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On Saturday 30th March 2013, 5 members of the South East Gang met up for a traipse through the East Sussex countryside in and around Brightling to see 4 of the 6 follies built by Jack Fuller.
Between visiting the Temple and the Pyramid we had lunch at The Swan Inn at Woods Corner - a lovely old pub with lots of interesting features and good food.
The sun came out whilst we were in Brightling churchyard to see the tomb of Jack Fuller, but it wasn't out for long!
What better place to spend our final few hours in Egypt than the Giza plateau, this time exploring the site by foot and visiting mastaba tombs (there are many here but only a couple can be visited) and Menkaure's pyramid, the only one of the three large pyramids we'd not entered before (the two largest we'd been inside on our first visit in 1995, this time queues for the Great Pyramid of Khufu were discouraging, and Khafre's was closed).
The Giza Pyramids need no introduction, the largest and most famous monuments of antiquity and the sole surviving of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World.
Situated on a desert plateau to the south west of Cairo (and indeed on the very edge of the city's modern urban sprawl) the pyramids of Giza form the heart of an extensive ancient necropolis with the monumental tombs of three of Egypt's earliest Old Kingdom pharaohs marked by the vast structures. Each of the pyramids is a colossal mass of near solid masonry, without adornment and with only a few passages within each leading to burial chambers long since emptied and robbed in antiquity.
The earliest is the Great Pyramid of Khufu (sometimes referred to by the Greek title 'Cheops', or by his full pharaonic name 'Khnum-Khufu'). It is also the largest; the structure is simply enormous and remained the World's tallest building until well into the Middle Ages.
The following pyramid was built by Khafre (also called 'Khephren') and is similarly vast (often appearing in photos of the whole group as larger due to its more central position) but is significantly smaller than Khufu's monument. The smallest of the three (at around less than half the size) was built by his successor Menkaure. Both his and Khufu's monuments have much smaller satellite pyramids at their base (some in more ruinous condition) to house the tombs of their queens.
Originally all the pyramids had a smooth outer covering of white stone but this was quarried away by later generations (much of which was used for some of Cairo's greatest Islamic monuments) leaving the rough inner blocks exposed. A small section remains at the apex of Khafre's pyramid (suggestive of a snow-capped mountain) to give a sense of the original finish and overall mass.
Today the site remains the most popular in Egypt and an astonishing testament to the skill and determination of its earliest builders.
From the opening chords, Pyramid lets you know you're in for a trip. Voyager, In The Lap Of The Gods and Pyramania.
Lester Cohen - Stella and Joe
(Original Title: Coming Home)
Pyramid Books G77, 1953
Cover Artist: Victor Olson
"He was shocked by what he found..."
Heye / 1000 pieces / 29516 / 2013
I bought this puzzle immediately after I saw it in the store. It is a beautiful photograph of the pyramids in a great panorama format. It was somewhat challenging to assemble due to a limited color palette, but the various piece shapes made it easier.
Located in southwestern Ohio, Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park is a 265-acre park and outdoor museum combining the nature with art.
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Hamilton attorney Harry Wilks started to build his dream house in the country, and ended up creating a nationally acclaimed sculpture park.
At 80, Harry Wilks lives alone in an underground house atop a hill surrounded by woods, meadows and huge sculptures. When he drinks his morning coffee under his glass pyramid roof, he can enjoy his collection of antiquities: . . . When he climbs his two-story tower, he looks out on his 265-acres "yard" and surveys a landscape unlike any other. On a hill to the west stands "Abracadabra," a giant crimson swirl of steel set in a field of green. . . . At every turn, sculpture — in steel, bronze, stone, and wood — creates a thrilling medley of nature and art.
This is Pyramid Hill, the retired Hamilton attorney's home . . . It's also the Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park and Museum, one of only five in the nation. There are 55 works in the park so far, some by internationally known artists including Alexander Liberman, Clement Meadmore, George Sugarman and Tony Rosenthal, as well as emerging and regional artists. . . . More than 100,000 people each year visit the 10-year-old park, some to enjoy art and nature, others for conferences, concerts, weddings and festivals.
