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Recent Examples of wickiupPart tipi, part wickiup, and influenced by many architectural styles, a round lodge can block wind, rain, cold, and sun.—Popular Science, 28 May 2020 The wickiup is a bit like a small tipi made from poles, brush and vegetation.—Popular Science, 28 May 2020
Inna and her family decided to drive to another village about 60 miles away, where Inna's grandparents had a tiny old hut.
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Joanna Kakissis,
NPR,
10 Jan. 2025
Known for not being precious on set, Winslet illustrates this to Dominus by being interviewed for hours in a chilly beach hut on the English coast (Winslet’s idea).
Feast On Local Delights In Fort-de-France, welcoming local food shacks and easy-going eateries reign, offering simple but delicious and affordable eats that show-off the region’s best recipes.
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Sandra MacGregor,
Forbes,
17 Jan. 2025
The Wieland family boat is appropriately called the Transformation, and Cicero himself, who in Brown’s novel is listed as Theodore’s favorite author, is repurposed as the proprietor of the town’s seafood shack.
The school’s rodeo grounds are pocked with prairie dog holes, and roads to the mobile home park and hogans that house employees are mostly unpaved.
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Matt Krupnick,
ProPublica,
14 Oct. 2024
The Navajo elder lives in a hogan, a traditional home, built for him by neighbors in Wide Ruins, a remote town of 175 people in northeastern Arizona, about 250 miles from Phoenix.
Right now, Chuck and Gail’s house still stands with its Spanish tile, twin writers’ sheds,
and framed Sylvia Plath drawing, the flames
stopped by the choppers’ water bombs
half a block from their gate.
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Anna Journey,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
Also, make sure to clear combustibles and vegetation around fences, sheds, outdoor furniture and play structures.
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