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117 relations: A Fortunate Life, Aesthetics, Alexander George Gurney, Alexander Harris (writer), Augustus Earle, Austroderia, Batten, Beam (structure), Biography, Boondocks, Brachychiton, Bush carpentry, Calcium oxide, Casuarinaceae, Cement, Chamfer, Charles Blomfield (artist), Cladding (construction), Clapboard (architecture), Classic, Clay, Colony, Concrete, Corrugated galvanised iron, Croft (land), Cyatheales, Dwelling, Eric Jolliffe, Eucalyptus, Feces, Fern, Fiction, First Fleet, Flax, Foam rubber, Foundation (engineering), Gable, Gag cartoon, Galvanization, Granary, Green wood, Hardwood, Henry Handel Richardson, Henry Kingsley, Henry Lawson, Henry William Haygarth, Hessian fabric, Homestead (buildings), Humpy, Imperata cylindrica, ..., Ironmongery, James Tucker (convict), John Hoyte, John Skinner Prout, Joist, Journalism, Land lot, Linen, List of house types, List of human habitation forms, Literature, Livistona australis, Log cabin, Louisa Anne Meredith, Lumber, Marae, Mezzanine, Miles Franklin, Mortise and tenon, Ned Kelly, New South Wales, Nicholas Chevalier, Northern Territory, Osnaburg, Particle board, Peter Miller Cunningham, Plaster, Podocarpus totara, Pound (currency), Queensland, Rachel Henning, Rafter, Robert James Mann, Roof shingle, S. T. Gill, Sailcloth, Saliva, Selection (Australian history), Settler, Shed, Smith's Weekly, Soot, Splitting maul, Squatting (pastoral), Stan Cross, Station (Australian agriculture), Steele Rudd, Storey, Termite, Thatching, The Bush Undertaker, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, The Oaks, New South Wales, The Sydney Mail, Theatre, Theatrical scenery, Typha domingensis, Unk White, Veranda, Wall plate, Wall stud, Watagan Mountains, Wattle and daub, Wedge, Whitewash, William John Swainson, Wollombi, New South Wales. Expand index (67 more) »
A Fortunate Life
A Fortunate Life is an autobiography by Albert Facey published in 1981, nine months before his death.
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Aesthetics
Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy that explores the nature of art, beauty, and taste, with the creation and appreciation of beauty.
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Alexander George Gurney
Alexander George "Alex" Gurney (15 March 1902 – 4 December 1955) was an Australian artist, caricaturist, and cartoonist born at Pasley House, Stoke, Devonport (now Stoke, Plymouth), England.
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Alexander Harris (writer)
Alexander Harris (7 February 1805 – 1 February 1874) was a soldier, teacher and author known for his early fictional accounts of convict life in Australia.
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Augustus Earle
Augustus Earle (c. 1793 – 1838) was a London-born travel artist.
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Austroderia
Austroderia is a genus of five species of tall grasses native to New Zealand, commonly known as toetoe.
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Batten
A batten is most commonly a strip of solid material, historically wood but can also of plastic, metal, or fiberglass.
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Beam (structure)
A beam is a structural element that primarily resists loads applied laterally to the beam's axis.
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Biography
A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life.
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Boondocks
The boondocks is an American expression that stems from the Tagalog word bundók ("mountain").
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Brachychiton
Brachychiton (kurrajong, bottletree) is a genus of 31 species of trees and large shrubs, native to Australia (the centre of diversity, with 30 species), and New Guinea (one species).
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Bush carpentry
Bush carpentry is an expression used in Australia and New Zealand that refers to improvised methods of building or repair, using available materials and an ad hoc design, usually in a pioneering or rural context.
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Calcium oxide
Calcium oxide (CaO), commonly known as quicklime or burnt lime, is a widely used chemical compound.
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Casuarinaceae
The Casuarinaceae are a family of dicotyledonous flowering plants placed in the order Fagales, consisting of four genera and 91 species of trees and shrubs native to the Australia, Southeast Asia, Malesia, Papuasia, and the Pacific Islands.
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Cement
A cement is a binder, a substance used for construction that sets, hardens and adheres to other materials, binding them together.
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Chamfer
A chamfer is a transitional edge between two faces of an object.
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Charles Blomfield (artist)
Charles Blomfield (5 January 1848–15 March 1926) was an English-born artist who executed several paintings of New Zealand landscapes, including the Pink and White Terraces, a notable natural feature that was later destroyed in the 1886 eruption of Tarawera.
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Cladding (construction)
Cladding is the application of one material over another to provide a skin or layer.
