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This infant class made 3d pyramids with overlapping tissue strips. They used triangle templates to draw the shape. They were very happy with their results and felt they had achieved something.
The Pyramid of Khafre was built to house the king Khafre, who was the son of Khufu, who built the Great Pyramid.
It's actually smaller than the Great Pyramid, but sits on higher bedrock, which makes it look taller.
It still retains part of its original casing of white limestone near the top.
It's attached to the Valley Temple and the Sphinx.
Beautiful day in Paris today.
The Louvre was even more delightful than I remembered.
Just 4 metro stops from the hotel. For me the glass pyramid works really well - covers the entry atrium and allows natural light to fall.
Traditionalists were shocked when Chinese-born American architect I. M. Pei designed this glass pyramid at the entrance to the Louvre. The Paris art museum was a Renaissance masterpiece, and Pei's design consisted of unusual arrangements of geometric shapes. Standing 71 feet high, the pyramid lets light into the museum's reception center. The Pritzker Prize winning architect, I.M. Pei is often praised for his creative use of space and materials.
The Louvre Museum (Musée du Louvre), in Paris, France, is the largest, and arguably the most famous, museum in the world — it received a record 7.3 million visitors in 2005. The building, a former royal palace, lies in the centre of Paris, between the Seine river and the Rue de Rivoli. Its central courtyard, now occupied by the Louvre Pyramid, lies in the axis of the Champs-Élysées, and thus forms the nucleus from which the Axe historique springs. Part of the royal Palace of the Louvre was first opened to the public as a museum on November 8, 1793, during the French Revolution.
This is the North site of the Pyramids in area of Meroe. The amazing thing about the pyramids here in Sudan compared to that of Giza in Egypt is not the size or the shape (Giza wins hands down in those catagories) but in its isolation. Besides Andy and I, there was virtually nobody else there save for some camel handlers trying to get us to ride at a premium.
You have the pyramids all to yourself rather than it being bizzare, it's actually quite fitting. Let us not forget that these are ancient burial site, tombs for pharaohs entering the afterlife, not cities bustling with people. It's like being in a cemetary paying homage to the dead. Imagine if your local graveyard was turned into a tourist attraction or something outlandish like a casino. Oh wait, that's already been done in Las Vegas. Silly me.
A pyramid of vine glasses displayed at Wayne & Esther's wedding dinner.
Camera used: Sony DSLR Alpha 700.
Lens: SAL 50mm f/1.4.
Dec 1992
I flew on the first KC-135 to have rollers installed for moving cargo. We flew from Altus AFB, OK to Cairo West, Egypt. Upon landing the plane broke so badly, the crew had a week to go anywhere we wanted. It was awesome!
This is my favorite photo of the trip.
Omitting the small ones at the front, from left to right: the Pyramid of Menkaure, the Pyramid of Khafre and the Great Pyramid of Khufu (or other name Kheops).
Entrance to the pyramid of Unas is on the north side.
As the barbed wire fence tells, the pyramid is not open for public.
Pyramid Club, 1984, NYC
This image is part of my PUNKS & PROVOCATEURS series (http://www.rebelrebelle.com)
Michael Roman graffiti on wall!
This particular photo later inspired my Three Part Bodyseries.
Photo © Linda Dawn Hammond / IndyFoto.com '09
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The Transamerica Pyramid is a 48-story futurist building and the second-tallest skyscraper in the San Francisco, California. The building no longer houses the headquarters of the Transamerica Corporation, which moved to Baltimore, 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 260m, on completion in 1972 it was the eighth-tallest building in the world.
Pyramid monument (there's a swampy lake behind here) at the edge of the pool that the German and Soviet military personnel swam in. It's returned to nature (the pics of it in the old days looked really nice) and stuff.
Anyhow, the monument is dedicated to those who served here and died between WW1, WW2, and the soviet cold war eras.
Kummersdorf Germany, September 2006. These are all photos of an old german then soviet air base in Kummersdorf Germany. They're in the process of tearing it down to expand Shonefeld airport, near Berlin.
Most of these buildings were built during ww1 for training the German military. Then, as WW2 progresssed rocket research was done here in an attempt to come up with larger more powerful artilery shells, and then atomic weapons. Finally, when the scientists headed to the US and Russia, they started building artilery shells and training officers here.
After WW2, when the soviets moved in, the soviets had staging post for their troops, and started doing research on rockets for the space race. Somewhere in these pictures is a soviet explosive test area (it was a buried bunker with 35 foot thick concrete walls surrounding 10 foot thick steel bunker.) which was exploded and broke windows for over 3000 houses nearly a mile away.
Amber and Lea ( our daughters ) joined my wife and I on this hike into the the scenic rocky mountains near our home :-)