If we look for the origin of the noun cabin, we come to the Latin “capanna” which in turn originated from the verb “capere” in the sense of “to fit”. A "capanna" was a hut, a precarious construction , made with logs and branches, intended for housing, for those who could not access a better place to serve as a dwelling.
In general the cabins are rustic and poor: “I don't live in a house, I had to settle for a cabin until I can raise more money and build something of better quality”; although some may now be well equipped and even have luxuries and special amenities, and there are usually quite a few required by vacationers in tourist areas such as mountains or beaches. Example: “I rented a beautiful wooden cabin near the beach to better enjoy nature . I like to sit by the fire in the evening and have all the comforts of the city in a country setting.”
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The cabins were built in the Middle Ages in rural areas and were the home of farm workers and their families, which also included the farm and the barn, and then a small adjacent piece of land. With the industrial development of the 18th century, the cabins were also constructions that miners and weavers would adopt.
In Argentina and Uruguay, livestock establishments specialized in raising purebred cattle are called cabins. It is also used to name the cattle as a whole that belongs to an owner.
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" is a classic novel that reveals the injustices and immoralities of slavery, one of which is breaking up families. It was written in 1852 by the American abolitionist writer, Harriet Beecher Stowe, when slavery was still legal in the United States.
"The Cabin" is the title of a novel by the Canadian writer, William Paul Young, which was made into a film, with the same title in 2017, under the direction of Stuart Hazeldine. The cabin is the place where a serial killer has ended the life of a girl, daughter of the protagonist . The father receives a mysterious letter that makes him go to the crime scene where events charged with spirituality will take place.
cabaret concept
The word cabaret comes from the French "cabaret", often used in Spanish in its French writing, as a foreign word.
The cabaret are local, emerged in the 19th century, that have bars or restaurants and that work at night offering shows for adult audiences, where you can find various artistic manifestations for the satisfaction of the spectators, such as music, dances, songs, humor, magic, etc., combined with light effects, to provide a relaxed atmosphere prone to fun and relaxation .
The theme of sex is frequent in cabarets, being in this area where homosexuals and transvestites were initially shown.
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A pioneering example of cabaret is the "Moulin Rouge" (Red Mill) built in 1889, during the Belle Epoque, in the red light district of Pigalle, in Paris, France, by the Spanish Josep Oller. The cancan dancers were a distinctive feature of this cabaret, which shortly after its inauguration, in 1893, led a scandalous situation for the time, for organizing a nudist parade. Almost at the same time, in 1890, another cabaret opened in Paris, the Folies Bergère.
In Spain, the first cabarets were located in Barcelona, and they were “Els Quatre Gats” inaugurated in 1897, and “El Molino”, in 1899. Germany joined the trend, opening its doors in 1901, the first cabaret called “Überbrettl ”. Berlin was a great exponent of cabaret culture, but they were relegated and prohibited with the accession of Nazism to power.
In Argentina, the first famous cabaret dates back to 1910, and it was "El Armenonville", in the Recoleta neighborhood, and witnessed the passage of important tango singers, such as Vicente Greco who intervened in the opening ceremony , and Carlos Gardel honored him with a duet that he performed with José Razzano, in the New Year of 1914. Juan Magglio composed a tango that bears the name of this cabaret, in his honor.
An avant- garde cabaret , it opened in Paris in 1951, and was the "Crazy Horse of Paris." In our century, they still exist, but they no longer have the success of other times.
In the cinema, "Cabaret" is an American musical film, from the year 1972, directed by Bob Fosse, with the outstanding performances of Liza Minnelli, who plays the dancer in a nightclub, and Michael York, who puts himself in the skin by a Cambridge Philosophy student , being a free-type adaptation of the 1966 musical with the same title, which was composed by John Kander and Fred Ebb.
cabin concept
The word cabin comes from the Latin "cabine", which refers to a small and closed place, independent of any other construction or structure , where, for example, some people gather to do an activity, or the closed part of boats or aircraft where the crew is accommodated, or the internal compartment of an elevator or elevator, or the site that houses a telephone set for public use.
In aircraft, the cabin is the part of the plane where the passengers travel, seated in seats equipped with seat belts, and generally placed in numbered rows. The cabin is pressurized, injecting compressed air by pumping, so that you can travel to high altitudes, where the pressure is very low, without using an oxygen mask to breathe. There may be cabins, divided by doors or curtains, according to the comfort they provide (first class, with better services but also more expensive, and tourist class, with more affordable prices, but with less space between seats and fewer amenities, in general). ). There is a special cabin, called flight or piloting, where the technical crew is housed, especially the pilot and co-pilot, where the instruments to ascend, descend and direct the plane, which is generally closed, and its access is not allowed to passengers, for security reasons. In its beginnings, the crew cabins were open, the first to be closed, that of the plane designed by the Russian Igor Sikorsky Le Grand, in 1913. This cabin also exists in manned spacecraft.
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Before the advent of mobile telephony, it was common to see telephones on public roads for the use of whoever wanted, as long as they placed a coin or token in a slot, which were sheltered in a small room called a cabin. In other cases, the telephone booths were inside a premises, accessing them through an employee, who enabled them and who was paid for their use. They are currently very rare.
Shower cabins are usually installed in bathrooms, and are cubicles where hydromassage sets are placed next to the shower, on its back column, replacing hydromassage bathtubs, which take up more physical space, and are also very relaxing. .
"La cabina" is a Spanish drama and suspense film that premiered on Spanish Television on December 13, 1972, under the direction of Antonio Mercero. The action takes place inside a telephone booth, installed in a square, one morning of the same day that a man enters it to make a phone call and is trapped there without being able to get out, even with outside help, until he is taken along with the cabin, by the same people who had installed it before, seeing, the man locked up, on the way, that another individual is transported in a vehicle, also locked in a cabin, both being taken to a warehouse where the cabins, which are death traps for those who enter them, and also, where they are built.



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