<p>Esperanza is a historic country estate at 511 Town Hill Rad in New Hartford, Connecticut. Built about 1835 and extensively enlarged and restyled in 1893, it is a high-quality example of Colonial Revival architecture on an original Greek Revival frame. Julie Smith, one of its original owners, was a noted author of Victorian romance novels. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002, at which time it remained in the hands of Smith descendants.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Esperanza is located in a rural but geographically central part of New Hartford, at the northwest corner of Town Hill Road and Beeney Road. The 18 acre property is wooded in its eastern part, where its buildings are located, and is a tree-fringed cleared field to the west. The estate includes a main house and two small guest houses, a carriage house, and a summer kitchen. The main house is a somewhat rambling multigabled 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with porches to the east (where the main entrance is) and the west (where the fields provide a view to the hills further west). It is now predominantly Colonial Revival in style, with aspects of the Shingle style evident in some of its details. The two guest houses are vernacular single-story buildings with Colonial Revival porches.</p><br>
<p>Morris and Julie Palmer, residents of Hartford, first bought a prospective summer estate in New Hartford in 1871, but it burned down in November of that year. The following year they purchased the 85 acre farm of Frederick Lyman, which included the c. 1835 Greek Revival farmstead. This house was enlarged and restyled by Julie Smith, using the proceeds of her successful line of Victorian romance novels. In 1893 it underwent a major facelift, designed by Hartford architect Morris P. Hapgood, at which time most of its Colonial Revival features were added. The Smiths played host to literary and artistic figures including Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Gillette, and George Inness.</p><br>
<p>Lake Libanda is a lake in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, situated in the territory of Équateur Province to the west of the town of Makanza. The closest settlement is the village of Moboka to the southeast.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The lake was visited in 1889 during the Congo Free State by Captain-Commander of the Force Publique (the Belgian colonial military unit in the Congo) Étienne-Christophe-Bernard-Eugène Wilverth, at the time as Commanding Officer of the training camp of Umangi in the town of Lisala. Making a trip to the Ngiri River, he found that a so-called Lake Ibinza did not exist and instead discovered a channel from the village of Moboka to Lake Libanda and from there to the Ngiri, near the village of Bosesera. This channel was named the Bosesera Channel.</p><br>
<p>A Christian mission named the Catholic Mission of Libanda operated in the region in the 1960s.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The lake&#39;s surface area is 7.9 km&sup2;. Its maximum length is 4.5 km and its maximum width is 2.5 km.</p><br>
<p>The Bosesera Channel (chenal de Bosesera) is a stream which has its source in Lake Libanda, passing through Mabale before reaching the Congo River near Moboka, slightly downstream of Makanza.</p><br>
<h2>Demographics</h2><br>
<p>The Libanda subgroup of the Libinza people (Libinja) inhabit the region surrounding Lake Libanda. The other subgroup is the Boyokoko. They speak the Libinza language.</p><br>
<p>The Motorra Dolmen  is a Bronze Age tomb or dolmen situated in the comune of Dorgali in the Province of Nuoro, Sardinia, Italy.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The dolmen is situated 8 kilometres (5 miles) to the north of Dorgali on the S125 road towards Orosei. A sign by the side of the road marks the track that leads to the dolmen. A few kilometres away is the Ispinigoli Cave.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The dolmen consists of an entranceway which leads to a polygonal chamber. The eight upright stones of the chamber support an almost circular slab of schist. The dolmen is one of many ancient sites around Dorgali, and is one of the best preserved dolmens in Sardinia. Finds of pottery have linked the dolmen to the Ozieri culture of the Bronze (or Chalcolithic) age, and is dated to around 2800 BC.</p><br>
<p>The Farnum House is a historic house on Litchfield Road in Norfolk, Connecticut. Built in 1908 to a design by Alfredo S.G. Taylor, it is a distinctive local example of a Tudor Revival English country house. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, for its association with the architect.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Farnum House is located south of the village center of Norfolk, on the west side of Litchfield Road (Connecticut Route 272). It is set on a 2 acre lot that slopes down from the road, with a semicircular front drive providing access. A fringe of mature plantings lines the street between the two drive entrances. The house is a 1-1/2 story wood frame structure, its exterior finished in stucco. Its main roof ridge is oriented parallel to the road, but its facade is dominated by large front-facing cross-gabled sections at either end, with an eyebrow dormer in between. The roof below the eyebrow extends over a broad porte-cochere, whose ends extend in front of the flanking gables. The interior finishes are also reflective of the Tudor Revival, and some of its original interior furnishings were also designed by the architect Alfredo S.G. Taylor.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1908 to a design by Taylor, a prominent New York City architect who summered in Norfolk. It is one of three stucco houses designed by Taylor in the years 1906-08 that are set on the west side of Litchfield Road. This house in particular bears a strong resemblance to Moor Crag, a house near Bowness-on-Windermere in Cumbria, England designed in 1898 by the English architect Charles Voysey, but presents its own distinctive interpretation of an English country house of the period.</p><br>
<p>The Gudenus cave  is an archaeological site near the city of Krems in north-eastern Austria. It is noted for its fossils and remains of Palaeolithic human settlers.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Gudenus cavern is situated 20 km northwest of the city of Krems, in the valley of the Little Krems, not far from Willendorf, in Lower Austria. The site is close to the River Danube. The cave is 22 m long with a width of 2 to 3 m and is situated 7.5 m above the level of the stream.</p><br>
<h2>Paleontology</h2><br>
<p>The archaeological deposit has yielded bones of numerous animals, including Woolly mammoth, Woolly rhinoceros, Aurochs, Chamois, Reindeer, and Red deer. and a fragment of a bone flute dated to about 16,000&ndash;10,000 BCE.</p><br>
<p>Jakab-hegy  is a mountain in the Mecsek range in Hungary. Its highest point is 602 metres above sea level . The hill is known for its various geological formations and historic sites.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The mountain was mostly formed during the Paleozoic Era and consists of Permian sandstone. The erosion of sandstone created the natural sites of the hill: the Babás Szerkövek (literally, "man-like stones in a row") and Zsongorkő (Zsongor&#39;s stone).</p><br>
<p>Jakab-hegy contains the only significant uranium-reserve in Hungary. Mining began in the 1950s with the help of the Soviet Union and served both the Russian nuclear arsenal and the Paks Nuclear Power Plant. Due to the high costs of production and the relatively low price of uranium after the Cold War the mines were closed in the 1990s.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The plateau of Jakab-hegy provided an attractive opportunity for human settlement. During the Iron Age, a huge fort was created upon the earlier encampments which became an important oppidum and political centre of the Hallstatt culture and later the Celts. The fort was abandoned due to Roman conquest, however, its ramparts are still visible.</p><br>
<p>During the Middle Ages a small village was formed inside the then-abandoned fort. Its churchs patron saint was Saint Jacob, thus gained the hill its name. In 1225, a monastery was built upon the church for the local hermits by the Bishop of Pécs. The Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit partially stemmed from this community. The monastery was abandoned during the Ottoman occupation, but renovated and expanded in the 18th century. It fell into disrepair after the monastic order was outlawed by Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor in 1780. Today only the monasterys preserved ruins remain.</p><br>
<h2>Legends</h2><br>
<p>Many legends are related to the hill, mostly from the medieval and early modern period.</p><br>
<p>According to a legend from Kővágószőlős, the Babás Szerkövek are people turned to stone. Two wealthy families wanted to hold a wedding ceremony at the same time in the monastery. However, one of the antagonistic families were already on their way back to the village from the hill, when the other was just heading for the monastery. They met halfway, where the pathway was not wide enough for both families to pass at the same time. Both sides swore that they would rather be turned to stone than letting the other pass, so they were turned to stone indeed.</p><br>
<p>Zsongorkő is said to gain its name from Hungarian warrior Zsongor, who lived in the time of the Ottoman occupation. He had to leave his home-village for rightfully killing a Turkish soldier and joined the military of Royal Hungary. When his fiancée was captured by the Turks, he led a small party to her rescue. Although they were able to free her, the Turkish soldiers cornered them on the hill. Zsongor and his spouse jumped to their deaths from the eponymous stone rather than being captured.</p><br>
