<p>The Clary Mill is a historic mill building and associated water-control structures at 104 Mills Road in Whitefield, Maine. The property includes a late 19th-century wooden mill, a mill pond, dam and penstock. It is the last surviving sawmill in the town, which was once heavily dependent on the lumber industry. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Clary Mill is set a short way north of the village of North Whitefield, on the banks of an unnamed stream that feeds into the Sheepscot River a short way to its west. The mill property is divided by Mills Road (Maine State Route 218), with the mill building on the west side of the road, and the mill pond, forming the outlet of the larger Clary Lake on the east side. The Clary Mill is one of several mills that once stood in this area; it is a two story wood frame structure with a gable roof, set on the south side of the stream. A stone dam, partly patched with concrete, extends across the stream adjacent to the mill. A steel penstock, now disused, historically funneled water into the mill&#39;s wheelhouse, which was rebuilt in the mid-1980s. Below the mill building is a now-breached dam, and the foundational remnants of other mills. On the east side of Mills Road stands a two-story wooden bunkhouse, which is historically associated with the mill complex but is not part of the National Register listing.</p><br>
<p>The town of Whitefield was settled in the 1770s, and this area was from an early date used industrially. By the 1780s there were a dozen mills in the community, and a century later there were nineteen. This mill was established in 1897 by Henry W. Clary of Jefferson, and operated by him until after World War I. It continued as a sawmill under other owners until the mid-1980s, when the mill building was converted into an antique shop. Some of its original equipment remains, but some equipment was also brought into the building from the last phase of use. The building now stands vacant.</p><br>
<p>The South Street Historic District encompasses an early residential area of Gorham, Maine. Located just south of Gorham&#39;s small commercial center, South Street is lined with an architecturally cohesive collection of about 20 late-18th and early-19th century houses, primarily interrupted only by the presence of the modest Colonial Revival Baxter Memorial Library. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Gorham was first settled by white settlers in 1736, but it was not until after the French and Indian Wars ended in the 1760s that significant growth took place, resulting in its incorporation in 1764. The town center was laid out at the junction of Main and South Streets (Maine State Routes 25 and 114) in the 1750s, with a small cemetery and schoolhouse just to its south. The area south of the cemetery, along South Street, was originally farmland, but gradually developed as a residential area in the early 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The district lines both sides of South Street, roughly between Preble Street and Morrill Avenue. The oldest surviving house, that of Reuben Nason at 65 South Street, was built about 1794, and is one of the towns least-altered examples of 18th-century architecture. Nason, who purchased the house in 1810, was the first headmaster at Gorham Academy. Also prominent in the district is the Baxter House, now a museum, which is notable as the home of two of Maines governors, James Phinney Baxter and Percival Baxter. It stands next to the 1907-08 Colonial Revival Baxter Memorial Library, the only non-residential building in the district, which was a gift to the town of James Phinney Baxter.</p><br>
<p>The Braintree School, also known as the District 8 School, is a historic school building at 9 Warren Switch Road in Pawlet, Vermont. It is a single-room district schoolhouse built in 1852, and used as a school until 1934. It is now a museum property owned by the Pawlet Historical Society, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Braintree School stands in central western Pawlet, at the southwest corner of Warren Switch Road and Vermont Route 153. The small property includes a single-story brick schoolhouse and a small wood frame structure that served historically as an outhouse and woodshed. The school is built of red brick, laid in American bond, with a gabled roof. It measures 22 x, with the long axis oriented parallel to Warren Switch Road. The main entrance is in the east facade, facing Route 153, centered between two sash windows, with a small oval opening above that houses a wooden panel identifying the building. A secondary entrance is located on the south side, sheltered by a small gabled porch. A bank of windows, added in the 1930s to meet state requirements, occupy the west facade. The outhouse/woodshed, originally located directly adjacent to the school, was moved about 20 ft behind it, in order to provide for improved drainage around the school. The interior of the school has a small foyer, and a single classroom.</p><br>
<p>Pawlet&#39;s early district schoolhouses were all wood frame structures, most of which were replaced in the 1840s-1860s with brick buildings. This school was built in 1852, and was one of six surviving district school buildings in the town at the time of its listing on the National Register in 2010. It was used as a school until 1934, a period in which the town consolidated all of its district schools into more modern facilities. It is architecturally unusual, exhibiting Federal period style even though that style had already been out of fashion for some time when it was built. In the 1970s the building was acquired by the local historical society, which restored it, exposing some of its original features that had been covered over by later alterations. Students from town schools are brought here to experience examples of 19th-century educational practices.</p><br>
<p>The Libery School Cafeteria is a historic school building in rural Faulkner County, Arkansas. It is located on the west side of Arkansas Highway 36, about 0.25 mi north of its junction with United States Route 64, about midway between Conway and Vilonia. It is a modest single-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof that has exposed rafter ends in the Craftsman style. It was built in 1935 with funding support from the Works Progress Administration, and originally housed classrooms for science, agriculture and math, as part of a consolidated regional primary school. In the 1940s it was converted into a cafeteria. The school district was further consolidated with Vilonia in the 1950s and 1960s, when this building&#39;s school function ceased. The grounds are now used for a flea market.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Boone Bridge was located southwest of Boone, Iowa, United States. It spanned the Des Moines River for 647 ft. The area in which this bridge was built was a pivotal transportation corridor in the early 20th century. The Chicago and North Western Railroad built the Boone Viaduct upstream from this location in 1901. It was the worlds longest two-track viaduct. The county built a pin-connected truss bridge to carry a county road over the river just downstream from this location in 1909. In 1913 it was chosen as part of the route of the Lincoln Highway, the nations first transcontinental highway. Because of its narrow width of only 16 ft and an increase in traffic, a new bridge was required. The Iowa State Highway Commission designed this bridge in 1927. It was composed of two riveted Pratt and two Parker through trusses. The contract to build the structure was awarded in November 1927 to the A. Olson Construction Company of Waterloo, Iowa for $77,900. It was completed later in 1928. The bridge carried USA Route 30 traffic until it was rerouted to the south. It carried a county road until it was replaced in the early 21st century, and dismantled. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Wagon Wheel Bridge is located west of Boone, Iowa, United States. It spans the Des Moines River for 703 ft. The Boone Commercial Association and the Boone County Board of Supervisors disagreed over the location of a new wagon bridge over the river. The county wanted the new bridge west from Eighth Street in Boone, closer to the Chicago and North Western Railroad&#39;s Boone Viaduct. The businessmen wanted to rebuild the Incline Bridge. The dispute was resolved when the Commercial association offered to buy the Incline Bridge. The county contracted with the Iowa Bridge Company to design and build the bridge, which was completed in 1910 for $77,900. The bridge consists of a long-span Pennsylvania truss over the main channel of the river and three Pratt trusses over the floodplain. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. In March 2016, a span of the bridge collapsed into the Des Moines River after ice from a broken ice dam damaged one of the piers. The collapsed span was removed in June 2016.</p><br>
<p>First National Bank, now known a US Bank, is located in Boone, Iowa, United States. The bank was established in 1884, and their building at this location was destroyed in a fire in 1914. The eight-story bank and office building that replaced it is the work of the Des Moines architectural firm of Proudfoot, Bird & Rawson. T.C. Wardell from Chicago was hired as superintendent of construction because he was considered a specialist in constructing fire-proof buildings. Construction began in 1915, and the building was completed in 1916 for $115,000.</p><br>
<p>The architecture combines the styling of the Neoclassical style with the form and construction technology of the Chicago Commercial School. The bank was acquired by Citizen&#39;s National Bank in 1935, and the building changed names at that time. In the late 1970s a two-story addition was built onto to the east side of the original building. A beltcourse of brown aggregate material replaced the original beltcourse at the top of the base to visually tie the two structures together. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The bank has subsequently been acquired by US Bank, and the building now uses their name.</p><br>
<p>The Stoll Bottling Works is a historic building located in Boone, Iowa, United States. The 135 by brick building was built between 1913 and 1914. It was one of the buildings in town that housed a plant for producing and bottling carbonated soft drinks, a significant industry in Boone. Louis Stoll had begun working at the Selling Soda Company when he was a teenager. He bought the company in 1912 when he was 21. Four years later his former supervisor at Selling, Frank Linderblood, bought the company and Stoll moved to Des Moines where he owned Capitol City Bottling Works. By the mid-20th century the national brands had plants in Boone. This building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It mistakenly lists this building as the Stoll Building Works.</p><br>
<p>The Common is the town common of Union, Maine. Laid out about 1790 and acquired by the town in 1809, it is the oldest public town common in the state of Maine. It is the site of the town&#39;s various war and veterans memorials, and also has a bandstand. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Common is located in the center of the main village of Union, a rural inland community of coastal Knox County. It is a roughly lozenge-shaped 3 acre parcel, bounded on the north by Burkett Road and the south by Common Road. It is roughly bisected by Town House Road (Maine State Route 235), with the eastern section further subdivided by Abbott Road and another unnamed spur road. The westernmost portion is an open grassy area, shaded by three rows of maple trees, which are replacements of elm trees planted in the 19th century. Facing Town House Road is the 18 ft granite American Civil War memorial, placed in 1888 by the local chapter of the Grand Army of the Republic. At the southeast corner of that section is a small cement watering trough, and a wooden 1940s map of the area.</p><br>
<p>The westernmost eastern section is mostly open, with maple trees around the fringe, and an octagonal Queen Anne style bandstand in the southern half, built in 1895. The central eastern section houses the towns World War II memorial, and a memorial to the towns peacetime veterans. The easternmost section is a small triangular stub of land, devoid of significant ornament.</p><br>
