✦ Time paradoxes · Closer than it seems
Great Pyramid: c. 2560 BC; Cleopatra: 69–30 BC; Moon landing: 1969 — about 2,500 years between the first two, 2,037 years between the last two (counting from birth).
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.
Who and what
- Great Pyramid of Gizac. 2560 BC · Giza. The world's tallest structure for nearly four millennia
- Cleopatra69 BC–30 BC · last queen of Ptolemaic Egypt
- Moon landing1969 · Cape Canaveral. Humans set foot on another world for the first time
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- Cleopatra lived closer in time to the first iPhone than to the building of the Great Pyramid.
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