A shelter-half is a simple kind of partial tent designed to provide temporary shelter and concealment when combined with one or more sections. Two sheets...
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The Shelter Half was a GI Coffeehouse that operated at 5437 South Tacoma Way, in Tacoma, Washington, United States, from 1968 to 1974. Named after a military...
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A bivouac shelter or bivvy (alternately bivy, bivi, bivvi) is any of a variety of improvised camp site or shelter that is usually of a temporary nature...
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G.I. coffeehouses (section The Shelter Half)
piece of military equipment – the shelter-half. Really half a tent, soldiers each carry one shelter-half along with half the poles and other pieces, then...
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Half Bath: Provides the same amenities as the standard hygiene unit with an additional half bath for accessibility. Laundry: Adapted from the Shelter...
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Air raid shelters are structures for the protection of non-combatants as well as combatants against enemy attacks from the air. They are similar to bunkers...
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Shelter Island is an island town in Suffolk County, New York, United States, near the eastern end of Long Island. The population was 3,253 at the 2020...
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A blast shelter is a place where people can go to protect themselves from blasts and explosions, like those from bombs, or in hazardous worksites, such...
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standalone play. Shelter (Half-Hour Story, Rediffusion 1967) A Man Inside (Half-Hour Story, Rediffusion 1967) The Gentleman Caller (Half-Hour Story, Rediffusion...
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During World War II, the German Army (Wehrmacht) issued the Zeltbahn (see Shelter half), a poncho that could be combined to form tents. A typical four-man tent...
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A fallout shelter is an enclosed space specially designated to protect occupants from radioactive debris or fallout resulting from a nuclear explosion...
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leggings), jungle boots, canvas load-bearing equipment, blanket (one-half tent or "shelter-half" per man), poncho, and a machete or kukri for brush clearing....
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cold weather/rain gear, anti-gas/CBRN gear and sheltering equipment (such as a tent quarter/shelter half, poles, rope, etc.). Items are generally stored...
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A dugout or dug-out, also known as a pit-house or earth lodge, is a shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression...
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A no-kill shelter is an animal shelter that does not kill healthy or treatable animals based on time limits or capacity, reserving euthanasia for terminally...
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Homeless shelters are a type of service that provides temporary residence for homeless individuals and families. Shelters exist to provide residents with...
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Igloo (redirect from Inuit shelter)
the snow, where the blocks are cut, is usually used as the lower half of the shelter. Snow's insulating properties enable the inside of the igloo to remain...
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end of the year other activists opened The Shelter Half antiwar GI Coffeehouse in Tacoma. The Shelter Half and GI-CAP began working together and soon...
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minutes, with the last two and a half minutes being the hidden track, "Talkin' bout My Baby (Reprise)". "Song for Shelter" features Roger Sanchez and Roland...
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A women's shelter, also known as a women's refuge and battered women's shelter, is a place of temporary protection and support for women escaping domestic...
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Swiss Militärblachen, a kind of Military Shelter-half, are square tarpaulins printed with camouflage. They are used as rain protection, as elements in...
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Tent (category Portable buildings and shelters)
A tent is a shelter consisting of sheets of fabric or other material draped over, attached to a frame of poles or a supporting rope. While smaller tents...
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Shire Council as a half-size version of a standard Department of Public Works (DPW) concrete air raid shelter, the Sarina shelter was adapted for other...
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ShelterBox is an international disaster relief charity established in 2000 in Helston, Cornwall, UK, that provides emergency shelter and other aid items...
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Chernobyl New Safe Confinement (redirect from Shelter Implementation Plan)
The New Safe Confinement (NSC or New Shelter; Ukrainian: Новий безпечний конфайнмент) is a structure put in place in 2016 to confine the remains of the...
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A hardened aircraft shelter (HAS) or protective aircraft shelter (PAS) is a reinforced hangar to house and protect military aircraft from enemy attack...
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Adirondack lean-to (redirect from Adirondack shelter)
or Adirondack shelter is a three-sided log structure popularized in the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York which provides shelter for campers. Since...
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She continued to work until the end of her life, completing a novel, Shelter Half, which was published posthumously in June 2008 by Holy Cow! Press. Bly...
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'short' rations, a canteen, a blanket or overcoat, rubber ground cloth, a shelter-half, extra clothing, personal hygiene and other miscellaneous items (eating...
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A tree shelter, tree guard or tree tube (sometimes also Tuley tube) is a structure used in tree planting, arboriculture and tree care that protects planted...
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