<p>The town of Union was settled in the 1770s and incorporated in 1786. The first mention that the town has a common is in town documents of 1790, although it is unclear if the present common is the property mentioned. The land that makes up the present common had apparently been laid out by 1801, and was purchased from David Gillmor in 1809 for $100, then a significant sum of money. The common is distinctive among Maine&#39;s town commons as the oldest known to have been acquired as a common, and for retaining its original configuration (including the extant road cuts through it) from a very early date.</p><br>
<p>Reche Canyon  is a canyon in the far northwestern foothills of the San Jacinto Mountains, northwest of The Badlands in the Inland Empire region of Southern California. The county line between San Bernardino County and Riverside County is at the approximate midway point of the canyon; the San Bernardino half to the north is mostly within the boundaries of Colton, with a small area in Loma Linda, while the southern half is unincorporated territory of Riverside County. Reche Canyon Elementary School is located in the northern part of the canyon.</p><br>
<p>Along with San Timoteo Canyon and Pigeon Pass, the canyon links San Bernardino and its surrounding cities in the San Bernardino Valley to the city of Moreno Valley. The road through the canyon is used as a shortcut and to avoid traffic by commuters looking for an alternative to Interstate 215 and California State Route 60.</p><br>
<p>The Bobbili Fort, located in the Vizianagaram district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, was built during the middle of the 19th century in Bobbili. It has a historical link to the nearby mud fort of the same name which was destroyed during the Bobbili war in 1757 in a feud between the Rajas of Bobbili and the neighbouring Maharaja of Vizianagaram.</p><br>
<p>Chinna Ranga Rao, who survived the Battle of Bobbili as a child was, at a later date, installed as the Raja of Bobbili. The successors of his lineage constructed the present Bobbili Fort following their improved economic conditions in the middle of the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The existing fort covers an area of 10 acre and was built by Chinna Ranga Rao after he regained his kingdom which was improved upon by his successors in the mid-19th century. The fort complex has an impressive entrance gate in Indo-Sarcenic architectural style with high dome and many mantapas, Durbar Hall, four major palaces and two temples.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Bobbili is 55 km away from Vizianagaram, which is well-connected by rail, road and air links. The nearest railway station is Vizianagaram, a key railway junction on the Raipur-Vizianagaram railway line. There is a bridge across Vedavati River which provides access to the area.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Early history</h3><br>
<p>The history of Bobbili can be traced to 1652, when Sher Muhammad Khan, Fouzdar of the Nawab of Srikakulam under the Nizam, had come to the Vizianagaram district. He was then accompanied by Peddarayadu, the 15th scion of the Rajas of Venkatagiri, of Velama community and the ancestor of the Raja of Bobbili, and Pusapati Madhava Varma, the ancestor of Vijayanagram family who were rivals. In one version it is said that the Nawab, pleased with the gallant services rendered by Peddarayadu, granted land holdings to him. Peddarayalu then constructed a fort and named it "Bobbili", meaning "the royal tiger", as a token of appreciation for the benevolent gift of the Nawab, who was known as "Sher" (sher means "tiger" in Hindi language). In another version it is said that Rayudus son Lingappa chose Bobbili as his capital, built a fort and established a town there, and named it "Pedda-puli" (in Telugu language meaning "big tiger"); this name eventually changed to Pebbuli and then Bebbuli, finally to become Bobbili. During this period Sher Khans son was abducted and Lingappa rescued him. In appreciation, Sher Khan gifted 12 villages to Lingappa and gave him the title "Ranga Rao". Lingappa was succeeded by his adopted son, Vengal Ranga Rao who was then succeeded by his son Rangapati followed by his son Rayadappa. Rayadappa&#39;s whose adopted son Gopalakrishna took over the rule from his father. At the time of building the old fort a Muslim saint had cautioned the two royal brothers of the Bobbili family that the place they had chosen to build the fort was ill-fated but they ignored this warning.</p><br>
<p>It was during Gopalakrishna&#39;s reign in 1753, that the Nizam of Hyderabad gave Northern Circars to the French. The then French General Charles Bussy leased Chicacole and Rajahmundry circles to Pedda Viziarama Raju, the MahaRaja of Vizianagaram. This resulted in break up of relations between General Bussy and the Nizam.</p><br>
<h3>Battle of Bobbili</h3><br>
<p>On account of the rivalry between the chiefs of Bobbili and Vizianagaram, in 1756 there was a rebellion among the local chieftains which necessitated strong military measures. General Bussy attacked the rebel forces with a contingent of European forces, supported by 11,000 troops of the Raja of Vizianagaram as a token of his loyalty. The Raja of Vizianagaram instigated General Bussy by a canard stating that the Raja of Bobbili was behind the rebellion. It is also said that the Raja bribed his interpreters to persuade General Bussy to direct Ranga Rao, the Raja of Bobbili to vacate the Bobbili Fort and shift southward. General Bussy cautiously made an offer to the Chief of Bobbili that he would be pardoned if he moved away from Bobbili, and in return given a compensatory package of equivalent land elsewhere. But this was not acceptable to the Chief of Bobbili. Then, General Bussy attacked the fort several times, breached the mud fort with cannons, and took control of the ramparts of the fort. Although the Raja of Bobbili and his defenders realized their precarious condition, they fought fiercely but eventually lost the battle. When General Bussy entered the fort with his depleted strength of soldiers he found dead bodies scattered in the fort area. At that time an old man approached General Bussy and handed him a child who he said was the son of the dead Raja of Bobbili. The Raja of Vizianagaram, happy with his victory in the hard fought battle, rejoiced by entering the Bobbili city and hoisted the Flag of France. But his jubilation was short lived. Three days after this event, the Raja of Vizianagarams camp was attacked in the night by three people of Bobbili, including Tandra Paparayudu who had rushed to the demolished Bobbili Fort to help his sisters family. He killed the Raja of Vizianagaram and then committed suicide along with his accomplices.</p><br>
<h3>Post Bobbili war</h3><br>
<p>As of 24 January 1757, members of the Bobbili family who had survived the war were the Rajas brother Vengal Ranga Rao, also called Chinna Ranga Rao, and his baby son. They first escaped to Bhadrachalam. Two years later, in 1759, they were offered their old holdings in the presence of colonel Forde (representative of the British authorities in Bengal) by Ananda Raju of Vizayanagaram at Masulipatam. Under this compromise package, the Bobbili royals, on returning to Bobbili would receive the Kavit and Rajam taluks and the fort area for an annuity lease value of Rs 20,000. Vengal Ranga Rao died three years later. Thereafter his son lived for two years and was succeeded by Chinna Ranga Rao, also known as Venkata Ranga Rao. After four years, in 1766, Sitaram, the new Raja of Vizianagaram, disturbed by the clout of Chinna Ranga Rao arrested him and incarcerated him in the fort at Vizianagaram. However, in 1790 Chinna Ranga Rao managed to escape from the prison and reached the Nizams Hyderabad seeking protection. Later, in 1794, Ranga Rao regained his property at the initiative of the Collector of the Northern Division, when Vizinagram Zamindari splintered. Chinna Ranga Rao then adopted Rayadappa as his son.</p><br>
<p>After Ranga Rao died in 1801, there were efforts to merge Bobbili with Vizianagaram but these were thwarted and a lasting settlement of the property was made with the adopted son of Ranga Rao. Rayadappa and his son Svetachalapti who succeeded in 1830 and lived till 1862 managed their property very well. In the middle of the 19th century, successors of this lineage constructed the present Bobbili Fort, following their improved economic conditions.</p><br>
<p>In 1891, a stone monument was erected with inscriptions commemorating the Bobbili tragedy.</p><br>
<h2>Features</h2><br>
<p>The existing fort is spread over an area of 10 acre. It was built, in the Indo-Saracenic architectural style, as Ranga Rao and his son had probably liked this style during their exile in Hyderabad where they had spent more than a decade and a half under the protection of the Nizam of Hyderabad. Chinna Ranga Rao had built the oldest part of the main palace with its Saracenic arches supporting the first level. However, in 1861 in a report submitted by the Acting District Engineer to the Chief Secretary to the British Government at Saint George it was said that the stone fort at Bobbili did not have adequate defense capability.</p><br>
<p>The facade of the fort has the elegance of a palace with its high walls, 20 ft high at places, rather than a castle. The royal family lived in this fort. The northeastern entry to the fort is a tall domed structure. The entire palace complex covers an area of 40,000 ft2.</p><br>
<p>Within the fort area there are four major monuments. These are: the Durbar Hall, the palace of the prince, the palace for guests, and the Raja&#39;s palace, where the royal family members live, which is the largest with three floors. The Durbar Hall, or the main meeting hall, is where the Rajas held their crowning ceremonies. The main palace, which has an area of 6,000 ft2, also houses a museum and offices of the family.</p><br>
<p>Within the fort complex there are two temples: one is dedicated to the family deity of the Venugopala Swamy and was built at the time of founding of Bobbili; the another one was erected by Chinna Ranga Rao in the aftermath of the war, after he regained his territory. The Gopura or entrance of this temple was constructed in 1851. Another mandapa built at the centre of a lake is known as the Vasant Mandapa where, according to the local belief, Venugopala Swamy takes rest for a day with his consort. After this the image of the Venugopala Swamy is kept at the Dola Yatra Mandapa on the shores of the lake for one day and then moved back to the main shrine. These mandapas were built in 1825 by Maharaja Krishna Das Ranga Rao. Another functional palace in the fort is the Pooja Mahal. Opposite to this palace is the Prangmahal, the residence of the Raja, which is very well preserved and decorated with elegant "tapestry, paintings and porcelain" brought from many countries.</p><br>
<p>The John H. Herman House  is a historic house located at 711 South Story Street in Boone, Iowa.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Herman was a local banker who served as an officer at the First National Bank. He had the Des Moines architectural firm of Proudfoot, Bird & Rawson, who had just designed the bank&#39;s new building, design this house. It is one of nine known structures in Boone attributed to the firm. Local contractor Gust J. Carlson built the house in 1919. The two-story, brick Colonial Revival is typical of how Proudfoot, Bird & Rawson designed this style of house. It features a side gable, side porches offset from the main block, and high quality brick. This is only one of three of their houses of this quality located outside of the immediate Des Moines area. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Wendhausen Castle is a 17th-century moated castle located in Wendhausen, a community within the municipality of Lehre, Lower Saxony.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The castle is built in a Renaissance style surround by a large moat. The moat has an oblong shape with the castle being at the far eastern end. The western area within the moat was part of a beautiful and ornate gardens.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first mention of a moated castle at this location was in 1325 and was in the possession of the Duke of Braunschweig. Throughout its early history, it has numerous owners and was repeatedly burned. In 1602, the castle was completely destroyed. In 1682, the property was given to as compensation for services by Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel Duke Rudolf August and his younger brother Duke Anton Ulrich. A water tower was constructed the same year. Probst, the Chancellor of the Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, began building the Renaissance-style castle on the foundations of the moated castle dating to the 14th century. The complex included a cavalier house, barn, gatehouse and stables. The castle was completed in 1688. After Probst, owned the castle and remodeled it using Versailles as a model. With his vision, he designed parks complete with gondolas.</p><br>
