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Pyramids
Pyramids Monuments on a square base with sloping sides rising to a point. They are associated particularly with ancient
Egypt, where some of the largest survive almost intact. They served as burial chambers for pharaohs. The earliest Egyptian pyramid was a step pyramid (
ziggurat), built
c.2700 bc for Zoser. Pyramid building in Egypt reached its peak during the 4th dynasty, the time of the Great Pyramid at
Giza. The largest pyramid in the world, it was built for Khufu
c.2500 bc, and stands 146m (480ft) high with sides 231m (758ft) long at the base. The largest New World ziggurat pyramid was built at
Teotihuacán, Mexico, in the 1st century
ad; it was 66m (216ft) high with a surface area of 50,600sq m (547,200sq ft).
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Pyramids.
Magazine article from: Science Weekly; 2/2/2006; 700+ words
; ...Egypt and Sudan, there are over 180 pyramids. Other pyramid structures have been discovered around...Some of Egypt's more famous pyramids are the Bent Pyramid, the Red Pyramid, and the aligned Pyramids of Giza. One of the most well known...
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PYRAMID ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF PEOPLESOFT INDUSTRY-LEADING CLIENT/SERVER APPLICATIONS
PR Newswire; 6/27/1994; 700+ words
; ...Calif., June 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Pyramid Technology Corp. (Nasdaq: PYRD) today...applications from PeopleSoft are now available on Pyramid's complete line of open enterprise servers...Resources Management System(TM) support Pyramid's enhanced UNIX(R) operations system...
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PYRAMID TECHNOLOGY REPORTS RECORD RESULTS FOLLOWING ACQUISITION BY SIEMENS NIXDORF
PR Newswire; 7/31/1995; 700+ words
; ...Calif., July 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Pyramid(R) Technology -- A Siemens Nixdorf...1994. In addition to record revenues, Pyramid's gross profit margins rose to 45...with Siemens Nixdorf," said John Chen, Pyramid's chief executive officer. "There...
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PYRAMID AND SIEMENS NIXDORF ANNOUNCE SMART TRANSITIONS PROGRAM TO RAPIDLY CONVERT LEGACY APPLICATIONS TO PYRAMID'S OPEN ENVIRONMENT
PR Newswire; 1/9/1996; 700+ words
; ...Calif., Jan. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Pyramid(R) Technology and parent company...legacy proprietary systems to an open Pyramid enterprise server environment. Called...Transitions, the new service, delivered by Pyramid/SNI's Professional Services organization...
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PYRAMID INTRODUCES EXTENSIVE NEW SUPPORT PROGRAMS FOR DATA CENTER CUSTOMERS; ADVANCED DATA CENTER SUPPORT MEETS UNIQUE SERVICE NEEDS
PR Newswire; 10/13/1992; 700+ words
; PYRAMID INTRODUCES EXTENSIVE NEW SUPPORT PROGRAMS...partners and service for the data center, Pyramid Technology Corp. (NASDAQ: PYRD) today...Advanced Data Center Support(TM), Pyramid's packaged support solution, provides...
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Pyramid Saimira Group Enters China, the Last Frontier.
Business Wire; 3/20/2008; 700+ words
; RICHARDSON, Texas -- Pyramid Saimira Theatre Limited (http...Government of China and India's Pyramid Saimira Theatre Limited (PSTL) has...a new joint venture company Jiangsu Pyramid Longzhe Group supported and approved...
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Pyramid power
Magazine article from: Healthcare Design; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...owner group makes up one of the pyramids. At the apex of that pyramid is the owner's director of...consistent message throughout each pyramid. When the pyramids work correctly, information flows from one pyramid to the other and travels back...
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PYRAMID ANNOUNCES DATA CENTER CLUSTER SOLUTION WITH ORACLE7 PARALLEL SERVER
PR Newswire; 9/15/1992; 700+ words
; PYRAMID ANNOUNCES DATA CENTER CLUSTER SOLUTION...FRANCISCO, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Pyramid Technology Corp. (NASDAQ: PYRD) today...Server with the Parallel Server option and Pyramid's MIServer(R) platform. The combination...
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PYRAMID TECHNOLOGY INTRODUCES NEW 4.29GB DISK DRIVE, ADDRESSING GROWING NEED FOR INCREASED DATA STORAGE FOR DEMANDING BUSINESS APPLICATIONS
PR Newswire; 7/5/1995; 700+ words
; ...Calif., July 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Pyramid(R) Technology -- A Siemens Nixdorf...addressing the growing storage needs of Pyramid customers running large data warehousing...OLTP) and video server applications. Pyramid's new offering also provides improved...
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Constrained pyramids.
Magazine article from: Word Ways; 2/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...PRESENTATIONALISMS. This pyramid included five plurals...adjacent word. The pyramids offered here are...us begin with a pyramid which describes...OMITTED] In these pyramids, each word starts...first of these two pyramids, each word both...In the second pyramid, the second and...
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Pyramids
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
PYRAMIDS Burial monuments...years, from the Step Pyramid of King Djoser...passages known as Pyramid Texts. After Egyptian...stopped building pyramids, nonroyal funerary...sometimes included small pyramid-shaped structures...
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pyramid
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
pyramid The true pyramid exists only in Egypt...countries. Egyptian pyramids are square in plan and...S. Edwards, The Pyramids of Egypt (rev. ed...Secrets of the Great Pyramid (1971); K. Mendelssohn, The Riddle of the Pyramids (1974).
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The Great Pyramid (of Khufu), at Giza
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
...day Cairo, Egypt, the Great Pyramid, its two companion pyramids, and the Sphinx are probably...before Herodotus reported on the pyramids. The Pyramid of Khufu, largest of ancient Egypt's 70 pyramids, stands 481 feet high, measures...
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Food Guide Pyramid
Book article from: Nutrition and Well-Being A to Z
Food Guide Pyramid The Food Guide Pyramid is...balance. The Food Guide Pyramid educational materials provide...Development of Alternative Pyramids Some nutrition and health...the USDA's Food Guide Pyramid. Critics of the Pyramid...
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Ecological Pyramids
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...ecosystems. Ecological pyramids may depict the number...of the ecological pyramid. As energy is passed...heat. Ecological pyramids Because of the second...productivity, is always pyramid shaped. In many...ecosystems, the pyramid of biomass may be...Inverted ecological pyramids may ...
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