<p>The Samuel Forbes Homestead is a historic house at 89 Lower Road in North Canaan, Connecticut. Built about 1754, with a number of significant alterations over time, it is significant as the home of Samuel Forbes, a major figure in the 18th-century development of the iron foundries in northwestern Connecticut. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Samuel Forbes Homestead is located in a rural setting of eastern North Canaan, on the north bank of the Blackberry River, just west of the Lower Road bridge near the Land of Nod Winery. The house is set on about 27 acre, which includes a small family cemetery. The house is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a side gable roof, two interior chimneys, and a clapboarded exterior. Its front facade, facing south to the river, is five bays wide, with a center entrance sheltered by an enclosed gabled vestibule. A band of three small sash windows is set above the entrance; other windows are more typical sash. The interior has undergone many alterations over time, and exhibits features from its earliest days to the early 20th century.</p><br>
<p>Samuel Forbes was a native of Simsbury, Connecticut, who moved to North Canaan as a child with his parents, and became, like his father, a blacksmith. The oldest portion of this house was built as a central-chimney saltbox about 1754, around the time of his marriage. In 1762 Forbes partnered with Ethan Allen to establish a blast furnace in Lakeville. Although the partnership sold the furnace after a few years, Forbes was called on by the state to operate it during the American Revolutionary War, when it supplied arms and ammunition to the Continental Army. Forbes&#39; descendants continued in the iron industry in the 19th century, building among other facilities the Beckley Furnace further east on the Blackberry River. The homestead remained in the family until 1955.</p><br>
<p>The Ebenezer Gay House, also known locally as the Gay-Hoyt House, is a historic house museum at 18 Main Street in Sharon, Connecticut. Built in 1775, it is a well-preserved example of Georgian colonial architecture in brick. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, and is part of the Sharon Historic District, listed in 1993. It is now home to the Sharon Historical Society.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Ebenezer Gay House stands at the southern end of Sharon&#39;s elongated town green, on the east side of Main Street directly opposite the First Congregational Church. It is a 2-1/2 story brick building, with a side gable roof, end chimneys, and a rubblestone foundation. The main facade faces west, and is five bays across, with a center entrance sheltered by a gabled porch support by slender round columns. The styling of the porch is Federal, suggesting it was added c. 1820. The interior has a central hall plan, and retains numerous original features, including fireplace paneling and cupboards.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1775-76 by Ebenezer Gay, a prominent local businessman who also led the local militia during the American Revolutionary War. Gay apparently financially supported the war effort to his personal ruin; he died insolvent in 1787, and the house was lost to foreclosure. The house was bequeathed to the Sharon Historical Society by Anne Hoyt in 1951. It now houses the society&#39;s collections, with a residential space for a caretaker in the rear ell.</p><br>
<p>The George King House, also known locally as the King-Hart House is a historic house at 12 North Main Street in Sharon, Connecticut. Its oldest portion dating to 1769, this brick house is significant for its associations with George King, a prominent local businessman during the American Revolutionary War, and with Thomas C. Hart, a United States Senator and Admiral in the United States Navy. The house was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006; it had also been listed in 1993 as part of the Sharon Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The King House occupies a prominent position facing the narrow northern end of Sharon&#39;s long town green, at the point where Main Street bends eastward and begins North Main Street. It is set at the southern end of a 12 acre parcel that extends north all the way to Beardsley Brook. The main house is a two-story brick structure, with a gambrel roof pierced by a gabled dormers. Numerous ells and additions extend the house to the east and north; one of these is an older construction, while the others date to a major Colonial Revival expansion in the 1920s. Distinguishing features of the exterior include limestone corner quoining and splayed window lintels. The interior, following a center-hall plan, retains many original features, including a fine central staircase.</p><br>
<p>The oldest portion of the house is one of its ells, which was built in 1769. This was purchased in 1783 by George King, a prominent local businessman who had acted as an army commissary during the American Revolutionary War. The house remained in the King family until 1906, and was brought back into the family by Caroline Brownson Hart, a great-great granddaughter of King, who was the wife of Admiral Thomas C. Hart. The Harts made a major expansion of the building in 1925. Hart, whose naval career began in the Spanish–American War, played an influential role in the development of the United States Navy&#39;s submarine fleet, and served briefly as an interim United States Senator.</p><br>
<p>The Atlas Building is a structure located in Columbus, Ohio originally built in 1905. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Atlas Building was originally the called the Columbus Savings & Trust Building, and was designed by prolific Ohio architect Frank Packard. The Building was built for the Columbus Savings & Trust Company, then based in the Spahr Building at 50 East Broad street. The construction project of the building, estimated at $500,000, was awarded to the Chicago-based firm John Griffiths and Son, who completed the building in 1905. After the The Columbus Savings and Trust Company filed for bankruptcy, the building was acquired by Depositors Realty Company in 1913. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 15, 1977.</p><br>
<h2>Renovation</h2><br>
<p>The Atlas Building underwent renovation in 1982 under the direction of architect David C. Hughes, who restored storefronts using precast colored concrete. In 2014, the building underwent a $20 million renovation by real estate developer Michael Schiff of Schiff Capital Group.</p><br>
<p>The Brightman House is a historical house in Millersburg, Ohio first built in 1902. The house is now owned by the Holmes County Historical Society and operated as the Victorian House Museum, with displays of Victoriana and Holmes County history.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>L. H. Brightman completed his 28-room Queen Anne style home in 1902. Brightman was an industrialist from Cleveland, who brought his second wife, Mary and eight of his twelve children (born to him and his first wife, Elizabeth - died 1897) to Millersburg. By 1906, his business had grown so large that he left Millersburg and the house was purchased by a group of doctors who opened a sanatorium. This lasted only an additional two years when H.C. Lee of Griggs and Lee Construction moved his family into the house. The Lee family lived here until 1971 when it was purchased by the Holmes County historical society. It currently houses the Museum of Victoriana and collection of Holmes County history.</p><br>
<p>During the 1890s there was an expansion of residential properties as the farm surrounding Millersburg produced increasing quantities of wheat and oats (1895 and 1897). As the volume of farm products increased, the merchants in town sold more farm machinery and shipped the produce (grain, eggs, and wool) improving their profits from year to year. Light manufacturing came to Millersburg in the form of a brick and tile company, the Brightman Manufacturing Company, an iron and steel shafting company. This increase in commercial and industrials growth provided the cash for more homes and larger homes. The village improved its infrastructure with a municipal waterworks. The Alfred Peters House and William Rudy House on East Jackson are from this early 1890s period. Peters (harness maker) and Rudy (hardware) were merchants in the downtown.</p><br>
<p>Carn Llidi is a hill east of St David&#39;s Head in Pembrokeshire, Wales.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The 181 m high hill stands in a prominent and isolated position dominating Whitesands Bay (South-West).</p><br>
<p>The top of the hill hosts a large cairn. In clear days it offers a view on a long stretch of Pembrokeshire coastline, Ramsey Island and across the Irish Sea to the Wicklow mountains.</p><br>
<h2>Archaeology</h2><br>
<p>The area is rich in archaeology. Two burial chambers, presumed to be neolithic, are located on the higher south-west slopes of the hill. Another stone nearby may be the capstone of a megalithic chamber. Prehistoric enclosures and field systems are located to the north-west of the hill, near to an iron-age defensive wall.</p><br>
<p>In the Second World War, a Chain Home Low early-warning radar station was located on Carn Llidi. The concrete base remains, together with a Lewis gun pit.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>The English meaning of Carn Llidi could be Cairn of the Gates or Cairn of Wrath.</p><br>
<h2>Access to the summit</h2><br>
