<p>The Rock Island Depot is a one-story brick structure in El Reno, Oklahoma. Built in 1907 on the railroad tracks that ran along the western boundary of the Unassigned Lands that led to El Reno&#39;s settlement in 1889, it served as a passenger and freight terminal for the junction of the east-west and north-south lines of the Rock Island Railroad.</p><br>
<p>The one-story building is notable for its length, 176 feet, but otherwise maintains the standard depot design. The architecture is Mission/Spanish Colonial Style. The roof is red tile and the exterior is red brick. Windows are double-hung and have white stone sills. Embellishments include stone keystones above the windows. Brick walls in front of the depot and on the platforms were originally installed.</p><br>
<p>The depot was a working railroad station until the early 1970s. The Canadian County Historical Society then took ownership of the building, which now houses the Canadian County Historical Museum.</p><br>
<p>Monte Adranone is a mountain rising 899 metres above sea level in the north of the comune of Sambuca di Sicilia, in the Province of Agrigento. At the summit of the mountain are the remains of the ancient city of Adranon, one of the more important archaeological sites in Sicily.</p><br>
<h2>Adranon</h2><br>
<p>The ancient city of Adranon was settled at the beginning of the 5th century BC, destroyed during the 3rd century BC, according to data from archaeological excavations. The city is distinct from the city of the same name in eastern Sicily and is possibly mentioned by Diodorus Siculus in his account of the First Punic War. The city, reburied after the archaeological excavations, extended over rough, undulating terrain which becomes a terrace towards the southwest.</p><br>
<p>In the area around the entrance to the archaeological area, is the necropolis, containing the monumental Tomba della Regina.</p><br>
<p>Further towards the summit of Monte Adranone, there are the walls of the fortified part of the city, the artisans&#39; quarter and a sanctuary surrounded by a temenos (sacred area), with a sacellum in front of it, where votive offerings were deposited.</p><br>
<p>At the very top of the mountain is the acropolis.</p><br>
<h2>Palazzo Panitteri Archaeological Museum</h2><br>
<p>Numerous votive offerings have been recovered from the city of Adranon, as well as amphorae, terracottas, busts of divinities, Attic pottery and bronze items. Many of these discoveries are on display in the Palazzo Panitteri Archaeological Museum, located in the historic centre of Sambuca di Sicilia.</p><br>
<h2>Images</h2><br>
<p>Paatusoq, mentioned as Patursok by Wilhelm August Graah, is a fjord in the King Frederick VI Coast, Kujalleq municipality, southern Greenland.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Paatusoq Fjord extends in a roughly east/west direction for about 55 km between the Danell Fjord to the north and the Kuutseq Fjord to the south. To the east the fjord opens into the North Atlantic Ocean where there are two rocks awash in its mouth and where Qasingortoq, a 355 m point marks its entrance. Danell Fjord lies close to the north, running parallel to Paatusoq.</p><br>
<p>Paatusoq has a short branch midway into it about 23 km from the fjord&#39;s mouth with a glacier reaching down to the waterline.</p><br>
<h3>Mountains</h3><br>
<p>In the western part of Paatusoq the mountain ranges on both sides of the fjord rise steeply from the shore to heights of about 2,000 m. The massive succession of mountains on the northern side culminates in Mount Paatusoq (Patuersoq), a magnificent ultra-prominent peak at 60&deg;52&prime;55&Prime;N latitude, 43&deg;44&prime;56&Prime;W longitude towering to a height of 2,488 m above the glacier at the head of the fjord. This mountain is marked as a 8,238 ft peak in the Defense Mapping Agency Greenland Navigation charts.</p><br>
<p>Bosco Littorio is a sandy area with dense vegetation on the Sicilian coast in the comune of Gela, containing the archaeological remains of the archaic emporium of Gela, which dates to the period between the 8th and 5th centuries BC.</p><br>
<h2>Bosco Littorio</h2><br>
<p>The area received its current name, which means lictorial wood and refers to the fasces, by the Fascist regime in the 20th century. Following the construction of the refinery in the 1950s, the local vegetation was affected by the fumes, becoming swollen and contorted. Until the 1970s, the area was used by inhabitants of Gela as a summer resort and swimming spot. It was also frequented by people carrying out illicit excavations.</p><br>
<p>In 1983, archaeological excavations were carried out, which revealed the emporium and from 1992 the area became part of the state property governed by the Soprintendenza di Caltanissetta, which is based at Gela. The wooded area can be entered freely and is looked after by the. The archaeological area was opened to the public on 29 May 2009.</p><br>
<h2>Archaic emporium</h2><br>
<p>The Archaic Emporium, as it is identified by archaeologists, contains numerous structures (more than ten) which belong to a broad area extending from the port to the acropolis (the site of the ancient acropolis is the hill now known as Molino a vento) of the ancient Greek city of Gela, in an area bounded by the Gela river on the southeastern side. The buildings consist of regular square rooms. The walls survive to a height of more than 2 metres and in some cases preserve the ancient holes for the roof beams. In many cases, the layers of plaster which covered the interior walls are also preserved. In one of the structures, an entire door is preserved, including jambs and architrave. The walls were built of rough sundried mudbricks, probably mass produced since almost all of them have the same measurements (60 x 60 x 15 cm).</p><br>
<p>The first phase of activity in this area is datable to the time of the Greek colony&#39;s foundation in the 8th century BC. The site developed in the 6th century, until its destruction after 480 BC, probably from natural causes. The destruction might have been caused by a tsunami: traces of a traumatic event are clear from the collapsed walls of some of the houses. Over the remains of the archaic area is evidence for a final phase of life, characterised by the celebration of feasts which probably had a religious dimension.</p><br>
<p>The discovery of the site occurred during work on the foundations of a communal kindergarten. As a result of the discovery, this work was interrupted and the building was built elsewhere instead.</p><br>
<p>In December 1999, during some excavations carried out to the west of Bosco by Lavinia Sole under the direction of Sopraintendente Rosalbe Panvini, three terracotta altars were discovered, dating to the 480s BC and decorated with reliefs of mythological figures, the gorgon Medusa with her children Pegasus and Chrysaor under her arms on one, the goddess Eos kidnaping Thanatos on another, and a triad of female figures whose significance is unclear on the third. The altars are on display in the.</p><br>
<p>A new series of excavations was begun in November 2007 and concluded the next year, in September, and was carried out in tandem with the recovery of the on the seabed nearby. The shipwrecks and the emporium have been treated as a single object of research by scholars, since they were probably destroyed by the same event.</p><br>
<p>During a three-day expedition, Traffici, commerci e vie di distribuzione nel Mediterraneo tra protostoria e V secolo a.C. (27–29 May 2009), the site was opened to the workers and their families and then to the wider public; it remains freely accessible today.</p><br>
<p>The Fish River chain of lakes is a series of five lakes in the North Maine Woods region of northern Maine, in a tributary stream to the Fish River. The lakes are an important northern Maine recreation area providing habitat for wildlife including rainbow smelt, brook trout, lake trout, and land-locked Atlantic salmon.</p><br>
<h2>Long Lake</h2><br>
<p>Long Lake extends southward from Saint Agatha into Maine township 17 ranges 3 and 4. Tributaries Brishlotte Brook, Ouellette Brook, and Little River flow into the north end of the lake. Paulette Brook flows into the east side of the lake; Mud Brook flows into the southeast end of the lake; and McLean Brook, Bard Brook, and Pelletier Brook flow into the southwest arm of the lake. The lake overflows from the end of the southwest arm through the Long Lake Thoroughfare into Mud Lake approximately 500 m away. There are two boat launch areas, a picnic area, and numerous residences and camps where Maine State Route 162 follows the west shore of the lake. Long Lake is the deepest lake of the chain, and provides good habitat for brook trout, rainbow smelt, and land-locked salmon.</p><br>
<h2>Mud Lake</h2><br>
<p>Long Lake Thoroughfare discharges into the east end of Mud Lake in Maine township 17, range 4; and the west end of Mud Lake in township 17, range 5, discharges through Cross Lake Thoroughfare into Cross Lake approximately 1.5 mi away. Numerous residences and camps line the north shore of Mud Lake along Maine State Route 162. Mud Lake is the smallest and shallowest lake of the chain, and provides habitat for longnose sucker, hornpout, and yellow perch.</p><br>
<h2>Cross Lake</h2><br>
<p>Mud Lake discharges into the east side of Cross Lake in Maine township 17, range 5; and the south end of Cross Lake in township 16, range 5, overflows through Square Lake Thoroughfare into Square Lake approximately 1 km away. There are residences and camps along the north end and eastern shore of Cross Lake where Maine State Route 161 follows the northeast shore of the lake; and there is a public boat launch and picnic area on the southeast shore. The remaining shoreline of this shallow lake is boggy and undeveloped. Tributaries Dickey Brook and Daigle Brook enter the north end of the lake and Black Brook enter the south end providing spawning and nursery habitat for brook trout, rainbow smelt, and land-locked salmon.</p><br>
<h2>Square Lake</h2><br>
<p>Cross Lake discharges into the east side of Square Lake, and the north end of Square Lake overflows 3.5 mi through Eagle Lake Thoroughfare into the eastern arm of Eagle Lake. Square Lake is the largest lake of the chain and is almost entirely within Maine township 16, range 5. Tributaries Dimock Brook and California Brook flowing into the north end of the lake from township 17, range 5, and Goddard Brook flowing into the south end from township 15, range 5, provide good spawning and nursery habitat for brook trout, rainbow smelt, and land-locked salmon.</p><br>
<h2>Eagle Lake</h2><br>
<p>Eagle Lake overflows into the Fish River in the southeast corner of Wallagrass 13 mi upstream of the confluence with the Saint John River. From the outlet, the lake extends southward through the eastern part of the town of Eagle Lake and forms a "L" extending eastward through township 16, range 6, into township 16, range 5. Fish River enters Eagle Lake at the bend in the "L". The chain of lakes tributary to the Fish River enters Eagle Lake via the Eagle Lake Thoroughfare from Square Lake in township 16, range 5. Smaller tributaries to Eagle Lake include Clark Brook, Gilmore Brook, Brown Brook, Devoe Brook, and Pond Brook from the town of Eagle Lake, and Alec Brook, Miller Brook, and Last Brook from township 16. The Bangor and Aroostook Railroad follows the west shore of Eagle Lake through the town of Eagle Lake and then follows the Fish River into Fort Kent. Eagle Lake provides good habitat for rainbow smelt, brook trout, lake trout, and land-locked salmon. The entire eastern arm of Eagle Lake is within the 23,000 acre reserve of public land available for ATV riding, birding, camping, cross-country skiing, fishing, hiking, hunting, snowmobiling, snowshoeing, and swimming.</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
