<p>The Capts. Louis and Philomene Daniels House is a historic house at 50 Macdonough Drive in Vergennes, Vermont. Built in 1868, this vernacular waterfront house was home to Philomene Daniels, believed to be the first woman to be given a steamship captain&#39;s license. She, her husband Louis, and their two sons operated the Daniels Boat Line, providing freight and passenger service between Vergennes and Westport, New York. Their house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Daniels House stands northwest of downtown Vergennes, on the north side of Macdonough Drive opposite Macdonough Park and the Vergennes city dock. The house is a modest vernacular 1-1/2 story wood frame structure. It is L-shaped, with a front-facing gabled main block, an ell extending to the west, and a shed-roof section extending across the rear. A shed-roof porch extends across the front, and there are entrances in both the front of the ell and the side of the main block. The interior retains original flooring and trim elements.</p><br>
<p>Philomene Daniels was a native of Quebec whose family moved to Vergennes in the 1850s. In 1862 she married Louis Daniels, a native of Panton who was also of French-Canadian extraction. In 1869 he began working aboard the Water Lily, a small steamboat which he purchased in 1880. By 1877 he had acquired both pilot and engineering licenses for operating the ship, which carried freight and passengers down Otter Creek to Lake Champlain and across to Westport, New York. The couples two sons began assisting their father in the operation of the service, and Philomene also joined the family business. Seeking to become "as good a pilot as any man", she secured a pilots license in 1887, a feat which garnered international headlines. The family eventually acquired or built three more steamships, which plied the lake until 1916, when other forms of transport rendered it unprofitable.</p><br>
<p>Proleek Dolmen is a dolmen  and National Monument located in County Louth, Ireland.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Proleek Dolmen is 4.3 km northeast of Dundalk, on the west bank of the Ballymascanlan River.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The dolmen dates to the Neolithic, around 3000 BC. It was used for interments in which the cremated remains were placed in the tomb, often accompanied by grave goods, including tools, beads and pottery. The tomb may be aligned so that its portal points toward Slieve Gullion and/or the setting sun at the summer solstice.</p><br>
<p>Local legend claims that the dolmen was carried here by the Scottish giant Para Buidhe Mór Mhac Seoidin (or Parrah Boug MacShagean; "Great Yellow Para, son of Seoidín"). Para challenged Fionn mac Cumhaill to combat, but Fionn poisoned the nearby river and Para drank from it. The Scottish giant was buried at the wedge tomb nearby.</p><br>
<p>Another local tradition claims that if a visitor lands three stones atop the dolmen, they will be granted a wish, or will be married within the year.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Proleek dolmen is composed of two portal stones, a lower backstone and a massive capstone, which weighs about 40 tonnes. The portal faces northwest.</p><br>
<p>90 metres (100 yd) to the SE is a Wedge-shaped gallery grave ("Giant&#39;s Grave") with a 6.7 m gallery.</p><br>
<p>Wildwood Hall is a historic house on Moore&#39;s Hill Road in Newbury, Vermont. Also known locally as The Castle, it is a distinctive example of Shingle style architecture, designed as a country house by William M. Butterfield and completed in 1895. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Wildwood Hall stands in southeastern Newbury, on a hillside overlooking the Connecticut River valley to the east and south. It is set on the north side of Moore&#39;s Hill Road, on an 11 acre parcel that is formally landscaped in the immediate vicinity of the house. The house is a 2-1/2 story, its first floor built out of uncoursed fieldstone, and its upper levels framed in wood and clad in wooden shingles. The main block is covered by a gabled roof, while the crossing ell has a gambrel roof. At the crook of the ell, a round tower with conical roof rises above a squared porch supported by fieldstone columns. The interior retains original Queen Anne woodwork, and a mosaic marble floor in its main floor.</p><br>
<p>The house was built between 1893 and 1895, for George Moore, on a site that was documented as early as 1799 for its magnificent views of the river valley. It was designed by William M. Butterfield of Manchester, New Hampshire, who had a reputation for high-quality Queen Anne and Shingle style designs. Moore lived here until his death in 1905.</p><br>
<p>Lago dell&#39;Antenna is an artificial lake in north-west Italy, located in the Genoa . Concerned comunes are Urbe and Sassello.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The lake was realised blocking the Orba with a dam a couple of km upstream San Pietro d&#39;Urbe, in oder to produce electricity in a small power plant.</p><br>
<p>Its name comes from Monte Antenna (821 m), a mountain which overlooks the left banks of the lake; right banks of the reservoir are flanked by the provincial road nr. 40 Urbe - Vara - Passo del Faiallo and from Bric del Sozzo (650 m). The lake is located on the northern border of Parco naturale regionale del Beigua, which encompasses its left shore.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Antenna lake was realised in 1922 in order to provide water to the hydroelectric power plant of the Cotonificio Ligure, located in San Pietro d&#39;Orba. During the 1940s the reservoir capacity was considered insufficient and started dam extension works which ended on 1946, bringing the reservoir capacity up to around 50.000 m³. Present-day dam is a masonry arch-gravity dam; it finally inspection took place in February 1952. Nowadays the reservoir capacity is restricted by the sedimentation on the lake bed and is estimated to be around 30,000 m³.</p><br>
<h2>Fishing</h2><br>
<p>Lake Antenna is classified, following Province of Savona fishing map, as a B category water body (Acque di categoria B), thus mixed population water. The lake is also defined as touristic fishing reserve (riserva di pesca turistica), and is restocked with rainbow trouts when authorised by Parco del Beigua. Restocking with brown trouts is not permitted because they are not considered native fish. The lake is the subject of a yearly fauna survey. Access rules are defined by Provincia di Savona administration.</p><br>
<p>Cathedral Hill Historic District is a national historic district located at St. Joseph, Missouri. The district encompasses 309 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and contributing structures in a predominantly residential section of St. Joseph. It developed between about 1860 and 1950, and includes representative examples of Greek Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, and American Craftsman style architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed Virginia Flats. Other notable buildings include the Nisen Stone House , Thomas Culligan House , A. D. Hudnutt House , St. Joseph Cathedral , James Wall House , Taylor Apartments , E. F. Weitheimer House , Sarah and Ann Walsh Apartment House , Henry Owen Stable , George T. Hoagland Speculative House , and James Hull House .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Krug Park Place Historic District is a national historic district located at St. Joseph, Missouri. The district encompasses 28 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in a predominantly residential section of St. Joseph. It developed between about 1888 and 1938, and includes representative examples of Italianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and American Craftsman style architecture. Notable buildings include the Henry Krug, Jr. House  designed by noted architect Edmond Jacques Eckel ,`A.V. Schaeffer House , W.W. Van Sant House , J.G. Schneider House  by Eckel, Benton Quick House , Mrs. W.B. Watkins House , and George Ward House .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Kemper Addition Historic District is a national historic district located at St. Joseph, Missouri. The district encompasses 74 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in a predominantly residential section of St. Joseph. It developed between about 1880 and 1950, and includes representative examples of Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and American Craftsman style architecture. Notable buildings include the Jacob Spencer House , H. E. Hutchings House , Fred Binz House , Thomas Moseley Duplex , Plaza Apartments , Hickey-Fargrave House  with alterations by noted architect Edmond Jacques Eckel ,`C. E. Sprague House  by Eckel, David Bartlett House  by Eckel, and Samuel Nave House .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>St. Josephs Commerce and Banking Historic District is a national historic district located at St. Joseph, Missouri. The district encompasses 39 contributing buildings in the central business district of St. Joseph. It developed between about 1859 and 1950, and includes representative examples of Italianate, Classical Revival, and Streamline Moderne style architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed German-American Bank Building, Corby-Forsee Building, Missouri Theater and Missouri Theater Building, and Missouri Valley Trust Company Historic District. Other notable buildings include the Ballinger Building , Commerce Building , First National Bank of St. Joseph , Lehmans, Plymouth Building , and the United Building  by the noted architecture firm of Eckel & Aldrich.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Rossiter-Little House is generally considered the oldest house in Sparta. The present structure was built onto and around a log cabin . The structure was built on the highest point in Sparta and used initially as a fort. Beneath the crawlspace of the present house, the original structure of the log foundation is still in place. The Rossiter-Little House was probably built about 1798 when Timothy Wells Rossiter, a Revolutionary war surgeon from Connecticut, bought the northeast corner lot at Broad and Miles Streets or the year after that when he bought the adjoining lot to the east. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 11, 1974, due to its architectural significance.</p><br>
<p>The main part of the house is built on a classic New England saltbox design typical of the 17th and 18th centuries. Dr. Rossiter displays his ancestral ties by building a house in a form distinct to that region. It is interesting to note that this style of house became used infrequently at the close of the eighteenth century for large home construction as the more popular Georgian and Federal styles were used throughout the region and may offer an insight into the house design he had been familiar with (or lived in) prior to emigrating to Georgia from Connecticut.</p><br>
<p>The Rossiter-Little House is modified, however, from the archetypical New England-form by having two front projecting wings or ells with an inset front porch or gallery between them. This is an atypical design for New England, but it does appear infrequently in some late 18th and early 19th century Southern plantations, such as the Kingsley Plantation (c. 1798) in Duval County, Florida, just below the Georgia border.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural Description</h2><br>
<p>A 1983 description of the house from the The Georgia Catalog, Historic American Buildings Survey: "Frame with clapboarding, flush siding under porch, Central block 30’ 4” (three bay front) with projecting wings 18’ 2” (one-bay front). One and one-half stories, central block with spraddle roof and dormer windows, the wings with gable roofs. Two exposed end chimneys, two end chimneys within exterior walls, one interior chimney. Three bay front porch across central block, terminating at wings. Columns and frieze with Chinese lattice-design insets. Full length windows on porch. Six panel entrance door with transom. Central hall plan. Original part built before 1812, possible late 18th C. Wings and front porch built before 1860, windows on porch probably enlarged at same time. Rear ell added later. Dormer windows in front enlarged and changed before 1937. Porch probably had balustrade, probably sheaf of wheat design. This removed before 1937. 3 exterior photos (1937), 1 interior photo (1936), 1 data page (1936). Illustrated on p, 157"</p><br>
