Sentences with phrase «building mud houses»

«If you look at Earth and how civilization began, we began by building mud houses... so I guess it's pretty logical, at least in the early stages of colonization of Mars, if we can turn the Martian soil into building blocks,» Qiao tells HowStuffWorks.

Not exact matches

«My old house was only made of mud and stone, but this house has layers of concrete reinforcements built in,» she said.

«Our customer knowledge and sophisticated distribution systems will build on Anakena's foundations, as we did with New Zealand's Mud House, quickly building it into million case brand in the UK,» Mr Greiner said.

«Our business has cemented its position as the leading supplier of New World wines in recent years, building on its Australian, Californian and South African portfolio through the acquisition of brands in key appellations such as Sonoma County, through Geyser Peak, and Napa Valley through Atlas Peak in 2012, and in 2014 included premium New Zealand regions through the acquisition of Mud House and Waipara Hills.»

While the fight raged relentlessly on «Abandoned Properties», mostly mud houses built in the 1930s and 1940s, the «core» North moved in and harvested the oil rewards.

Like hundreds of other mounds in this region, Brak was built up over millennia as homeowners knocked down their decaying mud - brick houses and erected new structures on top of the remains.

Beginning some 9,500 years ago, in roughly 7500 B.C., and continuing for nearly two millennia, people came together at Çatalhöyük to build hundreds of tightly clustered mud - brick houses, burying their dead beneath the floors and adorning the walls with paintings, livestock skulls and plaster reliefs.

At Neolithic sites such as Çatalhöyük in Turkey, for example, archaeologists have found evidence that wild cattle bones were deposited in the foundations of mud - brick houses; the bones may be the remains of neighborhood feasts to celebrate the building of new dwellings.

I am so glad that when we (re) built our house, I thought to have a mud bench added to our laundry room.

An interesting companion piece to «Mud,» the film tells the story of two best friends (future megastar Nick Robinson, «Super 8» actor Gabriel Basso) who, fed up with their overbearing parents (including Nick Offerman, in his best non «Parks and Rec» performance to date), and with the help of show - stealing oddball Biaggio (Moises Arias), build a house in the woods where they can act like grown - ups.

Using the cumulative style of «This Is the House That Jack Built,» rhythmic text and digitally enhanced illustrations depict a freshwater - marsh food chain, from the mucky mud and reeds to mayflies nibbling algae to the eagle swooping down to catch a fish.

c. Need for thermic and hydric isolation in homes: they capacitated locals to build membranes with discarded tetrabrick; d. No interior heat and poor cooking techniques (fires inside the houses, which provoqued toxic smoque): they built and taught how to make an adobe (pressed mud dried to the sun) oven in one of the houses.

In the Punjab, locals built houses of mud, knowing they could rebuild every second year or so when the original got flooded.

Also on the agenda was a plan to build five new homes — mud huts with steel roofs to house widows and orphans.

With the help of many of the villagers, they succeeded in building the five mud houses.

We are building a house right now, and will have a great space for a chalk board / bulleting board, so I might adapt this idea for our mud room!

Unfortunately when the previous owners built our house they situated the house so the mud room / laundry room is the only room people use as an entrance.

It is becoming more common for larger houses in the US to install a doggy wash in their utility or mud room, which is basically an enclosed mini shower built specifically for their dogs.