goste e que tenha se surpreendido da mesma forma que me surpreendeu com aquela edição magnífica. Esta é minha retribuição. (:
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ㅤㅤComentem e adicionem notas. (:
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I am starting to come to grips with the fact that the ice is going to disappear someday soon. I have been going through some day trip shots from last summer and came across my trip to Pyramid Point. It was sunny and blue most of the way and as I got within about 10 miles, a fog and mist was blowing in and as I arrived at the trailhead, it looked as if I was in a cloud. Little did I realize how magical the fog would make this hike. I practically fell to my knees at every bend, and in one case I did. My batteries were being recharged through an energy that was entering my body that is just indescribable. Folks I am not kidding! Would I kid you!!
a smooth-sided pyramid built in the 24th century BC for the Egyptian pharaoh Unas.
Unas built his pyramid between the complexes of Sekhemket and Djoser, in North Saqqara. Anchored to the valley temple at a nearby lake, a long causeway was constructed to provide access to the pyramid site. The pyramid is situated on the Saqqara plateau and lies on a line running from the pyramid of Sekhemkhet to the pyramid of Menkauhor.[18] The site required the construction of an exceptionally long causeway to reach a nearby lake, suggesting the site held some significance to Unas.
A late afternoon / evening photo-cruise around Pyramid Valley (North Canterbury) is always worthwhile. The environment changes quite dramatically in colour scheme throughout the seasons, and I was surprised how green it is - reflects the mild summer we're having so far.
Wasn't as much cloud around at sunset as I like, yet the more subtle tones can be quite relaxing to enjoy.
The idea of the tapered design is that it reduces the size of the building's shadow and therefore its effect on the light enjoyed by people in the vicinity. The spire is decorative.
According to Wikipedia, the Transamerica Pyramid at 600 Montgomery Street between Clay and Washington Streets in the Financial District of San Francisco, California, is a 48-story futurist building and the second-tallest skyscraper in the San Francisco skyline. Its height is surpassed by Salesforce Tower. The building no longer houses the headquarters of the Transamerica Corporation, which moved its U.S. headquarters to Baltimore, Maryland, but it is still associated with the company and is depicted in the company's logo. Designed by architect William Pereira and built by Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction Company, at 853 feet (260 m), on completion in 1972 it was the eighth-tallest building in the world.
Today there was little wind, so I could get close: pyramidal orchid (Anacamptis pyramidalis).
Heute war kaum wind, sodass ich nah heran konnte: die Pyramidenhundswurz (Anacamptis pyramidalis).
Kay Martin - The Divorcees
Pyramid Books F-750, 1962
Cover Artist: Rudy Nappi
"Three mixed-up, sex-starved women on the loose in Reno."
Kay Martin was a pseudonym of Adela Maritano.
This ancient pyramid must be located in Saudi Arabia, not Egypt, given the male tour guide's clothing. (Hey, I couldn't find any figures in traditional Egyptian garb.) His partner, the buxom female guide? No idea if she's from the area, based on that “pharaoh queen” getup. The tourists are enthralled by the guide's narration of how something so mind-bogglingly immense and grand could have been constructed -- and still remain intact and Krispie after all this time.
UPDATE: The Pyramid Tours have closed permanently. The pyramid finally succumbed to the elements . . . of a teenage boy and his equally sweet-toothed parents! It was hard to watch. But really good!