<p>The Merwinsville Hotel is a historic hotel building and former railroad station at 1 Brown&#39;s Forge Road in the Gaylordsville village of New Milford, Connecticut. Built in 1842-43, it is one of the oldest hotels built specifically for a railroad stop in the United States. The building is undergoing work to restore it to its original grandeur. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Merwinsville Hotel is located in far northwestern New Milford, on the east side of the village of Gaylordville. It is set at the northwest corner of Browns Forge Road and Station Road, and immediately east of the railroad tracks of the Housatonic Railroad. It is a three-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. Its main block is flanked by a two-story wing with shed roof on the south side. The track-facing facade has a two-story porch with latticework railing, wrapping around to the buildings north side. There are street-facing entrances near the center of the main block, and at the end of the ell.</p><br>
<p>The hotel was the inspired idea of a local entrepreneur, Sylvanus Merwin. Upon learning in 1842 that the Housatonic Railroad would be routed through the area, he purchased up parcels of land that required it to cross land he controlled. He then negotiated with the railroad executives for the placement of the hotel, requiring that the train stop there for a meal, and that the station be named "Merwinville". The hotel was open for service in 1843, when the train service was inaugurated. Merwin then also became the station agent. The stipulations of the agreement remained in place until 1877, when faster trains and onboard meal service led to the elimination of the meal contract. In 1915, the railroad also terminated the station contract, building a new station to the south, and renaming the stop "Gaylordville". The hotel was purchased by a local family and used as a private residence into the 1940s. It then stood vacant and neglected until the 1970s, when a non-profit was established to restore the building. It is believed to be one of the nation&#39;s oldest purpose-built railroad hotels.</p><br>
<p>The Kůlna Cave is situated 35 km north of Brno in the Czech Republic. It is part of the Moravian karst.</p><br>
<h2>Paleontology</h2><br>
<p>The cave is noted for its Paleolithic and Mesolithic material and evidence of human presence. Dated to about 50,000 years ago are Neanderthal skeletal remains including the upper jaw bone of an immature male (14 or 15 years old) which was discovered in 1965 and the right parietal bone of a man which was discovered in 1970.</p><br>
<p>Later objects and artifacts indicate the presence of mammoth hunters of the Gravettian culture from around 25,000 years ago, as well as reindeer and wild horse hunters from between 13,000 and 10,000 years ago. Bronze Age artifacts have also been found dating back to the 9th and 8th centuries BCE.</p><br>
<p>Lyngby Lake  is a lake located on the border between Lyngby-Taarbæk and Gladsaxe municipalities in the northern suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is the smallest of the four lakes that are located on Mølleåen. At the east end of the lake is an embankment with a lake promenade, S-train line and Lyngby Bypass. A small portion of the lake, known as Lille Ltngby Sø is located on the east side of the embankment.</p><br>
<p>Lyngby Lake has an area of 57.1 hectares. It is fed with water from Furesø through a short canal from the west and is drained at its eastern end.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The lake was formed when the ice melted at the end of the last ice age. The water level in the lake was in the Middle Ages raised artificially to improve the operation of watermills further downstream. Lyngby Watermill was probably built in around 1000.</p><br>
<p>Nordbanen was constructed in 1864. The plan was originally to lead the railway through Sorgenfri Park to the east of Ltngby Church. Due to local opposition, a more expensive solution with an embankment across the eastern part of Lyngby Lake was ultimately opted for.</p><br>
<p>The opening of the railway led to increasing building activity along the shores of the lake. A lake promenade was established at the embankment in 1920 to improve access to the ake for residents in the area. In 1928, the municipality established Folkeparken after acquiring another property on the lake shore. It was used for events both on Constitution Day and Midsummer&#39;s Eve. In the 1930s and 1940s, Ltngby-Taarbæk Municipality acquired Lyngby Åmose to the north of the lake which had until then belonged to the farmers in Virum.</p><br>
<h2>Activities</h2><br>
<p>A number of canue, katak and rowing clubs are based at the lake. Lyngby Towing Club and Lyngby Canoe club are based at Lyngby Harbour at Fæstningskanalen in the southeastern corner of the lake. Lyngby Rowing Club for Women (Lyngby Dameroklub) is located on the southern shores of the lake. Fladsaxe Canoe & Kayak Club is based a little further to the west.</p><br>
<p>A tour boat operates on the lake with stops both at Lyngby Harbour and Nybro Kro before it continues to Frederiksdal. Boat rental is available both at Havnehytten and Nybro Kro.</p><br>
<p>Fishing in the lake requires a fishing license. A network of paths continues around the lake. It is popular both with walkers and runners. Folkeparken is used for festivitas with a large bonfire on Saint John&#39;s Eve.</p><br>
<h2>Cultural references</h2><br>
<p>The German poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock&#39;s Der Eislauf is inspired by his ice skating on Lake Ktngby. He lived in Denmark from 1751 to 1770.</p><br>
<p>Christian Winther poem Vandring og Opdagelse (Wandering and Discovering) descrines a walk on 5 July 1833 from Miiffelmanns summer retreat Fuglsang at Prinsessestien and Lake Lyngby to Furesøen og and beyond.</p><br>
<p>A boat trip made by the couples Ingeborg and Viggo Stuckenberg and Gyrithe and Johan Lemche on Lake Lyngby is described in Gyrithe Lemche&#39;s Tempeltjenere from 1926-1928.</p><br>
<p>Madhavav or Madhav Vav is a stepwell located in Wadhwan town of Surendranagar district, Gujarat, India. It is located in the western side of old town.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>There are two inscriptions in the stepwell. The Sanskrit inscription states that it was built by Madhav and Keshav, the Nagar Brahmin minister brothers in the court of Karandev II of Vaghela dynasty in 1294 (Vikram Samvat 1350) in honour of his parents. The second inscription, which is much eroded, tells about Lashamidevi (Lakshamidevi), daughter of Nagar Brahmin minister Sodhal; and Sindhu, son of Soma who were probably the parents of Madhav. The stepwell is now state protected monument but is not maintained well.</p><br>
<h2>Legends</h2><br>
<p>According to legend, the stepwell was dry for twelve years after its construction. The royal astrologer predicted the need of sacrifice by an ideal couple for water in the stepwell. The prince and her wife agreed for welfare of people even though they had an infant. They descended the stepwell in bridal clothes. As they reached the seventh step, the stepwell filled with water and they drowned. They sacrifice ensured water in the stepwell.</p><br>