<p>Point of Rocks is a geologically significant outcropping located along USA Highway 12  southwest of Baraboo, Wisconsin. The formation is made up of Baraboo Quartzite and is part of the Baraboo Range; it dates from the Precambrian and is roughly 1.7 billion years old. Along with the nearby Van Hise Rock, the formation was instrumental in the University of Wisconsin–Madison&#39;s development of the field of geology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The formation is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Point of Rocks is located along the east side of a curve in US 12, 0.25 mi south of its intersection with Wisconsin Highway 159. The outcropping itself is around 4,000 ft thick and consists of maroon, pink, and purple quartzite, while the surrounding area is covered by trees. The formation was created roughly 1.7 billion years ago and, as part of the Baraboo Range, is a remnant of a Precambrian mountain range. The rocks feature ripple patterns created by waves and tides, indicating that the surrounding area was once flooded by a sea. Geological concepts exhibited by the outcropping include stratification and structural deformation; the formation is often used as an illustrative example of the latter for geology students.</p><br>
<h2>Modern history</h2><br>
<p>Point of Rocks, Van Hise Rock, and a number of other nearby geological features played an important role in the development of the field of geology by the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Prior to the late 19th century, geology was largely considered a descriptive field and focused primarily on surveys used to locate mineral resources. UW–Madison geologist Roland Irving was the first to focus his studies on the Baraboo Range, beginning through his work on an 1873 survey of the area. His student and eventual fellow faculty member Charles Van Hise continued his work, in which he was later joined by Charles Leith and Warren Mead. These geologists&#39; studies of the exposed rock formations in the Baraboo Range led to advancements in the theory of how rock behaves when stressed, pioneering the field of structural geology. In addition, their work helped transform geology from a descriptive science to a theoretical one.</p><br>
<p>The formation was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 11, 2010.</p><br>
<p>Museum Hill Historic District is a national historic district located at St. Joseph, Missouri. The district encompasses 248 contributing buildings in a predominantly residential section of St. Joseph. It developed between about 1860 and 1942, and includes representative examples of Italianate, Second Empire, Queen Anne, Tudor Revival, American Foursquare, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed Robidoux School. Other notable buildings include the First Congregational Church , Francis Street Methodist Church , First Baptist Church  designed by noted architect Edmond Jacques Eckel , United Presbyterian Church , First Church of Christ Scientist , First English Evangelical Lutheran Church , and Queen of the Apostles Roman Catholic Church  designed by Eckel.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991 with a boundary increase in 2009.</p><br>
<p>Wholesale Row, also known as the Wholesale Row Historic District, is a national historic district located at St. Joseph, Missouri. The district originally encompassed five contributing buildings in an industrial / commercial section of St. Joseph on the western edge of the central business district. The Noyes-Norman Building  on 3rd Street has been demolished. It developed between about 1872 and 1884, and includes representative examples of Italianate style architecture. The remaining buildings are the R.L. McDonald and Co. Building , Englehart-Winning Co. North Building , Englehart-Winning Co. South Building , and Brittain-Richardson and Co. Building . The remaining buildings were all designed by the noted architect Edmond Jacques Eckel .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The Cotton Free Library is the public library serving the town of Weybridge, Vermont. It is located on Quaker Village Road, in a small architecturally distinguished Colonial Revival building constructed in 1913 donated by Joshua Franklin Cotton. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and history</h2><br>
<p>The Cotton Free Library is located in Weybridges historic village center, just north of Weybridge Town Hall, with which it shares a lot. It is a small square structure, built out of rock-faced concrete blocks and covered by a hip roof. Its front facade is symmetrical with the centered entrance sheltered by a gabled portico supported by two Doric columns. The centered of the gable is adorned with a small oculus window. The interiors original features include a pressed tin ceiling, a swinging metal arm for holding an oil lamp, and a brass-plated tin chandelier with eight etched-glass globes, originally lit with kerosene but later electrified. The rear wall has a fireplace whose mantel is adorned with Arts and Crafts tiles.</p><br>
<p>The library was founded in 1897 by the town after receiving a bequest from Joshua Franklin Cotton, a local citizen. Originally located in the basement of the town hall, its growing collection prompted the decision to build a dedicated structure. Land for the building was acquired in 1913, and construction took place in 1914-16, with the building formally opened late in 1916. The library is one of the only buildings of its type in the state to be built using this type of concrete block. The building was electrified in 1922.</p><br>
<p>The Burlington Breakwater is a breakwater providing shelter to the harbor of Burlington, Vermont from the open waters of Lake Champlain. It was built in several stages between 1836 and 1890, and is a rare example of a 19th-century timber-cribbed stone breakwater. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The harbor of Burlington, Vermont is located near the center of Burlington Bay, which extends from Appletree Point in the north to Shelburne Point in the south. Set off from the city&#39;s port area, the Burlington Breakwater shelters that area from the broad waters of Lake Champlain to west. The breakwater consists of a main section 3,793 ft in length, with a 364 ft section to the north, separated by a channel 200 ft wide. The structure has seven legs laid out in a zig-zag pattern, laid out to roughly follow the contour of the shoreline. Its visible portions are covered by a variety of stone materials. Its underwater structure consists of timber cribs, most laid on a rubble foundation, that are filled with rubblestone. The cribs are hemlock at the lower levels and white pine at the upper levels, and are joined by notched corners. Most of the upper levels of the cribbing have been replaced by stone because of subsequent rotting. The lake-facing side of the breakwater was largely faced in riprap in 1961. The ends of the breakwater are marked by modern lights.</p><br>
<p>The oldest portion of the breakwater, about 1,000 ft long, was built between 1836 and 1854, and consists of the middle sections of the present structure. It was built as part of a program by the federal War Department to improve shelter for the major port facilities on Lake Champlain.</p><br>
<p>Near the breakwater&#39;s southern end lies the shipwrecked General Butler, which struck the breakwater during a storm in 1876 and sank, its passengers and crew reaching safety on the breakwater before she sank. It is now a popular dive site.</p><br>
<p>King John&#39;s Castle, also known as Carlingford Castle, is an enclosure castle and National Monument located in Carlingford, County Louth, Ireland.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>King Johns Castle is located in Carlingford towns harbour, halfway along the south coast of Carlingford Lough.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Carlingford Castles west wing was built in the late 12th century by Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath shortly after the Norman invasion of Ireland. It acquired the name "King Johns Castle" after King John, Lord of Ireland, supposedly stayed there for three days in 1210, during his second expedition, when he invaded Ulster to apprehend Hugh de Lacy, 1st Earl of Ulster. Local myth claims that he began to draft Magna Carta (agreed in 1215) at Carlingford. Other accounts associate its construction with Ralph Pepper in 1204.</p><br>
<p>The east wing of the castle was added c. 1261. In 1326 the castle was committed to Geoffrey le Blound. Edmond Loundres was constable in 1388, Stephen Gernon in 1400. Henry MacShane O&#39;Neill attempted to take the castle in 1596.</p><br>
<p>During the Irish Confederate Wars, the castle was held by the Irish Catholic Confederation; then was taken by Sir Henry Tichborne, 3rd Baronet (Parliamentarian) in 1642,</p><br>
<p>then by Murrough O&#39;Brien, 1st Earl of Inchiquin in 1649 and Charles Coote, 1st Earl of Mountrath in 1650.</p><br>
<p>During the Williamite War it was fired on by Jacobites in 1689 and used as a Williamite hospital by Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg prior to the Battle of the Boyne.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>King John&#39;s Castle is a D-shaped enclosure castle with walls 3.4 m thick. The curtain wall in the west wing had a gate house and a square flanking tower. The curtain wall also contains deep embrasures with narrow arrowslits.</p><br>
<p>A large rectangular hall is in the east wing: this hall had two main floors over a basement.</p><br>
<p>Dún Dealgan Motte is a motte and National Monument in Dundalk, Ireland.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Dún Dealgan Motte is located immediately northwest of Dundalk and west of Mount Avenue, on a ridge overlooking the Castletown River.</p><br>
<h2>History and archaeology</h2><br>
<h3>Motte</h3><br>
<p>An ancient Gaelic Irish dún once stood here. Some legends claim the site as the birthplace of Cú Chulainn, and it is here that he bases himself in the Táin Bó Cúailgne. The Annals of the Four Masters places a battle here in AD 500.</p><br>
<p>Early accounts merely call it Dealga, with dún only added after 1002, so it&#39;s possible that a fort was only built on the hill around that time. A Z-shaped souterrain, 17 m in length was also dug into the hill in the Gaelic period.</p><br>
<p>Motte-and-bailey castles were a primitive type of castle built after the Norman invasion, a mound of earth topped by a wooden palisade and tower. Dún Dealgan motte is believed to have been constructed by Bertram III de Verdun (c.1135–1192), with a bailey to the northwest. It was a stronghold of Hugh de Lacy, 1st Earl of Ulster in 1210, but he left it when pursued northwards by King John. On 14 October 1318 it was the site of the Battle of Faughart where the Bruce campaign in Ireland ended with the death of Edward Bruce.</p><br>
<h3>Folly</h3><br>
<p>A local man landowner named Patrick Byrne (often called a pirate, due to much of his wealth originating from smuggling) began to build a Gothic house atop the mount. It was damaged in the 1798 Rebellion and only a castellated tower ("Byrne&#39;s Folly") remained.</p><br>
<p>The house was rebuilt in 1850 by Thomas Vesey Dawson as a country retreat, but fell into disrepair and was bought by the County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society to be used for a museum. It was further damaged in the revolutionary period (1919–23)</p><br>
<p>Turnback Creek is a stream in the Ozarks of southwest Missouri. The stream headwaters are in western Christian County just southwest of Billings. The stream flows north-northwest after passing under U.S. Route 60 and on through the extreme southwest corner of Greene County and into Lawrence County. In Lawrence County the stream flows northwest passing under Interstate 44 southwest of Halltown and into southeast Dade County. In Dade County the stream flows generally north and enters the Sac River arm of Stockton Lake at U.S. Route 160 east of Greenfield.</p><br>
<p>The stream source is at , and its confluence is at .</p><br>
<p>Turnback Creek was named from an incident in the 1830s when a group of pioneers "turned back" and headed back east due to harsh winter weather.</p><br>
