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  • Joseph feields who was also out a little above me saw several Elk and deer but killed none of them; they are very shye and the annual furn which is now dry and abundant in the bottoms makes so much nois in passing through it that it is extreemly difficult to get within reach of the game.

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • The furn also supplies news, gossip, conversation—communion in the most generous sense.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • Men stood in front of the furn and waited for manaeesh.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • Men stood in front of the furn and waited for manaeesh.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • Women and children went out for supplies—they were less likely to be mistaken for combatants—and the women who gathered at the neighborhood bakery became known as niswan al furn, “the ladies of the oven.”

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • Women and children went out for supplies—they were less likely to be mistaken for combatants—and the women who gathered at the neighborhood bakery became known as niswan al furn, “the ladies of the oven.”

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • The furn also supplies news, gossip, conversation—communion in the most generous sense.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • Most Beirut neighborhoods have a furn, a communal bread oven where people gather in the mornings and early afternoon to get freshly baked manaeesh: crisp little pizzas topped with zaatar, cheese, ground beef or lamb, or spicy Armenian sausage, to name just a few incarnations.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • Most Beirut neighborhoods have a furn, a communal bread oven where people gather in the mornings and early afternoon to get freshly baked manaeesh: crisp little pizzas topped with zaatar, cheese, ground beef or lamb, or spicy Armenian sausage, to name just a few incarnations.

    Day of Honey Annia Ciezadlo 2011

  • Just look at Avatar… you know, dances with wolves / Pocahontas / last samourai / furn gully in space.

    Proof Of God: Disney Closes Zemeckis Digital Mannequin Studio | Obsessed With Film 2010

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