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ECO HOME: Building with COB

. What is a COB? Cob is a structural composite of earth, clay, straw, sand and water that is hand-sculpted into wall decorations. shelters or houses. With cob you can also create beautiful...

16 comments    climate change ecology cob
Exotic Places82

Ten Most Exotic Places of the World

GOD has created this world so beautifully. But what we do to it? We sometimes even do not bother to explore it, there are more then 80% people in the world that have never ever seen even 5% of this beautiful...

0 comments    travel world war ii tourist
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Should Intelligent Design be taught in school?

Has the universe always existed? I don't think the universe has always existed nor has an endless cycle of universes existed . Human reason would question:how long "always" was, until this point in time. We...

10 comments    life religion god
Castle Diagram A74

Labeled Diagram of a Castle

Here below we have some fantastic diagrams of various castle's throughout history. Now, obviously, since there is no one single caste design, we have labeled diagrams for all sorts of variations. Feel free to...

26 comments    travel architecture castle
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FAIRY TALES LIVE - Painted Houses of Village Oberammergau

. Once upon a time ....(15 years ago) when I visited charming village Oberammergau in Bavaria, Germany, I got convinced that fairy tales can live in ordinary human world. Since then, my vision of this...

12 comments    art walt disney murals
At the Palace of Knossos (public domain) 90

Palaces of Ancient Greece.

At the Palace of Knossos (public domain) Central Court West Court Magazines (Store Houses) Residential Quarters Banquet Hall Piano Nobile (Public Apartments) Cult Rooms along the West...

5 comments    internet education religion
Empire State Building88

3 Tallest Buildings in the United States

The 3 Tallest Buildings in the United States Although, there are quite a few proposed and under construction buildings that are even higher than these skyscrapers, we can only say that they are "close...

35 comments    travel history architecture
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Midway Gardens

Midway Gardens – Frank Lloyd Wright and Alfonso Iannelli Midway Gardens (built 1913-1914, demolished 1925) was an outdoor/indoor entertainment complex on Chicago's near South Side in the Hyde Park...

4 comments    entertainment finance arts
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The Architecture and Sculpture of the Parthenon

The Parthenon was built between 447BC and 438BC as a temple for the goddess Athena. Part of a broad building project, it was commissioned by Pericles and it replaced the Pre-Parthenon that was destroyed in...

0 comments    travel art architecture
Notice bushes nearly block the steps to this home's rarely used front door. The garage is behind the first set of windows at the left.88

Siting A House: Where Will The Front Door Go?

According to the website Don't Buy A Houseplan Until You Read This!, the four "S's" of choosing a building site, otherwise known as siTing (not siDing) a house, are slope, sun, soil, and sewer. This is the...

32 comments    finance home real estate
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