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A clochán (plural clocháin) or beehive hut is a dry-stone hut with a corbelled roof, commonly associated with the south-western Irish seaboard. The precise construction date of most of these structures is unknown with the buildings belonging to a long-established Celtic tradition, though there is at present no direct evidence to date the ...
Before the development of modern bee hives (such as the design published by Lorenzo Langstroth in 1853), the use of bee boles was a practical way of keeping bees in some parts of Britain, although most beekeepers kept their skeps in the open covered by items suitable for the purpose, such as old pots or sacking. The bee bole helped to keep the ...
Begun in 1937 and expanded over 25 years, this is the first and best example of Wright's innovative hexagonal design. [2] A Usonian home patterned after the honeycomb of a bee, the 3,570 square foot house incorporates six-sided figures with 120-degree angles in its plan, in its numerous tiled terraces, and even in built-in furnishings.
The Decoration of Houses, a manual of interior design written by Edith Wharton with architect Ogden Codman, was first published in 1897. In the book, the authors denounce Victorian-style interior decoration and interior design, especially rooms decorated with heavy window curtains, Victorian bric-a-brac and overstuffed furniture. They argue ...
Studabaker followed this pattern; his old farmhouse took on a mix of the Early Victorian and Greek Revival architectural styles, and its location along one of the county's most important roads gave his house a prominence enjoyed by few other houses in the area. [3] Located very close to Abraham Studabaker's house is the Beehive School.
The National beehive is specifically designed to house frames detailed in the standard. These are 14 in (360 mm) wide, with a height of either 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 or 5 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (220 or 140 mm). In brood boxes, up to twelve frames can be used, but (once propolised), twelve frames are typically too tight a fit for easy use, and eleven frames (with ...
After believing a monster was responsible for the strange noises coming from the wall near her closet for the past eight months, a North Carolina toddler finally knows what all the buzz was about.
A beehive tomb, also known as a tholos tomb (plural tholoi; from Greek θολωτός τάφος, θολωτοί τάφοι, "domed tombs"), is a burial structure characterized by its false dome created by corbelling, the superposition of successively smaller rings of mudbricks or, more often, stones.