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A pyrami (from Greek πυραμίδoς - pyramidos, genitive of πυραμίς - pyramis) is any three-dimensional polyhedron where the faces other than the base are triangular and converge on one point, called the apex. The base of a pyramid can be any polygon but is typically a square, leading to four non-base faces.

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  • You'll find the largest one in Mexico, not Egypt; its base covers nearly 45 acres
  • The largest lake entirely within Nevada, or the shape of the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas
  • Around 2600 B.C. Pharaoh Djoser was entombed in a step one, the first large stone structure
  • It's the technical name for a tetrahedron with triangular sides
  • The largest one of these Egyptian structures contains about 2.3 million blocks
  • It's the common graphic the USDA used as a visual guide for healthy eating
  • Over 2 million blocks went into building Khufu's Great one of these, & we're not talking Lego!
  • The step one of these monuments at Saqqara was first conceived as a rectangular mastaba
  • The base of this geometric solid is inscribed MDCCLXXVI
  • One example of this solid has 4 triangular faces & a square base
  • In 1995 the Aquanuts show skiing team debuted their 4-high, 28-person one of these structures
  • Menkaure, who died around 2465 B.C., has one of these as his tomb
  • Not a fraud scheme, the risk type of this puts more of your assets into the low-risk than the high-risk area
  • In 1978 Billy Crystal cleared all 6 categories in a record 26 sec. on the $20,000 version of this Dick Clark show
  • At 451 feet tall, the one named for Khufu at Giza in Egypt is the tallest one of these structures in the world
  • Egyptian ruler Snefru had to have a second one of these built after architects messed up the first
  • Visitors now enter the museum through a new structure shaped like one of these
  • Geometrically, this "great" polyhedron has a polygonal base & sides which come to a common vertex
  • Psychologist Abraham Maslow's "Hierarchy of Needs" is often portrayed in the shape of this Egyptian structure
  • This feature of the Louvre is made of nearly 800 diamond- & triangle-shaped glass panes

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