<p>The walk which leads from Whitesands Bay up to the summit does not require any special hiking ability, but is advisable wearing a proper outdoor clothing; the walk is considered quite easy.</p><br>
<h2>Conservation</h2><br>
<p>Carn Llidi and its surrounding area is part of the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park.</p><br>
<p>Mount Octopus is a 2,444 feet peak in the western Olympic Mountains foothills, in Jefferson County, Washington a few miles from Olympic Corrections Center. The Snahapish River is at the base of the mountain to its east.</p><br>
<p>The peak had a fire lookout active from 1957 to 1974. It was removed from its tower by Corrections Center inmates in preparation to move it to the Forks Timber Museum, but it burned before being moved.</p><br>
<p>In September 2000, a repeater radio station was installed at the summit for NOAA Weather Radio. It filled gaps in emergency coverage for communities on the Olympic Peninsula, many of whom had no radio coverage from Puget Sound transmitters, and for oceangoing craft near the Pacific coast of Washington. Its purpose was especially to issue tsunami warnings.</p><br>
<p>Chertovy Vorota Cave is a Neolithic archaeological site located in the Sikhote-Alin mountains, about 12 km from the town of Dalnegorsk in Primorsky Krai, Russia. The karst cave is located on a limestone cliff and lies about 35 m above the Krivaya River, a tributary of the Rudnaya River, below. Chertovy Vorota provides secure evidence for some of the oldest surviving textiles found in the archaeological record.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The cave consists of a main chamber, measuring around 45 m in length, and several smaller galleries behind it. The site was looted several times before the first archaeological excavations were performed in 1973. Around 600 lithic, osteological and shell artefacts, 700 pottery fragments, and over 700 animal bones were recovered from the site. A.6 cm thick jade disk made from brownish-green jade and measuring 5.2 cm in diameter was also recovered from Chertovy Vorota.</p><br>
<p>The remains of racoon dog, brown bear, Asian black bear, wild boar, badger, red deer, fish and mollusc shells were found inside the cave.</p><br>
<h2>Diet</h2><br>
<p>Isotopic analysis shows that the people of Chertovy Vorota likely derived their protein from a mix of terrestrial and maritime sources; around 25% of their dietary protein appears to have been derived from maritime resources, most likely from anadromous salmon. The people of Chertovy Vorota likely hunted terrestrial mammals, collected nuts and fished salmon to provide for their food needs.</p><br>
<h2>Ancient textiles</h2><br>
<p>The remains of carbonized textile fragments were found within the cave, under the remains of a wooden structure that had caught on fire and collapsed. The carbonized remains of rope, nets, and woven fabrics were recovered from the cave. The fibers likely came from Carex sordida, a sedge grass from the Cyperaceae family. The textile remains were directly dated to around 9400-8400 BP, the earliest evidence in the archaeological record for textile remains from East Asia. As spindle whorls were not found in the cave, and also rarely found in contemporary East Asian sites, archaeologists postulate that the people at Chertovy Vorota either produced their textiles by hand or through the use of warp-weighted looms.</p><br>
<h2>Human remains</h2><br>
<p>The remains of 7 individuals were discovered within the cave. The skulls of two of the individuals, DevilsGate1 and DevilsGate2, were directly dated to around 5726-5622 BC.</p><br>
<h3>Archaeogenetics</h3><br>
<p>The remains of 5 of the individuals were DNA tested. Originally thought to be male, DNA testing revealed that DevilsGate5 is actually female; DNA testing also confirmed that DevilsGate1 is female, as originally believed. The DevilsGate1 specimen belongs to the mtDNA haplogroup D4, whereas DevilsGate2 belongs to the haplogroup M maternal clade.</p><br>
<p>When compared against all populations on record, ancient or modern, the ancient Chertovy Vorota individuals were found to be genetically closest to contemporary speakers of Tungusic languages from the Amur Basin. The ancient Chertovy Vorota individuals are genetically closest to the Ulchi, followed by the Oroqen and Hezhen. The genetic distance from the ancient Chertovy Vorota individuals to Malta boy is the same as that from modern East Asian populations to Malta boy.</p><br>
<p>With the exception of DevilsGate1, most of the individuals tested did not yield enough DNA to allow for phenotypic testing of traits. DevilsGate1 did not carry the derived SLC45A2 or SLC24A5 alleles associated with lighter skin color, the derived HERC2 allele associated with blue eyes, the derived LT allele associated with lactase persistence, or the derived ALDH2 allele associated with the alcohol flush reaction. However, the individual likely did carry the derived EDAR allele commonly found in modern East Asian populations, the derived ABCC11 allele associated with dry earwax and reduced body odor commonly found in modern East Asian populations, and the derived ADD1 allele associated with increased risk for hypertension.</p><br>
<p>Bonnots Mill Historic District is a national historic district located at Bonnots Mill, Osage County, Missouri. It encompasses 98 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential sections of Bonnots Mill. The district developed between about 1840 and 1942, and includes representative examples of Bungalow / American Craftsman and I-house architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed Dauphine Hotel. Other notable buildings include the Bonnots Mill School , Henry Dieckriede House , Bonnots Mill United Methodist Church , Bank of Bonnots Mill , Bonnets Mill Hotel / Krautmans Store , Meyer-Morfeld Milling Company , United States Post Office , St. Louis Parish Church and Rectory , and St. Louis Parish School .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>The Gilbert Clock Factory is a historic factory complex at 13 Wallens Street in Winchester, Connecticut. Developed between 1871 and 1897, its surviving elements are a preservation of the states history as a center for the manufacture of low-cost clocks. The company was one of the towns largest employers for many years. The surviving buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984; they are now house apartments.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Gilbert Clock Factory stands in a residential area north of Winchester&#39;s main business district of Winsted, on the north side of Wallen Street on the eastern bank of the Swift River. Its complex historically extended further to the south, and was about twice the size of the surviving elements; the buildings south of Wallen Street were destroyed fire in 1975. The two large buildings that survive are four-story brick buildings, with typical late 19th-century commercial Italianate styling. One of the two buildings is built directly on the river bank, while the other is set up the hill to the east.</p><br>
<p>William L. Gilbert began his career in Bristol, Connecticut, a regional center of the clock business, and moved to Winchester in 1840, where he produced relatively low-cost wall and shelf clocks for the mass market. He built the case shop, located on the river bank, in 1870-71, when his business was one of the largest clock manufactories in the state. The company continued to grow, its complex on Wallen Street growing to four large buildings and employing more than 500 workers. The company continude in business until 1964.</p><br>
<p>Slievenaglasha wedge tomb is a wedge-shaped gallery grave and National Monument located in County Clare, Ireland.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Slievenaglasha wedge tomb is located on a hilltop at the western edge of the Burren, 2.7 km (1.7 mi) southeast of Carran. It lies in the townland also called Slievenaglasha, in the parish of Kilnaboy.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Wedge tombs of this kind were built in Ireland in the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age, c. 2500–2000 BC. It was damaged in AD 1894.</p><br>
<h3>Legend</h3><br>
<p>Local lore associated the wedge tomb with a sea-green cow Glas Gaibhnenn, abducted from Spain by the smith Gavida. From this magical cow&#39;s udders used to flow all the rivers on the mountain-side (the "source of the seven streams" lies to the southwest), was tricked by a hag, who, in place of a milk-pail, milked her into a sieve. The cow either died of grief or deserted that locality for ever. Another version has Lon Mac Liomtha as her owner. The herd was supposedly housed at the wedge tomb of Slievenaglasha.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>All that remains of this obviously once substantial ruined wedge tomb is a huge 3.5 m (11′6″) long wall slab on the northwest. The opposite wall and the capstone have both been damaged.</p><br>
<p>Hodgson-Aid Mill, also known as Hodgson Water Mill and Aid-Hodgson Mill, is a historic grist mill located on Bryant Creek near Sycamore, Ozark County, Missouri. It was constructed around 1897, and is a 3 1/2-story, timber frame mill building covered with red-painted weatherboards. Associated with the mill are the man-made mill pond and the limestone barrel vault constructed at the base of the cliff where Hodgson Spring discharges. The mill has not been in operation since 1976. It is privately owned.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The area around Hodgson-Aid Mill had been settled prior to the Civil War; Ozark County, Missouri was organized in 1841, and until 1857, included parts of Howell and Douglas County. The Hodgson-Aid Water Mill is at least the second mill to be located on the Hodgson Mill Spring. In the early 1860s, William Holeman settled on Bryant Creek and constructed a water mill on or near the site of the Hodgson-Aid Mill. This mill was closed during the Civil War. It is unclear whether Holeman reopened this original mill, or whether he had to construct a new mill after the war. It is reported that Holeman&#39;s mill was powered by a vertical wood turbine. Holeman operated the mill until his death in 1879.</p><br>