<p>The legend is popular folklore and is celebrated in folk-songs. It is also believed locally that a ghost haunts the stepwell and demands death of a person by drowning every three years.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The stepwell is constructed in east-west direction; the entrance is in the west while the well is in the east. It is 55 metres long and the stepped corridor are 49.80 metres long. It is entered by small narrow staircase. It has six kuta (pavilion towers) and six flights of steps to descend. The breadth decrease at each pavilion; 6 metres at the flight of steps to 3.6 metres at the pavilion. Each pavilion formed by four pilasters is 2.7 metres long. Due to height of 4.80 metre between two pavilion, the thick wall is necessary. There are slightly convex roofs on each kuta in ogee moulding formed by nine horizontal tiers. The roofs are crowned by small finials in form of kalasha.</p><br>
<p>The well is 5.3 metres in diameter. At the top of the round well-shaft, there are six double-bent struts in the last storey; four in back wall covered with stone lintel for drawing up water, in leathern bags for irrigation purposes.</p><br>
<p>There are stone screens on each side of first kuta forming its walls. Each screen has 16 squares, four in each of four rows. The pattern of these screens are identical to Vimal Vasahi temple of Dilwara Temples on Mount Abu and Queens&#39; Mosque, Sarangpur, Ahmedabad. The door-frame has small sculptures of seated gods in compartments of vertical parts of frame and scenes of daily life in horizontal lintel.</p><br>
<p>In the walls, upon either side, at intervals in the descend, are sculptured niches holding groups of images which are very much mutilated. It includes sculptures of Bhairava, Saptamatrika, Navagraha, Dashavatara and other gods and goddesses which are difficult to recognise due to its condition. There is sculptures of couple in one niche which is recognised as that of Madhav and his wife. There is a short inscription under it. It also has some erotic sculptures.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>The legend was depicted in Gujarati film Vanzari Vav (1977). Dehuna Daan Arthat Madhavav, a play was created based on the legend. The folk-song of Madhavav is collected in Radhiyali Ratna Raas by Jhaverchand Meghani. Lalit Trivedi published a poem on the legend in his poetry collection, Andar Bahar Ekakar.</p><br>
<p>Vikeid  is a flat isthmus on Langøya in the municipality of Sortland in Nordland county, Norway. The village of Vik lies on the east side of the isthmus, and on the west side are Frøskeland and Eidsfjord. The isthmus almost divides Langøya in two. To the north there lies the northwestern part of the municipality of Sortland, and further north the municipality of Øksnes. The southwest part of the municipality of Sortland lies south of the isthmus. Eidsfjord and the western part of the isthmus belonged to the municipality of Hadsel until 1963.</p><br>
<p>The isthmus is marshy. Parts of the isthmus are cultivated as grassland, and some areas have been trenched and planted with Norway spruce. In the eastern part of the isthmus is the former Vikeid Agricultural Machine Operators&#39; School. The school was closed in the summer of 2005. There are several lakes in the eastern part of the isthmus, toward Frøskeland.</p><br>
<p>County Road 820 from Sortland to Bø crosses Vikeid from east to west. Most of the route crosses the isthmus in a straight line, and the road is therefore known as one of the routes in Vesterålen with a lot of speeding.</p><br>
<p>In 2004, the Vesterålen radio-controlled vehicle club held the northern Norwegian model aircraft championship at the premises of the Vikeid Agricultural Machine Operators&#39; School.</p><br>
<p>Since the end of the 1990s, the pink-footed goose has grazed in parts of Vikeid during the spring migration period. Previously the geese grazed more on grassy fields and marshes along the Sortland Sound, but the geese have been increasingly been driven from these pastures and have begun to find new pastures at a greater distance from the sound.</p><br>
<p>Building 6981 is a historic ammunition magazine located at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. Constructed in 1917, it is the only building at Camp Shelby still standing from the WWI era. The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992 and was designated a Mississippi Landmark in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Building 6981 is a single room structure that measures 20.3 ft by 20 ft. It was constructed on a poured concrete slab that is 3 ft thick. The outer walls are poured concrete over wire mesh.</p><br>
<p>The interior floor space is approximately 360 ft2. Height of the interior walls from the floor to wooden ceiling beams is 13.5 ft. The interior walls are paneled with pine boards that run horizontally, up to the top of two door frames that are centered in the north and south facades. The door frames are 4.5 ft wide and support double-leaf wooden doors that are 6.5 ft tall. The south facing doors are covered in sheet metal.</p><br>
<p>The roof is also concrete, poured over wire mesh, and was constructed with a clerestory-style raised center for ventilation. The north facade has a concrete loading platform that is 20 ft long and 5.83 ft wide. Access to the south entrance doors was provided by poured concrete steps, but a concrete ramp was constructed to facilitate ADA accessibility.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Building 6981 was originally located in an undeveloped wooded area of Camp Shelby at coordinates 31.1883&deg;N latitude, 89.2192&deg;W longitude. The building was relocated approximately 0.75 mi onto the grounds of the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum and is the oldest structure at Camp Shelby, dating from the WWI era.</p><br>
<p>The Willie T. McArthur Farm is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The original two-room farmhouse was built in 1893 by Willie T. McArthur, on a 175 acre property that he and an uncle bought that year. A Queen Anne style house was built in 1900 which incorporated the original house as a kitchen and dining room. Willie operated one of the largest farms in Montgomery, besides serving as president of three local banks. The farm grew tobacco and cotton as cash crops and included, by 1900, numerous buildings including a commissary, a school, a cotton gin, a turpentine still, and tenant farmer houses. Willie&#39;s sons James (1919-2002) and Donald (1929-2012) also raised hogs and cattle and also grew corn, peanuts, and pecans in addition to tobacco and cotton.</p><br>
<p>The entire farm was intact and was listed on the National Register in 2012. It included a corn crib. It included a concrete-block store on U.S Highway 280, a four-bin grain elevator, and a concrete-block hog-birthing house (c.1965) and a pecan-sorting shed (c.1980).</p><br>
