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CHEOPS' PYRAMID REOPENS FOR TOURISTS
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GIZA PLATEAU, Egypt - The Great Pyramid of Cheops, the most
famous of ancient Egypt's royal tombs, was declared safe for
tourists and reopened yesterday for the first time in nine months.
Since August, workers had been sealing cracks, reinforcing
limestone slabs and clearing vermin ...
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CHEOPS' PYRAMID REOPENS FOR TOURISTS
The Boston Globe
; GIZA PLATEAU, Egypt - The Great Pyramid of Cheops, the most famous of ancient Egypt's royal tombs, was declared safe for tourists and reopened yesterday for the first time in nine months. Since August, workers had been sealing cracks, reinforcing limestone slabs and clearing vermin from the inside
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 "Pueblo Chieftain (Pueblo, Colorado)")
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Monte Vista Presbyterians will celebrate 125 years.
Pueblo Chieftain (Pueblo, Colorado)
; ... benediction. A light lunch will follow. Copyright (c) 2006, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News. For reprints, email tmsreprints@permissionsgroup.com, call 800-374-7985 or 847-635-6550, send a fax to 847-635-6968, or write ...
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New sales rep.(NEWS)
Stone World
; ST. LOUIS, MO -- Midwest Tile, Marble & Granite of St. Louis, MO, a supplier of granite, marble, slate and limestone slabs, tiles and related supplies in the Midwest region of the U.S., has announced Genie Wachter as its architectural/design and commercial sales representative. [ILLUSTRATION
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Egyptian Cabinet aide fired for riots
Chicago Sun-Times
; CAIRO Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak yesterday fired the Cabinet minister responsible for the mutinous police conscripts who ravaged four luxury hotels and a dozen nightclubs and restaurants this week in riots that killed 36 people and injured at least 325. The president later traveled to the
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Encoding information: unique Natufian objects from Hayonim Cave, western Galilee, Israel.
Antiquity
; ... events, or distances (Marshack 1997b)? Do they represent sets of numbers or proto-mathematics (Frolov 1981)? Perhaps they are maps (Gladkih et al. 1984; Klima 1988, in Svoboda 1997), or are we looking at a mnemonic scheme (Layton 1992: Roberts & Roberts ...
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Probe may bare 4,600-year-old Egyptian secrets
Chicago Sun-Times
; GIZA Using technology learned on the moon, U.S. and Egyptian scientists plan a delicate probe into a pit sealed 4,600 years ago near the Great Pyramid of Cheops. They have two goals: To bottle and analyze the air trapped when Old Kingdom workmen fitted massive limestone slabs on top of the pit and
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Limestone contributes to Mediterranean-style design: a combination of limestone and Italian travertine played an instrumental role in bringing Old World charm to a Midwestern home.(Limestone)
Stone World
; Limestone was the predominant feature for the focal points of a private residence in Oklahoma City, OK. The home was built in a Mediterranean style, with limestone employed for a staircase in the entry as well as a floor-to-ceiling fireplace in the living room. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The design
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School trades for redo
Press-Telegram Long Beach, CA.
; CERRITOS - The limestone slabs framing the main entrance to Valley Christian School's high school campus came from afar - the stones were quarried just outside the holy city of Jerusalem. The campus that received them has also come a long way. A three-way land swap approved in late 2005 involving
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Mountain bike trails will vary in difficulty, but all are set in beautiful terrain
Dayton Daily News
; I walk on a newly constructed trail along a creek in the 80-acre woods just north of Ohio 4 in Huffman MetroPark. I pass pallets of limestone, cross a pretty little stream where some of the limestone slabs have been imbedded to prevent erosion, and climb up a newly installed switchback. It's
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Divers pull ship from the deep
The Independent - London
; Divers began salvaging a centuries-old Swedish sailing ship yesterday that had been discovered off the former East German coast under the Communist regime but never recovered. Salvage work began after barnacles eating away at the 650-year-old wooden ship threatened to destroy the vessel. The ship
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