<p>In 1884, Alva Hodgson and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Hodgson, purchased the mill from Manuel and Elizabeth Smith, the parents of Alvas future wife, Mary Elizabeth Smith Hodgson, for $500.00. Alva Hodgson continued to operate Holemans existing mill, but made plans to construct a state-of-the-art mill capable of producing new white or "patent" flour, a higher quality flour than had previously been produced, made possible by the invention of the "middlings purifier" around 1870. Hodgson used this new milling machinery, including roller mills, and also installed two vertical steel water turbines, known as "Leffel turbines" or now as Francis Turbines.</p><br>
<p>The mill building also housed a general store and the Sycamore post office, sawmill, and cotton gin. Like other rural gristmills, the mill was likely an economic hub of the community. Farmers visited the mill to have their grain (corn and wheat) to be ground into flour and meal, and were able to buy and sell their crops, as well as other goods and services. The store "not only sold necessities - groceries, hardware, and dry goods - it also bought every valuable commodity produced in the area."</p><br>
<p>Construction of the new mill was completed around 1897; a notice that appeared in the local newspaper on November 25, 1897 noted that "Mr. Hodgson is making a good grade of flour on his new roller mill." Records show that at this time, Alva Hodgson&#39;s brother, George, bought 1/3 interest in the mill. In 1901, Alva Hodgson sold his brother the remaining 2/3 interest, and George Hodgson became sole proprietor. Alva Hodgson went on to build nearby Dawt Mill, completed in 1909, as well as a cotton gin in Harrison Arkansas. He returned to Hodgson Mill to work with his brother and improve the mill; he installed a dynamo to generate electricity to light the mill, and imported and installed two millstones, or buhrstones from the French Pyrenees for stone-grinding flour. Despite failing vision, Alva helped run the mill until his death in 1921. George Hodgson then continued to operate the mill until his death in 1927.</p><br>
<p>Ownership of the mill passed to Fred O. Foster from 1927-1934. In 1934, the mill was purchased by businessman Charles Theodore Aid. The mill stayed in the ownership of the Aid family until 1998 and so became known locally as the Hodgson-Aid Mill, or Aid-Hodgson Mill.</p><br>
<p>The mill was leased and operated intermittently from 1934-1949. In 1949 Fred Leach, an experienced miller, assumed the lease and both operated the mill and began marketing products through wholesalers, mostly whole grain flour and corn meal. He also provided picnic tables, campsites, and operated a gift shop for visitors to the mill. Leach increased production of meal and flour to as much as 2,000 pounds a day.</p><br>
<p>From 1963 to 1969, the Harold Stott family took over operation of the mill. They expanded the line of products to include "white and yellow cornmeal, whole wheat cereal, and bran, whole wheat, unbleached, rye and pancake flours."</p><br>
<p>In 1969, Ken and Teena Harrington, avid antiquers visiting the area, stumbled on the property. They took over the lease, and initially began selling antiques and operating canoe rentals for the nearby Bryant River They also offered flour and products in their store, and as demand grew; they incorporated the company as Hodgson Mill Inc, and sold products to wholesalers and grocers. When Ken took up the lease in 1969, the mill was grinding only a couple of hundred pounds of flour a day. By 1973, sales had grown 500 percent, and the old mill was straining under the maximum of 1 million pounds of wheat and corn a year.The Harringtons installed two more buhrstones to keep up with demand, and also acquired a site in the nearby Gainesville Missouri industrial park to construct a modern production facility. Production of Hodgson Mill Inc. products moved to the Gainesville location in 1976. No large-scale production has taken place at the Hodgson-Aid Mill since, and the mill has been intermittently operated primarily as a tourist attraction. At some point ca. 1970&#39;s a concrete block building was built near the mill building.</p><br>
<p>The Hodgson-Aid Mill suffered some flood damage in 1982, when water rose into the main milling room. Between 1985 and 1993, Herbert Smith (great-nephew of Alva Hodgson) and his wife leased the mill and provided tours, a store, resort cabins and campground.</p><br>
<p>The mill was sold to Hank and Jean Macler, who raised money in the community to fund restoration efforts. They stabilized the foundation, used Amish craftspeople to repair flood damage, installed facilities to bottle spring water and registered the Hodgson-Aid Mill in the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>In 2011, the mill was sold to John and Gwen Deakle, experienced preservationists.</p><br>
<p>Ponta Jalunga is a point located nearly a kilometer northeast of the center of Furna on the island of Brava in southwestern Cape Verde. It is connected with a single track linking to Furna, the other parts of the island and its port. The point is being the northeasternmost are on the island. Over a kilometer northwest in another point is the northernmost point on the island. Not being the closest to the island of Fogo as it is around 4 km south of the point being the closest, northwest in another point is the closest landmass to the islet of Ilhéu Secos being around 8 km distant from Ilhéu Grande. The promontory is a mountainous area as is many other parts of the island, the highest area ranges from 50 to 100 meters high. Its headland is 1 km tall and includes the north part of the town of Furna. Around a kilometer west is a windmill powering electricity for the island.</p><br>
<p>During the Ice Age, the point was about a kilometer east of its current location.</p><br>
<p>The point was mentioned as the Italian name Ponto Ghelongo (also as Ponto Gheluongo in Modern Italian) in the 1747 French/Dutch map by Jacques Nicolas Bellin.</p><br>
<h2>Lighthouse</h2><br>
<p>Near the promontory, it has a lighthouse, one of three on the island.</p><br>
<p>The lighthouse was first constructed in 1891 and is made out of concrete bricks. The tower shape is a square prism with external staircase and lantern. It is 7.9 metres tall and its focal height at 26 metres above sea level. Its range extends to 9 nautical miles (17 km) and its light source as with many other ligthouses is solar powered. Its exterior colour is white and has a grey lantern.</p><br>
<p>Tullycommon Wedge Tomb is a wedge-shaped gallery grave and National Monument located in The Burren region of County Clare, Ireland.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Tullycommon wedge tomb is located in the eponymous townland in Kilnaboy parish, 1.8 km (1.1 mi) southeast of Carran, between Knockaun Fort (with souterrain) and a caher.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Wedge tombs of this kind were built in Ireland in the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age, c. 2500–2000 BC.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Tullycommon Wedge Tomb is aligned approx SW-NE, receiving the light of the setting sun. It is a box-like structure with two long sidestones and a capstone. The gallery is just 1.7 m in length and 80 cm high.</p><br>
<p>At the rear two shorter side stones flank the back stone. Just beyond the end of the chamber is an outer back stone.</p><br>
<p>The Osage Farms Resettlement Properties in Pettis County, Missouri is a National Register of Historic Places multiple property submission located at Pettis County, Missouri. The submission includes 10 national historic districts and 2 individual properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The properties included were built by the Resettlement Administration / Farm Security Administration in 1937 as model farms and known as Osage Farms. Model farmsteads typically included a 1 1/2-story frame dwelling, barn, poultry house and privy.</p><br>
<p>The following were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Bois d&#39;Arc Cooperative Dairy Farm Historic District (NRHP 91001407): The six contributing buildings are a large dairy barn with a milking wing, a horse and bull barn, three farmhouses and a food storage building. It served as the nucleus of a 2,000 acre cooperative dairy operation from 1937 to 1943.</p><br>
<p>Hillview Cooperative Dairy Farm Historic District (NRHP 91001399): The seven contributing buildings and three contributing structures are a large dairy barn with a milking wing, two silos, two poultry houses, a granary, a reconditioned horse barn, two dwellings, and a well house. It encompasses the nucleus of two experimental cooperative farms.</p><br>
<p>Osage Farms Type 315:13 Government Farmhouse (NRHP 91001406): It is a 1 1/2-story frame farmhouse with a gambrel roof of type 315:13. It was moved to its present location about 1959.</p><br>
<p>Osage Farms Unit No. 1 Historic District (NRHP 91001408): The four contributing buildings are the farmhouse, barn, a poultry house, and food storage building. It was the prototypical individual government farmstead constructed at Osage Farms.</p><br>
