Saturday, September 30, 2006

Saturday Trivia

Review: Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy
http://rr.cube.ign.com/rrview/cube/sphinx_and_the_cursed_mummy/499526/50040/
"The biggest annoyance in the game was the bugs. I was 8 hours into the game and I was playing one of the Mummy's stages, and I was suppose to walk past a Watching Eye and enter the door behind it. What confused me was there was 2 doors to walk through! There was one with one Watching Eye, and another with four Watching Eyes. I couldn't get past the one watching Eye since it had cages near it and I wasn't fast enough with the Invisible stone."

Radox history of Beauty
http://www.responsesource.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=27347&hilite=
Summary of a Radox-sponsored history of beauty: "Ruins from the Egyptian city of Tel-el-Amarna reveal an early form of shower, a series of aquaducts, to provide the rich with water for showering – although they would need a team of servants to pour the water over them."

Great pyramids were water works
http://english.pravda.ru/science/mysteries/28-09-2006/84729-pyramid-0
Don't shoot the messenger:
"The great pyramids at Giza were used as waterworks for pumping water from the Nile to the vast fields, while the Cheops (Khufu) pyramid was the largest waterworks of ancient Egypt. In short, that is the essence of a theory put forth by Mikhail Volgin, an engineer from Kiev, Ukraine. Volgin believes he has unraveled the mystery of the pyramids that dates back to 26th century B.C. Well, the Kiev engineer is not the first one to generate similar theories…
Scientists and researchers produced lots of theories in an attempt to learn the purpose of the pyramids. Some theories claimed the pyramids were used as a tomb for the rulers of ancient Egypt. Others maintained the gigantic structures were used as observatories or equipment for marking water levels during the flooding of the Nile. According to a number of other theories, the pyramids were built for landing alien spaceships, storing grain, and damping vibrations in the earth’s crust during earthquakes. Using the pyramids as waterworks is a novelty of sorts."
See the above page for the full story, complete with Volgin's arguments in favour of his suggestions.

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