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In August 1908, a white mob attacked Springfield, Illinois’s Black community, destroying homes and businesses and lynching two Black men. National outrage over the violence helped spur the movement that created the NAACP the following year.
MORE →Reflects the personal views, recollections, and perspective of the author, Mike Davis.
This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985
A barabara or barabora[1] (Russian); ulax̂, ulaagamax, ulaq, or ulas (plural) (Aleut); and ciqlluaq (Alutiiq ~ Sugpiaq)[2][3][4] were the traditional, main or communal dwellings used by the Alutiiq people and Aleuts. They lay partially underground like an earth lodge or pit-house. Most of the house was excavated, to withstand the high winds in the Aleutian islands. Barabaras are no longer used.[5]
The Unangax̂ traditional home took various forms that shared three traits. Ulax̂ were semi-subterranean; consisting of rock-framed foundation pits, built of driftwood or whalebone, with sod roofs. The homes were accessed through a hatch in the roof (Aleut: galgix̂) utilizing driftwood or whalebone ladders. These homes were often a single room with a hearth set to the side, and the entrance ladder placed in the middle of the room.[6] Ulax̂ ranged in size depending on their location and era from an average 4 by 6 meters during the neoglacial period, to the later longhouse style homes recorded by Veniaminov; reaching between 10 and 60 meters and potentially housing over 30 families.[6]
Traditional Alutiiq homes were created by framing a foundation pit with wooden planks and supporting the roof with a post and beam framework. This structure was insulated by layering the outside of the structure with sod and thatch. The homes were centered around a main room with a central hearth and benches providing a functional workspace. The central chamber was flanked by side chambers to provide space for sleeping, storage, and other uses. The bottom of the room had one or more holes for an "inhouse" (waste pit). The entrance typically had a small wind envelope, or "Arctic entry", to prevent cold wind, rain or snow from blowing into the main room and cooling it. A small hole in the ceiling allowed smoke to escape from the fire.[2]
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A barabara or barabora (Russian); ulax̂, ulaagamax, ulaq, or ulas (plural) (Aleut); and ciqlluaq (Alutiiq ~ Sugpiaq) were the traditional, main or communal dwellings used by the Alutiiq people and Aleuts. They lay partially underground like an earth lodge or pit-house. Most of the house was excavated, to withstand the high winds in the Aleutian islands. Barabaras are no longer used.
Kenpei to Barabara Shibijin (Japanese: 憲兵とバラバラ死美人; lit. "The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty") is a 1957 black-and-white Japanese thriller film directed by Kyotaro Namiki and written by Akira Sugimoto, based on the book Notautsu Kanpei by Japanese military officer Keisuke Kosaka.
The sod house or soddy was a common alternative to the log cabin during frontier settlement of the Great Plains of North America in the 19th century and the early 20th century. Primarily used at first for animal shelters, corrals, and fences, they came into use also to house humans, for the prairie often lacked standard building materials such as wood or stone, while sod from thickly rooted prairie grass was abundant and free and could be used for house construction. Prairie grass has a much thicker, tougher root structure than a modern lawn. Construction of a sod house involved cutting patches of sod in triangles and piling them into walls. Builders employed a variety of roofing methods. Sod houses accommodated normal doors and windows. The resulting structure featured less expensive materials and was quicker to build than a wood-frame house, but required frequent maintenance and was vulnerable to rain damage, especially if the roof was also primarily of sod. Stucco was sometimes used to protect the outer walls. Canvas or stucco often lined the interior walls. There is a variety of designs, including a type built by Mennonites in Prussia, Russia, and Canada called a semlin and another in Alaska known as a barabara.
Jagarico is a family of salty snack products made primarily from processed fried potatoes. Introduced in 1995 by Calbee, Jagarico could be described as rod-shaped potato chips. According to Barabara Zec, they "have a similar appearance to French fries."
Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.
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