It all started, Wilks says, with a chain saw. "I wanted to move out of town when I retired, so I bought 40 acres out here. Then I bought a chain saw and a machete and started to clear the brush. Then I needed to hire a bulldozer to put in the roads and lakes and the bulldozer driver was a golfer, so he suggested a golf course. I built eight and a half holes of golf and I stopped." As adjacent land became available, Wilks bought as much as he could, until he had 265 acres of hilly woodland on the Great Miami River, a mile southwest of Hamilton in Butler County. "I think it was one day when we were cutting down trees that I saw a dogwood in bloom, and it was so beautiful and I thought, 'By God, I have to save this.' I began to love nature. After I built my house out here I put in the eight lakes and I already had the tennis court and the hiking trails. My friends would come to visit, and they started to offer me money for some of my land. They were offering $100,000 and $125,000 an acre. These were wealthy men. I had eight offers in four months and they totaled almost a million dollars. And I thought, 'What the heck's going to happen to all this when I die?' My two daughters have places of their own. They would have to sell it. And I thought of all the work I had put into this, building roads, acquiring more land. I had done it all myself, with no master plan, no engineers, no architects. So I stopped, in the middle of the ninth hole. I thought, 'How can I prevent this land from being sold?'"
Wilks decided to create a public foundation with a board of trustees to oversee the property. He had to decide what the purpose of the land would be. .
. . . Reporters from area newspapers and television stations were eager to do stories about Wilks' unusual underground house. One of them, Jackie Demaline from The Cincinnati Enquirer, told him something that set the spark. "I was driving her around in a golf cart and I was indulging in a fantasy," Wilks says. "I pointed to a spot and said 'There is my Rodin. At another place I said, 'See my Henry Moore,' pretending that I had sculpture by all these great artists in my park. She said, 'Have you ever heard of Storm King?' She said it's this sculpture park in the East, in New York. "I never knew there was such a thing. There are sculpture gardens, but whoever heard of a sculpture park? So I went to see Storm King and the other parks and I talked to some artists and some galleries in New York. I said, 'I can do this.'" He also knew that his landscape was far more dramatic than the flat, grassy fields of other sculpture parks. "We have natural galleries," he says. "This is an ideal place for sculpture."
Most of the sculpture in the park is abstract and monumental, in the style that began to appear in cities in the late 1960s, when every major building, first in New York and then across the country, required a signature work of sculpture. . . . He started with three works by Alexander Liberman, whose brilliant, red "Abracadabra," two and a half stories tall and three and a half stories wide, has the prime position in the park, atop the highest hill. . . . Although Wilks bought the first works for the park, he no longer buys modern sculpture out of his own pocket. "All I buy are the antiquities. We get a flood of mail from artists wanting me to buy their work, but that's not the way it's set up. The foundation has to raise the money, from corporations, individuals and foundations, to pay for the art. We own about 60 percent of the work here. The rest is on loan. We will pay installation costs and give the artist a small stipend for keeping the work here, and we hold first option to buy if we decide to keep it."
"I see myself as the caretaker of the land while I am here," he says, "and I want this to be here for hundreds of years."
A pyramid is a building where the outer surfaces are triangular and converge at a point. The base of a pyramid can be trilateral, quadrilateral, or any polygon shape, meaning that a pyramid has at least four faces (base plus at least three triangular faces). The five-face square pyramid is a common version.
A pyramid's design, with the majority of the weight closer to the ground,[1] means that less material higher up on the pyramid will be pushing down from above: this distribution of weight allowed early civilizations to create stable monumental structures.
For thousands of years, the largest structures on Earth were pyramids: first the Red Pyramid in the Dashur Necropolis and then the Great Pyramid of Khufu, the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still remaining. The largest pyramid ever built, by volume, is the Great Pyramid of Cholula, in the Mexican state of Puebla. This pyramid is still being excavated.
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These are the famous Pyramids at Giza, located outside the former Ancient Egyptian cities of Memphis and Heliopolis, located south and north of modern-day Cairo, respectively. The earliest pyramids were located at Saqqara, to the south, which included the stepped pyramid, the bent pyramid, and the red pyramid, which were the earliest attempts at pyramids by the Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom during the 2600s BC. The pyramids at Giza were constructed starting around 2580 BC with the Pyramid of Cheops (Khufu), the tallest of the pyramids, also known as the Great Pyramid. The second tallest is the Pyramid of Khafre (Cheprhen), which maintains part of its limestone facing near the top and was constructed starting around 2558 BC. The smallest of the pyramids is the Pyramid of Menkaure, built starting around 2510 BC. The pyramids are part of a larger complex of tombs, temples, and other structures, which includes the Great Sphinx. The Pyramids of Cheops and Menkaure also include three smaller pyramids for the queens of the pharaohs that built the pyramids. Considered one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the Pyramid of Cheops remained the tallest man-made structure until Lincoln Cathedral was constructed in England during the Middle Ages. Though the tombs were raided of their valuables during ancient times, the pyramids have remained due to their sheer size, despite being used as a source of stone during the Ptolemaic, Roman, and Medieval periods, with the last stones finally being taken during the 19th Century. The pyramids also survived several attempts by the Sultans during the Medieval period, notably al-Malek al-Aziz Othman ben Yusuf during the 1100s AD, to demolish them due to their association with the ancient pagan religion, seen as being an affront to their faith, which they survived due to the sheer size of the task making it futile. Today, the pyramids have been stabilized and attract thousands of visitors every year, and remain the most iconic and recognizable world heritage site and ancient structures in the country and the most recognizable structures on the continent of Africa.
