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"The Chris Neessen House is a historic building located in Wellsburg, Iowa, United States. Christopher Neessen (1864–1944) immigrated from Germany in 1880 and became a farmer, land owner, and local banker. He hired Waterloo, Iowa architect Howard Bowman Burr to design this Prairie School house that was completed in 1916. The garage was built to the northeast of the house the following year. They were constructed by local builder Mylon Alexander Rohrbacher. The two-story brick house follows an irregular plan and measures . with It is located on an elevated corner lot. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. References Category:Houses completed in 1916 Category:Buildings and structures in Grundy County, Iowa Category:Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Iowa Category:Prairie School architecture in Iowa Category:National Register of Historic Places in Grundy County, Iowa "
"The Edfu South Pyramid is part of a group of seven very similar small step pyramids which were all built far from the main centres of Egypt and about which very little is known, along with the pyramids of Elephantine, , Naqada, , and . It is located about five kilometres south of Edfu near Naga el- Ghoneimeya. It was first identified as a pyramid in 1979, when the German archaeologists Günter Dreyer and were leading a survey of Edfu after a tip off from the inspector. Further investigation and surveys of the surrounding area have been undertaken since 2010 by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Description According to the findings of Dreyer and Kaiser, the pyramid was 35–6 cubits long on each side (about 18.30-18.80 metres). It is now about 4.9 metres high. It consisted of a core structure measuring 8.3 metres on each side, surrounded by two courses of stone about four cubits thick. Dreyer and Kaiser suggested that the pyramid had had three steps. The angle of the slope cannot be accurately determined, but it was probably between 10° and 14°. The pyramid is almost oriented to the north, but is slightly off true north (like the other pyramids named above) as it is primarily oriented in order to be parallel to the Nile. The pyramid is built from local grey-blue and red sandstone. The individual blocks are only roughly hewn – on average they are 30 cm thick, but the largest examples measure 60–80 cm. A mixture of clay and sand was used as mortar. Construction and function The builder and purpose of the pyramid and unknown. Dreyer and Kaiser thought that it and the other pyramids named above were part of a single building project of Pharaoh Huni, the last ruler of the Third Dynasty. Andrzej Ćwiek mostly agrees, but suggests that Huni's successor, Sneferu (c.2670–2630 BC) the founder of the Fourth Dynasty, was the builder. Speculation about the function of the pyramids ranges from a representation of the king, a depiction of the benben, or a symbol of the political and religious unity of the land to a cenotaph for a royal wife. See also * List of Egyptian pyramids Bibliography * Jan Bock: Die kleinen Stufenpyramiden des frühen Alten Reiches. In: Sokar. Nr. 12 (1/2006), S. 20–29. * Andrzej Ćwiek: Date and Function of the so-called Minor Step Pyramids. In: Göttinger Miszellen. Bd. 162, 1998, S. 39–52. * Günter Dreyer und Werner Kaiser: Zu den kleinen Stufenpyramiden Ober- und Mittelägyptens. In: Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo. Band 36, 1980, S. 45. * Mark Lehner: Das Geheimnis der Pyramiden in Ägypten. Orbis, München 1999, , S. 96. * Gregory Marouard, Hratch Papazian: The Edfu Pyramid Project. Recent Investigation at the Last Provincial Step Pyramid. In: The Oriental Institute News & Notes. No. 213, 2012, S. 3–9 (PDF; 2,3 MB). * Ali Radwan: Die Stufenpyramiden. In: Zahi Hawass (Hrsg.): Die Schätze der Pyramiden. Weltbild, Augsburg 2004, , S. 111. * Miroslav Verner: Die Pyramiden. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1998, , S. 199. Category:Pyramids of the Third Dynasty of Egypt Category:Buildings and structures completed in the 27th century BC Category:Buildings and structures in Aswan Governorate Category:Ancient Egyptian step pyramids "
"Thomas Freeman (13 June 1894 - 19 June 1965) was an Australian cricketer. He played one first-class match for Tasmania in 1913/14. See also * List of Tasmanian representative cricketers ReferencesExternal links * Category:1894 births Category:1965 deaths Category:Australian cricketers Category:Tasmania cricketers Category:Cricketers from Tasmania Category:People from Hobart "