Mesoamerican pyramids were usually stepped, with temples on top, more similar to the Mesopotamian ziggurat than the Egyptian pyramid.

In the Early Dynastic period high temples began to include a ziggurat, a series of platforms creating a stepped pyramid.

* The Adivino ( a. k. a. the Pyramid of the Magician or the Pyramid of the Dwarf ), is a stepped pyramid structure, unusual among Maya structures in that its layers ' outlines are oval or elliptical in shape, instead of the more common rectilinear plan.

The current conical shape of the pyramid was once thought to represent nearby volcanoes or mountains, but recent work by Rebecca Gonzalez-Lauck has shown that the pyramid was in fact a rectangular pyramid with stepped sides and inset corners, and the current shape is most likely due to 2500 years of erosion.

The top of the pyramid contains two platforms, both of which are decorated with stepped frets.

This consists of a single planet with a green sky, shaped in the form of a huge stepped pyramid on five stages, with each stage being a disk or squat cylinder.

In any case, while the overall shape of the planet is a conical stepped pyramid, it is clearly much broader ( several thousand kilometers ) than it is tall ( around 100 km ).

Armies using the tercio generally intended to field them in brigades of at least three, with one tercio in the front and two behind, the rearward formations echeloned off on either side so that all three resembled a stepped pyramid, hence the name tercio, which means " one third " ( that is, one third of the whole brigade or battle group ).

Beneath the massive pyramid ( north eastern corner ) in the central plaza of Zempoala, are three puzzling stone rings, each made from rounded beach cobbles jointed together to make small, stepped pillars.

The building is in the form of a stepped pyramid surmounted by a cross.

Huni is sometimes credited with building a great stepped pyramid at Meidum which was to be larger than that of Djoser.

Thus it seems more likely that it was Sneferu who had the pyramid built and, later on during his reign, transformed it from the stepped pyramid into a true pyramid by having its sides smoothed.

For example, in Goguryeo two different types of mortuary architecture evolved during this period: one type of burial is a stepped pyramid made of stone, while another is a large earth mound form.

A step pyramid or stepped pyramid is an architectural structure that uses flat platforms, or steps, receding from the ground up, to achieve a completed shape similar to a geometric pyramid.

The stepped pyramid at the building's top is a noted part of the downtown skyline, and became the logo for Bankers Trust, which sold the building in 1937.

Many early skyscrapers took the Venetian bell-tower as a logical model for a modern office tower, but 14 Wall Street was the first to top it off with a temple in the sky, a seven-story stepped pyramid modeled on one of the seven wonders of the ancient world.

Each of the square end pavilions is capped with a low saucer dome, expressed on the exterior as a low stepped pyramid.

Visibly, all that remains is the underlying stepped core structure seen today.

" The Etemenanki is depicted in shallow relief, showing its high first stages with paired flights of steps, five further stepped stages and the temple that surmounted the structure.

Examining the ASI's conclusion of a mandir ( Hindu temple ) under the structure, the VHP and the RSS stepped up demands for Muslims to restore the three holiest North Indian mandirs to Hindus.

Related to the classic blues in tonal structure, honky-tonk has a tempo that is slightly stepped up.

The palace, a Dutch renaissance structure four storeys tall with a stepped gable and called Braheska huset (" The Brahe house ") until its demolition, is often appearing next to the Fleming House in engravings and paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries.

The stringer is the structural member that carries the load of the staircase, the tread is the horizontal part that is stepped on, and the riser board is the vertical part which runs the width of the structure.

It has stepped terraces and flights of stairs which ascend to a number of courtyards and brick gateways that in turn lead up to the main spire or Meru structure, which is called Pura Penataran Agung.

By February 2007, the second phase of the dig, which took place on a plot adjacent to the first phase, had revealed that the building was larger than Dr. Mazar had previously thought, included walls that are up to 7 meters thick, and showed that parts of the building relate to the famous " stepped stone structure " discovered and excavated in the 1920s-1980s.

