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solar
solar, soler. 1. Garret, loft, or Rood-loft.2. Private upper chamber on the first floor, often in a cross-wing, of a medieval house.3. Bay-window, almost the size of a small room, at the side of the high-table end of a medieval hall, or attached to a late-medieval withdrawing-room or... Read more |
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Green Room
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gallery
gallery. 1. Large internal passage, often a grand room on the upper floor of an Elizabethan or Jacobean house, called long gallery, extending the full length of a façade, and used to display pictures and tapestries, for recreation, and as a connecting corridor. Good examples exist at Hardwick... Read more |
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Operating Room
Operating room Definition An operating room (OR), also called surgery center, is the unit of a hospital where surgical procedures are performed. Purpose An operating room may be designed and equipped to provide care to patients with a range of conditions, or it may be designed... Read more |
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John Gerard Braine
John Gerard Braine 1922-86, English novelist, b. Bradford, Yorkshire. With his first novel, Room at the Top (1957), Braine established himself as one of England's angry young men . This novel bitterly chronicles the rise of a young working-class man into the upper middle class of an English... Read more |
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kitchen
kitchen separate room or other space set aside for the cooking or preparation of meals. When cooking first moved indoors, it was performed, with other domestic labors, in the common room, where the fire burned on the hearth, or—even earlier, before chimneys were known—on the floor in... Read more |
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pageant
pageant modern dramatic spectacle or procession celebrating a special occasion or an event in the history of a locality. In medieval times the word pageant had meant the wagon or the movable stage on which one scene of a mystery or miracle play was performed. The pageant was built on wheels and... Read more |
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Recovery Room
Recovery room Definition The recovery room, also called a post-anesthesia care unit (PACU), is a space a patient is taken to after surgery to safely regain consciousness from anesthesia and receive appropriate post-operative care. Description Patients who have had... Read more |
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Hospital emergency services
EMERGENCY ROOM The hospital emergency department has become a very important access point for health care for elderly persons and this trend will likely continue. The emergency room serves as the site of hospital entry for many patients, with scheduled admissions largely restricted to elective... Read more |
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nook
nook. 1. Corner of a room, i.e. interior angle formed by the meeting of two walls.2. Piece taken out of an angle, e.g. where a reveal meets the exterior face of a wall and a reentrant angle is formed, giving two arrises instead of one.3. Part of the corner of a room beside a fireplace, often with... Read more |
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MAN DIES WHEN FIRE HITS NEWBURYPORT YMCA
...97-year-old YMCA building. Richard...fourth- floor room where he lived...appeared to have started in the third...caretaker at the YMCA for about two...second floor of the YMCA, which also serves...feeling just a little bit ... |
 "The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)")
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THE RISE AND FALL OF LATTIMORE HALL; BUILT FOR $2.7 MILLION TO REVITALIZE...
...485,005, less than one-fifth...that the walls of upper floors were moldy...as 600 to 700 rooms. In the mid...to the Auburn YMCA, which built...a night at the YMCA dormitory, and...and a half, the YMCA converted its...The ... |
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BRUCE SPARKS SENATORS; WHEELER TIPS MARQUETTE
...Indian Oak Inn meeting room at Indiana 49 and...They must have started at least half the games and be ranked in the upper 15 percent of their...SUNDAY The Duneland YMCA will hold its 4th...will be used for YMCA's fitness ... |
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Betsy Jacobs. (A Day in the Life of a Facility Manager).
...out to be in the YMCA, but I got involved...Many of the YMCA's facilities feature guest rooms for budget travelers...can count on the YMCA facilities to...building on the Upper East Side to a...wonderful career. I started as ... |
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...the Garden Ranch YMCA, in Colorado...straight, relax the upper body and take...the Garden Ranch YMCA's senior program...likely to spot at least one of ACE's...everywhere from weight rooms to aerobics gyms...for years, then ... |
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Exercise mistakes are common but easy to correct.(Originated from TRIM)
...the Garden Ranch YMCA, in Colorado...straight, relax the upper body and take...the Garden Ranch YMCA's senior program...likely to spot at least one of ACE's...everywhere from weight rooms to aerobics gyms...for years, then ... |
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Fair Board, commissioners clash over soccer fields at fairgrounds.(Government)
...should get the upper hand. "Soccer...Eugene Family YMCA, which wants...tournaments. The YMCA would bear the...fairgrounds at least $55,000 a year...intimidate me and you started shouting at me...Eugene Family YMCA didn't ... |
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Fair Board, commissioners clash over soccer fields at fairgrounds.
...should get the upper hand. "Soccer...Eugene Family YMCA, which wants...tournaments. The YMCA would bear the...fairgrounds at least $55,000 a year...intimidate me and you started shouting at me...Eugene Family YMCA didn't ... |
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LOCAL BASKETBALL REGIONALS
...Athletes must have started at least half the games and be ranked in the upper 15 percent of...wrestlers in Room C125, and boy swimmers in Room C224. The girls...The Valparaiso YMCA plans to offer...information, call the ... |
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Quake rattles Redlands
...the kids in the room stopped chatting...ended and they all started crying." None...whole building started to vibrate for...over, the dogs started barking again...a good fixer-upper investment...It shook us a little," said ... |
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