<p>A number of owners followed Dehn until the prominent Vieweg family leased the estate in 1836 and finally purchased the castle in 1873. The Viewegs were well-known publishers from nearby Braunschweig and also built the Wendhausen Windmill. The Viewegs created a large art collection. The last Vieweg heir died in February 1939 and the art was auctioned off in the following spring. The city of Braunschweig purchased the estate in 1941.</p><br>
<p>Following World War II, it was used as an auxiliary hospital, as a recovery facility and also as a kindergarten. Between 1985 and 1992, it remained empty and in 1992, a three-year complete restoration began and was finished in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>Today</h2><br>
<p>The castle is currently a private residence and owned by Kristin Adams. It can be reserved for weddings.</p><br>
<p>The Perrigo-Holmes House is a historic residence located in Boone, Iowa, United States. Joel C. Perrigo was a Vermont native who worked for several different railroads, including the Chicago and North Western, which probably brought him to Boone. He also had extensive land holdings in the county. Adoniram J. Holmes was a local attorney who was elected the mayor of Boone before being elected to the United States House of Representatives as a Republican. He represented Iowa&#39;s 10th congressional district before serving as the Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives. He and his wife Emma bought the house right after he was elected to congress. Perrigo had the two-story, frame high-style Italianate house built around 1871. The "L" shaped structure features paired brackets under the eaves, and the front porch is located in the inside angle. A barn, believed to be a contemporary of the house, is also part of historic listing. It is one of a few town barns left in Boone. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Anagusa is an island in Louisiade Archipelago, part of the Bentley Group. Politically it belongs to Milne Bay Province in the southeastern part of Papua New Guinea. For 2014 census, the island had a village of 122 residents in 21 households, although at least 1 family lives in nearby island of Nare.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Anagusa is located 10 km south of the Engineer Islands. It was settled by migrants from Normanby and Wari islands. The style of the Anagusa pottery is similar to those of the people of Wari. The population consists of fishermen and farmers. The closest island is Nare (Mudge) Island 6.8 km south-east.</p><br>
<p>The inhabitants of the island speak Bwanabwana.</p><br>
<p>Administratively, the island belongs to Bwanabwana LLG (Local Level Government area) of the Samarai-Murua District in Milne Bay Province.</p><br>
<p>The Carl and Ulrika Dalander Cassel House is a historic residence located in Madrid, Iowa, United States. This Greek Revival structure is believed to be the oldest frame house in town. Built in 1862, it is associated with Swedish settlement in Iowa. Carl Cassel came with his father and the first group of immigrants to the Iowa Territory in 1845. They settled in a place they called New Sweden. Anna Dalander led another group of immigrants the following year and intended to settle in the same place, but they took the wrong river and ended up in Boone County. They named their settlement Swede Point, which was later renamed Madrid. Cassel married Dalander&#39;s daughter Ulrika in 1848. He and his brothers-in-law operated a grist mill. He also farmed and was involved in local politics. This house was located on the edge of his farm and the town. Cassel probably lived here until his death in 1902. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The Brandon State School, also known historically as the Brandon Training School and the Vermont State School for Feeble Minded Children, was a psychiatric facility for the care and treatment of children in Brandon, Vermont. Founded in 1915, it was Vermont&#39;s first state-funded residential facility for the care of the mentally handicapped. It was closed in 1993, a consequence of changing policies in the treatment and care of such individuals. The surviving buildings of the property, now converted to other uses, were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The school was established as the Vermont State School for Feeble Minded Children by an act of the state legislature in 1912, and was formally opened in 1915 on this campus, which then consisted of 300 acre purchased from the estate of Henry Watson, located west of USA Route 7 about one mile northwest of Brandon village. In 1917 the state authorized the construction of a dormitory, along with an administration building and a service building, and developed plans for additional facilities. By the late 1930s, the school, renamed the Brandon State School in 1929, had four dormitories, classroom buildings, and other support facilities. The school was again renamed, to the Brandon Training School, in 1956.</p><br>
<p>In the late 1960s and 1970s, strict federal requirements forced the school to increase employee/student ratios, and resulted in a gradual shift in treatment of mentally handicapped youth to smaller group home settings scattered across the state. The school was permanently closed in 1993. The school&#39;s campus, many of its buildings handsome Colonial Revival structures designed by Burlington architect Frank Lyman Austin, have since been repurposed into apartments and commercial facilities.</p><br>
<p>Dennison Fork is a stream located northwest of Lock Haven, about 6.9 miles from Renovo in Noyes Township, Clinton County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The stream is located south east of Cooks Run. The Dennison Fork branches off from the Fish Dam Run stream, which branches off from the south side of the West Branch Susquehanna River.</p><br>
<p>The Dennison Fork is located along the Chuck Keiper Trail within the Sproul State Forest.</p><br>
<p>On May 31, 1985, a tornado ripped through North Central Pennsylvania. As a result, over 8,000 acres of forest land in the Sproul State Forest was flattened. The Dennison Fork Trail, located on the Chuck Keiper Trail was damaged severely. As a result, the trail in this area has been relocated. The only access to the Chuck Keiper Trail is via Pennsylvania Route 144, through the vastly underpopulated and lonely plateau between Renovo and Snow Shoe, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>The Dennison Fork was most likely named after the Dennison family that settled and resided in Clinton County, Pennsylvania as early as the 1840s. The Dennison family moved between Leidy, Keating and Noyes Townships in Clinton County, but maintained possession of a parcel of land on the banks of the West Branch Susquehanna River in Noyes Township, known as the Dennison tract.</p><br>
<p>The Manzanares is an 80 km long river in Venezuela. It flows into the Caribbean Sea.</p><br>
<h2>Course</h2><br>
<p>The source of the Manzanares is at the 2,200 m high Turimiquire Range in Sucre State. The river flows roughly northwards for about 80 km by the city of Cumanacoa. Finally it flows by Cumaná into the Cariaco Gulf of the Caribbean.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Historically this river had also been known as the Cumaná River, for it has an iconic value in the city of Cumaná.</p><br>
<p>Alexander von Humboldt praised the pleasant atmosphere of the river banks in his travelogue Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent (1814–29)</p><br>
<p>In 2012 Hurricane Isaac caused heavy rain in the area and the Manzanares overflowed its banks in the town of Cumanacoa inundating approximately 1,200 homes many of which were damaged and a few destroyed. Some residents had to be airlifted to safety. Similar flooding occurred elsewhere in the country, such as in Caracas where 40 families had to be evacuated.</p><br>
<p>This river is the subject of Rio Manzanares, a famous Parang song composed by José Antonio López in Cumaná in 1958.</p><br>
<p>The Dumoulin Islands are an uninhabited group of islands in Louisiade Archipelago.</p><br>
<p>The Dumoulin Islands belong to the western foothills of Louisiade archipelago. They lie 25 km south of Sideia Island and 40 km east of Brumer Islands. The archipelago consists of four big islands and two small islands.</p><br>
<p>The four islands rise from an undersea shelf of about 6 km in length up to 110 m above sea level. The islands measuring just a few hundred meters in diameter. They are hilly, wooded with steep slopes and cliffs and dense. Baiiri, the largest island, is located at the western end of the group, the second largest island Ana Karu Karua at the eastern end.</p><br>
<p>In the north of the Dumoulin Islands is a large area of shoals and reefs (Siriki Shoals), the south is a long undersea barrier reef.</p><br>
<p>The people of Wari have copra plantations on Baiiri.</p><br>
<p>The State Reform School Historic District encompasses the surviving early buildings of the former Maine State Reform School for Boys off Westbrook Street in South Portland, Maine. The complex was developed between 1850 and 1921, and was redeveloped into apartments and other uses in the 2000s. The area, part of South Portland&#39;s Brick Hill neighborhood, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Maine State Reform School for Boys was authorized by the state in 1850, and was the first juvenile detention facility in the state. Its first building was completed in 1853 to a design by Boston architect Gridley James Fox Bryant, who had a specialization in prison design. The school was enlarged by the construction of "cottages" (small dormitories) in the 1890s and 1900s, designed by Portland architects John Calvin Stevens, George M. Coombs, and Eugene Gibbs. Coombs also oversaw alterations to the Bryant building in 1905-06, when it was converted to exclusively administrative and educational uses. In 1921 the Gould School was added. In the 2000s the school property was converted to other uses, its cottages converted to residences.</p><br>
<p>The former school is organized around Jordan Park, a small park bounded by Lydia Lane and Red Oak Drive. It is bounded on the south and east by Long Creek and Interstate 295, and on the north by Portland International Jetport. A residential subdivision stands to the west. The former administration building is a cruciform four-story structure with Tudor Revival styling. Four cottages, now apartment houses, line the park; all are Colonial Revival, either 2-1/2 or three stories in height, also of brick. The Gould School is a 1-1/2 story brick building with Classical Revival styling, including a temple-front entry pavilion supported by Tuscan columns.</p><br>
<p>The Jomard Islands are an uninhabited island group in the Coral Sea, belonging to Papua New Guinea, It lies to the east of Montemont Islands in the Louisiade Archipelago.</p><br>
<h2>Administrative</h2><br>
<p>Politically they belong to the province of Milne Bay in the southeastern part of Papua New Guinea.</p><br>
<p>They are controlled by the chief of Utian Island, the nearest inhabited island.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Jomard Islands are located on the south side of Jomard Passage, a 9 km wide passage between the Atoll Bramble Haven in the west and the western edge of the barrier reef of Vanatinai to the east.</p><br>
<p>The largest of the islands, Pana Waipona (79 ha ), located on a small reef in the middle of Jomard passage. It is used as a garden for Laeloga family of Utian. The smaller island Panarairai (17 ha) located 3.5 km east on a larger reef on the eastern edge of Jomard -Passage. Both islands are low-lying, forested and are situated on the northern edges of their flat, lagoon.</p><br>
<p>They are located 3km north west of the Montemont Islands.</p><br>
<p>The Jomard Islands are in the category "Mixed objects" that combines both criteria of the cultural and natural heritage.</p><br>
