<p>The Old Schoolhouse Bridge is a historic covered bridge spanning the South Wheelock Branch of the Passumpsic River in Lyndon, Vermont. It is located just south of South Wheelock Road, which it formerly carried. Built in 1871, it is one five similar bridges in Lyndon. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Old Schoolhouse Bridge is located south of downtown Lyndon, and just west of the interchange of Interstate 91 (I-91) and USA Route 5 (US 5). South Wheelock Road travels to the west from US 5 just south that interchange, quickly crossing the South Wheelock Branch. The covered bridge is located just south of the modern bridge carrying that road. It is a single-span king post truss, 42 ft in length. It is covered by a gabled metal roof, which extends beyond the trusses. The bridge originally had walkways on both sides, but the southern one has been removed. The trusses are clad in vertical board siding both on their outsides and insides, as is the half-wall on the outside of the walkway. Posts rise from that half-wall to the edge of the roof.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was built in 1871, and is believed to be the only surviving 19th-century covered bridge with covered walkways on both sides. It is one of five bridges in Lyndon, the only one to have its interior clad in siding. It was in active service until 1973, and is now open only to pedestrian traffic.</p><br>
<p>The L.P. Jenne Block is a historic commercial-residential building at the junction of Vermont Route 105 and West Street in the village of Derby Center in Derby, Vermont. Built about 1870, it is a well-preserved example of a late-19th century general store. Now completely converted into residential use, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The L.P. Jenne Block stands in the village of Derby Center, at the southwest corner of Main Street (Vermont Route 105) and West Street. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. The most prominent feature of the building is its recessed two-story porch, which is supported by square posts. It is open on the ground floor, and has a simple yet multi-raied balustrade on the second floor. The ground floor is divided into two parts, each having a three-part picture window on the right and an entrance on the left. The leftomst entrance is particularly elaborate, with sidelight windows, pilasters, and a multi-paneled header. The original main block of the building is extended by a two-story ell with a slightly lower roof pierced by broad shed-roof dormers.</p><br>
<p>The block was built about 1870, on a site that has seen retail activity since the late 18th century. It was probably built by its first proprietors, Parker and Robbins, but is best known for a long-time owner, Lucien P. Jenne, who ran the general store on the ground floor between 1882 and 1913. The building is structurally similar to other surviving general stores of the period in northern Vermont, with living space for the proprietor above the shop, and a vernacular Greek Revival exterior with two-story porch. It was converted entirely into apartments in 1945.</p><br>
<p>The Guildhall Village Historic District encompasses the central common and surrounding buildings in the village center of Guildhall, Vermont. The town, the first to be settled in Vermont&#39;s Northeast Kingdom, has a history from the late 18th century as a commercial, civic, and industrial center, and is the shire town of Essex County. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The area that is now Guildhall village was first settled in the 1780s, when a dam was built across the adjacent Connecticut River, and saw- and gristmills were erected. Eben Judd, proprietor of the mills in 1797, donated land for the common in that year to secure the town&#39;s role as the seat of the newly established Essex County. The town is named for the Guild Hall, part of which was built in 1792 and is the oldest commercial structure in the county. The first county courthouse was built in 1803, followed by other civic, commercial, religious and residential buildings that now line the roughly square common.</p><br>
<p>Guildhall village is located in the northeastern corner of the town, on the western bank of the Connecticut River. The historic district is centered on the square common at the center of Guildhall village, former by a bend in Vermont Route 102, which runs west toward Lunenburg and north toward Maidstone. The common is bounded on the north and west by Courthouse Drive. The district includes all of the buildings facing the common, and extends for a short distance along VT 102 both north and west. It is bounded on the east and south by the river, and includes the remains of two industrial site on the river bank: a former hydroelectric plant built in 1921 and destroyed by fire in 1963 at the western end of the Northumberland Dam, and the remains of the 1787 Ward Bailey Gristmill. Prominent buildings in the district include the 1851 Greek Revival county courthouse, the 1844 Congregational church, and the former jail, jailer&#39;s house, and barn, all built c. 1880.</p><br>
<p>Redstone is a historic building located in Dubuque, Iowa, United States. This is one of three large homes that Augustine A. Cooper, who owned Cooper Wagon and Buggy Works, built for himself and his two daughters. When it was completed in 1888 it was a duplex with 27 rooms, with the family side more ornate than the tenant side. The 2½-story brick structure with red sandstone trim was designed by Thomas Carkeek in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. The elements of that style are found in the round arch window openings, the use of rough limestone for the lintels, and its heavy mass. The terracotta friezework on the cornices over the bay window, the tower, the corner gables, and the Corinthian-style capitals on the porch columns reflect Neoclassical influences. The house was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976, The building has been converted into a bed and breakfast inn.</p><br>
<p>The Naushon Company Plant is a historic textile mill complex at 32 Meeting Street in Cumberland, Rhode Island. First built in 1902-04 and enlarged over time, it illustrates the adaption of the site to differing uses between then and the 1950s, when its use for textile manufacture ended.</p><br>
<p>The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Naushon Company Plant is located in the Valley Falls area of southernmost Cumberland, on 3.5 acre of land between Meeting Street (to the north) and the Blackstone River (to the south). The complex includes five interconnected buildings and one that is detached, of which four are brick, one is wood-frame, and the last is of concrete construction. The main mill building is a two-story brick structure, 339 x. Its notable features are a significant number of original segmented-arch windows, and a distinctive sawtooth roof of a type commonly used on early 20th-century mill buildings but not often preserved. Along its riverfront elevation there also a series of pilaster-shaped venting flues, part of the building&#39;s original air handling system.</p><br>
<p>The Naushon Company was incorporated in 1901 in New Jersey as a joint stock company headed by Malcolm Chace, a grandson of the founder of the nearby Valley Falls Mill. Initially taking over an existing textile operation in Woonsocket, the company began construction of this facility in 1902, with much of its extant footprint completed by 1904. The mill was designed by William T. Henry, a well-known industrial architect from Fall River, Massachusetts. The company produced gingham wash fabric until it failed in 1909; subsequent owners engaged in the manufacture of textiles produced cotton-silk blends, mohair and camel-hair fabrics, and synthetics. In 1962 the complex was acquired by a property management company and readapted for light industrial use.</p><br>
<p>The Andrew–Ryan House is a historic house located at 1375 Locust Street in Dubuque, Iowa.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>This is considered the best example of the Second Empire style in the city, and one of finest in the state of Iowa. The two-story brick structure was designed by Dubuque architect Fridolin J. Herr Sr. It was originally built 13 ft to the north, but was moved to its present location between 1885 and 1890. The porches on the south side may have been added at that time. The house is from the high Second Empire style and features a mansard roof, arched windows, dominant chimneys, a prominent belvedere, and classical moldings on the pilasters, belt courses, and stone work.</p><br>
<p>It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 11, 1985,</p><br>
<p>The Butte County Courthouse and Historic Jail Building is a historic site in Belle Fourche, South Dakota. The buildings were placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998, with its significance being its association with the growth of local government in western plains communities, local figure Seth Bullock, and for making use of Classical architecture, representative of contemporary South Dakota public buildings.</p><br>
<h2>Butte County Courthouse</h2><br>
<p>The Butte County Courthouse is a two-story building with a raised basement, built in 1911. The buildings foundation was built with local sandstone from the quarry at Hot Springs. The design exhibits Classical Revival and Beaux-Arts elements. The buildings architect was Charles A. Randall of Newcastle, Wyoming, whose design for the building is very similar the courthouses he designed for Natrona and Weston Counties, Wyoming. The building&#39;s most imposing elements are its massive cupola and Ionic portico. In 1964, modernist additions were built on both the north and souths sides of the building.</p><br>
<p>The interior public spaces have largely remained in original condition.</p><br>
<h2>Butte County Jail</h2><br>
<p>The jail, built in 1901, is located east of the courthouse on 6th Avenue. It is a small Romanesque Revival building designed by an unknown architect. The builder was stonemason John A. Scotney, who built the building out of native red sandstone. The building originally housed the county jail as well as a residence for the sheriff and his family. Today, the original building serves as the County Dispatch Center while a modern addition houses the sheriff&#39;s office and staff.</p><br>