<p>St. Marys Institute of OFallon, also known as the Motherhouse for the Congregation of the Sisters of the Adoration of the Most Precious Blood, is a historic convent, school, and national historic district located at OFallon, St. Charles County, Missouri. The district encompasses 11 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site . The main building is the three-story, Gothic Revival style motherhouse. Its original section was built in 1874, with a series of interconnected wings dating from 1874 through 1997 making for a complex, irregular plan building. The building includes the convent, two chapels, academy, novitiate, dining room, kitchen, gym, and infirmary. A part of the building houses the OFallon City Hall.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Midtown Neighborhood Historic District is a national historic district located at St. Charles, St. Charles County, Missouri. The district encompasses 527 contributing buildings, 7 contributing sites, and 5 contributing objects in a predominantly residential section of St. Charles. It developed between about 1838 and 1959, and includes representative examples of Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Queen Anne, Romanesque Revival, Folk Victorian, Colonial Revival, Classical Revival, Tudor Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. Located in the district are the separately listed African Church and Oliver L. and Catherine Link House. Other notable buildings include the St. Charles County Courthouse, Benton School , St. John’s A.M.E. Church , Immanuel Lutheran Church , Jefferson Street Presbyterian Church, Fourth Street Market Grocery , West End Grocery and Meat Market , Dr. Ludwell Powell House , Rogers-Ehrhard House , Waye Monument Company and Residence , Meyer House, Kaemmerlen House, and Elsner House.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Minortown Road Bridge is a historic lenticular pony truss bridge in northeastern Woodbury, Connecticut. It spans the Nonewaug River, connecting USA Route 6  to Minortown Road and Mill Road. Built in 1890 by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company, it is one a small number of surviving lenticular truss bridges in the state. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Minortown Road Bridge is located in a rural setting of northeastern Woodbury, just south of US 6. It is oriented roughly north-south across the Nonewaug River, which is flanked by US 6 to the north and Minortown and Mill Roads to the south. The bridge is a single-span wrought iron lenticular truss, 64 ft long. The trusses are mounted in concrete abutments land on top of the original rubblestone abutments. They no longer carry the active load of the single lane of traffic, which is now supported by a modern timber beam bridge what was built between the two trusses.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was built in 1890 by the Berlin, Connecticut-based Berlin Iron Bridge Company, one of the major providers of iron and later steel bridges in the northeastern United States. Of the company&#39;s many bridges built in Connecticut, this was in 2001 one of seventeen surviving lenticular truss bridges, and one of a smaller number that remain in service in any form. It is distinctive for its use of pins in connecting the truss elements. It was built as part of a town program to upgrade all of its wood-frame bridges. The town paid the company $625 for the trusses and its portion of the bridge construction effort.</p><br>
<p>The Courthouse Square Historic District is a national historic district located at Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri. The district encompasses 26 contributing buildings in the central business district of Farmington. It developed between about 1871 and 1954, and includes representative examples of Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Late Victorian, Beaux Arts, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed St. Francois County Jail and Sheriff&#39;s Residence. Other notable buildings include the St. Francois County Courthouse , Rottger Building , Gierse Tailor Shop , Long Memorial Hall , Methodist Episcopal Church , Masonic Temple , and Fitz Building .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>St. Francois County Jail and Sheriffs Residence is a historic jail and sheriffs residence located at Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri. It was built in 1870-1871, and is a two-story, three bay, Greek Revival style brick and limestone building. It has a front gable roof and centered arched front doorway. The building was enlarged slightly around 1909. By 1996, it was one of the oldest operating jails in Missouri, but it was retired in September of that year when the jail moved to a newer and larger facility. The building now serves as a low-cost inn for people traveling along the TransAmerica Bicycle Trail.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. It is located in the Courthouse Square Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Detachment Hotel  is the name used to refer to a small 1,500 ft&sup2; bunker complex on Peanut Island, Florida. It was originally designed for use by the President of the United States, specifically John F. Kennedy, in the event of a nuclear war. Constructed in 1960, the bunker was closed less than three years later, and its existence was declassified in 1974. It has been open to the public as an historic site since 1998.</p><br>
<h2>Early history</h2><br>
<p>The decision to construct a presidential bunker in Florida was driven by the location of a Kennedy family home in Palm Beach, Florida. In the event of a nuclear attack, then-President John Kennedy could be evacuated to the Detachment Hotel site from Palm Beach by helicopter in about five minutes.</p><br>
<p>The facility was built by the United States Naval Construction Forces ("Seabees") over the course of one-to-two weeks in December 1960, the month prior to Kennedy&#39;s inauguration, and was designed to house up to 30 people for 30 days. Access to the facility is through a tunnel of corrugated metal tubing, hardened overhead with lead plating and 12 feet of dirt. An emergency exit exists opposite the main entrance. The facility also contains a decontamination room and radio room.</p><br>
<p>The Detachment Hotel site is located near to a small United States Coast Guard station, which provided cover for the project; official communications said the construction was being done to build storage facilities for the nearby station. It is possible Kennedy visited the Detachment Hotel site. According to official files, Kennedy participated in drills that would have taken him to the location on two separate occasions, while a witness has recalled seeing the presidential yacht Honey Fitz operating near Peanut Island at least twice during the Kennedy presidency.</p><br>
<h2>Public opening</h2><br>
<p>The bunker was closed in 1963 following the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and its existence declassified in 1974. Largely abandoned and forgotten, it fell into disrepair in the 1990s. Maintenance of the site was subsequently assumed by the Palm Beach Maritime Museum who restored the facility and opened it to the public in 1998 under the name "the Kennedy Bunker". As of 2016 it was the subject of a dispute between the museum and the Port of Palm Beach, which owns the site. The Port of Palm Beach has said it plans to assume control of the Kennedy Bunker when the museum&#39;s lease expires in 2017.</p><br>