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<p>Lange Island  is the largest of the Bastian Islands in the Svalbard archipelago. It lies east of Wilhelm Island and northeast of Spitsbergen.</p><br>
<p>The island is essentially a long series of low basalt cliffs measuring 6 km from east to west, connected by sand bars. Its highest points, both unnamed, stand at its west and east ends, both reaching an elevation of 56 m above sea level. The cliffs between then reach elevations of 40 to 45 m. The northwest end of the island is named Dove Spit (Doveneset) and the southwest end Lange Point (Langesporden, literally Lange Fishtail). The closest neighboring islands are Ehrenberg Island about 500 m to the north and Peschel Island about 900 m to the southwest. The wildlife consists largely of polar bears.</p><br>
<p>The Bastian Islands were discovered in 1867 by the Swedish-Norwegian polar explorer Nils Fredrik Rønnbeck, who was the first to sail around Spitsbergen. Most of the Bastian Islands were named during the First German North Polar Expedition in 1868, led by Carl Koldewey. One might assume the physical shape of the island to be the origin of its name (from Norwegian lang long); however, the island is in fact named after Henry Lange, a German cartographer and publisher of many maps and an atlas.</p><br>
<p>Kuutseq is a fjord in the King Frederick VI Coast, Kujalleq municipality, southern Greenland.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Kuutseq Fjord lies between the Paatusoq to the north and the Kangerluaraq to the south.</p><br>
<p>It extends in a roughly northeast/southwest direction from its mouth in the North Atlantic Ocean for about 14 km then bends to a roughly east/west direction for a further 23 km until its head. To the east there is an arm at the bend of the fjord named Qassit with the isthmus of the small Ingerlaarsiutit Peninsula at the eastern end.</p><br>
<p>Kuutseq has a short but wide branch near the head of the fjord with a broad glacier reaching down to the waterline. Although rising steeply from the shore on both sides of the fjord, the mountains in this fjord are not reaching the impressive heights of the summits in Paatusoq to the north.</p><br>
<p>Kangerluaraq, old spelling Kangerdluaraq, is a fjord in the King Frederick VI Coast, Kujalleq municipality, southern Greenland.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Kangerluaraq is a narrow fjord lying between the Kuutseq to the north and the Nattoralik and Nanuuseq fjords to the south.</p><br>
<p>It extends in a roughly east/west direction from its mouth in the North Atlantic Ocean for about 24 km until its head. Its entrance is on the northern side of Cape Walloe (Kangersivasik).</p><br>
<p>In the same manner as in the fjords further north, dark-hued mountains rise steeply from the shore on both sides. However, there are no glaciers reaching down to the waterline in Kangerluaraq, the fjord ending in a steep and narrow valley at its western end.</p><br>
<p>Nattoralik, old spelling Nagtoralik, is a fjord in the King Frederick VI Coast, Kujalleq municipality, southern Greenland.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Nattoralik is a short fjord lying between the Kangerluaraq to the north and the Nanuuseq fjord to the south.</p><br>
<p>It extends in a roughly east/west direction from its mouth in the North Atlantic Ocean for about 8 km until its head. Its entrance lies 3.5 miles N of Nanuseq. In the same manner as in the fjords further north, dark-hued mountains rise steeply from the coastline on both sides with heights averaging between 600 and 800 m.</p><br>
<p>No glaciers reach the waters of this fjord, instead the fjord bends sharply northwards at its head ending in a valley with a succession of small lakes and a 932 m high snowy peak towering above it on its eastern side.</p><br>
<p>There is a Paleo-Eskimo archaeological site on the northern shore of the fjord.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. F.W. Jackson House is a historic house on Maine State Route 32 in the village center of Jefferson, Maine. Built 1903-05, it is one of the rural community&#39;s largest and most elegant examples of Colonial Revival architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Jackson House stands on the south side of Waldoboro Road (SR 32), just south of its junction with Maine State Route 126, in the village center of Jefferson. The property has shoreline on Damariscotta Lake to the south. It is a 3-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a gambrel roof and clapboard siding. It is oriented with its main facade facing west, with a 2-1/2 story gambreled ell extending to the east. The main facade is symmetrical, with five bays. The central bay is in a projecting element that has a gambrel dormer with a Palladian window, and a band of three sash windows above the main entrance. The entrance is sheltered by a projecting flat-roof portico, supported by groups of smooth Doric columns. A similar portico adorns the north side of the house, and the side elevations have Palladian windows in the third level.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1903-05 for Dr. Fred W. Jackson, a Jefferson native who met with business and professional success in Providence, Rhode Island, and married into a wealthy family. The house was designed by Samuel Patch of Waltham, Massachusetts, and is the largest and most architecturally sophisticated residence in the rural community. The overall effect of the house and its landscaping is that of a sprawling English country house.</p><br>
<p>The Colonial Theater is a historic movie theater at 139 Water Street in downtown Augusta, Maine. Built in 1913 and rebuilt after a fire in 1926, it is a fine example of Beaux Arts architecture, with features presaging the Art Deco movement. It is the last surviving movie theater building in downtown Augusta. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014, at which time had been standing vacant for many years.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Colonial Theater stands near the northern end of Water Street, Augusta&#39;s principal commercial downtown thoroughfare. It stands on the east side of the street, just south of the junction with Commercial Street, with the Kennebec River at its rear. It is a large rectangular two-story masonry building, constructed out of brick, with a flat roof and a concrete foundation. Its main facade is seven bays wide, divided into five sections separated by brick piers. The outer sections have secondary exits on the ground floor, while the center section has three bays, each of which has a main entrance on the ground level. The upper level bays have sash windows with granite sills, with all but the outer bays also having keystones above. The center three bays are topped by a decorative parapet. The interior of the retains a significant amount of original material, but has deteriorated in a number of places due to damage by water and wildlife that has gained entry in its long period of vacancy.</p><br>
<p>The theater was built in 1913 to a design by Harry S. Coombs, then one of the states leading architects. It is the last of downtown Augustas theaters to stand, and is unusual in the downtown for its Beaux Arts and Georgian Revival features, along with features that hint at the later Art Deco style. The building was extensively damaged by fire in 1926, and rebuilt, making modest alterations that accentuated the emerging Art Deco features. The theater&#39;s early history included the showing of silent movies with live orchestral accompaniment; the stage was eventually extended over the orchestra pit. It was the site that premiered silent films produced by Maine native Holman Francis Day (now apparently lost). It had a nominal seating capacity of about 1200. It was one of two theaters built on Water Street; the other burned down in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Sudbury School No. 3, also known as the Hill School, is a historic district school building at the junction of Vermont Routes 30 and 73 in Sudbury, Vermont. Built in the 1820s, it is a well-preserved example of the period, executed in stone. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Sudbury School No. 3 stands a short way south of the village center of Sudbury, at the northwest corner of Routes 30 and 73. It is a single-story stone and brick structure, with a gabled roof. The main facade faces east toward Route 30, and houses an arched recess, lined and faced in brick. The building entrance is on the interior right side of the recess, while a matching doorway to the left (which led to a cloakroom, later converted to hold a furnace) has been filled in. The recessed archway was once flanked by small sash windows; one of these openings has been filled with stone, while the other has a modern sash window. The gable section of the facade includes a stone bearing the date 1829; it, and the stonework at the top of the gable suggest that the roof was raised after the building&#39;s initial construction. An entablature extends along the eaves of the side walls, with short returns on the ends. The building interior is reflective of early 20th-century renovations.</p><br>
<p>The schools construction date is uncertain. The town has documentation that a school was standing at this site in 1821, but it is not known if this was that building, or if it was built in 1829, the date given on the gable stone. Its massing and arrangement of windows are fairly typical for Vermonts 19th century district schools, although the use of stone is somewhat unusual, as is the entry vestibule, a clear adaptation to Vermont&#39;s sometimes harsh winter conditions.</p><br>
<p>The Jackson Conoco Service Station is a one-story brick structure located in El Reno, Oklahoma. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004, it was constructed by the Continental Oil Company in 1934 as a service station to serve the increasing automobile traffic along Route 66. Conoco built and operated many such facilities in the 1930s, all identical except for the positioning of the service bay; one other example is listed on the NRHP in Oklahoma, the Spraker Service Station in Vinita.</p><br>
<p>In 1964 the property was sold to A.M. Cavin and his wife, who leased it back to Conoco and continued to operate it as a gas station. The Cavins also took out a mortgage from Conoco to construct service bays on the south side of the building. By 1969 it was known as Paul&#39;s Conoco. The property changed hands several times in the ensuing years and stopped operating as a gas station in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Southern Hotel is a three-story Classical Revival structure located in El Reno, Oklahoma. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, the building was constructed in 1909 as a hotel for passengers traveling the Rock Island Railroad as well as travelers along the Oklahoma Railway Company&#39;s interurban line to Oklahoma City. When it was built, the Southern Hotel was one of the most opulent and extravagant hotels in Oklahoma.</p><br>
