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  2. Pattern gardening - Wikipedia

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    Pattern gardening is a method of designing gardens influenced by the concepts of design pattern and pattern language originated by Christopher Alexander. It reflects the archetypal patterns of garden making, based on proportions and how the senses react. Patterns give coherence to garden design and communicate creativity and aesthetics.

  3. List of plants endemic to the Appalachian Mountains - Wikipedia

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    It is found in the central area of the southern Appalachian mountains, mainly on rocky outcrops of limestone or mafic rocks. [71] [72] Eriogonum alleni [73] Eubotrys recurva- mountain fetterbush. It is common at higher elevations of the southern Appalachian mountains. [74] [75] Eutrochium steelei - Appalachian Joe Pye weed. [76] [77]

  4. Patterned ground - Wikipedia

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    Patterned ground is the distinct and often symmetrical natural pattern of geometric shapes formed by the deformation of ground material in periglacial regions. It is typically found in remote regions of the Arctic , Antarctica , and the Outback in Australia , but is also found anywhere that freezing and thawing of soil alternate; patterned ...

  5. Parterre - Wikipedia

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    Claude Mollet, from a dynasty of nurserymen-designers that lasted into the 18th century, developed the parterre in France.His inspiration in developing the 16th-century patterned compartimens (i.e., simple interlaces formed of herbs, either open and infilled with sand, or closed and filled with flowers) was the painter Etienne du Pérac, who returned from Italy to the Château d'Anet near ...

  6. Cumberland Gap - Wikipedia

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    The Cumberland Gap is one of many passes in the Appalachian Mountains, but one of the few in the continuous Cumberland Mountain ridgeline. [2] It lies within Cumberland Gap National Historical Park and is located on the border of present-day Kentucky and Virginia, approximately 0.25 miles (0.40 km) northeast of the tri-state marker with Tennessee.

  7. Geology of the Appalachians - Wikipedia

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    As Pangea rifted apart a new passive tectonic margin was born, and the forces that created the Appalachian, Ouachita, and Marathon Mountains were stilled. Weathering and erosion prevailed, and the mountains began to wear away. [10] By the end of the Mesozoic, the Appalachian Mountains had been eroded to an almost-flat plain. [10]

  8. J.D. Vance and I both have Appalachian roots. We took away ...

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    OpEd: J.D. Vance isn’t a coal baron but he’s the exact mold of a man who is going to exploit the same people he claims to speak for.

  9. Patera (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    The patera is found in the ancient Roman architecture and in almost all later western styles of architecture. [6] The patera is used both within the civil and church architecture is usually made of marble or Istrian stone. It has a variable diameter between 20 and 80 cm, while the thickness is around 10 cm.