<p>Osage Farms Unit No. 25 Historic District (NRHP 91001405): The four contributing buildings are the farmhouse, barn, a poultry house, and food storage building. It was one of a contiguous grouping of five individual farmsteads along Houston and High Point Roads.</p><br>
<p>Osage Farms Unit No. 26 Historic District (NRHP 91001409): The four contributing buildings are the farmhouse, barn, a poultry house, and food storage building. It was part of a grouping of several more or less contiguous individual government farmsteads near the center of the Osage Farms project area.</p><br>
<p>Osage Farms Unit No. 30 Historic District (NRHP 91001401): The three contributing buildings are the barn, a privy, and food storage building. The government privy is perhaps the only intact example of its type extant in the Osage Farms project area.</p><br>
<p>Osage Farms Unit No. 31 (NRHP 91001402): The property includes a wood frame, central passage government barn. The barn is typical of those built on nearly all individual government farmsteads at Osage Farms.</p><br>
<p>Osage Farms Unit No. 41 (NRHP 91001403): The property includes a frame and cinder block side-passage government barn. It was the only Type 411:5 barn erected at Osage Farms.</p><br>
<p>Osage Farms Unit No. 43 Historic District (NRHP 91001410): The four contributing buildings are the farmhouse, two poultry houses, and a food storage building. It was part of an individual government farmstead in the Osage Farms resettlement community.</p><br>
<p>Osage Farms Units No. 5 and No. 6 Historic District (NRHP 91001404): The four contributing buildings are the farmhouse, two barns, and a food storage building. The buildings are on what had been two contiguous individual farmsteads in the Osage Farms resettlement community.</p><br>
<p>Osage Farms Units No. 8 and No. 9 Historic District (NRHP 91001400): The six contributing buildings are the farmhouse, two barns, two poultry houses, and a food storage building. The buildings are on what had been two contiguous individual farmsteads in the Osage Farms resettlement community.</p><br>
<p>The Sedalia Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Sedalia, Pettis County, Missouri. It encompasses 102 contributing buildings in the central business district of Sedalia. The district developed between about 1870 and 1959, and includes representative examples of Italianate, Romanesque Revival, and Art Deco architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed Hotel Bothwell, Building at 217 West Main Street, and Missouri/Sedalia Trust Company. Other notable buildings include the First United Methodist Church , Pettis County Courthouse , Anheuser Busch Bottling Works , the New Lona Theater , Citizens National Bank Building , Third National Bank , Federal Building , Montgomery Ward Building , the Uptown Theatre , Missouri Pacific Depot , and Central Presbyterian Church .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001, with a boundary increase in 2010 and amendment in 2016.</p><br>
<p>Briggs Terrace, also known as Evergreen Lane, is a nationally recognized historic district located in Nevada, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. This estate was established and built by Otis Briggs, a local banker who founded Farmers Bank in Nevada. He arrived in town in 1857 from Des Moines, four years after Nevada and Story County were founded. He worked in a variety of commercial ventures before becoming a banker. Briggs invested heavily in real estate, and he became one of the largest land owners in the county.</p><br>
<p>The two-story, brick, Italianate style house was completed in 1879. It features floor-length windows, a wraparound porch, and a bay window. It is surrounded by an 8.4 acre planted grounds, which contribute to the historic nature of the district. The other historic building located here are the carriage house (c. 1879), barn (c. 1879), and late 19th century out buildings.</p><br>
<p>Nevada Downtown Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district located in Nevada, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. The district takes in the citys central business district. Its period of significance starts with the relocation of the railroad depot to the head of 6th Street in the 1870s and continues through the late 1920s when the town undertook several projects in a spirit of civic boosterism. The buildings here are one to three-stories tall and are all masonry construction. The architectural styles include popular styles from the period: Italianate, Queen Anne, Neoclassical, Prairie School, American Craftsman, and vernacular forms. They housed retail shops, hotels, banks, restaurants, fraternal halls, and a creamery.</p><br>
<p>The William Kennison Wood House is a historic building located in Story County, Iowa, United States near the unincorporated community of Iowa Center. An Ohio native, Wood settled on this property in 1851 from Polk County, Iowa. He was a squatter here for two years before the county was organized. Wood was a farmer and livestock producer, and became one of the largest landholders in the county. He also served in the Iowa General Assembly from 1869 to 1873. Wood married four times, and was widowed three times. He lived here until his death in 1917. This two-story frame Italianate house was built in three sections. The last section of the house was the family room on the south side of the house in 1991, which replaced the original summer kitchen. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>Rice Bay, on the Michigan side of Lac Vieux Desert, contains a significant stand of wild rice traditionally managed and harvested by the Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians. The availability of wild rice, and the annual rice harvest, played a central role in Ojibwe migration to the area and led to the establishment of a seasonal, and later permanent, settlement in this location. The area was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Rice Bay covers about one-quarter square mile of the north-easternmost portion of Lac Vieux Desert, a 6.6 square-mile lake on the border between Michigan and Wisconsin. The lake is surrounded by swampland and forested, hilly terrain. Rice Bay averages about 7-8 feet in depth, with a maximum depth of 17 feet.</p><br>
<p>About one-half mile to the west of Rice Bay is the "Old Village" of Ketegitigaaning (also transcribed as "Katikitegon" or "Katakitckon"). The site features several community buildings, a boat launch, and an active cemetery, all of which are maintained and operated by the Lac Vieux Desert Band.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>According to oral traditions, Ojibwe living as far east as Niagara Falls migrated westward, following a prophecy directing them to seek "the food that grows upon the water." The Ojibwe migration culminated in the settlement of Madeline Island in Lake Superior by at least the late seventeenth century. These people began moving into the interior region in the mid-eighteenth century, seeking out wild rice beds. A summer village at Lac Vieux Desert was likely founded just after 1784, and was certainly well-established by 1792. The lake served as something of a crossroads, as two primary routes to Lake Superior crossed in this vicinity. By the 1840s, the village of Ketegitigaaning on Rice Bay contained a few hundred residents, and wild rice was being regularly harvested.</p><br>
<p>However, the 1842 "Copper Treaty" with the US government changed the dynamic of the settlement, and by the late 1840s many Ketegitigaaning residents were spending the summer months at LAnse, due to the presence of a blacksmith as part of the treaty. A smallpox outbreak at Ketegitigaaning in 1851, as well as federal efforts to remove Native Americans from their lands, caused most residents to move to LAnse. The 1854 Treaty of La Pointe attempted to consolidate multiple groups of Ojibwe, but the Lac Vieux Desert Band organized to purchase the land around Rice bay from the government, one parcel at a time. By the 1870s, wild rice harvesting was once more taking place at Rice Bay, and year-round occupancy of Ketegitigaaning began in the 1880s.</p><br>
<p>However, the arrival of the lumber industry prompted a slow but steady transition to the cash economy. By 1942, almost the entire community had moved to Watersmeet. However, the annual gathering of rice from Rice Bay continued, and still occurs in the present. Although the Lac Vieux Desert Band is headquartered in Watersmeet, the Old Village at Ketegitigaaning serves as a cultural center for the community.</p><br>
<p>The Brill Octagon House is a historic octagon house at Capon Springs and McIlwee Roads in Capon Springs, West Virginia. It is a two-story wood-frame structure, that is actually cruciform in shape, but is given an octagonal appearance by the presence of two-story triangular porches that join the corners of the cross. The house was built about 1890 by one of a father-son pair, both named Elias Brill. The elder Brill, a more likely candidate as its builder, was a farm laborer, and was according to family lore guided in the building&#39;s design by an architect who was a summer guest at the Capon Springs Resort. The design is apparently a throwback to the briefly popular octagon house movement led by Orson Squire Fowler in the 1850s.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.</p><br>
<p>Altar Wedge Tomb is a wedge-shaped gallery grave and National Monument located in County Cork, Ireland.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Altar Wedge Tomb is located 6.7 km (4.2 mi) WSW of Schull, on a cliffedge near Toormore Bay.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Wedge tombs of this kind were built in Ireland in the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age, c. 2500–2000 BC.</p><br>