<p>Dilday Mill was formerly located on Turnback Creek.</p><br>
<p>Curlew Island is an island of the Andaman Islands. It belongs to the North and Middle Andaman administrative district, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.</p><br>
<p>the island is lying 150 km north from Port Blair.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Curlew Island had a wildlife station to monitor birds, with permanent inhabitants.</p><br>
<p>The station was evacuated at the end of 2015 due to budget discontinued.</p><br>
<p>The island is now uninhabited.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The island belongs to the Stewart Sound Group. it is very small.</p><br>
<h2>Administration</h2><br>
<p>Politically, Curlew Island, along neighboring Stewart Sound Group, is part of Diglipur Taluk. The village was located on the northern tip of the islet.</p><br>
<h2>Demographics</h2><br>
<p>The island is now uninhabited.</p><br>
<p>According to the 2011 census of India, the Island had 2 households. The effective literacy rate (i.e. the literacy rate of population excluding children aged 6 and below) is 50%.</p><br>
<p>Stewart Island is an island of the Andaman Islands. It belongs to the North and Middle Andaman administrative district, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.</p><br>
<p>the island is lying 150 km north from Port Blair.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The island belongs to the Stewart Sound Group and lies between dotrel island and Curlew Island. The island is small, having an area of 7.05 km&sup2;.</p><br>
<h2>Administration</h2><br>
<p>Politically, Stewart Island, along neighboring Stewart Sound Group Islands, is part of Diglipur Taluk.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>Ferry service is available from Mayabunder, on demand.</p><br>
<h2>Demographics</h2><br>
<p>There is only 1 village, located at 13.012&deg;N latitude, 92.939&deg;E longitude.</p><br>
<p>According to the 2011 census of India, the Island has 1 households. The effective literacy rate (i.e. the literacy rate of population excluding children aged 6 and below) is 100%.</p><br>
<p>The Cornwall Town Hall is located at 2629 Vermont Route 30 in Cornwall, Vermont. Built in 1880 and enlarged in 1905 to also house the local Grange chapter, it is one of the rural community&#39;s few examples of Italianate architecture, and has served as a community meeting point since its construction. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Cornwall&#39;s town hall stands in its small village center, on the east side of Vermont Route 30, just north of its junction with Vermont Route 74. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof, clapboarded exterior, and a foundation of stone and concrete. The eaves are studded with Italianate brackets, and the upper floor windows of the front section have peaked lintels. The front entrance is framed by sidelights and pilasters, and is also topped by a peaked gable. The interior is divided into town offices on the ground floor, with an auditorium space on the second floor. A single-story shed-roof addition extends to the rear.</p><br>
<p>The town hall was built in 1880, a period of prosperity in the town occasioned by its success as a merino sheep farming community. The rear addition, housing kitchen facilities, was added during alterations in 1905 to accommodate the town&#39;s Grange chapter, which was founded in 1903. The Grange funded a number of other improvements, including an updated heating plant, and the eventual electrification of the building. Its exterior architectural elements resemble designs of Middlebury architect Clinton G. Smith, although the designer of this building is not known with certainty.</p><br>
<p>Aves Island is an island of the Andaman Islands. It belongs to the North and Middle Andaman administrative district, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.</p><br>
<p>the island is lying 140 km north from Port Blair.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Aves Lighthouse, was established in 2008.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The island lies 3.5 km east of Mayabunder. The island is small, having an area of 0.2 km&sup2;.</p><br>
<h2>Administration</h2><br>
<p>Politically, Aves Island is part of Mayabunder Taluk.</p><br>
<p>The island is privately owned by the Co-op Society Ltd. plantation.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>Aves Island is about 20 mins ride away by Dinghy from Mayabunder jetty.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>Aves is a perfect destination for basking in the sun and sea water by simply sitting in the water. The tall, thick coconut trees provide shade which saves you from scorching heat.</p><br>
<p>Snorkeling is also a great activity.</p><br>
<h2>Demographics</h2><br>
<p>There is only 1 village.</p><br>
<p>According to the 2011 census of India, the Island has 1 households. The effective literacy rate (i.e. the literacy rate of population excluding children aged 6 and below) is 100%.</p><br>
<p>The residents are farmers growing Paddy, vegetables, coconuts, horticultural crops, spices.</p><br>
<p>The Salt River aka Soutrivier of the Garden Route arises in the Tsitsikamma Mountains between Knysna and Port Elizabeth in South Africa, and mouths into the Indian Ocean just west of Nature&#39;s Valley.</p><br>
<p>Normally a gentle, small stream, the river&#39;s hydrology is such that flash floods may sweep down its stony course after heavy rains. Rivers along this coastline are subject to such flooding, mostly having short, steep courses, but relatively large catchment areas, funneling water into narrow, steep, rocky gorges, accompanied by rapid rises in water levels. Adventuring kloofers are at risk of being swept away at such times, the last such incident having taken place in 2015.</p><br>
<p>In the year 2000 the Albany Museum based in Grahamstown initiated surveys to determine which aquatic macroinvertebrates lived in the Salt River. This study followed on a proposal to introduce trout into the river, which has no freshwater fish of its own. Some 13 undescribed species of macroinvertebrate fauna collected by researchers proved to be of great interest, ending plans for introducing trout. This number later grew to 33 new species, several of which have been described by entomologists Ferdy de Moor and Helen James from the Albany Museum.</p><br>
<p>Eleven of the Tsitsikamma rivers were selected for closer study and were found to harbour a rich diversity of aquatic insects, many of which are regionally endemic species. "These fynbos covered sandstone mountains with their numerous gorges determine the nature of the rivers which are cold, fast-flowing, well oxygenated waters with little sediment. These rivers are acidic and of a red-brown colour, due to the presence of humic acid." Further studies have shown the most serious threat to the rivers&#39; fauna to be excessive water abstraction, reduced flow leading to pH changes, eutrophication and unstable water temperatures. It was proposed that the Salt River be given special conservation status and that alien fish in dams within the catchment be removed.</p><br>
<p>Mannan Castle is a motte-and-bailey and National Monument located in County Monaghan, Ireland.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Mannan Castle is located on Mannan Castle Golf Club, on a south-facing slope of a limestone drumlin ridge about 3 km northeast of Carrickmacross.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This site is believed to have been the ancient capital of Airgíalla (Oriel), a kingdom originating some time in the pre-Christian era (according to semi-mythical accounts, it was founded by The Three Collas in AD 331).</p><br>
<p>A motte-and-bailey was constructed in 1193 by the powerful Anglo-Norman Pipard family (Sir Roger Pipard, c.1136 – before 1225), to consolidate their hold over the region. They first built a wooden castle. This site was not necessarily chosen for its military or defensive usefulness, but for reasons of prestige; by building atop an ancient Gaelic Irish capital, the Norman conquest of Ireland was made clear. In 1227 the Pipard lands were entrusted to Ralph fitz Nicholas. He began to strengthen Mannan Castle; it was burned by the Irish in 1230 and replaced by a stone castle in 1244.</p><br>
<p>Various local legends attach to the castle; one claims that the mortar was made with animal blood and this is why a stone cannot be dislodged from the wall. Another connects the name with a druid named Manann, although the early names are clearly derived from Irish maighean ("of the plain").</p><br>
<p>The first archaeological survey of the site was carried out in 1910 by Henry Morris. Later excavations found large amounts of iron slag, pottery, iron nails and ironworking tools in the southern part of the bailey.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>Mannan Castle is a motte (12.5 m high) and inner bailey connected by a causeway with a ditch and an outer bailey without a ditch. The stone ruins of a keep are atop the motte.</p><br>
<p>Mullyash Kerbed Cairn is a kerb cairn  and National Monument located in County Monaghan, Ireland.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Mullyash Kerbed Cairn is located at the peak of Mullyash Mountain, 7.5 km northeast of Carrickmacross, near the border.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The cairn dates back to the early Neolithic, c. 4000 BC. The cairn was visible from all parts of the surrounding countryside (at least until the view was blocked by modern tree-planting). From Mullyash one could see as far as Slieve Gullion, Loughcrew, the Mourne Mountains and Cooley Mountains.</p><br>
<p>Until modern times, the cairn was visited by locals on the last Sunday in July (Crom Dubh&#39;s Sunday), a remnant of the Celtic festival of Lughnasadh. Celebrants climbed from the southwest, danced and celebrated at the cairn, and walked down to the west to a standing stone. Mullyash was renowned for matchmaking.</p><br>
<p>Local legend connected the cairn with the urn burial of a nobleman&#39;s daughter. Her father murdered her after she eloped with a young prince of whom he did not approve. If mortals eat certain foods they can see the gold treasure buried with her; perhaps a remnant of ancient shamanic rituals. Another legend claims that Fionn mac Cumhaill threw a stone from Slieve Gullion to Mullyash (a distance of 16.6 km / 10.3 mi), and this is the standing stone that still is there.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Mullyash Kerbed Cairn is a stepped two-tiered kerbed cairn or bowl barrow, or possibly a kind of passage grave. The walls are revetted and the cairn is about 16 m in diameter and 1.85 m high.</p><br>
<p>The standing stone is located 200 m west of the cairn. It once stood 3.6 m high but is now broken.</p><br>
<p>Panchet Hill, referred to in Bengali as Panchakot Pahar, is located in Neturia  at the north-eastern end of Purulia district, in the Indian state of West Bengal.</p><br>
<h2>The hill</h2><br>
<p>In 1911, H. Coupland had described the hill as follows: “Panchakot or Panchet (1,600 feet) is the most conspicuous object in the north-east of the district, some 35 miles north of Purulia. In shape it is a long crescent like ridge rising to its highest point at its eastern extremity: it is covered with small but dense jungle, with some fine clumps of mango and mahua scattered over the low foothills at its base. At the foot of the eastern face are the ruins of the old palace and fort of the Panchet Rajas, and above and also below them some ancient temples.”</p><br>
<p>See also: Garh Panchkot</p><br>
<h2>Panchet Dam</h2><br>
<p>Panchet Dam has been constructed across the Damodar at the foot of the Panchet Hill.</p><br>
<p>Sound Island is an island of the Andaman Islands. It belongs to the North and Middle Andaman administrative district, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.</p><br>
<p>the island is lying 144 km north from Port Blair.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The island was under the control of Japanese during World War II, and housed a small team of Japanese army personnel whose assignment was to sound and alert the army in Mayabunder of approaching enemy ships by sounding drums and bugles.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The island belongs to the Stewart Sound Group and lies between Square Island and Goose Island. The island is the biggest of the group, having an area of almost 13 km&sup2;.</p><br>
