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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. 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.

  4. 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 ...

  5. Underground House Colorado - Wikipedia

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    Underground Home interior photos Underground Home living room Underground Home swimming pool. The Ranch-style house one-level 3,400 sq ft (320 m 2) underground earth shelter was designed to blend with the surroundings with earth against the walls and on the roof.

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  7. Mole people - Wikipedia

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    Media accounts have reported "mole people" living underneath other cities as well. In the Las Vegas Valley, it is estimated a thousand homeless people find shelter in the storm drains underneath the city for protection from extreme temperatures that exceeded 120 °F (49 °C)in summer of 2024, while dropping below 30 °F (−1 °C) in winter.

  8. Refugee shelter - Wikipedia

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    Living in these shelters refugees may force marriage crowded, noisy, dirty, disease filled grounds where thousands of families are cramped together and surviving day by day. [1] Nyanzale camp, DR Congo. Refugees and IDPs can often be found living in refugee camps or IDP camps and in these shelters for upwards of a decade. Design models ...

  9. File:Dugout home2.jpg - Wikipedia

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