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  • Sudatorium (category Room stubs)
    In architecture, a sudatorium is a vaulted sweating-room (sudor, "sweat") or steam bath (Latin: sudationes, steam) of the Roman baths or thermae. The Roman...
    993 bytes (154 words) - 09:43, 19 December 2022
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    Sweatshop (redirect from Sweating system)
    "Sweating System". Collier's New Encyclopedia. 1921. "Sweatshops". The New Student's Reference Work. 1914. Schloss, David Frederick (1911). "Sweating System"...
    80 KB (9,476 words) - 22:24, 3 December 2024
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    furnace (propnigeum, προπνίγειον), a vaulted sauna (sudatio), a dry sweating-room (laconicum), and a hot bath. To the north of the palaestra was a second...
    7 KB (676 words) - 16:33, 28 November 2024
  • of sweating and the skin is dry is termed anhidrosis. The condition is also known as adiaphoresis, ischidrosis, oligidria, oligohidrosis and sweating deficiency...
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    was a chamber still hotter than the caldarium, and used simply as a sweating-room, having no bath. It was said to have been introduced at Rome by Agrippa...
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    Laconicum (category Room stubs)
    sc. balneum, "bath") was the dry sweating room of the Roman thermae, sometimes contiguous to the caldarium or hot room. The name was given to it (Laconia:...
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  • Sweat was a co-headlining concert tour by English singer-songwriter Charli XCX and Australian singer-songwriter Troye Sivan, in support of their albums...
    16 KB (870 words) - 18:31, 24 November 2024
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    dictionary. Old English had a word stofa, meaning a hot-air bath or sweating room. However, this usage did not survive, and the word was taken newly from...
    44 KB (5,357 words) - 12:51, 2 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Keith Sweat
    Keith Douglas Sweat (born July 22, 1961) is an American singer and songwriter. An early figure in the new jack swing musical movement, he is known for...
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    of the bath house below it (which has a rare circular sudatorium or sweating room), and the levelled parade ground above it, which is considered to be...
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    doors they dispute. They wrangle over their food, in the bath, in the sweating room, in the church, in the town, in the country, in public, in private....
    32 KB (3,982 words) - 12:58, 10 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Deva Victrix
    entrance room (vestibulum), an exercise hall (basilica thermarum), a sweating room (sudatorium), a cold room with a cold pool (frigidarium), a warm room (tepidarium)...
    41 KB (4,747 words) - 16:10, 31 August 2024
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    palaestra and added two new chambers: a laconicum (dry-sweating room), and a destrictarium (room for scraping the body clean with strigils). The work having...
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  • the box. Another variation of this punishment is known as sweating, the use of a heated room to punish or coerce a person into cooperating with the torturers...
    6 KB (578 words) - 05:45, 2 May 2024
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    floorplans of Andrea Palladio, each caldarium had a small laconicum (dry sweating room) attached to it. Smaller suites of hot rooms ran along the south façade...
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  • Thumbnail for Banya (sauna)
    bather lies on the hot stone and sweats. When sweating is plentiful, massage starts. In North America, the use of sweat lodges by Native Americans is similar...
    20 KB (2,633 words) - 12:53, 28 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Glanum
    circulated under the rooms through brick channels. One was a hot air sweating room or laconicum, the other a caldarium, or hot bath, including a masonry...
    27 KB (3,529 words) - 05:47, 10 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Altercatio Hadriani Augusti et Epicteti philosophi
    first room is the warm-water room for anointing oneself: the newborn child is anointed. The second room, the sweating-room, is childhood. The third room, the...
    13 KB (1,444 words) - 17:01, 28 May 2024
  • commitments prevented further shooting at Cheltenham. The sweat room scenes were filmed in the School Room in School House at Aldenham School (though they were...
    23 KB (2,647 words) - 22:18, 1 November 2024
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    A circular sweating room (laconicum) and a furnace (praefurnium) were built to heat the water for the hot bath (solium) in a large room on whose floor...
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