These are the famous Pyramids at Giza, located outside the former Ancient Egyptian cities of Memphis and Heliopolis, located south and north of modern-day Cairo, respectively. The earliest pyramids were located at Saqqara, to the south, which included the stepped pyramid, the bent pyramid, and the red pyramid, which were the earliest attempts at pyramids by the Ancient Egyptian Old Kingdom during the 2600s BC. The pyramids at Giza were constructed starting around 2580 BC with the Pyramid of Cheops (Khufu), the tallest of the pyramids, also known as the Great Pyramid. The second tallest is the Pyramid of Khafre (Cheprhen), which maintains part of its limestone facing near the top and was constructed starting around 2558 BC. The smallest of the pyramids is the Pyramid of Menkaure, built starting around 2510 BC. The pyramids are part of a larger complex of tombs, temples, and other structures, which includes the Great Sphinx. The Pyramids of Cheops and Menkaure also include three smaller pyramids for the queens of the pharaohs that built the pyramids. Considered one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, the Pyramid of Cheops remained the tallest man-made structure until Lincoln Cathedral was constructed in England during the Middle Ages. Though the tombs were raided of their valuables during ancient times, the pyramids have remained due to their sheer size, despite being used as a source of stone during the Ptolemaic, Roman, and Medieval periods, with the last stones finally being taken during the 19th Century. The pyramids also survived several attempts by the Sultans during the Medieval period, notably al-Malek al-Aziz Othman ben Yusuf during the 1100s AD, to demolish them due to their association with the ancient pagan religion, seen as being an affront to their faith, which they survived due to the sheer size of the task making it futile. Today, the pyramids have been stabilized and attract thousands of visitors every year, and remain the most iconic and recognizable world heritage site and ancient structures in the country and the most recognizable structures on the continent of Africa.
"That is, the stones which were to fill up the angles of the steps, and make the side of the pyramid a smooth inclined plane. The pyramids built by Cheops, Chephren, and Mycerinus respectively are the Pyramids of Gizeh, near Cairo.
Herodotus, Histories [2.134.1]
Mississippi State University cheerleaders fall from the sky as they break up a pyramid during the football game against the University of Tennessee.
Larry Holden - Crime Cop
Pyramid Books G429, 1959
Cover Artist: Harry Schaare
"Cops... they come in all sizes and all kinds – dedicated men and bribe-hungry goof-offs, part-time S.O.B.'s and full-time honest to goodness cops."
This is the "Star Pyramid" in the graveyard of the church of the Holy Rude Stirling Scotland. It was built in 1863.
There was a pillar of pyramid power bursting from it at the time ;-) (Look at it LARGE to see the energy trail)
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A pyramid is a structure whose shape is roughly that of a pyramid in the geometric sense;
That is, its outer surfaces are triangular and converge to a single point at the top.
Les Pyramides is a supple pliant cuff of two rows of little pyramid shaped beads. Embellished and connected in a series of picots that appear complex and intriguing, just like the mysteries of the great pyramids.
A cuff that is suitable for the beginning beader to the advanced.
Quick and fun to make but bold in statement.
The Pyramid Lake War or the Paiute War was a short, violent episode in the history of the American West, and was influential in the development of Nevada as a state. It was characterized by outbreaks of violence, raids, as well as two standing battles between American settlers and Paiutes and their Shoshone and Bannock allies, both located near this spot on the Truckee River immediately south of Pyramid Lake.
The appearance of large numbers of American settlers around the Great Basin region caused great disruption to the Northern Paiute living in the semi-arid communities, with the settlers cutting pinyon trees for wood, building communities near watering holes, and bringing cattle which trampled the area's sparse vegetation. As the Comstock Silver Rush began, causing an even greater influx of settlers, the disputes boiled over. In 1860, Chief Numaga traveled to Virginia City, stating that his people were starving over the winter and that cattlemen were threatening violence if the Paiutes did not return cattle that they claimed were missing from their herds. The cattlemen retorted that the Paiute were extorting two cattle a week from them. Outbreaks of murders took place, as individuals began settling scores. Finally around March and April, the area Paiutes, Shoshone and Bannock assembled around Pyramid Lake to discuss whether to drive the settlers out. Most of the chiefs advocated going to war. Winnemucca (Poito), the elder chief of the assembly, supported war, but possibly due to the presence of friends among the settlers- his daughter Sarah resided with Maj William Ormsby of Virginia City-refrained from voting. Chief Numaga voted against the fighting, reportedly stating that though the settlers had greatly wronged them, their numbers ensured that they were bound to win any war.
