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2. Ottoman (furniture) - Wikipedia

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   Hinged seats also began to appear, so that the space inside the ottoman could be used to store items. The ottoman footstool, a closely allied piece of furniture, was an upholstered footstool on four legs, which could also be used as a fireside seat, the seat covered with carpet, embroidery, or beadwork. By the 20th century, the word ottoman ...

3. Ancient furniture - Wikipedia

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   This furniture is usually decorated with basketry motifs, ivory inlays, hippopotamus and elephant ivories, and it was finely carved in the shape of bull legs. The base of each leg, terminated in a ribbed cylinder design to protect the foot of the support. Furniture legs were finished with the pedestal feet.

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5. Wikipedia:Unusual articles - Wikipedia

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   A storage tank burst and flooded the streets of Boston with a 25-foot (7.6 m) high wave of molasses. Mango cult: It takes quite the cult of personality to have a fruit you gave as a gift be venerated. Masabumi Hosono: The only Japanese survivor of the Titanic sinking, and someone who wasn't welcomed in his home country after the disaster ...

6. Classical Ottoman architecture - Wikipedia

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   Classical Ottoman architecture is a period in Ottoman architecture generally including the 16th and 17th centuries. The period is most strongly associated with the works of Mimar Sinan , who was Chief Court Architect under three sultans between 1538 and 1588.

7. History of clothing and textiles - Wikipedia

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   Ancient Greek clothing consisted of lengths of wool or linen, generally rectangular and secured at the shoulders with ornamented pins called fibulae and belted with a sash. Typical garments were the peplos, a loose robe worn by women; the chlamys, a cloak worn by men; and the chiton, a tunic worn by both men and women. Men's chitons hung to the ...