<p>Boulder Reservoir is located in the northern part of Boulder, Colorado. It stores water for the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District — also called Northern Water — and for the City of Boulder. The reservoir is the centerpiece of the Boulder Reservoir Regional Park, which is managed by the City of Boulder&#39;s Department of Parks and Recreation.</p><br>
<p>The reservoir receives most of its water from Colorados Western Slope through the Alva B. Adams Tunnel and the Boulder Feeder Canal, both part of the Colorado-Big Thompson Project. Some of the stored water is used as part of Boulders municipal water supply and some is used for agricultural purposes in Boulder and Weld counties.</p><br>
<h2>Boulder Reservoir Regional Park</h2><br>
<p>The reservoirs surface area is 700 acres. According to Boulders Parks and Recreation Department, the chief recreation activities at the park are "boating, swimming, sun bathing, water skiing, fishing, picnics, walking, running, cycling and wildlife viewing."</p><br>
<p>The reservoir is popular among anglers, especially those fishing for walleye, smallmouth bass, and catfish. In recent years, the State of Colorado has stocked the reservoir with black crappie, saugeye, and rainbow trout. Ice fishing is also possible when the lake is frozen.</p><br>
<p>The reservoir was completed in 1955.</p><br>
<p>The Hutchinson Glacier  is a large active glacier on the east coast of the Greenland ice sheet.</p><br>
<p>This glacier was named after American aviator George R. Hutchinson who crash-landed and was stranded in the area in 1932 during an attempted around-the-world flight with his family and was rescued and brought to Ammasalik by a fishing trawler.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Hutchinson Glacier flows north of the Crown Prince Frederick Range from the Hutchinson Plateau in the northwest in a roughly eastern direction with an average elevation of 1,050 m.</p><br>
<p>The terminus of the glacier is in the southern side of the mouth of the Kangerlussuaq Fjord, the second largest fjord in East Greenland.</p><br>
<p>This glacier is located in the Sermersooq municipality.</p><br>
<p>The Hollenfelz House, also known as St. Marys High School for Boys, is a historic building located in Dubuque, Iowa, United States. This highly decorative Second Empire structure was built as a home for Michael Hollenfelz, who owned a wholesale firm dealing with wines, liquors and beer. The building features a mansard roof with dormers and a cupola, which is normal for this style, and High Victorian decorative details, which is not. Particularly unusual is the cornice and the stringcourses. In 1906 it was acquired by St. Marys Catholic Church across the street for a boy&#39;s high school. The school was operated by the Brothers of Mary from St. Louis, and its curriculum focused on business and commerce. That school ceased operations in 1929 and the building was then used for the parish grade school. In 1957 it was converted into an apartment building. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977,</p><br>
<p>Egger Island  is Greenland&#39;s southernmost island. It is located in the Kujalleq municipality and is uninhabited.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Egger Island is an important landmark for a small islet off Cape Farewell, its southern headland, is the southernmost point of Greenland. It is part of the Cape Farewell Archipelago (Nunap Isua).</p><br>
<p>The island has a deeply indented coastline and is separated from the neighbouring islands of the archipelago by narrow sounds. Qunnerit lies to the west, Sammisoq to the north and the smaller Avatdlerssuaq and Saningassoq to the east. Egger Island has an area of 308.8 km and a shoreline of 150.2 kilometres.</p><br>
<p>Cape Farewell lies at the island&#39;s southernmost tip, with a height of over 2000 feet; it is noted for bad weather.</p><br>
<p>Kutsujima is a volcanic island in the Sea of Japan, 2.5 km from the coast of the Kyoto Prefecture in Japan. Kutsujima Island is administered as part of Maizuru city. The island consist of two islets - the smaller northern  is Tsurigane-jima or Meshima and larger southern is Bōshima or Kojima</p><br>
<p>According to inscriptions on Tango no kuni fudoki, the Kanmurijima and Kutsujima are the remains of the much larger island which submerged following an earthquake in 701 A.D. The topography of seafloor seems to support the claim, as the steep 60-meters cliff is located underwater off eastern coast of Kanmurijima and Kutsujuma, indicating a recent crustal fault. The northern islet is inaccessible without rock-climbing equipment, and was the famous hermits prayer location during the late 19th century. Currently, the islets are designated as Kanmurijima-Kutsujima wildlife protection area area and any landing is prohibited.</p><br>
<p>The Peacham Corner Historic District encompasses much of the historic village center of Peacham, Vermont. The villages period of greatest growth and importance between the towns founding as a hill town in the late 18th century, and 1860, when significant development effectively ended. As a result, the village lacks Victorian features often found in other rural communities. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Peacham was first settled in 1776, partly as a consequence of the construction of the Bayley-Hazen Military Road during the American Revolutionary War. In the Peacham Corner area that became the town center, that road, now the major north-south route through the town, skirted around a hill on which the early town center was laid out. This included the church (the present Congregational Church, completed 1806), cemetery (established 1811), and the Peacham Academy, one of the regions first secondary schools (founded 1797, closed in 1971). The church was moved down the hill a ways in 1844, and the academys early buildings no longer stand, although later buildings have been converted to housing). Growth in the village came to a virtual standstill with the outbreak of the American Civil War, which drained the community of significant parts of its population. The result is a little-altered mid-19th century hill village, which was largely bypassed by the architectural styles of the late 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is centered at the junction of Bayley-Hazen Road with Church Street and Old Cemetery Road, extending a modest distance to the north, east, and south. It extends further to the west on Church Street and Macks Mountain Road, where the academy, church, and some other civic buildings and residences stand. Also found in this area is the town common, at the triangular junction of Academy Hill Road, Church Street, and Macks Mountain Road, where the towns war memorial is located. Most of the villages buildings are modestly scaled 1-1/2 to 2-1/2 story wood frame structures, built either in the Federal or Greek Revival style.</p><br>
<p>Farhat Square  is one of the oldest squares in the Syrian city of Aleppo. It is located in the old Jdeydeh District, outside the historic walls of the Ancient City of Aleppo.</p><br>
<p>Farhat Square is a symbolic area of Christianity in Aleppo as three cathedrals are located there: Greek Catholic, Armenian and Maronite. Churches have been in the area since the 15th Century.</p><br>
<p>It was named after Bishop Gabriel Germanos Farhat (1670-1732) who was Maronite Bishop of Aleppo between 1725-1732 and founded the Maronite Library of Aleppo. Sahat Farhat was named in his honor and his statue was placed in the square in 1932 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of his death.</p><br>
<p>The square and the buildings around it have been damaged by heavy fighting between combatants during the Battle of Aleppo (2012–16). Similar destruction occurred to the area during Aleppo&#39;s sectarian unrest of 1850.</p><br>
<p>The Judge David Hibbard Homestead is a historic farm property on Woodland Road in Concord, Vermont. The farmhouse, built in 1814 for a prominent local lawyer, is one the finest examples of Federal period architecture in northeastern Vermont. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Hibbard homestead stands in a rural area of Concord, at the northern end of Woodland Road. The property consists of 160 acre, or which more than 100 acres are woodland, and the balance consists of formerly agricultural rolling fields. The farmstead, set among the fields, includes the 1814 farmhouse, a mid-19th century barn, and several 20th-century outbuildings. The farmhouse is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a side gable roof, reproduction period clapboard siding, and a dressed granite foundation. The building corners have narrow carved pilasters, and the cornice features finely detailed hand-carved woodwork. The main facade is five bays wide, with the entrance at the center. It has an elaborate surround, with sidelight windows flanked by pilasters, and a corniced header with elaborate carved woodwork fastened by either wooden pegs or hand-cut nails. An older (c. 1805) ell extends to the rear of the main block. The interior retains many original carved wooden finish elements.</p><br>
<p>David Hibbard, Jr. was the son of one of Concords first settlers. He acquired this land in the early 19th century, building what was little more than a log cabin on it about 1805. This became the kitchen ell to what is now the main house, which was built in 1814. The carvings were supposedly executed by an itinerant craftsman who spent two years on the property. Hibbard was a self-taught lawyer and farmer, and succeeded his father as one of the towns leading citizens. The property was sold out of the Hibbard family in the late 1850s.</p><br>
<p>Beit Achiqbash  is an old Aleppine courtyard mansion built in 1757 CE by Qarah Ali, a wealthy Christian merchant. It is one of a number of historic buildings found in the Al-Jdayde Christian quarter of Aleppo. A Turk named Ashiqbash later bought the house.</p><br>
<p>The house is famous for its courtyard, which is extravagantly decorated in a Mamluk-Rococo style. The building was turned into a museum in 1973 and restored in the 1980s. It is well known for the fine carved ornaments on its courtyard elevations. Its style is said to be greatly influenced by Baroque decorative traditions.</p><br>