<p>Together with the Conflict Group, Bramble Haven, Samarai and Lunn Island, they form the Milne Bay Seascape (Pacific Jewels of Marine Biodiversity) and the government of Papua New Guinea applied to add this seapark to the list of UNESCO world heritage sites.</p><br>
<p>The South Street Bridge is a historic Pratt through truss bridge, carrying Vermont Route 31 across the Poultney River just south of the village center of Poultney, Vermont. Built in 1923, it is one of a small number of surviving Pratt through trusses in the state, and one of just three that survives from the period before the state&#39;s devastating 1927 floods. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009 as Bridge 4.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Vermont Route 31 is the major roadway leading south from the village of Poultney in western Vermont. Starting as Grove Street in the village center, it crosses the Poultney River on this bridge, and is known in the southern portion as South Street. The bridge is oriented north-south, and the river flows roughly westward, eventually forming the state line with neighboring New York before emptying into Lake Champlain. The bridge is a typical single-span Pratt through truss structure, with a span of 126 ft, and rests on abutments of poured concrete with large boulders mixed in. There is a sidewalk cantilevered outside the downstream truss, and the roadway width is 21 ft (two lanes).</p><br>
<p>The bridge was designed in 1922 by Frank Garran, a state engineer, to conform to standards enacted by the state in 1921, and was completed in 1923. Its trusses were fabricated by the Palmer Steel Company of Holyoke, Massachusetts. The bridge was paid for by state and local funds. At the time of its construction, most state-funded bridges were still built as concrete deck bridges, and the use of trusses was still a developing strategy, which would be greatly accelerated by the massive flooding the state experienced in 1927.</p><br>
<p>Pulau Saigon  was a small island in the Singapore River. It used to be located between the banks of Robertson Quay.</p><br>
<p>The island was shown as a mangrove marsh in an 1839 map. Subsequent maps have shown it to be located closer to the northern bank of the river. It was first featured by name as Kampong Saigon on a map of 1878.</p><br>
<p>In 1888, British projects to increase the width and depth of the Singapore River made it easier to access existing warehouses on Pulau Saigon, which in turn made other parts of the island commercially viable. Quays and bridges were built and many of the island&#39;s original buildings were demolished and replaced by those from new industries ranging from slaughtering cattle, manufacturing pottery, and burning rubbish. These former industrial enterprises of Pulau Saigon make it useful for archaeological study.</p><br>
<p>Pulau Saigon became an extension of the mainland when the western arm of the river was drained in 1972. By 1988, the only extant buildings at Pulau Saigon were old warehouses in disrepair. In 1991, the eastern arm of the river was drained as well and the island was completely merged with the mainland at Magazine road. It is no longer depicted on modern maps of Singapore.</p><br>
<p>In February and March 2016, an exhibit at the Archaeological Library of the National University of Singapore by Debbie Ding featured speculative examples of artefacts from the island.</p><br>
<p>Mill Hill is an open, flat-topped hill, 544 m high, in the Peak District in the county of Derbyshire in England.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Mill Hill lies about 4 km southeast of the town of Glossop in the hills of Derbyshires Peak District and a similar distance northwest of the Peaks highest point at Kinder Scout.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Mill Hill is a bare, domed summit covered by peat moorland that lies on the route of the Pennine Way about 4 km northwest of the highest point in the Peak District, Kinder Scout. There is a cairn and marker pole at the summit. The summit area has been eroded by visitors such that the highest point is now to the NE.</p><br>
<h2>Aircraft crash site</h2><br>
<p>On 11 October 1944, a Liberator of the US 310th Ferry Squadron, 27th Air Transport Group, crashed at Mill Hill. The aircraft was being moved from RAF Burtonwood to RAF Hardwick. After having problems at take-off, the aircraft climbed to 2,800 feet. After experiencing turbulence, the aircraft flew into the ground in low cloud despite a warning from the navigator. The 2 crewmen, 2nd Lt Creighton R Houpt and SSgt Jerome M Najvar, survived the crash.</p><br>
<p>Bramble Haven is an atoll in the Louisiade Archipelago. its islands on the northern section are grouped as the Duperre Islands.</p><br>
<h2>Administration</h2><br>
<p>it belongs to Milne Bay Province in the southeastern part of Papua New Guinea.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Bramble Haven is the eastern part of a large chain of atolls, reefs and islands that extends from the western side of the barrier reef of Vanatinai for a length of 400 km to the west, extending to the south coast of Papua peninsula.</p><br>
<p>Bramble Haven is located 5 km east of Long Reef and 9 km west of the Jomard Channel. Between Bramble Haven and Vanatinai are the small archipelago of Jomard Islands. Bramble Haven is a small, 17 km wide and 11 km long, atoll-like formation. The five most important reefs are concentrated around a rectangular lagoon. The reefs are wide and submerged.</p><br>
<p>The reefs in the northern part of Bramble Haven have five small islands, which are also called Duperré Islands: Punawan (51 ha ), the small Duperre Island, Siva, and Panapwa Awanagamwana.</p><br>
<p>Bramble Haven stands since 2006 in the category "Mixed objects" that combines both criteria of the cultural and natural heritage, together with the Conflict Group, the Jomard Islands and Samarai and Lunn Island under the name: Milne Bay Seascape (Pacific Jewels of Marine Biodiversity) on the Tentative list of Papua New Guinea for the list in the world heritage of UNESCO.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The atoll was named after a Schooner called Bramble Haven shipping in the area in August 5. 1846 have crashed on the reefs.</p><br>
<p>Captain Charles B. Yule, the crew, and scientist Owen Stanley have all perished.</p><br>
<h2>Population</h2><br>
<p>The population of the islands speak Misima-Paneati language. The language belongs to Western Oceanic languages group.</p><br>
<p>Only Punawan island is inhabited, although most of its villagers usually reside on Utian island through the year. The Utian islanders have many gardens for yams, coconuts, and brought cattle to ranch in the island.</p><br>
<p>The Lewis Hotel is a historic building located in Cherokee, Iowa, United States. Robert A. Lewis was a New York City native who settled in the Cherokee area in 1872. He had a background in carpentry, but he established a nursery in Cherokee. After moving into town he started planning for his hotel around 1897. He served as the contractor for its construction, and it was completed two years later. The hotel remained in the care of his family until 1966.</p><br>
<p>The three-story building was designed by the Cedar Rapids, Iowa architectural firm of Josselyn & Taylor in the Second Renaissance Revival style. The first floor exterior is composed of limestone, while the upper two floors are brick. The building sits on a trapezoid-shaped lot and because of that its facade on the Fourth Street side of the buildings in stepped back. The Illinois Central Railroad tracks were on the opposite of the street and the rail station was a block away, making this an ideal site for a hotel. A state hospital for the mentally ill was built in Cherokee in 1902, which also provided a source of hotel guests. The building has been transformed into an apartment building.</p><br>
<p>The Cherokee Commercial Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Cherokee, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. The historic district covers most of the citys central business district. Most of the buildings are two- and three-stories tall, and built of brick. There are two frame buildings from the citys earliest years. Cherokee is somewhat unusual in that it did not have a devastating fire in its history, therefore the downtown area was able to grow incrementally. Unlike many county seats, it does not have a focal point such as a centrally located courthouse square. The Cherokee County Courthouse was built on a hill to the west of the downtown area.</p><br>
<p>The district is almost completely made up of commercial buildings. Churches, residential, and civic buildings are either on the periphery or well outside of the downtown proper. The upper floors of the buildings generally house professional offices. Both the Illinois Central Railroad Depot (1896), and the Baggage Terminal (1896) are contributing properties. The period of significance is from 1867 to 1955, and the buildings are constructed during that time frame. The commercial Italianate, Romanesque Revival, Neoclassical, and Art Deco/Moderne Style are dominant. Prominent architects who have buildings in the district include Josselyn & Taylor (Lewis Hotel; 1899), Warren Wilfred Beach (Hawley Allison Block; c. 1910), and William Beuttler and Ralph Arnold (Sachse, Bunn & Company Block; 1920).</p><br>
<p>Lion Brewery is a heritage-listed former brewery at 719-741 Flinders Street, Townsville CBD, City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by John B Nicholson and built in 1894 by Madsen & Watson. It is also known as Eagers Showroom, Playpen, and Townsville Brewery. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 30 July 2004.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The former Lion Brewery, a substantial two storey brick building with a four storey tower, was erected in 1894 for Samuel Allen, a Townsville businessman and Albert Lanfear, a brewer from Brisbane. On opening in late 1894, it became the third brewery then operating in Townsville. It was designed by Brisbane-based architects, JB Nicholson and his former partner ARL Wright, who had previously worked for Lanfear in Brisbane. Of a number of substantial 19th century breweries built in Queensland it is the only known example still in existence.</p><br>
<p>Samuel Allen, the managing director of Samuel Allen and Sons, an established North Queensland company and the agents for the West End Brewery, formed a partnership in 1893 with Albert Lanfear, a founding partner and manager of the West End Brewery and the West End Ice Works. Two breweries were already operating in Townsville: Martins and Sons New City Brewery and the North Queensland Brewing Company. Allen and Lanfear planned to build a larger scale operation that would provide beer for North Queensland. Although economic recession was affecting most Australian colonies in the 1890s Townsvilles economy was expanding and Allen and Lanfear purchased three allotments on the western end of Flinders Street opposite the railway goods yard.</p><br>
<p>John Beauchamp Nicholson was engaged to design the brewery. He had been the architect for additions to the West End Brewery in 1888-89. In 1890 Nicholson formed a partnership with Alfred Robert Linus Wright. They were the architects of some of Brisbanes most distinctive hotels, such as the Normanby Hotel 1889-1890 and Chardons Hotel 1891-92. In 1890 they designed the Wine and Spirit Store at the West End Ice Works, for Albert Lanfear, and between 1890 and 1893 they carried out further additions to the West End Brewery. The partnership officially ended in 1891 but in a special supplement of The Queenslander, March 16, 1895 both Nicholson and Wright are credited with the design and Nicholson with supervision of the project.</p><br>
<p>Nicholson and Wright went to considerable effort to design a building for the Townsville site that was not only efficient as a brewery but had aesthetic merit and was more than just a large industrial structure. The appearance of the building was praised in contemporary publications. Described as the "most elegant building in Townsville", the playful use of ornament and variation of window openings contributed to its "picturesqueness of design and gracefulness of outline". The fenestration on each level was addressed differently, varying from simple arches on the ground level to gothic forms on the third level. Other features included a truncated pyramid roof on the tower surmounted by an elaborate wrought iron structure with flagpole, Boyle&#39;s patent ventilators, an octagonal chimney and ornamental cornices and mouldings, especially on the tower.</p><br>
