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Travis Heights The Academy, an 1889 shingle-style Victorian, was once a military school and inhabited by a Texas Supreme Court justice.—The Week Us, TheWeek, 11 May 2026 The new feature will be produced by Studiocanal and Bien ou Bien Productions, and has been buzzed about since 2022 (during a December 2025 event, the shingle had much to say about the project, via Variety).—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 11 May 2026
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And why his award-winning train station inspired by the one at the 1939 World's Fair in New York City stands out as much for its originality as for how every single stick and shingle in the basswood miniature is individual.—René Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Feb. 2026 What Kind Of Work Requires Permits? Most repairs and cosmetic updates don't require a permit, like painting walls, shingling your roof, replacing a faucet, or installing new bathroom tile.—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 30 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for shingle
Mazzei explains that Il Caggio features a combination of factors ideal for Sangiovese, including altitudes between 1,050 and 1,150 feet, which ensure balanced ripening, and deep and well-drained clay, schist, and calcareous marl soils dotted with a type of sandstone that imparts intense minerality.
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Mike DeSimone,
Robb Report,
14 Dec. 2025
In Friuli Venezia Giulia, the soils are rich in marl and sandstone, locally referred to as ponca.
Momager Kris Jenner joined her daughter, who also showcased a different hair look with a short bob and bangs.
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Swasti Singhai,
USA Today,
20 May 2026
Going for a slightly longer take on a bob that hits below the chin (and perhaps even grazes toward your shoulders) allows all the polish and charm of a bob, while letting natural texture give a breezy, airy look that requires minimal work.
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Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
15 May 2026
The patterns bear the hallmarks of overlapping portfolio-management strategies, often index-based and much of it likely automated, and all of it difficult to disentangle.
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Justina Lee,
Fortune,
23 May 2026
Akers’ and Tanner’s spaceflight careers overlapped by five years and included four missions each.
The veil of past and present, for example, takes an abstract turn in Altar I, while Todos los santos (Para subir al Cielo) shows a cemetery with various cross-shaped tombstones, with a ladder leaning on a wall spectrally overlaid on the image.
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Maximilíano Durón,
ARTnews.com,
22 May 2026
And there is little in the way of informational graphics to overlay on match footage, like fans regularly encounter in other major North American sports coverage.
Finer clays, silts and coarser sands would all have been deposited by different processes.
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Geoff Emberling,
The Conversation,
19 May 2026
Thanks to the cold water temperature, lack of natural light, and the layers of silt covering many of the artifacts, the ship and its contents were in remarkably good condition.
Of course, all of these venues have access to the organic crops grown on-site in the garden pavilion, from onions and peppers to herbs and edible flowers; those hardworking pollinators in the bee hotel also supply fresh honey.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
23 May 2026
Just like their nightshade cousin the tomato, potatoes need consistent moisture—at least 1 inch of water per week, to produce a good crop.
Researchers believe periodic flooding and river overflows helped preserve the eggs by covering them in sediment millions of years ago.
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Toria Sheffield,
PEOPLE,
23 May 2026
Its striking blue-green hues and clarity—allowing visibility of 20 to 30 feet—are due to minimal organic runoff and calcium-rich marl sediment from its glacial origins.