Amid The Pyramids

[Meanderer]

Funny story Jackie, here's a larger copy! http://dalesdesigns.net/JD-fishing.htm

 

[Jackie22]

Thanks Meandering....I just realized, I put my 'funny' in the wrong place, sorry about that.

 

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Crystal Pyramid in the Bermuda Triangle?
The Bermuda Triangle is mysterious, unearthly and deadly. Now scientists think they may have discovered a clue residing at the bottom of the ocean.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/video/watc...angle/vi-8ecf7a3a-5356-2b1c-2d4f-9ea5da37ba69 (SEE VIDEO)

 

[Meanderer]

We come in peace!

We come in peace! Curiosity zaps bizarre pyramid rock with onboard lasers as it gets up close with Martian landscape

It was a rock so oddly shaped that it prompted Nasa to name it after a much loved employee who recently passed away.
Now the pyramid shaped 'Jake Matijevic' rock has been the first test of Curiosity's most advanced analysis instruments.
The rover used its Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS)for the first time in a bid to find out what the rock was made of.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...oard-lasers-gets-close-martian-landscape.html

 

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[Meanderer]

America's pyramid

America's pyramid: Photos reveal the Egyptian-esque missile facility used by the U.S. military to detect and launch ICBMs

Anyone traveling through Nekoma, North Dakota - a stone's throw from the Canadian border on the way to the exact middle of nowhere - might be shocked to find an enormous pyramid jutting above the horizon. As well they should be - this is North Dakota, not Egypt.

 

[NancyNGA]

Can you guess what this is?

 

[Meanderer]

The Pharaoh's pen holder?

 

[NancyNGA]

No, it's the aluminum tip of the Washington Monument photographed in 1934, just before those lightning rods were replaced with taller ones.

http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/9511/Binczewski-9511.fig.4.large.gif

 

[Meanderer]

Wow! That's neat, Nancy! My older Sister worked as a receptionist in the Alcoa HQ in Pittsburgh. She used to cringe, when we used the term "tin foil"! This link tells the history of the Aluminum Cap: http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/jom/9511/binczewski-9511.html

 

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[NancyNGA]

　

This is a pyramid of barrels being prepared for a bonfire to celebrate July 4th, on Gallows Hill,
Salem, MA, some time in the early 1900's. The one in the video below claims 1930. Could be a
different pyramid. Evidently a very common annual tradition. :eewwk:

A couple of links:
http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675023813_100feet-pyre_arranged-barrels_huge-flames_Gallows-hill
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/07/the-night-before-the-fourth/241259/

 

[Meanderer]

Great old video! Thanks Nancy, I never heard of that tradition. Looks a little dangerous if the burning pyramid fell on the crowd. The picture below may be photo- shopped!

 

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See the pyramids....

 

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[Meanderer]

How they moved the pyramids....

 

[Shalimar]

Tooo funny Jim!

 

[Pappy]

This explains it.....

 

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[Pappy]

Yep.......

 

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