<p>It is the home of the Popular Traditions Museum with its collection of fine decorations of Aleppine art and artefacts of past lives.</p><br>
<p>The building, like much of Aleppos old city, has suffered catastrophic damage and looting during the fighting by combatant forces in Syrias civil war.</p><br>
<p>The Sentinel or Hangberg is a peak marking the western end of the mouth of Hout Bay in South Africa. It has a shear cliff dropping towards the sea, and a coastal hiking path is accessible at low tide. It is adjacent to Hout Bay Harbour and the Hangberg settlement, and to the higher Karbonkelberg peak. Just offshore to the south is a colony of Cape fur seals known as Seal Island, and a big wave surf spot known as "Dungeons", which has hosted the Red Bull Big Wave Africa competition.</p><br>
<h2>Possible sale</h2><br>
<p>The mountain has been privately owned since 1901. In 2008, the mountain was advertised for sale by G&R Marine Services CC, who purchased it in 2003. The potential sale led to protests by the local Hangberg community. The land is zoned rural, which in theory would allow a single dwelling to be built, but it is surrounded by national park land, and SANParks, which wishes to see the peak incorporated into the Table Mountain National Park, indicated that it would not allow an access road under any circumstances.</p><br>
<p>The Kelley House is a historic building located in Dubuque, Iowa, United States. John and Mary Kelley bought this property from James Fanning in 1855. Kelley built this two-story structure, which is a rare example of Mississippi Valley French Colonial architecture in Iowa. While Kelley was not of French ancestry, the Dubuque area was initially settled by French Canadians. However, this house, completed by 1858, was completed well after the French influence in the area. It is also an example of the French style from the Southern United States and the Caribbean. Typical of this style is the full-length galerie, or porch, with an exterior staircase, and the main living quarters located above a full-height ground floor level. Both of these elements are found in the Kelley house. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The John and Marie  Schrup Farmstead Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district in Dubuque County, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. The three buildings include a stone house , barn , and well-house . The buildings are typical of those constructed by immigrant families from Luxembourg that settled in Dubuque and nearby Jackson counties. The front part of the house is the oldest structure here and was built when Martin Burkhart owned the property. He sold the farmstead to Casper Burkhart the following year, who then sold it to John and Marie Schrup in 1856. The Schrups were responsible for adding onto the back of the house about the time they bought it and the other two buildings. The dairy farm of 193 acre remained in the family until 1973. Because it was always a modest enterprise, the stone buildings were not torn down and replaced with modern structures as happened on many of the Luxembourgian farms built in the mid-19th century. A wooden shed was built in the early 20th century, and is the non-contributing building. A pole barn was also added to the farmstead and it fell down c. 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Railroad Street Historic District encompasses a cluster of commercial and railroad-related buildings at the traditional late 19th-century heart of St. Johnsbury, Vermont. It includes five commercial buildings and the towns 1883 union depot, and is reflective of the towns importance as a major railroad junction in northern New England. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of St. Johnsbury was transformed in the mid-19th century into a bustling railroad service center by the arrival of both north-south and east-west railroad lines. The town&#39;s Union Station, a substantial brick French Chateau-style building, was built to accommodate the traffic of both the Connecticut and Passumpsic Railroad (which carried main-line passenger traffic between Boston and Montreal) and the St. Johnsbury and Lake Champlain Railroad, which served north Vermont to the west. Fires in 1892 and 1896 cleared commercial buildings northwest of the depot, at what is now the corner of Railroad Street and Eastern Avenue. New brick commercial buildings were built to replace those lost in the fires.</p><br>
<p>The historic district includes, in addition to the 1883 depot, four buildings on the east side of Railroad Street, and one on the west side, all extending north from the junction with Eastern Avenue. It also includes Depot Square, a small grassy area between the depot and Railroad Street. The most architecturally prominent of the commercial buildings are the Citizens and Merchants Bank Blocks, a pair of similarly-styled Romanesque four-story blocks at the southern end of the row, which share an elaborate cornice and rows of arched windows. Both were designed by Lambert Packard, a prominent local architect who borrowed extensively from the Richardsonian Romanesque in the design of these buildings. On the west side of Railroad Street is the former New Avenue Hotel, also four stories in height, with a large round entry section at the corner of Railroad and Eastern.</p><br>
<p>The Lakeview Inn is a historic tourist accommodation at 295 Breezy Avenue in Greensboro, Vermont. Built in 1872 and enlarged several times, the inn illustrates the evolutionary changes in tourism of northern Vermont. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Lakeview Inn is located in the southern part of the village of Greensboro, on the east side of Breezy Avenue overlooking the southern end of Caspian Lake. It is a rambling wood-frame structure, with a 2-1/2 story main block extended to the side and rear by 1-1/2 story sections, giving it an overall L shape. Its oldest section is near the northern end; it also presents a gable to the street, and has a single-story polygonal bay window in the first floor and pilastered corners. Shed-roof porches extend to either side of this section, covering the full width of the building. The interior reflects fifty years of evolutionary history, including some finish elements from virtually every major period of alteration.</p><br>
<p>The Lakeview Inn began in 1872 as a modest 1-1/2 story Italianate boarding house, catering to summer visitors enjoying the local scenery. In 1880 a summer colony of academics and artists was established at Lake Caspian, and the inn served as one of its major meeting points. It underwent several phases of enlargement, with the last significant actions being the unification of the facade in 1921 by the construction of the Colonial Revival porch across the front. It closed as a tourist venue in 1977, but was later reopened as a bed and breakfast accommodation.</p><br>
<p>The Island Pond Historic District encompasses a portion of the village of Island Pond in the town of Brighton, Vermont. The village was established in the 19th century as the halfway point in the Grand Trunk Railway, an international railroad connection Portland, Maine and Montreal. Island Pond was a major service center for the railroad, and became a commercial hub of northeastern Vermont. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Brighton was an isolated farming community in northeastern Vermont prior to 1853, the year the two halves of the Grand Trunk Railway met at Island Pond (named for the nearby body of water, which has a small island in it). Over the next twenty years, the town&#39;s population rose from under 200 to more than 1,500, with many of the new residents somehow involved in the operations of the railroad. There was a large service yard in the area between Railroad and South Streets, where the former depot still stands, including service sheds and a turntable, and the station was a customs and immigration stop. The railroad was a driving economic force in the community, which suffered as the railroad declined in importance in the mid-20th century. Passenger service ended on the route in 1963, and much of the service infrastructure was demolished by the mid-1970s.</p><br>
<p>The historic district encompasses a large part of the northern section of the village of Island Pond. It is bounded on the south by Main Street and Railroad Street, which flank the railroad right-of-way to the north. It is bounded on the east by Elm and Mountain Streets, and the west by Maple Street, with its northern boundary at North Street. It covers 42 acre, including the railroad-facing elements of the business district on the south side of Main and Railroad Streets, with the villages major residential area on the north side of the tracks. Most of the districts buildings were built in the half-century following the railroad&#39;s arrival in 1853, and are of vernacular wood-frame construction. There is only one brick buildings in the district (the railroad station), and three churches. Of the buildings in the district, only one, the Christ Church, is known to be architect-designed.</p><br>
<p>The John Bell Block, also known as the German Bank & Trust Building, is a historic building located in Dubuque, Iowa, United States. The three-story brick commercial Italianate building was constructed by local businessman John Bell in 1886. Its location on the north side of the central business district meant that it housed several businesses owned by the city&#39;s German immigrant population. Chief among them was the German Trust and Savings Bank. It became a tenant when the building was completed and it remained until it built its own building in 1922. In 1918 anti-German sentiments that resulted from World War I forced the bank to change its name to Union Trust and Savings Bank. It remained in operation until 1932 when a run on its deposits as a result of the Great Depression forced it to fail. Its building was taken over by Dubuque Bank and Trust. Three prominent Dubuque professionals also had offices on the second floor of the building. German-born architect Martin Heer had offices beginning in 1888. He partnered with another German-born architect, Guido Beck, from 1889 to 1895. Beck was noted for his commercial blocks and churches. Contractor Anton Zwack had offices here from 1911 to c. 1965. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Ziepprecht Block is a historic building located in Dubuque, Iowa, United States. Completed in 1888, it is a fine example of transitional commercial Italianate architecture. The three-story brick structure features a heavy projecting cornice and rounded pediment from the Italianate, with larger paired windows from the Second Empire style, and three-sided bay windows from the Queen Anne style. It is also one of a small number of double storefront blocks that remain in the downtown area. The building is named for Henry Ziepprecht a German-born druggist who settled in Dubuque in 1856 and died in 1887. His estate paid to have this building constructed on the location of an older building that housed his drug store. Now managed by Joseph Wittmer, the drug store and a confectionery were the first businesses to occupy the storefronts. The upper floors housed apartments. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Yılanlı Ada  is a small Mediterranean island in Turkey.</p><br>
