Sentences with phrase «build a pyramid for»

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Of course, no one can really say for sure, but it's pretty unlikely that aliens built the pyramids.

«Buildings have been constructed from Earth for thousands of years including, according to recent evidence, the Pyramids,» the site reads on its FAQ page.

Scheduled for completion in 2017, it will dwarf the iconic Transamerica Pyramid and assume the mantle of tallest building west of the Mississippi.

Most of us instinctively assume that technology relentlessly marches forward, but there have been times before now in human history — after the Egyptians built the Pyramids, for instance, or after the multiple advances of the Roman Empire — when the civilizations that followed could no longer do what had been done before, and perhaps there's a complacency and arrogance in assuming that this won't happen again.

Two men in South Korea have been sentenced for building a bitcoin pyramid scheme that swindled around $ 20 million from investors.

Taking inspiration from popular social networks, Aaditeshwar Seth and Mayank Shivam sought to build a similar platform for those at the bottom of the pyramid (BoP), with the vision to use communication technology for social development.

As per the Quran the Egyptian King has asked Hamon to build a high edifice for him to go up to see and speak to the Lord of Moses... So maybe the first big pyramid was for that purpose before it became for some thing else...

If this does not occur, then the more knowledge increases, the more it becomes a kind of inhuman knowing for the production of which man's self is squandered, pretty much as men were squandered for the building of the Pyramids, or as men were squandered in the Russian horn - bands to produce one note, neither more nor less.

I can't remember the Egyptians being wiped out by the flood as the pyramids was being built for one.

The base is built to be wide for stability, with regular designs having a pyramid shape.

Even for a civilization that built the pyramids, these expeditions would have been a tremendous logistical challenge.

Vandals seized the opportunity and looted Saqqara, a massive burial ground outside Cairo famous for the Step Pyramid, built around 2630 B.C..

Each balmy summer brings a swarm of volunteers, many wearing identical yellow T - shirts, who strip away soil and vegetation from the hillside while throngs of tourists hover at the edges, eager for a glimpse of what is said to lie beneath the dirt: the world's oldest and largest pyramids, more vast and ancient than those in Egypt, built by a mysterious and highly advanced civilization that has been long forgotten — until now.

For example, El Castillo pyramid in Mexico, built by the Mayans some 1,100 years ago, bears four stepped sides, each vertically bisected by a staircase.

The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000 — 3500 B.C. Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU, New York City Millennia before the great pyramids of Giza were built, elaborately painted female figurines and costumes gleaming with copper and gold were being created by the artisans of Old Europe, who thrived around 4500 B.C..

«Plimpton 322 was a powerful tool that could have been used for surveying fields or making architectural calculations to build palaces, temples or step pyramids,» says Dr Mansfield.

Some 4500 years ago, the ancient Egyptians built the Great Pyramid of Giza as a tomb for the pharaoh Khufu, also known as Cheops, one that would ferry him to the afterlife.

Their efforts, plus the region's dry climate, helped preserve such buildings as the 36 - foot - high Amphitheater Pyramid, which was apparently used for religious functions.

«Because it lasted for hundreds of years they built more, more, more pyramids and after centuries they started to fill all the spaces that were still available in the necropolis.»

Researchers used the new survey of the Messak Settafet to estimate that enough stone tools were discarded over the course of human evolution in Africa to build more than one Great Pyramid for every square kilometre of land on the continent.

The reps in this week also rely on the reverse pyramid scheme, but with slight increase in the third set, where you do 15 reps.. This may not follow the ideal range for building muscles, yet, increasing the number will you in increasing muscular endurance, thus providing sound basis for further gains in size and strength.

While there is certainly plenty of room for parental choice in a child's diet, there are a few core food groups to build around (I'll give you a hint... it doesn't look like the regular food pyramid!).

The FDA even built a food pyramid with bread, pasta, and cereal as the staple for the American diet, although for thousands of years the center of the human diet had consisted of whatever indigenous plants or produce they could grow, and meat and dairy.

In today's workout we're going to channel the power of the pyramids to build a strong and durable body that, though it probably won't live to be 4500, could keep you happy and active for a long time.

5 total body movements done for 30 seconds each, building up in a pyramid and then working back down!

I'm imagining the number of people it took to build the pyramid stopping 3 - 6 times a day for a quick pick - me - up.

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I would wager that when I. M. Pei was commissioned to design the Louvre Pyramid, his first move was not to reach for a copy of the Paris building codes for inspiration.