<p>The William Moore Jr. House is a historic house at 5 Mountain Road in the Riverton village of Barkhamsted, Connecticut. Built about 1820, it is a good local example of Federal period architecture in brick, and is notable for its association with the Moore family, where both the father and son were involved in the early chair-making trade for which Riverton is well known. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The William Moore Jr. House is located behind the Old Riverton Inn in the village of Riverton, on the south side of Mountain Road, a dead-end residential street running east from River Road. It is a 2-1/2 story brick building, with a gable roof. The bricks are laid in common bond, and are painted white. The main entrance is in the short northwest-facing facade, which is three bays wide. The entrance is in the rightmost bay, in a recess with frame surround. The gable above has a semi-elliptical window. The interior retains a significant amount of original Federal period woodwork, including fireplace mantels and main staircase.</p><br>
<p>William Moore Sr. arrived in Riverton in the 1780s, and was one of several individuals engaged in the chair manufacturing trade. He notably worked with Lambert Hitchcock, whose stenciled and painted chairs gained renonwn. Moore and his son, William Moore Jr., both may have been involved in supplying Hitchcock with either parts or finished chairs that were sold under the Hitchcock name. Examples of work unambiguously identified as the work of either Moore are rare, with only a few pieces in museums. William Moore Jr. built this house about 1820, on property acquired from his father. It is known that his shop was also on the property, but no traces of it survive.</p><br>
<p>The Eagar School is a one story building consisting of six rooms located in Eagar, Arizona. It was originally built in 1930, with a large addition added in 1951. During the 1980s it was no longer used as a schoolhouse, becoming the town hall of Eagar, and would later become the town&#39;s police station.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>There were several schools in Eagar, dating back to the 1890s. A new building was built in 1927, however while school was in session on Friday, January 10, 1930, the building caught fire from a spark from one of the wood-burning stoves used for heat. Within 30 minutes, the building burned to the ground, with no loss of life. It was after this disaster that the building currently known as Eagar school was constructed.</p><br>
<p>All that remained of the school&#39;s furniture and fixtures after the fire were 3 tables, 3 dozen chairs, a Victor phonograph, a piano, and some desks and books. School continued on Monday in the nearby LDS ward chapel. On April 5, a bond issuance of $21,000 was approved for the construction of a new school building. However, there were difficulties with the results, and the final bond issuance was not approved until mid-August 1930. However, without waiting for final approval, bids for construction went out in the late Spring. By mid-June, eleven bids had been received, and the winning bid was from Albert Copeland of Mesa, for the sum of $21,125.</p><br>
<p>Copeland began digging the basement in advance of the bond issuance, then continued pouring the foundation, and beginning construction of the brick structure. While Copeland anticipated that construction would be completed by November, the school was not officially dedicated until December 6, 1930. The following year (1931-32), the school had a principal and seven teachers. By 1940, the community felt the school needed a kitchen and cafeteria, which were added to the south side of that structure that year.</p><br>
<p>Between 1940 and 1980, there were 5 more additions to the school. In 1959, Greer consolidated its schools with Eagar. In 1969 the consolidation of the local school districts of Alpine, Nutrioso, and Springerville, led to the Eagar school being utilized for classes for 4th through 8th grade, while the younger students used the school building in Springerville. By the 1980s, the growth of the community created a need for a larger school. With the construction of a new school, the Eagar school was no longer utilized as a school building as of January 1984. That month it became the town hall for Eagar. At some point, the town hall was relocated to its current address at 22 W. 2nd Street, and the Eagar school became the home to the Eagar police department.</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>The building sits at the southeast corner of Main and Second Streets. Originally, the building included 6 classrooms, 4 offices (principals, secretarys, attendance, and main), and 2 restrooms. The central façade is flanked by two small wings, which protrude slightly towards Main Street, forming a small "C" shape. The foundation and walls are brick, which has since been stuccoed over. The windows were double-hung, three-over-three wood construction, in vertical proportion in groups of two to four with common sills. These have been replaced by aluminum windows, one-over-one single hung inserted into the original sash frames. Doors were originally "wooden, single- light doors with multi-light transoms overhead", with most now replaced by modern units. Broad stairs led to the main entries in the front, back, and both sides, although the stairs on the south side were destroyed with the construction of the cafeteria addition. There are also several smaller sets of steps leading to the outside from minor entrances. The entrances are framed by pedimented parapets, which sit on pilasters. The roof has a low pitch with wide overhangs, and is covered with asbestos tiles in a diamond pattern.</p><br>
<p>Moss Hill is a historic summer estate on Litchfield Road in Norfolk, Connecticut. Built in 1903, it is the first of more than thirty works of New York architect Alfredo S.G. Taylor in the summer resort community. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Moss Hill stands on a wooded and hilly lot on the east side of Litchfield Road, south of Norfolk village. It is a large 2-1/2 story structure, built of stone and stucco with half-timbered gables in the Tudor Revival style. Its main block is covered by a hip roof with paired gables set in the short ends. A 2-1/2 story ell extends eastward from the main block, and a gabled entry section projects slightly at the center of the western facade. The stonework is of a generally large scale, and appears to have been quarried on site. Windows are typically sash, with a large single pane in the lower sash and multiple small panes in the upper. The interior has well-preserved Beaux Arts features. Some of the upper-level windows have heavy wooden balconies outside them.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1903 for the mother-in-law of New York City architect Alfredo S.G. Taylor, and was the first of his more than thirty works in the community. Taylor and his wife built their own summer house here the following year, and many other commissions followed over the next twenty-plus years. This house exhibits traits that Taylor would use in a number of those works, including the rugged stone exteriors and ornate interiors.</p><br>
