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  2. Vardo (Romani wagon) - Wikipedia

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    [1]: 89–90, 168 [2]: 138 The name vardo is a Romani term believed to have originated from the Ossetic wærdon meaning cart or carriage. [3] It is pulled by a single horse in shafts, sometimes with a second horse (called a sider or sideliner ) hitched on its right side outside the shafts to help pull heavier loads or assist in pulling up a hill.

  3. Barbecue in the United States - Wikipedia

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    While barbecue is found outside of this region, the 14 core barbecue states contain 70 of the top 100 barbecue restaurants, and most top barbecue restaurants outside the region have their roots there. [4] Barbecue in its current form came from the South, where cooks learned to slow-roast tough cuts of meat over fire pits to make them tender.

  4. Surrey (carriage) - Wikipedia

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    A 1909 Studebaker surrey on display at the Northeast Texas Rural Heritage Center and Museum in August 2015. A surrey is a doorless, four-wheeled carriage popular in the United States during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

  5. Veranda - Wikipedia

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    Veranda, as used in the United Kingdom and France, was brought by the British from India (Hindi: बरामदा, Urdu: برآمدہ).While the exact origin of the word is unknown, scholars suggest that the word may have originated in India or may have been adopted from the Portuguese [citation needed] and spread further to the British and French colonists. [6]

  6. Barbecue - Wikipedia

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    The original Arawak term barabicu was used to refer to a wooden framework. Among the framework's uses was the suspension of meat over a flame. The English word barbecue and its cognates in other languages come from the Spanish word barbacoa, which has its origin in an indigenous American word. [3]

  7. Barbecue grill - Wikipedia

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    A barbecue grill or barbeque grill (known as a barbecue or barbie in Australia and New Zealand) is a device that cooks food by applying heat from below. There are several varieties of grills, with most falling into one of three categories: gas -fueled, charcoal , or electric.

  8. Queenslander (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    The veranda is the most typical inclusion in the plan, and can be used day and night as a semiexternal living space. In Brisbane, many people have tables and chairs for dining and a daybed or sleepout on their verandas. [5] Whirly birds placed on roofs allow for hot air to be drawn out of ceiling spaces. [6]

  9. Limbers and caissons - Wikipedia

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    Horse artillery—rows of limbers and caissons, each pulled by teams of six horses with three postilion riders and an escort on horseback (1933, Poland). A limber is a two-wheeled cart designed to support the trail of an artillery piece, or the stock of a field carriage such as a caisson or traveling forge, allowing it to be towed.