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Anonymous - Madeleine: An Autobiography
Pyramid Books R-1136, 1965
Cover Artist: Mort Engel
"A girl's own story of a life of vice."
The Pyramid of Khafre is one of the three ancient pyramids on the Giza Plateau, a neighbourhood that is just 25km from downtown Cairo.
Giza, Egypt, 2009
Krijn de Koning Vs. David Chipperfield (Round 3)
Pyramidal Forms project © All rights
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Appropriate for large spaces + laptop speakers
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Sax Rohmer - The Yellow Claw
Pyramid Books R-1317, 1966
Cover Artist: Joe Lombardero
Joe Lombardero worked with William Teason at Sudler & Hennessey. You can see the similarity of their styles.
Born: 1922 in Tampa, Florida.
Died: 2004 in Arkansas.
Joseph Lombardero studied design at the Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida. He moved to New York in 1948, working for Sudler & Hennessey as an illustrator specializing in pharmaceutical illustrations.
In the 1960s he began to illustrate book covers, primarily in the science fiction genre and for the Time-Life Science series. He also illustrated record jacket covers for RCA, Capitol, Camden and EMI, primarily in the classical and jazz genre.
The Great Pyramid of Giza, also called Khufu's Pyramid or the Pyramid of Khufu, and Pyramid of Cheops, is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now Cairo, Egypt, and is the only remaining member of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It is believed the pyramid was built as a tomb for Fourth dynasty Egyptian King Khufu (Cheops in Greek) and constructed over a 20 year period concluding around 2560 BC. The Great Pyramid was the tallest man-made structure in the world for over 3,800 years. Originally the Great Pyramid was covered by casing stones that formed a smooth outer surface, and what is seen today is the underlying core structure. Some of the casing stones that once covered the structure can still be seen around the base. There have been varying scientific and alternative theories regarding the Great Pyramid's construction techniques. Most accepted construction theories are based on the idea that it was built by moving huge stones from a quarry and dragging and lifting them into place. - Wiki
Note: this photo was published in a Nov 13, 2009 blog titled "Djoser’s Step Pyramid : Innovation Designed by Imhotep." It was also published in an Oct 22, 2009 Quizlet blog.
Moving into 2010, it was published in a Mar 5, 2010 blog titled "Five Steps to the Essential Frugal Life." And it was published in an Oct 2, 2010 issue of The Frugal Mom blog, with the same title and notes as what I had written here in this Flickr page.
Moving into 2011, the photo was published in a Feb 11, 2011 blog titled "Public sector pensions & Bernie Madoff ." It was also published in a Mar 17, 2011 blog titled "Are specialisms a hindrance for PR professionals?" And it was published in a Jun 13, 2011 blog titled "Buried Pyramids Found in Egypt." It was also published in a Jul 17, 2011 blog titled "Droit d’auteur & Libertés numériques : plaidoyer pour une réforme constitutionnelle."
Moving into 2013, the photo was published in a Dec 4, 2013 blog titled " Flache Hierarchien, hone Motivation."
Moving into 2014, the photo was published in a May 21, 2014 blog titled "Building New Marketplaces at the Bottom of the Pyramid."
Moving into 2015, the photo was published in an undated (mid-January 2015) blog titled "The Five Hindrances of Mind."
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This is the Step Pyramid, built for the Pharoah Djoser (Zoser), the 2nd king of the 3rd Dynasty, who ruled Egypt from 2667-2648 BC. It is believed that the pyramid was designed and created by the high priest Imhotep; for more details, click here.
Of course, it lacks the sleek lines and grandeur of the Cheops Pyramid and many of the other sights that we saw; but the scale it still enormous. You get a sense of that by looking at the tiny dots near the bottom right of the pyramid -- those are people.
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After a visit to the main Egyptian museum in Cairo, we travelled by bus to Memphis (where we saw the Alabaster Spinx, and a couple of amazing statues of Ramses II), and then to Sakkara to see the Step Sphinx, and a view across the sands to the Bent Sphinx and the Red Sphinx.
We also stoped at a carpet school, to watch young children weaving the fine knots and intricate patterns that go into "Oriental" rugs.
Along the way, there were scenes of fruit/vegetable stands, people walking and bicycling, and numerous carts pulled by tiny buros, hauling alfalfa and produce from one place to another...
1956; Let's go naked Anthology compiled by Donald A. Wollheim. Cover art by Ed Fisher. Authors: Thorne Smith, Erskine Calswell, Earl Wilson, Louis Charles Royer, H. Allen Smith, H.E. Bates.
Nikon 16mm f/3.5 Fisheye-NIKKOR, I will shoot with Nikon D4.
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Used filter O56 ambar
Location : Barcelona Parc de l'Estació del Nord
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1953; The Big Fake by Murray Forbes. Cover art by Jim Bentley. original title Hollow Triumph. The Lady is Marilyn Monroe the man could be the painter himself Jim Bentley or could it be mr. Heffner?
The great pyramids at Giza. From left to right: The Pyramid of Cheops (or Khufu), The Pyramid of Chephren (or Khafre), and The Pyramid of Mykerinus (or Menkaure). The fourth small mound on the right is a mini-pyramid for the queen.