<p>The Mount Riga Ironworks was one of the most successul manufacturers of iron in the late colonial and post-Revolutionary period of United States history. Located in the far northwestern Connecticut town of Salisbury, it produced high quality iron for use in military and domestic applications, and supported a community of 1,200 people. It declined in the mid-19th century, and was closed in 1847. Surviving elements include an early 19th-century cold blast furnace and other foundational and archaeological remains. Its site, now part of a large private holding owned by the Mount Riga Corporation, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The iron works first began operation in 1762, and was at its most successful during the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. During the Revolution, it was one of the major sources of domestically produced cannons and related munitions, and during the War of 1812, it produced ship anchors and bar iron used by the nation&#39;s federal armories. Its iron was considered to be of particularly high quality. At its height, the Mount Riga community had 100 houses, a school, post office, and store. By the 1840s, the veins of highest quality ore were played out, and the area hillsides had been denuded of lumber needed for the production of coal to fire the furnaces.</p><br>
<p>Following the shutdown of the iron works, its extensive landholdings (about 6,000 acre were acquired by three families, which formed the Mount Riga Corporation to manage their holdings.</p><br>
<h2>Setting</h2><br>
<p>The iron works was located in what is now a remote and rural area of western Salisbury, atop a plateau of the Taconic Mountains. The dam at the mouth of South Pond was built to provide water to the furnace, which is located just downstream. Additional foundational remnants of the ironworks are found a short way down Mount Riga Road, which connects the area to Salisbury village. The surviving forge structure, completed in 1810, is believed to be the only surviving cold blast furnace in the state. Foundational remains of at least two other furnaces exist in the area, and there are likely significant subsurface artifacts to be found in connection with the community that once existed here.</p><br>
<p>The Fish Creek Bridge is a historic structure that was originally located east of Salem, Iowa, United States. The span carried Hickory Road over Fish Creek for 50 ft. It is a small-scale, wrought-iron bridge that the Henry County Board of Supervisors bought from the George E. King Bridge Company of Des Moines in 1893 for $410.80. It was believed to have been fabricated by their parent company, King Iron Bridge Company of Cleveland, and assembled by local laborers. Its historical significance derived from its being an uncommon variant of the Pratt truss. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. Subsequently, the bridge has been replaced at its original location, and the historic structure was moved to Oakland Mills Park.</p><br>
<p>The Oakland Mills Bridge is a historic structure located in Oakland Mills Park southwest of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, United States. The span carried Hickory Road over the Skunk River for 358 ft. In July 1876 the Henry County Board of Supervisors decided to locate the bridge over the Skunk River at Oakland Mills. After engineers looked over the proposals, they choose the Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Company of Leavenworth, Kansas to build the structure. The long-span combination Pratt truss through and pony truss was completed later the same year. The steel components where manufactured by the Phoenix Iron Company of Pennsylvania. It is one of the oldest Pratt through truss bridges in Iowa. Long closed to vehicular traffic, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>The G. W. S. Allen House is a historic house located at 207 East Henry Street in Mount Pleasant, Iowa.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It was constructed according to mail order plans provided by George F. Barber & Co. of Knoxville, Tennessee. The final design is a combination of two designs offered in Barber&#39;s 1899 catalog and modifications by the Allens and their builder. It was one of several Barber-designed houses in Mount Pleasant. The 2½-story Queen Anne has an irregular plan, frame construction, a full basement, hip roof with lower cross gables, and circular tower with a conical roof. Because the house is from the later stage of the Queen Anne style it features decorative elements from the Neoclassical and the Neocolonial styles instead of Eastlake detailing. The house was built by George S.W. Alien, a Vermont native, who operated his own clothing store.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 11, 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Henry Ambler House is a historic house located at 405 Broadway in Mount Pleasant, Iowa.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Henry Ambler, a local attorney, bought this property in 1868. There was already a house on it, and Ambler had it altered and additions built. The house shares several details from two earlier Italian Villas built in town in 1858 and 1865. The asymmetrical, two-story brick structure features a three-story tower, bracketed eaves, and a two-story bay window on the south side. Alterations were made in the 1940s, 1954 when it was divided into apartments, and in 1965. The top of the tower was gutted in a fire in 1983 and had to be rebuilt.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 10, 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. J.O. and Catherine Ball House is a historic building located in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, United States. In 1892 this was one of three houses designed by George F. Barbers mail-order architectural firm that was being built in town, and it was the most elaborate of the three. The house is an enlargement of Barbers more expensive plans for design no. 33 from his 1891 book. The 2½-story frame Queen Anne features an irregular plan, a brick-faced limestone foundation, and an octagonal tower with an ogee shaped roof. The circular window on the second story projection is framed with three balconies, one above and one on either side. The wrap-around porch has a projecting gable roof supported by turned columns. A two-story bay window is located on the east elevation. It was also the first house in Mount Pleasant that was totally reliant on electricity for lighting. It was built for Dr. J.O. Ball, a dentist, who was active in civic improvements in Mount Pleasant. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Shark Lake is a freshwater lake in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia approximately 13 km north of Esperance.</p><br>
<p>The lake is situated within the Shark Lake Nature Reserve, which occupies an area of 16.1 hectare and is one of the few permanent freshwater lakes and wetlands on the south coast.</p><br>
<p>The lakes are predominantly fed by natural drainage from the agricultural areas to the north. Increased runoff and rising water tables from agricultural clearing have a large impact on the water quality of the lake.</p><br>
