At the very top of the house, in a former dovecote with oxeye windows, there’s now a yoga studio and a roof deck with a hair-raising view of the river valley.
—
Jo Rodgers,
Vogue,
3 May 2024
Surrounded by redwood trees, the half-timbered home has multiple rooflines and gables, three stand-alone dovecotes that look like little towers, and a fence of irregularly curving bricks.
In fact, by 1978, black children could be shot on sight for leaving their family's kraal, or homestead.
—
Alexandra Fuller,
Travel + Leisure,
21 Aug. 2020
Inspired by a traditional kraal (village) and surrounded by four savannahs, the lodge is home to 30 wildlife species — zebras, giraffes, flamingos, and gazelles — some of which can be spotted wandering past room windows.
However, one of agriculture’s most potent biological threats, a virulent strain of avian influenza, has infiltrated henhouses over the past three years, roiling the $40 billion industry.
—
Laurent Belsie,
The Christian Science Monitor,
22 Jan. 2025
Amazon's latest retail media announcement - offering its advertising technology to other retailers - might seem like asking competitors to invite the fox into the henhouse.
The first was named after the legislature of the Texas Republic, although the first capitol, a log structure tucked behind a defensive stockade, rose not on Congress, but at West Eighth and Colorado streets.
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Michael Barnes,
Austin American-Statesman,
3 Sep. 2024
Buildings that were part of the stockade were then dismantled, and the wood planks were reused to build homes located throughout Marietta.
On the day of the rettir, hundreds of sheep are released into a central wooden sheepfold that’s surrounded by marked compartments—one belonging to each local farmer—that jut out from the inner circle like rays of the sun.
—
Laura Kiniry,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Oct. 2022
This tidy residence in the western Swiss village of Etoy was built in 1830 as a sheepfold.
State police said detectives reportedly found Torres Jr. in possession of a wax fold containing a white powdery substance, as well as a two-way portable radio.
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Staff report,
Hartford Courant,
5 Feb. 2025
The only evidence of her previous weight was excess folds of skin.
Surveillance video later shared online shows a man in a dark-colored Nike sweatshirt flashing a small smirk before snatching the cage and dashing out the door.
—
Jessica Schladebeck,
New York Daily News,
18 Feb. 2025
In the quiet moments on a 75-degree day at Chicago Cubs camp, Ryne Sandberg leaned against the cage taking in batting practice.
—
Meghan Montemurro,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Feb. 2025
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