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The plot's width was traditionally an index of wealth, and typical machiya plots would be just 5.4 to 6 metres (18 to 20 ft) wide but 20 metres (66 ft) deep, leading to the nickname unagi no nedoko, or 'eel beds'. Behind the shop space, the remainder of the main building would be divided into the kyoshitsu-bu (居室部, lit.
East side of the Place des Vosges in Paris, one of the earliest examples of terraced housing. A terrace, terraced house (), or townhouse [a] is a type of medium-density housing which first started in 16th century Europe with a row of joined houses sharing side walls.
Prominent examples in Hong Kong include Severn 8, in which a 5,067-square-foot (470.7 m 2) townhouse sold for HK$285 million (US$37 million) in 2008, or HK$57,000 (US$7,400) per square foot, a record in Asia, and The Beverly Hills, which consists of multiple rows of townhouses with some units as large as 11,000 square feet (1,000 m 2). Commonly ...
Townhouse (1883) at 680 Fifth Avenue, New York. The house was a wedding gift from William H. Vanderbilt to his daughter. Demolished. [4] "NaHaSaNe" (1893), the 115,000 acre Great Camp located on Lake Lila in the Adirondacks. George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862–1914), Townhouse (1887) at 9 West 53rd Street in New York City.
The company again gained national attention in 2010 following their publication of The Tea Party Coloring Book for Kids. [8] The coloring book, recommended for children aged two to five, contained passages reading "When taxes are too high, the high tax takes away jobs and freedom" and "In 1773 we had a Tea Party and this led to freedom from high taxes.
Wing scales. Male and female. Upperside. Ground-colour reddish-ochreous, basal areas olivescent-ochreous-brown; cilia black, alternated with white, Forewing with an outwardly-oblique black irregular-shaped broken band crossing from middle of the cell to the disc above the submedian vein; the apical area from end of cell and the exterior border also black; before the apex is a short white ...
Handbook of London Past and Present, London, 1850 (see section 20: "Palaces & Chief Houses of the Nobility & Gentry in the Present Day). London's Mansions by David Pearce, (1986) ISBN 0-7134-8702-X; The London Rich by Peter Thorold (1999) ISBN 0-670-87480-9; Daisy, Countess of Fingall. Seventy Years Young. First published 1937 (autobiography of ...
Monarch Butterflies: Increase the Eastern population of the monarch butterfly to 225 million butterflies occupying an area of approximately 15 acres (6 hectares) in the overwintering grounds in Mexico, through domestic/international actions and public-private partnerships, by 2020.