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Petrie and Pyramids
The first precision measurements of the pyramid were made by Egyptologist Sir Flinders Petrie in 1880 – 82 and published as The Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh.
* Petrie, Sir Flinders Pyramids and Temples of Gizeh ( 1881 )

Petrie and these
Fragments of granite found by Petrie in the Descending Passage may have come from these now vanished doors.
Marion Petrie tested whether or not these displays signaled a male ’ s genetic quality by studying a feral population of peafowl in Whipsnade Wildlife Park in southern England.
With an initial gift from The Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation and the late Joseph H. Flom, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics was founded in 2005 as an interdisciplinary program intended to respond to the need for leading legal scholarship in these fields.
Subsequently, Newgrange was visited by a number of antiquarians, who often performed their own measurements of the site and made their own observations, which were often published in various antiquarian journals ; these included such figures as Sir William Wilde, Sir Thomas Pownall, Thomas Wright, John O ' Donovan, George Petrie and James Fergusson.
Here, in these ancient monuments, Petrie discovered two different metrical systems.
" So she's always looking for a family and always coming up short and making these horrible choices, and it drove her insane " says Petrie.
In 1890 Flinders Petrie discovered further papyrus fragments, which had been reused in constructing a 3rd century BCE Ptolemaic mummy case found in the Fayoum ; the palaeography suggested that the scroll was old before it was reused as waste, making these fragments the earliest surviving text of any Greek play ; the discovery occasioned a rash of new readings of the existing fragments.
Petrie refused to respond to these criticisms, claiming he had disproved the pyramid inch and compared continuing proponents to " flat earth believers ":
Nevertheless, because the Naqada sites were first divided by the British Egyptologist William Flinders Petrie, in 1894, into these Amratian ( after the cemetery near El-Amrah ) and Gerzean ( after the cemetery near Gerzeh ) sub-periods, the original convention is used in this text.
Petrie reburied these human remains in the desert.
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Petrie.
Despite these elaborate protective measures, Petrie found that none of the trapdoors had been slid into place and the wooden doors were open.

Petrie and areas
Some of the more biologically important wetland areas include ( going downsteam from Pembroke ), the Westmeath sand dune / wetland complex, Mississippi Snye, Breckenridge Nature Reserve, Shirleys Bay, Ottawa Beach / Andrew Haydon Park, Petrie Island, the Duck Islands and Greens Creek.
From Petrie Island, Trim runs south through the eastern suburban areas of Orleans and then south into rural former Cumberland Township.

Petrie and ratio
Petrie wrote in the 1892 excavation report that " We see then that there is an exactly analogous theory for the dimensions of Medum to that of the Great Pyramid ; in each the approximate ratio of 7: 44 is adopted, as referred to the radius and circle ..".

Petrie and are
Opposing Fu Manchu in the early stories are Denis Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie.
They are in the Holmes and Watson tradition, with Dr. Petrie narrating the stories while Nayland Smith carries the fight, combating Fu Manchu more by dogged determination than intellectual brilliance ( except in extremis ).
The Petrie polygons of the regular polyhedra are classic examples.
Television writers such as Daniel Petrie Jr., president of the Writers Guild of America-West, complain that reality shows, which are described as unscripted, are in fact scripted.
The Petrie Museum and the Grant Museum of Zoology are at University College London in Gower Street.
Flinders Petrie excavated two large statues of Min at Qift which are now in the Ashmolean Museum and it is thought by some that they are pre-dynastic.
Ben Mears and Susan are joined by Matt Burke and his doctor, Jimmy Cody, along with young Mark Petrie and the local priest, Father Callahan, in an effort to fight the spread of the vampires, whose numbers increase as the new vampires infect their own families and others.
Father Callahan is caught by Barlow at the Petrie house after Barlow kills Mark's parents, but does not infect them, so they are later given a clean burial.
Ben Mears and Mark Petrie succeed in destroying the master vampire Barlow, but are lucky to escape with their lives and are forced to leave the town to the now leaderless vampires.
* Flinders Petrie excavates at Tell el-Hesi, Palestine ( mistakenly identified as Lachish ), the first scientific excavation of an archaeological site in the Holy Land, during which he discovers how tells are formed.
Other pieces of the stela are in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo and the Petrie Museum in London.
There are other sizeable pieces in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, one discovered in 1910 and another purchased on the antiquities market in 1963, and in the museum of University College London, given by Sir Flinders Petrie.
In collaboration with Charles Stanford he published Songs of Old Ireland ( 1882 ), Irish Songs and Ballads ( 1893 ), the airs of which are taken from the Petrie MSS.
The Petrie Crown, Loughnashade Trumpet and a series of discs whose function is mysterious are among the most striking pieces.
The disguised airmen led by the pilots ( Hugh Burden ) and ( Eric Portman ) bicycle through the countryside to a football match, accompanied by many of the Dutch, where they are passed along to the local burgomeister ( Hay Petrie ).
Because all dates for the predynastic period are tenuous at best, WMF Petrie developed a system called Sequence Dating by which the relative date, if not the absolute date, of any given predynastic site can be ascertained by examining its pottery.
Speeds for the Labrador Current are about along the shelf edge ( Greenbergand Petrie, Reynaud et al., 1985.
More established and careful archaeologists, including William Flinders Petrie and Howard Carter, the discoverer and primary excavator of the tomb of Tutankhamun, are presented more positively.
Many suburbs – Lawnton, Petrie, Griffin and Joyner, for example – are named after early European settlers.

Petrie and so
Petrie related the precision of the casing stones as to being " equal to opticians ' work of the present day, but on a scale of acres " and " to place such stones in exact contact would be careful work ; but to do so with cement in the joints seems almost impossible ".
Unable to obtain bookings, Bailey and Hay converted the Petrie Terrace house they shared into the 76 Club so they had a venue to play in.
The focus of Petrie ’ s work shifted permanently to Palestine in 1926 ( although he did become interested in early Egypt, in 1928 digging a cemetery at Luxor that proved so huge that he devised an entirely new excavation system, including comparison charts for finds, which is still used today ).
When writing Faith, Petrie looked to Frank Miller's violent Marvel Comics character Elektra Natchios for inspiration, claiming, " In a different, teen, punkier context, Faith is so much like Elektra.
This so undermined the theory that Petrie rejected it, writing " there is no authentic example, that will bear examination, of the use or existence of any such measure as a ‘ Pyramid inch ,’ or of a cubit of 25. 025 British inches.
This was a mistake ( Egyptology was not yet studied at Oxford ) so he went on to Leipzig, and on his return to England found work with Flinders Petrie, first at University College London and then at Abydos in Egypt.
Once back at Petrie's Island, Toni's father's helicopter is forced to return to the mainland so he can use it, leaving the foursome effectively stranded on Petrie until the helicopter can return.

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