<p>Small Square Island 0.1 hectare, just at the southern tip, has an automated lighthouse located on it.</p><br>
<h2>Administration</h2><br>
<p>Politically, Sound Island, along neighboring Stewart Sound Group Islands, is divided between Diglipur Taluk and Mayabunder Tehsil.</p><br>
<p>The Cornwall General Store, also known as the LaValley General Store, was a historic commercial building at 2635 Vermont Route 30 in the center of Cornwall, Vermont. Built in 1880 and in retail use for more than half a century, it was a well-preserved example of a dwindling business type, the rural general store with attached residence, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. Sold to the town for preservation in 2000, it was demolished about 2013.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Cornwall General Store was located in the small village center of Cornwall, on the east side of Vermont Route 30, immediately south of Cornwall Town Hall. It was a rambling 1-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a gable-roofed main section that has additions to both sides and the rear. It was finished in wooden clapboards, and the main block and left addition had a Victorian porch extending across them. The interior of the store had retained many original features, including store fixtures and oil lamps on the wall.</p><br>
<p>The store was built about 1880 by Conrad Frost, at a time when the towns village center was just beginning to take shape. The Congregational Church and village common had been a focal point since 1803, and the town hall had just been built. Frosts choice of location was well made, for he drove a well-established store a short way north of the center out of business by 1890. The store was bought in 1918 by William LaValley, and was operated by his family until 1940. May LaValley occupied the residential portion of the building until 1997, and in 2000 it was sold by her heirs to the town in the hopes that it would be preserved. In 2012, the town voted to either demolish or sell the dilapidated structure. Funds for its demolition were appropriated in 2013, and in 2014 the town was considering other uses of the parcel, including for a potential expansion of town hall.</p><br>
<p>The Burlington Traction Company is a historic trolley maintenance facility at Riverside Avenue and North Winooski Avenue in Burlington, Vermont. The property includes two brick trolley barns, built c. 1900 and c. 1910 respectively, that were used as public transit maintenance facilities until 1999, after which they were adaptively repurposed to other residential and commercial uses. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former maintenance facility of the Burlington Traction Company is located in Burlington&#39;s Old North End neighborhood, on a triangular parcel bounded on the north by Riverside Avenue and the southeast by North Winooski Avenue. The property includes three historic buildings and a modern apartment house, as well as a small public park at the intersection of the two roadways. Abutting Riverside Avenue is a long and narrow single-story gable-roofed brick building, built as a trolley barn about 1910, with an adjoining battery house dating to about 1905. Facing North Winooski Avenue is a larger brick barn, built about 1900. Its main facade consists of four large bays that have finished in small-pane glass and adapted to commercial use. Between this building and the triangular park stands the modern apartment house.</p><br>
<p>The property was used as a transit maintenance facility since at least 1885 when the Winooski and Burlington Horse Railway Corporation built a maintenance building for its horsecars. Its successors, the Burlington Traction Company and Burlington Rapid Transit, built and expanded the surviving facilities, which were used first for streetcars and then buses until 1999. The last tenant of the maintenance facility was Vermont Transit Lines.</p><br>
<p>Ile aux Aigrettes is an islet off the south-east coast of Mauritius. It functions as a nature reserve and a scientific research station.</p><br>
<p>It is also a popular visitors attraction - both for tourists and for Mauritians.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>It has an area of 27 ha and is the largest islet in the Grand Port bay, 850 meters off the south-east coast of Mauritius and roughly a kilometer from the coastal town of Mahebourg.</p><br>
<p>It is low-lying and is formed from coral-limestone (unlike the majority of Mauritius which is from volcanic rock).</p><br>
<h2>Nature reserve and conservation</h2><br>
<p>Ile aux Aigrettes conserves the world&#39;s only remaining piece of "Mauritius Dry Coastal Forest" - a once plentiful vegetation type.</p><br>
<p>It is therefore home to a large number of extremely rare or endangered species of plants and animals.</p><br>
<p>Over several hundred years, indigenous flora and fauna was devastated by logging and invasive species. In this sense, the islet shared the same fate as the rest of Mauritius. The Dodo and the indigenous species of giant tortoise became extinct; as did many species of plant.</p><br>
<p>Relicts of some species survived though, and in 1965 the island was declared a nature reserve. There followed intense work to restore the vegetation and the few remaining indigenous animal species. In addition, several other species which had disappeared from the island - but survived elsewhere in Mauritius - were reintroduced.</p><br>
<p>Reptile species include the large, slow Telfairs Skink, several species of ornately coloured day gecko, and a population of non-indigenous Aldabra giant tortoise, brought to Île aux Aigrettes to take over the important ecological role of the extinct Mauritian tortoises. The large tortoises eat & spread the plant seeds and thereby help the forest to rejuvenate naturally.</p><br>
<p>The rare, endemic ebony tree species, Diospyros egrettarum is named after this island, on which it is plentiful.</p><br>
<p>Murga Island is an island of the Andaman Islands. It belongs to the North and Middle Andaman administrative district, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.</p><br>
<p>the island is lying 117 km north from Port Blair.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Murga is the only historical island of the Interview group. It holds a gravesite for several British sailors.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The island belongs to the Interview Group and is situated to the west of Austen Strait which separates North Andaman Island and Middle Andaman Island. it is the biggest island in Interview Sound.</p><br>
<h2>Administration</h2><br>
<p>Politically, Murga Island, along neighboring Interview Group Islands, is part of Mayabunder Taluk.</p><br>
<p>The LaFortune Student Center serves as the main student center at the University of Notre Dame. Built as Science Hall in 1883 under the direction of Fr. John Zahm, but in 1950 it was converted to a student union building and named LaFortune Center, after Joseph LaFortune, an oil executive from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Commonly known as "LaFortune" or "LaFun," it is a 4-story building of 83,000 square feet that provides the Notre Dame community with a meeting place for social, recreational, cultural, and educational activities. LaFortune employs 35 part-time student staff and 29 full-time non-student staff and has an annual budget of $1.2 million.</p><br>
<p>Many businesses, services, and divisions of The Office of Student Affairs are found within. The building also houses restaurants from national restaurant chains.</p><br>
<p>Chipman&#39;s Point is a historic 19th-century ferry complex on Chipman Point Road in Orwell, Vermont. The complex includes two early 19th-century stone warehouses, a former Lake Champlain ferry landing site , and the foundational remains of the Chipman Point Hotel. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Chipman&#39;s Point is located on the eastern shore of Lake Champlain, in its narrow southern reach opposite Wright, New York. Chipman Point Road leads to the area from Vermont Route 73A, and ends at a former ferry landing slip, now used as a local boat launch and fishing site. To the south of the landing, in an area now occupied by a local marina, stand two large four-story stone warehouses, built on limestone outcrops directly on the lakeshore. On a terraced rise above the two warehouses are the foundational remnants of the Chipman Point Hotel. The warehouses and hotel ruins are composed mainly of local limestone, which probably came from quarry sites on nearby stone outcrops.</p><br>
<p>At the middle of the 19th century, Chipmans Point was one of Orwells largest and busiest economic and commercial centers, with a church, post office, hotel, and residences, all oriented toward the ferry and shipping business. The warehouses were built to store goods awaiting passage by ship or to be picked up for local delivery, and the hotel (which burned in 1952) served travelers. The importance of the lake for transportation declined after the arrival of the railroad in the region in 1849, and even the ferry service across the lake was discontinued in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Allenwood Farm is a historic farm property on United States Route 2 in Plainfield, Vermont. Developed in 1827 by Allen Martin, the son of an early settler, it is a well-preserved example of a transitional Federal-Greek Revival detached farmstead. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Allenwood Farm is located at the western edge of Plainfield village, on the north side of United States Route 2 just east of its junction with Vermont Route 214. The farm property, now just 2.5 acre, consists of rolling fields arrayed on three sides of the farm complex. Included in that complex are a farmhouse, two barns, and several smaller outbuildings. The farmhouse, set close to the road but screened by a dense growth of hedge-like trees, is a 1-1/2 story brick Cape style structure, five bays wide and three deep, with a side gable roof. It has Greek Revival window treatments, and a Greek Revival door topped by a Federal style frieze and flanked by sidelight windows. The interior retains a similar combination of original woodwork. To the house&#39;s northwest are two barns of 19th-century construction, one of which may be older than the house.</p><br>
<p>The farm property is part of land acquired around the turn of the 19th century by Jesse Martin, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War. The brick house was built in 1827 by his son Allen, and has remained since then in the hands of his descendants. A wing of the house, of log construction, may have been built by Jesse Martin; it was known in the family as Allens Cottage, and was where Jesse Martin lived the last few years of his life. Allen Martins grandnephew, Willard S. Martin, Jr., was a successful businessman who developed the opulent Greatwood estate on land west of the farmstead; it is now the Goddard College Greatwood Campus.</p><br>
<p>Aguazuque is a pre-Columbian archaeological site located in the western part of the municipality Soacha, close to the municipalities Mosquera and San Antonio del Tequendama in Cundinamarca, Colombia. It exists of evidences of human settlement of hunter-gatherers and in the ultimate phase primitive farmers. The site is situated on the Bogotá savanna, the relatively flat highland of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense close to the present-day course of the Bogotá River at an altitude of 2,600 m above sea level. Aguazuque is just north of another Andean preceramic archaeological site; the rock shelter Tequendama and a few kilometres south of Lake Herrera. The artefacts found mostly belong to the preceramic period, and have been dated to 5025 to 2725 BP . Thus, the younger finds also pertain to the later ceramic Herrera Period. There were some difficulties in dating of the uppermost layer due to modern agricultural activity in the area; the sediments of the shallower parts were disturbed.</p><br>
<p>At Aguazuque multiple palaeoantropological finds have been made; stone and bone tools, remains of fireplaces and a multitude of pre-Columbian foods, primitive circular housing, various burial sites of individual and group interments and in the youngest dated layers, evidences of ceramics.</p><br>
