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	...And He Built a Crooked House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Crooked House, Virginia City Originally built in 1870, then rebuilt in 1876 after a fire destroyed the whole town of Virginia City.
		Crooked Knives - Mocotagan Origin and history of the crooked knife, believed used in North America as early as the 17th century.
		Welch House Inn Past and present are happily married in the Welch house which was built in 1873 by a family of seafarers and was one of the first residences built atop McKown Hill.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-...And_He_Built_a_Crooked_House.html (337 words)

	Crooked House -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Crooked House (1949) is a (additional info and facts about whodunnit) whodunnit by (Prolific English writer of detective stories (1890-1976)) Agatha Christie and one of her novels featuring neither (additional info and facts about Hercule Poirot) Hercule Poirot nor (additional info and facts about Miss Marple) Miss Marple.
		Roger, the eldest son and always Aristide's favourite, is a failure as businessman and has steered the catering business bestowed to him by his father to the brink of bankruptcy; his wife Clemency, an austere-looking scientist, has never been able to enjoy the wealth offered by her husband's family.
		Philip's wife Magda is a modestly successful actress to whom everything, even a murder in the family, is a stage show in which she wants to play a leading part.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/cr/crooked_house.htm (1228 words)

	"—And He Built a Crooked House—" - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"'—And He Built a Crooked House—''" is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein first published in Astounding Science Fiction in March 1941.
		It is about a mathematically-inclined architect named Quintus Teal who has what he thinks is a brilliant idea to save on real estate costs by building a house shaped like the unfolded net of a tesseract.
		The night before the architect is to show the new owners around the house, there is an earthquake: the house then becomes folded through the fourth dimension.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/...And_He_Built_a_Crooked_House (184 words)

	Encyclopedia: Crooked House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Crooked House (published in 1949) is a whodunnit novel by Agatha Christie.
		Due to the war, the whole family has been living together under one roof, in a large house near London, among them Leonides' second wife, whom many in the family dislike and see as nothing more than a gold digger.
		The obvious suspects are Brenda Leonides herself, no longer willing to wait for her inheritance, and Laurence Brown, a conscientious objector who also lives in the house as private tutor to Eustace and Josephine, Sophia's younger brother and sister.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Crooked-House (2721 words)

	Crooked House – Crumbling Foundation by Linda Schrock Taylor
		Consider public schooling in America, for it is doubly flawed – a crooked structure atop a crumbling foundation – and its collapse is inevitable.
		On these buses the children are transported to and from the crooked (literally and figuratively) buildings that house the indoctrination centers that fail to teach reading and math; fail to provide knowledge and educations; force children to spend unproductive years without even learning how to understand, claim or protect their God-given rights.
		These crooked structures certainly fail in the opinion of the population, but are great successes in the eyes of the socialist/communist architects and central planners.
	www.lewrockwell.com /taylor/taylor17.html (1041 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Crooked House at Epinions.com
		The man referred to in the rhyme as the crooked man here is Aristide Leonides, a Greek immigrant who managed to marry an English woman, establish a large family and a very successful catering business in England.
		The reason for Aristide being crooked is the source of his wealth.
		Crooked House is a crooked book that takes you into the life of crooked family living in the literally and metaphorically crooked family.
	www.epinions.com /content_169853226628 (1342 words)

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		Afterwards, he wrote us a detailed letter, stating that the house was structurally sound and that the sloping kitchen floor was an "optical illusion." He did acknowledge the sloping laundry room floor, and recommended adding latex material underneath the tile to level the floor.
		Perhaps to explain how the house came to be vacant, he told people that we had moved out of town and so he bought the house back, as if he had done us a favor.
		He told them that only one area of the house was defective (the area under the mudroom floor, about 10% of what we proved in court), and that it had been fixed with some new posts.
	www.lakesidepress.com /dreams/section1.html (10893 words)

	And He Built a Crooked House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"And He Built a Crooked House" is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein about a mathematically-inclined architect who has what he thinks is a brilliant idea to save on real estate costs by building a four-dimensional house shaped like a tesseract.
		There is also a 1949 novel by Agatha Christie entitled Crooked House.
		It uses material from the wikipedia article And He Built a Crooked House.
	www.eurofreehost.com /an/And_He_Built_a_Crooked_House.html (150 words)

	Life in a crooked house: Who needs straight lines? \| csmonitor.com
		That was 17 years ago, and the house is still holding together, although it has more to say as it ages.
		My house, like an exotic plant, simply had its own growth habit, as if it were meant to be crooked.
		It's interesting how living in a crooked house has colored my view of the new homes that seem to be going up everywhere.
	www.csmonitor.com /2005/0822/p18s03-hfes.htm (816 words)