<p>After railroad passenger travel was discontinued through El Reno in 1967, the hotel began to be neglected. It went through a series of owners and remained structurally sound but in disrepair. The building was restored in the 1980s; it is used for apartments and small offices, and has been the home of the El Reno Senior Citizens Center for several decades.</p><br>
<p>The Bridgeport Hill Service Station is a group of three buildings on Bridgeport Hill near Geary, Oklahoma. Originally constructed as a service station on USA Route 66, it includes a ,well house, a auto garage, and the gas station itself. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003 as an example of a private business constructed to take advantage of the then-newly constructed US Highway 66.</p><br>
<p>The gas station is a wooden structure with a sloped metal roof and canopy, while the service garage is a metal building on a concrete slab with windows and a single overhead door. The well house is a concrete-block building, also with a metal roof but with no windows, which contains a water well dug to a depth of 77 ft. The builder of the station, Leroy Tilley, commemorated the well with a concrete slab in front of the well house engraved with the date the well was completed and its depth.</p><br>
<p>The Tilley family operated the Bridgeport Hill station until sometime after Interstate 40 bypassed Bridgeport in 1962. Joseph Tilley, who owned the station, left it to his brother Leroy upon his death, and Leroy&#39;s widow continued to live on the property until at least 1987.</p><br>
<p>Iluileq  is a fjord in the King Frederick VI Coast, Kujalleq municipality, southern Greenland.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Iluileq Fjord extends in a roughly east/west direction for about 55 km between Kangerluluk to the north and Paatusoq to the south, the latter being much closer and running parallel to it. To the east the fjord opens into the North Atlantic Ocean where the large Iluileq island lies on the northern side of its mouth rising to a height of 829 m. The fjord has a large active glacier at its head and its inner section is almost always encumbered with ice floes.</p><br>
<p>Iluileq has two short branches on its southern coast, about 2 km and 6 km from the fjord&#39;s mouth respectively. The first is very narrow. On its northern coast there is the sound separating Iluileq island from the mainland, as well as two branches with glaciers reaching down to the waterline.</p><br>
<h3>Mountains</h3><br>
<p>There are mountains on both sides of the fjord rising steeply from the shore to heights of about 1,000 m in the inner section of the fjord.</p><br>
<p>To the north of the head of the fjord at 61&deg;0&prime;55&Prime;N latitude, 43&deg;37&prime;53&Prime;W longitude there is a massive mountain reaching a height of 1,877 m.</p><br>
<p>Kondul Island is a small island of the Nicobar Islands in India.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was hit by the 2004 tsunami.</p><br>
<p>After the tsunami the surviving population moved to Great Nicobar.</p><br>
<p>at 2015 2 elders have returned to the island and they renovated the jetty.</p><br>
<p>Poachers from Myanmar are doing illegal fishing around the island regularly.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The island is located in the Bay of Bengal, halfway between Great Nicobar and Little Nicobar in the St. George&#39;s Channel, and measures 2.6 km long and 0.95 km of maximum width for an area of 1.55 km&sup2;.</p><br>
<h2>Administration</h2><br>
<p>The island belongs to the township of Great Nicobar of Little Nicobar Taluk.</p><br>
<h2>Demographics</h2><br>
<p>Mayaiya village is inhabited and has a radio antenna.</p><br>
<h2>Image gallery</h2><br>
<p>Crump Lake is a shallow lake in the Warner Valley of eastern Lake County, Oregon, United States. The lake covers 7,680 acre. It is the largest of the Warner Lakes system. The lake is named for pioneer rancher Thomas Crump. Crump Lake is owned by the Oregon Department of State Lands. Much of the land around the lake is administered by the Bureau of Land Management and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. The lake and the surrounding wetlands support a wide variety of birds and other wildlife. Recreational opportunities on or near Crump Lake include fishing, bird watching, and camping.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Crump Lake is located 4.5 mi north of the unincorporated community of Adel, Oregon at the southern end of the Warner Valley in south-central Oregon. The valley is approximately 60 mi long and 8 mi wide. Most of the valley is in Lake County, however the north end of the valley extends about 10 mi into Harney County. It is an alluvial basin containing numerous lakes, remnants of a single great lake that covered the valley floor up to 200 ft deep during the Pleistocene epoch. Today, steep cliffs rise above a chain of endorheic lakes including Crump Lake, known collectively as Warner Lakes. The valley has two regions commonly referred to as South Warner Valley and North Warner Valley. The two areas transition between Crump Lake in the south and Hart Lake to the north at a point where the valley narrows to about 5 mi in width.</p><br>
<p>There are numerous lakes in the Warner Lakes chain. Starting at the south end of the valley, the Warner Lakes are Pelican Lake, Crump Lake, Hart Lake, Anderson Lake, Swamp Lake, Mugwump Lake, Flagstaff Lake, Upper Campbell Lake, Lower Campbell Lake, Stone Corral Lake, Turpin Lake, and Bluejoint Lake. The valley slopes toward the north. As a result, the elevation of Crump Lake is 13 ft higher than Bluejoint Lake. Ultimately, the Warner Lakes system has no outlet so its waters eventually evaporates from the lake surfaces and associated wetlands.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Native Americans used the Warner Valley&#39;s lakes and wetland for thousands of years before the first white explorers arrived. There are ancient Native American petroglyphs near Crump Lake, some are estimated to be 12,000 years old. The Greaser Petroglyph Site, located approximately 4 mi southeast of Crump Lake, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>In 1867, General George Crook decided to build a fort in the Warner Valley to prevent Indian raiding parties from passing through the area. To get his wagons across the wetlands, he directed a bridge be built across a narrow, marshy channel between Crump Lake and Hart Lake. Forty soldiers of the 23rd Infantry Regiment under the command of Captain James Henton were assigned the task. The bridge was constructed between 16 May and 24 July 1867. Known as the Stone Bridge, it was actually a quarter mile long causeway constructed by hauling basalt boulders and smaller rocks from the slopes of nearby Hart Mountain and dumping them into the marsh. Today, the Stone Bridge across the Warner wetlands still exists. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Crump Lake is named for Thomas Crump (1854–1939), a pioneer rancher who settled near the lake in the 1890s. In 1959, a well drilled on the Crump Ranch approximately.75 mi southwest of the lake created Crump Geyser. Water from the geyser drains into a wetland channel that feeds into the lake.</p><br>
<p>Originally, there was a small island near the center of Crump Lake used by nesting water birds. During a drought period in the 1950s, the island was scoured away by heavy equipment being used to unearth Native American artifacts. In the 1990s, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife attempted to restore the island, but wind and wave action quickly eroded it away again. In 2008, the United States Army Corps of Engineers built a 1 acre nesting site at the location of the original island. It was specifically designed to resist erosion and the surface was covered with sand and gravel to create nesting habitat for Caspian terns. Since its completion, the new island has become a successful nested site for terns and other water birds.</p><br>
<p>In 2015, the Oregon Department of State Lands closed Crump Lake to the public because several years of drought had dramatically reduced the lake’s water level. The closure was intended to protect the lakebed from looting by cultural artifact hunters.</p><br>
<h2>Lake environment</h2><br>
<p>The water clarity in Crump Lake is murky due to the presence of suspended organic particles. Sodium and potassium are the most abundant of the dissolved elements, together they comprise 46 percent of the dissolved-solids in the lake. However, because the lake overflows for several months during most years, Crump Lake has less turbidity than most closed-basin lakes. The water transparency is not a good indicator of the lake&#39;s trophic state. In fact, the amount of nutrients in the lake is very high with significant concentrations of phosphorus and chlorophyll indicating a hypereutrophic condition.</p><br>
<h2>Ecology</h2><br>
<p>Crump Lake provides a unique habitat for plants and animals. The main cliff face of Hart Mountain ends near the north end of the lake, providing a rim rock habitat in that area. The area along the lake’s eastern shore is typical high desert scrubland dominated by big sagebrush. The areas to the south and west of the lake are mostly mashes, meadows, and grasslands. In these areas, marsh grasses are common along the lake shores. Common wildlife includes common high desert mammals, resident birds, and migrant waterfowl.</p><br>
<p>There are over forty mammal species that live in the areas around Crump Lake. These include pronghorn, bighorn sheep, elk, mule deer, cougar, bobcat, and coyotes. Smaller mammals include jackrabbits, ground squirrels, chipmunks, skunks, and muskrats.</p><br>
<p>There are numerous species of birds that live near Crump Lake or stop over at the lake during their migrations. Species that nest in the areas around Hart Lake include sandhill cranes, American white pelicans, double-crested cormorants, willets, Wilsons phalaropes, American coots, gadwalls, northern shovelers, black-crowned night herons, Canada geese, and numerous varieties of ducks and terns. In addition, white-faced ibis, great white egrets, and American avocets are found in the marshes and along the lake shores. There are observation blinds maintained by the Bureau of Land Management at the near-by Warner Wetlands Interpretive Site where American bitterns, black-necked stilts, cinnamon teal, tundra swans, Brewers blackbirds, western meadowlarks, swallows, and nighthawks are commonly seen.</p><br>
