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9- A genius system of tunnels going up to the center of the pyramid and underground was built-in. Tourists can enter the pyramids and see some of these tunnels leading to "burial chambers". Along the tunnels have a look at the Great Hall; an engineering masterpiece.
10- The first vandal came to the pyramid in the ninth century AD, in the shape of Caliph al-Ma'moun who ordered his men to dig a tunnel in the side of the pyramid about 55 feet above the ground level. He believed the pyramid contains a treasure and secrets of the world. They found the tunnels but no treasure.
- The three pyramids of Giza have been arranged so as to form a Pythagorean triangle, whose sides have the proportions 3:4:5.
- The proportion between the height of the pyramid and its circumference is equal to that between the radius of a circle and its circumference.
- The Great Pyramid is a giant sundial. The shadows it casts between mid-October and the beginning of March reflect the seasons and the length of the year. The length of the stone slabs around the pyramid is equivalent to the length of one day's shadow.
- The normal length of the square base of the pyramid is equal to 365.342 Egyptian yards (a unit of measurement of the time).
This is very close to the number of days in a solar year (which has been calculated at 365.224 days).
This is very close to the number of days in a solar year (which has been calculated at 365.224 days).
- The distance between the Great Pyramid and the center of the Earth is equivalent to that between the pyramid and the North Pole.
- In the pyramid, the perimeter of the base divided by twice its height is the number Pi.
The total surface area of the pyramid's four sides is equal to the square of its height.
The total surface area of the pyramid's four sides is equal to the square of its height.
1 Thomas Jefferson had a deaf slave family at Monticello. Their expertise in making the finest Virginian wine from its vineyard.
2 Theodore Roosevelt had a deaf guide on his exploration of the west discovered an area what is known as Yellowstone National Park.
3 George W. Bush often jogged with Gallaudet University president, I. King Jordan, on the Gallaudet track.
4 Abraham Lincoln learned fingerspelling from Edward Miner Gallaudet at the White House before attending Ford theater that evening.
5 Dwight D. Eisenhower often uses a deaf war department civilians to send secret codes in sign language to his field officers before the D-day to avoid interception by the Nazis.
6 George Washington temporary uses a yorktown deaf family’s home as his headquarters in October 1781, site of the last battle of the Revolutionary war.
7 Andrew ‘Old Hickory’ Jackson once killed a deaf man in a duel over his girlfriend before the war of 1812 in New Orleans.
8 Ronald ‘The Great Communicator’ Reagan once had a character role of Alexander Graham Bell in a film which was never released.
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