<p>The island at 36&deg;06&prime;48&Prime;N latitude, 33&deg;22&prime;40&Prime;E longitude is situated about 1.75 km offshore (Sancak Burnu). The nearest coastal settlement is Aydıncık ilçe (district) center of Mersin Province about 6 km northwest of the island. It is a narrow island lying west to east direction, approximately 180 m long.</p><br>
<p>The uninhabited island was known as "Spurie" during antiquity.</p><br>
<p>The area around the island was declared an archaeological site (SIT). During recent exploration many anchors were found around the island, indicating that it was a popular anchorage area from the Bronze Age. Also a wreck with amphorae LP1 type from the Roman Empire was found. Two amphorae, three stone anchors, a lead stock and its collar, and a stone stock were delivered to the Silifke Museum.</p><br>
<p>The Newport Downtown Historic District encompasses most of the historic downtown area of the city of Newport, Vermont. The city developed as a transit hub and tourist area in the second half of the 19th century, spurred by the construction of a railroad to the area. The district, roughly bounded by Third Street, Coventry Street, and Lake Memphremagog, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Newport, located at the southern end of Lake Memphremagog, was a sleepy agricultural area until 1863, when the Passumpsic Railroad began service. The area then boomed, its economy raised by increases in lumbering and tourism on the lake. In 1918, the central village of the town of Newport was united with the adjacent village of West Derby to form the city of Newport.</p><br>
<p>The city&#39;s main downtown area remains that of the original village, set on a small peninsula jutting eastward into the southernmost finger of the lake. This peninsula was a marshy wilderness until 1820, when it was cleared of timber. A bridge was built from the peninsula to the eastern shore of the lake in 1832, carrying the main road from Derby to Burlington. After the railroad was built through the area in 1863, the stage route became the main downtown area, with hotels, and civic and commercial services. Its regional importance was cemented in the 1880s, when it became the county seat of Orleans County, and the Orleans County Courthouse and Jail Complex was built.</p><br>
<p>The historic district encompasses most of the eastern end of the peninsula housing the city&#39;s main business district. The cluster of civic buildings includes, in addition to the courthouse complex, the Federal courthouse, post office and customs house building, the former National Guard armory that now serves as city hall, and the Goodrich Memorial Library, a fine example of Romanesque architecture. There are three churches in the district. Residential architecture in the district often includes broad covered porches, and architectural details of the Victorian and Colonial Revival periods.</p><br>
<p>Greene County Courthouse, also known as Historic Greene County Courthouse, is a historic courthouse located at Springfield, Greene County, Missouri. It was built between 1910 and 1912, and is a four-story, Classical Revival style rusticated stone building. It has a flat roof and low dome over a rotunda. The front facade features a free colonnade of four Ionic order columns that extend the height of the upper two floors. Also on the property are the contributing bronze replica of the Statue of Liberty, the stone bases of two columns from the former courthouse, and a World War I cannon. It was the seat of Greene County government until a new Judicial Courts Building and Justice Center were built in the 1990s.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>German Bank, also known as the Silver Dollar Tavern, is a historic building located in Dubuque, Iowa, United States. The citys German community was its most prominent ethnic group in the mid to late 19th century. Like many other cities in Iowa of that area it had banks that were owned by, and catered to, members of their particular immigrant communities. T.H. Thedinga, the citys first German-born mayor, started this bank in 1864 to serve immigrant Germans. In 1868 it moved from its original location on Main Street and into the former Dubuque Miners Bank building. That building was torn down in 1901 in order to construct this one. It was designed by Dubuque architect John Spencer in partnership with Chicago architect W.G. Williamson. The three-story brick building has a highly decorative main facade composed of polished pink granite on the main floor and terra cotta on the upper two floors. Decorative elements include egg-and-dart, Greek fret, a row of small lions heads, bay windows, scroll pediments, imperial German eagles, and a bracketed cornice with dentils. The second and third floors are dominated by four fluted, banded columns with Corinthian capitals.</p><br>
<p>The bank remained in operation here until 1932 when it closed in the Great Depression. Since 1946 the first floor has housed a restaurant and bar. The building was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Beach Mountains are located on private land roughly 3 mi to the north of Van Horn in southwestern Culberson County, Texas. The summit extends to an altitude of 5,827 ft above sea level.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The Beach mountain range is one of multiple isolated mountain ranges that populate Trans-Pecos Texas. Other nearby ranges include the Sierra Diablo, Baylor, Apache, Carrizo, Wylie, Eagle, and Van Horn mountains. Although these isolated ranges may share some common characteristics, their underlying geology can vary significantly.</p><br>
<p>The Beach Mountains are erosional remnants of Ordovician and Cambrian sedimentary rocks laid down from 541 to 444 million years ago. Along their western margins, a highly intermittent stream called Hackberry Creek has exposed even older Precambrian deposits.</p><br>
<h2>Flora</h2><br>
<p>The vegetation of the Beach Mountains is typical of the Chihuahuan Desert with plants such as Yucca, creosote, mesquite, and various cactus species. The shallow soils along the steep and rocky slopes also support live oak, pinyon pine, juniper, and various grasses.</p><br>
<h2>Fauna</h2><br>
<p>The Beach Mountains are home to rare herds of desert bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis nelsoni), which tend to be restricted to the mountainous parts of Trans-Pecos Texas and southeastern New Mexico. The many rugged escarpments and the highly dissected and eroded conditions within the Beach Mountains produce a rough and precipitous terrain that is highly favored by mountain sheep. Due to the harsh and inaccessible nature of the country and the protection provided by private land ownership, the desert bighorn sheep have managed to survive in this rugged and barren landscape.</p><br>
<h2>Proper name</h2><br>
<p>The mountains are named for J. H. Beach, who settled in the area in the 1880s. Another early settler of Van Horn, Robert K. (Bob) Wylie, gave his name to another nearby mountain range: the Wylie Mountains, located to the southeast of the Beach Mountains.</p><br>
<p>The Brillenhöhle  is a cave ruin, located 16 km west of Ulm on the Swabian Alb in south-western Germany, where archaeological excavations have documented human habitation since as early as 30,000 years ago. Excavated by Gustav Riek from 1955 to 1963, the cave&#39;s Upper Paleolithic layers contain a sequence of Aurignacian, Gravettian and Magdalenian artifacts. In 1956 the first human fossils were discovered within a fireplace in the center of the cave, a discovery which made important contributions to the foundational understanding of the Magdalenian culture of central Europe.</p><br>
<h2>Site</h2><br>
<p>Brillenhöhle is located in the Ach Valley, lying about 80 m above the Ach River below. The site derives its name from the two holes in the caves ceiling, which together resemble a pair of spectacles. The cave is essentially a single room with a diameter of 17 m, an average height of 4.50 m and a length of 23 m. A small side cave of 2.50 m width and 6 m height, called Vespershöhle runs from the entrance around 5 m towards the east. As the site is in an advanced state of decay, it has been designated a cave ruin. However, the openings in the roof allow smoke to escape and sufficient light to enter, while still being small enough to keep the cave mostly dry during periods of rainfall. Recurrent prehistoric human occupation at the site indicates that conditions at the cave were tolerable enough to provide reasonable protection from the elements. In the north-western corner, a chimney-like shape tapers towards a 17 cm wide gap in the ceiling, a gap which allowed a large quantity of reddish-brown clay to ooze into the caves interior during the Pleistocene.</p><br>
<h2>Stratigraphy</h2><br>
<p>Explorations by discoverer Robert Rudolf Schmidt and historians Peter Goessler and Albert Kley did not yield notable results. Tübingen historian Gustav Riek eventually took up systematic work in September 1955. Over the course of eleven excavation sessions that lasted until October 1963, he unearthed eleven sediment profiles. Riek recognized and determined a total of 22 distinct layers, of which only 3 were considered post-Pleistocene in origin. The work yielded numerous stone and bone tools, ivory jewelry, human skeletal remains and pottery shards.</p><br>
