● First,ask the children to study each picture and find the differences.Then ask them to say why the homes have their own features.For example,some houses have high stilts(支柱) because there is too much rain every year and some houses have chimneys (烟囱) because it is...
housed thousands of Allied airmen who had fallen into German hands. Constructed with barrack blockhouses that were raised on stilts (to enable guards to keep an eye on tunneling attempts); built atop sandy soil (to make it easy to spot the darker soil produced through excavation); and surroun...
Kivalina is a hard place. With no plumbing, residents have to haul water in barrels. Several houses—prefab wood structures built on short stilts—are cracking as the land sinks and gets eroded, weakened by the melting of sea ice above and permafrost thaw below. Hoping to eventually get enou...
In December 1967, Abbie, his wife Anita and I decided to take our first real vacation, in the Florida Keys. We rented a small house on stilts in Ramrod Key. This was the week before Christmas. We bought a small tree and spray painted it with canned snow. Now, we were tripping on L...
and fitted with outdoor jungle showers and striking brass bathtubs. For more elevated living, you can check into one of two, two-storey tree houses built on stilts overlooking the Indian Ocean, and connected by a bamboo bridge. Or, go all out and splurge $14,000 a nigh...