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The earliest obelisk ships were built in Ancient Egypt to transport obelisks via the Nile from the quarries to their destination. During the reign of Thutmose I, Ineni was granted superintendence of the king's building projects, which included the erection of two obelisks. A surviving text fragment documents that the obelisk ship had a length ...
The Project 23900 Ivan Rogov is the newest class of Russian amphibious assault ships intended as a replacement for the French Mistral class, two of which were ordered by Russia in 2011, but that France refused to deliver in September 2014 due to the Russo-Ukrainian War. [5]
Transporting was done by land or water (or a combination of both), in the later case often by special-built ships such as obelisk carriers. [1] For lifting operations, ancient cranes were employed since ca. 515 BC, [2] such as in the construction of Trajan's Column. [3]
Vovin (in Enochian VOVIN, VOVINA means dragon) is the seventh studio album by Swedish symphonic metal band Therion. It is their bestselling album, selling over 150,000 copies in Europe alone. [ 2 ] Even though it was released under the name Therion, Christofer Johnsson regards this as his solo album, as it was recorded entirely with studio ...
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Project 23000 or Shtorm (Russian: Шторм, lit. 'Storm') is a proposal for an aircraft carrier designed by the Krylov State Research Center for the Russian Navy. [1] The cost of the export version (Project 23000E) has been put at over US$5.5 billion, [4] and as of 2017 development had been expected to take ten years. [4]
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There are eight ancient Egyptian and five ancient Roman obelisks in Rome, together with a number of more modern obelisks; there was also until 2005 an ancient Ethiopian obelisk in Rome. The Romans used special heavy cargo carriers called obelisk ships to transport the monuments down the Nile [ clarification needed ] to Alexandria and from there ...