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    An earthen floor, also called an adobe floor, is a floor made of dirt, raw earth, or other unworked ground materials. It is usually constructed, in modern...
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  • The Earthen Floor (1902) was a collection of poems by Australian poet E. J. Brady. It was released in hardback by Grip Newspaper Co., Grafton, in a print...
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    See: Earthen floor adobe or clay floors Solid ground floor cement screed or granolithic A number of special features may be used to ornament a floor or...
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  • The sub-floor may be finished in a way that makes it usable without any extra work, see: Earthen floor adobe or clay floors Solid ground floor, cementitious...
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    or immediately after the delivery. First, the midwives softened the earthen floor of the tipi and dug two holes. One of the holes was for heating water...
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    1960s in Ireland, rushes were spread on the earthen floor of homes during wet weather to help keep the floor dry during periods of snow or rain, or during...
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    Usually, the tenants of a nagaya didn't have a family. The rooms had an earthen floor, with a size of 8–10 square meters. Nagaya were also known as yakeya...
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    "Root Cellar Capital of the World". A potato hole is a hole dug in an earthen floor where a large deep opening was covered by boards and was mainly used...
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    a penny, people (the "groundlings") would stand on the rush-strewn earthen floor to watch the performance. During the excavation of the Globe in 1989...
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    species in the genus. Female flies lay their eggs on dry earth or the earthen floors of huts. Larvae feed for about twenty minutes, sometimes daily, and...
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    was typically corrugated iron, but sometimes canvas, usually with an earthen floor. Hessian was also used for the internal lining of some slab huts in...
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    carried to be strewn on the floor of the parish church. The tradition dates back to the time when most buildings had earthen floors and rushes were used as...
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    originally a luxury item for the nobility. The lower classes had mat-covered earthen floors. During the Heian period, when the shinden-zukuri architectural style...
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    small hut with her children. One summer day, a pine cone fell on the earthen floor of the hut and took root. The widow's children cared for the tree, excited...
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  • side; this ensures good air circulation and an even maturation. The earthen floor results in a humid atmosphere, and combined with the thick walls the...
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    woodpile. Isolation of B. dermatitidis was also accomplished from an earthen floor indoors on one occasion. There has been a long history of justifiable...
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    either a four-room square, or a larger six-room structure, plus their earthen-floor space. The Shinto shrine housing the village deity is located on high...
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    basements, where no poto mitan are available. The peristil typically has an earthen floor, allowing libations to the lwa to drain directly into the soil; where...
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    with sleeping platforms raised above the ground on each side of an earthen floor. Two hundred people were housed in each barracks, giving each person...
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    various size crystals onto the inner surfaces of a pond's earthen walls and on the pond's earthen floor. The pond's keeper then closes the water-feeder notch...
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    coast longhouses made with western red cedar split planks and with an earthen floor. They provided habitation for forty or more people, usually a related...
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    floor) and the raised tatami floor in the living room and sleeping room. This relationship was explored further with the House with an Earthen floor (1963)...
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  • was named for an Indian settlement along its course which contained earthen floors. List of rivers of South Dakota U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names...
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  • gallons) was found together with five similar jars embedded in the earthen floor along one wall of a "kitchen" of a Neolithic mudbrick building, dated...
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    foundation of the tower, includes two nicely built north–south walls; an earthen layer (floor?) with a well-built oven was found to the west of these walls; the...
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    underlying bedrock itself is exposed. Unpaved earthen threshing floors are also sometimes found. The floors usually have a slight slope, to avoid water...
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    Moscow", Vertov explained. He called it damp and dark. There was an earthen floor and holes one stumbled into at every turn. Vertov said, "This dampness...
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    chapel built was a palisaded log structure with a grass roof and an earthen floor that measured 39 ft (12 m) x 14 ft (4.3 m). In 1789, the second chapel...
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    acid to be delivered to the cellar door of the house. He digs into the earthen floor of the cellar, turning up fungous yellow ooze, and arranges the barrels...
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  • Doma TV in Croatia Hyphaene or Doma, genus of palms Doma, the lower earthen floor of a Japanese minka Dom (disambiguation) Dome (disambiguation) This...
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