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A Field Guide to Water

99% Invisible

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The Hall in Sterling Castle

The hall used to be everything. From the middle ages to about the fifteenth century, the hall was effectively the house with a central hearth that people used to warm themselves and cook over. As soon as a second room was added to holmes, the hall has been on a downhill slide. Now it is this dumb thing, a non room, whose primary function is to connect other rooms. So o pour one out for the hall. We just worry about it a few years ago. You should tech it out.

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