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Eddietia Crooks Stuck In The Mud

I once knew a woman stuck in the mud! The more she tossed and turned, the further she dug.

Poetry
English
594 Words
No Age Recommendation
231
0

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JOE PARENTE Mud or Clay

Where are they?

Short Story
English
8 Words
No Age Recommendation
386
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It's elusive but is it? It does slip by you!

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nerissa quizon the taste of mud masquerading as fish

Fiction
English
1 Words
No Age Recommendation
578
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nerissa m. quizon the taste of mud masquerading as fish

Horror
English
52 Words
Ages 18 and up
210
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Vernon Bartlett Mud and Khaki Sketches from Flanders and France

Fiction
English
35973 Words
Ages 18 and up
2
0

Charles Vernon Oldfield Bartlett, CBE (30 April 1894, Westbury, Wiltshire – 18 January 1983) was an English journalist, [more]

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Abdel-moniem El-Shorbagy THE VILLAGE

THE FALL AND RISE OF NEW GOURNA

Architecture
English
6921 Words
Ages 12 and up
314
1

New Gourna village is the most famous and well-documented project designed by the late Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy. While some other villages were realised by the architect, only this work achieved immediate fame, and it has, in many respects, remained a controversial project ever since. Fathy’s experiment in New Gourna village inevitably fused his architecture with the meaning of the human situation. The lessons gained from new Gourna were to be seen in its architectural vocabulary, especially in the assembly of vaults and domes. These elements demonstrated the chief virtues of mud-brick such as economy of materials and equilibrium of forms and masses. These virtues were not clear to the modern architects in Egypt who, by contrast, found them disturbing and not representing good building. New Gourna planning approach unlocked a very important door for architects and planners to create dynamic town planning elements, whose flexibility could allow a new spectrum of possibilities for living. Fathy’s philosophy and the difficult questions he addressed in New Gourna provided the fundamental links between him and other modern architects as well as highlighting key aspects of his contribution to twentieth century architecture. [more]

Keywords: Hassan Fathy, New Gourna, Village Planning, Vernacular Architecture, Built Environment, Mud Brick, Earth Architectecture, Community Architecture, Self-help Buildings

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Jeffcy Villaflor Once Upon A Car

It all began with all those muddiness

Romance
English
5146 Words
Ages 12 and up
1137
10

Muddiness into madness! This is so crazy! One-shot and give it all! This will be the first book that [more]

Keywords: mud, romance, one-shot story

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Debbie Lacy The Outhouse

Short Story
English
4281 Words
Ages 14 and up
239
0

Skye was a very successful Paint Artist who fell in love and married Terrell Chavis, a very prosperous Architect that designed a beautiful 3-story dream home for her out in the forest, a place she found quite enchanting. Subsequently, Terrell's business ventures caused frequent travel away from home often leaving her alone when one night while gazing out, she discovered some strange activity out in the forest that concerned her. Apprehensive about spending anymore nights alone while Terrell was away, her best friends accompanied her. While hiking together one day, they discovered a strange and unusual outhouse in the middle of the forest, enticed by one of her friends they decided to explore the strange and eerie depths when shockingly, what did they discover? And were they able to report what they saw to the proper authorities? Find out what happened in this alarming story. [more]

Keywords: Forest, Friends, Artist, Architect, Outhouse, Custom Design Home, Eerie, dungeon, Mud, Tragedy

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Alastair Macleod The Wrath of Pachacuti

Fiction
English
4103 Words
Ages 10 and up
96
0

In 2017 Peru, bordered by the Pacific in the West and the high Andes in the East was struck by exceptional torrential rains. Large mudslides carried away villages, parts of the roads, and towns were inundated. many people on the roads lost their lives. Although El Niño was expected this was an exceptionally big event, perhaps a portent of things to come as the climate warms. This is the story of ordinary Peruvians caught on the road, some losses, some heart rending stories, and some miraculous escapes. "Esmerelda leaned up to kiss Francisco. She was dressed in tight jeans, a hip length gilet and a woollen hat. They were getting wet. This close he inhaled her fragrance of Ambrette; she always spent on a luxury perfumes; an alluring scent, it was crafted with Peruvian hibiscus, bergamot, musk and mandarin. “The weather forecast is not good.” “Don’t worry, it won’t last, we will be able to walk in the mountains in the cool air.” She pressed against him. “I wish we could travel together.” "Back up the road Mayra Yupanqui sheltered with her children under a roof of palms. A noisy flock of green parrots flew out of the nearby jungle and down into the gorge. She distracted the children by getting them to build a shrine of leaves and branches - a shrine to Pachacuti – The Earth Changer." [more]

Keywords: Peru, El Niño, love, loss, huaycos, mud slides, flooding, drivers, Inca belief

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Abdel-moniem El-Shorbagy Hassan Fathy

Prophet of Earth Architecture

Architecture
English
19627 Words
Ages 14 and up
347
0

The Egyptian architect and master builder, Hassan Fathy (1900-1989) was one of the first architects to found a new approach based on a conception of interpreting forms and masses from the past. He was unique in believing that this language could exist alongside that of an aggressively modern one that cut all ties with the past. In addition to Fathy’s tireless efforts to establish his traditional approach, he struggled to improve the housing and living environments of the poor, especially in the Third World. Fathy’s efforts were acknowledged by several awards, including the Chairman’s Prize, Aga Khan Awards for Architecture (1980), the Right Livelihood Award (1980) and the first Gold Medal of the International Union of Architects (1984). [more]

Keywords: Hassan Fathy, Earth Architecture, Mud, Culture, Tradition, Luxor, Egypt, Housing the Poor

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