<p>In the meadows and marshes around the lake, dusky flycatchers, yellow warblers, orange-crowned warblers, house wrens, and spotted towhees are common in the summer months. The valley around Crump Lake also hosts mountain chickadees, Cassins finches, black-headed grosbeaks, green-tailed towhees, yellow-rumped warblers, MacGillivrays warblers, mountain bluebirds, white-headed woodpeckers, burrowing owls, and flammulated owls. The larger birds common to the Crump Lake area include great horned owls, barn owls, long-eared owls, prairie falcons, marsh hawks, golden eagles, and bald eagles.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>Crump Lake is owned and managed by the Oregon Department of State Lands. Large sections of the Warner Valley around the lake are also publicly owned. The Bureau of Land Management is responsible for much of this land. In addition, the land along the north side of the lake is part of the Hart Mountain Antelope Refuge which is administered by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. These public lands offer numerous recreational opportunities including fishing, bird watching, boating, hunting, and camping. However, some of these activities are dependent on the water levels of the Warner Lakes system, which can fluctuate dramatically from year to year.</p><br>
<p>During most years, Crump Lake is available for fishing and boating. While most people fish from the shore, small boats and canoes are also used to fish on the lake. The most popular game fish are crappie, largemouth bass, and brown bullhead. During an extended period of high water in the mid-1980s, crappie fishing was particularly good with some catches exceeding two pounds.</p><br>
<p>There are no developed campgrounds near Crump Lake. However, dispersed camping is allowed on Bureau of Land Management administered lands near to the lake. There is also a day-use recreation site approximately 10 mi north of Crump Lake at the Warner Wetlands Interpretive Site. The site has public restrooms, sheltered picnic tables, birdwatching areas, and hiking trails.</p><br>
<p>Vandan Fort is located in Satara District. This fort is situated on a hilly spur from the main ridge of Sahyadri. This fort is frequently visited by trekkers and pilgrims.The villages at the base are rich in sugarcane and other cultivation.The Chandan and Vandan are adjacent forts. The trek to both the fort can easily be completed in a day.</p><br>
<h2>Places of interest</h2><br>
<p>The fort is in good condition. The main entrance gate is in good condition, There is a Dargah, water cistern and bastion on the fort. The path on the fort passes through scrubby vegetation. There are few rooms built for the sentries at the gate.On the southern part of the fort is a Dargah built in stone. They is a building in good condition with roof believed to be store room. There is an Inscription in Arabic written on the gate of dargah.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>According to the evidence from the manuscripts found written on copper plates the Chandan and vandan forts were built by King Bhoj-II of Shilahar Dynasty in 1191-1192. King Shivaji won these forts from Adilshah of Bijapur in 1673. It was under control of Marathas till 1689 after it passed in the hand of Moghuls. In 1707 it was won by Ch. Shahu Maharaj.</p><br>
<h2>How to reach</h2><br>
<p>Nearest town is Bhuinj which is 87 km from Pune located on NH-4. There are no good hotels and resorts near the fort. There are two ways to reach the fort. one path starts from village Dudhanwadi which is easiest one and the other one from Belmachi. The road from Bhuinj takes a detour around the fort hill to reach Dudhanwadi. The vehicles are to be kept on either villages and further a trekking of 1 hr leads to the Chandan fort. Anarrow path bifurcating from the main path leads to the Vandan fort There are no good potable water bodies on the fort, however a night stay on fort near Dargah is a memorable experience.The way from Pune is shared in the link</p><br>
<p>Norumbega Castle is a historic house at 63 High Street in Camden, Maine. Built in 1886-87 for duplex telegraph inventor Joseph Barker Stearns, it is one of Mid Coast Maine&#39;s most elaborate 19th-century summer houses, exhibiting a sophisticated Queen Anne style in stone and wood. It now houses the Norumbega Inn, a bed and breakfast inn. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Norumbega Castle stands north of downtown Camden, on the southeast side of High Street (United States Route 1), beyond its junction with Marine Drive. It is a 2-1/2 story structure, finished in rusticated stone with brick and wooden trim. It is basically rectangular in shape, but its features are asymmetrically arranged, typical for the Queen Anne period. Its main facade has three sections. The center section rises three stories, and is topped by a stepped gable. The right section, also three stories, has a projecting section topped by a conical turret. The interior is elaborately finished, and featured the latest innovations in modern households of the period, including electric lights and steam heat.</p><br>
<p>Norumbega was designed by New York City architect Arthur B. Jennings, and built a local contractor in 1886-87. It was built for Joseph Barker Stearns, a native of Weld, Maine, who made a fortune in the telegraph industry by patenting duplex telegraphy and licensing it worldwide. Jennings also designed the estate&#39;s carriage house, which is now in separate ownership, and is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The East Vassalboro Grist and Saw Mill is a historic mill complex in East Vassalboro, Maine. Established in the late 18th century, it is one of the oldest water-powered mills in the state, with a working complement of grist and lumber milling equipment. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The East Vassalboro Mill is located near the northern end of the village of East Vassalboro, which is located at the mouth of Outlet Stream, which drains out of China Lake. The mill is set on the east side of SR 32, and has two primary buildings on either side of a mill race, from which water for their power is drawn. The sawmill is a 1-1/2 story timber frame structure, with some elements of its frame 1 ft in width and 57 ft long. It is covered by a metal gabled roof, and has two shed additions added to the north and east. This mill was built in 1798 by John Getchell, and was originally located about 300 yard upstream. It was moved to its present location in 1805 by Jabez Dow, around the time he built the grist mill.</p><br>
<p>The grist mill is also a 1-1/2 story frame structuree with a gabled roof, and a shed extension to the north. It is set on a foundation of cut granite, which is exposed on the west side and fitted with a doorway and window openings.</p><br>
<p>The mills were owned in the mid-19th century by members of the Butterfield family, and purchased in 1870 by the Vassalboro Woolen Company. In 1912, they were bought by Louis Masse, whose family operated them for much of the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>Vincennes Historic District is a national historic district located at Vincennes, Knox County, Indiana. The district encompasses 1,161 contributing buildings, 5 contributing sites, 9 contributing structures, and 37 contributing objects in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Vincennes. It developed between about 1787 and 1955, and includes notable examples of Federal, Greek Revival, Italianate, and Classical Revival style architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, William Henry Harrison Home, Indiana Territorial Capitol, Old State Bank, and St. Francis Xavier Cathedral and Library. Other notable buildings include the Brouillet House , Knox County Courthouse , Ellis Mansion , Lacy House , Dunn House , Summers House , Fyfield House , Grannan House , Cauthorn House , Gimble-Bond Store , and Rabb House .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The Tinmouth Historic District encompasses a cluster of residential and civic buildings that form the center of the village Tinmouth Center in Tinmouth, Vermont. The district contains a collection of well-preserved buildings, that are reflective of life in a rural 19th-century village. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Tinmouth was chartered in 1761, settled about 1770, and incorporated in 1777. It was for a few years the shire town of Rutland County. Its early economic development was from varied sources, including mills, tanneries, and iron smelting operations that took advantage of beds of iron ore. The town was bypassed by the construction of railroads in the region, and saw some economic success later in the 19th century with the advent of dairy farming. The town&#39;s small village center is reflective of these periods of development, with construction concentrated in the early and late decades of the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>Tinmount Center is located near the towns geographic center, and is organized around the four-way junction of Vermont Route 140, which runs north and east, Town Road 17, which runs west, and Town Road 2 (a.k.a. Mountain View Road), which runs south. Clustered around this intersection, mainly in a north-south orientation along VT 140 and Mountain View Road, are sixteen buildings, most of which are historically significant. Notable among these is the c. 1816 Noah Sawyer House, a fine example of Federal period architecture, and the town shed, a row of stalls built about 1840 that was used to house the horses of churchgoers. One example of the towns dairying history is the c. 1880 Old Creamery.</p><br>
<p>The Clarksville Confederate Monument is located in the south-central section of Oakland Cemetery in Clarksville, Arkansas. It is a white marble obelisk, 10 ft in height, which is 21.5 in square at its base. It is mounted on a limestone pedestal 2 ft square and 22 in in height. The lower portion of the obelisk is carved with an inscription commemorating the Confederate war dead, and its spire is adorned with a floral pattern. It was placed about 1902 by the local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.</p><br>
<p>The inscription reads:</p><br>
<p>SACRED TO THE</p><br>
<p>MEMORY OF</p><br>
<p>CONFEDERATE</p><br>
<p>DEAD</p><br>
<p>1861-1865</p><br>
<p>The monument was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Shadowwood, also known as the Wharf Estate, is a historic estate located in Palmyra Township, Knox County, Indiana. The house was built on land purchased from Robert B. Patterson on what had been part of the Rose Hill Farmstead. The main house was built in 1917, and is a 2 1/2-story, five bay, Colonial Revival style brick dwelling built for Col. Eugene C. Wharf. It has a side gabled tile roof. The south facade features a two-story portico with a second story sleeping porch. Also on the property are the contributing pump house , carriage house , and chicken house .</p><br>
<p>During the American Civil War it was rumored that the Knights of the Golden Circle met on the hill where the house now stands as it was, at the time, a dense forest. The property became known as Rebel Hill. Colonel Wharf was a veteran of the Spanish-American War and very patriotic. He disapproved of the name and had the name Shadowwood recorded at the county court house.</p><br>
<p>When Colonel Wharf died his widow, Mrs. Stella C. Wharf, conveyed the family home to Vincennes University as a memorial in 1957. The university did use the property for several years to house female students. The house was around ten miles from the university so it was impractical for its use. At the suggestion of Judge Curtis Shake, president of the VU Board of Trustees, university president Dr. Isaac K. Beckes worked to transfer the property to The Grand Chapter of the Sigma Pi Fraternity for use as its national headquarters in August 1961. The fraternity had been founded at the university in 1897. Mrs. Wharf approved of the deal.</p><br>
