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  2. Wallace E. Pratt House - Wikipedia

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    In contrast to Pratt's rustic canyon cabin, the house, which Pratt named the Ship On The Desert, is an International Style house with horizontal lines and extensive glazing. [3] Only 16 feet (4.9 m) wide and 110 feet (34 m) long, the house provides broad views to the east over the plains and the west to the mountains.

  3. List of the oldest buildings in Texas - Wikipedia

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    One of the oldest residence in the city. It was built by Macario Zambrano whose most well known son, Juan Manuel, put down the 1811 Casas Revolt. Dolores Aldrete House: San Antonio: 1818 Brown-Woodlief Log House: southwest of Washington: 1824 Built by William S. Brown one of the "Old Three Hundred" and one of the oldest log houses left standing ...

  4. Piraeus - Wikipedia

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    The municipality of Piraeus and four other suburban municipalities form the regional unit of Piraeus, sometimes called the Greater Piraeus area, with a total population of 448,051. At the 2021 census, Piraeus had a population of 168,151 people, making it the fifth largest municipality in Greece and the second largest (after the municipality of ...

  5. Wallace Pratt Lodge - Wikipedia

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    In 1929 Pratt bought out his partners, ending up owning a large portion of the canyon, which featured waterfalls flowing over travertine dams, a lush, quiet place in the high desert. In the winter of 1931-1932 Pratt started construction of a house in the canyon, designed by noted Houston architect John F. Staub , who also designed the Pratt's ...

  6. Long Walls - Wikipedia

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    The Piraeus and the Long Walls of Athens Ancient Athens. Although long walls were built at several locations in ancient Greece, notably Corinth and Megara, [1] the term Long Walls (Ancient Greek: Μακρὰ Τείχη [makra tei̯kʰɛː]) generally refers to the walls that connected Athens' main city to its ports at Piraeus and Phaleron.

  7. Theory of Phoenician discovery of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    The Ship Sarcophagus: a Phoenician ship carved on a sarcophagus, 2nd century AD.. The theory of Phoenician discovery of the Americas suggests that the earliest Old World contact with the Americas was not with Columbus or Norse settlers, but with the Phoenicians (or, alternatively, other Semitic peoples) in the first millennium BC.

  8. See inside an upcoming 3D printed resort - AOL

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    So it's only fitting El Cosmico plans to expand with distinctive 3D printed hotel rooms built by construction-tech startup Icon. Icon's more than 2,000-square-foot House Zero in Austin. Brittany ...

  9. History of Texas forests - Wikipedia

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    Annual precipitation across Texas ranges from more than 50 inches (1,300 mm) in the east to less than 5 inches (130 mm) in the west. The climate in Texas varies greatly across the state. Humid, rain-soaked swamps lie toward the east and desert lands lie in the far west.