<p>Cremated burials took place in 2000 BC and pit burials c. 1200 BC. Around AD 200 a pit was dug and filled in with fish, shellfish and cetacean bones, presumably as a ritual practice.</p><br>
<p>Despite the name, there is no evidence that the "altar" was ever used for sacrifice. It was used as a Mass rock in the 18th century AD. A holy well stood across the road.</p><br>
<p>It was excavated in summer 1989 by Dr. William O&#39;Brien and Madeline Duggan. Material found included cremated human adult bones, a tooth, worked flint, charcoal, periwinkles, fish bones and limpets.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The entrance was aligned ENE–WSW, possibly with Mizen Peak (Carn Uí Néit) and maybe to catch the setting sun at Samhain (November 1).</p><br>
<p>The tomb consists of a trapezoidal orthostatic gallery 3.42 m long, 1.9 m wide at the west end 1.25 m at the east.</p><br>
<p>A roof-stone 2.7 m long, is still above the east end, and a second rests against the westerly stones at either side of the gallery. There is no cairn material or evidence of kerbstones; they may have been removed for road construction in the 19th century AD.</p><br>
<p>Chalachigu Valley is the valley in Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County, Xinjiang, China. It borders Afghanistan and is surrounded by Tajikistan to the north and Pakistan to the south. It borders Taghdumbash Pamir to the east, Gojal to the south, and Little Pamir to the north and west.</p><br>
<p>The valley is part of the Taxkorgan Nature Reserve. The protected Marco Polo sheep is only found around this area. The Chalachigu River flows through the valley and is a tributary of Tashkurgan River. The region is often referred by Chinese as the Chinese portion Wakhan Corridor. There is an ethnic Kyrgyz village call Bayik ( or )</p><br>
<p>The entire Chalachigu Valley is closed to visitors; however, local residents and herders from the area are permitted to access.</p><br>
<h2>Mountain Passes</h2><br>
<p>The valley was a significant thoroughfare of the Silk Road during ancient times. Around the valley are numerous passes connecting to other countries:</p><br>
<p>Tajikistan - Beyik Pass</p><br>
<p>Afghanistan - Wakhjir Pass, Tegermansu Pass</p><br>
<p>Pakistan - Kilik Pass, Mintaka Pass</p><br>
<p>Of the above passes, it is believed that the famous Chinese Buddhist pilgrim Xuanzang traveled through Wakhjir Pass on his return trip back to China around 649 AD. Some Chinese historians argue that he also used Beyik Pass on his way to India.</p><br>
<p>The Emmel Building is an historic building located at 1357 North Wells Street in the Near North Side neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The building is an example of a store and flat building, with a commercial space on the first floor and residential space on the upper two floors. Peter Emmel, a painter and interior decorator who came to Chicago from Germany in 1854, had the building built for his business and family. The building has an Italianate design with intricate carved stone on the second and third floors of the front facade. A metal cornice with brackets and a gable tops the building. While the building&#39;s layout is similar to the store and flat buildings of the commercial district to the south, its architecture is closer to that of the homes in the nearby Gold Coast.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 13, 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Maude R. Toulson Federal Building is a historic federal government building at 129 East Main Street in Salisbury, Maryland. It is a large two-story brick building with Classical Revival styling. It has a nine-bay front facade, the center three projecting slightly, and is topped by a low balustrade punctuated by brick piers. The center bays have recessed arches, with windows in the outer of those bays flanking a center entrance. It was built in 1924-25 as a five bay building, with an enlargement in 1934-35; the original design was by the Office of the Supervising Architect under James A. Wetmore. The building initially housed the United States Post Office, and now houses other federal facilities.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.</p><br>
<p>St. Brigid&#39;s School and Convent is a historic religious building at 900 South East Avenue in the Canton neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland. It is a three-story L-shaped steel framed structure, its exterior finished in aluminum and brick. A two-story section at the corner of Hudson Street houses the main entrance, with a three-story classroom wing to its left. The rightmost section of the classroom wing consists of a four-story stairhouse, finished in brick with small windows, while the balance of the wing is finished in bands of windows separated by metal paneling. The school was built in 1961 to a design by Edward H. Glidden, Jr., and is a well-preserved example of mid-century International style architecture. The school was closed by the Archdiocese of Baltimore in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.</p><br>
<p>The Bolduc Block, also known as the Majestic Theater, is a historic commercial and theatrical building at 36 Main Street in Conway, New Hampshire. Built in 1923, it was the community&#39;s first theater. It is also a good local example of Art Deco architecture, a style uncommon in northern New Hampshire, fire damage to its interior. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. It is presently owned by the Mountain Top Music Center.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Bolduc Block stands in the historic town center of Conway, on the north side of Main Street (New Hampshire Routes 16 and 113), west of its junction with Washington and Pleasant streets. It is a single-story structure, its exterior finished in brick. The front is defined by a projecting marquee over the main theater entrance on the left side, a series of storefronts to its right, and an Art Deco stepped parapet above. The interior, damaged by fire in 2005 and restored, retains some original features, including cast iron radiators and light fixtures.</p><br>
<p>The block was built in 1923, replacing several smaller commercial buildings that had been destroyed by fire. Its theater was at first known as the "New Conway Theatre", but was formally opened as the Majestic Theater in 1931. The storefronts have over the years housed a number of businesses, as well as the local post office for a time. It was restored after the 2005 fire extensively damaged its interior spaces. The building has been acquired by the Mountain Top Music School, a local music education and performance organization, with the intent (as of early 2017) of reopening it as a performance venue.</p><br>
<p>The Gould House is a historic house on Golf Drive in Norfolk, Connecticut. It was built in 1915 to a design by Alfredo S.G. Taylor, a prominent New York City architect who summered in Norfolk. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 for its association with the architect.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Gould House stands in a rural residential area southwest of Norfolks village center, on the east side of Golf Drive just north of the Norfolk Country Club. It is a two-story wood frame structure, set on a sloping lot. The houses most distinguishing feature is its unusual roof configuration. It is basically a broad gabled roof, which extends down to the first floor on the left side, and then wraps across the front between the first and second levels. Above this is a hip-roofed projection, giving that portion the appearance of a gable-on-hip configuration. A projecting hip-roofed section projects to the left further back, giving the overall house massing an L shape. The ground floor is finished in broad clapboards, while the upper levels are shingled. Fieldstone posts provide some visual differentiation on the first floor.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1915 to a design by Alfredo S.G. Taylor, a prominent New York architect in the firm of Taylor and Levi.</p><br>
<p>The Governor Smith Homestead is a historic house on South Main Street in Sharon, Connecticut. Built between 1765 and 1777, this large stone house has been a distinctive presence on the Sharon Green for over 200 years. It was for many years the home of John Cotton Smith, Governor of Connecticut during the War of 1812, and a nephew of the house&#39;s builder, Simeon Smith. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, and was included in the Sharon Historic District in 1993.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Smith Homestead anchors the southernmost end of the long Sharon Green, a 1.5 mi greensward that defines the town center. The souther half of the green is mainly residential, and has been modified to have a central roadway instead of two flanking ones, as seen in the northern section. The Smith House is located on the east side of South Main Street, just north of its crossing of an unnamed stream. The house is a large 2-1/2 story stone construction, built out of locally quarried stone and covered by a truncated hip roof. Its prominence is accentuated by the presence of stone retaining walls, which terrace the landscaped area around it on two sides. The flat area at the center of the roof is ringed by a balustrade, and corbelled brick chimneys rise from either side. The angled portion of the roof is pierced by gabled dormers, and by a one-bay gable above the main entrance. The interior follows a central hall plan, and retains many fine period finish elements.</p><br>
