Inverted pyramid - Inverted pyramid The inverted pyramid is a graphical metaphor that is most often used to illustrate how information should be arranged or presented within a text, in particular within a news story. Despite the name, almost always the figure is drawn simply as an equilateral triangle with an apex pointing downward, rather than as a three-dimensional pyramid in perspective. The triangle's broad base at the top of the figure represents the most substantial, interesting and important information the writer means to convey. The triangle's orientation is meant to illustrate that this kind of material should head the article. The tapered lower portion illustrates that other material should follow in order of diminishing importance. This format will allow the less important information to be more easily cut out.
Information pyramid - Information pyramid The Information pyramid is used to describe the relationship among different information-oriented terms. From top to bottom, it is usually referred to as: Wisdom Knowledge Information Data.
Great Pyramid of Giza - Great Pyramid of Giza The Great Pyramid of Giza, one of the Seven Wonders of the World and the most famous pyramid in the world, served as a tomb for the 4th dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu (also known under his Greek name Cheops). The estimated date of its completion is 2570 BC and it is the earliest and largest of the three great pyramids in the Giza necropolis on the outskirts of modern Cairo, Egypt. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Description 2 Construction 3 Paranormal interest and encoded numbers 4 See also 5 External Links Description Great Pyramid of Giza 19th century stereopticon card photo'' South-west of Khufu's Great Pyramid lies the pyramid of Khafre, one of Khufu's successors who also built the Sphinx, and further south-west.
Food pyramid - Food pyramid The food pyramid is a nutrition guide created by the USDA. Released in 1992 it suggests how much of each food category one should eat each day. The food pyramid replaces the four food groups. In general terms the food pyramid recommends the following intake of different food groups each day, although exact amounts of calorie intake depends on sex, age, and lifestyle: 6-11 servings of grain foods including rice, bread, cereals, and pasta. 3-5 servings of vegetables, especially green, leafy vegetables. 2-3 servings of fruits 2-3 servings of meat, fish, eggs, nuts, or beans 2-3 servings of dairy products including cheese and yogurt. The food pyramid also suggests the use of fats and oils sparingly. The food pyramid has been critized by many who.
Football pyramid - Football pyramid The football pyramid (formally but rather infrequently known as the National League System) groups virtually all of England's Association football teams that are under the jurisdiction of The Football Association into a layered hierarchy. The top five layers of the system are not "pyramidal", in that they consist of only one league or league division each. The FA Premier league is the highest, followed by the three remaining divisions of The Football League and then the Nationwide Conference. The sixth to tenth layers are pyramidal: the further down you go, the more leagues at that level you find, covering smaller and smaller geographic areas of England. Below the tenth layer, the existence of leagues at that level becomes intermittent, though in some areas there are.
Carstensz Pyramid - Carstensz Pyramid Carstensz Pyramid is the traditional name among mountaineers of Puncak Jaya, at 4,884 m (16,024 ft) the highest mountain in Oceania. (Carstensz was the family name of the Dutch explorer who first reported it to Europeans; "Puncak" means "peak", and "Jaya" means "victory".) It is located in what is variously called the Sudirman Range or the Dugunduguoo, in Irian Jaya, the Indonesian-controlled western half of the island of Papua or New Guinea. Carstensz is a peak on the more demanding of the two principal Seven Summits peak-bagging lists. It is held to have the highest technical rating (but not the greatest physical demands) of that list's ascents. The first foreigners to summit Carstensz were Heinrich Harrer and three companions, in 1962. This article is a.
Transamerica Pyramid - Transamerica Pyramid The Transamerica Pyramid is the tallest and most recognizable skyscraper in the San Francisco skyline. It has a structural height of 260 meters (853 feet) and contains 48 stories of retail and office space. Construction was begun in 1969 and finished in 1972. The building itself is a tall, four-sided pyramid with two "wings" on opposite sides of the building. The wing to the east of the building contains an elevator shaft, while the wing to the west contains a stairwell and a smoke tower. The top 64.6 meters (212 feet) of the building is the spire. There are four cameras pointed in the four cardinal directions at the top of this spire. Four monitors in the lobby broadcast the cameras' views 24 hours a.