As Chief Numaga was speaking however, news came up from a group of Paiutes traveling from Williams Station. A saloon, general store and stagecoach/Pony Express station along the Carson River, Williams Station had been attacked by Natives on May 6, 1860. Two family farms nearby were also attacked soon after. There were 13 settlers dead. The reason remains unclear; some have blamed a renegade band of Natives seeking revenge, as the Williams brothers had had a ill reputation in the area. The Paiutes themselves claimed that the Williams brothers had cheated a Paiute boy and then kidnapped and raped two Paiute girls, locking them in the root cellar. The boy went for help, and a band of Natives attacked and killed the William brothers to rescue the girls. Finding out what had been done, the band then in a fury attacked and killed all the settlers they could find in the area. Regardless of cause, the result was the same. On hearing the news, Chief Numaga ended his speech: "There is no longer any use for counsel; we must prepare for war, for the soldiers will now come here to fight us."
The Williams Station Massacre did immediately jolt the Comstock settlements into warfare. Quickly, a militia of 105 men assembled from the settlements of Genoa, Carson City, Silver City and Virginia city. Records stressed that there was no overall command structure, and the men were poorly armed, and mostly drunk, thinking that the disrespected "Digger Indian" bands would quickly flee before their advance. Maj William Ormsby attempted to take control of the advance as the settlers assembled at the remains of Williams Station, burying the dead, but little came of it.
On May 12, 1860, a chilly, windy day with snow remaining on the ground, the little force advanced up the Truckee River towards Pyramid Lake, where they were obvious signs of Native movements, including horse tracks and abandoned settlements. The advance guard encountered a small band of Natives, who fired a few shots then retreated. The settlers pursued, ending up near this spot, when 100 of Chief Numaga's warriors appeared at the North end of the gulch. A native carrying an axe attacked, but when fired upon by the settlers quickly retreated. Almost immediately however, Native bands advanced both from the front and the steep bluffs along the sides of the river. Ormsby's little force had fallen into a trap.
Immediately Ormsby led around 30-40 men to attack, hoping to drive off the assault. However the settlers found to their horror that instead of facing bows and arrows, many of the natives had rifles, far outgunning the revolvers most of the men had carried to the fight. The attack was soon driven back, and when Ormsby found another Native force moving to cut them off from the rear he ordered a retreat to a cottonwood grove. The militia fell back to the grove, but hit on all sides by rifle fire, quickly broke and ran, trying to escape the net by running along or swimming across the snow-swollen Truckee River. Not interested in pursuing, Chief Numaga tried twice to call off his forces, but he had lost control. The Natives pursued and slaughtered the fleeing settlers. Of the 105 who entered the gulch, some 76 were killed, including Maj William Ormsby. The remainder, mostly wounded, managed to hide out in the rocks until nightfall. The First Battle of Pyramid Lake had ended in an unmitigated disaster for the Nevada settlers.
Nixon, Nevada
Bass Fishing at Lake Pyramid in Southern California.
Ben and I really nailed the fish this day. We caught about 49 bass and 1 trout. We were drop shotting roboworms in the early morning, but then about 8:30 we decided to try a senko, which the bass just jumped all over. I even got our one trout on a four inch smoke purple flake senko. It didn't seem like the color of the bait even mattered on this day, they just chewed the heck outta the senkos.
A letter from Jim and Hal, the men from the blue boat in the photos and good friends from our Bass Fishing club, the Southern California Bassmasters:
Ben and Charlie:
This is to let you know how thankful we are. After you pointed out Spanish Pt. and hinted "Round Rocks", we actually went there and made hard attempts to find that particular location. After many tries, we think we found it. We did not leave that spot till the guard chased us out.
The red Senko worked too. Wacky style or otherwise. We caught like 10 bass there. Jim actually got one over 3-1/2 pounds (All fishermen lie. But still a shame he would not win the $3.00).
Thanks again. We surely appreciate tips that work.
Jim and Hal
P.S. With all good looking spots around there, why would one choose that particular spot with bathers not too far and picnic tables and attractive ripraps nearby? noisy traffic? why the color red? Senko? Why would one not find that spot while examining the map? This is what we call 'fishing'.
Khafre's Pyramid, is the second largest of the ancient Egyptian Pyramids of Giza and the tomb of the fourth-dynasty pharaoh Khafre (Chephren).