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  2. Spirit house - Wikipedia

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    A spirit house is a shrine to the protective spirit of a place that is found in the Southeast Asian countries of Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines. They are normally in the form of small roofed structure mounted on a pillar or a dais , and can range in size from small platforms to houses large ...

  3. Kamidana - Wikipedia

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    The kamidana is typically placed high on a wall and contains a wide variety of items related to Shinto-style ceremonies, the most prominent of which is the shintai, an object meant to house a chosen kami, thus giving it a physical form to allow worship.

  4. Indigenous Philippine shrines and sacred grounds - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] [4] However, they do have sacred shrines, which are also called as spirit houses. [2] They can range in size from small roofed platforms, to structures similar to a small house (but with no walls), to shrines that look similar to pagodas, especially in the south where early mosques were also modeled in the same way. [5]

  5. Hallam Towers - Wikipedia

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    Hallam Towers is a fifteen-storey, 48 metres (157 ft) apartment building completed in 2022 in the Broomhill area of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.It was constructed on the site of an externally similar thirteen-storey former hotel of the same name, which existed on the site between 1963 and 2017.

  6. How Florida wood traders navigate ban on repressive regime’s ...

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    Florida companies Teakdecking Systems and Florida Teak imported more than half a million pounds of Burmese teak from Myanmar despite U.S. economic sanctions against the Myanma Timber Enterprise ...

  7. Eklutna, Anchorage - Wikipedia

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    Eklutna Spirit Houses Virtually all residents of the Eklutna Village are either Alaska Native or part Native; most are members of the federally recognized Native Village of Eklutna. For employment, most Tribal Members commute to work in Anchorage , nearby Eagle River , or the Matanuska-Susitna Valley .

  8. Garden Island Indian Cemetery - Wikipedia

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    The Indian Cemetery holds about 3500 graves, and has been called the largest Indian cemetery in the United States. Spirit houses mark some graves, headstones mark others, and the older graves are unmarked. [5] Most graves date from 1851 to 1935. [4]

  9. Indigenous architecture - Wikipedia

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    The houses were square in shape and with pyramid like shaped roofs, [69] and the walls and roof were thatched and various plants of practical use were planted nearby, each village having a meeting house and a Spirit house. The spirit house was elevated on a pyramid like base built with large stones and earth, again a square building with an ...