Veneration of the dead - Sometimes they witnessed miracles in connection with the bodies of dead Christians, such as healing, or observing sweet-smelling myrrh exuding from their bones. This, combined with their belief in the Resurrection of Jesus Christ and future resurrection of all Christians, eventually led to the veneration of saints and of their relics. Early accounts of martyrs include Christian witnesses making great efforts to obtain the remains of the martyrs, and of the Romans sometimes trying to prevent this. Also, it became common to continue to ask Christian leaders to pray for them, even after the leaders had died, as they believed that these Christians were still able to pray and that their prayers would still be effective. Catholicism's attitudes toward, practices in connection with, and festivals of the dead See All Saints.
Karl Wallenda - was born in Magdeburg, Germany. The Great Wallendas were noted throughout Europe for their four-man pyramid and cycling on the high wire. The act moved to the U.S. in 1928 and began an association with the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Combined Circus. Later they performed as free-lancers. In 1947 they developed the unequaled three-tier seven-man pyramid. Tragedy was not unknown to the troupe. On January 30, 1962, in Detroit, Wallenda's son-in-law Richard Faughnan and nephew Dieter Schepp were killed and an adopted son Mario was paralyzed from the waist down when the pyramid collapsed. Wallenda's sister-in-law Rietta fell to her death in 1963, and his son-in-law Richard ("Chico") Guzman was killed in 1972 after touching a live wire in the rigging. Karl himself, who at age 73 attempted a.
Kabaah - Kabaah was abandoned or at least no new ceremonial architecture built for several centuries before the Spanish conquest of Yucatán. The most famous structure at Kabaah is the "Palace of the Masks", the fascade decorated with hundreds of stone masks of the long-nosed rain god Chac; it is also known as the Codz Poop, meaning "Rolled Matting", from the pattern of the stone mosaics. This massive repetition of a single set of elements is unusual in Maya art, and here is used to unique effect. Masks of the rain god abound on other strutures throughout the site. Copal incense has been discovered in some of the stone noses of the raingods. The site also has a number of other palaces, low stone buildings, and step-pyramid temples. While most is in the.
Khufu - as a cruel and ruthless Pharaoh. Khufu had several sons and his immediate successor was his son Djedefre. He is most famous for the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza, the only remaining of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Little else remains in his memory, and only one miniature statuette of him has been discovered. His mummy was never discovered..
Kidney - facing inwards (medially). On this medial aspect of each kidney is an opening, called the hilus, which admits the renal artery, the renal vein, nerves, and the ureter. A kidney is divided into a renal cortex, medulla and pelvis. The basic functional unit of the kidney is the nephron, of which there are more than a million in each normal adult kidney. Nephrons regulate water and soluble substances (especially ions) in the body by filtering it all out first, reabsorbing what should be kept and excreting the rest. They use countercurrent exchange mechanisms. A nephron consists of a Bowman's capsule, a proximal convoluted tubule, a loop of Henle and a distal convoluted tubule which empties the urine into a collecting duct. Terms renal capsule: The membranous covering of the kidney. cortex:.
Knowledge - crawl by oscillating the legs at the hip, and moving the arms in an approximately circular motion". Here, Fred has propositional knowledge of swimming and how to perform the front crawl. However, if Fred acquired this propositional knowledge from an encyclopedia, he will not have acquired the skill of swimming: he has some propositional knowledge, but does not have any know-how. In general, one can demonstrate know-how by performing the task in question, but it is harder to demonstrate propositional knowledge. See also: belief, truth, epistemology, information Quote "The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant." - Plato See also Research Business intelligence Storage Esoteric knowledge Intuition Encyclopedia Galactica OpenFacts Philosophical skepticism Feedback World view Analytic proposition Market.