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		The house visible in the background is called the "Blue Bayou." Both houses are on display in the parking lot of South Gateway Center, near the former Ernst Hardware building, now Valley View Nursery.
		Murl Ming doesn't profess to being the "crooked man" or to having a "crooked cat," but he has a lot of miniature crooked houses.
		The crooked buildings -- the smallest are about 8 feet wide and 18 feet tall -- are all functional, he says.
	www.mailtribune.com /archive/98/jan98/1998b1.htm (470 words)

	Picture Book Review: The Little Crooked House, by Margaret Wild & Jonathan Bentley
		But the crooked house is too close to a train line and every time a train goes by, the whole house shakes.
		So the crooked man and the crooked cat and the crooked mouse and even the crooked house all move to a better place — a desert where there are no trains.
		Youngsters will love the silliness of a house which can move from place to place, the detail of the illustrations and the repeated refrain of “Yippee-yi-yay!” which they’ll be joining in with by the end of the first reading.
	www.aussiereviews.com /article1945.html (255 words)

	—AND HE BUILT A CROOKED HOUSE-PAGE 1
		Because I don't think of a house as an upholstered cave; I think of it as a machine for living, a vital process, a live dynamic thing, changing with the mood of the dweller—not a dead, static, oversized coffin.
		What a house, what a house—" He stood quite still, his pale bulging eyes blinking thoughtfully.
		This house will be even later than this year's model; it's years in the future.
	www.scifi.com /scifiction/classics/classics_archive/heinlein/heinlein1.html (1915 words)

	Crooked House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This typical 'Black Country' pub was built as a farmhouse in 1765 and is one of the country's best public house attractions - as a pub that really is crooked.
		It was originally known as 'The Glynne Arms' as it was named after Sir Stephen Glynne on whose estate the pub stood.
		In fact The Crooked House is one huge optical illusion where curtains hang away from the window frames, marbles roll uphill on the wall beading, and drinks slide slowly 'up table'.
	www.strangestbooks.co.uk /page6.html (131 words)

	!Crooked House - UK's premier Crowded House cover band
		From here you can embark on a tour of the house and discover what Crooked House are all about.
		In the space of five weeks the foundation of the soon to be tribute was built, but they needed a name….
		So don't be foolish, come and see the best Crowded House tribute that has it all and a glowing reputation.
	home.freeuk.net /mr-tracy/hall.htm (588 words)

	Home defects claims on the rise - Jun. 10, 2004
		Building a house is a complicated task, say builders, made more complicated by unpredictable weather and new, more complex designs.
		As such, new houses are usually covered by a warranty for one to two years.
		To avoid expensive lawsuits, many builders are stipulating in their contracts that buyers agree to binding arbitration if something goes wrong with the house.
	money.cnn.com /2004/06/09/real_estate/buying_selling/homedefects (911 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Crooked House
		Agatha Christie stated in her autobiography that Crooked House was one of her favourite pieces of work, and in the forward to the novel Christie commented on how much she enjoyed writing it.
		The title of the story is a reference to the nursery rhyme “There was a crooked man”, which ends with the phrase “and all lived together in a crooked house”.
		As the head of his large family, this crooked man keeps adding structures and extensions to his house in Swinly Dean, so that it becomes deformed, a “Crooked House”.
	www.litencyc.com /php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=5804 (1585 words)

	The Mystery At The Crooked House * Written by Gertrude Chandler Warner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Mystery At The Crooked House is about the Alden’s housekeeper and her sister Madeline’s house.
		The crooked house had always had a ton of business, but not this year.
		Meanwhile there was a lady staying at the house, they called her the mystery lady because Mrs.
	www.spaghettibookclub.org /title.php3?find=1&title=The%20Mystery%20At%20The%20Crooked%20House (235 words)

	Ruth S. Martin, Crooked House, Crumbling Dreams, Lakeside Press, Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland civil trials, Cleveland ...
		Problems with our house continue, despite your repeated promises that "everything will be taken care of...don't worry." In fact we do worry, and are concerned that you are still either unable or unwilling to hold to your promises and correct the many construction defects.
		Your construction company was able to build this house in less than 8 months (Nov 1985 to June 1986), but in the same period of time you have been unable to make any significant repairs.
		Over the next few days the second set of pocket door frames was removed, wood moldings were stripped from various parts of the house and tile and flooring ripped up, all in preparation for the `final repairs.' Although no repair had been completed by all this activity we were encouraged: at least Murdock was responding.
	www.lakesidepress.com /part7.html (3023 words)

