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To: blam
The pharaohs may have set the standard, but German entrepreneurs are hoping to challenge Egypt's pre-eminence in monumental self-indulgence by building the world's largest pyramid.

And so be a cheap copy of the original. This kind of thinking annoys me. If you want to build a great mausoleum fine, but design your own style rather then ripping off someone else's idea.

Is there no artistic pride, no spark of creativity in this town?

14 posted on 09/01/2007 7:45:56 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes into it.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

Wait - people are willing to pay $1400 each to become part of a concrete block, that will be used to create a great pyramid...

And you don’t find that creative?

I think it is capatilism at its finest.

Frankly, I am going to steal the idea.


16 posted on 09/01/2007 8:07:00 PM PDT by patton (Congress would lose money running a brothel.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear
"If you want to build a great mausoleum fine, but design your own style rather then ripping off someone else's idea. "

Who copied whom?

Voyages Of The Pyramid Builders

"The great pyramids of Egypt provide a wonderful glimpse of the artistry, skill and imagination of the ancient world. But pyramids can be found in India, China, Peru, Bolivia, Mexico and Ireland. In this provocative book, geologist Schoch (noted for his work in redating the Sphinx, which was recounted in his Voices of the Rocks) wonders how so many diverse cultures built such similar structures with similar purposes. Using geological, linguistic and geographical evidence, he contends that a protocivilization of pyramid-building peoples was driven out of its homeland, the Sundaland, which geologists believe connected Southeast Asia with Indonesia, by a rise in sea level caused by comet activity between 6000 and 4000 B.C. Fleeing their homeland, these peoples took their knowledge of pyramid building with them into Sumeria, Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and Peru. "

There are more pyramids in Mexico that all the rest of the world combined.

The pyramid at Caral, Peru could be the oldest pyramid in the world.

17 posted on 09/01/2007 8:10:46 PM PDT by blam (Secure the border and enforce the law)
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