<p>During the early 1990s, Tübingen archaeologist Anne Scheer succeeded in conclusively demonstrating that the occupations of Brillenhöhle, Hohle Fels and Geisenklösterle during the Gravettian were interrelated and contemporaneous in nature, by refitting stone artifacts found in the three site&#39;s Gravettian sediment horizons.</p><br>
<h2>Discoveries</h2><br>
<p>It is assumed that the cave was not frequently inhabited by humans during the Aurignacian since only two broken bone tools were found in layer XIV.</p><br>
<p>Gravettian finds originate in layer VII. In addition to 52 tools made of animal bones, reindeer antler and mammoth ivory, more than 1000 stone tools were unearthed, including blades, gouges and scrapers. More than 80 artifacts were identified as jewelry, including numerous ivory beads, beaded bones, perforated animal teeth and notched bone rods.</p><br>
<p>Most discoveries were made in the Magdalenian strata, coming primarily from layers VI to IV. Stone tools, fireplaces, smashed bones and more than 1100 stone tools were found. Notable artifacts include harpoons of ivory or reindeer antler with barbed hooks on one or both sides. Animal bones include mammoth, wild horse, reindeer and cave bear. Smashed human skull fragments with traces of exposure to fire were repeatedly regarded as evidence of cannibalism, but according to Gustav Riek, the lack of powdered ochre is evidence that excludes head burials. Nevertheless, the theory of cannibalism has not entirely been repudiated. The skeletal remains of the central fireplace in the Magdalenian-layer IV had been arranged in deliberate burial fashion.</p><br>
<p>Neolithic and Bronze Age: In the heavily mixed upper layers II and I, Neolithic as well as Early and Late Bronze Age ceramic vascular and wall shards were found.</p><br>
<p>Some layers were permanently destroyed during the various excavations. Nonetheless, the cave still holds potential value for future archaeologists, since some areas formerly deemed "unproductive" have still remained untouched. In order to preserve these undocumented areas, the cave was protected by an armored, latticed gate, to prevent access but enable inspection.</p><br>
<p>Carbon Dated fossils:</p><br>
<p>Source:</p><br>
<h2>Archaeogenetics</h2><br>
<p>The remains of at least four distinct individuals, all associated with the Magdalenian, were discovered at Brillenhöhle. In 2016, researchers successfully extracted the DNA from the parietal bone of one of the individuals. The bone fragment was directly dated to around 15,120-14,440 BP. The individual in question was found to belong to mtDNA Haplogroup U8a. The Brillenhöhle individual was found to be genetically closest to other ancient samples from the Magdalenian, showing closest genetic affinity for other samples taken from the Swabian Jura, such as Hohle Fels, while also showing genetic affinity for another Magdalenian sample, taken from the Red Lady of El Mirón, as well as a sample from the Aurignacian, GoyetQ116-1, taken from Goyet.</p><br>
<p>Dubuque City Hall is located in Dubuque, Iowa, United States. The building was designed by J.N. Moody after Faneuil Hall in Boston and the Fulton Street Market in New York City. Dubuque architect John F. Rague served as the supervising architect during construction. Following a Medieval tradition, the city market was located on the first floor, municipal offices were located on the second floor, and a ballroom for civic events was located on the third floor.</p><br>
<p>The three-story brick structure rests on a raised limestone basement. It features a gable roof with bracketed eaves. Each gable has a circular window. The 11 ft tall windows are located in bays defined by arches. The building was first occupied in February 1858. Initially, the main floor was divided into stalls. They were converted into additional office space for the city when the market relocated. The third floor ballroom was converted into an archery and pistol range for the police department, a bowling alley, and a horseshoe pitching area. The original cupola, which held a bell and four-faced clock, became deteriorated and was removed from the building in 1954. The bell was placed in the plaza next to city hall. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. A new cupola was created using the original design, and it was erected in 1990. The bell was returned to the tower at that time.</p><br>
<p>The Dubuque YMCA Building, also known as the Iowa Inn, is a historic building located in Dubuque, Iowa, United States. Several area churches partnered to form the local YMCA in 1857. It was one of the first chapters formed west of the Mississippi River. Its activities ceased during the American Civil War, and it was reformed in 1866. They rented rooms on Main Street for their activities. Its first modest gymnasium was outfitted in 1884, and it was improved in 1992 when the YMCA took over the facilities over the former Dubuque Athletic Club. The local YMCA completed the first section of this facility two years later, with the second section completed in 1916.</p><br>
<p>Often the local YMCA chapters copied or adapted one another&#39;s building designs, which gave their facilities an institutional character in form and style. The Romanesque Revival style was popular in Iowa in the 19th century, which is reflected in the 1894 section. In the early 20th century they generally employed the Neoclassical and Commercial styles, and the 1916 wing reflects the Commercial style.</p><br>
<p>The YMCA remained here until 1969, when they opened a new joint facility with the YWCA on Dodge Street. This building became the Iowa Inn, which rented rooms to low-income people.</p><br>
<p>MetroPlains Development of St. Paul, Minnesota bought the building in 2000 and renovated it into an apartment building for senior citizens known as the Henry Stout Apartments. It was named for an early supporter of the YMCA in Dubuque.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association Building, also known as the Lobaugh Building and Henry County Museum and Cultural Arts Center, is a historic Anheuser-Busch distribution building located at Clinton, Henry County, Missouri. It was built in 1886, and is one- to two-story, Romanesque Revival style timber frame building with brick load bearing walls. It sits on a limestone foundation. It features a dramatic three stepped parapet wall topped with limestone caps, decorative ornaments, Eselohren , bands of voussoir trimmed windows, and semicircular arched windows. It housed Anheuser-Busch operations until 1920, after which it housed a feed and produce business, and later a local history museum.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. It is located in the Clinton Square Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Clinton Square Historic District is a national historic district located at Clinton, Henry County, Missouri. The district encompasses 62 contributing buildings, 1 contributing structure, an 1 contributing object in the central business district of Clinton. It developed between about 1885 and 1957 and includes representative examples of Italianate and Romanesque Revival style architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed Anheuser-Busch Brewing Association Building. Other notable buildings include the Fristoes Body Shop Office , Whitehead Consultants , Texas Room / Pit Stop Pub , State Farm Insurance , Montgomery Ward , J.C. Penney / Brownsbergers / Eberting&#39;s Main Street Central , Old City Hall , Delozier Building , Crest Cinema , Henry County Courthouse , and the Bandstand on Courthouse Square .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The Scott Islands are a group of islands located off the northwestern point of Vancouver Island, British Columbia.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Scott Islands are located about 10 kilometers (6.4 miles) off of Cape Scott Provincial Park. The chain consists of Lanz Island, Cox Island, Sartine Island, Beresford Island, and Triangle Island, along with several smaller islets and rocks.</p><br>
<h2>Ecology</h2><br>
<p>The Scott Islands are notable for their large Seabird populations, including Thick-billed murres, Tufted puffins, Marbled murrelets, and 55% of the world&#39;s breeding population of Cassin&#39;s auklets. They are also notable for their large populations of Steller sea lions and Rockfish. Sea otters have recently re-colonized the islands.</p><br>
<h2>Conservation</h2><br>
<p>Lanz and Cox islands are both protected by Lanz and Cox Islands Provincial Park, which is open to the public. Sartine, Triangle, and Beresford are all ecological reserves, which are closed to the public.</p><br>
<p>Riverside is a historic estate at 30 Lily Pond Road in Lyndon, Vermont. Built in 1866 for the owner of a local lumber mill, it is a well-preserved example of Italianate architecture, including significant elements on the main house and the surviving outbuildings. The estate, now home to a private elementary day school, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Riverside estate is located south of downtown Lyndon, on the east side of Lily Pond Road at its junction with Red Village Road. The estate now covers about 8 acre, most of which is on the east side of Lily Pond and Red Village Roads; a small portion is on the west side of Red Village Road. The property includes three buildings: the main house, a barn, and a granary. All were built between 1866 and about 1880, and exhibit Italianate styling. The house is 2-1/2 stories in height, with a hip roof topped by an elaborate square belvidere. A porch wraps around two sides of the main block, supported by chamfered square posts with brackets at their tops, and with spindled balustrades. Its interior retains original period decorative elements. A 2-1/2 story gabled ell extends to the right side. East of the house stands a c. 1866 barn, whose Italianate features include a small square cupola, and a smaller c. 1880 granary, which has an octagonal cupola and bracketed eaves.</p><br>
