buildings are often constructed on stilts to protect them from damage by water, waves or shifting soil or sand. Stilts for walking have platforms for the...
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Stilt houses (also called pile dwellings or lake dwellings) are houses raised on stilts (or piles) over the surface of the soil or a body of water. Stilt...
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although the white-backed and Hawaiian stilts are occasionally considered subspecies of the black-necked stilt. The genus Charadrius was introduced by...
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Jumping stilts, bounce stilts or spring stilts are special stilts that allow the user to run, jump and perform various acrobatics. Spring stilts using fiberglass...
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names include the Hawaiian black-necked stilt, the aeʻo (from a Hawaiian name for the bird and word for stilts), the kukuluaeʻo (a Hawaiian name for the...
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the Hawaiian Islands. Grallistrix can be loosely translated as "owl on stilts". The genus received this name due to the long legs and terrestrial habits...
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black-necked (H. mexicanus) and white-backed stilts (H. melanurus) both inhabit the Americas; the pied stilt (H. leucocephalus) ranges from Australasia...
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permafrost. The length of stilts may vary widely; stilts of traditional houses can be measured from half a meter to 5 or 6 meters. Stilt houses have been used...
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"Avresses" on red and white stilts, representing the new city and the suburbs. Both teams use jousting stilts, a type of stilts developed in Namur. A jouster's...
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one reason black stilts are threatened with extinction. Black and pied stilts in New Zealand represent two colonisations of pied stilt ancestors from Australia:...
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Stilts are small supports used when firing glazed ceramics to stop the melting glaze from fusing them to each other or the kiln. Stilts are a form of...
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Crystal Stilts at AllMusic "Pitchfork Curates a Stage at Primavera Sound Festival!". Pitchfork. 2009-01-13. Retrieved 2023-03-11. Crystal Stilts at AllMusic...
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Stilts may refer to: Stilts, leg-attached poles serving to increase one's height Stilts (architecture), poles, posts or pillars used to allow a structure...
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stilt from Texas. Its genus is presently monotypic and seems to be closely related to the similar genus Allopyge, found in Old World cranes. Stilts exhibit...
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that some of the stilts beyond the power lines be brought down without proper notice. This led to the destruction of several stilts on the Iwaya/Makoko...
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undignified happiness, plots to capture the stilts, persuading the King's page boy Eric to steal and hide the stilts. Deprived of his amusement, the King grows...
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The stilts respond by travelling to these areas and breeding, dispersing and returning to the coast once the lakes begin to dry up. How banded stilts on...
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The pied stilt (Himantopus leucocephalus), also known as the white-headed stilt, is a shorebird in the family Recurvirostridae. It is widely distributed...
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The stilt tower (Danish: styltetårn) is a special type of Medieval church tower, concentrated in Djursland peninsula and neighbouring regions of Danish...
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Archived 2007-10-10 at the Wayback Machine AZNightBuzz.com March 23, 2006 Official website Hector on Stilts' MySpace page Hector on Stilts on last.fm...
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Rumpelstiltskin (redirect from Little rattle stilt)
"Rumpelstiltskin" (/ˌrʌmpəlˈstɪltskɪn/ RUMP-əl-STILT-skin; German: Rumpelstilzchen pronounced [ʁʊmpl̩ʃtiːltsçn̩]) is a German fairy tale collected by...
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Kristen A. Stilt is an Islamic studies scholar who focuses on law and society in both historical and contemporary contexts. She wrote Islamic Law in Action:...
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The white-backed stilt (Himantopus melanurus) is a locally abundant shorebird of South American wetlands and coastlines. It is found from northwest Brazil...
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Jeremy Bentham (redirect from Nonsense on stilts)
considered "divine" or "God-given" in origin), calling them "nonsense upon stilts". However, he viewed the Magna Carta as important, using it to convey that...
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The Stilts (Spanish: Los zancos) is a 1984 Spanish drama film directed by Carlos Saura and written by Saura and Fernando Fernán-Gómez which stars Fernán-Gómez...
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The stilt sandpiper (Calidris himantopus) is a small shorebird. The scientific name is from Ancient Greek. The genus name kalidris or skalidris is a term...
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Wilt Chamberlain (redirect from Wilt the Stilt)
disliked the ones that negatively portrayed his height, such as "Wilt the Stilt" and "Goliath", preferring "the Big Dipper", inspired by his friends who...
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The Stilt is the journal of the Australasian Wader Studies Group (AWSG), a special interest group of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union, also...
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Buttress root (redirect from Stilt roots)
Buttress roots, also known as plank roots, are large, wide roots on all sides of a shallowly rooted tree. Typically, they are found in nutrient-poor tropical...
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Jalysus wickhami (redirect from Spined stilt bug)
spined stilt bug, is a species of stilt bug in the family Berytidae. It is found in Central America and North America. It is the most common stilt bug of...
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