He succeeded in building a grand structure--the Step Pyramid of King Zoser. ... These blocks ranged in size from forty tons to less than one ton. ... It is believed that the Egyptians took so much pride in their work because they were not just simply building a tomb for their pharaoh, they were building Egypt. ... Due to this fact we can conclude that the Egyptians were extremely gifted in math and geometry. ... These sites were associated with the building of the pyramids. ...

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Something is missing from the recorded history of Egypt- the record of the building of the pyramids. ... It still remains a mystery and we have yet find out if God had anything to do with the building of these majestic monoliths. Some interesting facts about the Great Pyramid Thirty times larger than the Empire State Building, the Pyramid's features are so large they can be seen from the Moon. Its base covers 13.6 acres (equal to seven midtown Manhattan city blocks), each side being greater than five acres in area. ... We know from geometry that there is a universal relationship ...

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Looking at the Great Pyramid, the evidence of geometry is apparent, starting with the 751 square foot base. ... It is estimated that two million blocks of stone were used to build the Great Pyramid. ... To really appreciate and understand the work that went into building these structures, it is necessary to realize the importance they meant to their civilizations. ...

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Primarily interested in mathematics, he founded Analytic Geometry and originated the Cartesian Coordinates and Cartesian curves. ... When I founded analytic geometry, I was motivated by an attempt to return to the past. ... Much of life can be related to mathematics and that has always been my greatest hope: to see the universe explained in its own building blocks, equations. ...

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Computers and technology has been advancing in the last 20 years from building-sized mainframes to smartphones that can tell you the closest restaurant near your location with click of a button and or by the sound of voice. ... When referring to computers and security,  biometrics  is the identification of a person by the measurement of their biological features such as Fingerprint, hand geometry, Iris, Palm, Signature, Speech, and vascular. For example, a user identifying them to a computer or building by their finger print or voice is considered biometrics identification. ... The evolution...

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Based on the belief that numbers were the building blocks of everything, Pythagoras began linking numbers and music. ... Based on Pythagorean harmonic relationships and Pythagorean geometry, bell-makers began constructing bells with the principal pitch prime tone, and hum tones consisting of a fourth, a fifth, and the octave. ...

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Yet, it was unstable and the limestone blocks started to slip. ... As a requirement, the building's geometry was altered at a point just above half its height. ... This one is known the "Red Pyramid" because of the red limestone blocks utilized as a part of its structure. ... In building the pyramids, the designers might have created their techniques over time. ... The pyramids were manufactured out of stone blocks, each weighing up no less than 2 tons. ...

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Architecture is to building as literature is to the printed word. ... It was made of over two million stone blocks, each weighing two to fifteen tons. ... As geometry, they represent the order, balance, and rationality of the universe and its incarnation in the king himself. ... The palaces on the mainland were hilltop fortresses surrounded by defensive walls of huge stone blocks, a type of construction quite unknown in Crete, but similar to the Hittite fortifications. ... Its walls built from huge blocks of stone, called "Cyclopean" because the later Greeks couldn't believe that they w...

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Thus, moving to the realm of the project, his buildings seem to have a certain spatial dismemberment and a natural assumption of imperfection. ... MATTER AND PERCEPTION Nouvel talks about a generic, material condition of the modern world that will never be transferred literally to the technical system of his buildings, but will rather find an indirect manifestation in the spatial and visual qualities. ... The exceptionality of the object can be approachedthrough these mechanisms and not exclusively through unusual, complex or impossible geometries. ... It is obvious that a heterogeneous ra...

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By 1400, Gothic had become the universal style of building in the Western world, and included many types of structures. ... The block on which Grace Cathedral sits on was a gift from the Crocker family. ... Rose windows exemplify the universe through its geometry, a mandala which represents the "expression of human aspiration towards wholeness and coherence." ...

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Thus, they can carry signals through places where EMI would block transmission. 2) Data Security Magnetic fields and current induction work in two ways. ... However, the nominal ground potential can differ by several volts if cables run between different buildings or sometimes even different parts of the same building. ... Certain computer companies are aware of this problem and trying to solve it by having protective devices for wire circuits to block current and voltage surges. ... Such thick cables can be difficult to install in existing buildings where they must go through walls and cable ...

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Lego started with someone who was a failed carpenter, this man at first made wooden blocks and with much criticism decided that changing the blocks from wood to plastic was a great idea. ... It commissioned TV shows, offered jewellery and clothing, and spent massive amounts developing a virtual brick-building simulation called LEGO Digital Designer. ... In the case of Lego as a company they are aware that the majority of their audience is children and parents who encourage their young ones to play Lego blocks due to developing logic, imagination, operational ability and sustained attention. ....

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Some of the first men to come to England that are identified as Stonehenge architects came when the massive mountains of sheet ice that were then blocking England and France melted around 12,000 B.C. ... They arrived on Salisbury plain around 1450 B.C., and were involved in building the most prominent part of Stonehenge, the great stone circles. ... The second phase of Stonehenge brings on the building a large intricate wooden monument. ... This phase of building spanned from 2,500 B.C. to 1,00 B.C. , it was the longest and most painstaking of the three different ph...

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Some of the first men to come to England that are identified as Stonehenge architects came when the massive mountains of sheet ice that were then blocking England and France melted around 12,000 B.C. ... They arrived on Salisbury plain around 1450 B.C., and were involved in building the most prominent part of Stonehenge, the great stone circles. ... The second phase of Stonehenge brings on the building a large intricate wooden monument. ... This phase of building spanned from 2,500 B.C. to 1,00 B.C. , it was the longest and most painstaking of the three different phases. ...

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At the turn of the latter half of the 20th century, the contemporary subject deemed, "art-, would experience a subtle piercing of the skin. With its vast array of movements and styles that have come and gone like the wind, the art world, as it was known in America, had been lingering and holding for too long onto movements of Abstract Expressionism. The 1960s would accommodate this small post-war dilemma with the significant development of an uprising movement dubbed by public and professional criticism as Minimalism. Interestingly, it was the professional criticism the new style attracted...

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HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF CALCULUS Team Number: 6   Name                                                            ID No 1.    DEEPANSHU TIWARI                                 2014A2 PS512H                                                 2. YELLANKI DAKSHAYANI 2014A2PS513H 3. AYUSH UMRAO 2014A2PS515H 4. MANISHA KALLEPALLE 2...

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The Dream Yet to be Realized. Almost fifty years have passed since the U.S. Supreme Court declared, in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, that laws separating the races in school are unconstitutional. Hundreds of lawsuits later, black and white students were bused back and for...

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METAPHYSICAL POETRY, AND IN RELATION TO DONNE Metaphysical poetry is concerned with the whole experience of man, but the intelligence, learning and seriousness of the poets means that the poetry is about the profound areas of experience, especially about love, romantic and sensual; about man's relationship with God - the eternal perspective, and, to a less extent, about pleasure, learning and art. Metaphysical poems are lyric poems. They are brief but intense meditations, characterised by striking use of wit, irony and wordplay. Beneath the formal structure (of rhyme, metre and s...

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