<p>Shark Lake Nature Reserve was gazetted as an A class reserve in 1972 for the purpose of</p><br>
<p>conservation of flora and fauna.</p><br>
<p>Shark Lake lies in a land system that is part of the broader Esperance sand-plain. The sand-plain is gently undulating with low rises and hills. The soils are mostly deep comprising sandy grey sands over yellow clay with grey-white loamy sand around the lake.</p><br>
<p>It has an average salinity of 1.7 ‰ total dissolved solids.</p><br>
<p>The lake is an important drought refuge for the area&#39;s fauna, with comparatively large numbers of birds being recorded there in summer. A total of 40 species are known to visit the lake through the year. Species of birds found at the lake include: avocet, greenshank, hooded dotterel, black swan, reed warbler, brown bittern, hoary-headed grebe, little grassbird, Australian white ibis and buff-banded rail.</p><br>
<p>The low-lying swamp areas around the lake are dominated by Melaleuca trees and scrub.</p><br>
<p>Other dominant species include Calothamnus quadrifidus and Acacia cyclops. Fringing vegetation of mixed low heaths occur on lake edges with dense sedge beds of Baumea articulata, Isolepis nodosa, Juncus species and Schoenus brevifolius.</p><br>
<p>Hen Gwrt, , Llantilio Crossenny, Monmouthshire is the site of a thirteenth century manor house and a sixteenth century hunting lodge. Originally constructed for the Bishops of Llandaff, it subsequently came into the possession of the Herberts of Raglan Castle. The bishops constructed a substantial manor house on the site in the thirteenth century, which was moated in the fourteenth. The building was then adapted by the Herberts to create a lodge within their extensive hunting grounds. The lodge continued in use until the slighting of Raglan Castle in the English Civil War.</p><br>
<p>Historical accounts of Monmouthshire traditionally identify Hen Gwrt as the home of Dafydd Gam, the legendary opponent of Owain Glyndŵr and supporter of Henry V, but there is no evidence for this.</p><br>
<p>Work at the site in the early nineteenth showed evidence of the footings of the earlier buildings, which were mapped, but by the time of subsequent archaeological investigations in the twentieth century, all of the stone on the site had been removed for road metalling. Today, no trace of either the manor or the lodge remains, and the moated site is in the care of CADW.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the Middle Ages ownership of the parish of Llantilio Crossenny was divided between the King and the Bishops of Llandaff, Llantelyo regis being the lands owned by the king and Llantelyo episcopi being those owned by the bishops. The bishops administered their portion from Hen Gwrt. This episcopal presence also accounts for the "exceptional scale" and "unusual grand(eur)" of the parish church, dedicated to St Teilo, which stands a little south of Hen Gwrt. The bishops&#39; manor is believed to have been of timber construction.</p><br>
<p>By the reign of Henry VI, the manor had been leased to William ap Thomas who had purchased the manor of Raglan in 1432 and begun the great expansion of the castle. William, or possibly his son, William Herbert, enclosed a substantial deer park, of some 250 hectares, at Llantilio Crossenny. Elisabeth Whittles Historic Gardens of Wales reproduces a map of 1610 by John Speed that shows the deer parks of Monmouthshire, including that centred at Hen Gwrt. In the Herberts ownership, in the sixteenth century, the bishops&#39; timber manor was reconstructed as a stone hunting lodge.</p><br>
<p>William Herbert was the grandson of Daffyd Gam, through his fathers second marriage to Gwladys ferch Dafydd Gam, and this familial connection may account for the long-held tradition, repeated by both William Coxe and Sir Joseph Bradney, that Hen Gwrt was the site of Daffyd Gams manor house. In his Introduction to The Diary of Walter Powell of Llantilio Crossenny in the County of Monmouth, Gentleman, Bradney records that David Gam&#39;s; "seat was the castle called Hengwrt (Old Court), of which only the moat remains." The church at Llantilio Crossenny has two stained glass windows, moved from Llantilio Court, showing the arms of Gam and of Herbert, but there is no documentary evidence linking Gam to the Hen Gwrt site.</p><br>
<p>In 1646, towards the end of the First English Civil War and after a three-month siege, Raglan Castle was surrendered to the Parliamentary forces of Thomas Fairfax by Henry Somerset, 1st Marquess of Worcester. The surrender, and subsequent slighting, of the castle also saw the end of the use of Hen Gwrt as a hunting lodge and its subsequent complete destruction.</p><br>
<p>In 1941, Sir Henry Mather Jackson, whose grandfather, Sir William Jackson had bought the site in 1873, and who had also owned White Castle, gave guardianship of Hen Gwrt to the Ministry of Public Building and Works. In that year, it was also designated a scheduled monument. It is now in the care of CADW.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The site comprises an island, rectangular in plan, and measuring 39m by 45m. The island is completely surrounded by a moat, giving dimensions of 72.5m by 76m overall, and is connected by a modern bridge over the moat, although a beam from the original bridge survives. The site offers no natural defences, and the platform within the moat has not been raised, suggesting that the moat was not intended to serve a serious defensive purpose.</p><br>
<p>Describing Hen Gwrt in his 2016 walking guide Offa&#39;s Dyke Pass, Mike Dunn writes; "the moat is clogged with bulrushes but still very picturesque and the site is open and grassy."</p><br>
<h2>Archaeology and excavations</h2><br>
<p>Writing in 2000, in his Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300-1500, Anthony Emery noted that "Hen Gwrt is one of the few (moated) sites to have been thoroughly examined." In the 1820s, a plan of "The foundations of the Old Court, taken as they were discovered" was drawn up at the time the stone from the site was removed for road metalling. Craster and Lewis suggest an alternative use for the stone may have been in the building of Llantilio Court. The plan shows the footings of a rectangular building, built in stone, and surrounded by a stone wall encircling the inner edge of the moat. The building has both a large and a small chamber, and two rooms which probably housed latrines. By the time of later excavations in the 1950s all traces of the stone foundations had gone, although elements indicating the earlier, timber-framed, manor house of the Bishops of Llandaff were uncovered. These excavations, the most detailed undertaken at the site, were led by O.E. Craster and J.M. Lewis and their findings published in Volume 112 of the Archaeologia Cambrensis, the journal of the Cambrian Archaeological Association, in 1963. CADW considers that the site still "offers considerable archaeological potential."</p><br>
<p>Woody Lake is a salt lake in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia found approximately 7 km north east of Esperance. The lake is found between Lake Wheatfield to the east and Windabout Lake to the west.</p><br>
