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- proper noun The largest and most famous of the
Egyptian pyramids , and the only remaining member of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
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Khufu, also known as Cheops, is credited with building the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Ancient Egyptian Boat To Be Restored In Effort To Boost Tourism (PHOTOS) 2011
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Khufu, also known as Cheops, is credited with building the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Ancient Egyptian Boat To Be Restored In Effort To Boost Tourism (PHOTOS) 2011
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Recreating and re-imagining cultural touchstones can be tacky, sure, but it's not appropriation any more than a Great Pyramid of Giza paperweight is grave robbery.
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Recreating and re-imagining cultural touchstones can be tacky, sure, but it's not appropriation any more than a Great Pyramid of Giza paperweight is grave robbery.
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Recreating and re-imagining cultural touchstones can be tacky, sure, but it's not appropriation any more than a Great Pyramid of Giza paperweight is grave robbery.
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Recreating and re-imagining cultural touchstones can be tacky, sure, but it's not appropriation any more than a Great Pyramid of Giza paperweight is grave robbery.
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STOUT: The Burj will also reclaim the title that used to be held by the Arab world, for thousands of years the tallest structure of in the world was this, the Great Pyramid of Giza.
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Next, in the year 2004 Polaris North Pole Star aligned with the pit of the Great Pyramid of Giza and is also the year of the great tsunami.
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Amr Nabil/Associated Press PYRAMID TOUR: Tourists visited the Great Pyramid of Giza in Cairo, Egypt, Monday, a day after a homemade bomb killed a French teenage girl on a school trip and wounded 24 at a famous Cairo bazaar.
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We can forget all the ideas crediting Atlanteans or space aliens with building the Great Pyramid of Giza, and instead imagine ourselves travelling back in time in H G Wells's time machine to try and work out not how the ancient Egyptians built this enormous edifice, because this lies beyond our present understanding, but rather what we can best judge to be its most appropriate proportions.
Pi and the Great Pyramid Jan 2008
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