Kuala Lumpur - is extremely cheap and is of excellent quality; 5 star hotels have rooms going for US$40-100. Food is extremely cheap if one frequents the local outlets (hawker stalls, roadside places and the like) and is extremely delicious. There are upmarket restaurants all over central Kuala Lumpur and in the more affluent suburbs, offering fare ranging from cutting edge avant-garde fusion, to representatives of just about any culture imaginable. Japanese food has gained immense popularity. Alcohol, however, is very expensive in Kuala Lumpur, due to Malaysia being a Muslim country (Islam prohibits the consumption of alcohol. Due to the fact that Malaysia is multicultural, though, people not professing the Islamic faith are free to consume alcohol) and the bars are not a big part of the social scene, although they are extremely.
January 30 - throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul. 1933 - Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg. 1933 - The first of 2,956 episodes of The Lone Ranger airs on the radio for the first time. 1944 - United States troops invade Majuro, Marshall Islands. 1948 - Indian pacifist and leader Mahatma Gandhi is murdered by a Hindu extremist. 1948 - 1948 Winter Olympics open in St. Moritz, Switzerland. 1962 - Two of the high-wire "Flying Wallendas" are killed when their famous seven-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit, Michigan. 1964 - Ranger 6 is launched by NASA. Its mission is it to carry television cameras and to crash-land on the moon. 1968 - Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive begin when Viet Cong forces launch series of.
James Wilson - broke off his first course of lectures in April 1791 to attend to his duties as Supreme Court justice on circuit. He appears to have begun a second-year course in late 1791 or in early 1792 (by which time the College of Philadelphia had been merged into the University of Pennsylvania), but at some unrecorded point the lectures stopped again and were never resumed. They were not published (except for the first) until after his death, in an edition produced by his son, Bird Wilson, in 1804. A man whose reach consistently exceeded his grasp, Wilson established a pattern of designing grand projects which he was unable to finish. His proposals to compile digests of all laws of both Pennsylvania and the entire United States came to nothing. On the one.
James Lick - in San Francisco, and also began buying farmland in and around San Jose, where he planted orchards and built the largest flour mill in the state to feed the growing population in San Francisco. In 1861, Lick began construction of a hotel, which became known as Lick House, at the intersection of Mongomery and Sutter Streets in San Francisco. The hotel had a dining room that could seat 400, based on a similar room at the palace of Versailles. Lick House was considered the finest hotel west of the Mississippi River. The hotel was destroyed in the fire following the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Following the construction, Lick returned to his San Jose orchards. In 1874, Lick suffered a massive stroke in the kitchen of his home in Santa Clara..
Johannes Kepler - inside spheres. He thereby identified the five platonic solids with the five intervals between the six known planets - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and the five classical elements. In 1596 Kepler published The Cosmic Mystery . Here is a selection explaining the relation between the planets and the platonic solids: ... Before the universe was created, there were no numbers except the Trinity, which is God himself ... For, the line and the plane imply no numbers: here infinitude itself reigns. Let us consider, therefore, the solids. We must first eliminate the irregular solids, because we are only concerned with orderly creation. There remains six bodies, the sphere and the five regular polyhedra. To the sphere corresponds the heaven. On the other hand, the dynamic world is represented by.
Johnson solid - requirement that each face must be the same polygon. An example of a Johnson solid that is neither a platonic solid nor an archimedean solid is a square based pyramid; it has one square face and four triangular faces. There are some requirements, nonetheless. To have vertices, there must be at least three of the faces meeting at a point, and the total of their angles must be less than 360 degrees; i.e the corners of the face must be less than 120 degrees. Regular polygons must have all sides of equal length, and all angles of equal degrees, so parallelograms or trapezoids may not be used. Just as there are an infinite number of natural numbers, there are an infinite number of regular polygons. Every one of them may be.
John Cain Jr. - of money to buy existing businesses and to promote rash business projects. The state owned "State Bank of Victoria" and the "Victorian Economic Development Corporation" or VEDC were both involved in this dubious activity. The activities of the VEDC became a major political liability to the Labor Party and the State Bank of Victoria was only saved from collapse by being bought out by the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. The collapse of the Pyramid Building Society was also distastrous, especially for its home city, Geelong and this contributed to the government's woes despite its lack of association with the private firm. John Cain and Robert Jolly (the Treasurer) were perceived to be responsible for much of the economic disaster and the leadership of the Labor Party and the Premiership was passed.
