Ahuizotl also supervised a major rebuilding of Tenochtitlan on a grander scale including the expansion of the Great Pyramid or Templo Mayor in the year 8 Reed ( 1487 ).

The Great Pyramid of Giza ( also known as the Pyramid of Khufu or the Pyramid of Cheops ) is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza Necropolis bordering what is now El Giza, Egypt.

Initially at, the Great Pyramid was the tallest man-made structure in the world for over 3, 800 years.

Originally, the Great Pyramid was covered by casing stones that formed a smooth outer surface ; what is seen today is the underlying core structure.

There are three known chambers inside the Great Pyramid.

The Great Pyramid of Giza is the only pyramid in Egypt known to contain both ascending and descending passages.

Khufu's vizier, Hemon, or Hemiunu, is believed by some to be the architect of the Great Pyramid.

It is thought that, at construction, the Great Pyramid was originally 280 Egyptian cubits tall, but with erosion and absence of its pyramidion, its present height is.

Many of the casing stones and inner chamber blocks of the Great Pyramid were fit together with extremely high precision.

Great Pyramid of Giza from a 19th century stereopticon card photo

The Great Pyramid consists of an estimated 2. 3 million limestone blocks with most believed to have been transported from nearby quarries.

It is estimated that 5. 5 million tons of limestone, 8, 000 tons of granite ( imported from Aswan ), and 500, 000 tons of mortar were used in the construction of the Great Pyramid.

At completion, the Great Pyramid was surfaced by white " casing stones " – slant-faced, but flat-topped, blocks of highly polished white limestone.

Nevertheless, a few of the casing stones from the lowest course can be seen to this day in situ around the base of the Great Pyramid, and display the same workmanship and precision as has been reported for centuries.

Without the use of pulleys, wheels, or iron tools, they used critical path analysis to suggest the Great Pyramid was completed from start to finish in approximately 10 years.

Diagram of the interior structures of the Great Pyramid.

The original entrance to the Great Pyramid is vertically above ground level and east of the center line of the pyramid.

The Grand Gallery of the Great Pyramid of Giza

Today tourists enter the Great Pyramid via the Robbers ' Tunnel dug by workmen employed by Caliph al-Ma ' mun around AD 820.

Map of Giza pyramid complex-" Pyramid of Khufu " refers to the Great Pyramid.

Group photo of Australian 11th Battalion soldiers on the Great Pyramid in 1915.

Great stress is placed on the role that the monitoring of information sending plays in maintaining the effectiveness of the network.

He is a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, a registered professional engineer in Connecticut and Ohio, and a chartered electrical engineer in Great Britain.

Here is truly a `` Great Recording of the Century '', and its greatness is by no means diminished by the fact that it is not quite perfect.

The Great Smoky Mountains is another area of the South well worth a visit.

So it is with Great Expectations, whether the hands be Orlick's as he strikes down Mrs. Gargery or Pip's as he steals a pie from her pantry.

Since they commonly translate thoughts and feelings into deeds, hands naturally represent action, and since nearly half the characters in Great Expectations are of the underworld or closely allied to it, the linking of hands with crime or violence is not to be wondered at.

But only in one of its aspects is Great Expectations a tale of violence, revenge, and retribution.

I am selling the stuff of which is made one of the Great American Dreams -- wall-to-wall carpeting.

As the bergs grew larger, Hudson was forced to turn south into what is now Ungava Bay, an inlet of the Great Strait.

The Great Train Robbery is a one-reel film.

The `` chase '' as a standard film device probably dates from The Great Train Robbery, and there is a reason for the continued popularity of the device.

Aristotle's influence over Alexander the Great is seen in the latter's bringing with him on his expedition a host of zoologists, botanists, and researchers.

In Korea, the Hangul alphabet was created by Sejong the Great Hangul is a unique alphabet: it is a featural alphabet, where many of the letters are designed from a sound's place of articulation ( P to look like the widened mouth, L to look like the tongue pulled in, etc.

For English, this is partly because the Great Vowel Shift occurred after the orthography was established, and because English has acquired a large number of loanwords at different times, retaining their original spelling at varying levels.

Aquarius is identified as " The Great One " in the Babylonian star catalogues and represents the god Ea himself, who is commonly depicted holding an overflowing vase.

