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  2. Dugout (shelter) - Wikipedia

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    Dugout home near Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940 Coober Pedy dugout, Australia. A dugout or dug-out, also known as a pit-house or earth lodge, is a shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground. Dugouts can be fully recessed into the earth, with a flat roof covered by ground, or dug into a ...

  3. Pit-house - Wikipedia

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    Reconstruction of a pit-house in Chotěbuz, Czechia. A pit-house (or pit house, pithouse) is a house built in the ground and used for shelter. [1] Besides providing shelter from the most extreme of weather conditions, this type of earth shelter may also be used to store food (just like a pantry, a larder, or a root cellar) and for cultural activities like the telling of stories, dancing ...

  4. Zemlyanka - Wikipedia

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    A Zemlyanka model, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem Zemlyanka (Russian, Ukrainian: землянка, Belarusian: зямлянка. Czech: zemnice, Polish: ziemianka, Slovak: zemľanka) is a North Slavic name for a dugout or earth-house which was used to provide shelter for humans or domestic animals as well as for food storage.

  5. Sod house - Wikipedia

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    A sod farm structure in Iceland Saskatchewan sod house, circa 1900 Unusually well appointed interior of a sod house, North Dakota, 1937. The sod house or soddy [1] was a common alternative to the log cabin during frontier settlement of the Great Plains of Canada and the United States in the 1800s and early 1900s. [2]

  6. Las Vegas Bomb Shelter for Sale: Luxurious Blast From the Past

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    Las Vegas Bomb Shelter for Sale: Luxurious Blast From the Past. AOL Real Estate Editors. Updated July 14, 2016 at 10:01 PM. realtor.com.

  7. Underground living - Wikipedia

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    Caves (natural) have been used for millennia as shelter. Caves ( constructed )/ dugouts are a common structure for underground living. Although the tunnelling techniques required to make them have been well developed by the mining industry, they can be considerably more costly and dangerous to make than some of the alternatives.

  8. Bunker - Wikipedia

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    In the First World War the belligerents built underground shelters, called dugouts in English, while the Germans used the term Bunker. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] By the Second World War the term came to be used by the Germans to describe permanent structures both large ( blockhouses ), and small ( pillboxes ), and bombproof shelters both above ground (as in ...

  9. Earth shelter - Wikipedia

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    An earth sheltered house in Switzerland (Peter Vetsch) An earth shelter, also called an earth house, earth-bermed house, earth-sheltered house, [1] earth-covered house, or underground house, is a structure (usually a house) with earth against the walls and/or on the roof, or that is entirely buried underground.