<p>The fraternity spent $11,500 in 1962 to upgrade the building&#39;s heating, plumbing, and electricity. The building housed the International Headquarters of Sigma Pi Fraternity from 1963 to 2003. In 2005, the fraternity sold the property to a private individual.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Ashantilly was built by 1820 by Thomas Spalding , north of Darien, Georgia. The construction probably took 2 or 3 years. The house is made out of tabby and is also called Old Tabby. The house was named after Ashintully Castle, an ancestral home in Perthshire, Scotland.</p><br>
<p>Spalding was a businessman in Darien and inherited property from his mother, Margery McIntosh. He was the owner of the Sapelo Island Plantation.</p><br>
<p>The Wilcox family bought Ashantilly in 1870 and they made several changes to the house, removing classical columns and marble flagging. The Haynes family moved to the house in 1918. In 1937 the house was gutted by a fire. Restoration of the house started in 1939, using period pieces salvaged in Savannah and Charleston. William Haynes (1908–2001) started the Ashantilly Press in 1954 and a building for printing was built on the property. The family donated the property to the Ashantilly Center (a non-profit organization) in 1993.</p><br>
<p>Ashantilly was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 25, 2015.</p><br>
<p>Makepeace Lake is a 300-acre lake in Southern New Jersey, and part of the Pinelands National Reserve in the United States. It is home to many species of dragonflies and damselflies. The lake drains into the Great Egg Harbor River. Makepeace Lake is quite shallow, and is home to many wetland plants and wildlife.</p><br>
<h2>Formation</h2><br>
<p>The Makepeace Lake is man-made, and was formed by damming cranberry bogs in the 1930s. This cranberry bog was called the Bozarth cranberry bog.</p><br>
<h2>Wildlife</h2><br>
<p>Dragonflies and damselflies are abundant in the warm months. Mallards, wood ducks, and the great blue heron are among the birds that can be found on the lake. Other birds include the barred owl, great-horned owl, and screech owl. Red-tailed hawks and Cooper&#39;s hawks can also be found. Many frogs become active in the spring. These include wood frogs, green frogs, northern gray treefrogs, and carpenter frogs.</p><br>
<p>In the summer, orioles and prairie warblers can be heard. Butterflies are brought to the lake by the blooming of milkweed and dogbanes in the summer. Virginia rails and king rails can be spotted here, especially in the marsh and swampy areas of the lake.</p><br>
<p>The call of the barred owl can be heard in the fall. Monarch butterflies are attracted by ironweed, goldenrod, and asters in the fall as well.</p><br>
<p>The Belgrade Lakes are a chain of lakes around Belgrade, Maine. The flow sequence is from East Pond to North Pond to Great Pond to Long Pond to Messalonskee Lake and thence via Messalonskee Stream to the Kennebec River at Waterville. The lakes have long been an important resort area for fishing, boating, and swimming; and shoreline development includes residences for individuals employed in the cities of Waterville and Augusta.</p><br>
<h2>East Pond</h2><br>
<p>East Pond is the headwater pond of the Belgrade chain of lakes. The south end of the pond is in Oakland, and the north end of the pond in Smithfield overflows westward approximately 1 mi through the village of Smithfield into the east side of North Pond.</p><br>
<h2>North Pond</h2><br>
<p>Weedy North Pond covers the boundary of Smithfield to the east, Mercer to the northwest, and Rome to the southwest. It is the shallowest lake of the chain. North Pond tributaries include Sucker Brook and Clark Brook joining the overflow from East Pond, and Leech Brook, Bog Brook and Pattee Brook flowing into the north end of the pond. There is a public boat launch area near the outlet of Bog Brook. The south end of North Pond overflows through Great Meadow Stream, which forms the eastern border of Rome and western border of Oakland and Belgrade for approximately 2 mi before reaching the northwestern bay of Great Pond.</p><br>
<h2>Great Pond</h2><br>
<p>At 8,239 acre, Great Pond is the largest of the Belgrade Lakes and forms the boundary between Rome to the north and Belgrade to the south. Tributaries Rome Trout Brook and Robbins Mill Stream enter the north end of Great Pond. Great Pond overflows westward approximately 1 km to the east side of Long Pond north of the narrows.</p><br>
<h2>Long Pond</h2><br>
<p>The northern basin of Long Pond in Rome is of similar depth as Great Pond, but the basin forming the western boundary of Belgrade and eastern boundary of Mount Vernon south of the narrows is fifty percent deeper with cooler deep waters. There is a public boat launch area at the south end of the narrows. Tributaries Whittier Brook and Beaver Brook drain Whittier Pond, Beaver Pond, Watson Pond, Round Pond, Kidder Pond, and McIntire Pond into the northern basin of Long Pond. Stony Brook and Ingham Stream drain Moose Pond and Ingham Pond into the southern basin. The south end of Long Pond overflows through Belgrade Stream which reaches the south end of Messalonskee Lake after flowing 9 mi eastward.</p><br>
<h2>Messalonskee Lake</h2><br>
<p>Messalonskee Lake is the deepest at 113 ft, and second largest of the Belgrade Lakes with similar cold water habitat to the south basin of Long Pond. The north end of Messalonskee Lake overflows through Messalonskee Stream 10 mi to the Kennebec River.</p><br>
<h2>Smaller ponds</h2><br>
<p>The 486 acre McGrath Pond and 562 acre Salmon Pond overflow into the east side of Great Pond. They have extensive shoreline development and are sometimes called the sixth and seventh Belgrade Lakes.</p><br>
<h2>Fishing</h2><br>
<p>The lakes provide suitable habitat for chain pickerel, white perch, smallmouth bass and largemouth bass. Early angling focused on brook trout from the tributary brooks and Atlantic salmon in the deeper lakes; but tributaries lack sufficient spawning and nursery habitat to replace angling success. Attempts to sustain the salmon population by stocking hatchery fish caused dramatic decline in the late 1970s of the population of rainbow smelt which had been the primary prey of native salmon. Stocking then introduced brown trout with greater tolerance for warm water lake conditions. Local interests seeking alternative angling opportunities illegally introduced northern pike and black crappie. Eutrofication from residential development of the shoreline has reduced Secchi disk depth to 4 meters, and dead algae has reduced oxygen levels in deep water.</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
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<p>Peschel Island  is the third-largest of the Bastian Islands in the Svalbard archipelago. It lies east of Wilhelm Island and northeast of Spitsbergen.</p><br>
<p>The island consists of low basalt cliffs that attain an elevation of 32 m above sea level in the northern part of the island, 28 m in the east, and 39 m in the south. The closest neighboring islands are Lange Island about 1 km to the north and Wilhelm Island about 4.7 km to the northwest. The wildlife consists largely of polar bears.</p><br>
<p>The Bastian Islands were discovered in 1867 by the Swedish-Norwegian polar explorer Nils Fredrik Rønnbeck, who was the first to sail around Spitsbergen. Most of the Bastian Islands were named during the First German North Polar Expedition in 1868, led by Carl Koldewey. This island is named after Oscar Peschel, a German geographer.</p><br>
<p>Torkildsen Island  is a small island in Hinlopen Strait. It is part of the Rønnbeck Islands in the Svalbard archipelago. It lies east of Cape Weyprecht on Spitsbergen.</p><br>
<p>The island is a low basalt cliff and its highest point is 13 m above sea level. It is elongated and consists of four parts. At its east and west ends there are two small peninsulas. The central part of the island itself is divided into two parts by a narrow area, probably a sandbank like that at Kiepert Island in the nearby Bastian Islands.</p><br>
<p>The closest neighboring islands are Mack Island about 300 m to the west and Isaksen Island about 1 km to the northwest. The wildlife consists largely of polar bears.</p><br>
<p>The island was discovered in 1867 by the Swedish-Norwegian polar explorer Nils Fredrik Rønnbeck. The Rønnbeck Islands are named after Norwegian seal hunters, and this one is named after the sealing skipper T. Torkildsen.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. J.W. Ellis House is a historic house at 62 State Street in Augusta, Maine. Built in 1855 for a prominent local doctor, it is a fine example of late Greek Revival architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Ellis House stands west of Augusta&#39;s Water Street downtown, on the west side of State Street (Maine State Route 27), opposite its junction with Church Street. State Street is a major north-south route through the city. The house is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof, clapboard siding, and granite foundation. The main (east-facing) facade is three bays wide, with fluted pilasters at the corners rising to a broad entablature. Windows are sash, topped by narrow corniced entablatures. The main entrance is recessed, with sidelights on either side; the opening around the recess is framed by pilasters and an entablature with a carved floral panel on top. The interior follows a typical center hall plan, with a graceful curving staircase, and original woodwork in many of the rooms.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1855 for Dr. Joseph Willard Ellis, and is a fine example of late Greek Revival design; its designer is not known. Dr. Ellis served for many years as Augusta&#39;s city physician and in private practice. The house was a private residence until 1970, when it was purchased by the Maine Democratic Party for use as its headquarters.</p><br>
<p>The River Gweebarra  is a river in north County Donegal, Ireland.</p><br>
<h2>Course</h2><br>
<p>Streams enter Lough Barra from Crockfadda and Moylenanav. From there the River Gweebarra flows southwestwards between the Derryveagh Mountains and Glendowan Mountains, crossing the R252 at Doocharry. From here it widens, being bridged by the N56 south of Lettermacaward. It enters the Gweebarra Bay which flows on into the North Atlantic Ocean.</p><br>
<h2>Wildlife</h2><br>
<p>The River Gweebarra is a brown trout and salmon fishery. Other species include Sand goby, European flounder, European eel, plaice, Fifteen-spined stickleback, Five-bearded rockling, Lesser sandeel, Two-spotted goby, Greater pipefish, Long-spined sea scorpion, Three-spined stickleback, turbot and pollack.</p><br>
