First the Russians and South Ossetians fortified a checkpoint on their side of the road with camouflaged dugouts sprouting tricolour flags.
THE red, white and blue bunting draped over the dugouts and across the grandstands says it all: baseball sees itself as America's national pastime.
For the trenches, dugouts and tunnels many containing human remains and personal belongings are ethical minefields too.
In many countries lot of foreign boats operate in areas close to the shore supposedly reserved for locals in dugouts.
PADDLES splash through oily water and propel dugouts along narrow channels separating wooden shacks on stilts far out in the shallow lagoon on which much of Lagos, Nigeria's business hub, was built.
Now they build dugouts and bunkers, using cargo containers sunk into the ground.
During the winter of 1916 17, the Germans prepared a reserve trench system, the Hindenburg Line, containing deep dugouts where the men could take cover against artillery fire and machine guns emplaced in concrete shelters called pillboxes.
Parallel improvements were made in water transport: irrigation ditches and freshwater supply routes first constructed in the 7th century bc were followed by the development of navigable canals, while rafts, dugouts, and reed floats were eventually succeeded by wooden boats.
The lapstrake type of planking, in which each plank or strake overlaps slightly the one below it, can be seen in an elementary form in some dugouts with plank sides.
Sewed plank construction in the 20th century was mostly confined to some islands in the South Pacific, where basic dugouts were heightened by means of plank sides, and to some very limited areas where all-plank boats were built by this method.
