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  2. Headboard (furniture) - Wikipedia

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    Historically, headboards served to isolate sleepers from drafts and cold in less insulated buildings, and thus were made of wood, which is less thermally conductive than stone or brick. Constructed to create space from the wall (via thicker end pillars), they allowed falling colder air to sink to the floor rather than onto the bed. [1]

  3. Bed - Wikipedia

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    Bed frames, also called bed steads, are made of wood or metal. The frame is made up of head, foot, and side rails. For heavy duty or larger frames (such as for queen- and king-sized beds), the bed frame also includes a center support rail. The rails are assembled to create a box for the mattress or mattress/box spring to sit on. Types include:

  4. Bed frame - Wikipedia

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    A bed frame includes head, foot, and side rails. [1] The majority of double (full) beds and all queen- and king-sized beds necessitate a central support rail, often accompanied by additional feet that extend towards the floor for stability. The concept of a "bed frame" was initially introduced and referred to between 1805 and 1815. [1]

  5. Bed base - Wikipedia

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    Bed of Queen Hetepheres I, with headrest (near end). 4th Dynasty of Egypt , circa 2575-2528 B.C. Bed is 177 cm (5ft 9in) long. The 600s (7th-century) Anglo-Saxon Trumpington bed burial held a 60cm by 155cm bed with pieces of looped wrought iron , which may have held the bed base.

  6. Timber framing - Wikipedia

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    A simple timber frame made of straight vertical and horizontal pieces with a common rafter roof without purlins. The term box frame is not well defined and has been used for any kind of framing (with the usual exception of cruck framing). The distinction presented here is that the roof load is carried by the exterior walls.

  7. A-frame building - Wikipedia

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    The Bennati House, in Lake Arrowhead, California. Rudolph Schindler's original A-frame design, 1934. An example of an A-frame house in Gillette, Wyoming Traditional A-frame thatched house (palheiro), Santana, Madeira, Portugal An A-frame house owned and restored by Nicky Panicci in the Hollywood Hills, an example of an architectural A-frame.

  8. Kang bed-stove - Wikipedia

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    A large kang shared by the guests of a one-room inn in a then-wild area east of Tonghua, Jilin, as seen by Henry E.M. James in 1887. The kang (Chinese: 炕; pinyin: kàng; Manchu: nahan, Kazakh: кән) is a traditional heated platform, 2 metres or more long, used for general living, working, entertaining and sleeping in the northern part of China, where the winter climate is cold.

  9. PS Medway Queen - Wikipedia

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    The PS Medway Queen is a paddle driven steamship, the only mobile estuary paddle steamer left in the United Kingdom. She was one of the " little ships of Dunkirk ", making a record seven trips and rescuing 7,000 men in the evacuation of Dunkirk .