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Clapboard (architecture)
Clapboard or clabbard, also called bevel siding, lap siding, and weatherboard, with regional variation in the definition of these terms, is wooden siding of a building in the form of horizontal boards, often overlapping.
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Classic
A classic is an outstanding example of a particular style; something of lasting worth or with a timeless quality; of the first or highest quality, class, or rank – something that exemplifies its class.
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Clay
Clay is a finely-grained natural rock or soil material that combines one or more clay minerals with possible traces of quartz (SiO2), metal oxides (Al2O3, MgO etc.) and organic matter.
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Colony
In history, a colony is a territory under the immediate complete political control of a state, distinct from the home territory of the sovereign.
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Concrete
Concrete, usually Portland cement concrete, is a composite material composed of fine and coarse aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement (cement paste) that hardens over time—most frequently a lime-based cement binder, such as Portland cement, but sometimes with other hydraulic cements, such as a calcium aluminate cement.
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Corrugated galvanised iron
Corrugated galvanised iron or steel (colloquially corrugated iron (near universal), wriggly tin (taken from UK military slang), pailing (in Caribbean English), corrugated sheet metal (in North America) and occasionally abbreviated CGI) is a building material composed of sheets of hot-dip galvanised mild steel, cold-rolled to produce a linear corrugated pattern in them.
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Croft (land)
A croft is a fenced or enclosed area of land, usually small and arable, usually, but not always, with a crofter's dwelling thereon.
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Cyatheales
The order Cyatheales, which includes the tree ferns, is a taxonomic division of the fern class, Polypodiopsida.
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Dwelling
In law, a dwelling (also residence, abode) is a self-contained unit of accommodation used by one or more households as a home, such as a house, apartment, mobile home, houseboat, vehicle or other 'substantial' structure.
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Eric Jolliffe
Eric Ernest Jolliffe (31 January 190716 November 2001) was an Australian cartoonist and illustrator.
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Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus L'Héritier 1789 (plural eucalypti, eucalyptuses or eucalypts) is a diverse genus of flowering trees and shrubs (including a distinct group with a multiple-stem mallee growth habit) in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae.
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Feces
Feces (or faeces) are the solid or semisolid remains of the food that could not be digested in the small intestine.
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Fern
A fern is a member of a group of vascular plants that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers.
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Fiction
Fiction is any story or setting that is derived from imagination—in other words, not based strictly on history or fact.
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First Fleet
The First Fleet was the 11 ships that departed from Portsmouth, England, on 13 May 1787 to found the penal colony that became the first European settlement in Australia.
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Flax
Flax (Linum usitatissimum), also known as common flax or linseed, is a member of the genus Linum in the family Linaceae.
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Foam rubber
Foam rubber (also known as cellular, sponge, or expanded rubber) refers to rubber that has been manufactured with a foaming agent to create an air-filled matrix structure.
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Foundation (engineering)
A foundation (or, more commonly, base) is the element of an architectural structure which connects it to the ground, and transfers loads from the structure to the ground.
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Gable
A gable is the generally triangular portion of a wall between the edges of intersecting roof pitches.
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Gag cartoon
A gag cartoon (a.k.a. panel cartoon or gag panel) is most often a single-panel cartoon, usually including a caption beneath the drawing.
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Galvanization
Galvanization or galvanizing is the process of applying a protective zinc coating to steel or iron, to prevent rusting.
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Granary
A granary is a storehouse or room in a barn for threshed grain or animal feed.
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Green wood
Green wood is wood that has been recently cut and therefore has not had an opportunity to season (dry) by evaporation of the internal moisture.
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Hardwood
Hardwood is wood from dicot trees.
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Henry Handel Richardson
Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson (3 January 187020 March 1946), known by her pen name Henry Handel Richardson, was an Australian author.
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Henry Kingsley
Henry Kingsley (2 January 1830 – 24 May 1876)A.
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Henry Lawson
Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson (17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922) was an Australian writer and bush poet.
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Henry William Haygarth
Henry William Haygarth (1821–1903) was an English cleric who as a young man lived for eight years in the Australian bush, writing a journal based on his experiences.
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Hessian fabric
Hessian, burlap in the US and Canada, or crocus in Jamaica,http://ciad.org.uk/2012/03/28/crocus-bag/ is a woven fabric usually made from skin of the jute plant or sisal fibres, which may be combined with other vegetable fibres to make rope, nets, and similar products.
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Homestead (buildings)
A homestead is a dwelling, especially a farmhouse, and adjacent outbuildings, typically on a large agricultural holding such as a ranch or station.
