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  2. William Coperthwaite - Wikipedia

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    Coperthwaite's Harvard research examined the process of instructing groups of students on yurt construction. [2] His dissertation was on native Alaskan culture. [ 6 ] One of the many yurts he built leading student groups (in 1976 on the new campus of World College West in Marin County, California) became the subject of a student-composed song ...

  3. Yurt - Wikipedia

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    The Old Turkic yurt (' tent, dwelling, abode, range ') may have been derived from the Old Turkic word ur—a verb with the suffix +Ut. [2] In modern Turkish and Uzbek, the word yurt is used as the synonym for 'homeland' or a 'dormitory', while in modern Azerbaijani, yurd mainly signifies 'homeland' or 'motherland

  4. Hexayurt - Wikipedia

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    Hexayurts at Burning Man [1] Varying sizes of hexayurts A general construction diagram. A hexayurt is a simplified disaster relief shelter design. [2] It is based on a hexagonal geodesic geometry adapted to construction from standard 4x8 foot sheets of factory made construction material, built as a yurt. [3]

  5. Yaranga - Wikipedia

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    A Yaranga (Chukchi: Яраӈы, Yarangy) is a tent-like traditional mobile home of some nomadic Northern indigenous peoples of Russia, such as Chukchi and Siberian Yupik. A Yaranga is a cone-shaped or rounded reindeer-hide tent. [1] It is built of a light wooden frame covered with reindeer skins or canvas sewn together.

  6. American historic carpentry - Wikipedia

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    Building a palisade wall for the fort at Jamestown, Virginia The Golden Plow Tavern in York, PA, is a very unusual American building. It is built with corner post construction on the ground floor, half-timbered style of timber framing on the upper floor and has a less common style of wood roof shingles than typical in America.

  7. A-frame building - Wikipedia

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    The Bennati House, in Lake Arrowhead, California. Rudolph Schindler's original A-frame design, 1934. An example of an A-frame house in Gillette, Wyoming Traditional A-frame thatched house (palheiro), Santana, Madeira, Portugal An A-frame house owned and restored by Nicky Panicci in the Hollywood Hills, an example of an architectural A-frame.

  8. Video Showing the Huge Gap Between Super Rich and ... - AOL

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    For much of the past decade, policymakers and analysts have decried America's incredibly low savings rate, noting that U.S. households save a fraction of the money of the rest of the world.

  9. Hogan - Wikipedia

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    The evolution of the hogan as of the 1930s. A hogan (/ ˈ h oʊ ɡ ɑː n / or / ˈ h oʊ ɡ ən /; from Navajo hooghan) is the primary, traditional dwelling of the Navajo people.Other traditional structures include the summer shelter, the underground home, and the sweat house.