<p>Riverside was built in 1866 for Dudley P. Hall, once of the principal owners of a lumber mill located just south of the property, on the banks of the Passumpsic River. It was designed by George Ropes Jr., an architect from Boston, Massachusetts, and stood next to the home of his business partner, B.F. Lincoln (now adapted for use as a nursing home). Members of the Hall family owned the property until 1977, and it has served since then as the private Riverside School, serving grades four through eight.</p><br>
<p>The Goyet Caves  are a series of connected caves located in a limestone cliff about 15 m  above the river Samson near the village of Mozet in the Gesves municipality of the Namur province, Belgium. The site is a significant locality of regional Neanderthal and European early modern human occupation, as thousands of fossils and artifacts were discovered that are all attributed to a long and contiguous stratigraphic sequence from 120,000 years ago, the Middle Palaeolithic to less than 5.000 years ago, the late Neolithic. A robust sequence of sediments was identified during extensive excavations by geologist Edouard Dupont, who undertook the first probings as early as 1867. The site was added to the Belgian National Heritage register in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Site</h2><br>
<p>Located just south of the Goyet Castle the caves are essentially 250 m long underground galleries, rich in speleothems and carved out of the limestone during millions of years by the waters of the Samson river inside the 90 hectare limestone massif.</p><br>
<p>The massif is divided into zones:</p><br>
<p>Terrasse classique</p><br>
<p>Troisième Caverne</p><br>
<p>Abri supérieur</p><br>
<p>Trou du Moulin</p><br>
<p>In 1999, an extensive network of galleries was discovered, consisting of a central and peripheral networks, named after particular areas: Régal des Fees, Atlantide, Salle de Cristal etc.</p><br>
<h2>Excavations</h2><br>
<h3>Stratigraphy</h3><br>
<p>Edouard Dupont identified five sediment horizons or site concentrations in the cave, three near the cave entrance and two in deeper chambers. Marcel Otte resumed excavations during the 1970s. Further excavations took place from 1998 to 2004. Contemporary researchers assert that Dupont&#39;s 19th century excavation methods "did not meet today’s standards". His sediment sequences are considered to be of little accuracy and his discoveries in the archives of the Royal Belgielsan Institute of Natural Sciences have been reviewed and re-classified in recent years.</p><br>
<p>Horizon 1: Magdalenian (radiocarbon AMS dating on animal bone, ranging between 14,300 and 31,750 years ago)</p><br>
<p>Horizon 2: Magdalenian (two dates, 14,100 to 14,760 years ago, one 29,420 uncalibrated)</p><br>
<p>Horizon 3: Multiple mixed occupations including Aurignacian (three dates, 23,400 to 27,600 years ago)</p><br>
<p>Horizon 4: Gravettian</p><br>
<p>Horizon 5: primarily cave bear and cave lion bones</p><br>
<h3>Objects</h3><br>
<p>The site accounts for a remarkable variety of prehistoric objects: thousands of bones of prehistoric humans and large mammals, a whistle, stone artifacts with stylized engravings, an approximately 5,000 year old child&#39;s grave, the fossilized cranium of a Paleolithic dog, a knife made from a human rib, the largest collection of Neanderthal fossils of Northern Europe, hand axes, harpoons, necklaces, ivory chopsticks, engraved ivory platelets, carved reindeer horn and skinned and filleted human remains, that suggest cannibalism among Neanderthals.</p><br>
<p>Horizons 1 and 2. Artifacts of the Magdalenian levels include hand axes and a harpoon, a necklace of 26 wolves perforated teeth, bone fragments and needles, a biserial (multiple barbs on both edges) bone harpoon, a necklace, a Turritella sea snail shell necklace.</p><br>
<p>Horizon 4 included a fossilized canid skull, which has been direct AMS dated to be 31,000 years old.</p><br>
<p>Additional artifacts can be found in numerous private collections, as during the 1950s several amateur archaeologists were permitted access to the caves.</p><br>
<h3>Dog skull</h3><br>
<p>Discovered during the 1860s and identified as that of a Paleolithic dog, carbon 14 dated in 2002 and direct AMS dating that determined an age of 31,680 ± 750 years, the cranium might represent the physical evidence of the oldest domesticated animal found to this day. Mitochondrial DNA was established successfully and analysis confirms that the individual is not a direct ancestor of modern dogs, but rather of an extinct side branch, "that carried a substantial amount of genetic diversity.". However, without conclusive genetic support the interpretation remains debated as other studies refute this classification on the basis of morphological arguments only. For the time being the find is assumed to be a wolf&#39;s skull.</p><br>
<p>Carbon Dated fossils:</p><br>
<p>Source:</p><br>
<h2>Human habitation</h2><br>
<p>Neanderthal habitation of the caves dates back to the Middle Paleolithic. Occasional Neanderthal occupation begins 120,000 years ago and ends after 40,000 years ago.</p><br>
<p>Between 45,500 and 40,500 years ago Neanderthals lived in the Troisième Caverne, where 99 bones were discovered, that belong to at least five individuals. This represents the largest collection of Neanderthal fossils in Northern Europe. The condition of the fossils suggests cannibalism. The bodies are skinned and filleted, the bones show cut marks and were cracked to extract the marrow.</p><br>
<p>Homo sapiens occupation began around 35,000 years ago. Goyet accounts for fossils of European populations from different junctures, including fossils that are among the earliest branch of modern Europeans (ca. 35,000 BP). Their damaged but readable DNA has been used in studies of the origin and migration of European ice age populations. Based on mitochondrial DNA of five local fossils it was concluded that the first modern Europeans have arrived directly from Africa without a detour via Asia. The study of nuclear DNA of eight local fossils yielded groundbreaking results. The 35,000 year old humerus of a man from Goyet has been associated with the Aurignacian culture. Shortly thereafter, the population associated with this culture was ousted by a genetically distinct Gravettian rural population (from 34,000 BP), but around 25,000 BP descendants reappear in Spain in the context of Magdalenian culture. After 19,000 years ago the population begins to spread all over Europe. The extent to which Neanderthals and Homo sapiens have lived together at Goyet is still under investigation.</p><br>
<p>In 1998, the bones of a twelve year old child was found in a crevice. The cavern was subsequently named the Salle de l&#39;Enfant. The remains are 5,000 years old and are interpreted as to represent a grave. Other cultural type elements such as perforated tubes that were perhaps used as flutes indicate that the caves continued to be inhabited during the late Neolithic. An even younger object discovered in Goyet, attributed to the Iron Age (around 500 BCE) is a knife made from a human rib.</p><br>
<p>The Orleans County Courthouse and Jail Complex is a historic government facility on Main Street in the city of Newport, Vermont, the shire town of Orleans County. The complex includes a fine Romanesque courthouse built in 1886, a wood-frame jailers quarters built in 1886 , and a 1903 brick jail. The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Orleans County Courthouse stands prominently in the center of downtown Newport, on the south side of Main Street between 3rd and 2nd Streets. Just to its east stands the federal USA Courthouse, Post Office and Customs House. It is a 2-1/2 story brick building, with a hip roof. A gabled entrance section projects from the center of the main facade, rising through a bellcast stage at the roof level to an elaborate two-stage clock tower topped by a pyramidal roof. The eaves and gable edges are adorned with dentil moulding, and windows in the upper level of the projecting section are set in recessed round-arch openings, a detail echoed by blind arches in the first stage of the tower. Entrances are also set in large round-arch openings on the ground floor. Bands of brick corbelling set off the floors from each other, with another below the eave.</p><br>
<p>The 1886 jailer&#39;s house is a two-story wood frame structure with a gabled roof, and is three bays wide and two deep. It is simply trimmed, and is connected via a wooden ell to the 1903 jail. That building is a basically cubical masonry structure, two stories in height, finished in brick with granite trim. It has a hip roof with an elaborate corbelled eave.</p><br>
<p>The county complex was built in 1886, following a decision by the state legislature to move the seat of Orleans County from Irasburg, centrally located but isolated and agrarian, to the bustling lakefront and railroad-supported town of Newport. The city of Newport would be incorporated in 1918 out of part of the towns of Newport and Derby, and retain the shire town status. The courthouse was designed by Lambert Packard, a prominent local architect. He also designed the original 1886 jail, which was deemed inadequate for the county&#39;s needs and replaced in 1903 by a "mail order" structure designed by the Pauly Jail Company of St. Louis, Missouri.</p><br>
<p>The Charlie Lake Cave  is an archaeological site in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Its Borden System designation is HbRf 39. In a waste pit in front of the small cave artifacts up to 10,500 years old have been found, which are considered to be the oldest evidence of ritual acts in Canada. The cave is located a few kilometers north of Fort St. John, near Charlie Lake.</p><br>
<p>No artifacts were found in the cave itself, which measures is 4,5 x, but in a kind of waste pit in front of the cave entrance, they go back up to 11,000 years, including a fluted point, six retouched flakes and a small bone bead. These findings provide evidence of the northward migration of hunters and bison, in addition, found two buried ravens, which are the oldest traces of rituals in Canada.</p><br>
<p>Knut R. Fladmark examined the archaeological site for the first time in 1974 and returned in 1983. Excavation areas were opened found paleo-indian stone tools and animal bones remains. The excavation layers were found to be intact and it soon turned out that it the oldest layer representative of the megafauna. This first excavation revealed five layers.</p><br>
