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The largest platform mounds were built on the northern edge of the plaza; they become increasingly smaller going either clockwise or counter clockwise around the plaza to the south. Scholars theorize that the highest-ranking clans occupied the large northern mounds , with the smaller mounds' supporting buildings used for residences, mortuary ...
In its SVG file, hover over a pyramid to highlight and click for its article. This is a list of lists of pyramids. Lepsius list of pyramids; List of Egyptian pyramids; List of Mesoamerican pyramids; List of pyramid mausoleums in North America; List of pyramids in Ireland; List of Pyramids of Meroe; List of tallest pyramids
Built from 1881 to 1882, this is the oldest remaining blast furnace in the state. Its NHL designation represents Alabama's early 20th-century preeminence in the production of pig iron and cast iron, an example of a post-Civil War effort to industrialize the agrarian South. [44] 35 † Swayne Hall, Talladega College: Swayne Hall, Talladega College
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They built a pyramid 6 metres (20 ft) high by 9 metres (30 ft) wide, consisting of a total of 162 cubic metres (5,700 cu ft), or about 405 tons. It was made out of 186 stones weighing an average of 2.2 tons each. Twelve quarrymen carved 186 stones in 22 days, and the structure was erected using 44 men.
The change of the angle have been made as a stability precaution in reaction to a catastrophic collapse of the Meidum pyramid while it was still under construction. 29°47′25″N 31°12′33″E / 29.79028°N 31.20917°E / 29.79028; 31
More than 30 pyramids in Egypt, including in Giza, may have been built along a branch of the Nile that has long since disappeared, a new study suggests. New research could solve the mystery behind ...
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, first church of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when he began his work as a national civil rights activist, in 1955 with the Montgomery bus boycott in Montgomery Gaineswood in Demopolis Clark Hall in the Gorgas–Manly Historic District on the University of Alabama campus Tannehill Ironworks in Tuscaloosa ...