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a building you can fold into a bag and outrun your problems with
means a portable shelter made of fabric stretched over poles and staked to the ground, used for camping or temporary cover.
from From Latin 'tendere,' to stretch — the same root that gives us 'tense,' 'tension,' and 'extend.' A tent is, quite literally, a stretched thing: cloth pulled taut over a frame. The word reached English through Old French 'tente,' carrying that sense of fabric drawn tight against the elements.
- oldest shelter
- Humans pitched hide tents over 40,000 years ago
- circus origin
- Big top tents made traveling spectacle possible anywhere
- mongol mobility
- Genghis Khan's empire ran from collapsible felt yurts
- physics trick
- Tension and poles fight gravity with almost no weight
- oxygen tents
- Hospitals once sealed patients in breathable plastic domes
burning man — 70,000+ people camp in tents in nevada desert annually since 1986
coachella festival — 180,000+ attendees use tents at indio, california music festival each april
glastonbury festival — 100,000+ camping tents cover worthy farm in somerset, england each june