<p>Old Chapel Hall, also known as Alumni Hall, is a historic building located on the campus of the University of Dubuque in Dubuque, Iowa, United States. The school started as a German Presbyterian Seminary in 1852. A period of expansion between 1904 and</p><br>
<p>1922 saw the institution become a liberal arts college called the Dubuque German College and Seminary. This building was part of that expansion. Steffens Hall (no longer extant) was completed in 1907, and became the first building on the school&#39;s new campus. The chapel was added onto the rear of that building later the same year. It was a gift of the Frank Peters family from St. Louis. The red brick Gothic Revival structure features stone trim, paired lancet windows, a rose window, and a small open bell tower above the entrance. Religious services were held here until 1980 when Blades Chapel was completed. As part of that project Steffens Hall was torn down, except for the front arcade and porch, which makes the old chapel the oldest building on campus. A courtyard was created where the old building stood directly in front of the old chapel. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Union County Jail, also known as Old Union County Jail, in Blairsville, Georgia was built in 1934, a block away from Union County&#39;s historic courthouse. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story building with a hipped roof and a one-story porch across its front facade. It is built of rock with, on the front facade, raised mortar. The porch is held up by square wood columns upon rock piers.</p><br>
<p>It served as Union Countys jail until the 1970s, when a joint jail shared with Towns County was built. As of 1984, the building held the Blairsville City Hall and also the towns Chamber of Commerce office.</p><br>
<p>It was one of seven county jails reviewed for National Register listing in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Towns County Jail, also known as Old Towns County Jail, in Hiawassee, Georgia was built in 1935-36 by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and modified in 1981. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. As of 1985, the building served as Hiawassee City Hall.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story rock building with a hipped roof.</p><br>
<p>The Towns County Herald noted in 1936 that the completed jail was a "modern, safe, sanitary, and commendable structure" and praised Ordinary J. F. Johnson for his work building the jail, which cost $4,353 in total. It served as Towns County&#39;s jail until the 1970s, when a joint jail shared with Union County was built.</p><br>
<p>It was one of seven county jails reviewed for National Register listing in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Kolindsund  is a 26.4 square kilometer elongated drained lake on the peninsula Djursland in Denmark extending 25 kilometers inland to the west from the seaport Grenå by the Kattegat sea. The bottom of the drained lake is on average 2.5 meters below sea level. Today the area is rich farmland kept dry by means of two pumping stations. At each station a 240 HP pump is turned on as needed regulated by the water level in the canals that feed water to the pumps. The width of Kolindsund varies between 0.8 kilometers and 2.5 kilometers.</p><br>
<p>Pumping the lake dry started in May 1874. To this end a consortium built an infrastructure of drainage canals and two steam and wind powered pumping stations. Today the electric main pumping stations are located in the villages Fannerup and Enslev. Here water from the sound is pumped 5 meters up into a North Canal. From the North Canal the water runs into the Kattegat Sea by the seaport Grenå. Together with a South Canal the North Canal encircles the sound starting by the town Kolind 26 kilometers inland and ending the encircling a few kilometers before Grenå. At Kolind the level of the canals is a bit more than one meter above sea level. The North and South Canal cut of streams that would otherwise run into the former lake.</p><br>
<p>The fertile claylike soil in the sound consists mainly of two types of aquatic deposits, marine and fresh water silt. Throughout all of the sound there is a mesh of drainage pipes that drain water into the middle canals ending at the two pumping stations.</p><br>
<p>In the Stone Ages after the last ice age 12.000 years ago Kolindsund was a salt water sound that cut of the northern part of the peninsula Djursland into an island. Sea level changes and or land rise combined with wind based sand drift blocked the entrance to the sea by Grenå and turned the navigable sound into a lake in the Middle Ages.</p><br>
<p>Today there is concern that possible future rising sea levels due to climate change might make it more difficult to keep the former lake dry as farmland.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>When the pumps started pumping in 1874, the water level reportedly sank 1.30 centimeters per day. The pumping stations where powered by steam engines and windmills until the 1930’ties. A shareholder based company stood behind the lake drainage project as well as farming of the former lake bottom in the first decades.</p><br>
<p>From the start it had only been planned to pump dry the western part of the lake, but as it turned out the shareholder based company did not succeed in building a dam across the lake to isolate the western part from the eastern part. When attempting to build an 800-meter dam cutting the lake in two by the village Fannerup, the dam-material loaded onto the lake bottom simply disappeared in the mud, the story goes. For this reason the project was changed to pumping out the whole lake.</p><br>
<p>In 1921 Kolindsund, including the farms with large characteristic storage barns that had been built by the shareholder company, was sold to private owners. In the first decades after drainage, Kolindsund was not particularly good business for the shareholders. In the late twenties the infrastructure of pumps and canals was in need of repair and renewal. Combined with an economic crisis for farming in general these factors jeopardized the continued pumping of water from the sound. The Danish Parliament, Folketinget, intervened in order to secure Kolindsund as farmland, and in May 2., 1932 a set of laws and loans where implemented aiming at continuing the pumping to keep Kolindsund as farmland. As part of the same deal the unionized workers rights in the labor-intensive farming of Kolindsund was officially recognized. The Pumpelaug, a landowners association, that still exists, was by the Folketing designated the task of managing the pump- and canal-infrastructure. Between 1935 and 1938 the steam and wind driven pumping stations where canceled in favor of two electrically driven pumping stations, that are still used today. With the renovation in 1935–1938 the water level was lowered further in Kolindsund, just as dams between the cut-off canals and the former lake were strengthened.</p><br>
<h2>Pumping</h2><br>
<p>During project planning prior to drainage of the lake in the 1870’ties, the amount of water that had to be pumped out to keep the lake dry, was erroneously calculated to be less than half of the actual pumping needed. The figure were based on the calculated influx from rainfall over the given area. In reality groundwater from the surrounding hills has a tendency to run under the cut-off canals and into the former lake, often surfacing as wellsprings that formed bogs, causing problems for farming. This extra amount of water meant that the pumping capacity was insufficient in the first decades after drainage of the lake. Here large parts of the sound was marshy fields only suitable for grazing in summer, but too wet for plowing and growing of more intensive grain-based crops. With electrification and thus more efficient electric pumps and the lowered water table implemented in the late thirties, these problems were solved, making Kolindsund into high yield and stable farmland, as is the case today.</p><br>
<h2>Farming</h2><br>
<p>Farming in Kolindsund does not require expensive and energy consuming irrigation even in the driest of summers. Irrigation is otherwise widespread when farming in Denmark. On the other hand, extra energy must be used to keep the two 240 HP electric pumps running a lot of the time. The high yields of Kolindsund are in part based on the nutrient rich silt based soil, deposited through millennia at the bottom of the former lake and sound in layers that are up to 20 meters thick. This is not the case in Kolindsund, even though the potential might be there, due to the same types of soil. The crops in Kolindsund are purely grain based, including grass seed. It is also characteristic that many of the farms in Kolindsund are livestock free, and solely based on farming of grain crops, not least wheat.</p><br>
<p>The Shearer and Corser Double House is a historic house at 592 Summer Street in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Built as a school about 1854, it has had a history of varied uses and prominent local owners, and has high quality Colonial Revival and Italianate features. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Shearer and Corser Double House stands in a suburban residential area northwest of downtown St. Johnsbury, on the east side of Summer Street between Webster and Mt. Pleasant Streets. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof and clapboarded exterior. Corner pilasters rise to an entablature and cornice bracketed in the Italianate style. The main facade is six bays wide, with a two-story Colonial Revival porch extending across the center four bays. Its hip roof is supported by Tuscan columns, and it has shingled skirts topped by low metal balustrades. Its two entrances are in the two center bays, each doorway flanked by sidelight windows; they share a molded lintel. Windows are topped by slightly projecting moulded cornices. The interior is divided into roughly symmetrical side-by-side units, each retaining some original 19th-century woodwork.</p><br>
