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• n  a circular domed dwelling that is portable and self-supporting; originally used by nomadic Mongol and Turkic people of central Asia but now used as inexpensive alternative or temporary housing

• They set up their fur yurts (tents) on the plain, capped themselves with full-dress peacock plumes and crowded into the council chamber.
• And so, beginning in 1997, Tenberken traveled the mountain country on horseback with a Tibetan health counselor, crossing treacherous passes and sleeping in yurts, which were often .
• Somewhere between a tent and a hut lies a curious little structure known by a single ungainly syllable: yurt.

News & Articles

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• Sex Yelp: New App Lets Ladies Anonymously Rate and Review Hookups
  We're hurtling towards the future, y'all, and if you aren't holding on to your cowboy hats you better start now, because the world of hooking up is morphing into a gigantic, horny mass of wires and cell phones, and nothing, I mean nothing , is safe. Even if you're hooking up in a yurt in Bhutan or something, so long as there is 4G, romance and Internet will inevitably unite. Lulu , like Tindr ...
  June 13, 2013 - Deadspin

Quotes

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• Nikolai Patrushev in China Daily
  A special operation was carried out by us in the village of Tolstoy-Yurt as a result of which the international terrorist and leader of the rebel group Aslan Maskhadov was killed,FSB Security Service chief Nikolai Patrushev told President...
• Benjamin Franklin in New York Times
  We wanted to be close to nature and still be relatively comfortable indoors,Mr. Franklin said. "If you seal yourself off in another home, have you achieved what you're trying to do? The yurt preserved the best qualities."
• Alu Alkhanov in Times Online
  According to the information that I have, Aslan Maskhadov was liquidated in the village of Tolstoi-Yurt and it happened exactly as in the official statement by FSB chief Nikolai Patrushev,said Alu Alkhanov, who was elected president of...