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She has written three previous books, including Standards - Based Instruction for All Learners: A Treasure Chest for Principal - Led Building Teams, What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do: Building a Pyramid of Interventions, and What Every School Leader Needs to Know About RTI.

Not far from Tikal, in garbage dumps across the country, are the descendants of the Mayan kings who built these pyramids, young boys and girls working 12 hours a day to salvage recyclables that will pay for a meal, that will allow them to survive for another day, that will do nothing to break them out of the cycle of generational poverty.

This huge stone pyramid reaching for sky was built as a symbol of power and where the gruesome gifts to the Gods were given.

In the classic period, the crowning period for the Mayan Civilization, the enormous sites of Caracol and El Pilar rose out of the forest and ceremonial centres like Xunantunich built lovely temples and pyramids.

The city of Mérida was founded over the ruins of the Mayan city of Ichkanzihóo (T'ho) and the stones of old Mayan pyramids were used for the new buildings.

There are 8 main sites of the Mayan ruins that are still standing today, namely: Tikal — a c. 700 AD city in Guatemala Caracol — another city except from c. 500 AD and situated in Belize Chichén Itzá — a monument and center for pilgrimage located in Mexico Tulum — a coastal Mayan site present until c. 1200 AD Kabah — a ruin with elaborate and intricate carvings on the wall which was used from c. 800 AD to c. 900 AD Palenque — another site located in Mexico thought to be magical, present from c. 600 AD to c. 700 AD Coba — a partially excavated network of roads and pyramids in Yucatan, Mexico Uxmal — the most extravagant and complex of all eight Mayan sites, built shortly before c. 1000 AD.

Wandering around and exploring the various pyramids, temples and buildings felt like I was discovering them for the first time!

It is liberating working on something completely new but the way we work is to work from the lore up usually for every game, we build up the world, what it looks it, why it behaves a certain way, build a pyramid of gameplay, visual and everything.

Bayek can scale the mighty Pyramids and slide down the side of them to reach the ground, which would be a first for the series atypical route of having the protagonist climb vertical buildings.

For decades, the Los Angeles — based artist Lita Albuquerque has blurred distinctions between Land art and Light and Space on increasingly grander scales, whether it be building installations surrounding the pyramids in Egypt or placing sculptures across Antarctica to mirror the formation of the stars.

In Leguillon's rendition, Reinhardt's lecture starts with pyramids, moving to the peaked rooftops of buildings from many cultures, to the pointed tops of medieval altarpieces; the pyramidal form mutates to an X shape repeated in various contexts, ending on windows of a building slated for demolition; the lecture moves on to windows of all kinds.

With À la Lumière des Deux Mondes (At the Light of Both Worlds, 2005), a site - specific work created for the Louvre's glass pyramid — the first time a contemporary artist had exhibited in the institution — Tunga used one of the building's columns as a pivot on which various symbolically charged objects were balanced: gold and black skulls and a giant walking stick intertwined with braided hair on one side; a chain of skulls caught in a dark net falling towards a floor littered with golden and black reproductions of heads from the Louvre's classical sculptures on the other.

Since September 2015, Hayward Gallery has been closed for essential repairs and refurbishment, including the replacement of the Brutalist building's 66 iconic pyramid rooflights.

In this role he brought many other artists together to create collaborative works: Andy Warhol filled the stage with helium balloons for Rainforest (1986), Frank Stella built a rainbow - coloured pyramid with matching dancers» leotards in Scramble (1967), and Bruce Nauman placed ten huge electric fans between stage and audience for Tread (1970).

Same for universities, national armies (during the early nation - building process), and major imperial draft - labor projects (e.g. pyramids).

For the sake of scaling the task, note that one GtC, made into carbonate bricks, would produce the volume of ∼ 3000 Empire State buildings or ∼ 1200 Great Pyramids of Giza.

Reread your post, do you realise that anyone from 9/11 troofers, creationsists to UFOs built the pyramids people could have written it practically word for word (just a few small changes).

This is not a new concept, as buildings have been constructed from Earth for thousands of years including, according to recent evidence, the Pyramids.

The company has become known for its iconic pyramid - shaped building, which takes up nearly one whole city block.

It is well - known for its famous landmark building in San Francisco, the Pyramid Bbuilding in San Francisco, the Pyramid BuildingBuilding.

Ditto for pyramid schemes, where the scammer will walk away from the scheme at a time when enough people have been ensnared in the pyramid and a large enough pool of money has built up.