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  • 41Earth sheltering — is the architectural practice of using earth against building walls for external thermal mass, to reduce heat loss, and to easily maintain a steady indoor air temperature. Earth sheltering is popular in modern times among advocates of passive… …

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  • 42Beel — A beel or a bheel ( bn. বিল) is a term for a pond (wetland) with static water (as opposed to moving water in rivers and canals typically called khaal s), in the Ganga Brahmaputra flood plains of the Eastern Indian states of West Bengal, and Assam …

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  • 43List of watershed topics — This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it. See also: Drainage system (geomorphology) This list embraces topographical watersheds and drainage basins and other topics focused on them. Contents 1 Terms different uses …

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  • 44Art and Art Exhibitions — ▪ 2009 Introduction Art       The art market enjoyed an astonishing run of record breaking sales through the first nine months of a volatile 2008. In May Lucian Freud s Benefits Supervisor Sleeping (1995), a candid portrayal of a corpulent female …

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  • 45Cheyenne Botanic Gardens — Solar Conservatory The Cheyenne Botanic Gardens (9 acres, 3.6 ha) are located in Lions Park in Cheyenne, Wyoming, with an associated High Plains Arboretum located five miles (8 km) northwest of Cheyenne at an elevation of 6,200 feet… …

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  • 46Morgan Hill, California — City of Morgan Hill   City   View of El Toro …

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  • 47Elk Lake (British Columbia) — Infobox lake lake name = Elk and Beaver Lakes image lake = caption lake = image bathymetry = caption bathymetry = location = Saanich, British Columbia coords = type = inflow = O Donnel Creek outflow = Colquitz Creek catchment = 11.5 km² basin… …

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  • 48Cotton mill — A cotton mill is a factory that houses spinning and weaving machinery. Typically built between 1775 and 1930, mills spun cotton which was an important product during the Industrial Revolution. Cotton mills, and the mechanisation of the spinning… …

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  • 49FISH AND FISHING — In the Bible and Talmud The Bible says that humans are to exercise dominion over the fish as well as over all other subhuman life (Gen. 1:28). Fish are divided into clean and unclean by biblical dietary laws: These you may eat, of all that are in …

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  • 50Nuclear technology — A residential smoke detector is the most familiar piece of nuclear technology for some people Nuclear technology is technology that involves the reactions of atomic nuclei. Among the notable nuclear technologies are nuclear power, nuclear… …

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