This paper describes the historical development of the various archetypes of Icelandic turf farmhouses, researches the building techniques and materials applied, and qualifies the impact of the building properties on comfort and health of the former occupants.
He has since been embraced by the Mount Vernon Ladies Associationn and is the only historical interpreter permitted to play Washington on his own turf.
The spectacle of broken English being spoken on sets where the most solid wooden elements were the actors didn't put the British off historical drama, but rather encouraged them to make it on their own turf and terms.
The scene was like something out of a historical movie, and it felt stirring to be surrounded by Parisians on their turf, actually practicing liberté, égalité and fraternité.
As the weekly Die Zeit recently noted, it would be a huge historical irony if Ms Merkel became Germany's first eastern chancellor since unification, but still lost on her home turf against barely reconstructed former communists.
Yet all the historical evidence does not necessarily serve as a guide, because this country has never in modern times been so threatened on its own turf.
