These 10 facts about space will blow your mind. A steeplejack is a skilled construction worker who performs installations, maintenance, and repairs on tall buildings and structures. He or she might work on church steeples, bell towers, skyscrapers, and other structures that require expert scaling procedures.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The Bent Pyramid is an ancient Egyptian pyramid located at the royal necropolis of Dahshur, approximately 40 kilometres south of Cairo, built under the Old Kingdom Pharaoh Sneferu (c. 2600 BC).A unique example of early pyramid development in Egypt, this was the second pyramid built by Sneferu.he ancient formal name of the Bent Pyramid is generally translated as (The)-Southern-Shining-Pyramid, or Sneferu-(is)-Shining-in-the-South. Comparison of approximate profiles of Bent Pyramid with some notable pyramidal or near-pyramidal buildings.
Egypt had planned to usher in the New Year by affixing a gold-encased capstone on the Great Pyramid, built as a tomb for King Cheops about 4,500 years ago. The 30-foot high cap was to be lowered by helicopter at the stroke of midnight Dec. 31, making the broken pyramid whole again, if only for a night.AIRO, Egypt (AP) - In an apparent nod to public opinion, the government on Thursday, December 16, 1999 canceled its plan to cap the Great Pyramid in gold for the millennium celebrations.