<p>The site represents a transition from a hunter-gatherer culture towards the earliest evidence of agriculture. A phase of settlement is attested where the people moved away from the caves and rock shelters and started inhabiting open area grounds.</p><br>
<p>Investigation of Aguazuque has been conducted since 1986, mainly by archaeologist Gonzalo Correal Urrego who published the results of his studies in the book Aguazuque - evidencias de cazadores, recolectores y plantadores en la altiplanicie de la Cordillera Oriental in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>The site Aguazuque is named after the Hacienda Aguazuque that was built west of the capital Bogotá in the early 17th century.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>The history of inhabitation of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense goes back to the prehistorical era. The oldest dated evidence of human settlement on the high plateau in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes has been found in El Abra, within the municipality of Zipaquirá, Cundinamarca. At this rock shelter on the northern edge of the Bogotá savanna, stone tools and chopper cores have been carbon dated at 12,500 years BP. Other early sites of inhabitation of the area have been discovered at Tibitó (11,400 BP), Tequendama (11,000 BP) and Checua (8500 BP), with later settlements in Mosquera (3135 BP), Chía (3120 BP), Junín, Zipacón and Tausa. Younger ceramic artefacts were found around Lake Herrera, the namesake of the Herrera Period that is defined as from 800 BC to 800 AD. The period from 800 to 1537 AD, when the Spanish conquered this area, is characterised by one of the four grand civilisations of the Americas; the Muisca period.</p><br>
<p>Soacha, today the most populated satellite city of the Colombian capital, was an important location for pre-Columbian settlement. Apart from Aguazuque, various other sites have been discovered in the vicinity of Soacha. For example, in 2014, the largest pre-Columbian town has been discovered in Soacha, with the remains of 2200 people, more than 600 ceramic pots and various spindles and tunjos.</p><br>
<p>The name Soacha is derived from the Muysccubun words for Sun; Súa (with the Sun god Sué) and man; chá.</p><br>
<h2>Aguazuque</h2><br>
<p>The archaeological remains of Aguazuque were found in an oval elevated area west of the Bogotá River, that forms a bend around this higher ground. Aguazuque is located on the southwestern part of the Bogotá savanna and is surrounded by higher hills reaching altitudes of up to 2,850 m. The climate is cool, with an average temperature of 13 &deg;C. Compared to other parts of the Bogotá savanna, the area of Aguazuque has relatively little rainfall. Geologically, Aguazuque is located on an anticlinal part of the Eastern Ranges with sandstones of the Late Cretaceous Guadalupe Group outcropping nearby. The top sediments are of Late Pleistocene and early Holocene age and contain sandstones and claystones of the former Lake Humboldt and various beds of volcanic ash. Fossil remains of Pleistocene megafauna have been found in Mosquera and were dated to 20,000 years BP. The area of the site is 76 m&sup2; and remains have been analysed to a depth of 2 m.</p><br>
<h3>Artefacts</h3><br>
<p>The lithical artefacts unconvered are very similar in character to those found at El Abra and Tequendama and consist of tools mainly made of chert from the Guadalupe Group. The tools comprise various kinds of scrapers, knives, perforating tools, burins, spokeshaves, maceheads and round mortars and flat milling stones. Most of the artefacts originate from the nearby chert, with some tools made from shales of the Villeta Formation and more allochtonous basalt tools, coming from farther west, around the Magdalena River, provenance of the Central Ranges of the Colombian Andes. Apart from tools, Aguazuque is characterised by a large percentage of flakes resulting from the lithic reduction; the process of elaboration of the tools; in total 3868 samples, between 60 and 70 % of the lithic fragments found were of this type.</p><br>
<p>Other artefacts found were made of bones and shells, such as beads, spear points, perforating tools, knives and scrapers. The latter formed the majority of bone tools found, accounting for 55 to 75 % of the bone artefacts found.</p><br>
<h3>Flora, fauna and diet</h3><br>
<p>In all of the layers of the Aguazuque site, remains of fauna have been uncovered. The fauna, part of the cuisine of the inhabitants of Aguazuque, consisted of mammals, reptiles, birds, fish and invertebrates such as gastropods, fresh water oysters and crustaceans.</p><br>
<p>As at the other sites on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, the main part of the diet of the people was formed by white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus). Other mammals included little red brocket (Mazama rufina), guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus), nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus), white-lipped peccary (Tayassu pecari), crab-eating fox (Dusicyon thous), spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus), ocelot (Felis pardalis), puma (Felis concolor), lowland paca (Agouti paca), Agouti taczamawskii, Dasyprocta, ring-tailed coati (Nasua nasua), western mountain coati (Nasuella olivacea), common opossum (Didelphis marsupialis) and collared anteater (Tamandua tetradactyla). Reptiles consisted of the turtle Kinosternon postinginale and remains of caimans, indicating hunting in terrains much farther to the west; the Magdalena River.</p><br>
<p>Fish was coming from the various lakes, rivers and wetlands dotting the Bogotá savanna, that originally were part of Lake Humboldt. Fish remains consisted of Eremophilus mutisii, Pygidium bogotense and Grundulus bogotensis. Bird remains included the Andean guan (Penelope montagnii), Anatidae, Ralidae and the scaly-naped parrot (Amazona mercenaria). The invertebrates comprised Drymaeus gratus, Plekocheilus coloratus, Plekocheilus succionoides, fresh water oysters and fresh water crabs of the family Pseudothelfhusidae, possibly Neostrengeria magropa.</p><br>
<p>In terms of species of flora, Aguazuque has provided evidence of early agriculture, based on seeds of Cucurbita pepo. Other plant remains were analysed as Hieronyma macrocarpa, Oxalis tuberosa, Dioscorea trífida and various remains of Bromeliaceae, Rubiaceae and Gramineae. Species of mushrooms suggest their addition to the diet of the hunter-gatherers of Aguazuque.</p><br>
<h3>Burial sites</h3><br>
<p>Within the area of Aguazuque, fifty-nine burial sites have been discovered, consisting of single, double and mass graves. The bodies were buried on either the right or the left side, or lying on their backs. As was common in the later Muisca mummification culture, the bodies were interred with their arms crossed over the thorax and the legs folded onto the abdomen.</p><br>
<p>One of the collective sites contained the remains of 23 adults (men and women) and children. It has been theorised that these people fell victim to epidemics, of which in the remains no traces were found. The burial sites showed evidence of ritual and beliefs in afterlife; the bodies were surrounded by stone tools, such as scrapers and mortars, and some pieces were decorated with red or black colours. Food offerings, such as the meat of the white-tailed deer, guinea pigs and Tayassu pecari accompanied the buried. An isolated body was adorned with colourful painted pieces of rock. Similar to what has been found in Tequendama, some of the buried people may have been characterised by rituals of cannibalism. This is evidenced further by the discovery of mutilated and coloured skeletal remains in Aguazuque.</p><br>
<p>Paleopathological analysis has provided information on the people; the average brain volume was around 1,400 cm3, spread from 1,240 cm3 to 1,480 cm3 and the body length around 160 cm. Osteoarthritis has been found in 73 % of the individuals and other diseases such as sifilis, treponematosis, osteoperiostitis and osteoperosis were common. Different from remains of similar age found on the Altiplano, such as Gachalá, Nemocón and Tequendama, where no evidence of caries was discovered, in Aguazuque the human dental remains showed ample evidence of caries. Electron paramagnetic resonance of tooth enamel has provided an age of 3256 ± 196 years BP.</p><br>
<p>Burial sites of animals have also been found, where turtles, parrots and foxes were located in isolated small graves.</p><br>
<h3>History of settlement</h3><br>
<p>The evidence for human settlements at Aguazuque consists of circular slightly excavated structures, surrounded by vertically inward inclined bones of deer, or poles of wood. The round areas had a diameter of between 2 m and 4 m and contained ash and carbon remains on the floor. Using animal and shell pigments, the floors were painted red or covered with sandstone fragments and volcanic ash. The remains of the houses were mostly circular, and near them were many fireplaces.</p><br>
<p>The oldest evidence for settlement has been dated to 5025 ± 40 years Before Present (around 3000 BCE). This layer is followed by younger occupation dated at 3850 ± 35 years, 3400 to 2800 BP and the second-youngest zone at 2725 ± 35 years BP. The uppermost layer has been disturbed by modern agricultural activity and provided no dates. The different layers of Aguazuque were similar in character in terms of the tools found, and in the abundance of deer, the main meat for the inhabitants of the Bogotá savanna. The sequence of the layers from bottom to top based on the abundance of guinea pig remains, showed that their presence as domesticated animals varied through time. The domestication of guinea pigs is also evidenced in nearby Tequendama.</p><br>
<p>The percentage of hunted deer was highest in the uppermost layer where also the caiman bones have been found, suggesting a time of greater interaction with the lower altitude tropical zones of the Andes. The early evidence for agriculture has been found in the middle section of the sequence, as has been discovered in Zipacón where the agricultural activity has been dated at 3270 years BP. Only in the uppermost beds, the evidence of ceramics has been found, that could be dated to Early Herrera; around 2800 years BP.</p><br>
<h2>Named after Aguazuque</h2><br>
<p>Aguazuque is featured as one of the names appearing in the grand-strategy video game Europa Universalis IV in the playable nation of the Muisca.</p><br>
<p>The Andrew Scott House is a historic two-story farmhouse in Culleoka, Tennessee, USA</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built circa 1820 for Andrew Scott and his wife, Mary Doak Matthews. It was designed in the Georgian architectural style, with touches of Palladian architecture. After Andrew Scott&#39;s death in 1870, it was inherited by his son, Robert Miles Scott, who lived in the house with his wife, Sarah M. Walker, and their nine children. It became a horse farm.</p><br>
<p>After Robert M. Scott&#39;s 1897 death, it was purchased by J. T. Petty. By January 1939, it was purchased by Allan Matthews and his wife Mary. It was inherited by her nephew, Elliott Matthews, in 1978, and purchased by Philip M. Wendts in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since August 4, 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Prewitt-Amis-Finney House, also known as Turnhill Farm, is a historic three-story house in Culleoka, Tennessee, USA. Built for the slaveholding Prewett family in 1810, it was established as a mule farm. It is located a few miles away from Columbia, and it overlooks Fountain Creek.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1810 by Lemuel Prewett, his wife Elizabeth and their 12 children. The Prewett raised mules on their farm; they also owned African slaves. After the Creek War of 1813-1814, the house was inherited by Lemuel Prewett&#39;s son Abner, and the Prewetts moved to Mississippi in the 1820s.</p><br>
<p>The house was purchased by John Amis, his wife and their six children, in 1821. Amis, the owner of 16 slaves, served on the county court. In 1852, he died of cholera alongside his wife and his son John; the three of them were buried on the farm. The house was inherited by their daughter, Elizabeth Amis Cheatham, and her husband, John Cheatham.</p><br>