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Humpy
A humpy (or gunyah) is a small, temporary shelter, traditionally used by Australian Aboriginals, with a standing tree usually used as the main support.
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Imperata cylindrica
Imperata cylindrica (commonly known as cogongrass, kunai grass, blady grass, alang-alang, lalang grass, cotton wool grass, kura-kura) is a species of grass in the family Poaceae.
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Ironmongery
Ironmongery originally referred, first, to the manufacture of iron goods and, second, to the place of sale of such items for domestic rather than industrial use.
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James Tucker (convict)
James Rosenberg Tucker (1808?-1888) was an Australian convict and author from Bristol, England.
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John Hoyte
John Barr Clark Hoyte (22 December 1835 – 21 February 1913) was a New Zealand artist and teacher.
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John Skinner Prout
John Skinner Prout (1805–1876), painter, writer, lithographer and art teacher was born on 19 December 1805 in Plymouth, Devon, England.
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Joist
A joist is a horizontal structural member used in framing to span an open space, often between beams that subsequently transfer loads to vertical members.
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Journalism
Journalism refers to the production and distribution of reports on recent events.
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Land lot
In real estate, a lot or plot is a tract or parcel of land owned or meant to be owned by some owner(s).
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Linen
Linen is a textile made from the fibers of the flax plant.
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List of house types
This is a list of house types.
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List of human habitation forms
This is a list of (semi)-permanent, mobile and misc.
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Literature
Literature, most generically, is any body of written works.
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Livistona australis
The cabbage-tree palm, Livistona australis, is in the Arecaceae family.
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Log cabin
A log cabin is a dwelling constructed of logs, especially a less finished or architecturally sophisticated structure.
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Louisa Anne Meredith
Louisa Anne Meredith (20 July 1812 – 21 October 1895), also known as Louisa Anne Twamley, was an Anglo/Australian writer and illustrator.
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Lumber
Lumber (American English; used only in North America) or timber (used in the rest of the English speaking world) is a type of wood that has been processed into beams and planks, a stage in the process of wood production.
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Marae
A marae (in New Zealand Māori, Cook Islands Māori, Tahitian), malae (in Tongan), meae (in Marquesan), and malae (in Samoan) is a communal or sacred place that serves religious and social purposes in Polynesian societies.
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Mezzanine
A mezzanine (or in French, an entresol) is, strictly speaking, an intermediate floor in a building which is partly open to the double-height ceilinged floor below, or which does not extend over the whole floorspace of the building.
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Miles Franklin
Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, known as Miles Franklin (14 October 187919 September 1954) was an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel My Brilliant Career, published by Blackwoods of Edinburgh in 1901.
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Mortise and tenon
A mortise (or mortice) and tenon joint is a type of joint that connects two pieces of wood or other material.
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Ned Kelly
Edward "Ned" Kelly (December 1854 – 11 November 1880) was an Australian bushranger, outlaw, gang leader and convicted police murderer.
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New South Wales
New South Wales (abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.
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Nicholas Chevalier
Nicholas Chevalier (9 May 1828 – 15 March 1902) was a Russian-born artist who worked in Australia and New Zealand.
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Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT) is a federal Australian territory in the central and central northern regions of Australia.
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Osnaburg
Osnaburg was a coarse type of plain fabric, named from the archaic English name for the city of Osnabrück, Germany.
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Particle board
Particle board – also known as particleboard, low-density fibreboard (LDF), and chipboard – is an engineered wood product manufactured from wood chips, sawmill shavings, or even sawdust, and a synthetic resin or other suitable binder, which is pressed and extruded.
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Peter Miller Cunningham
Peter Miller Cunningham (1789–1864) was a Scottish naval surgeon and pioneer in Australia.
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Plaster
Plaster is a building material used for the protective and/or decorative coating of walls and ceilings and for moulding and casting decorative elements.
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Podocarpus totara
Podocarpus totara (from the Maori-language tōtara; the spelling "totara" is also common in English) is a species of podocarp tree endemic to New Zealand.
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Pound (currency)
The pound is a unit of currency in some nations.
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Queensland
Queensland (abbreviated as Qld) is the second-largest and third-most populous state in the Commonwealth of Australia.
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Rachel Henning
Rachel Biddulph Henning (1826–1914) was born in England.
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Rafter
A rafter is one of a series of sloped structural members that extend from the ridge or hip to the wall plate, downslope perimeter or eave, and that are designed to support the roof deck and its associated loads.
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Robert James Mann
Robert James Mann (1817–1886) was an English physician and science writer.
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Roof shingle
Roof shingles are a roof covering consisting of individual overlapping elements.
