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The interior design of the skylights and earthen walls of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library.—Lee Cowan, CBS News, 21 June 2026 Crews are wanting to learn more about the earthen fortification, known as the redoubt, which is essentially a dirt fort colonial soldiers built by hand overnight before fighting began.—Kailey Schuyler, FOXNews.com, 12 June 2026 In 1964, civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were killed in Neshoba County, Mississippi; their bodies were found buried in an earthen dam six weeks later.—ABC News, 8 June 2026 Just over the river in Illinois, Kincaid Mounds State Historic Site preserves earthen mounds built by Mississippian Native Americans up to 1,000 years ago.—Matt Kirouac, Midwest Living, 7 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for earthen