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82Home Design Photos : Straw Bale Style
Straw bale home design included the layout as a Latin American folk art gallery. While a primary concern in considering the construction of a straw bale home is its energy efficiency and its corresponding...
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79Jim Bowie: Frontiersman and Fighter
Early Life and Legend James Bowie was born around April 10 in 1796 near Terrapin Creek (present day Spring Creek), Kentucky. He, his brothers John J., Stephen, and Rezin P. Bowie,and his parents, Reason...
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68Cloris Leachman the oldest contestant on Dancing With The Stars
In the history of female or male Hollywood performers, no one has accomplished more than Cloris Leachman. The Des Moines native, born on April 30th 1926, has won eight Primetime Emmys, one Daytime Emmy, an...
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72Reclaimed Flooring
While a number of eco-friendly flooring solutions focus on the efficient production of new flooring materials with minimal damage to the environment, reusing pre-existing materials is also a viable...
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62Poem: The Forest
The Forest The loggers leave a path: mud streaks, hewn branches, stumps, scarred trees, boulders askew- marks left as if a titan has been dragged screaming through the forest. The formerly...
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79How To: The First Courses Of Earthbag Home Walls
When it comes to building earthbag walls for new home construction, opinions vary. You can find web pages touting the advantages of loose volcanic rock, dirt with the "right" mix of clay, sand, and moisture,...
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71Blog Post #1 (My strange dream)
We have dreams, or nightmares that we cannot understand. The world in our sleep is described as something that sometimes feels as if it wants to speak to us. These visions a lot of the times make no sense...
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81Effects of the Recession in Canada and How To Survive It
We knew the call would be coming. We were edgy and worried and every ring of the telephone had us biting our nails and crossing our fingers. Lay-offs were happening everywhere and there was no such thing as...
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60Wooden Flooring
There is a price associated with using reclaimed wooden flooring over traditional wooden floors, but with that price, you're getting a lot. This is the BMW of flooring, after all, not the Yugo. Reclaimed...
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73FILM PHOTOGRAPHY: How To Build A Darkroom Sink
I'm going to teach you how to build a darkroom sink. What I'm not going to do is throw a bunch of confusing choices at you. Especially choices of materials. Well, maybe just a couple. I know how I built my...
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