Around the sun leaving a bright trail behind. For more than

Actually, it was not Until the Fourth Dynasty that the most famous pyramids were built. These are located near the town of Giza, on the west bank of the River Nile, just outside the capital city of Egypt, Cairo. The largest of these pyramids is known as the Great Pyramid. It was built for King Khufu, who was called Cheops by the Greeks, and so the pyramid is sometimes called the Pyramid of Cheops. It has been estimated that 2,300,000 blocks of limestone were used to build the Great Pyramid. The blocks weigh average 2,500 kilos each, the largest stone block weighing about 15,000 kilos. The base of the pyramid covers 5.3 hectares - an area large enough to hold ten football fields. In terms of height, the pyramid used to be 147 meters high, but today the top ten meters are missing, and the entire outer limestone covering has been taken away.

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GHOSTS

Herr Adam is a lawyer working in Rosenheim, a small town Bavaria, West Germany. In the summer of 1967, the telephones in 1 office seemed to go wrong. He called in Siemens, who had installed the phones, but they couldn't find a fault. He then called in the Pc' Office. They replaced the Siemens phones with official Post Offi4 ones and put meters that showed calls being made in the office.

On 10th October, for example, forty-six calls were made in fiftec minutes from 7.42 to 7.57 a.m.! The phones were replaced by one which had locks. There was still no improvement: between five an' six hundred calls were made in one week. When he saw the bills, Mr Adam thought that someone at the Post Office was pocketing his money! A serious row developed between him and the Post Office Accounts Department.

Then, on 20th October 1967, all the office fluorescent lights came out of their sockets and fused. They were mended by a local electrician, but exactly the same thing happened again. The German Electricty Board took over the case. Paul Brunner, Auxiliary Works Manager, arrived on 15th November 1967. The next day, instruments were installed to measure the electricity coming into the office. At the same time as light bulbs exploded and the photocopier went wrong, abnormal amounts of electricity were recorded. These were so extreme that the instruments broke down. Readings from the central supply and then from the generator nearby were normal, however.

The electricity was coming from Somewhere else, but where? In the same month, a girl was cut by flying glass, lights began to swing and pictures on the walls changed places. Paul Brunner realised that this

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was beyond him and handed the matter over to two of Germany’s leading physicists, Dr. Karga and Dn Zicha. They were fascinated and did their own research. They could find no answer except that there was some external force that activated the electrics in the office and the telephones. They, in turn, handed the case over to parapsychologist Professor Bender and the police.

Professor Bender and the police centred their attention on the people working in the office and noticed that one office clerk in particular, Anne-Marie Schneider, showed signs of stress at the time of the happenings Although she wasn't aware of it. Professor Bender noticed that the strange happenings began at 7.30 a.m., the time that this girl began work, and stopped completely when she took a week's holiday. On her return, things went from bad to worse. Desk drawers kept flying open and, on one occasion, a cash-box opened and the money inside fell onto the floor. The office was in chaos and Everyone, including Anne-Marie, was terrified. Mr. Adam decided to ask her to leave.

From the day she left, the office returned to normal and there has been no other explanation other than ghosts for all these strange happenings.

TRAVELLERS' TALES

Every year, a magazine called Executive Travel organises a competition to find the Airline of the Year. Travellers from all over the world are invited to vote for the most efficient, the most punctual, the safest and the friendliest airline. The winner in 1985 was British Airways. The competition asked travellers what they expected most from an airline, and the results were as follows:

Punctual departures and arrivals 35%

Attentive cabin staff 35%

Comfort 18%

Safety 9%

Good food and wine 3%

The competition also invited travellers to tell their most horrific stories of international travel. Replies included six hijacks, fifty-three cases of engine failure or troubles with landing, eleven lightning strikes, twenty-three bomb scares, thirteen cases of food poisoning, eleven near misses and two accidents with airport trucks.

Bad flying experiences begin on the ground, naturally. One American airline managed to double-book an entire 747, but this is nothing compared to what happened on an internal flight on a certain Afncan airline. The flight had been overbooked three times. The local military solved the problem by insisting that all passengers should run round the plane twice, the fastest getting the seats. An overbooked flight that was going from Heathrow to America gave one traveller a bit of a shock. Dressed only in trousers, shirt and socks, he had been allowed by the stewardess to leave the aircraft to speak to a friend. He returned a few minutes later to find the 747 closed up and about to start moving - with his shoes, wallet, passport and luggage inside. Banging frantically on the door got him back inside. A similar event was experienced by a businessman on a flight from Bangladesh. Passengers were waiting for take-off when there was a sudden hysterical banging on the door. At first, the cabin crew paid no attention. The banging continued. When the door was finally opened, the pilot got in.

One frequent flier lost a certain amount of confidence when the cabin staff asked him to sit in the lavatory during take-off so that they could occupy the seats nearest the emergency exit on a flight between London and Manchester. For nervous fliers, a shocking journey was one between Gatwick and Montpellier, during which they had to watch pieces of the engine falling off~ Another passenger was asked to

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hold the aircraft door closed at take-off and landing.

Baggage is a rich source of horror stories. There was the unlucky businessman who left Chicago in minus-6 weather. He was going to an important meeting in Dallas, where the temperature was 32-plus. Unfortunately, his suitcase had gone to Los Angeles, where it spent the next two days. The customers he was trying to impress were more than a little surprised to see him going round in a thick suit, heavy overcoat and fur hat.

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JOB CENTRE LEAFLET

Thousands of jobs come into our Job Centres and Employment Offices every week, but they get snapped up quickly. So, Although we shall do all we can to help you, it's important for you to do all you can to help yourself This leaflet tells you how.
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I Registered for work	- jobs available locally or elsewhere
	Once you have registered for work, we	- training for a newjob
	will consider you for the available jobs.	- your suitability for a training course, du­
	You must also register for work at the Job	ring which you get an allowance
	Centre in order to claim unemployment	- loans to help you look for, and move to,
	pay. But you actually apply for pay at the	work in other fields
	local Unemployment Office.