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    A roof (pl.: roofs or rooves) is the top covering of a building, including all materials and constructions necessary to support it on the walls of the...
    25 KB (3,352 words) - 10:10, 21 May 2024
  • Dylann Storm Roof (born April 3, 1994) is an American white supremacist, Neo-Nazi, and mass murderer who is currently awaiting execution on death row at...
    107 KB (10,236 words) - 18:11, 20 May 2024
  • Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial...
    75 KB (7,821 words) - 03:30, 30 April 2024
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    A mansard or mansard roof (also called French roof or curb roof) is a multi-sided gambrel-style hip roof characterised by two slopes on each of its sides...
    17 KB (1,863 words) - 18:20, 28 January 2024
  • Roof knocking (Hebrew: הקש בגג) or "knock on the roof" is a term used by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to describe its practice of dropping non-explosive...
    22 KB (2,012 words) - 17:14, 28 April 2024
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    Palate (redirect from Roof of the mouth)
    The palate (/ˈpælɪt/) is the roof of the mouth in humans and other mammals. It separates the oral cavity from the nasal cavity. A similar structure is...
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    roofer, roof mechanic, or roofing contractor is a tradesperson who specializes in roof construction. Roofers replace, repair, and install the roofs of...
    31 KB (3,560 words) - 02:45, 9 April 2024
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    A green roof or living roof is a roof of a building that is partially or completely covered with vegetation and a growing medium, planted over a waterproofing...
    92 KB (10,529 words) - 22:12, 3 May 2024
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    Thatching (redirect from Thatched roof)
    Thatching is the craft of building a roof with dry vegetation such as straw, water reed, sedge (Cladium mariscus), rushes, heather, or palm branches, layering...
    30 KB (3,500 words) - 14:27, 19 May 2024
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    became New York City's tallest building by roof height in April 2012, passing the 1,250-foot (380 m) roof height of the Empire State Building. President...
    166 KB (14,965 words) - 18:51, 9 May 2024
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    roof is a roof which is almost level in contrast to the many types of sloped roofs. The slope of a roof is properly known as its pitch and flat roofs...
    48 KB (6,984 words) - 14:33, 17 May 2024
  • (including roof garden) Single-pitched roof Shed roof (lean-to, pent roof, skirt roof, outshot, skillion, mono-roof): A roof with one slope, historically attached...
    14 KB (1,382 words) - 20:36, 11 December 2023
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    A roof garden is a garden on the roof of a building. Besides the decorative benefit, roof plantings may provide food, temperature control, hydrological...
    16 KB (1,848 words) - 19:59, 1 May 2024
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    feet (247 m) tall, while the 48 floors of office and retail space and 2 building equipment floors above that peak at the 701-foot (214 m) roof. It is the...
    13 KB (1,339 words) - 12:41, 17 November 2023
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    Roof cleaning is the process of removing algae, mold, mildew, lichen and moss from roofs. Also cleaning oxidation on metal roofs. Cleaning can extend the...
    6 KB (693 words) - 06:11, 17 May 2024
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    roof is a roof system designed to roll back the roof of a structure so that the interior of the facility is open to the outdoors. Retractable roofs are...
    10 KB (1,169 words) - 17:45, 15 May 2024
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    A hammerbeam roof is a decorative, open timber roof truss typical of English Gothic architecture and has been called "...the most spectacular endeavour...
    9 KB (1,240 words) - 06:24, 19 April 2024
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    Roof pitch is the steepness of a roof expressed as a ratio of inch(es) rise per horizontal foot (or their metric equivalent), or as the angle in degrees...
    6 KB (793 words) - 22:35, 15 May 2024
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    A metal roof is a roofing system featuring metal pieces or tiles exhibiting corrosion resistance, impermeability to water, and long life. It is a component...
    21 KB (2,522 words) - 23:56, 17 May 2024
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    the building that can categorically be deemed the roof. This is a list of buildings taller than 350 m that are currently under construction. On-hold buildings...
    86 KB (3,016 words) - 13:21, 17 May 2024
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