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The brazier could sit in the open in a large room; often it was incorporated into furniture. Many cultures developed their own variants of a low table, with a heat source underneath and blankets to capture the warmth: the kotatsu in Japan, the korsi in Iran, the sandali in Afghanistan, [ 5 ] and the foot stove in northern Europe.
Off Arctic Valley Road, 12.5 miles (20.1 km) east of central Anchorage: Anchorage: The historical 244 acres (99 ha) area covers the Battery Area to the north and the Launch Area to the south. [4] 34: Spring Creek Lodge: Spring Creek Lodge: September 9, 2001
In 1967, the various fire companies unified as the Greater Anchorage Area Borough Fire Department. In 1975, the City of Anchorage and the Greater Anchorage Borough unified, becoming the Municipality of Anchorage. As of 2015, the AFD has a goal of maintaining 315 fire fighters and paramedics on active duty. [2] [3]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map.
Oct. 6—Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor and his wife, Jodi, recently purchased a prominent, 180-room Anchorage hotel, and have laid plans for a $6 million renovation. The Inlet View Tower, as ...
The hibachi (Japanese: 火鉢, fire bowl) is a traditional Japanese heating device. It is a brazier which is a round, cylindrical, or box-shaped, open-topped container, made from or lined with a heatproof material and designed to hold burning charcoal. It is believed hibachi date back to the Heian period (794 to 1185). [1]
The Southern California real estate boom of the 1880s, also the boom of the eighties, and sometimes just called the 1887 real estate boom, was the first big settlement push into Los Angeles County (including what is now Orange County), San Diego County (including what is now Imperial County), San Bernardino County (including what is now ...
The Miller’s Reach Fire, also known as the Big Lake Fire, was a wildfire that began on June 2, 1996 in an area around Miller’s Reach Road near Houston, Alaska, approximately 33 miles (53 km) north of Anchorage, Alaska. The fire burned over 37,000 acres (15,000 ha), destroyed at least 344 structures, [3] and caused more than $10 million in ...