<p>The Homer Waldo Farm is a historic farm complex on Waldo Lane in Wallingford, Vermont. Developed in the mid-19th century, it resembles a typical detached Vermont hillside farm complex, a contrast to the farms found further south on the valley floor of Otter Creek in southern Wallingford. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Homer Waldo Farm stands on the west side of Waldo Lane, a former alignment of Wallingfords main north-south road (now bypassed by the current alignment of United States Route 7), just south of Wallingfords village center and across Otter Creek. The farm complex includes a house, horse barn, and two dairy barns, all dating to the mid-19th century, and an early 20th-century milkhouse. The house is a 1-1/2 story frame building, that is basically vernacular in style, with ornamentation limited to a transom panel, architrave and cornice, set above the entrance. The modest styling is in contrast to some of the more elaborate farmhouses found further south in the Otter River valley.</p><br>
<p>The farmhouse was built about 1840 by an unknown farmer. Its first documented owner was Alfred Hull, who sold the farm to Homer Waldo in 1866. The farm was owned by the Waldos for about 50 years, and was owned for much of the 20th century by the Davenport family, who owned the adjacent farm to the south and ran a dairy operation.</p><br>
<p>The Cedar Bridge Tavern is a historic building located in the New Jersey Pine Barrens in Barnegat Township. It was built around 1740 and is believed to the oldest intact bar in the United States. It is located at the site of the last skirmish of the American Revolutionary War. It is on the National Register of Historical Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>The Affair at Cedar Bridge or the Battle of Cedar Bridge</h3><br>
<p>While the Siege of Yorktown and surrender by Cornwallis is considered the last major conflict on American soil during the American Revolution, dozens of small engagements and skirmishes took place up to the signing of the Treaty of Paris. The last conflict took place on the Jersey Shore in 1782.</p><br>
<p>On December 27, 1782, forces for the new republic led by Captains Richard Shreve and Edward Thomas were informed that notorious Loyalist John Bacon was in the vicinity of the tavern. They engaged Bacon and his Loyalist bandits (known now as "Refugees") at Cedar Bridge. A brief exchange of gunfire took place, and Bacon and his men were able to escape. One Patriot was killed, and four were wounded. Four Loyalists were wounded, including Bacon.</p><br>
<h2>Historic site</h2><br>
<p>According to a 1981 survey by preservationists working with the New Jersey Office of Cultural and Environmental Services, the Cedar Bridge Tavern was estimated to have been built around 1740 close to a stage coach route between Camden and the Jersey Shore. The wood-sided tavern with the long front porch has served as a hotel, restaurant and bar for travelers. Ocean County purchased the property from its last owner, Rudolf Koenig, in 2008 for $120,000. The structure still sits on dirt road and is surrounded by pine trees. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 7, 2013. Ocean County is spending $2.2 million to refurbish and develop the site, including building a caretaker&#39;s cottage and an outdoor classroom facility.</p><br>
<h2>Historical reenactment</h2><br>
<p>The "Affair at Cedar Bridge" is reenacted each year in December.</p><br>
<p>Piney Copse is 1.7 hectare of woodland located approximately 450 m east of Gomshall railway station and north of the Surrey village of Abinger Hammer. The copse is bisected by a public footpath. It was once owned by E. M. Forster, who used to live nearby and purchased the wood using funds from book sales - principally from A Passage to India - in order to prevent it from being developed into housing. When Forster died in 1970, he transferred ownership of the land in his will to the National Trust. In 1926 Forster wrote a short essay about Piney Copse in "Abinger Harvest", entitled "My Wood".</p><br>
<p>The woodland is a secondary woodland comprising oaks, sweet chestnuts and beech trees.</p><br>
<h2>Transport</h2><br>
<h3>Rail</h3><br>
<p>The nearest railway station is Gomshall, which is served by Great Western Railway services on the North Downs Line.</p><br>
<h3>Road</h3><br>
<p>The nearest primary road is the A25, with access to the copse available from the single-track road Beggars Lane. The copse can also be accessed from National Cycle Network Route 22 at its intersection with Hackhurst Lane.</p><br>
<p>The Harry Merrill House, also known as the Harrington–Merrill House, is a historic house in Hutchinson, Minnesota, United States. The house is the oldest wood-framed structure in Hutchinson and one of the oldest in McLeod County. It was built in 1858 by Lewis Harrington, then occupied 1886 to 1932 by Harry Merrill, who served as superintendent of local schools for 33 years. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012 for having local significance in the theme of education. It was nominated for its association with Harry Merrill, arguably the single most important educator in Hutchinson&#39;s history.</p><br>
<h2>Lewis Harrington</h2><br>
<p>The Merrill House was completed in 1858 by one of Hutchinsons founders, Lewis Harrington. Harrington came to Minnesota in 1855, where he met the Hutchinson brothers John, Asa, and Judson. Along with other investors, they formed the Hutchinson Company. The company selected the town site of Hutchinson in November 1855. Harrington played a central role in the new town. He surveyed and built roads, and was the citys first postmaster. He married Ellen Pendergast in 1857. With a child on the way, the couple decided to build a new home. The new house was built in what was called "the grove". The house was two stories, built in the Greek Revival style. Key architectural elements were a front gabled entrance and a one-story, shed-roof entry porch.</p><br>
<p>During the Dakota War of 1862 the town was attacked by Dakota Indians. Hutchinson residents erected a stockade around the center of town and chose Lewis Harrington as their captain. His house was located outside the stockade. Many structures were burned to the ground, but the Harringtons&#39; home survived. Harrington continued to work as a surveyor and an engineer, and later served in the state legislature. He died in 1884.</p><br>
<h2>Harry Merrill</h2><br>
<p>Harry Merrill came to Hutchinson in 1882 to serve as school superintendent. He married Lewis Harringtons daughter Martha in 1886. The couple moved into the house with Marthas mother, Ellen.</p><br>
<p>The building was altered to reflect the new architectural fashions. A two-story bay window and one-story box bay window were added on the south elevation. A one-story summer kitchen wing was added to the west side of the house as well. Various other alterations also occurred in the years between 1890 and 1915, including the addition of a screened pavilion on the south and a bedroom on the north. On the spacious grounds, trees and a garden were planted. The Merrills used the home for school functions, and often took in students who worked for room and board.</p><br>
<p>Merrill had a substantial impact on his adopted hometown, holding the post of superintendent for 33 years. In a farm-oriented community, his most important task might have been to get students to attend. He oversaw the implementation of several laws regarding state education. In 1909, when the state authorized vocational education, Merrill began agriculture, manual training, and domestic classes in Hutchinson.</p><br>
<p>Beginning in 1912 Merrill initiated a normal school in association with the high school. It was the only such school in McLeod County, and for more than two decades many of its graduates staffed rural schools in the surrounding area. A measure of Merrill&#39;s influence on education is seen in the respect that he earned within the profession, evidenced by his time as president of the Minnesota Education Association in 1914–1915.</p><br>
<p>Merrill was also a civic leader in Hutchinson. He held the post of city councilor and sat on the citys first library board. He was president of the citys Electric Light Company and commercial club. In addition to teaching, Merrill enjoyed farming and planted an apple orchard near his home. He died in 1932 and was followed by his wife Martha in 1935.</p><br>
<h2>Later history</h2><br>
<p>The next owner of the house was the Merrills&#39; son Lewis, who was a civil engineer. He served as Hutchinson city engineer and McLeod County surveyor. Lewis Merrill brought new tastes to the house after World War I. The bays lost their Victorian detailing and the two-story bay became a one-story entry. The summer kitchen was removed and the porch portion of the kitchen wing was again altered and a second dormer window added.</p><br>
<p>After Lewiss death in 1970, the house fell into disrepair. In 2002 a fire destroyed the kitchen wing and severely damaged the interior of the rest of the house. The property was acquired by the city of Hutchinson late in 2003. The citys park system managed the building, and a local committee began supervising its upkeep and interpretation.</p><br>
<p>Mack Island  is a small island in Hinlopen Strait. It is part of the Rønnbeck Islands in the Svalbard archipelago. It lies east of Cape Weyprecht on Spitsbergen.</p><br>
<p>The island is a low basalt cliff and its highest point is 22 m above sea level. The closest neighboring islands are Torkildsen Island about 300 m to the east and Isaksen Island about 700 m to the north. The wildlife consists largely of polar bears.</p><br>
<p>The island was discovered in 1867 by the Swedish-Norwegian polar explorer Nils Fredrik Rønnbeck. The Rønnbeck Islands are named after Norwegian seal hunters, and this one is named after the Norwegian sealing captain Fridrich "Fritz" Christian Mack (1836–1876), who also made several important discoveries in the Arctic.</p><br>
<p>Mauritius , formerly the Isle of France and Île Maurice in French, is the main island of the nation of Mauritius. It is located in the southwest of the Indian Ocean, in the heart of the Mascarene Islands, between Réunion to the west and Rodrigues to the east. The population is approximately 1.2 million inhabitants and is divided into several communities. The majority of Mauritians are crossbred with Indian  or Creole or mestizo  origins. There is also a minority of mulattoes, "white Mauritius" , and Sino-Mauritians . Muslim Mauritians are either Indian or Arab-Indian origin.</p><br>
<p>The capital of Mauritius is Port Louis, located in the northwest of the island. Mauritian Creole is spoken on the island, as well as French and English.</p><br>
<p>The religion in Mauritius is of a Hindu and Tamil majority (50%), with Muslim (20%), Christian (15%), and Buddhist (2%) minorities, but there is no official religion in view of the diversity of the population.</p><br>
