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  2. Daisugi - Wikipedia

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    Although originally a forestry management technique, daisugi has also found its way into Japanese gardens as an aesthetic feature. [14]Examples of daisugi forestry can still be found in areas of northern Kyoto where it was developed, though Kitayama sugi plantations do not contribute significantly to the domestic lumber market as they once did.

  3. Cedar - Wikipedia

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    Cedar (name), a list of people and characters with the name; Cedar (programming environment), an interpreted programming system developed at Xerox PARC; Cedar Girls' Secondary School, Singapore; Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR), a research laboratory at SUNY, Buffalo, New York, US

  4. Ceiling - Wikipedia

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    A subset of the dropped ceiling is the suspended ceiling, wherein a network of aluminum struts, as opposed to drywall, are attached to the joists, forming a series of rectangular spaces. Individual pieces of cardboard are then placed inside the bottom of those spaces so that the outer side of the cardboard, interspersed with aluminum rails, is ...

  5. Longhouses of the Indigenous peoples of North America

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    Cedar is the preferred lumber. The wealthy built extraordinarily large longhouses. Old Man House, built by the Suquamish, at what became the Port Madison Squamish Reservation, was 152 by 12–18 m (500 by 40–60 ft), c. 1850. [2] [3] Usually one doorway faces the shore.

  6. Dropped ceiling - Wikipedia

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    A dropped ceiling is a secondary ceiling, hung below the main (structural) ceiling. It may also be referred to as a drop ceiling, T-bar ceiling, false ceiling, suspended ceiling, grid ceiling, drop in ceiling, drop out ceiling, or ceiling tiles and is a staple of modern construction and architecture in both residential and commercial applications.

  7. Tin ceiling - Wikipedia

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    Tin ceiling in a private music room, Queensland, Australia, 1906. Tin ceilings were traditionally painted white to give the appearance of hand-carved or molded plaster. They were incorporated into residential living rooms and parlors as well as schools, hospitals and commercial businesses where painted tin was often used as wainscoting.

  8. Cedrus - Wikipedia

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    Cedrus, with the common English name cedar, is a genus of coniferous trees in the plant family Pinaceae (subfamily Abietoideae). They are native to the mountains of the western Himalayas and the Mediterranean region, occurring at altitudes of 1,500–3,200 m (4,900–10,500 ft) in the Himalayas and 1,000–2,200 m (3,300–7,200 ft) in the Mediterranean.

  9. Acoustic ceiling - Wikipedia

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    Acoustic ceiling may refer to: Dropped ceiling; Popcorn ceiling This page was last edited on 27 ...