How To Breeze Through The Security Checkpoint At Airports

Written by Jamie Madison


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Air travel is such a common method of transportation today, we sometimes forgetrepparttar 135427 practical tips to help us enjoy a flight. The following tips will help you reduce your wait time atrepparttar 135428 security checkpoint.

What to do before you arrive atrepparttar 135429 airport.

1. Do not pack or bring prohibited Items torepparttar 135430 airport. Prohibited items are weapons, explosives, incendiaries, and include items that are seemingly harmless but may be used as weapons -repparttar 135431 so-called "dual use" items. You may not bring these items to security checkpoints without authorization.

2. Place valuables such as jewelry, cash and laptop computers in carry-on baggage only. Tape your business card torepparttar 135432 bottom of your laptop.

3. Avoid wearing clothing, jewelry and accessories that contain metal. Metal items may set offrepparttar 135433 alarm onrepparttar 135434 metal detector.

4. Avoid wearing shoes that contain metal or have thick soles or heels. Many types of footwear will require additional screening even ifrepparttar 135435 metal detector does not alarm.

5. Put all undeveloped film and cameras with film in your carry-on baggage. Checked baggage screening equipment will damage undeveloped film.

6. Declare firearms & ammunition to your airline and place them in your checked baggage.

7. If you wish to lock your baggage, use a TSA-recognized lock.

The Pyramids of Giza

Written by Steven N. Ng


The most famous Egyptian pyramids to be built arerepparttar Great Pyramids of Giza, located inrepparttar 135417 outskirts of present-day Cairo. There are over 100 Egyptian pyramids of various sizes, and over 50 more in neighboring Sudan. However,repparttar 135418 three Great Pyramids of Giza earn their fame by beingrepparttar 135419 largest of these.

Inrepparttar 135420 most popular pictures ofrepparttar 135421 Pyramids of Giza, likerepparttar 135422 one shown below,repparttar 135423 middle pyramid, that of Khafre (Chephren), appears larger due torepparttar 135424 angle and because it was built on higher ground. The largest pyramid is actuallyrepparttar 135425 Great Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops),repparttar 135426 one onrepparttar 135427 left.

The Great Pyramid of Khufu

Contrary to popular belief, not allrepparttar 135428 Great Pyramids of Giza are considered part ofrepparttar 135429 Seven Wonders ofrepparttar 135430 World. Onlyrepparttar 135431 largest,repparttar 135432 Great Pyramid of Khufu, is a member, and isrepparttar 135433 only one ofrepparttar 135434 Seven Wonders that still stands. Egypt was also home to another ofrepparttar 135435 Seven Wonders ofrepparttar 135436 World,repparttar 135437 Lighthouse of Alexandria, which was destroyed long ago.

The Pyramid of Khufu has a height of 145 m (475 ft) and a base area of 52,400 sqm (562,500 sqft). That area is large enough to fit over 20 Olympic-size swimming pools! And for thousands of years, untilrepparttar 135438 rise of modern-day skyscrapers,repparttar 135439 pyramid wasrepparttar 135440 tallest building inrepparttar 135441 world.

What makesrepparttar 135442 pyramid an architectural triumph and one ofrepparttar 135443 Seven Wonders ofrepparttar 135444 World isrepparttar 135445 fact thatrepparttar 135446 rocks used in its construction each way more than 2 tons. And there are more than 2 million of those rocks.

Greek travelers to ancient Giza wrote that it took a hundred thousand slaves 20 years to constructrepparttar 135447 pyramid. However, since they visited Egypt more than 2 thousand years afterrepparttar 135448 Egyptian pyramids were built,repparttar 135449 truth of their accounts are suspect. Modern engineers estimate that it would likely take less people and less time to buildrepparttar 135450 pyramid using technology that was available at that time.

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