<p>This building began life as a schoolhouse, built in the mid-1850s, and located at the corner of Summer and Winter Streets. In 1864 it was moved to its present location and was converted into an armory. In 1870 the town sold the building to Franklin Fairbanks co-owner of the Fairbanks Scale Works, the towns largest employer. The Fairbanks family originally laid out Summer Street and oversaw its residential development. It is unclear whether they were responsible for the buildings Italianate features, or if they were added by Leroy Shearer and Brackett Corser, who purchased it from Fairbanks in 1878. The pair are probably responsible for its conversion into a two-family residence, which is how it was recorded at a tax sale in 1883. The house subsequently has had a variety of owners; the front porch was probably added in the 1910s.</p><br>
<p>The Orne Covered Bridge is a replica of a historic bridge on Back Coventry Road in Irasburg, Vermont. Built in 2000, it is a replacement for a 19th-century bridge which stood on the site until it was destroyed by arson in 1997. The historic bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Orne Covered Bridge stands in far northern Irasburg, just south of the main village of Coventry, on Back Coventry Road. It is a single-span Paddleford truss structure, oriented in a roughly east-west direction across the Black River. It is 87 ft long and 17 ft wide, with a roadway width of 14 ft (one lane). It has a gabled metal roof, and is clad in vertical board siding, which extends around to the insides of the portals. The siding on the portal ends extends outward to meet the ends of the gables, which extend 3 ft beyond the sides. The deck consists of wooden planking.</p><br>
<p>The exact date of construction of the historic bridge is uncertain, as is its builder. Different sources claim construction dates of 1879 and 1881, and the builder as either E.P. Colton or John Colton. At the time of its listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, it had had no substantive alterations, notably not having had strengthening elements added. It was also the only surviving historic Paddleford truss bridge on a public roadway in the state. It was destroyed by an arsonist in 1997; the present bridge was completed in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Mount Saint Bernard Seminary and Barn are historic buildings located south of Dubuque, Iowa, United States. Bishop Mathias Loras, the first Bishop of Dubuque, founded the first Catholic institution of higher education in Iowa in his residence in 1839. St. Raphael&#39;s Seminary, primarily for the education of priests, was probably the first college established in the state. The school was expanded in 1850 when he began the construction of three new buildings on Table Mound that he named Mount St. Bernard College and Seminary. The Rev. Andrew Trevis, who was later influential in the development of Sacred Heart Cathedral in Davenport, was the rector at the time the building was constructed. The three-story limestone combination Federal and Greek Revival structure was designed by local architect Hugh V. Gildea. It was built for $10,000, which was a lot of money for the diocese at that time.</p><br>
<p>It is unknown when the frame, gable-roofed barn with a stone foundation was built. It is also difficult to determine when Mount Saint Bernard closed, but economic conditions and a lack of clergy conspired to close it. The students were sent to other seminaries while the clergy who taught here were placed in parishes. The archdiocese continued to maintain the buildings until 1900. The old seminary building has been converted into a residence. The buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>Burncourt Castle is a fortified house and a National Monument in County Tipperary, Ireland.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Burncourt Castle is located 5.4 km (3.4 mi) northwest of Ballyporeen, on the west bank of the River Tar.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The castle was originally known as Everard&#39;s Castle, and was built by Richard Everard, 1st Baronet (d. 1650), son of politician and judge Sir John Everard. When Richard married Catherine Plunkett in 1620, his father awarded him a large estate around the River Tar.</p><br>
<p>Around 1639 Sir Richard some of his land and began to build a fortified house. It was complete in 1641, and had 26 gables and seven chimneys. Archeological investigation found a cow skeleton in a pit that extended under the east wall of the castle. The cow appeared to have been killed and dismembered and left as a protective votive offering – the flanks were placed next to each other and the head placed on the upper backbone.</p><br>
<p>The Everards took up residence just as the Irish Rebellion of 1641 began. In 1642 Sir Richard joined the Catholic Confederates at Kilkenny and became a member of the Supreme Council. Sir Richard&#39;s wife Catherine remained at the castle.</p><br>
<p>In 1649, as Oliver Cromwells Roundheads advanced on Everards Castle, Lady Catherine burned it down, earning it the name of the Burned Court.</p><br>
<p>Sir Richard Everard went on fight at the Siege of Limerick (1650–51), but was captured and hung in 1651 by Henry Ireton. Burncourt was abandoned. According to tradition Burncourt was seven years in building, seven years lived in and seven days burning.</p><br>
<p>In the early 18th century, the painter Anthony Chearnley built a house adjoining the Burncourt ruin.</p><br>
<p>The excavation also showed that there was no remaining debris from the castle burning, meaning that the roof slates and lead flashings, were salvaged for use elsewhere.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The castle has a rectangular centre block and large square towers at each corner.</p><br>
<p>Whilst architecturally a most impressive building, there is little of great interest except for the long line of corbels over the entrance on the south side, visible here, and the floral motifs on the hood over the doorway which I have also photographed.</p><br>
<p>Burncourt Castle is a large gabled fortified house, with a central block four bays long and four storeys high including basement and attic.</p><br>
<p>It has four large square flanking towers, each five storeys. Along the front are corbels for a machicolation which runs the full length of the centre block. There is a fine central doorway with a hood mould and decorated label stops. The castle has mullioned and transomed windows with good square hood moulds. There are fireplaces in the east wall, the north wall and within the flanking towers.</p><br>
<p>Parts of the bawn, with a corner turret, can still be seen nearby.</p><br>
<p>The cellar floor was cobbled with cobblestones of irregular sizes, and covered 71.6 m&sup2; with a ceiling 2.37 m high.</p><br>
<p>Diamond Jo Boat Store and Office, also known as the Dubuque Tank Terminal Co. and Inland Molasses Co. Operations Office, is a historic building located in Dubuque, Iowa, United States. This is the last remaining structure in the city that is associated with the steamboat era on the Mississippi River. Several other buildings associated with this line were destroyed in a 1909 fire. This building housed the headquarters of the Diamond Jo Packet Line from the mid-1880s until it was sold to the Streckfus Line in 1911. Originally headquartered in McGregor, Iowa, Joseph Reynolds started in the steamboat business after the American Civil War shipping wheat Minnesota and the Chicago and Northwestern railhead at Fulton, Illinois. In the last quarter of the 19th century the Diamond Jo Packet Line was one of the most active on the upper Mississippi. As railroads gradually took the freight business away from steamboats, Reynolds started to build passenger boats and he bought boats from other lines. The offices were located on the east end of the simple, two-story, brick building, and the rest was used for storage. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>Notojima is a volcanic island in the Nanao Bay  portion of the Sea of Japan, less than 500 meters off the coast of the Ishikawa prefecture in Japan. Notojima Island is administered as part of Nanao city. The two bridges connecting Notojima to the mainland trisect Nanao Bay into Nanao-North, Nanao-West and Nanao-Nambu bays. The island&#39;s highest peak is Mount Yomurazuka 196.8 m. The island has both elementary and middle schools.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>February 1, 1955 - the three villages of the island are merged into Notojima town</p><br>
<p>1982 - Notojima big bridge is complete (southern bridge)</p><br>
<p>1999 - Twin Bridge Noto is complete (northern bridge)</p><br>
<p>October 1, 2004 - the town of Notojima was abolished and Notojima island became part of the city of Nanao and of Noto-Hanto Quazi-National Park.</p><br>
<p>March 25, 2007 - An earthquake with 6.9 on the Moment magnitude scale occurred.</p><br>
<h2>Attractions</h2><br>
<p>At the Notojima Aquarium (のとじま臨海公園水族館) visitors can watch dolphin and seal shows, animal feeding and meet many species in the touch and feel tank. The aquarium also has a collection of jellyfish.</p><br>
<p>The Notojima Glass Art Museum is the only public specialized glass art museum in Japan. The open space outside the Museum also has 14 glass sculptures.</p><br>
<p>Notojima cuisine is famous for its black burgers.</p><br>
<p>The waters around Notojima are a common location for the recreational sailing.</p><br>
<p>The Interstate Power Company Building, also known as the Masonic Hall and the Dubuque Electric Company, is a historic building located in Dubuque, Iowa, United States. While a single facility, this is actually two buildings: an 1894 three-story Queen Anne, and a 1956 three-story  Modern Movement free-standing addition. The Dubuque Electric Company moved into the older building in 1924, and the following year it was reorganized as Interstate Power Company. This became the headquarters of a regional electrical utility that, at one time, served parts of eight states and a Canadian province. The Great Depression and anti-trust court rulings altered the companys fortunes. The 1956 addition was designed to hold the companies large computers in an air-conditioned environment, in addition to office space. Other additions to the building were made in 1962, 1981 and 1989. The facility remained Interstates corporate headquarters until Alliant Energy bought and absorbed the company in 1996. and it was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
