Sentences with phrase «built the pyramids at»

The workers who built the pyramids at Giza lived in an admin centre that was repeatedly destroyed by floods — so why did they stay?

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«The vision behind Gram Vaani is to build technologies that empower people at the bottom of the pyramid,» co-founder Aaditeshwar Seth, a computer scientist - turned - entrepreneur, said in an interview.

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.

When one looks at the most beautiful or historically important buildings in the World, they tend to be religious monuments — the pyramids of Egypt and Mesoamerica, the great cathedrals of Europe, Spilt Blood and St. Isaacs in Saint Petersburg, the Greek and Roman temples, the Taj Mahal, the Wots of Asia, even the modern Mormon temples in Salt Lake City and the like.

If not, we would have other bigger pyramids or at least many of the same size as the great pyramid but that didn't happen, the more recent, the smaller pyramids were built

Well, they've all, at one time or another, perpetuated the myth that the Jews built the pyramids.

The dubious advisers included Luigi DiFonzo — a former felon who claimed he was anItalian count and defrauded players such as Hall of Fame running back Eric Dickerson before committing suicide in August 2000 — and disgraced agent William (Tank) Black, who built a pyramid scheme that took a total of about $ 15 million from at least a dozen players, including Patriots running backFred Taylor.

Destiny USA developer Robert Congel, founder of the Syracuse - based Pyramid Cos. mall development firm, had promised as part of the tax deal to build at least two more additions to the mall, including a 1,342 - room hotel.

The mall development company founded by Robert Congel as an offshoot of his Syracuse - based Pyramid Cos. is proposing to build a $ 48 million, 209 - room hotel at the southeast corner of Hiawatha Boulevard and Solar streets.

Destiny, an offshoot of Syracuse - based Pyramid Cos., is proposing to build the $ 48 million hotel at the northeast corner of Hiawatha Boulevard and Solar Street, directly across Hiawatha from the mall.

Destiny USA, the company that Pyramid Cos. founder Robert Congel created to expand his Syracuse shopping mall formerly named the Carousel Center, has proposed building a $ 75 million, 255 - room hotel at the corner of Hiawatha Boulevard and Solar Street.

He promises to revive restoration work at the pyramid of Djoser, Egypt's oldest surviving stone building, and other major projects — if the government gives him the money.

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.

Washington, D.C., is turning down exterior lights on government buildings, Egypt's government is turning off the lights at the Great Pyramids, France's president is turning off the lights on the Eiffel Tower and government buildings...

It was there, apparently, that mammoths made their last stand, dying out only 3,800 years ago — 700 years after the Egyptians built the great pyramids at Giza.

Across cultures, countries and eras, people have built fires by piling wood or other fuel in pyramid - or cone - shaped structures that are about as tall as they are wide at the base, Bejan says.

It's possible, he said, that when pyramid building came into fashion at Sedeinga it was combined with a local circle - building tradition called tumulus construction, resulting in pyramids with circles within them.

But, what if you still want to build your big pyramid, but instead, a pile of cubes were dropped at your feet?

The pyramids at Giza near Cairo, Egypt are among the most extraordinary structures ever built.

It's a pyramid, and at the top is rape and sexual violence and at the bottom are the other abuses of power that, when they continue to happen over and over, build and build and build and create a culture that allows the most heinous examples of sexual violence and misogyny and discrimination to happen.

In 1,000 Years Ago, readers will learn details about life at the start of the second millennium — about the massive stone pyramids built by the thriving Mayans at Chichen Itza; the learning that flourished in the mosques of the Middle East; and the booming economy established in Central and Southern Africa by the Bantu people.

VR makes it possible to sit in the Colosseum at the height of the Roman Empire, walk through the streets of Victorian London, or even watch the pyramids get built in Ancient Egypt.

Students spend Wednesday afternoons at Franklin, where they get an inside look at exhibits such as this spring's King Tut extravaganza, and do projects such as building model pyramids.

