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The view from the height of the Ziggurat is amazing.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Thablue’s Review Forum 2009
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Writer Zecharia Sitchin tells us that the Sumerians also called their Ziggurat temple in Nippur – (a truncated, stepped-pyramid) – Ekur, a “house which is like a mountain” – but quotes a poem which exalts the goddess Ninkharsag as the mistress of the “House with a Pointed Peak” – a perfect pyramid.
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Behold a giant city-in-a-pyramid called Ziggurat, which will have a literal footprint of 2.3 square kilometers, house one million inhabitants, and supposedly be carbon-neutral.
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The Holifield building, also known as the Ziggurat because of its stepped-pyramid architectural style, was built in the early 1970s for what was then Rockwell International.
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The development, named the 'Ziggurat', will be self sufficient and carbon neutral with power being supplied by wind turbines.
The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public 2008
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The development, named the 'Ziggurat', will be self sufficient and carbon neutral with power being supplied by wind turbines.
The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public 2008
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The development, named the 'Ziggurat', will be self sufficient and carbon neutral with power being supplied by wind turbines.
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Behold a giant city-in-a-pyramid called Ziggurat, which will have a literal footprint of 2.3 square kilometers, house reports in Inhabitat that its designers claim "Ziggurat will be capable of running completely off the grid by utilizing steam, wind, and other natural resources.
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That this is no idle fancy is proved by the very name of "Ziggurat," which means "_mountain peak_," and also by the names of some of these temples: one of the oldest and most famous indeed, in the city of Asshur, was named "the
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I have been kneeling on the stone steps at the foot of the Ziggurat for a very long time, while above me the High Priestess, the voice of the Goddess – who is also my mother – recites the words that will formally dedicate me into the sevice of the Great Goddess Innana.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Thablue’s Review Forum 2009
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