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unusual facts about The Pyramid



Kontraplan

Author and host of show was journalist and TV producer Dubravko Merlić, who later won the Rose d'Or award for The Pyramid series in 2007.

Yvette Nicole Brown

In 2012, Brown appeared as a celebrity contestant on GSN's version of The Pyramid with her fellow Community co-star Danny Pudi.


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Andrew Plotkin

During 2006 he was involved in the open source on-line game platform Volity and has created, or assisted in the creation of, on-line versions of the pyramid game Treehouse and other Looney Labs titles to showcase the platform.

Byzantine aristocracy and bureaucracy

At the apex of the pyramid stood the Emperor, sole ruler (autokrator) and divinely ordained, but beneath him a multitude of officials and court functionaries operated the administrative machinery of the Byzantine state.

Cholula

Great Pyramid of Cholula, the pyramid-temple complex situated at the pre-Columbian site

Egyptian pyramid construction techniques

Materials scientist Joseph Davidovits has claimed that the blocks of the pyramid are not carved stone, but mostly a form of limestone concrete and that they were "cast" as with modern concrete.

Egyptian temple

Other changes came in the reign of Sneferu, who, beginning with his first pyramid at Meidum, built pyramid complexes symmetrically along an east–west axis, with a valley temple on the banks of the Nile linked to a pyramid temple at the foot of the pyramid.

Go Big or Go Home

While coaching basketball, Ron Swanson shows his players what he calls the "Swanson Pyramid of Greatness", a guide to living similar to the "Pyramid of Success" used by John Wooden.

Heavy Metal Poisoning

The song begins with the backmasked Latin words "Annuit Cœptis, Novus Ordo Seclorum" ("God has favored our undertakings; a new order for the ages")—part of the Great Seal which encircles the pyramid on the back of the American dollar bill.

Jean-Pierre Houdin

During 2000, they met with members of the team who, in 1986, had worked on the mystery of the Pyramid of Khufu under the aegis of the Fondation EDF.

Katarzyna Kozyra

While quoting a theme from Grimm brother’s fairy tale "The Four Musicians from Bremen", the Pyramid... was supposed to concern human involvement in industrial animal killing procedure.

Khaemweset

Inscriptions at the pyramid temple of Userkaf show Khaemweset with offering bearers, and at the pyramid temple of Sahure Khamwaset offers a statue of the goddess Bast.

Kurt Mendelssohn

His principal thesis was that the pyramid at Meidum had collapsed during construction, a conclusion he arrived at utilizing his knowledge of physics and which was sparked in 1966 by images of the Aberfan disaster, where Mendelssohn saw similarities to the rubble mound surrounding the Meidum pyramid, a primary destination for his travel to Egypt the year before.

Pyramid of Khendjer

The pyramid complex of Khendjer is located between the pyramid of Pepi II and the pyramid of Senusret III in South Saqqara.

Pyramid of the Magician

Conservation efforts are still underway and, as with El Castillo in Chichen Itza, visitors to the site are now prohibited from climbing the pyramid.

Pyramid of the Sun

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.

Pyramid of Userkaf

The pyramid has a T-shaped substructure with a descending corridor leading to a chamber with a gabled roof.

Pyramid Texts

In the first scene of Philip Glass's opera Akhnaten, the phrase "Open are the double doors of the horizon" is a quotation from the Pyramid Texts.

Quorum of Twelve

In "Lost Planet of the Gods", Baltar points out that his seal is the same as Adama's and so he was able to enter the pyramid.

Shūjin e no Pert-em-Hru

Inside the pyramid, one by one, the members of the entourage become subject to Khufu's punishment for their faults, but the professor insists on heading deeper in the complex despite knowing the fatal dangers of the environment.

Sithathor

Next to the pyramid of king Senusret III were found underground galleries as a burial place for royal women.

Stuart L. Hart

While there, he founded the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise and the Base of the Pyramid Learning Laboratory.

Success University

According to a study by the Bank of Namibia, Success University presents the features of a pyramid scheme, and they have estimated that about 88% percent of participants eventually make losses, with only a minority—at the top of the pyramid—making benefits.

The Flying Wallendas

They continued performing those acts until 1962, when, while performing at the Shrine Circus at Detroit's State Fair Coliseum, the front man on the wire faltered and the pyramid collapsed.

The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid

The concept of The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid originally appeared as an article by C. K. Prahalad and Stuart L. Hart in the business journal Strategy+Business.

William Dutterer

He has shown in private galleries including the Pyramid, Osuna, Henri, Jack Rasmussen and Franz Bader Galleries in Washington, D. C., the Susan Caldwell, Frank Marino and Portico Galleries in New York City as well as galleries in cities throughout the U.S.