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  2. Blast shelter - Wikipedia

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    When a house is purpose-built with a blast shelter, the normal location is a reinforced below-grade bathroom with large cabinets. [citation needed] In apartment houses, the shelter may double as storage space, as long as it can be swiftly emptied for its primary use. A shelter can easily be added in a new basement construction by taking an ...

  3. Sangar (fortification) - Wikipedia

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    The British Army use other terms to classify their sites covered by our definition [of towers and observation posts]. For the avoidance of any doubt we set out below the military terms we have deemed to be included in this part of the report. Sangar: A sangar is a protected sentry post, normally located around the perimeter of a base.

  4. Bomb shelter - Wikipedia

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    A fallout shelter is a shelter designed specifically for a nuclear war, with thick walls made from materials intended to block the radiation from fallout resulting from a nuclear explosion. Many such shelters [1] were constructed as civil defense measures during the Cold War. A blast shelter protects against

  5. Gord (archaeology) - Wikipedia

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    The Persian word evolved into jerd under later Arab influence. Burugerd or Borujerd is a city in the west of Iran. The Indian suffix -garh, meaning a fort in Hindi, Urdu, Sanskrit, and other Indo-Iranian languages, appears in many Indian place names. [6]

  6. Blast shelters - Wikipedia

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    Pages for logged out editors learn more. Contributions; Talk; Blast shelters

  7. Casemate - Wikipedia

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    A mid-19th century artillery casemate at Fort Knox, Maine.. A casemate is a fortified gun emplacement or armoured structure from which guns are fired, in a fortification, warship, or armoured fighting vehicle.

  8. Word search - Wikipedia

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    A word search. A word search, word find, word seek, word sleuth or mystery word puzzle is a word game that consists of the letters of words placed in a grid, which usually has a rectangular or square shape. The objective of this puzzle is to find and mark all the words hidden inside the box. The words may be placed horizontally, vertically, or ...

  9. Hesco bastion - Wikipedia

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    Assembling the HESCO unit entails unfolding it and filling it with sand, soil or gravel, usually using a front end loader.The placement of the barrier is generally very similar to the placement of a sandbag barrier or earth berm except that room must generally be allowed for the equipment used to fill the barrier.