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In 1974, her first novel in the Grandma's Attic series was published. Then, in 1994 the first book in her Orphans' Journey series was published. She wrote eight books for the CYC missions program after that. She was Director of Missions Education in the Women's Missionary Society for nine years. At the age of 81, she died of cancer. [1]
An attic fan installed underneath a roof. A powered attic ventilator, or attic fan, is a ventilation fan that regulates the heat level of a building's attic by exhausting hot air. A thermostat is used to automatically turn the fan off and on, while sometimes a manual switch is used. An attic fan can be gable mounted or roof mounted. Additional ...
The house opens onto a central atrium with an impluvium (open to the sky); the evaporative cooling of the water causes a cross-draft from atrium to garden. Primitive ventilation systems were found at the Pločnik archeological site (belonging to the Vinča culture ) in Serbia and were built into early copper smelting furnaces.
A typical whole-house fan, with louvers closed when not operating. A whole house fan is a type of fan, commonly venting into a building's attic, designed to circulate air in an entire house or other building. The fan removes hot air from the building and draws in cooler outdoor air through windows and other openings.
An attic (sometimes referred to as a loft) is a space found directly below the pitched roof of a house or other building. It is also known as a sky parlor [ 1 ] or a garret . Because they fill the space between the ceiling of a building's top floor and its slanted roof, attics are known for being awkwardly-shaped spaces with difficult-to-reach ...
Something Upstairs is about a twelve-year-old boy, Kenny Huldorf, who tells a story to Avi who had visited the school on a book tour. He moves from Los Angeles to Providence, Rhode Island. He lives in a house of past events, built in 1789. Kenny's room is in the attic. One night Kenny wakes to a scraping noise in the old slave room.
Ediciones B awards the winner with publication under "B de Blok". The first winning book was Entre Todas las Estrellas (Lit. Among All the Stars), by Cristina Alfonso Ibáñez. Ediciones B can be found in some book fairs, such as those of the World Book Day/International Day of the Book. Others are held in cities such as Madrid or Barcelona.
A 2005 U.S. Department of Energy study of homes in the southeastern United States found that closed crawl spaces with sealed foundation wall vents, sealed polyethylene film liners and various insulation and drying strategies had significantly reduced space conditioning energy use compared to traditional wall-vented crawl spaces with perimeter ...