Le musée du Louvre, inauguré en 1793 sous l'appellation Muséum central des arts de la République dans le palais du Louvre, ancienne résidence royale située au centre de Paris, est aujourd'hui le plus grand musée d'art et d'antiquités au monde. Sa surface d'exposition est de 72 735 m.
Fin 2016, ses collections comprenaient 554 731 œuvres, dont 35 000 exposées et 264 486 œuvres graphiques. Celles-ci présentent l'art occidental du Moyen Âge à 1848, celui des civilisations antiques qui l'ont précédé et influencé (orientales, égyptienne, grecque, étrusque et romaine), les arts des premiers chrétiens et de l'Islam.
Situé dans le 1er arrondissement de Paris, sur la rive droite entre la Seine et la rue de Rivoli, le musée se signale par la pyramide de verre de son hall d'accueil, érigée en 1989 dans la cour Napoléon et qui en est devenue emblématique, tandis que la statue équestre de Louis XIV constitue le point de départ de l'axe historique parisien.
En 2017, avec environ 8,1 millions de visiteurs annuels, le Louvre est le musée le plus visité au monde. Il est le site culturel payant le plus visité de France. Parmi ses pièces les plus célèbres figurent La Joconde, la Vénus de Milo, Le Scribe accroupi, La Victoire de Samothrace et le Code de Hammurabi.
Le Louvre possède une longue histoire de conservation artistique et historique, depuis l'Ancien Régime jusqu'à nos jours. À la suite du départ de Louis XIV pour le château de Versailles à la fin du xviie siècle, on y entrepose une partie des collections royales de tableaux et de sculptures antiques. Après avoir durant un siècle hébergé plusieurs académies dont celle de peinture et de sculpture, ainsi que divers artistes logés par le roi, l'ancien palais royal est véritablement transformé sous la Révolution en « Muséum central des arts de la République ». Il ouvre en 1793 en exposant environ 660 œuvres, essentiellement issues des collections royales ou confisquées chez des nobles émigrés ou dans des églises. Par la suite les collections ne cesseront de s'enrichir par des prises de guerre, acquisitions, mécénats, legs, donations, et découvertes archéologiques.
Le musée compte pour sa gestion 2 091 employés (fonctionnaires, contractuels et vacataires), dont 1 232 agents de surveillance, un garde pour chacune des 403 salles d’exposition, que complètent les effectifs affectés aux 900 caméras du système de télésurveillance
Pyramid Lake is a kidney-shaped lake in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada. It lies at the foot of Pyramid Mountain, a natural landmark that overlooks the town of Jasper.
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
- Mark Twain
The pyramid of Menkaure, pictured on the right, is the smallest of the three. From this angle though it appears as though the Great Pyramid, tucked away behind Khafre, is the smallest.
Bent Pyramid of Snefru in Dashur.
It is unique in having two internal structures, with entrances on the north and west sides. From the north side a long, sloping passage leads to a narrow antechamber with an impressive corbelled roof. The burial chamber, also corbelled, is above this antechamber.
The second passage runs from the west side of the pyramid, through portcullis blocking systems, to another burial chamber, again with corbelled roof. This is at a higher level than the first. Structural instability is evident as the chamber was completely shored up with balks and scaffolding of great cedar beams.
Some time after both chambers were constructed, a connecting passage was made between them.
(text from The Complete Pyramids by Mark Lehner)
4th dynasty, Dashur
Le plateau de Gizeh est situé sur la rive ouest du Nil, dans le désert à 8 km du centre-ville de Gizeh et à 25 km du Caire. Ce plateau, nivelé par l'homme il y a 4 500 ans, a la forme approximative d'un carré de 1,6 à 1,9 km de côté, délimité au sud-est et au sud-ouest par deux failles orientées respectivement NE-SO et NO-SE, avec un escarpement côté sud-est descendant à 40 m de dénivellation, au pied duquel courait un canal du Nil séparant la zone désertique de la terre fertile. Ce canal présent au moment de la construction des pyramides a dérivé vers l'est probablement en raison d'une catastrophe naturelle, la rive ouest du Nil actuel étant désormais à 8 km à l’est du site, l’assise du plateau s’abaissant doucement vers le sud-est.
L'alignement des pyramides est situé sur le sommet d'un pli anticlinal d’axe NE-SO. Ce n'est pas la constellation du Grand Chien ou le lever héliaque de Sirius qui a dicté l'orientation N-S et E-O des trois grandes pyramides. Étant situées au milieu des carrières d'où proviennent les matériaux avec lesquels elles furent construites, leur orientation N-S et E-O est principalement commandée par la fracturation la plus fine des diaclases métriques diagonales (N-S et E-O) par rapport à l'axe du pli et qui ont été préférentiellement utilisées dans l'exploitation des carrières. Ces discontinuités facilitaient en effet l'extraction en servant de limites aux blocs.
Les trois plus grandes et célèbres des pyramides d'Égypte, celles de Khéops, Khéphren et Mykérinos, se trouvent sur la nécropole de Gizeh qui comprend également quelques pyramides plus petites comme les "pyramides des reines" et la pyramide de Khentkaous 1ère (cf. wikipédia, merci Ricardo Liberato pour la photo).