<p>Brisbane contractors Madsen and Watson were engaged to construct the building for a sum of £6500. The building was constructed of red brick with white brick around the openings and measured 110 ft (33.5 m) along the Flinders Street frontage by 66 ft (20 m) deep. The main part of the building, comprising two storeys and a cellar, adjoined a tower 95 ft (29 m) in height. A boiler house at the rear of the brewery was also built. The brewery began production in the latter part of 1894 and was called the "Lion Brewery".</p><br>
<p>In addition to its equipment the brewery contained machinery for manufacturing aerated water and ice. The brewing system was based on the gravitational principle and was extensively described in the Australian Brewers&#39; Journal, July 20, 1895. Water was raised by a pump to an iron tank at the top of the tower and passed into water-coolers and then insulated tanks on the floors below. Also housed in the tower were the hot-liquor vat, grist cases, mash tuns and the copper-room containing two open steam copper boilers. On the second floor were ammonia-condensing coils, refrigerators and a fermenting room; a large, lofty space with cavity walls to ensure a cool stable temperature. In the basement of the tower were the engine and mill rooms and the refrigerating and ice-making machinery. The remainder of the cellar and the main floor above were used for storage.</p><br>
<p>Despite the optimism of Allen and Lanfear, the brewery was not an immediate success. Problems with water and the competition with other breweries hindered development. After only four years of operation, the Lion Brewery amalgamated with the Charters Towers company, Towers Brewery, to form Northern Breweries (Queensland) Ltd. The Lion Brewery was renamed Townsville Brewery. Brewing continued but output and sales steadily declined. Brewing eventually ceased and for a period the complex was used for storage and warehousing. In 1929 the North Queensland Cool Storage Company acquired the site and used the property and facilities for the manufacture of ice and for cold storage.</p><br>
<p>The building was requisitioned and used as a warehouse by the United States Army during the Second World War. Like other tall structures in Townsville the upper part of the chimney was demolished during the war and possibly, the roof and crown of the main tower were also removed at this time. The property was vacant for several years after the war until it was occupied by EG Eagers and Sons, car dealers, and used as their north Queensland headquarters and Townsville showroom.</p><br>
<p>In 1988 the building was sold and converted into a nightclub. Changes to the building fabric included the addition of a lift to the tower; additions to the northern side of the building housing basement store and car park, escape stairs, toilets and a stage; and additions to the western side against Knapp Street including an entry court, beer garden and perimeter wall. Most of these additions were constructed of rendered concrete block. Shutters shown in early drawings have been replaced with fixed glass. Many changes have been made to the interior of the building including installation of air conditioning, fixtures associated with the nightclub, new stairs and openings in floors and masonry walls. In 2010 the building operates as a live music and entertainment venue.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Located at the western end of Flinders Street near the corner of Knapp Street, the former Lion Brewery is in a semi-industrial area of Townsville, opposite the former railway yards and a two storey hotel on the corner with Knapp Street. Set back from the corner, but built to the Flinders Street alignment, it is an imposing multi-storeyed brick building consisting of two main storeys and a tower on the south western end of the site. Originally red brick with contrasting white window surrounds, the building is now painted.</p><br>
<p>The main entrance is located on the western side under a metal hip-roofed porch, a recent addition. Adjacent to the entrance is a walled courtyard which occupies the street corner and has a number of trees growing in it. An entrance centred on the southern Flinders Street facade is not original.</p><br>
<p>The building has two principal storeys. The lower storey windows, round arched with keystones, have been blanked out. On the second storey, windows with a shallow brick-arched top have been either blanked out or replaced with stained glass of recent origin. Painting has obscured some of the original detail. On the Flinders Street side, parapet walls decorated by simple pilasters and surmounted by ornamental domes supporting spheres conceal a double gable roof over the two storeyed section. A simple frieze extends around the building at the top of the second level.</p><br>
<p>Two additional storeys project above the frieze at the south western end of the building forming a tower. The third storey is approximately one third of the area of the building and has a triangular pediment in the centre of its Flinders Street elevation. This level has pairs of pointed-arch windows framed by a larger recessed arch. The fourth storey is slightly smaller, set back from the front and rear of the third level. Openings in the fourth level are round arches. A flat roof over the tower is concealed by a parapet with similar ornament to the lower parapet. An elaborate corbelled cornice embellishes the lower part of the parapet. A neon sign surmounts the tower which originally featured a decorative wrought iron crown and flagpole.</p><br>
<p>Although the interior of the building has been altered, the arrangement of spaces is essentially intact. The spaces in the tower comprise a series of small rooms with brick walls and arched brick openings. The spaces adjoining the tower on the lower two storeys are open plan with posts of various design. Parts of the second level floor have been removed to create new staircases and a void looking towards the new stage area. Much of the internal timber structure remains. This exposed timber structure consists of massive hardwood posts and beams with crude rounded capitals and trussed double gable roofs over the two storey section. Much of the internal linings are likely to be covered by later linings and joinery elements.</p><br>
<p>Substantial additions have been made to the rear of the brewery. Constructed largely of rendered concrete block with a gabled corrugated steel roof similar to the two original roofs, the additions include basement spaces, two fire escape stairs, toilets and a large stage area. A courtyard with perimeter wall and entry porch have been added to the Knapp Street corner. These additions to the rear and side are not considered to be of cultural heritage significance. When viewed from Flinders Street opposite the intersection with Knapp Street, Castle Hill makes a powerful setting for the former brewery; its presence behind all the blocks along the north-western side of Flinders Street being perceived most strikingly at the other intersections with perpendicular streets that occur along its course into the centre of the city.</p><br>
<h2>Heritage listing</h2><br>
<p>The former Lion Brewery was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 30 July 2004 having satisfied the following criteria.</p><br>
<p>The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland&apos;s history.</p><br>
<p>The Lion Brewery is important in demonstrating the development of Townsville as north Queensland&#39;s principal regional centre in the late 19th century. It is surviving evidence of the growth of manufacturing in Townsville during this period, and is important historically in illustrating the development and expansion of the brewing industry in Queensland in the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The place demonstrates rare, uncommon or endangered aspects of Queensland&apos;s cultural heritage.</p><br>
<p>The Lion Brewery is significant as the only surviving substantial 19th century brewery in Queensland.</p><br>
<p>The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places.</p><br>
<p>Although the interior has been altered, the Lion Brewery, in its arrangement of spaces and in its largely intact exterior, is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a substantial, rendered-brick, late 19th century brewery.</p><br>
<p>The place is important because of its aesthetic significance.</p><br>
<p>Designed by architects with expertise in breweries, the Lion Brewery is a prominent landmark in Flinders Street, the main street of Townsville. It dominates a corner at the intersection with Knapp Street, important in the comparative view provided of Castle Hill, a key Townsville landmark since the 1860s. The variety of ornament, free use of historical reference, pleasing composition and imposing mass of the building demonstrate aesthetic qualities that are valued in late 19th century architecture.</p><br>
<p>Australian Joint Stock Bank Building is a heritage-listed bank at 173 Flinders Street, Townsville CBD, City of Townsville, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Francis Drummond Greville Stanley and built from 1887 to 1888 by MacMahon & Cliffe. It is also known as Australian Bank of Commerce and The Bank Nite Club. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This two-storeyed rendered brick building was erected in 1887-88 as the Townsville branch of the Sydney-based Australian Joint Stock Bank, on land acquired by the bank in 1881.</p><br>
<p>The AJS Bank was the first financial institution to establish an office in Townsville, in March 1866, in a small timber building on the Strand. In 1875, the bank erected more substantial offices, but these were replaced with the present building in 1887-88. Its construction, at a cost of approximately £7,000, reflected the business and building boom which accompanied Townsville&#39;s growth as the port for the Ravenswood and Charters Towers goldfields, and for the North Queensland sugar and pastoral industries.</p><br>
<p>The new building was designed by former Queensland Colonial Architect Francis Drummond Greville Stanley of Brisbane. Stanley designed a substantial number of North Queensland buildings for the AJS, Union and Queensland National banks in the 1880s and 1890s, and as colonial architect from 1873 to 1881 was responsible for Townsville&#39;s more imposing public buildings, including the 1877 Magistrates Court, the first hospital (1870s), the 1878 gaol, and the 1879 telegraph office.</p><br>
<p>Stanley called for tenders for the AJS Bank building in December 1886, and the contract was let to Townsville contractors MacMahon and Cliffe. Elements of both the design and the construction were considered innovative. The colonnaded front elevation was a new concept in Townsville architecture, accommodating to a tropical climate, and rolled wrought-iron beams were utilised in the construction, rather than the cast-iron girders used extensively in Townsville buildings at that period. The floor of the balcony was constructed of cork concrete, a lighter product than the more usual blue metal mix.</p><br>
<p>On the ground floor, the entrance doors opened into a large vestibule, from which a managers room opened off to the right, and a stationery store to the left. Beyond the vestibule was the banking chamber, a large room 12.2 metres by 11.6 metres, with 6 metre high walls and a lantern light, or clerestory, with arched sashes and small engaged columns, reaching nearly 10 metres above the floor of the chamber. Cedar screens divided the main chamber from the bill department and the accountants office on one side, and the ledger clerks on the other. At the rear of the banking chamber were an ante room for the clerks and a strong room, separated by a wide hall. The first floor comprised residential accommodation, consisting of sitting rooms, bedrooms and bathroom. It was accessed via a hall and stair off the ground floor vestibule. Alterations to the residential accommodation were made in 1898. They were designed by Townsville architect Walter Morris Eyre, who had been employed by Stanley in the early 1880s.</p><br>