Her conclusion that the stepped stone structure and the large stone structure are parts of a single, massive royal palace makes sense of the biblical reference to the Millo as the House of Millo in II Kings 12: 21 and II Chronicles 24: 25, describing it as the place where King Joash was assassinated in 799 BCE while he slept in his bed.

The stepped stone support structure is built of fills.

Tikal Temple I is a classically Petén-styled stepped pyramid structure which served as this ruler's tomb, although it is presently unclear whether it was built for this specific purpose.

Her conclusion that the stepped stone structure and the large stone structure are parts of a single, massive royal palace makes sense of the biblical reference to the millo as the House of Millo in II Kings 12: 21 and II Chronicles 24: 25 as the place where King Joash was assassinated in 799 BCE while he slept in his bed.

The stepped stone support structure is built of fills.

There are several circular stepped pyramids called Guachimontones in Teuchitlán, Jalisco as well.

They constructed stepped wells called Pushkarni or Kalyani, the ornate tank at Hulikere being an example.

Other features were the stepped style of vimana tower called the Kadamba shikhara, which was inherited from the Kadambas.

In Ireland, the first fish and chips were sold by an Italian immigrant, Giuseppe Cervi, who mistakenly stepped off an America-bound ship at Cobh ( then called Queenstown ) in County Cork and walked all the way to Dublin.

Chapter 1 contains a concise description of how dinners are cooked in the future, including reference to a " quickthaw ", which would now be called a microwave oven (" I grabbed two Syntho-Steaks out of the freezer and slapped them in quickthaw, added a big Idaho baked potato for Dad ... then stepped up the gain on the quickthaw so that the spuds would be ready when the steaks were.

In February 2006, a long-time high-ranking member and occult author, T. Allen Greenfield, called for the resignation of upper management and stepped down from all managerial duties in protest.

Douglas-Home, by then aged seventy, stepped down at the second election of that year, called in October by the minority Labour government in the hope of winning a working majority.

But then one of them stepped forward and said that he would take on the task — and he became the leader of the Youngest, as these angels came to be called.

Gorman called this Maroon team, " the greatest team that ever stepped on the ice.

During the Korean War, patrol plane activity was stepped up again with several Naval Air Reserve units being called up and redesignated as active duty squadrons.

Dwarfs, like fauns, satyrs, the river god and his Naiad daughters and the tree people ( deities of the woods ) stepped forth when Aslan ( in The Magician's Nephew ) called for Narnia to " Awake.

She stepped down from the House of Commons when the 2005 General Election was called.

The jacket's lapels can be notched ( also called " stepped "), peaked (" pointed "), shawl, or " trick " ( Mandarin and other unconventional styles ).

In August 2011, he stepped down from the chairmanship of Chorion and sold half his stake in ASOS. com in order to start a new company called Silvergate Media.

Also called the Stepped Bath, or the Queen's bath, this is a stepped well designed for bathing.

Snows carried square sails on both masts, but had a small trysail mast, sometimes called a snowmast, stepped immediately abaft the mainmast.

343 industries, the company that now holds control of the Halo universe after Bungie stepped down, has confirmed the presence of the Covenant in the new upcoming game Halo 4 ( 2012 ), in the form of a splinter group called " Storm ".

In cases where COBRA does not apply, some states have stepped in with state health insurance continuation laws, usually called " mini-COBRA " laws, which help employees continue their health insurance when federal COBRA does not apply.

On 25 March, Morales ' second-in-command General José Juan Landero y Coss stepped in to save his commander the disgrace of surrender and called for a truce with the invaders.

Ur Nammu was also responsible for ordering the construction of a number of stepped temples, called ziggurats, including the Great Ziggurat of Ur.

Cooney remained the chairman and chief executive officer of the CTW until 1990, when she stepped down and was replaced by David Britt, who Cooney called her " right-hand for many years ".

He was called up again to the national team after Constantini stepped down as coach on 13 September 2011.