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The Pyramid Fountain in front of the Louvre on a summer’s day. The fountains were added to the famous museum in the 1st Arrondissement of Paris during the term of President François Mitterand, who had proposed a plan to renovate the building in 1983. This so-called Grand Louvre plan also included the building of the glass pyramids. Although the fountains were built for aesthetic purposes, they are sometimes used by overheated tourists to simply cool down a little. Furthermore, several videos can be found on YouTube featuring tourists balancing on the edge of the fountains and toppling over into the water. Luckily, the fountains are extremely shallow, so they can climb out easily again.
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.
The Red Pyramid, also called the North Pyramid, is the largest of the three major pyramids located at Dahshur.
Named for the rusty reddish hue of its stones, it is also the third largest Egyptian pyramid, after those of Khufu and Khafra at Giza.
At the time of its completion, it was the tallest man-made structure in the world. It is also believed to be the world's first successful attempt at constructing a "true" smooth-sided pyramid.
The Red Pyramid was not always red. It used to be cased with white Tura limestone, but only a few of these stones now remain at the pyramid's base, at the corner.
During the Middle Ages much of the white Tura limestone was taken for buildings in Cairo, revealing the reddish sandstone beneath.
The Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe Museum and Visitors Center is the main museum around Pyramid Lake. It is run by the Paiute reservation and is known for its descriptions of Pyramid Lake's natural history, including the Cui-ui fish and the Lahontan Cutthroat Trout, as well as Paiute history and culture.
Nixon, Nevada
The Bent Pyramid is located at Dahshur, approximately 40 kilometres south of Cairo, built under the Old Kingdom Pharaoh Sneferu (c. 2600 BC).
The lower part of the pyramid rises from the desert at a 54-degree inclination, but the top section is built at the shallower angle of 43 degrees, lending the pyramid its very obvious "bent" appearance.
Archaeologists now believe that the Bent Pyramid represents a transitional form between step-sided and smooth-sided pyramids. It has been suggested that due to the steepness of the original angle of inclination the structure may have begun to show signs of instability during construction, forcing the builders to adopt a shallower angle to avert the structure's collapse.
Source: livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/8761
This photograph is from an album created by Lt Thomas Gerald George Fahey who served in the Australian Light Horse in the Middle East during World War 1. Our thanks to Mr Tom Robinson for allowing us to scan and upload this photograph.
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The Pyramid of the Sun is the largest building in Teotihuacan and one of the largest in Mesoamerica. Found along the Avenue of the Dead, in between the Pyramid of the Moon and the Ciudadela, and in the shadow of the massive mountain Cerro Gordo, the pyramid is part of a large complex in the heart of the city.
Pyramids are something you see often when gazing into Lemurian Seed crystals.