<p>The building remained as banking premises for over forty years - from 1910 as a branch of the Australian Bank of Commerce Ltd, another Sydney-based bank, which took over AJS Bank in that year. In 1931 the ABC in turn was absorbed by the Bank of New South Wales Ltd, which first rented out and then sold the building in 1938. Since 1931 the former bank has functioned as general offices and, more recently, as a night club.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Bank building, located on the northern side of Flinders Street at the base of Melton Hill, is a two-storeyed rendered masonry building with a hipped corrugated iron roof concealed behind a symmetrical classical facade. The building is set back from the site&#39;s side boundaries with a service lane on the eastern side and a walkway on the western.</p><br>
<p>The facade, consisting of loggias to both floors, is divided into five bays. The ground floor has Tuscan Order columns and pilasters supporting an entablature with a deep cornice, and the first floor has Corinthian columns and pilasters surmounted by arches with entablature, deep cornice and balustrade above, all of which return the depth of the loggia. The centre entrance bay projects on both floors, and is surmounted by a pediment. The words AUSTRALIAN BANK OF COMMERCE LTD can be seen in relief along the first floor frieze. The ground floor has double timber central entrance doors, with arched sash windows to either side which have been painted out and covered with steel grilles. The first floor has five sets of French doors with fanlights and both floors have rendered balustrades.</p><br>
<p>The first floor residence is accessed via the western side walkway to an internal staircase with turned timber balustrade. The first floor, consisting of rooms along the loggia with a passage behind, has sash windows to the rear with a bathroom at the western end. A kitchenette has been added above the staircase and is accessed from the loggia.</p><br>
<p>The ground floor is accessed via a central foyer with painted double timber doors, with etched glass panels and sidelights with a timber pedimented surround, which leads into the nightclub space. This space has a much higher coffered plaster ceiling, the central section of which is raised and blacked-out with a lighting grid below. Above this is a clerestory, possibly with a domed vault. A western side verandah has been enclosed for a seating area and the rear of the building has single-storeyed concrete block staff amenities.</p><br>
<p>The ground floor interior, with a lurid colour scheme, has a sunken centre dancefloor. A disc jockey booth has been added to the eastern side, toilets inserted to the west of the foyer and a bar to the east.</p><br>
<h2>Heritage listing</h2><br>
<p>The former Australian Joint Stock Bank Building was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria.</p><br>
<p>The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland&apos;s history.</p><br>
<p>The Australian Joint Stock Bank Building, erected in 1887-88 as a branch of the Australian Joint Stock Bank, is important in demonstrating the pattern of development and evolution of Townsville as the principal town and port of North Queensland in the late 19th century, and is a reflection of the building boom which transformed the town&#39;s central business district in the 1880s and 1890s.</p><br>
<p>The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places.</p><br>
<p>It is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a regional masonry bank building of the Queensland boom era, and of the commercial work of former Queensland colonial architect FDG Stanley.</p><br>
<p>The place is important because of its aesthetic significance.</p><br>
<p>It is important in exhibiting a range of aesthetic characteristics valued by the Townsville community, in particular its quality of design and composition of classical elements; its contribution to the streetscape of Flinders Street and to the Townsville townscape; and the quality of its surviving, original internal elements.</p><br>
<p>The place is important in demonstrating a high degree of creative or technical achievement at a particular period.</p><br>
<p>It is important in demonstrating creative and technical achievement in an innovative use of design and materials, in particular illustrating important design adaptations to the tropical Townsville climate.</p><br>
<p>The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland&apos;s history.</p><br>
<p>It has a special association with the Australian Joint Stock Bank and its contribution to the development of Townsville and North Queensland in the latter half of the 19th century, and with former colonial architect FDG Stanley and his contribution to North Queensland architecture in the late 19th century.</p><br>
<p>Lost Lad is a hill, 518 m high on the Derwent Edge in the Peak District in the county of Derbyshire in England. It is a subpeak of Back Tor .</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Lost Lad is a bare, conical moorland summit and subpeak of the nearby Back Tor which rises about 600 metres to the southeast. The top of Lost Lad is marked by a cairn and toposcope and there are good views over the surrounding northern Peak District.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>Lost Lad is actually the name of the cairn at the top, whose name refers to a legend about a shepherd boy from the lost village of Derwent. According to the legend the boy became lost on the moors in a blizzard and died. His body was found the following spring by a passing shepherd and nearby were the words "Lost Lad" written on a rock.</p><br>
<p>Cold Spring Farm is a historic house on Cold Spring Farm Road in Phippsburg, Maine. Built in 1774 by a Loyalist refugee from Boston, it is a fine and well-preserved example of Georgian architecture in brick. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Cold Spring Farm is located on the western bank of the Kennebec River in northern Phippsburg, at a point opposite Arrowsic Island where the river narrows. It is accessed by road from Maine State Route 209 by Fiddler&#39;s Reach Road and Old Ferry Road. It is a two story brick structure, with a tall hip roof and two interior chimneys. Oriented facing roughly south towards the river, its north side is built partly into a slope, revealing only the top 1-1/2 stories on the north side. Its exterior is quite plain, with sash windows in rectangular openings, and a central entrance flanked by sidelight windows. The main block is flanked by small single-story ells to the east and west. The interior retains period woodwork and finishes, including fireplace mantels, doors and wainscoting. The central stairway underwent some alterations in the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1774 by William Lee, an Englishman who had settled in Boston, Massachusetts, but decided to leave the city that year following civil disturbances of the American Revolution. Lee was from a family of brickmakers, and fashioned the bricks for the house from clay found on the banks of a stream just north of the house. The property is apparently named for a nearby spring, which does not freeze in the winter.</p><br>
<p>Stimson Memorial Hall is a historic government building at 4 Shaker Road in the center of Gray, Maine. Built in 1900, it served for many years as the town&#39;s main public meeting space, and is a prominent landmark in the town center. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its architectural and social significance in 1992. It is still owned by the town, but was occupied by a church group and listed for sale as of 2015. It was also listed by the state as one of its most endangered historic properties in 2015, due to its poor condition and lack of preservation plan.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Stimson Memorial Hall stands in the center of Gray, just northwest of the junction of Main Street (United States Route 202) and Shaker Road (Maine State Route 26). It stands just east of the towns former municipal office building, and west of the towns Civil War memorial, which stands at the street corner. The hall is a two-story wood frame structure, with a gable roof and a high brick basement. The roof extends over the front to create a temple portico, with a gabled pediment and entablature supported by four Tuscan columns. There are pilasters at the front corners, and a small round window in the center of the pediment. The interior has a vestibule leading to the main auditorium, and stairs to the second floor, which houses several smaller rooms at the front, including a storage space behind the pediment.</p><br>
<p>The hall was built 1900 as a gift to the town, primarily through the efforts of Abbie Stimson Ingalls, with funding from her and the other children of Gray native Theophilus and Mary Stimson. It was designed by Elzner and Anders of Cincinnati, Ohio, and was built on land originally purchased by the local Universalist congregation. The upper level house the town library until the 1950s. The building was administered by the town and a donor-chosen board until 1921, when oversight was taken over completely by the town.</p><br>
<p>With the building in poor condition, the town in 2013 refused to authorize the cost of rehabilitation, and considered demolition in 2014. The building was put up for sale in 2015, and is presently under lease to a church.</p><br>
<p>The Illinois Central Railroad Yard, also known as Cherokee Illinois Central Station, is a nationally recognized historic district located in Cherokee, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. At the time of its nomination it contained 17 resources, which included seven contributing buildings, one contributing structure and nine non-contributing buildings. Ten of the buildings were of frame construction and seven were brick. Most of the buildings no longer exist, having been replaced by an agricultural cooperative. The former depot and American Express building remain.</p><br>
<p>The former depot is a 2½-story brick structure on a limestone foundation, and capped with a hipped roof. It was designed by the architects of the Illinois Central Railroad. The interior featured two waiting rooms on the first floor, one for the men and one for women. Offices for the ICs division headquarters occupied the second floor. The exterior of the building was altered in the 1940s. The canopy over the old platform is a reconstruction of the original. The American Express building is a single story brick structure built on a concrete and limestone foundation. It too was capped with a hipped roof. This building was altered in 1922. Both buildings are located next to each other along South Fourth Street.</p><br>
<p>Taborian Hall is a historic multifunction commercial space and meeting hall at 9th and State Streets in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a three-story masonry structure, with brick walls and stone trim accents. Its ground floor houses retail storefronts on either side of its main entrance, which is recessed in an opening that is framed by Ionic columns supporting a segmented-arch pediment. The upper floor bays are articulated by brick pilasters, which rise to a projecting cornice and parapet above. It was built in 1916, when the area was a major hub of African-American commerce, and was built by the Arkansas chapter of the Knights and Daughters of Tabor. The building house professional offices, and its performance space hosted such notable performers as Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Count Basie, and Duke Ellington.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Black Edge is a summit, 507 m high, on a sharp ridgeline above the village of Dove Holes in the Dark Peak area of the Peak District in the county of Derbyshire in England.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<h3>Location</h3><br>
<p>The summit of Black Edge is marked by a trig point which is about 1.8 km southwest of Dove Holes and 3.5 km north of the historic spa town of Buxton. It lies in open moorland on the gritstone crest of the eponymous escarpment that runs roughly north to south. There are alternative summits at SK062771 and SK060763. In addition the ground 130 metres to the north and the ruined building 650 metres south-southeast are at the same height as the summit.</p><br>
<h3>Surrounding area</h3><br>
<p>Nine hundred metres further north, also on the crest, is Hob Tor. Here the escarpment swings northwest, while a short spur, on which there is a tumulus known as Lady Low, heads northeast. To the west of Black Edge the heather-clad terrain of Combs Moss descends initially slowly for about a kilometre before dropping steeply into the valley south of Combs Reservoir. To the east of Black Edge, the escarpment dives into the lowlands north of Buxton. A railway line hugs the foot of the scarp slope and is paralleled to the east by the A6.</p><br>
