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  2. Roof tiles - Wikipedia

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    Clay roof tiles are the main form of historic ceramic tilework in China, due largely to the emphasis that traditional Chinese architecture places on a roof as opposed to a wall. [26] Roof tile fragments have been found in the Loess Plateau dating to the Longshan period, showing some of the earliest pan and cover designs found in Asia. [7]

  3. Monk and Nun - Wikipedia

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    Monk and Nun, also known as Pan and Cover, Mission tile, or Barrel tile, is a semi-cylindrical roof tile similar to imbrex and tegula, but instead of alternating rows of flat tiles (tegulae) and arched tiles (imbrices), both rows consist of the arched tile. The top row with the convex side facing up are the monk tiles while the bottom row with ...

  4. Structural clay tile - Wikipedia

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    Structural clay tile describes a category of burned-clay building materials used to construct roofing, walls, and flooring for structural and non-structural purposes, especially in fireproofing applications. Also called building tile, structural terra cotta, hollow tile, saltillo tile, and clay block, the material is an extruded clay shape with ...

  5. Tile - Wikipedia

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    Tiles are usually thin, square or rectangular coverings manufactured from hard-wearing material such as ceramic, stone, metal, baked clay, or even glass. They are generally fixed in place in an array to cover roofs, floors, walls, edges, or other objects such as tabletops. Alternatively, tile can sometimes refer to similar units made from ...

  6. Thatching - Wikipedia

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    Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge (Cladium mariscus), rushes, heather, or palm branches, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof. Since the bulk of the vegetation stays dry and is densely packed—trapping air—thatching also functions as insulation.

  7. Here's the difference between a sore throat and strep - AOL

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    For one, "the throat will often be red with swollen tonsils, sometimes with pus on them," he says. And the pain associated with strep throat is usually more intense than the pain associated with a ...

  8. Bolivians remove tons of trash from Lake Uru Uru, home to ...

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    Volunteers and local leaders in Bolivia's high-altitude city of Oruro suited up in safety gear on Saturday to clean the polluted banks of the Andean country's Lake Uru Uru, home to flamingos and ...

  9. Guastavino tile - Wikipedia

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    The Guastavino terracotta tiles are standardized, less than 1 inch (25 mm) thick, and about 6 by 12 inches (150 by 300 mm) across. They are usually set in three herringbone-pattern courses with a sandwich of thin layers of Portland cement. Unlike heavier stone construction, these tile domes could be built without centering.

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