Vermont happens to be the home of another eccentric figure in the tiny house movement.

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His often focused on the writings of Youssef Al Qaradawi, an Egyptian cleric based in Qatar who is a leading figure in the Muslim Brotherhood movement.

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Firms often subcontracted manufacturing to different factories and achieved neither economies of scale nor the standardization necessary to mass-produce green homes, according to Allison Arieff, a former editor in chief of Dwell magazine and an influential figure in the modern prefab movement.

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Reports have also emerged that a senior figure in the main militant Islamist movement - Ansar Dine - has been captured near the Algerian border by a rival separatist group.

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Mr Barghouti - a senior figure in Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement and one of the most prominent Palestinians ever held by Israel - was captured in mid-April during the offensive in the West Bank.

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Morris was an English textile designer and an influential figure of the Arts and Craft Movement which began in the 1880s.

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I'm easily the most recognizable figure anywhere in the world in regards to the cannabis liberation movement.

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Called AVATAR (Automated Virtual Agent for Truth Assessments in Real-Time) and developed by the US government and the University of Arizona, an official figure (a man nicknamed Elvis) projected onto a screen conducts the interviews and can detect small changes in movement and behaviour to see if a traveller is telling the truth.

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