A term that refers to the era of how and when America was created, going as far from the Civil War to the Revolutionary War; at least up until roughly 1880.
"In the Age of Our Founding Fathers, it is the snake that created the world."
-a message used in the advertising of MGS2 back at around its display in E3 on May 2001
A Shackteau is a humble, weather-beaten, structurally questionable shelter located in a spectacular or highly coveted place—Wales, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, Crested Butte, coastal Maine, the Alps—where the building itself may be worth almost nothing, but the dirt, view, access, and mythology make it absurdly valuable.
In use:
Shackteâu - We thought it was an abandoned shed until the realtor called it a rare alpine Shackteâu with unobstructed views and listed it for $2 million.