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2. 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.

3. Mirror - Wikipedia

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   A mirror reflecting the image of a vase A first-surface mirror coated with aluminium and enhanced with dielectric coatings. The angle of the incident light (represented by both the light in the mirror and the shadow behind it) exactly matches the angle of reflection (the reflected light shining on the table). 4.5-metre (15 ft)-tall acoustic mirror near Kilnsea Grange, East Yorkshire, UK, from ...

4. List of This Old House episodes (seasons 11–20) - Wikipedia

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   The 16th season of This Old House kicks off with a tour of the country's oldest wood-frame house: the Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts, built in 1636. We then go to the season's project house (and the oldest house the show has worked on): a 1710 colonial in Acton, Massachusetts, owned by Terry and Sima Maitland.

5. Mosaic - Wikipedia

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   Mosaic floor from the church on Mount Nebo (baptistery, 530) The Church of Sts. Lot and Procopius was founded in 567 in Nebo village under Mount Nebo (now Khirbet Mukhayyat). Its floor mosaic depicts everyday activities like grape harvest. Another two spectacular mosaics were discovered in the ruined Church of Preacher John nearby.

6. Fallingwater - Wikipedia

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   Fallingwater's asymmetrical floor plan was loosely derived from the cruciform plan of the Prairie houses. [82] The house has four bedrooms. [ 121 ] [ 124 ] [ 334 ] [ h ] It has a floor area of 5,330 square feet (495 m 2 ), [ 16 ] [ 97 ] of which 2,445 square feet (227.1 m 2 ) is composed of outdoor terraces.

7. Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (Parmigianino) - Wikipedia

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   The painting depicts the young artist (then twenty one) in the middle of a room, distorted by the use of a convex mirror. The hand in the foreground is greatly elongated and distorted by the mirror. The work was painted on a specially-prepared convex panel in order to mimic the curve of the mirror used.