<p>The house was purchased by James I. Finney, Sr. in 1935. He redesigned it in the Colonial Revival architectural style, and he renamed it Turnhill Farm.</p><br>
<p>The house has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since December 1, 1997.</p><br>
<p>Republic Square is the main square in Almaty, Kazakhstan. It is used for public events. The former presidential palace, now used as municipal offices, is on its south side.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The area was created by the decision of the First Secretary of the Central Committee of Communist Party of Kazakhstan Dinmukhamed Kunayev, since an increase in population of the city, the old square during festival events could not accommodate all the residents of the city. The area opened in 1980 as a main new square of the capital of Kazakhstan, which for rest of the period until the collapse of the Soviet Union, served as a place for mass demonstrations, celebrations, festivals, military parades, rallies, festivals. The area was planted with deciduous and coniferous trees. In 1981, Kunayev and party workers planted along the walkway area of 70 Tien Shan firs.</p><br>
<p>In 1986, an infamous uprising known as Jeltoqsan occurred in the square. Where a group of crowd gathered to protest over Kunayev&#39;s dismissal. The events lasted from 16 December until 19 December 1986. The protests began in the morning of 17 December, as a student demonstration attracted thousands of participants as they marched through Brezhnev Square across to the CPK Central Committee building. As the result, internal troops and OMON forces entered the city, violence erupted throughout the city which around 200 people were killed.</p><br>
<p>In 1992, the basic, most important and favorite holiday was celebrated in the square. For the first time began to celebrate Nauryz. Unlike before, during Perestroika where the holiday was only allowed to celebrate at the old square. Every year on 22 March, from morning to midnight thousands of Almaty residents came to the square to celebrate the national holiday of the vernal equinox - Nauryz. In the square, every year on March 22, tents were put out, which sold baursaks, leather, rice and soft drinks. Festive concerts were also held by famous Kazakh stars.</p><br>
<p>In 2007, the square began construction of underground shopping and entertainment center, which demolished granite platform. Because of the construction zone, 60% of the area was closed by a fence, a large part of the Tien Shan fir trees were cut down, the movement of vehicles became limited. Before 2012, a symbol of independence for all Kazakhs - the Republic Square was disfigured by pits and wells. Residents negatively reacted to the construction, as the celebration of Nauryz was impossible for it to be held.</p><br>
<p>In 2012, the construction of the underground shopping center was finally over, however the celebration of Nauryz was still restricted until 2014 which the celebration was finally allowed.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural monuments</h2><br>
<p>The area previously had a status of state monuments of architecture and urban planning. In 2015, it was ruled into the State list of historical and cultural monuments of local importance in Almaty.</p><br>
<h2>List of architectural monuments</h2><br>
<p>Akimat of Almaty Residence (the former Communist Party of Kazakhstan)</p><br>
<p>Residence of the First President of Kazakhstan (former Presidential Palace of Kazakhstan from 1991-1997)</p><br>
<p>Republican Schoolchildren&#39;s Palace (the former Republican Palace of Pioneers)</p><br>
<p>Independence Monument</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>From 1980, the area was named as New Square, in 1982 the area was renamed to Brezhnev Square as a tribute to the death of Leonid Brezhnev. On April 1, 1988 a published decree of the Central Committee of the CPSU, the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet and the USSR Council of Ministers changed the name from Leonid Brezhnev back to New Square again. On May 23, 1990, the Supreme Council of the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic adopted a resolution to rename New Square to Republic Square.</p><br>
<p>Porlob Island is an island of the Andaman Islands. It belongs to the North and Middle Andaman administrative district, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.</p><br>
<p>the island is lying 81 km north from Port Blair.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The island belongs to the East Baratang Group and lies west of Kadamtala Beach.</p><br>
<h2>Administration</h2><br>
<p>Politically, Porlob Island, along neighboring East Baratang Group, is part of Rangat Taluk.</p><br>
<h2>Demographics</h2><br>
<p>There is only 1 village, located at the middle of the island, but it is now uninhabited.</p><br>
<p>It is a woodcutters camp called Porlob depot which used to be populated each summer, until 2007 when it was closed.</p><br>
<p>Long Island is an island of the Andaman Islands. It belongs to the North and Middle Andaman administrative district, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.</p><br>
<p>the island is lying 80 km north from Port Blair.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The island belongs to the East Baratang Group and lies east of Porlob Island.</p><br>
<h2>Administration</h2><br>
<p>Politically, Long Island, along neighboring East Baratang Group, is part of Rangat Taluk.</p><br>
<h2>Demographics</h2><br>
<p>There are 3 villages on the island: Long Village, Middle Village, and Lalaji Bay.</p><br>
<p>Parkinson point (the northern tip of the island), was previously also inhabited.</p><br>
<p>The island has its own power house, Boat Building Yard, Senior Secondary School, bank, wireless facilities, hospital, Range Forest Office and even police outpost. Long Island is a dreamland settlement without any road network.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>It&#39;s reachable by boat 4 times a week from Phoenix Bay Jetty in Port Blair, or from Yerrata Jetty in Rangat.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>Marg Bay and Lalaji Bay are 2 beaches popular as a picnic spot in this island. The island is a good location for beach camping.</p><br>
<p>The hotels are mainly managed by the forest department.</p><br>
<p>A visit to nearby Guitar Island is also popular.</p><br>
<p>North Passage Island is an island of the Andaman Islands. It belongs to the North and Middle Andaman administrative district, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.</p><br>
<p>the island is lying 80 km north from Port Blair.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The island belongs to the East Baratang Group and lies east of Baratang and Colebrooke Island.</p><br>
<p>95% of the island is a wildlife reserve.</p><br>
<p>The Cape Portman lighthouse, with a focal plane 29 m (95 ft); white flash every 5 s. This lighthouse marks the northern entrance to Diligent Strait. Located on a sharp cape at the northern tip of North Passage Island.</p><br>
<h2>Administration</h2><br>
<p>Politically, North Passage Island, along neighboring East Baratang Group, is part of Rangat Taluk.</p><br>
<h2>Demographics</h2><br>
<p>There is only 1 village, located at Merk Bay.</p><br>
<p>North Passage Island in Andaman and Nicobar has very diminutive history of habitation, other than erratic visits from different sects of the Great Andamanese Tribe. Just about 100 acres of land behind Merk Bay beach was handed over to the Agriculture Department of Andaman Islands four decades ago. This was done in order to set up a coconut plantation. The only inhabitants of this island at present are representatives of the Forest Department and caretakers of the Coconut Plantation.</p><br>
<p>The Boonah Butter Factory is a heritage-listed former butter factory in Boonah, Scenic Rim Region, Queensland, Australia. Constructed in 1916, it is a prominent landmark at the intersection of Boonah-Rathdowney Road and Railway Street on the northern entry to Boonah. During the first part of the twentieth century, it was one of the most modern butter factories in the Commonwealth, the largest butter factory in the Southern Hemisphere, had the second highest output of butter in Queensland and was a major supplier of dairy products to Brisbane. The former Boonah Butter Factory office, which is currently the premises of Flavours Cafe, is on the Local Heritage Register of the Scenic Rim Regional Council in acknowledgement of the site&#39;s historic, aesthetic and cultural significance.</p><br>
<p>The Boonah Butter Factory is the sole surviving cream factory or butter factory in Boonah and is one of the most historic buildings in the region. It has served as a studio and gallery space for local and international artists for over twenty years and has been identified by the Scenic Rim Regional Council as a developed attraction in the region. The former loading platform for the factory is a fruit and vegetable store.</p><br>
<p>The factory was an essential industry in the region. It was a gauge for the progress of the district, responsible for the generation and supply of electrical power to Boonah and responsible for pumping water to tanks throughout the township to assist in fighting fires.</p><br>
<p>It is the first of two dairy factories known to have been designed, in part, by Thomas Ramsay Hall of the architectural firm T.R. Hall and Phillips and is the only one to remain in situ. The second factory designed by T.R. Hall was constructed in 1936 for the South Coast Co-Operative Dairy Association in Southport and was demolished in 1972 to make way for the Australia Fair Shopping Centre.</p><br>
<p>The Boonah Butter Factory is one of the four original factories managed by the Queensland Farmers Co-Operative Association, including those located at Grantham, Laidley and Booval.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Creameries had an important role in the establishment of the early dairy industry in the region and made a significant contribution to the prosperity and economic stability of Boonah which was one of the earliest areas settled by Europeans after the establishment of Brisbane. In conjunction with local cheese factories like the Trelawney Cheese Factory, which is listed on the Scenic Rim Regional Council Local Heritage Register as a rare example of early dairy technology, they were extremely beneficial to the district.</p><br>
<p>The first creamery in Boonah was built by the Central Dairy Company in the vicinity of the current site of the Boonah Butter Factory around 1894. The factory was located across the railway tracks from the township on the hill behind the school ground with the seven and a half acre site 200–300 foot above Boonah offering panoramic views of the countryside. Milk from local dairy farmers was delivered to the factory, processed into cream and then transported via rail to the large factories in Brisbane for churning into butter. The residue from the separation of the milk was used as a food source for pigs, which were also an important agricultural industry in the region.</p><br>
<p>By January 1895, the already successful creamery had been sold to the Lowood Creamery Company which was owned by Howes Bros. and Co. The Boonah Creamery was one of a number of factories in the district owned by the Lowood Creamery Company with other creameries located at Engelsberg, Milford, Rosevale and Anthony.</p><br>
<p>Despite the success of the creameries, the local farmers wished to have greater control of their own dairy products and pricing. Rather than transport the cream to Brisbane for final processing where the vibration of the train journey could impact the quality, the farmers wished to churn butter in Boonah. There was also a strong desire to remove their reliance on privately owned factories and participate in the cooperative movement in the dairy industry that was gaining momentum in Queensland. To achieve this, a local butter factory operated as a cooperative venture was required.</p><br>
