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  2. History of early and simple domes - Wikipedia

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    The earliest evidence for dressed stone domes with voussoirs comes from the first century BC in the region of Palestine, Syria, and southern Anatolia, the "heartland of Oriental Hellenism". [38] A stone pendentive dome is known from a first century BC bath in Petra. [51] The Scythians built domed tombs, as did some Germanic tribes in a ...

  3. R. Buckminster Fuller and Anne Hewlett Dome Home - Wikipedia

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    The R. Buckminster Fuller and Anne Hewlett Dome Home, located at 407 S. Forest Ave. in Carbondale, Illinois, is a geodesic dome house which was the residence of Buckminster Fuller from 1960 to 1971. The house, inhabited by Fuller while he taught at Southern Illinois University , was the only geodesic dome Fuller lived in, as well as the only ...

  4. Sam and Ruth VanSickle Ford House - Wikipedia

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    The house is dome-shaped, with Quonset hut ribs forming the frame of the dome. Most of the dome is covered in shingles; however, the southeast side of the dome was left open to give the house outdoor rooms. Two smaller domes containing the home's bedrooms abut the south and northeast sides of the main dome. [2]

  5. List of octagon houses - Wikipedia

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    IL Built by the town's founder, John Wood, later the governor of Illinois, at a cost said of $200,000. Demolished in the 1950s or 1960s Octagonal House 1875 Ames: Story: IA Constructed in the 1870s, demolished in 1982. Namesake and original location of The Octagon Center for the Arts. [26] Octagon House (Stamford, Connecticut) N.A.

  6. 10 of the Most Expensive Items Ever Sold on eBay

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    One man’s trash is very often another man’s treasure on eBay, which has been selling head-scratching items since 1995. ... But eBay is a place for a lot more than just cheap, used curling ...

  7. Houses in Sycamore Historic District - Wikipedia

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    [2] [5] Smith, who was the town's first dentist, was raised in Sycamore and attended Sycamore schools before going to medical school in Philadelphia. He was born October 15, 1856, in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, the youngest of six children of Martha L. and James M. Smith.

  8. Unusual eBay listings - Wikipedia

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    Bridgeville, California (population 25) was the first town to be sold on eBay in 2002, and has been up for sale three times since. [1] In January 2003, Thatch Cay, the last privately held and undeveloped U.S. Virgin Island, was listed for auction by Idealight International. The minimum bid was US$3 million and the sale closed January 16, 2003. [2]

  9. Construction of Assembly Hall (Champaign) - Wikipedia

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    The first 75% of steel wire was pulled through a 0.211-in.-dia die to create a 130,000-psi stress. The last 25% of steel wire was pulled through a 0.214-in.-dia die to create a 120,000-psi stress. [8] The wrapping machine was propelled by a 200-hp motor, along an endless chain 1,260 feet (380 m) long around the circumference of the dome.