Even those that do not take home the throne can rest easy knowing there is no better place than an outhouse to wipe the slate clean for next year.

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No reception, no hot water, no facilities of any kind bar an outhouse, a creek and a fire to sit around as we ate dinner and drank wine.

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Its final nomination comes in a category for the most surprising scene of the year, for a sequence in which a young boy escapes from an outhouse to meet his movie idol.

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If those in this house survived the Panic of 1893 or the Great Depression, or bathed with cold water and used an outhouse, then surely I know I can weather high gas prices.

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Owner Dmitry Stroskin said he was shocked and had only ordered them to knock down an adjacent outhouse.

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Before long we emerge into a football-field-sized clearing known as Spa Camp, which is equipped with a few old shelters, a fire pit, and an ancient outhouse.

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Just as I was leaving, a docent was unlocking the site's outhouse, an elegant three-seater approximately the same age as the Main House.

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It sat within an imposing vineyard estate, where now only the rundown outhouse is still standing.

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