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One of the more interesting recent invocations of the term came from Sandy Block, ... wheelhouse seems to be entering its flabby middle age, the period when a buzzword is most popular -- and most ...
Included is the Matron of Honor, a loud and burly woman whom Buddy meets in a car leaving the site of the wedding. The other passengers (who include the Matron of Honor's husband Robert; Muriel's father's deaf-mute uncle; and a middle-aged woman named Helen Silsburn) spend most of the car ride unaware of Buddy's family relation to the missing ...
Monitor roof: A roof with a monitor; 'a raised structure running part or all of the way along the ridge of a double-pitched roof, with its own roof running parallel with the main roof.' Butterfly roof (V-roof, [8] London roof [9]): A V-shaped roof resembling an open book. A kink separates the roof into two parts running towards each other at an ...
A stepped gable, crow-stepped gable, or corbie step [1] is a stairstep type of design at the top of the triangular gable-end of a building. [1] [2] The top of the parapet wall projects above the roofline and the top of the brick or stone wall is stacked in a step pattern above the roof as a decoration and as a convenient way to finish the brick ...
Clients now more than ever requesting that decorations be put up earlier -- even before Thanksgiving -- and taken down later in January, according to Baker and Mattox. Get the most out of ...
Hypaethral is in contradistinction to cleithral, a term applied to a covered temple. [1] The hypaethros or hypaethral opening is the term Vitruvius (iii. 2) used for the opening in the middle of the roof of temples, an example being found in Athens in the temple of Jupiter Olympius, which is octastyle.
The corbelled roof of Newgrange (c. 3,200 BC) shows that corbel arches were used since the neolithic age. [10] [11] One of the largest structures of this period was the Neolithic long house. It was a long, narrow timber dwelling built by the first farmers in Europe at least as early as 5000 to 6000 BC.
Beach season is nearly upon us, and one mom of three has a body positive message for all. Rachel Hollis, 32, posted a photo of herself in a bikini on the Facebook page for her blog, 'The Chic Site ...