<p>Despite growing dissatisfaction with the privately owned dairy enterprises, the early factories of the dairy industry encouraged a proactive approach from farmers to improve the yield and quality of the regions milk products. The agricultural and dairy success of the area was directly linked to the communitys ability to lobby for land to be set aside for the Boonah Showgrounds in order to hold an Agricultural show to showcase the district&#39;s produce and reinforce community spirit. The designer and manager of the creamery, Samuel Dover, was the first secretary of the newly formed Fassifern and Dugandan Pastoral and Agricultural Show Society. The first Boonah Show was held in 1898.</p><br>
<h2>Site</h2><br>
<p>The first dedicated butter factory in Boonah was built by Samuel Dover in 1900 on property he owned in Church Street neighbouring the Roman Catholic Church. Known as the Fassifern Butter Factory and Ice Works, it was owned by Howes Bros. and employed seven men and collected milk from the various creameries in the area.</p><br>
<p>The local farmers were dissatisfied with Howes Bros. and, after a series of meetings, decided to form a joint venture between the Boonah Farmers Co-Operative Dairy Co., which had been established in 1899, and the Queensland Farmers Co-Operative Association which had been founded in 1899 and was based at the Booval Butter Factory, also known as the Jacaranda Butter Factory. The Queensland Farmers Co-Operative put a proposal to the Boonah Farmers Co-Operative in June 1905 to guarantee to establish a cooperative butter factory in Boonah and, in November 1905, the Boonah Co-Operative opened a dedicated bank account to build the necessary funds to buy a site. In 1907 the two cooperatives merged and purchased the Fassifern Butter Factory and Ice Works from Howes Brothers. Samuel Dover remained in place as manager and, by 1909, the factory output was larger than any of the other factories controlled by the Queensland Farmers Co-Operative Association.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>Within ten years the site on Church Street was considered too small and poorly positioned. The present site was selected and acquired for £10, 603 on the northern entry to the township adjacent to the railway station and, in both June 1914 and March 1915, tenders were called for the new factory to be constructed. Plans and specifications were available for view at Harding Frew in Brisbane, the offices of John Kerr in Melbourne and, in 1915, the Booval Butter Factory in Ipswich.</p><br>
<p>The factory was a modern brick building with concrete floors, a roof of Marseilles tiles and a railway siding and platform. The engineering drawings were prepared by the architect Robert Kerr of Melbourne, who was referred to as the father of Victorian dairy industry and had been involved in the erection of approximately 400 butter factories in Australia including the first one in Victoria, from engineering drawings and designs created by Duncan Saxelby, the manager of the Queensland Farmers Cooperative Association. The supervising architect was George Thornhill Campbell-Wilson of Brisbane who was responsible for Hughesville, Eight Mile Plains. The building contractor was Mr. A. S. Jevnes. Samuel Dover continued in the role of manager.</p><br>
<p>The new butter factory was fitted with state of the art equipment and was officially opened in July 1916 by the Queensland Governor, Sir Hamilton Goold-Adams. During his visit to Boonah, the Governor also unveiled an Honour Board for local men who were serving overseas in World War One. In 1928 additions to the factory were made.</p><br>
<p>During the early twentieth century the quality of dairy products from the region was well established. In 1931 salted butter from the Boonah Butter Factory was awarded the first prize at the London Dairy Show. By the 1930s, the factory had 900 suppliers and during a visit to Boonah in 1938 by the Prime Minister of Australia, Mr Joseph Lyons, the prominence and quality of butter from the region was mentioned in speeches.</p><br>
<h2>Redesign</h2><br>
<p>In 1932 tenders were considered for extensive additions to the butter factory. Construction was to take place during the quieter winter months and the new buildings were designed to complement the existing structure. The only improvements made to the building already on the site were to relay the floors with tile and remove the pillars supporting the top floor so that the top floor could be supported with new steel joists.</p><br>
<p>The Boonah Butter Factory was extended by Messers Stuart Bros. Ltd. of Brisbane following plans created by Thomas Ramsay Hall of the architectural firm of T. R. Hall and Phillips who were also responsible for the Brisbane City Hall, Southport Town Hall and the Boonah Shire Chambers (later demolished). In January 1933 the additions were officially opened by Mr. P. Pease, Minister of Lands.</p><br>
<p>In 1947, plans for four self-contained two storey shops associated with the factory were approved. In April 1954, manufacture commenced on a new line of products at the butter factory with the introduction of butter milk powder.</p><br>
<h2>Closure</h2><br>
<p>The Boonah Butter Factory closed on 1 March 1974 due to declining production as a result of low prices for milk and shifting agricultural practices in the region. The last batch of butter came off the production line at Boonah at 10:45am. It was packed by Hartley Schumacher with George Kubler, Stan Schlieff, Roydon Kubler and Sel Schneider watching. Milk products from Boonah were subsequently transported to Booval for processing with the majority of employees also transferring to Booval. Booval had ceased operation by 2011 and was demolished by 2016.</p><br>
<p>The Boonah Butter Factory is the only surviving major industrial site related to the dairy, timber and railway industries of Boonah from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The nearby Cossart&#39;s Mill at Dugandan was the largest supplier of butter boxes in Australia. Like the butter factory, the sawmill had been a dominant industry and employer in the area. The sawmill was recommended for heritage protection in 1998 as a rare surviving example of a major Queensland sawmill from the mid twentieth century. It was demolished around 2006.</p><br>
<p>The greatest percentage of freight on the railway line were products from the combined output of the butter factory and sawmill. The Dugandan railway line was closed in 1964 and the tracks and associated infrastructure removed. The original location of the Boonah railway station is marked by a memorial adjacent to the Boonah Butter Factory site.</p><br>
<p>The Boonah Butter Factory is now part of a network of extant historic or heritage listed butter factories in South East Queensland that have been re-purposed for cultural or community use including the Kingaroy Butter Factory, Nanango Butter Factory, The Downs Co-operative Dairy Association Limited Factory, Kingston Butter Factory and Grantham Butter Factory.</p><br>
<p>Magh Adhair  is a former inauguration site and place of archaeological significance located near the village of Quin, County Clare, in Ireland.Traditionally known as the place in which the kings of Thomond were installed, most notably the OBriens, the site itself consists of numerous monuments, including a mound, standing stone, fulacht fiadh and a bullaun stone. A complex of vocal importance for the county and indeed the whole island, located in the monument-rich area of Dangan, Magh Adhair is a site of epitome cultural and historical significance.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The site has not been excavated nor dated as of 2016, so the era in which the complex was first in use is mere speculation, though the mound is likely to have been built anywhere from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age due to the nature of the monuments. It is likely the site has been in use over various phases, in continuation for at least 1,500 years.</p><br>
<p>It has been suggested by Irish antiquarians, most notably John O&#39;Donovan and T.J. Westropp, that the name "Magh Adhair" originally signified a very large area, perhaps the entire "Clár", or plain, from which County Clare receives its name from. They believed this area steadily shrunk until it referred to only the field in which the monument stands, along with an adjacent area known as "Moyross/Moyree Park". It is interesting to note that "ree" usually stems from the word "rí" meaning a king, though in this instance may be open to interpretation.</p><br>
<p>The earliest references to the site are mentioned in the Irish Annals - as seen in the Annals of the Four Masters -</p><br>
<p>A.D. 981. Maelseacchlainn, the son of Domhnall plundered Dal gCais and prostrated the Bile of Magh Adhair, having dug at it with its roots out of the ground.</p><br>
<p>A.D. 1051. The Tree of Magh Adhair was prostrated by Hugh O&#39;Conor".</p><br>
<p>A "Bile" usually signifies an Irish tree of some religious or otherwise otherworldly significance, and it is evident from these excerpts that the cutting of such a tree was a serious offense.</p><br>
<p>It is stated in the Lecan records that Amhalghaidh Mac Fiachrach raised the mound of Magh Adhair as a tomb for himself, and so that his progeny would conduct fairs around his mound, and his heirs inaugurated on it. Indeed, fair gatherings or "irachts" were noted to have taken place as late as the 19th century, the last known fair to have been in 1838, but possibly to have been still conducted as late as the Great Famine. It is said in both Frosts History and Topography of the County of Clare and ODonovan & OCurrys ordnance survey letters of 1839, that the mound received its name from a chieftain of the Fir Bolg, Adhair, the son of Umor and brother of Aengus, the latter of which was reputedly responsible for building the cliff-fort of Dun Aengus on the Aran Islands. According to the Book of Invasions and later mythological traditions, the Fir Bolg were driven into Connaught after being defeated by the Tuatha Dé Danann - Clare, being west of the Shannon, was deemed part of Connaught at this time, and therefore the residence of a Fir Bolg colony. Once Clare was colonised by the Gaelic Milesians, sometime between the late Iron Age and the coming of Christianity in the 5th Century, (it has been suggested sometime circa 100AD) the site was continually used by the people that would eventually become known as the Dal gCais</p><br>
<p>Multiple references to the site are also mentioned in the Caithreim Thoirdhealbhaigh, an account of the conflict between the Anglo-Norman insurgents and Gaelic nobility of Thomond in the 13th and 14th centuries, as seen in the following:</p><br>
<p>His chiefs assembled around Dermot, the son of Donogh, who was son of Brian Roe O&#39;Brien at Moy Eyre to invest him with the chieftainship, and the tower-like hero was solemnly inaugurated. It was Loghlin, the son of Cumee, who first installed him and the states (tribes) unanimously consented. As the bad of Dermot said on the occasion:-</p><br>
<p>Let us give the title of King,</p><br>
<p>(which will be of much fame</p><br>
<p>To the land which has chosen him)</p><br>
<p>To the valorous griffin</p><br>
<p>The son of the fair-formed Donogh</p><br>
<p>Of the sealed secrets</p><br>
<p>Generous heir of generous Blood*</p><br>
<p>The puissant Donogh of fortresses.</p><br>
<p>He is kind to the church,</p><br>
<p>He is head over all,</p><br>
<p>The heart of the territories,</p><br>
<p>A tree under blossom.</p><br>
<p>Dermot of Dun Mor</p><br>
<p>The mild, lively, fierce,</p><br>
<p>Received the hostages</p><br>
<p>Through his wisdom and sword</p><br>
<p>His gracious smile and pomp</p><br>
<p>He exhibits with grace</p><br>
<p>And since he has commenced his career</p><br>
<p>His fame has spread afar</p><br>
<p>Momonia of Bards</p><br>
<p>Is his principality</p><br>
<p>Proclaim we him King</p><br>
<p>Of his tribes with great joy.</p><br>
<p>Blood refers to the Uí mBloid sept of Thomond,an umbrella term used for much of the tribes of east Clare, especially those of the Slieve Aughty and Slieve Bearnagh mountains.</p><br>
<p>The site, though having a predominantly OBrien connection, has traditionally been in the territory of the OHehirs, who were later ousted by the MacNamaras.</p><br>
<p>The mound has also been named "Cregnakeeroge" - A "Ciaróg" usually signifies an insect, specifically a beetle.</p><br>
<h2>Features</h2><br>
