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In mountain areas, workers quarried stone to build the Great Wall. Using the mountains themselves as footings, the outer layer of the Great Wall was built with stone blocks (and bricks), and filled with uncut stone and anything else available (like earth and dead workers). [citation needed]
Cliff dwellings – Constructed in the sides of the mesas and mountains of the Southwest, cliff dwellings comprised a large number of the defensive structures of the Pueblo people. Jacal is a traditional adobe house built by the ancestral Pueblo peoples. Slim close-set poles were tied together and filled out with mud, clay and grasses, or adobe ...
Between 1949 and 1966, Joseph Eichler's company, Eichler Homes, built more than 11,000 [4] houses in nine communities in Northern California and houses in three communities in Southern California. Later, other firms worked with Eichler's company to build similar houses. Together, they all came to be known as Eichlers. During this period ...
Wright was born on June 8, 1867, in the town of Richland Center, Wisconsin, but maintained throughout his life that he was born in 1869. [4] [5] In 1987 a biographer of Wright suggested that he had been christened as "Frank Lincoln Wright" or "Franklin Lincoln Wright" but these assertions were not supported by any documentation.
The earliest attestation of these structures is in Xenophon's Anabasis, which mentions people in Anatolia who had built their houses underground. [6] [7] Their houses were underground, with a mouth like that of a well, but below they spread out widely. Entrance ways were dug for the herd animals, but the people descended by ladder.
Names Hill is a bluff located on the bank of the Green River in the U.S. state of Wyoming, where travelers on the Oregon and California trails carved their names into the rock. It is one of three notable "recording areas" along the emigrant trails in Wyoming along with Register Cliff and Independence Rock. The site was listed on the National ...
The houses always have names, sometimes the name of an ancestor or sometimes a figure from Māori mythology. While a meeting house is considered sacred, it is not a church or house of worship, but religious rituals may take place in front of or inside a meeting house. On most marae, no food may be taken into the meeting house. [82]
A hilltop castle [1] is a type of hill castle that was built on the summit of a hill or mountain. In the latter case it may be termed a mountaintop castle . The term is derived from the German, Gipfelburg , which is one of a number of terms used in continental castellology to classify castles by topology.