<p>Bushy Lake is a small manmade lake located in Sacramento, California. The area is used for recreation as well as wildlife habitat and restoration projects. There are a few endangered species that live in the area and there is also an Assembly Bill that requires the preservation of the Bushy Lake area. It is located behind the Cal Expo site within a very urban environment; it is separated by a mile or so from the American River, which passes through the city of Sacramento.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Historically the area surrounding Bushy Lake is riparian habitat and flood plains of the American River. Some of the vegetation that surrounds the area include alder, willow scrub, cottonwood, elderberry shrubs, as well as other riparian fauna. In the summer of 2014, 160 acres of land surrounding Bushy Lake burned in a wildfire, leading to the restoration projects that are taking place. Bushy Lake is now a site of invasive species brought by outside sources as well as the native species that survived and regrew after the fire. Bushy Lake is owned and operated by Cal Expo. The water from Bushy Lake comes from a well that gathers urban water run-off from the fairgrounds.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Bushy Lake, like the rest of California, has a Mediterranean climate that consists of cool, wet winters and warm, dry summers. It is located in the northern part of California near the California State University of Sacramento. It is north of the CSUS campus behind the southeast corner of Cal Expo. It is in the city and county of Sacramento, California, United States. The lake is located just off a trail about a quarter to half a mile from the parking area near Gate 12 of Cal Expo. Bushy Lake is a small lake located not very far from the American River, about a quarter of a mile. Bushy Lake is within the American River watershed and gets its water from the American River. The coordinates are 38.5889279°N, 121.4345277°W. The area is prone to drought, erosion and groups of homeless populations and invasive species. In the American River Parkway Plan, the lake is designated as a Nature Study Area.</p><br>
<h2>Flora and fauna</h2><br>
<p>Bushy Lake and the American River Parkway as a whole have a variety of different flora and fauna species. The area is a site for the restoration of habitat for endangered species. Some of the species on the list are the western pond turtle, North American River Otter, red tailed hawks, Valley Elderberry Longhorn Beetles, and the Willow Flycatcher. There are cottonwood trees, Elderberry shrubs, and willow riparian scrubs.</p><br>
<p>As a result of different stressors, such as fire and drought, there has been an increase in the biomass of invasive species that prosper in drought-like conditions. Plants survey have been conducted throughout the area and at least 12 plant species have been identified. Of the 12 identified about half of the plants are native and the rest are non-native, some of which are very invasive to the area causing different environmental problems.</p><br>
<h2>Bushy Lake Preservation Act and AB 889</h2><br>
<p>The Bushy Lake Preservation Act was enacted in 1976 and the primary intent of the act was to support the ecosystems in the area by supporting the habitat of flora and fauna. Assembly Bill 889 makes amendments to the Bushy Lake Preservation Act by expanding on some of the requirements of the original act. The California Exposition and State Fair Board of Directors are required to maintain and preserve Bushy Lake and the Cal Expo floodplains in a way that is consistent with what a state park and natural preserve are. Assembly Bill 889 also requires that the preservation and management of Bushy Lake and the flood plains of Cal Expo conform to the standards and regulations of the American River Parkway Plan. The Bushy Lake Preservation Act also only allows that parking is to be permitted during the time of the State Fair and only on specified land, however, AB 889 requires one acre of land to be designated at all times for public use as long as cars are not parked there for more than 34 days. In addition, AB 889 requires that about 11 acres of land to be specifically for the use of parking near the flood plains so that more of the public can have access.</p><br>
<h2>Projects</h2><br>
<p>Bushy Lake is a popular site for many restoration projects. The Environmental Studies department at CSUS has an ongoing restoration project that aims to restore the White Root and Creeping Wild Rye riparian understory in the recently burned areas of Bushy Lake. The goals of the project are to restore fire resilient and drought resistant native plants to the area, to restore habitat for local native animals, as well as provide environmental educational opportunities for the public. Some of the projects include avian habitat, plant restoration, wetland/riparian restoration, and other local animal habitat restoration projects. Restoration efforts in the long run will reduce the amount of groundwater needed to sustain Bushy Lake.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>Bushy Lake is a popular area for recreation. It has a variety of trails that can be accessed through different entry points. The main access road, however, is located next to a small public parking area behind Cal Expo. The main trail is the American River Bike Trail. There are also fishing opportunities both in the lake and in the nearby American River. People who fish are asked to submit reviews about the fish and wildlife that they encounter. This area is used for viewing the native and non-native flora and fauna, bike riding, equestrian riding, hiking and picnicking in addition to accessing the river.</p><br>
<p>Monte Bubbonìa is a 595 metre high hill located in the comune of Mazzarino, about twenty kilometres from the city of Gela. It consists of three platforms, descending from west to east .</p><br>
<p>The site is reached by travelling along the SS 117 Gela-Catania, taking the turn-off for Piazza Armerina, driving for 9 kilometres, until a side road appears on the left, the old road to Mazzarino, marked by a sign which shows the street on an ancient Roman route map known as the Itinerarium Antonini.</p><br>
<p>The shape of the hill, from a geological point of view, is relatively recent, with the Miocene limestone base covered by Pleistocene marl with silt and quartz grains, then finally by very red sand which is very crumbly and dusty. Below the curb of a dirt road which runs up the east side of the hill towards the acropolis, there is a 2.2 metre long chamber dolmen, the shape of which has similarities to structures in Sardinia and Apulia.</p><br>
<p>On the summit of the mountain, Paolo Orsi discovered an ancient city which the archaeologist Piero Orlandini later identified as the Sican settlement of Maktorion, known from Herodotus 7.53. However, the ruins do not seem to predate the 6th century BC, and this makes Orlandini&#39;s identification unlikely.</p><br>
<p>The Wallingford Main Street Historic District encompasses the historic portions of the village of Wallingford, Vermont. An essentially linear district extending along Main Street  on either side of School Street, it has a well-preserved array of 19th and early-20th century residential, commercial, and civic buildings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Wallingford is a small agricultural community in the Otter Creek valley of central Vermont, 10 mi south of Rutland. It was settled in the 1770s, with its main village established on Roaring Brook, a tributary of Otter Creek. It developed as an agricultural area, and as a stop on the north-south stagecoach route, now US 7. The village center developed as a commercial center, serving the area farmers, and housed local industries such as sawmills, tanneries, and a blacksmith. The stage route was the only significant road in the village, with School Street (Vermont Route 140) emerging later as a major cross street, running east-west north of Roaring Brook. In 1835, Lyman Batcheller opened a pitchfork manufactory, which expanded significantly after the railroad arrived 1852. These industries declined in the early 20th century, as did agriculture, which has been partially supplanted by the summer tourist trade. Most of the village&#39;s development after 1920 has taken place on side streets, leaving its Main Street with a largely turn-of-the-20th-century appearance.</p><br>
<p>The historic district extends along Main Street, from Franklin and Meacham Streets in the north, to just south of the Green Hill Cemetery in the south, and includes a few buildings facing School Street near the central junction of School and Main. Most of the buildings in the district are residential, in a cross section of architectural styles. Prominent civic and religious buildings in the district include the town hall and Baptist Church (both on School Street) and the Renaissance Revival library. Commercial buildings include the Italianate Odd Fellows block, and the Georgian Revival True Temper Inn.</p><br>
<p>Elm Hill Farm is a historic farm property on Litchfield Road in Hallowell, Maine. Its centerpiece is the Merrick Cottage, built in 1799 by one Hallowell&#39;s first colonial settlers, which is one of the oldest surviving buildings in the city. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Elm Hill Farm is southwest of downtown Hallowell, on the north side of Litchfield Road, a secondary street leading west. It is set on a hill with views toward Vaughan Brook to the south and the Kennebec River to the east. The farm complex includes the main house, several barns, and a garage. The house is a roughly square 1-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a low-pitch gabled roof and original hand-split wooden clapboard siding. The roof is pierced by gabled dormers, which are a later addition. The interior of the house follows a central hall plan, with two rooms on either side of the center hall. Its main stairs are located off the dining room instead of in the main hall.</p><br>
<p>John Merrick first came to the Hallowell in 1794 as a tutor for the children of Dr. Benjamin Vaughan, one of the areas early settlers. In 1797 he married Vaughans sister Susan in England, and returned with her to Maine. In 1799 he built this house. He was long active in local civic affairs, particularly education, serving as a trustee of the local academy, and as an overseer of Bowdoin College. The homestead was eventually sold out of the Merrick and Vaughan families, and was repurchased by a descendant in the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>Czerep  – a hill in the southern part of the Krzeszowskie Wzgórza, within Kotlina Kamiennogórska, in Central Sudetes.</p><br>
<h2>Position</h2><br>
<p>The peak is located in the southern part of the Krzeszowskie Wzgórza; it is their southern tip. In the north, through Przełęcz Żłób it connects to the Post Berg. Southern slopes steeply fall into the stream Kochanówka that separates Krzeszowskie Wzgórza of Zawory Mountains.</p><br>
<h2>The geologic structure</h2><br>
<p>It is made from Credaceus sandstones glauconite and mudstones.</p><br>
<h2>Vegetation</h2><br>
<p>The apex as well as the majority of hill are covered with a pine forest, down, east and west sides feature meadows.</p><br>
<h2>Bibliography</h2><br>
<p>Słownik geografii turystycznej Sudetów, tom 8 Kotlina Kamiennogórska, Wzgórza Bramy Lubawskiej, Zawory, red. Marek Staffa, Wydawnictwo I-BiS, Wrocław 1997, s. 89 i 90</p><br>
<p>Sudety Środkowe. Skala 1:40000. Jelenia Góra: Wydawnictwo Turystyczne Plan, 2005.</p><br>