<p>The mound itself is of an irregular ovular shape,much degraded by the presence of cattle. Surrounded by a fosse, there is a bridging point to the central flat platform at the western side of the mound. Adjacent to this, to the west, is a satellite mound or cairn, notably stonier and smaller in its dimensions than the central structure, the latter of which is made largely of soil.</p><br>
<p>To the north of the mound lies a bullaun stone, containing two depressions which fill with water fed by rainfall. North and west of this are a series of enclosures and what is described as the site of a battle taking place in 877 AD, according to the ordnance survey map. Bordering the entire site to the west is the Hell river, and past that again, a standing stone, referred to as a "ligaun".</p><br>
<p>The central site is situated at the base of an amphitheatre of low hills, prone to flooding from the river. To the east of the site is a Turlough and fulacht fiadh.</p><br>
<p>The area in which the site is located is renowned for one rich in the presence of ringforts, the largest of which being the nearby triple-ringed fort of Cahercalla.</p><br>
<p>The Beaver Lake  is an artificial basin fitted in 1938 on former swamp located on the Mount Royal, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was designed by architect Frederick Todd.</p><br>
<p>It takes its name from the fact that former Beavers dam were discovered during work.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Long about 200 m of 150 m, Beaver Lake is shaped like a four-leaf clover. Shallow, it is emptied in winter to serve as outdoor rink.</p><br>
<p>The surroundings of the lake are equipped for various recreational activities: skating and sliding in the winter, vast lawns summer.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>The pavilion Beaver Lake</h3><br>
<p>Built between 1956 and 1958, inaugurated in 1961, the flag of the Beaver Lake is located west of the lake. Designed by architects Hazen Sise and Guy Desbarats, it was considered at the time of its construction as one of the most innovative buildings in Montreal, with its corrugated roof and large windows. It has been renovated in 2005-2007.</p><br>
<p>The pavilion houses a restaurant named The Pavilion.</p><br>
<p>In 2007, the Ordre des architectes du Québec (Order of Architects of Quebec) awarded the Excellence Award in architecture to architects Pierina Saia and Réal Paul and to the City of Montreal for conservation and heritage restoration of Beaver Lake Pavillon.</p><br>
<p>Corracloona Court Tomb, commonly called Prince Connell&#39;s Grave, is a chamber tomb and National Monument located in the north of County Leitrim in the West of Ireland.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Corracloona Court Tomb is located on a slope overlooking the northern tip of Lough MacNean, 3.3 km (2 miles) southeast of Kiltyclogher.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Corracloona Court Tomb was built c. 2000–1500 BC, in the early Bronze Age.</p><br>
<p>It is locally known as Prince Connells Grave (Irish: Feart Chonaill Flaith). There are several nobles of this name in Irish legend; the most likely candidate is Conall Gulban, 5th-century founder of the Cenél Conaill. However, another legend places Conall Gulbans grave at the dolmen at Fenagh. In any case, both Corracloona and Fenagh monuments are thousands of years older than Conall Gulban.</p><br>
<p>It was first excavated in 1953.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Prince Connell&#39;s Grave is usually described as a court tomb (court cairn), although some see it as a dolmen (portal tomb) or Wedge-shaped gallery grave (wedge tomb). It has a small forecourt (1.5 m wide) and only one burial chamber (2 × 3.5 m), with a large slab separating the two. This slab has a large hole in the bottom, called a "kennel-hole&quot this is similar to some tombs in southern France, and may have been used to add additional burials, speak to the dead or leave offerings. However, the hole could be an accidental break.</p><br>
<p>Heapstown Cairn is a cairn and National Monument located in County Sligo, Ireland.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Heapstown Cairn is located immediately north of Lough Arrow, 2.1 km northwest of Ballindoon Friary.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Heapstown Cairn was constructed c. 3000 BC and is believed to enclose a passage grave. It is believed to be related to Carrowkeel Megalithic Cemetery, located 5 km SSE of Heapstown. In folk tradition it was the burial site of Ailill mac Echach Mugmedóin, brother of Niall of the Nine Hostages.</p><br>
<p>One account of the cairns construction is given in the Second Battle of Moytura. Dian Cecht, healer to the Tuatha Dé Danann, puts healing herbs into the Well of Sláine, and the Tuatha Dé Danann drink from it. The Fomorians, on a suggestion from the warrior Ochtriallach, fill it with stones to keep their enemies from using it. Thus it is known as Carn Ochtriallach "Ochtriallachs cairn."</p><br>
<p>In 1837 it stood to its full height and had a standing stone atop, but much of the stone has been removed since then for road-building.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The cairn is 57 m in diameter and about 6 m high. There is a kerb of limestone blocks around the edge and probably a passage grave underneath.</p><br>
<p>Carricknagat Megalithic Tombs are megalithic tombs and a National Monument located in County Sligo, Ireland.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Carricknagat is located halfway between Ballygawley and Ballintogher, near a source of the Ballisodare River.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Carricknagat tombs were built c. 4000–2500 BC, in the Neolithic.</p><br>
<p>The name means "the cats stone" or "the pine martens stone;" ancient monuments are often said to be haunted by wild animals, possibly representing the spirits of the dead.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<h3>West tomb</h3><br>
<p>The tomb to the west, a wedge-shaped gallery grave (wedge tomb) called the Giant&#39;s Grave, is trapezoidal in plan with the inner end of a SSE-facing gallery (4 × 2.6 m) and is divided by jambs inset in the gallery walls, with a rear chamber 2 m (7 ft) long. The outer chamber is composed of side-stones, an upright stone and four three kerb-stones.</p><br>
<p>https://www.archaeology.ie/sites/default/files/media/pdf/Archaeology-RMP-Sligo-Manual-(1995)-0044.pdf</p><br>
<h3>East tomb</h3><br>
<p>This tomb, a dolmen, is traditionally called Dermot & Grania&#39;s Bed.</p><br>
<p>Lingambudhi Park is a park in the city of Mysore, India.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Lingambudhi Park is located on the northern and eastern sides of the Lingambudhi Lake. The north gate of the park is located at Ramakrishna Nagar and the southern gate is located at Preethy Layout, Srirampur.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Lingambudhi stands first in terms of richness entirely due to its location bordering growing city.</p><br>
<p>Lingambudhi lake is a perennial freshwater lake situated in the basin of River Cauvery. Since its construction in 1828 until the late 1980s, Lingambudhi lake was a typical village lake in the rural surroundings of the city of Mysore.Now this lake is close to a residential area called Srirampura. The lake was serving as a source of drinking water, irrigation, and fish produce; as a site for washing clothes and cattle; and as a place of religious worship for the people of Lingambudhi Palya, a village in the vicinity of the lake.</p><br>
<p>A notification from the DCs office dated 28 August 2003, in response to the Forest Department’s proposal of 2001, had finally declared the Lingambudhi lake and its environs as a protected forest area and had transferred the ownership to the Forest Department. This was one of the significant milestones in the history of Lingambudhi lake which now enjoys the status of a protected forest. (Manjunath Sadashiva, 2007)</p><br>
<p>Karpinsky Glacier or Karpinsky Ice Cap , also known as Mount Karpinsky, is a large ice cap on October Revolution Island, Severnaya Zemlya, Russian Federation.</p><br>
<p>It was named after Aleksandr Petrovich Karpinsky, a Russian geologist.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>This ice cap has a surface of 2,800 km² and is the largest of the seven ice caps on October Revolution Island. Its maximum height is 963 m and it is also the highest point in Severnaya Zemlya.</p><br>
<p>The Karpinsky Ice Cap is located on the eastern side of the island with the Laptev Sea and the Shokalsky Straiton its eastern side. To the north it feeds the Matusevich Fjord, the largest fjord in the archipelago —beyond which lies the Rusanov Glacier, and to the southeast it feeds the head of the smaller Marat Fjord.</p><br>
<p>To the south of the Karpinsky Glacier lies the University Glacier, which reaches a height of 806 m.</p><br>
<p>The Eisenhower House, also known as "Mrs. Rays Boarding House," is a historic house constructed in 1879 located in Laurel, Maryland in Prince Georges, Maryland, United States listed in the Maryland Historical Trust.</p><br>
<p>Originally constructed in 1879 as a private residence shortly after the incorporation of the city of Laurel, the building is a two-story, L-shaped structure four bays wide. The three rightmost bays along the south side of the building function as the front of the building and connect to a covered porch, while the leftmost bay projects forward to create the building&#39;s L-shape. The floor plan of the structure follows a center-passage plan, with the entrance and stair hall connecting from the second bay from the left when facing the front of the building. The interior of the first floor of the house retains most of the original Victorian decoration. After initial construction, a shed kitchen was added to the rear of the building. Most of the building is covered with a gabled roof, excepting the porch and shed kitchen which are covered by a shed roof.</p><br>
<h2>Mrs. Ray's Boarding House</h2><br>
<p>327 Montgomery Street was purchased in March 1919 by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Ray. In the spring of 1919 Thomas Ray suffered a stroke, and a one-story enclosed porch was constructed on the west side of the building to provide Ray a space to recuperate. At the same time the Rays began to rent out rooms in the house to provide supplemental income, and the building became known as Mrs. Ray&#39;s Boarding House.</p><br>
<h2>Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower</h2><br>
<p>Also in March 1919, then-Major Dwight D. Eisenhower was transferred from Fort Benning to Camp Meade, where he had previously organized the 65th Engineer Battalion in early 1918. In June 1919 his wife Mamie Eisenhower, who had been living in Denver with their son Doud, joined Dwight in Maryland while Doud remained in Colorado with family. Due to a housing shortage at Camp Meade, the Eisenhowers were forced to find off-base housing and rented a room on the second floor of the northwest corner of Mrs. Rays Boarding House. The Eisenhowers remained in residence at 327 Montgomery Street for approximately six weeks, often taking their meals at another boarding house, Mrs. Halversons Boarding House, located along USA Route 1. After approximately six weeks Mamie Eisenhower returned to Denver to be with Doud, and shortly after Dwight Eisenhower took part in the 1919 Motor Transport Corps convoy, which was designed to test and highlight the need for improved road construction throughout the nation.</p><br>
<p>The Eisenhower House was added to the Maryland Historical Trust in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Church Island  is an island situated in Lough Gill, Ireland.</p><br>
<h2>The island</h2><br>
<p>Church Island is an island of 16.8 hectare located in the centre of Lough Gill.</p><br>
<h2>Church</h2><br>
<p>The church is said to have been founded by Lommán of Trim.</p><br>
<p>The church on Church Island is National Monument #118.</p><br>
<p>It is an early Christian ruin and belonged to the Ó Ruairc, rulers of Bréifne. The building is oblong, has loophole windows and a recess at one end. Near the door there is a cavity in a rock, known as ‘ladys bed’, which was a frequent place of pilgrimage for pregnant woman. In 1416, according to the Annals, ‘The church of Inis Mor, in Lough Gill, was burned; and Screaptra ui Chuirnin, and the Leabhar Gearr of the OCuirnins, as well as many other precious articles, were burned also.’</p><br>