<p>Construction on this house was begun in 1765 by Simeon Smith, a prominent local doctor, pharmacist, and militia leader. Its oldest portion is the rear ell, which was occupied while construction of the main block continued. The stonework was supposedly overseen by an Italian craftsman brought in by Smith, who had traveled extensively in Europe. Finishing elements on the house were delayed by the American Revolutionary War. Smith conducted a meeting at the house in 1779 of several other medical professionals, which they styled as the first meeting of its kind in the new United States. Smith fell on hard times financially after the war, and turned the property over to his brother. John Cotton Smith, Smith&#39;s nephew, a prominent state politician who served as Governor and in the United States Congress, made this house is home. It remained in the Smith family until 1915.</p><br>
<p>The Henry T. and Emilie  Henryson House, also known as the Bartlett Museum, is a historic building located in Story City, Iowa, United States. It is a fine example of the spindlework subtype of the Queen Anne style, and the best remaining example left in the community. It also reflects the growth and development of Story City by Norwegian immigrants in the early 20th century. This two-story frame house was built in 1903. It features an asymmetrical facade and a full width front porch on the main floor with second-story porch above the main entrance.</p><br>
<p>The building was used as a residence until the Story City Historical Society bought it in 1996 with funds provided by Dr. Francis Bartlett Kinne. They converted it into museum, which is named in honor of Dr. Kinne&#39;s parents. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Grand Auditorium and Hotel Block is a group of four adjoining historic commercial buildings located in Story City, Iowa, United States. From the east, buildings one and three housed various commercial establishments over the years. Building two housed the Grand Opera House, now known as the Story Theatre/Grand Opera House. It has been used for both live theater productions and movies. The fourth building housed the Grand Hotel. The Grand Hotel and Auditorium Company was organized from Story City&#39;s Commercial Club in 1913. They hired Estherville, Iowa architect James S. Cox to design the complex, which was completed in December 1913. While each facade is unique, all four buildings share common elements. Their commonalities include two-stories in height, red brick exterior walls ornamented with buff brick and concrete details. The first three buildings share the same wall plane, while the hotel is slightly recessed from the others. They also decrease in scale from east to west. This slight variation is due to differing treatments of the cornices and parapets. The buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Lissacresig is a ringfort  and National Monument  located in County Cork, Ireland.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Lissacresig is located 6.7 km west-northwest of Macroom, in the hills between the River Sullane and River Foherish.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>Lissacresig is a circular lios, 70 m in diameter with entrances in the southwest and northeast corners. The name means "ringfort of the glutton." Ringforts of this type were mostly built c. AD 550–900. Internally people were housed in wooden huts. Another fort lies 900 m to the northwest; this may have served as a livestock enclosure. There are three monoliths (gallauns) and an axial-stone circle in the area as well. The stone circle is formed of five large boulders; unusually, the axial stone is the longest.</p><br>
<p>The Herschel-Spillman Two-Row Portable Menagerie Carousel, also known as the Story City Carousel, is a historic structure located in Story City, Iowa, United States. It was created by the Herschell Spillman Company of North Tonawanda, New York in 1913, and it has been owned and maintained by the Greater Community Congress of the City of Story City since 1938. Its "menangerie" of carved figures included horses, pigs, chickens and chariots. The Uncle Sam chariot, the pig and chicken pairs, and the lovers tub are all considered rare. The carousel utilizes an under-animal scissor support system,</p><br>
<p>which is and example of an earlier and simpler technology in the development of the merry-go-round. Its early history is unknown, but it was designed for temporary set-up and use.</p><br>
<p>P.T. Gifford, of Iowa Falls at some point acquired the carousel and brought to Story City every other year on the Fourth of July. It alternated with Eldora. The Greater Community Congress of Story City bought the carousel for $1,200 in 1938 when the usual arrangement fell through. It was stored in a local grain elevator when it was not is use until 1981 when the Greater Community Congress restored the carousel and had a pavilion built to shelter it. Butler Manufacturing Company designed the pavilion, which was completed in 1982 for $63,000. The carousel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Paterson Telegraph Station  was a telegraph station in Queensland, Australia. It was the original location for the end of the Cape York Telegraph Line. It was the landing point for the undersea cable Telegraph Cable between Cape York Peninsula and Thursday Island.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Telegraph Station was named after the Postmaster-General, The Honourable Thomas Macdonald-Paterson and was originally located in the area of the Paterson Creek Mouth (The original ruins can still be seen).</p><br>
<p>The Building was completed before the beginning of the wet season in November 1886 and was opened on 25 August 1887.</p><br>
<p>In 1894 the station was relocated to Peak Point at Punsand Bay on the West Coast of Cape York, approximately two miles from the North most point on the Australian Continent.</p><br>
<h2>The Cape York Telegraph Line Connection</h2><br>
<h3>To the South: McDonnell Telegraph Station</h3><br>
<p>The next station to the south of Paterson was the McDonnell Telegraph Station and was completed before work stopped for the wet season in November 1886.</p><br>
<p>McDonnell was named after John McDonnell, Under Secretary and Superintendent of Telegraphs of the Post and Telegraph Department. The same John McDonnell was also an uncle of J. R. Bradford.</p><br>
<h3>To the North: Undersea Cable to Thursday Island</h3><br>
<p>The undersea armoured cable that connected Patterson to Thursday Island consisted of 18 sea miles of underwater cable was laid by the Cable Ship "Recorder" and crossed Horn Island. The line formed part of the Cape York Telegraph Line. The laying work was completed in November 1886.</p><br>
<h2>Station Transferred</h2><br>
<p>In 1894 the station was relocated to Peak Point at Punsand Bay on the West Coast of Cape York, approximately two miles from the North most point on the Australian Continent. It is not known why the station was transferred and it is inherent that the Telegraph Line and undersea cable were also relocated as part of this process. It is fact that it was relocated, as ruins exist at both locations, but no references to support the reason have been located.</p><br>
<p>At Peak Point, the station was built high up on a Sandy Plateau overlooking the sea. The tip of Cape York was clearly visible to the North East, with lovely sandy beaches drawing the eye to the tip and Peak Point was visible to the North West. Many Islands were in the view, often crisscrossed with ships as they made their way to and from Thursday Island. A large area was kept clear of vegetation and brush to help prevent Bush Fires and provide a clear view of any approaching people. The soil was bleached White and any visitors were warned of the many Death Adders which were as white as the sandy soil.</p><br>
<h2>Receiving Mail</h2><br>
<p>The mail launch travelled to the station every fortnight from Thursday Island. This was known locally as "Mail Day" and served as a gathering for all the locals who would arrive at the Telegraph Station to await the boat and catch up on all the local news. Mr. Tom Dunwoodle and Torrie Woodhead manned the mail boat for some years and were known for arriving with large, freshly caught fish to share with the people waiting for their mail.</p><br>
<h2>Postmasters and their Families who ran the Station</h2><br>
<p>Known families who ran the station were:</p><br>
<p>Mr. and Mrs Jim Carey (16 years in residence)</p><br>
<p>Mr. Allan Sorenson</p><br>
<p>Mr Dave Evans</p><br>
<p>Mr and Mrs Norman Peak</p><br>
<p>Mr Tom Bryant</p><br>
<p>Mr and Mrs Dan Gleeson</p><br>
<p>Mr and Mrs Jack Cupitt</p><br>
<h2>Station Closure</h2><br>
<p>The station was closed on 14 September 1960. Sadly, all that remains of the station now is a concrete slab and some frangipani trees taken as cuttings from the Lockerbie Station.</p><br>
<h2>Retracing the 1883 Telegraph Route to the Station</h2><br>
<p>In 1973,the Cape York Historical Expedition 1973 was led by Mr. Malcolm M. Rea. The party consisted of seven men on horseback and followed the 1883 Telegraph Route.</p><br>
