Tents were pitched to protect the camp meeting attendees.

Tents and an open-air wooden shelter, or tabernacle, were erected in the 1870s, for the trainloads of visitors arriving by the New York and Long Branch Railroad after 1875.

Tents were used at least as far back as the early Iron Age ; they are mentioned in the bible, for example in the Genesis 4: 20 where Jabal is described as ' the first to live in tents and raise sheep and goats '.

A converted schoolhouse ( near the present day Quaker Inn ) served as the park's first administration building, and World War I Army Surplus Tents, on 16 ' x16 ' wooden platforms were primarily used during the time between the park's creation until the completion of the first permanent cabins in 1925.

Tents were erected in the surrounding playing fields for the soldiers.

Tents were needed and the Beal City Knights of Columbus had some to rent.

Tents embroidered with gold were pitched within the sacred enclosure ; and the wealth of Dionysius was vividly shown by the number of chariots which he had entered.

Tents were very frequently employed in this effort in the recent past, and occasionally still are, but less so due to the difficulties in heating and cooling them and otherwise making them comfortable, an increasing consideration with modern audiences.

Tents were also issued, perhaps for the first time in the civil wars, for it was a regular professional army, which had to be cared for, made comfortable and economized, that was now carrying on the work of the volunteers of the first war.

Tents were erected, a rudimentary electrical system, radios and some rough streets were laid down.

Tents indicated status in these societies, so wealth and power were displayed through the richness of the fabrics as well as by size and number.

Tents were not issued to the troops because they were within range of the guns at Vicksburg ; so the more enterprising men dug holes in the levee and covered them with their black rubber blankets.

Tents were erected for the gentry, who came from the surrounding counties of Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Worcestershire, and food was supplied in abundance.

Tents were established inside a barbed wire enclosure.

Tents around the Great Auditorium

Tents are placed in the streets around the Mosque of Seyyid Badawi where Qur ' an recitations and sermons by important scholars from al-Azhar Mosque are delivered.

Tents could also be made as portable structures that could be transported in a character's inventory before deployment.

The Los Fresnos Motocross Park has camp sites available at the track to accommodate RV's & Tents.

Tents and wattle and daub huts preceded more substantial structures.

Tents range in size from " bivouac " structures, just big enough for one person to sleep in up to huge circus tents capable of seating thousands of people.

Tents for recreational camping fall into two categories.

Tents intended to be carried by backpackers are the smallest and lightest type.

Tents are used as habitation by nomads, recreational campers, and disaster victims.

Tents are typically used as overhead shelter for festivals, weddings, backyard parties, and major corporate events.

Tents have traditionally been used by nomadic people all over the world, such as Native Americans, Mongolian and Tibetan Nomads, and the Bedouin.

Tents are preferred by the military for their relatively quick setup and take down times, compared to more traditional shelters.

Tents that use inflatable airbeams are structured almost identically to those that use flexible poles.

* Freeform / Stretch / Flex Tents have developed since 2000 driven predominantly by companies in South Africa and in Australia.

Since 2007 Stretch Tents have been introduced into Europe by some of the South African companies such as Intent.

Stretch Tents utilize aluminum, wooden and bamboo poles capped by molded polypropylene or rubber domes that push through the stretched fabric, creating tension between the ground and the fabric.

They also have the advantage of the Frame Tents as they do not have support pole ( s ) on the inside of the tent that touches the ground.

Tents can be ordered in a variety of colours.

* " Bail Ring Tents " are usually tents that are 100 to 150 feet ( 30m x 45m ) wide and expandable to any length.

* Tents or marquees are often hired from specialist companies.

Tents of Afghan nomad s in Badghis Province of Afghanistan.

Tents and huts housed the men.

For a particularly fabulous room which houses a collection of fine English Chippendale furniture, fabric wall panels were embroidered with a typically Chinese-inspired design of this revered Eighteenth Century period.

That summer the gambling houses were closed, despite the threats of Pierre Ameaux, a gaming-card manufacturer.

Suppose the lines in front of the movie houses were too long and we couldn't get in??

Only eight of the 50 houses were completed at the time of the editor's visit on June 8th ; ;

Sample units ( villages in rural areas, houses in cities ) were drawn systematically within these strata.

The structured schools were in an industrial city, with three-family tenement houses typical of the residential areas, but with one rather sizable section of middle-class homes.

There were three houses in Salyer's Canyon just at the foot of a low bluff, the road winding along the top, entering above, and then passing down in front of the houses, thence to the Vermejo.

The ten or more dangerous parties singled out for prosecution were still at large, and Pels realized that if these men entrenched themselves in their adobe houses, defending themselves through loopholes, it would be most difficult to capture them.

The sewer on Bonnet Street was constructed when there were only a few houses on the street.

Not until they sailed home at the end of the day, through a sea strewn with bodies and the wreckage of houses, were they aware of what had happened.

There was a small, neon-lighted restaurant and cocktail lounge on the southeast corner of the intersection as he turned into the quiet, palm-lined street where most of the houses on both sides were older two-story mansions, now cut up into furnished rooms and housekeeping apartments.

And not one single dwelling left there, though once, in the early eighteenth century, there were close to a hundred houses.

The houses were built of unmortared stone, which means that no cement or mortar was used to hold the stones together.

In addition, houses for public officials and missionaries, and outstations for police and surveyors were also constructed during Gawler's governorship.

The city exported meat, wool, wine, fruit and wheat by the time Grey left in 1845, contrasting with a low point in 1842 when one-third of Adelaide houses were abandoned.

They were arranged in lines like the tents in an encampment, or the houses in a street.

Under the heading of " places ," his class explores where texts were made, read, and listened to, including monasteries, schools and universities, offices of the state, the shops of merchants and booksellers, printing houses, theaters, libraries, studies, and closets.

Ultimately, only two houses were built, neither designed by Gaudí.

Roadways around the park to service the intended houses were designed by Gaudí as structures jutting out from the steep hillside or running on viaducts, with separate footpaths in arcades formed under these structures.

The archaeology, however, shows that they were largely Romanized, lived in Roman-style houses and used Roman artifacts, the Alemannic women having adopted the Roman fashion of the tunic even earlier than the men.

His main policies were concerned with avoiding the development of great noble houses, kingdoms inside the kingdom, and concentrating power in the person of the king.

In 1589 Pope Sixtus V united to the Congregation of St Ambrose the monasteries of a group known as the " Brothers of the Apostles of the Poor Life " ( or " Apostolini " or " Brothers of St. Barnabas "), whose houses were in the province of Genoa and in the March of Ancona.

Their houses, scattered throughout Lombardy and Venetia, were united into a congregation by St Pius V, under the Rule of St Augustine with a mother-house, residence of the prioress general, at Pavia.

* Structures ; Ruins of palaces, palatial villas, houses, built dome-or cist-graves and fortifications ( Aegean islands, Greek mainland and northwestern Anatolia ), but not distinct temples ; small shrines, however, and temene ( religious enclosures, remains of one of which were probably found at Petsofa near Palaikastro by J. L. Myres in 1904 ) are represented on intaglios and frescoes.