<p>The Engineer Islands are an archipelago in the Solomon Sea belonging to Papua New-Guinea.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Engineer Islands belong to Milne Bay Province, and are one of the groups forming the Louisiade Archipelago. They are located on the western edge of Louisiade archipelago, east of Basilaki and south of Normanby. The islands form an unusual group consisting of high islands, low coral islands, atolls and underwater reefs, which are located in a radius of 24 km to 14 km away. The three largest islands lie on the southwestern part of the group. They are: Tubetube (Slade Island), Naruaruari (Skelton Island ) and Kwaraiwa (Watts island), each about 3.5 km long and about 0.75 km wide. The islands are hilly with elevations of up to 150 m (at Slade Island). The eastern boundary of the Engineer group is marked by a crescent-shaped reef, on which the four low islands Hummock, Haszard, Button and Flat are located. In the center of the archipelago there is a reef with a semi-enclosed lagoon. on it, the islands Powell and Pender lying on the western side while Messum Island is on the eastern side.</p><br>
<h2>Administration</h2><br>
<p>There are several more island groups that belong to the Engineer Islands Ward:</p><br>
<p>The Shortland Islands are located 2 km to the northwest.</p><br>
<p>Laseinie Islands (with Koyagaugau (Dawson Island)) are located 20 km to the north.</p><br>
<p>Kegawam Islands are located 25 km to the north.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>John Moresby discovered the islands in 1873 and named them in honor of the English Engineers of his steamboat HMS Basilisk. The islands were named after the individual crew members from the engine room: Slade, Skelton, Watts, Butchart, Bright, among others.</p><br>
<h2>Population</h2><br>
<p>There are 4 inhabited islands, with the main village Gegadali located on Watts Island.</p><br>
<p>The inhabitants of the archipelago speak Bwanabwana Language.</p><br>
<p>The Obstruction Islands are an archipelago east of New Guinea island, located within Milne Bay Province in the southeastern region of Papua New Guinea.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The islands are located between the Eastern Cape of New Guinea and Nuakata Island. They received the name Obstruction Islands because they block the passage between Nuakata Island and the mainland of eastern New Guinea island.</p><br>
<p>The archipelago administratively belongs to the Maramatana Rural LLG (Local Level Government) Area within the Alotau District of Milne Bay Province.</p><br>
<h3>Islands</h3><br>
<p>The larger islands of the archipelago are:</p><br>
<p>* Mei Mei Ara — 38 hectare</p><br>
<p>* Iabama — 34 hectare</p><br>
<p>* Lelei Gana, or Pahilele — 29 hectare</p><br>
<p>* Boia Boia Waga — 13 hectare</p><br>
<p>* Kana Cuba — 2.6 hectare</p><br>
<p>* Hibwa — 0.3 hectare</p><br>
<h3>Population</h3><br>
<p>In the 2000 census, the Obstruction Islands group had a population of 231 inhabitants, with 180 on Hibwa, and 51 on Lelei Gana/Pahilele.</p><br>
<p>Ōyu Stone Circles is a late Jōmon period  archaeological site in the city of Kazuno, Akita Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan. The remains were designated a Special National Historic Site of Japan in 1956 by the Japanese government. The site is located approximately ten minutes by car from on the JR East Hanawa Line of the Towada Interchange on the Tohoku Expressway.</p><br>
<h2>Site</h2><br>
<p>The site consists of two large stone circles located on an artificially flattened plateau on the left bank of the Oyu River, a tributary of the Yoneshiro River in northeastern Akita Prefecture. The site was discovered in 1931, with detailed archaeological excavations taking place in 1946, and in 1951-1952.</p><br>
<p>The larger circle, named the “Manza” circle has a diameter of 46 meters, and is the largest stone circle found in Japan. A number of reconstructions of Jomon period dwellings have been built around the site. The slightly smaller circle, named the “Nonakado” circle, is 42 meters in diameter and is located around 90 meters away, separated from the “Manza” circle by Akita Prefectural Route 66. Each circle is made from rounded river stones brought from another river approximately 7 kilometers away. Each circle in concentric, with and inner and an outer ring separated by an open strip approximately 8 meters wide. Each circle contains smaller clusters of stone, including standing stones surrounded by elongated stones in a radiating orientation, forming a sundial which points toward the sunset on the summer solstice and allows for calculation of the winter solstice, the vernal equinox and the sun’s movements.</p><br>
<p>Each circle is surrounded by the remains of buildings, storage pits and garbage dumps, and clay figurines, clayware and stoneware (including everyday pottery), stone swords and objects have been discovered. Although the form of the stone circles made have been based on the shape of circular settlements, there is no indication of permanent settlement on the site.</p><br>
<p>The site has been submitted for inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List as one of the Jōmon Archaeological Sites in Hokkaidō, Northern Tōhoku, and other regions</p><br>
<p>The Hardtkopf is a high hill in the county of Bitburg-Prüm in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It rises in the South Eifel range and, at, is the highest point on the edge of the Prüm Limestone Basin .</p><br>
<p>The Hardtkopf is located in the southern part of the High Fens-Eifel Nature Park, south of Prüm and northwest of Schönecken between the villages of Ellwerath (part of Rommersheim) in the north and Oberlauch in the south. To the west of the summit rises the little Prüm tributary, the Hennebach stream.</p><br>
<p>From the top of the Hardtkopf there are views of the who of the Prüm Limestone Basin and of Schöneck Switzerland (Schönecker Schweiz). In good weather, the edge of the Hunsrück mountains may be seen, about 60 kilometres away to the southeast. Until the early 20th century an observation tower stood on the summit. Today there is a transmission tower and a water tower.</p><br>
<p>The Herkelstein is a hill, in the northeastern part of the der Eifel, in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It forms the highest point of the Eschweiler Ridge and lies in the North Eifel Nature Park. Geologically the region is part of the Limestone Eifel, the Herkelstein itself - like the rock formations of the Kakus Caves - is made of Devonian Limestone. It lies between the villages of Weiler am Berge and Holzheim . From the top there is a good long-distance view over the Cologne Bay.</p><br>
<p>The vegetation on the Herkelstein comprises coniferous and mixed forest, pastures and arable fields.</p><br>
<p>At the foot of the Herkelstein rises the Krebsbach stream, which empties into the Feybach at Breitenbenden.</p><br>
<p>Several years ago a number of lime kilns were discovered on the northeastern slopes of the Herkelstein near the village of Weiler am Berge.</p><br>
<h2>Local recreation area</h2><br>
<p>There are several footpath and trails to the Herkelstein. The good views of the Jülich and Zülpich Börde are popular.</p><br>
<p>In winter the Herkelstein is a popular destination for tobogganists from the region. There are two slopes of different gradients, both are next to the Landesstraße L499.</p><br>
<p>The Kellerberg is a hill, and the highest point of the Eifel part of the Meulenwald and of the collective municipality of Wittlich-Land. It rises near Dierscheid in the county of Bernkastel-Wittlich in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. At the top is the Kellerberg Observation Tower.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<h3>Location</h3><br>
<p>The Kellerberg rises in the Meulenwald forest, part of the Moselle Eifel. Its summit lies 0.5 km south-southeast of Dierscheid and belongs to its municipality; it is 2.2 km west-northwest of Erlenbach, in the municipality of Hetzerath, and 1.7 km north-northeast of Naurath in the county of Trier-Saarburg. Streams that rise on the hillside include the Weischbach and the Orschbach in the east, the Gitzertbach in the south-southwest and the Stahlbach in the west.</p><br>
<p>On topographic maps a spot height of appears in the vicinity of the summit. On the Kellerberg are parts of the protected landscape of the Meulenwald and Trier Municipal Forest (Meulenwald und Stadtwald Trier), CDDA No. 322963; established 1990; 132.8046 km²).</p><br>
<h2>Kellerberg Observation Tower</h2><br>
<p>In 1999 the 22-metre-high Kellerberg Observation Tower was built in a modern wood and steel design. The covered tower has a triangular plan and consists of seven larch logs that are connected by metal strips. The whole structure is tension with steel cables. Its observation platform is 18 metres high and offers views far across the Eifel and to the Hunsrück. For example, Klausen and its pilgrimage church may be seen.</p><br>
<p>The Banjhakri Falls and Energy Park is a recreation centre and tourist attraction near Gangtok, in the state of Sikkim, India. The park&#39;s statuary and other displays document the Ban Jhakri, or traditional shamanic healer who worships spirits living in caves around the falls. Ban means "forest", and jhākri means "healer".</p><br>
<p>The park is in a thickly forested part of Swastik, next to an army camp, about 7 km from Gangtok on National Highway 31 to North Sikkim.</p><br>
<h2>Layout</h2><br>
<p>Banjhakri Falls is a natural waterfall sourced from springs at higher elevation. The cascade is approximately 30 m high.). 2 acres of forestland were cleared and developed for the park. The theme park was conceived by Chief Minister of Sikkim Pawan Kumar Chamling, who had visited the falls during his visit to the Ranka Monastery on 28 September 2004. He intended to revive interest in the traditional shamanic beliefs of the people. Citizens were invited to suggest themes for the park. The park was consequently developed into an attraction that celebrated the shamanic traditions of the people of Sikkim.</p><br>
<p>Among the park&#39;s attractions are a man-made lake with a dragon in the centre; gazebos; statues of jhākri; and statues of the ancestors of the Lyam Lymay, Mangpas, and Lepcha peoples of Sikkim. Sculptures of jhākri, Bongthing, Phedangba, and Bijuwa are housed in thatched enclosures. Paved paths and footbridges wind through the landscaped garden, which is decorated with ornamental trees and flowers, such as ardesia, acer, poinsettia (Euphorbia pulcherrima), camellia, angelica, hydrangea, and tebuchinie.</p><br>
<p>Gazebos have been erected throughout the park. A museum hall curated by the Sikkim Rural Energy Development Agency (SREDA) has exhibits about renewable energy. The grounds also feature exhibits about topics in renewal energy, such as solar water heaters, solar-powered cars, energy drums, et al. The park is lit by solar-powered lamps.</p><br>
<p>The Nerother Kopf is the conical hill of an extinct volcano  near Neroth in the Eifel mountains. It is and situated in the county of Vulkaneifel in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.</p><br>
<h2>Geographical location</h2><br>
<p>The Nerother Kopf rises in the Volcanic Eifel Nature Park on the eastern edge of the Gerolstein Land. Its north top, or kuppe, lies around 1 km east-southeast of Neroth, 2.5 km west-southwest of Neunkirchen, 3.5 km west of Pützborn and 2 km (all as the crow flies) north of Oberstadtfeld. About 450 metres from the north top is the lower south kuppe. To the west the stream of Kleine Kyll flows through Neroth.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>On the north top of the originally prominent double volcano are the ruins of a castle, the Freudenkoppe - built 1337–1340 and now a protected monument - as well as the Mühlstein Cave. The entrance to the cave, which is near the summit, lies at a height of. It was in the cave where the Nerother Wandervogel, a youth club, was founded on New Year&#39;s Eve in 1919/1920. The nature reserve of Nerother Kopf around the beech-covered north top is a popular walking and recreation area which is accessed by several paths including the Eifelsteig, which runs right over the summit. The south top, whose summit region is treeless, has been mined for many years for its basalt. The snow-covered edge of the quarry can be seen in the above photograph on the horizon to the right of the summit.</p><br>
