No disrespect to our hosts, sometimes the best stuff is in the comments section. Threads like this one remind me of what keeps me coming back to this site year after year.
k2b: da man stole mah bloggy!!!!!!!
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It looks very much like the Egyptians developed the pyramids through trial and error. The first pyramid, the Step Pyramid at Saqqara shows several stages of development, starting off as a low-lying flat structure called a mastaba before being successively enlarged with extensions and new steps. But it’s clear the…
Where would they rub the jelly?
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Good point about the Meidum monster. Thanks for the additional info.
Reminds me of another historic king.
Poor Sneferu, could never get the Pyramid of his dreams. His first attempt, the Meidum Pyramid was actually originally started by the previous Pharaoh as a 7 step Pyramid. Sneferu added another layer of steps (making it taller and 8 step) but he really wanted a smooth sided “true” Pyramid. So he had his workers fill…
Quite possibly it is a relieving chamber similar to the four granite chambers placed above the burial chamber and which were intended to reduce the pressure of the overlying masonry on the ceiling. The Grand Gallery is a huge open space that would also be vulnerable to collapse.
As you said yourself, not long on that logic stuff.
While we’re mocking white supremacists, I thought I’d share about a rally of theirs in Ottawa a month ago:
To paraphrase the comedian Doug Stanhope: If you lose your job or your admission to college to someone who just moved here and for whom English is a second language, maybe you’re not the master race. Maybe you are just stupid, lazy, and looking for an excuse.
People from the area gathered to show their love and dispel the myth that the white supremacists were trying to spread about their community. Both black and white joined together to show that the only thing they hated was racism...
To paraphrase the comedian Doug Stanhope: If you lose your job or your admission to college to someone who just moved here and for whom English is a second language, maybe you’re not the master race. Maybe you are just stupid, lazy, and looking for an excuse.
Jared Kushner. Has anyone heard anything about him lately? It’s like Pumpkin Spice Putin knew the boy was about to be put in cuffs and has been gently easingnhim out of the White House these past few weeks.
BTW, this is just the beginning. It’s been talked about that these may even only be the first set of charges for the person being indicted.
It’s never going to be Trump, but it doesn’t have to be him for this to destroy what’s left of his pitiful presidency.