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S. T. Gill
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Sailcloth
Sailcloth encompasses a wide variety of materials that span those from natural fibers, such as flax, hemp or cotton in various forms of sail canvas, to synthetic fibers, including nylon, polyester, aramids, and carbon fibers in a variety of woven, spun and molded textiles.
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Saliva
Saliva is a watery substance formed in the mouths of animals, secreted by the salivary glands.
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Selection (Australian history)
Selection referred to "free selection before survey" of crown land in some Australian colonies under land legislation introduced in the 1860s.
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Settler
A settler is a person who has migrated to an area and established a permanent residence there, often to colonize the area.
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Shed
A shed is typically a simple, single-story roofed structure in a back garden or on an allotment that is used for storage, hobbies, or as a workshop.
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Smith's Weekly
Smith's Weekly was an Australian tabloid newspaper published from 1919 to 1950.
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Soot
Soot is a mass of impure carbon particles resulting from the incomplete combustion of hydrocarbons.
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Splitting maul
A splitting maul also known as a block buster, block splitter, sledge axe, go-devil or hamaxe is a heavy, long-handled axe used for splitting a piece of wood along its grain.
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Squatting (pastoral)
In Australian history, a squatter was typically a man, either a free settler or ex-convict, who occupied a large tract of Crown land in order to graze livestock.
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Stan Cross
Stanley George Cross (3 December 1888 – 16 June 1977) was born in the United States but was known as an Australian strip and political cartoonist who drew for Smith's Weekly and The Herald and Weekly Times.
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Station (Australian agriculture)
In Australia, a station is a large landholding used for producing livestock, predominantly cattle or sheep, that need an extensive range of grazing land.
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Steele Rudd
Steele Rudd was the pseudonym of Arthur Hoey Davis (14 November 1868 – 11 October 1935) an Australian author, from Queensland best known for his novel On Our Selection.
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Storey
A storey (British English) or story (American English) is any level part of a building with a floor that could be used by people (for living, work, storage, recreation).
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Termite
Termites are eusocial insects that are classified at the taxonomic rank of infraorder Isoptera, or as epifamily Termitoidae within the cockroach order Blattodea.
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Thatching
Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge (Cladium mariscus), rushes, heather, or palm fronds, layering the vegetation so as to shed water away from the inner roof.
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The Bush Undertaker
"The Bush Undertaker" is a short story by Australian writer and poet Henry Lawson.
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The Fortunes of Richard Mahony
The Fortunes of Richard Mahony is a three-part novel by Australian writer Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson under her pen name, Henry Handel Richardson.
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The Oaks, New South Wales
The Oaks is a town in the Macarthur Region of New South Wales, Australia in Wollondilly Shire on the south western edge of the Sydney Basin.
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The Sydney Mail
The Sydney Mail was an Australian magazine published weekly in Sydney.
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Theatre
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers, typically actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.
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Theatrical scenery
Theatrical scenery is that which is used as a setting for a theatrical production.
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Typha domingensis
Typha domingensis, known commonly as southern cattail or cumbungi, is a perennial herbaceous plant of the genus Typha.
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Unk White
Cecil John White (1900 – March 1986), known under the pen name Unk White, was an Australian cartoonist born in Auckland, New Zealand.
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Veranda
A veranda or verandah (from Bengali baranda) is a roofed, open-air gallery or porch.
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Wall plate
A plate or wall plate is a horizontal, structural, load-bearing member in wooden building framing.
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Wall stud
A wall stud is a vertical framing member in a building's wall of smaller cross section than a post.
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Watagan Mountains
The Watagan Mountains or Watagans or Wattagan Mountains, a mountain range that is part of the Great Dividing Range, is located on the Upper Hunter region of New South Wales, Australia.
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Wattle and daub
Wattle and daub is a composite building material used for making walls, in which a woven lattice of wooden strips called wattle is daubed with a sticky material usually made of some combination of wet soil, clay, sand, animal dung and straw.
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Wedge
A wedge is a triangular shaped tool, and is a portable inclined plane, and one of the six classical simple machines.
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Whitewash
Whitewash, or calcimine, kalsomine, calsomine, or lime paint is a low-cost type of paint made from slaked lime (calcium hydroxide, Ca(OH)2) and chalk (calcium carbonate, (CaCO3), sometimes known as "whiting". Various other additives are also used.
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William John Swainson
William John Swainson FLS, FRS (8 October 1789 – 6 December 1855), was an English ornithologist, malacologist, conchologist, entomologist and artist.
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Wollombi, New South Wales
Wollombi is a small village in the Hunter Region of New South Wales, Australia.
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References
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