However Abdul is a common Arabic prefix meaning " Servant of the " and " Al " is Arabic for " the ", and if " hazra " means " he prohibited ", " he fenced in " or " Great Lord ", then the name would mean " Servant of the Prohibited ", " Servant of the Fenced in ", or " Servant of the Great Lord " which would make sense considering his role, even if it is not a proper Arabic name.

A person buried at the Maritime Archaic site at Port au Choix, Newfoundland, dating to about 2000 BC, was found surrounded by more than 200 Great Auk beaks, which are believed to have been part of a suit made from their skins, with the heads left attached as decoration.

However, Wilhelm wanted to be his own master and was surrounded by sycophants telling him that Frederick the Great would not have been so great with a Bismarck at his side.

In Sargent's world, the Great Kingdom storyline was largely replaced by the major new conflict between the land of Iuz and the regions that surrounded it.

The city is located in the northeast corner of the Salt Lake Valley surrounded by the Great Salt Lake to the northwest and the steep Wasatch and Oquirrh mountain ranges on the eastern and western borders, respectively.

It is in the heart of the Great Lakes region, and is surrounded by three of them, Lake Edward, Lake Albert, and Lake Victoria.

Originally the Earth ( Arda ) was flat, the continents were surrounded by a mighty ocean ( or perhaps by space ), Ekkaia or Vaiya, the Encircling Sea, and separated by Belegaer, called the Great Sea and the Sundering Seas.

It was a small oval, with the crest from the Great Seal ( the radiant constellation of thirteen stars surrounded by clouds ) in the center, with the motto E Pluribus Unum above it.

The Great Salt Lake in the west, which is surrounded by marshland and mudflats, lies at an average elevation of approximately, varying depending on the water level, which can lead to drastic changes in the lake size due to its shallowness.

Also in period IV, the Great Court, a sunken courtyard surrounded by two tiers of benches covered in cone mosaic, was built.

The area is also of significance as a fishery, particularly for King Prawns These eight islands are part of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area and all surrounded by reefs.

All 74 of the islands are surrounded by the Great Barrier Reef and only eight them are inhabited.

New Castle occupies an archipelago, consisting of one main island ( Great Island ) and several smaller islands surrounded by the Piscataqua River and Atlantic Ocean.

Although Pembroke Castle is a Norman-style enclosure castle with Great Keep, it can be more accurately described as a linear fortification because, like the later 13th-century castles at Caernarfon and Conwy, it was built on a rock promontory surrounded by water.

The hamlet is surrounded by three bays, the Great Peconic Bay to the north, and Shinnecock and Tiana Bays to the south.

The religious community was originally established at " Rum's Eg "' meaning " the area of Rum surrounded by marshes " in 907 AD by nuns led by Elflaeda daughter of King Edward the Elder, who was son of Alfred The Great.

The two-story brick house, surrounded by a low fence with marble statues on the front lawn, was at the end of a cul-de-sac in Harbor Green Estates, overlooking the Great South Bay.

On the north side, Great Gulf — the mountain's largest glacial cirque — forms an amphitheater surrounded by the Northern Presidentials: Mounts Clay, Jefferson, Adams and Madison.

The city is surrounded by many small villages that are located within the City of Chelmsford: Galleywood, Bicknacre, East, West and South Hanningfield, Boreham, Ford End, Pleshey, Highwood, Good Easter ( its neighbour High Easter is in the Uttlesford district ), Chignal St James, Chignal Smealy, Howe Green, Roxwell, Great Leighs, Little Leighs, Great Waltham, Little Waltham, Little Baddow, Danbury, Sandon, Rettendon, Runwell, Margaretting, Stock and Writtle.

The Long Now Foundation has purchased the top of Mount Washington near Ely, Nevada which is surrounded by Great Basin National Park, for the permanent storage of the full sized clock, once it is constructed.

* Gurdjieff: A Very Great Enigma ( The ideas of Gurdjieff and the mystery that surrounded him )

The design of this first issue shows on the obverse the king in a ship holding a sword and shield, surrounded by the legend -- James by the grace of God King of Great Britain France and Ireland.

On the obverse is a lion holding a sceptre over the royal shield which divides the value " XV " for fifteen shillings, surrounded by the legend -- James by the grace of God King of Great Britain France and Ireland.

The extremely rare Shrewsbury-produced coin shows, on the obverse, a plume behind the kings ' head surrounded by the legend -- Charles by the grace of God King of Great Britain France and Ireland.