Khufu
Khufu (/ˈkuːfuː/ KOO-foo), originally Khnum-Khufu (/ˈknuːmˈkuːfuː/ KNOOM-koo-foo), is the birth name of a Fourth Dynasty ancient Egyptian pharaoh, who ruled in the first half of the Old Kingdom period (26th century BC). Khufu was the second pharaoh of the 4th dynasty; he followed his possible father, king Sneferu, on the throne. He is generally accepted as having commissioned the Great Pyramid of Giza, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, but many other aspects of his reign are rather poorly documented.
Khufu is well known under his Hellenized name Khêops or Cheops (/ˈkiːɒps/, KEE-ops; Greek: Χέοψ, by Diodorus and Herodotus) and less well known under another Hellenized name, Súphis (/ˈsuːfᵻs/ SOO-fis; Greek: Σοῦφις, by Manetho). A rare version of the name of Khufu, used by Josephus, is Sofe (/ˈsɒfiː/ SO-fe; Greek: Σοφε).Arab historians, who wrote mystic stories about Khufu and the Giza pyramids, called him Saurid or Salhuk.
The only completely preserved portrait of the king is a three-inch high ivory figurine found in a temple ruin of later period at Abydos in 1903. All other reliefs and statues were found in fragments and many buildings of Khufu are lost. Everything known about Khufu comes from inscriptions in his necropolis at Giza and later documents. For example, Khufu is the main actor of the famous Papyrus Westcar from the 13th dynasty.
CHEOPS
CHEOPS (CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite) is a planned European space telescope for the study of the formation of extrasolar planets.
Foreseen to be launch-ready by the end of 2017, the mission aims to bring an optical Ritchey–Chrétien telescope with an aperture of 30 cm, mounted on a standard small satellite platform, into a Sun-synchronous orbit of about 800 kilometres (500 mi) altitude. For the planned mission duration of 3.5 years, CHEOPS is to examine known transiting exoplanets orbiting bright and nearby stars.
History
Organized as a partnership between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Swiss Space Office, CHEOPS was selected in October 2012 from among 26 proposals as the first S-class ("small") space mission in ESA's Cosmic Vision programme. The project is led by the Center for Space and Habitability at the University of Bern, Switzerland, with contributions from other Swiss and European universities. The Principal Investigator for the science instrument is Willy Benz from the University of Bern. After a competition phase, Airbus Defence and Space in Spain was selected as the spacecraft builder. The mission is cost capped €50 million.
Podcasts:
Cheops
ALBUMS
- Dutch Rare Folk released: 2007
Dutch Rare Folk
Released 2007- Happiness and Tears
- Een Boer Ging Naar de Wei
- It Gefang
- Symptoms of Summer
- De Hege Berg
- Sprookje
- Bridges
- Van de Kop van Jut
- De Waardin
- She Flies Away
- Er Zou Er een Meisje Gaan Halen Wijn
- Soldaat
- Cis Verdonk
- Blauw Garen en Koperdraad
- Kom Hier Gij Pronkert Kijken
- Scheepsjoagers
- Transitory
- Unne Gòwwe Road
- De Twa Roeken
- 't Visserke
- Dwelling
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by Ivanhoe
Cheops
by: IvanhoeLong ago far away
They built a pyramid in desert sand
Precise as a razorblade
Khufus obsession the greatest impression
A dream becomes a massive force
Desert ships are sailing through this land
Through all our lifetime and the centuries
Everyone fears time but the time fears the pyramid
But soon our life is history......so
Who creates the great pyramid?
Who creates the great home of the king?
All the memories in all these years
A life to create the 'tomb'
We all go trough life
And textbooks told us about the universe
But here`s a wisdom far beyond our science
Desert ships are sailing through this land
Trough all our lifetime and the centuries
Everyone fears time but the time fears the pyramid
And soon our live is history
Who creates the great pyramid?
Who creates the great home of the king?
All the memories in all these years
A life to create the 'tomb'
Desert ships are sailing through this land
Trough all our lifetime and the century`s
Every one fears time but the time fears the pyramid
But soon our live is history......so
Who creates the great pyramid?
Who creates the great home of the king?
All the memories in all these years
Of hope and anger, they´re fadin´ away