Dacha look down upon as reflecting the nouveau-riche tastes of their owners—and feature ostentatious items such as marble statues, fountains and exotic plants. Some have state-of-the-art sporting facilities such as an indoor swimming pool, multiple tennis courts and stables for race horses. A few privately owned estates even have small forests and lakes. Wealthy Russians have also bought up many of the tsarist-era dachas of the aristocracy, and Soviet-era dachas of artists and intellectuals. Types of houses or gardens similar to the "dacha": Dacha A dacha () is a seasonal or year-round second home, often located in the exurbs of Russian
The L Word Angeles, California. The studio was once owned by and named for Dufferin Gate Productions, the sister company to Temple Street Productions, the Canadian producer of the U.S. version of "Queer as Folk". The original code-name for the project was "Earthlings", a rarely-used slang term for lesbians. Contemporary use of the phrase "the L word" as an alias for "lesbian" dates to at least the 1981 play "My Blue Heaven" by Jane Chambers, in which a character stammers out: "You're really...? The L-word? Lord God, I never met one before." Historical use of "the L word" as code language can also