<p>The Laseinie Islands are an archipelago in the Solomon Sea.</p><br>
<p>Politically they belong to Bwanabwana Rural LLG of Samarai-Murua District of Milne Bay Province, in the southeastern region of Papua New Guinea. They are located southeast of the D&#39;Entrecasteaux Islands.</p><br>
<p>They are part of the Louisiade Archipelago.</p><br>
<p>The Laseinie Islands are located on a flat sandbank, 16 km wide and 7 km long. The northern edge of the bank is marked by a series of reefs, on which several groups of small islands are located. In the West, there are 2 small islands belonging to a sub-group of Hardman Islands.</p><br>
<p>The main islands are on the northern part of the bank, and consist of the Kagawan group (2 small islands), Dawson Island, Keaawan Island, and another tiny island southeast of Dawson.</p><br>
<p>The 245 inhabitants (2014 census) live all in the main island of Dawson. They speak Bwanabwana Language.</p><br>
<p>The Stephen Coffin House is a historic house at 170 Main Street in downtown Damariscotta, Maine. Built in the first decade of the 19th century, it is a fine local example of Federal style architecture, and is further distinctive for its ell, which is an early surviving example of an attached shop. The house served for many years as home to the Skidompha Public Library, and is now in commercial use. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Stephen Coffin House stands on the north side of Damariscottas Main Street downtown area, and is sandwiched between the Lincoln Theater to the west, and the modern facilities of the Skidompha Public Library to the east. It is a two story wood frame structure, with a hip roof and clapboard siding. Its front facade is five bays wide, with a central entrance set in a recess that is framed by paired pilasters and a corniced entablature. The buildings front corners are pilastered. Granite steps lead to the entrance, and are flanked at the sidewalk by a low wooden fence. A period two-story ell extends from the western rear corner, and a modern ell extends from the eastern rear corner. The interior retains a number of original period features, but has also had significant alterations, although most of these have been sympathetic in character.</p><br>
<p>The house&#39;s exact construction date is shrouded in mystery, due to the number and type of land transactions Stephen Coffin engaged in between 1803 and 1807. It was almost certainly standing by 1807, and may have been built as early as 1803, its traditionally ascribed construction date. Coffin was a local merchant, and apparently operated his business out of the basement of this house. The western ell was probably built by Coffin when his business had outgrown the basement.</p><br>
<p>In 1922 the house was purchased by the Skidompha Library Association and the Damariscotta Womens Club, housing the library on the ground floor and the Womens Club facilities on the second. The building was enlarged by the eastern ell in the 1980s, and the library moved to its new facility next door in 2001. The building is now in commercial use.</p><br>
<p>Vizianagaram fort is an early 18th century fort in the city of Vizianagaram in northeastern Andhra Pradesh, South India. It was built by Vijaya Rama Raju, the Maharaja of Vizianagaram in 1713. The formal ceremony, while laying the foundation for the fort, was very auspicious as it represented five signs of victory. The square-shaped fort has two main gates, of which the main entry gate  has elaborate architectural features. There are many temples and palaces within the fort and a victory tower.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The fort is situated in Vizianagaram (Telugu language meaning: "the city of victory") about 18 km away from the Bay of Bengal. It is 40 km to the northwest of Visakhapatnam.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Vizianagaram Fort was built in 1713 at a location where five vijayas (Telugu language meaning: "signs of victory") were supposed to be present. It is named after its founder Maharaja Vijay Ram Raju, also known as Ananda Raju I (1671–1717), the Maharaja of Vizianagaram.The site for the fort was suggested to the Maharajas by a Muslim saint, Mahabub Valli, who was doing penance in that forest. The auspicious date chosen for the foundation laying ceremony corresponded, according to the Hindu calendar, to the year known as Vijaya on the tenth day of the Vijaya Dasami when the Dassara Festival is generally held in the country. It was also a Tuesday, which means Jayavaram ("victory day") in Telugu.</p><br>
<h2>Features</h2><br>
<p>The fort, built of stone, is in the shape of a square of side 240 m, and rises to a height of 10 m. The width of the wall at the top varies from 8 to 16 m. The four corners of the fort have fortifications in the form of bastions made of stones with a slope on its inner face covered with earth fill and strengthened with stone slabs. There are two gates of entry into the fort. The fort entry from the east is the main gate called the "Nagar khana", which has elegant architectural designs. Prior to the construction of the Nagar khana, a victory arch stood at the entrance. The west-facing gate is smaller but with similar architectural features as the main gate. A moat surrounded the fort.</p><br>
<p>Apart from the two main gates, there are several temples and monuments located within the fort. Two important temples are the Hanuman temple, and the Lakshmi temple known as the “Kota Shakto”, which is the guardian deity of the fort. Rajas offered prayers at Lakshmi temple before proceeding on any war campaign. Important monuments are palaces such as the Moti Mahal, Oudh Khana, Alakananda Palace, Korukonda Palace, and, just outside, the victory tower called the "Ghanta Stambham" (Clock Tower). Two other important historical monuments outside the fort, but within the city limits, are the Moddukovillu temple and the Perla Home.</p><br>
<h3>Gates</h3><br>
<p>The two main gates of the fort are architecturally elegant, built in Rajasthani style of architecture. The east main gate is called the "Nagar khana" as it has a drum tower at the top which was used to beat drums to inform the people of royal orders and arrival of royal guests.</p><br>
<p>The west gate is the rear entrance to the Vizianagaram fort. This gateway is also built in Rajasthani style with a pavilion on top. The gate provides access to the royal tombs, and is a traditional gateway to take out dead bodies for cremation. In place of a moat, which existed in the past, there is now a well turned park extending to the west gate.</p><br>
<h3>Moti Mahal</h3><br>
<p>The Moti Mahal is the royal court or the Durbar hall which was built by Vijayarama Raju-III in 1869. At the entry to this hall there are two marble statues. This is a monument that represent the past glory, donated to the Maharajah Alak Narayan Society of Arts and Science (MANSAS Trust) by its founder Dr. P.V.G. Raju, the Raja Saheb of Vizianagaram, is now functioning as a college for women on its first floor. It also houses a museum which has artifacts of the past kings who ruled from the fort.</p><br>
<h3>Oudh Khana</h3><br>
<p>The Oudh Khana is the opulent royal palace of the Rajas of Vizianagaram. A unique part of this palace is an exclusive bath room of the Rajas, which is an octagonal stone structure that adjoins the Phool Bagh Palace. The structure is 50 ft in height built with stones and has a spiral stairway which leads to the water tank at the top that is fed by pumping water from a nearby well.</p><br>
<h3>Alakananda Palace</h3><br>
<p>The Alaknanda Palace was built as a royal guest house. It was constructed in a plush style for the royal guests. It is set within a well laid out garden with walkways. Within the grounds of this palace an air strip has been built in recent years for use of the royalty. This palace, however, now houses the 5th Battalion of the Andhra Pradesh Armed Reserve Police.</p><br>
<h3>Korukonda Palace</h3><br>
<p>Nearer to the Alakananda Palace is the Korukonda Palace. The land around this palace, about 1,000 acre large, is used as a playground and also has well-tended gardens. Educational institutions have been established in this land and there a school to train youth who wish to join the defense forces.</p><br>
<h3>Ganta Stambham</h3><br>
<p>Ganta Stambham is the Clock Tower patterned on the lines of the Big Ben in London. The rajas of Vizianagaram, who used to frequent London during the British Raj, built it. It is located just outside the limits of the fort within the heart of the city. The octagonal tower, built of sandstone in 1885, reaches a height of 68 ft. It was painted white at the top in the past but is now painted cream and red.</p><br>
<h3>Other structures</h3><br>
<p>Outside the limits of the fort there is an ancient temple dedicated to goddess Pydithalli Ammavaru which is held in great reverence by the people of the town. It is believed that this deity is the reincarnated form of a daughter of the royal family. The image of the Goddess worshipped in this temple was found on Vijayadashami day in 1752. This day is marked by an annual celebration on 21st and 22nd October as a "jatra" or "religious fair". The temple has a Shiva linga in two colours, which is said to exemplify the union of Shiva and Parvati.</p><br>
<p>Perla Home, also known as the "Perla Vari", constructed in 1895, is said to be one of the most well-maintained monuments in the city. The first building to get electricity connection in the region, it had a bedroom fitted with bedsteads made of silver. A library, which was part of this building, is still functional. The elegant European furniture and the chandeliers of past glory are on display with other artifacts.</p><br>
<p>Sidney Historic District is a national historic district located at Sidney, Delaware County, New York. It encompasses 906 contributing buildings, 3 contributing sites, and 3 contributing structures in the northern half of the village of Sidney. The village developed after about 1771, and includes notable examples of Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, and Bungalow architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed Pioneer Cemetery. Other notable contributing resources are the Johnston-Clum House , Spencer Block, Fairbanks Building, Elks Lodge #2175 , Sidney High School , municipal building , Sidney Memorial Library, MacDonald Hose Company , First Congregational Church , United Methodist Church , Smith-Cable house , Ezra Clark house , and Prospect Hill Cemetery. The district also includes one especially well-documented multi-component archeological site representing the period 850 BC-1400 AD.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.</p><br>
<p>Castle of Matrera  is a medieval castle at Villamartín in Spain dating back to 9th century. It was declared a national monument in 1949 and an example of Bien de Interés Cultural  in 1985. The structure underwent a controversial restoration in 2015.</p><br>
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<p>By 2010, only a few walls of the castle remained standing,</p><br>
<p>The renovation received negative reactions from some locals, with Spain&#39;s cultural heritage organization Hispania nostra calling the project "absolutely terrible". It was praised by the architectural community, and was nominated for the 2016 Architizer A+ Award, in the Architecture Preservation category, winning the public choice vote. The Guardian described the design as neo-brutalist, and praised it for restoring "the clout its Moorish creators originally intended".</p><br>
<p>Murphy Grist Mill, also known as the Old Mill, is a historic grist mill located at Poughquag, Dutchess County, New York. It was built in 1889, and is a two-story, front-gabled, vernacular frame building with a stone and concrete foundation. It has a one-story, hipped roof porch supported by simple contemporary posts. Also on the property are the contributing ruins of a stone mill dam. During his 1909 campaign for New York State Senate, Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave a political speech from the porch of the mill building. The mill remained in use until about 1940. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. purchased the property in 1949 and the mill was used primarily for storage. During the mid-1980s, it was given to the Town of Beekman and restoration began in 2014.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2015 by local non-profit Youth for Restoration.</p><br>