<p>The lake covers an area of 40.1 hectare The reserve was originally gazetted as an ‘A’ class nature reserve in 1970. It was gazettted again in 1978 with the purpose of ‘Recreation and Conservation of Flora and Fauna’ when a 300 m wide limited access area on the north-east side of Wheatfield Lake was gazetted for recreational use. The reserve incorporates most of Windabout Lake, Woody Lake and Wheatfield Lake. The permanent wetlands formed by these lakes and Lake Warden form the Lake Warden System Ramsar site. The wetlands are connected by a series of channels with surface water from Coramup Creek entering the system at Lake Wheatfield and the outflow moving from east to west through Lake Wheatfield directly into Woody Lake via a well defined channel. Woody Lake then overflows into Windabout</p><br>
<p>Lake, which has previously into Lake Warden in high rainfall years.</p><br>
<p>The lakes are saline with Woody Lake having an average salinity of 7.37 parts per thousand. Seasonal and annual rainfall determine the average maximum depths of the lakes which vary from being dry in the summer to over one metre in depth in winter. At least 59 species of waterbird have been recorded in the Lake Warden, Woody Lake and Mullet Lake Nature Reserves.</p><br>
<p>The Mulville House is a historic house on Mountain Road in Norfolk, Connecticut. Built in 1931, it is unique among the Norfolk designs of New York City architect Alfredo S.G. Taylor in that it is executed in brick. It is a good example of Georgian Revival architecture with some of Taylor&#39;s signature elements. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Mulville House is located southwest of the village center of Norfolk, on the south side of Mountain Road just west of its junction with West Road. It is a 2-1/2 story brick building, with a gabled roof oriented perpendicular to the road and the main facade facing east. It basically has a saltbox profile, with the roof extending to the first floor in the rear, but there is a projecting section on the front of the house that also extends the roof slope to the first floor. Facing the street there are two broad segmented-arch doorways, one in the saltbox end and one on the front projecting. Hip-roofed wood-frame dormers project from both roof faces. The property also includes a garage, also built of brick; its windows feature small diamond panes.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1931 to a design by New York architect Alfredo S.G. Taylor, The unusual choice of building material for a work by Taylor was probably prompted by the client, who was a masonry contractor. The house was originally painted with white paint designed to wear off, leaving the mottled pattern seen today.</p><br>
<p>The Escanaba Central Historic District is a commercial historic district located along Ludington Street in Escanaba, Michigan, generally encompassing the 200-1800 blocks. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>When Escanaba was first platted in 1864, it was anticipated that First Avenue would be the city&#39;s primary thoroughfare. However, as the city grew, Ludington quickly became the primary commercial district, and businesses built along this street. The initial placement of buildings was scattered around the eastern end of Ludington, but by 1884 the blocks from 2nd through 7th streets were densely populated. By 1894, the densely developed portion of the commercial district generally extended through 8th Avenue, but scattered commercial frame buildings existed in blocks further west up to 14th Street. Most of this western section, though, was residential. By 1906, commercial buildings were infilling lots through to 13th Street. By this time, industrial and manufacturing companies were moving into the 1700 block, with Richter Brewing Co., the Escanaba Electric Street Railway, and sleigh manufacturer R. P. Linn Company in existence. By the 1920s, services stations, auto dealerships, and other automotive related businesses appeared along Ludington.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Escanaba Central Historic District is located at the center of the current city of Escanaba, and runs for over a mile along Ludington Street from the House of Ludington in the 200 block on the eastern end to the former Stegath Lumber Company located at the intersection of South 19th Street. The buildings in the district are mostly two stories in height, and date primarily from the early 1880s to the mid-1960s. The distribution of building ages echoes the development of the city, and generally progresses from east to west, running from the House of Ludington, portions of which may date to the 1860s, to the small commercial buildings in the 1600 block which date to the beginning of the 20th century. Landmark buildings in the district include the 1902-03 Carnegie Public Library, the 1914 Delta Hotel, and the 1900 Richter Brewery, all of which are individually listed on the National Register. IN addition, the district includes the 1902 City Hall, the 1931-32 Escanaba Junior High School, and the 1938-1939 St. Joseph&#39;s Catholic Church and Gymnasium/Bonifas Auditorium. The district also includes Neoclassical bank buildings, Late Victorian commercial blocks, and Period Revival and Moderne movie theaters, and later representatives of International and Mid-Century Modern influences.</p><br>
<h3>200 block</h3><br>
<p>The 200 block of Ludington at the eastern end of the district includes the three-story House of Ludington hotel, constructed in the nineteenth century. The House of Ludington may be the oldest operating hotel in the Upper Peninsula, with some portions dating back as far as 1864. Also in this block are the Modernist Chamber of Commerce Visitor Center.</p><br>
<h3>300 block</h3><br>
<p>The 300 block of Ludington includes the two-story yellow brick and masonry Delta County Building, also a Modernist structure, and the red brick Escanaba State Office Building located across the street.</p><br>
<h3>400 block</h3><br>
<p>The 400 block of Ludington includes a Late Victorian commercial structure at 413 Ludington, constructed in 1887. The block also includes the Escanaba City Hall and Library building, constructed in 1994, but this structure is excluded form the historic district.</p><br>
<h3>500 block</h3><br>
<p>The 500 block of Ludington includes the Harbor Tower apartment building, the second tallest structure in the Upper Peninsula. The block also includes a 1910 Neoclassical building which was formerly the post office, and the Elks Hall building, which was renovated in 1925 to exhibit Mission-style architectural characteristics.</p><br>
<h3>600 block</h3><br>
<p>The 600 block of Ludington includes the Daley Block and the Masonic Block, both constructed around 1890, the Michigan Building, built in the mid-1890s, and the Rathfonllst National Bank Building, built 1903. These structures are fine examples of red Lake Superior sandstone Romanesque architecture. The block also includes the Delta Hotel.</p><br>
<h3>700 block</h3><br>
<p>The 700 block of Ludington includes more examples of fine two-story commercial construction, including red Lake Superior sandstone work in the 1914 Erickson Dry Goods store building. The block also includes the 1917 Escanaba National Bank. The district stretches along 7th street to include the 1902 Carnegie Public Library and the nearby 1939 St. Joseph&#39;s Church and the associated 1938 William Boniface Auditorium.</p><br>