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		Bailey," he concluded, "this house, while perfectly stable in three dimensions, was not stable in four dimensions.
		I had built a house in the shape of an unfolded tesseract; something happened to it, some jar or side thrust, and it collapsed into its normal shape.it folded up." He snapped his fingers suddenly.
		Bailey subsidized the friendly rancher to detour to the tesseract house, not because they wanted to see it again, but in order to pick up their car.
	fangor.freeshell.org /text/CrookedHouse.txt (6619 words)

	Welcome to Bow House
		The purpose of Bow House is to function first as a designer to customize the house to your needs, and second as a lumber yard, specializing in custom materials.
		What we give you is a home with the appearance of an old house while having all of today's amenities.
		To understand the Cape Cod House it must be considered as a "land craft", built by ships' carpenters to ride the shifting sands and withstand the lashing northeasters just as its sister schooners rode out ocean waves and storms.
	www.bowhouse.com (347 words)

	www.reviewingtheevidence.com \| CROOKED HOUSE, by Agatha Christie
		In the suburb of Swinley Dean there is a home known as the Crooked House.
		What makes this story even sadder is that the people living in Crooked House suspect each other and nobody can be straight with each other.
		She invites Charles to come to the house where he can perform an undercover operation inside her family estate trying to find out what really happened.
	www.reviewingtheevidence.com /review.html?id=4486 (305 words)

	Crooked House - UK's premier Crowded House cover band
		Crooked House's first gig without a bass player our beloved Wiggy is still recovering from his miss-hap.
		They will be in the Crooked House Gallery as soon as the photographer gets the photos back.
		Dale front man for Crooked House was as always on form and raring to go.
	home.freeuk.net /mr-tracy/living.htm (1588 words)

	Ruth S. Martin, Crooked House, Crumbling Dreams, Lakeside Press, Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland civil trials, Cleveland ...
		When their homeowners insurance coverage expired at the end of the first year in their house, they were unable to obtain liability insurance on the house and got structural insurance only through an expensive high-risk policy from a pool of insurance companies.
		Last month they moved out of the house when their builder...bought the house back from them as part of a $176,000 settlement of the lawsuit in which they alleged fraud and a house "unsafe to live in." The settlement was reached the day before the case was to go to trial.
		With disclosure the house was for all practical purposes unsalable.
	www.lakesidepress.com /part34.html (2892 words)

	And He Built a Crooked House
		This time, there were a couple of clicks and then a tank-type vacuum cleaner emerged from a pair of little swinging doors by the closet door and began to vacuum one end of the living room carpet.
		The walls of the dining room were vertical, unlike the other six rooms of the house.
		Basically, the house had the cubical dining room, plus six 18-foot by 18-foot square, slant-sided rooms, but they were elegantly appointed.
	hiqnews.megafoundation.org /And_He_Built_a_Crooked_House.html (1410 words)

	Crooked House (St. Martins Minotaur Mysteries) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		But her books are still out there to be read, and "Crooked House" is one of the better ones.
		lt;br /gt; lt;br /gt;Christie herself wrote in her autobiography that Crooked House, along with Ordeal by Innocence, was one of the two mysteries she was most satisfied by.
		I dont quite feel that strongly about it, but while certainly not a gem like The Murder of Roger Ackroyd or And Then There Were None, Crooked House is nevertheless an intriguing non-series Christie mystery.
	www.history-us.com /Crooked_House_St_Martins_Minotaur_Mysteries_031298166X.html (725 words)

	Crooked House Theatre Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A ten-session course suitable for anyone in the acting industry, or for those who would like to brush up on their acting skills, or would like to discover the joys of acting for the first time.
		Darren Donohue is a board member of Crooked House for whom he has written, directed and acted in several productions.
		Darren is currently working on a new play to be staged by Crooked House in Adelaide and Sydney in Spring of next year.
	kildare.ie /CrookedHouse/news/view-details.asp?NewsID=35 (520 words)

	Crooked House: About (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Although the core team has been involved in running a number of acclaimed events, the only ones we'd really claim under the banner of "A Crooked House Event" are:
		We started Crooked House in 2002 to run events (because we were fed up with the events we were attending).
		Having run the extremely successful (well, we had two people vomit, which is always a plus) Slaght Maand, some of us got press-ganged into NPC duty for the LT and we continued running very successful events for the Dragons Faction.
	www.crookedhouse.org /index.php?page=129 (232 words)

	Bush's Pasture Park
		A bond issue to purchase the upper 43 acres, with the historic house and barn, was defeated by Salem citizens in 1945.
		The Crooked House**, located across from the Art Barn at Bush’s Pasture Park, is in the process of being rebuilt.
		Salem Parks Operations is currently partnering with the Bush Park Crooked House Playground Committee and has employed Inside Oregon Enterprises, the self-funded work provider and training arm of the Oregon Department of Corrections, to rebuild the Crooked House.
	www.cityofsalem.net /~parks/bush_park.htm (1420 words)

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