At the time the pyramids were built, Thuban was the star that oriented us, and composed in Heaven our sense of where we were.

There are 3 categories of rooms on the property spread out in several buildings: the more affordable Oasis Lite, the Grand Oasis, and the luxury Pyramid category if you want to spoil yourself with included perks like a private beach with Bali beds and concierge service, or dinners at some of the resort's top - rated restaurants (Careyes is # 1 on Trip Advisor).

El Castillo, a 130 foot tall pyramid at the axis of the core of Xunantunich is the second tallest building in Belize after Caana at Caracol.

Perhaps take a visit to the iconic stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard South, and marvel at the many resorts here, such as Caesar's Palace, the Hotel Luxor, built in the style of an Egyptian pyramid, and the fountains at Bellagio.

Since 2009, he has climbed Mayan pyramids, roamed Red Square in a snowstorm, been shushed at the New York Public Library and jumped from the tallest building in Soweto (rope attached).

At first, we were really surprised to hear that an ancient Mayan pyramid was the tallest building in the country.

Analyses from satellites from various space agencies have revealed that there was indeed a pyramid and thirty buildings at the precise location identified by the young man.

From the Eiffel tower we got off at the Louvre where, with no time to see Mona Lisa smile, the building is impressive to walk around in its own right, pyramids and all.

The site is one of the most popular Maya ruins in Belize and is home to the fascinating El Castillo Pyramid, one of the tallest buildings in the country at 130 ft.

Unlike any urban city with high - rises, Belize is blessed with lush nature, acres of rainforest, and the tallest building in the country is Canna Temple, a Maya pyramid at Caracol.

The unexplainable complexity, size, and precision in constructing The Great Pyramid at Giza (completed around 2560 BC) has led some to conjecture that aliens had a hand in building the pyramids in Giza.

Negative Pyramid (1997) and three works from his Incomplete Open Cube series (1974) illustrate in three dimensions the generative potential of LeWitt's serial approach, exemplified by the museum's sweeping installation of the artist's wall drawings — which span LeWitt's entire career, covering over an acre of wall space on three floors of a building at the very heart of MASS MoCA's campus.

He builds a composition around a grand pyramid, using the diagonals of the box and folds at left, the fallen glass at right.

The spiral, intended to rise higher than the Eiffel Tower, wraps around a stack of four geometric buildings — a cube, a pyramid, a cylinder and a hemisphere — each meant to rotate at a yearly, monthly, weekly or daily rate.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is one of several institutions considering a new building that would function as a central entrance, like I. M. Pei's pyramid at the Louvre.

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.

Don't miss the Mel Chin sculpture sprouting from a pyramid at back of the building, and shop the arresting museum store.

As I peddled around the glass pyramid at the Louvre, I was struck by the strobelike reflections from the royal buildings around it.

The next stage at $ 600 could bring a trading opportunity to common people while big investors take their marketplace and build large pyramid positions with the $ 820 resistance in sight.

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.

The Pyramid Model builds capacity at the classroom, program, community, and state levels to provide the support young children need to develop their social - emotional competence.»

Salesforce, whose software helps businesses with tasks such as managing customer relationships and marketing to consumers, is taking 714,000 square feet at the building, which supplanted the Transamerica Pyramid as the city's tallest.

Yup... keep those dues a» comin» so we can keep on paying marketing companies to produce slick ads to convince consumers how professional we all are, especially «we» at the top of this pyramid built knowingly upon foundations of ever - shifting dunes of windswept sand (the wind being the hot air escaping from our giant balloons of subterfuge that are being continually pricked by the jabs of reality.

The cynic in me suggested the members were actually at their illegal part - time jobs as waiters or building Tupperware pyramids.

We rocked up to the kids one and were pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to get a spot on the curb, strange considering the thousands of people who pressed into a nearby square at lunchtime to watch as groups of people built themselves into giant human pyramids (odd local custom, but quite entertaining).