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  2. Human pyramid - Wikipedia

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    Govindas forming a human pyramid to reach the Dahi Handi in Hiranandani Gardens, Mumbai. Human pyramid by the Otago Dancers, at an Otago Highlanders game, May 2012.. A human pyramid is an acrobatic formation of three or more people in which two or more people support a tier of higher people, who in turn may support other, higher tiers of people.

  3. Vitruvian Man - Wikipedia

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    In the human body, the central point is the navel. If a man is placed flat on his back, with his hands and feet extended, and a compass centered at his navel, his fingers and toes will touch the circumference of a circle thereby described. And just as the human body yields a circular outline, so too a square may be found from it.

  4. Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia

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    Maslow's hierarchy of needs is often portrayed in the shape of a pyramid, with the largest, most fundamental needs at the bottom, and the need for self-actualization and transcendence at the top. However, Maslow himself never created a pyramid to represent the hierarchy of needs. [20] [3] [21] Maslow's hierarchy of needs represented as a ...

  5. DIKW pyramid - Wikipedia

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    DIKW is a hierarchical model often depicted as a pyramid, sometimes as a chain, with data at its base and wisdom at its apex (or chain-beginning and -end). [1] [14] [4] [15] Both Zeleny and Ackoff have been credited with originating the pyramid representation, [14] although neither used a pyramid to present their ideas.

  6. Master race - Wikipedia

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    The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer was one of the earliest proponents of a theory presenting a hierarchical racial model of history, attributing civilisational primacy to the "white races" who gained their sensitivity and intelligence by refinement in the rigorous north.

  7. Great chain of being - Wikipedia

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    The human pedigree recapitulating its phylogeny back to amoeba shown as a reinterpreted chain of being with living and fossil animals. From a critique of Ernst Haeckel 's theories, 1873. The set nature of species, and thus the absoluteness of creatures' places in the great chain, came into question during the 18th century.

  8. Giza pyramid’s nearly perfect alignment may have involved a ...

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    Scholars have spent decades delving into what techniques the builders used to position the pyramid’s so they face almost absolute north, south, east & west.

  9. Dahi Handi - Wikipedia

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    Participation carries a high risk of mortality. The number of injuries increased due to higher competition since 2000. A report in 2012 from the Journal of Postgraduate Medicine, concluded that "There is a considerable risk of serious, life-threatening injuries inherent to human pyramid formation and descent in the Dahihandi festival". [15]