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<p>The George E. Stubbins House, also known as the Reibsamen-Weiland House, is a historic residence located in Britt, Iowa, United States. George E. Stubbins was a local merchant who built the first brick commercial block in town, and served as Britt&#39;s first mayor. Mary Reibsamen in 1922, and it has remained in that family at least into the late 1990s. The house is considered one of the finest Eastlake houses in Iowa. Its Gothic Revival influences, which include the corner oriel window, the gabled and bracketed roof over the first-story bay, and the vergeboards, are combined with its cross-gable hip roof from the Queen Anne style to fully express the Stick style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Inishkeel is a small island and a townland off the coast of County Donegal, Ireland. The closest village on the mainland is Narin.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The island is located in Gweebarra Bay around 250 m from the coast. A sandy tidal bank connects, with low tide, the island with the mainland.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>During the 6th century A.D. a small community of monks settled on the island. Their religious leader was Saint Conall Cael, from whom the island later derived its name. During the following centuries Inishkeel was a traditional destination of pilgrimages. Remains of the church and the connected buildings as well as some carved stones can be seen on the island. For its artistical and archeological importance the island was declared National Monument (code: DG064-003). A bell known as St Conall Cael&#39;s Bell remained on Inishkeel up to the 19th century and was then acquired by the British Museum.</p><br>
<h3>Demography</h3><br>
<p>A small community used to live on Inishkeel in the past, and in year 1841 23 inhabitants were registered on the island.</p><br>
<p>The island was later abandoned and in 2011 census had no inhabitants.</p><br>
<p>The archaeological park of Sabucina , located on the mountain of the same name near Caltanissetta , is an archaeological site in Sicily. The area contains settlements ranging from the Bronze Age  to the Roman period.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Archaeological evidence allows the phases of habitation to be divided as follows:</p><br>
<p>23rd-15th century BC: some villages of the Castelluccio culture</p><br>
<p>13th-10th century BC: village of huts of the northern Pantalica culture (threephases)</p><br>
<p>10th-9th century BC: slight habitation by the Cassibile culture</p><br>
<p>8th-7th century BC: new settlement with rectangular houses and an organised religious area</p><br>
<p>6th-4th century BC: settlement of Greek colonists from Gela.</p><br>
<p>The original village has securely pre-Greek origins, it was constructed by the Sicans, who took advantage of the dominant position of the mountain over the Salso river valley.</p><br>
<h3>Greek period</h3><br>
<p>The first phase of the Greek settlement came in the 7th century. The centre consisted of rectangular habitations, with more space between them towards the summit of the mountain. In the 6th century BC, the city wall was built, which probably contained the entire inhabited area at that time. In the 5th century the settlement was destroyed, probably by Ducetius, who is mentioned by Diodorus Siculus. Reconstruction occurred in the second half of the century; the settlement received a new layout of streets and housing plots on a different orientation, and a new city wall with rectangular towers. This settlement was abandoned in turn at the end of the fourth century, probably as a result of the Agathocles of Syracuse.</p><br>
<h2>Archaeological area</h2><br>
<p>In the area at the bottom of the mountain are some Bronze Age; other important discoveries include to a hut used as a shrine and the so-called, a terracotta model dating to the 6th century BC, found in the area of the necropolis, which depicts a small temple with a pronaos in antis and a pitched roof surmounted by two figures of cavalrymen and two gorgoneion masks decorating the tympanum. The sacello, with other discoveries, is now kept in the Regional archaeological museum of Caltanissetta.</p><br>
<p>The discovery of this archaeological site is relatively recent; the first excavations only took place in the 1960s, when Piero Orlandini excavated the late Bronze Age huts, dating to the 13th-10th centuries BC. This was an important excavation, since Sabucina was the first village of this type to be identified in Sicily.</p><br>
<p>Today the site is accessible, thanks to a regulation of the Office of Cultural Heritage. As a reuslt of public order n.6262 on 11 July 2001 it became the regional archaeological park of Sabucina.</p><br>
<p>The Grwyne Fawr Reservoir is located in the valley of the river Grwyne Fawr in the Brecon Beacons National Park, Wales. Completed in 1928, it has the capacity to hold 400,000,000 impgal.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>By the end of the 19th-century there were serious water shortages in the western parts of the historic county of Monmouthshire. The area had seen a massive population increase as a result of the steel and coal industries but the supply of water to the area was complicated due to its high altitude. A site for a new reservoir was chosen at the head of the Grwyne Fawr valley because at 1725 ft above sea level it was high enough to allow water to be gravity fed to Abertillery and the surrounding areas.</p><br>
<p>Building works started in 1912, but almost immediately hit problems. The road constructed up the valley could not take the weight of the heavy traction engines used for haulage. It was decided that a new railway would be required, however negotiations with local land owners failed and the line remained incomplete. With the outbreak of the first world war proceedings were put on hold.</p><br>
<p>Work recommenced in January 1919, the railway was completed and connected to the main line at Llanvihangel Crucorney. A village of construction workers and their families grew in the valley at Blaen-y-cwm. A community of some 300 people lived there with a hostel, canteen, day school, police station and hospital. The workmen quarried 200,000 tons of sandstone for the construction of the dam. Large boulders weighing up to 5 tons each were set in concrete to form the dam, which is 130 feet thick at its base, the walls were then faced with dressed stone. A 16-inch diameter steel pipeline was tunnelled through Coity Mountain carrying water to a holding reservoir in Cwmtillery.</p><br>
<p>The dam was finally completed in February 1928, after which the railway and structures that served its construction were quickly dismantled including the workers village. The total cost of construction was reported to be £1 million.</p><br>
<h2>Operation</h2><br>
<p>The reservoir has been decommissioned by Dŵr Cymru, the local water company, and no longer supplies drinking water. Poor management of the surrounding catchment area has allowed peat sediment to wash into the reservoir causing water discolouration and it has proved uneconomical to remedy the problem.</p><br>
<p>Lobster Lake in the North Maine Woods was named because its shape resembles the outline of a lobster. The northwest corner of the lake in Northeast Carry township resembles a curled lobster tail, while the lake extending eastward into Lobster township resembles a lobster thorax. The larger eastern arm of the lake extending southward is Big Claw and a smaller western arm is Little Claw. Lobster Stream connects the northwest corner of the lake to the West Branch Penobscot River 1.4 mi north of the lake. Lobster Lake and the river are at a similar elevation; so the West Branch may temporarily reverse flow through Lobster Stream into the lake during peak runoff events from the western Maine highlands along the Canadian border. The lake has self-sustaining populations of native lake trout and land-locked Atlantic salmon; but brook trout populations are suppressed by competition from yellow perch and white perch.</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
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<p>Coolamber Hall-House is an Anglo-Norman ruin in County Longford, Ireland that is dated to the early 13th century. Possibly the residence of Thomas Nugent, 4th Earl of Westmeath, one of the commissioners for Plantation of Longford in 1620. Described by Samuel Lewis as ‘the ruins of an old castle, which was besieged by Oliver Cromwell, it formed the boundary of the English Pale’. Hall-houses of this type consist of two-storey buildings with the entrance doorway on the first floor. The entrance was accessed via an external staircase of wood or stone. The main feature of the building was the large first floor hall which was open up to the roof. The ground floor was accessed via a trapdoor or internal staircase and was probably used as a storage area. Many hall-houses like that at Coolamber have been rebuilt or altered considerably.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Coolamber Hall-house consists of a two-storey structure, located on a circular platform approximately 4m high and 40m in diameter. The platform is possibly an older early medieval ringwork that was subsequently reused as a bawn. A late-medieval church is situated approximately 400m to the north-west. The platform is enclosed by the remains of a 1.60m thick and 0.35m high bawn wall. There is a small, rectangular, mural tower on the south-west side. The hall-house has the remains of a barrel-vault at its northern end at ground floor level. Only ruined remains of the walls (max height 2m) of the two-storey block remain.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Coolamber Hall House is located close to Lismacaffrey Village on the border between County Longford and County Westmeath. It is close to a small cemetery on private property.</p><br>
<p>The Norumbega Carriage House is a historic house on High Street in Camden, Maine. Built in 1886 as the carriage house for the adjacent Norumbega Castle of Joseph B. Stearns, it is now a private residence. It was designed by Norumbegas architect, Arthur B. Jennings, and is  one of Camdens finest and most unusual examples of Queen Anne architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Norumbega Carriage House stands southeast of Norumbega Castle (now the Norumbega Inn), and is accessed via either High Street (from a drive shared in part with Norumbega) or Marine Drive. It is a 2-1/2 story structure, built out of fieldstone and frame construction finished in wooden shingles. Its main block is rectangular, with a cross-gabled roof, and a tall circular tower at its eastern corner. The bottom half of the tower is stone, while the upper part of frame, and it is topped by a conical roof. The main facade faces northwest, and has an off-center stone section rising to a wall dormer at the roof level. In its ground level is a large entry set in a segmented-arch opening, with an arched bay above. A square ell extends southwest from the main block, giving the building an L shape.</p><br>
<p>The carriage house was built, along with the main house, in 1886 for Joseph Barker Stearns, a telecommunications magnate who made his fortune in developing and patenting the duplex telegraph. It was designed by New York City architect Arthur B. Jennings, whose credits in Maine also include the St. Lawrence Church in Portland. The carriage house has for many years been under separate ownership from the main house, and has been adapted to residential use.</p><br>