<p>North Third Street Historic District is a national historic district located at Louisiana, Pike County, Missouri. The district encompasses 61 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and contributing structure in a predominantly residential section of Louisiana. It developed between about 1843 and 1935, and includes representative examples of Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed Louisiana Public Library and Luce-Dyer House. Other notable buildings include the William C. Hardin House , James H. Johnson House , Edward G. McQuie House , St. Joseph&#39;s Catholic Church , and Frank Boehm, Jr. House.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Lincoln Township Mausoleum, also known as the Zearing Mausoleum, is a historic building located in Zearing, Iowa, United States. It is situated along the western edge of Zearing Cemetery, near a windbreak of trees. The mausoleum is a single-story concrete structure, rectangular in shape, that was completed in 1912. Most of the building is capped with a gable roof, but the front has a series of three flat roofs. The exterior walls are covered with stucco, painted white. It combines elements of the Mission, Late Gothic Revival, and Neoclassical styles. The interior features a central hall with 100 crypts on both sides. They are stacked in four horizontal rows, and are faced with marble panels. The building is significant for its "monolithic concrete construction used to build a public mausoleum," which is a rarity in Iowa. The mausoleum was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Mulcahy Barn is a historic building located south of Colo, Iowa, United States. It is a hybrid of German and English immigrant barns, and it is considered an excellent example of a bank barn. The German influence was the placement of the livestock on the lower level, while the simple lines of the upper level reflect the British/colonial influence. The Mulcahy&#39;s, who built the barn, were more than likely familiar with the latter. They learned the former after their arrival in Iowa, which had a large German and Scandinavian population by the time they arrived. It was completed around 1885 with board and batten siding on the upper portion and a fieldstone foundation. That foundation was replaced in the mid-20th century with concrete, and again with concrete in 2000. The barn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Converse Mill, also known as Clifton Mill #3, is a historic textile mill at 200 High Street in Spartanburg, South Carolina. The main mill building is a four-story brick building with smaller additions, sited on 11 acre overlooking the Pacolet River to the east. The mill was built in 1903 on the site of Clifton Mill #3, then the largest textile mill in the world, which had been destroyed by flood. It was designed by the noted industrial architectural firm Lockwood, Green of Boston, Massachusetts. The mill was closed sometime between 1968 and 1973, after which many of its windows were bricked over and it was converted to a warehouse. It is the only surviving element of the Clifton Mill complex, which originally had three large buildings.</p><br>
<p>The mill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<p>The Prof. J.L. Budd, Sarah M., and Etta Budd House, also known as the Youth Recovery House, is a historic building located in Ames, Iowa, United States. It was built as a single family residence in 1885. The two-story brick structure was built using Italianate elements. After World War II it was converted into an apartment building,and later into institutional housing. The attached 1½-story Colonial Revival cottage was moved onto the property in 1963, and used for office space. The house is named for J.L. Budd, a botanist at what is now Iowa State University, who helped establish the school&#39;s national reputation in horticulture. Sarah was his wife, and Etta was their daughter. She was an artist who was influential in bringing George Washington Carver to Iowa State College for his undergraduate education. Carver resided here briefly in 1891. The house was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001,</p><br>
<p>The Greenville Elks Lodge is a historic commercial and fraternal club building at 18 East North Street in Greenville, South Carolina. It is a rectangular four-story building, finished in brick and stone. The main entrance is a particularly distinguished example of transitional Art Deco/Moderne styling, with fluted details in the stone work, and a transom with Art Deco diamond patterning. It was built in 1949 to a design by William Riddle Ward, a prominent local architect. It is the only known work in this style by Ward, who was better known for revival style designs, and is one of Greenville&#39;s only Art Deco designs. The building was occupied by Greenville Elks Lodge 858 until 1991.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<p>The North Wells Street Historic District is a commercial historic district located on the west side of the 1200 block of North Wells Street in the Near North Side neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The district consists of seven buildings: four stores, two factories, and a firehouse. Built from 1871 to 1888, the buildings are an unusually intact block of what was once a much larger commercial district on the Near North Side. The four stores include a two-story frame storefront building, one of only six remaining from the post-Chicago Fire period in the city, and three three- or three-and-a-half-story store and flat buildings. The factories include a three-story loft and a two-story building that resembles the storefronts. The firehouse, known as Engine Company No. 27, is the second-oldest in the city.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 3, 1984.</p><br>
<p>Bufa Hill or El Cerro de la Bufa is a widely-recognized hill found east of historic downtown Zacatecas City, Zacatecas, Mexico.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>Bufa Hill&#39;s name origin is disputed. What is, perhaps, the most well-known version of the tale says that the hill was christened Bufa by Juan de Tolosa. Bufa is a word that originated from Aragonese, meaning pig bladder, which was used to describe the unique shape of the hill.</p><br>
<h2>General Facts</h2><br>
<p>Bufa Hill, which lies to the east of historic downtown Zacatecas City, is 2,610 meters above sea level. The mountain served as a home to several Zacatecan tribes, from whence the city Zacatecas received its name. The Chichimecan tribes that inhabited the Zacatecan area were the Caxcanes, Guachichiles, Guamares Irritilas, Huicholes, Tecuexes, Teules, Tepehuanes, Coras, y Zacatecas. The Zacatecas tribe was considered to be one of the most important. Thus, not only did the city of Zacatecas inherit the tribal name, but so did the Mexican state. The Caxcanes occupied a large portion of what now comprises the states of Jalisco and Zacatecas. The Bufa is a tourist attraction that marks the victory of the Battle of Zacatecas, a significant moment in the history of the state.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Bufa Hill in Mexican History</h3><br>
<p>The four founding fathers of Zacatecas, a mining city, were Juan de Tolosa, Cristóbal de Oñate, Diego de Ibarra, and Baltazar Temiño de Bañuelos.</p><br>
<p>When the Spanish, who were searching for precious metals, arrived at what is now Zacatecas, they entered through a mountainous path that led to a valley. Soon, they came across a large mountain which Juan de Tolosa named Bufa Hill.</p><br>
<p>In the year 1588, Bufa Hill had gained so much importance that it was included in the city&#39;s arms, with the support of Felipe II.</p><br>
<p>Bufa Hill was also important in the arrival of Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla and in the Mexican War of Independence.</p><br>
<p>The Hunt Hill Farm is a historic farm property at Upland and Crossman Roads in New Milford, Connecticut. Also known as the Hine–Buckingham Farms, the 137 acre property encompasses two farm properties that remained family-run from the 18th to early 20th centuries. The property includes one 18th and several 19th-century farmhouses and other outbuildings. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. The farmstead is now home to The Silo at Hunt Hill Farm, an arts and culinary organization, while much of the land is held as conservation land by the town.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Hunt Hill Farm is located in a rural setting about 4 mi north of New Milford center, in the uplands on the east side of the East Aspetuck River. Its lands area combination of open fields and woodland, with the cluster of farm buildings set around the junction of Upland and Crossman Roads. It includes three houses, built roughly between 1760 and 1836, as well as several barns, stables, and other outbuildings. A prominent feature of the complex is a pair of circular silos, set close to the road junction in front of one of the barns.</p><br>
<p>The history of these farm properties dates to the early 18th century, and the earliest period of New Milfords settlement. Daniel Hine, a native Milford, settled in New Milford in 1737, and soon had a farm established here. Abel Buckingham began farming land adjacent to Hiness in 1775. The oldest of the three surviving houses was built about 1760 by Daniel Hines. By the mid-19th century, both families were engaged in dairy farming, sending their products to market via the Housatonic Railroad. The Hines farm was sold out of the family in 1908, while that of the Buckinghams remained in that family until 1972, when it was sold to the Hendersons. The Hines farm was purchased by the Hendersons in 1968, and the combined property was adapted by them to its present use as a culinary school and arts center.</p><br>
<p>The Aristocrat Motor Inn is a historic hotel building at 240 Central Avenue in Hot Springs, Arkansas. It is a large seven-story structure, with a six-story U-shaped tower set on a basically rectangular ground floor. It is finished in glass, brick, and metal, in the Mid-Century Modern style. The tower is organized around a central courtyard, with the interior facades in a sawtooth pattern to maximize light coming into the hotel rooms facing inward. The hotel was built in 1963 by Samuel Kirsch, a local businessman engaged in a variety of pursuits. It was one of the first hotels built along the city&#39;s Central Avenue to feature a Modernist exterior. It was operated as a hotel until 1978, and was after converted into low-income housing.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.</p><br>
