like to trade up from shabby Soviet-era dwellings.
The lowly mollusk should rightly be credited with creating the world's first beach house in the brilliant form of the seashell, that Cambrian-era dwelling that today is sometimes prized and polished, and sometimes trampled underfoot.
The villa in Casale is a spacious Roman-era dwelling with an extensive collection of 4th century AD mosaics.
"The Greek phrase translated in Luke as 'there was no room at the inn' (Luke 2 7) could also be interpreted as meaning there was not enough space for Mary and Joseph in their extended family's 'living room,' so Mary laid Jesus in a food trough for animals, which were sometimes kept near the entrances of first-century Christian Era cave dwellings found in Bethlehem".
At 18 she went to Cambridge to read archaeology, graduated three years later with a first-class degree, and travelled to Palestine – then under the British mandate – to excavate a Paleolithic-era cave-dwelling on Mount Carmel.
In another department of the laboratory, researchers use tree rings to date timber and charcoal samples taken from archeological sites throughout the Southwest, findings that resonate with the lives of the Old Ones, the Hohokam and the Anasazi, who in the pre-Columbian era built great cliffside dwellings and other architectural spectacles and then mysteriously abandoned them.
Many of them have been renting apartments in the now-crumbling residential blocks built during the Communist era, and not all those dwellings were built to withstand the earthquakes that periodically rock the city.
Today, what's left behind is a dense assemblage of artifacts and dwellings from different eras and groups.
Yet the last segment of its legs was relatively short, allowing it to plant its "foot" flat, like modern-day scorpions, instead of walking on tiptoe like other water-dwelling scorpions of the era were presumed to do.
The series is the first of the Gundam franchise set in the "Cosmic Era" in which mankind is divided between normal Earth dwelling humans, known as "Naturals", and the genetically altered humans known as "Coordinators", who live in space colonies.
It seems a foregone conclusion that any of Wright's concrete-block dwellings will need repair by virtue of the era in which they were built and the rudimentary construction procedures in Los Angeles at that time.
