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2. Headboard (furniture) - Wikipedia

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   The headboard is a piece of furniture that attaches to the head of a bed. Historically used to isolate sleepers from cold, modern use is chiefly for aesthetics or for ...

3. Villard Houses - Wikipedia

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   The attic is designed as a set of small square windows. [42] [44] The dentilled cornice contains egg-and-dart molding as well as modillions with foliate patterns. [3] Above all these houses are sloping hip roofs with brown tile. [3] [40] Only the front portions of each house have hip roofs; the rears of the houses have brick parapets and ...

4. Interior design - Wikipedia

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   In the book, the authors denounced Victorian-style interior decoration and interior design, especially those rooms that were decorated with heavy window curtains, Victorian bric-a-brac, and overstuffed furniture. They argued that such rooms emphasized upholstery at the expense of proper space planning and architectural design and were ...

5. Oval Office - Wikipedia

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   The Oval Office has become associated in Americans' minds with the presidency itself through memorable images, such as a young John F. Kennedy, Jr. peering through the front panel of his father's desk, President Richard Nixon speaking by telephone with the Apollo 11 astronauts during their moonwalk, and Amy Carter bringing her Siamese cat Misty Malarky Ying Yang to brighten her father ...

6. Paris during the Second Empire - Wikipedia

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   Women's fashion during the Second Empire was set by the Empress Eugénie. Until the late 1860s, it was dominated by the crinoline dress, a bell-shaped dress with a very wide, full-length skirt supported on a frame of hoops of metal. The dress's waist was extremely narrow, its wear facilitated by wearing a corset with whalebone stays underneath ...

7. Price Tower - Wikipedia

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   The structural core is made of four reinforced-concrete support piers extending the full height of the tower, each measuring 18 feet (5.5 m) wide by 10 feet (3.0 m) thick. [ 65 ] [ 217 ] The piers rest on a concrete platform 25 feet (7.6 m) below ground, which measures 3 feet (0.91 m) thick.