<h3>800 block</h3><br>
<p>The 800 block of Ludington consists primarily of two-story Commercial Brick buildings, dating from the 1920s and 1930s. The block also includes the 1935 Streamline Moderne Michigan Theater, and the distinctive Swanson&#39;s Service Station, dating from the early 1930s.</p><br>
<h3>900 block</h3><br>
<p>The 900 block of Ludington also consists primarily of two-story Commercial Brick buildings, but also includes the 1914 Flemish Revival Delft Theater, whose style is echoed in the nearby Arcade Recreation Parlor Building and c. 1920 Bonefeld Furniture Building.</p><br>
<h3>1000 block</h3><br>
<p>The 1000 block of Ludington consists of a series of early twentieth-century commercial buildings, including two former theater buildings. These are the c. 1896 four-story Fair Savings Bank Store/Ben&#39;s Theater (renovated in the early 20th century) and the 1906-13 Grand Theater. The block also includes the 1925-29 J. C. Penny building. The historic district extends along 11th Street to include the red sandstone Romanesque old City Hall and the 1912 the Neo-Gothic Bethany Swedish Lutheran Church and associated parsonage.</p><br>
<h3>1100 block</h3><br>
<p>The 1100 block of Ludington is primarily composed of remodeled two-story brick commercial buildings. However, the block also includes the 1903 four-story Fair Savings Store building.</p><br>
<h3>1200 block</h3><br>
<p>The 1200 block of Ludington is also primarily composed of remodeled two-story brick commercial buildings. However, the block also includes the 1910 three-story Kratze Department Store building and the 1892 two-story North Star Building. The North Star Building is topped with a distinct and decorative cornice.</p><br>
<h3>1300 block</h3><br>
<p>The 1300 block of Ludington is primarily composed of small brick commercial blocks. The block notably includes Sayklly&#39;s, an Escanaba confectionery in business since 1906. Other structures in the block include the 1930s era UNeeda Lunch diner (remodeled in the 1950s) and the 1904 three-story Jepsen Block on the corner.</p><br>
<h3>1400 block</h3><br>
<p>The 1400 block of Ludington is also primarily composed of small brick commercial blocks on the north side. The south side of the street contains the 1920s Northern Motors dealership, which has been a Ford automobile dealership for over eight decades.</p><br>
<h3>1500 block</h3><br>
<p>The 1500 block of Ludington includes the 1914 Home Electric Building and the 1915 Clements Building, which is distinguished by its polychromatic brickwork. The north side of the street houses the 1930-31 Neo-Romanesque Escanaba Junior High School.</p><br>
<h3>1600 block</h3><br>
<p>The 1600 block of Ludington includes the Richter Brewery complex, built around 1900, which consists of a two-story Classical Revival administration building and the nearby four-story Brew House. The block also includes a string of renovated single-story commercial buildings. The district also includes two industrial buildings on Stephenson Avenue, one of which was constructed in 1892 and housed cars from the Escanaba Street Railway Company.</p><br>
<h3>1700 block</h3><br>
<p>The 1700 block of Ludington includes two frame commercial buildings dating from the 19th century and a 1930s concrete block and tile former service station. It also includes a c. 1950 former Dairy Queen and a broad front gabled frame structure constructed in the early 1900s that formerly housed the Stegath Lumber Company.</p><br>
<p>The Noble House is a historic house on Highfield Road in Norfolk, Connecticut. Built in 1919, it is a prominent example of Georgian Revival architecture by the noted New York City architect Alfredo S.G. Taylor. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Low House stands in a small residential area east of Norfolks village center, down a private lane extending south from Laurel Way Extension. Set on an expansive landscaped property, it is a sprawling 2-1/2 story wood frame structure with Georgian Revival features. Its main portion has two gable-roofed sections set at right angles, joined by an angled porch section to the northeast and a two-story three-by-three section to the southwest, which give the building a roughly rectangular shape. The ground level openings of the porch area have a signature Taylor elements, segmented-arch tops. The northeast angled section has an eyebrow dormer in the roof, and has the main entrance under a two-story portico supported by slender columns. The property also includes a period chauffeurs house.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1919; it was designed by Alfredo S.G. Taylor, a New York City architect and a principal of the firm Levi and Taylor. Taylor summered in Norfolk, where he is credited with designing more than thirty buildings, many of them summer properties. This house is the largest and most elaborate of Taylor&#39;s Georgian Revival designs in Norfolk.</p><br>
<p>Monte Politri or Bric Rosso is a 3,026 m a.s.l. mountain of the Cottian Alps, located in Italy.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The mountain is located on the ridge between Val Chisone (North) and Valle Germanasca (South). Going West an unnamed saddle at 2863 divides Monte Politri from Fea Nera (2,946 m a.s.l.), while going East another saddle at 2,880 m separates it from Truc Cialabrie (2,936 m a.s.l.).</p><br>
<p>Administratively the north face of the mountain belongs to the Fenestrelle municipality (comune) and the South one to Massello municipality, both in the Metropolitan City of Turin. In clear days its summit offers a good view of Western Alps, a little limited towards NW by the neighbouring Monte Albergian.</p><br>
<h3>SOIUSA classification</h3><br>
<p>According to SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps) the mountain can be classified in the following way:</p><br>
<p>main part=Western Alps</p><br>
<p>major sector=North Western Alps</p><br>
<p>section=Cottian Alps</p><br>
<p>subsection=Alpi del Monginevro</p><br>
<p>supergroup=Catena Bucie-Grand Queyron-Orsiera</p><br>
<p>group=Gruppo Queyron-Albergian-Sestrière</p><br>
<p>subgroup=Sottogruppo Ghinivert-Albergian</p><br>
<p>code=I/A-4.II-A.2.b</p><br>
<h2>Access to the summit</h2><br>
<p>The usual route to Monte Politri starts from Colle dell&#39;Albergian (2,713 m), which can be reached by waymarked footpath strarting either from Balsiglia (Valle Germanasca) or from Laux (Val Chisone. While long from both these starting points the route does not require alpinistic skills Several climbing routes were described around the mountain, ranging from PD- to D+ grade.</p><br>
<p>The Packhorse Inn in Southstoke within the English county of Somerset is a Grade II listed building which was largely rebuilt in 1674. It was changed from a farmhouse to a pub in the 19th century but closed in 2012. A local campaign has achieved designation as an asset of community value has raised money to renovate it. They are aiming to reopen the pub.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building existed as a farmhouse although its date of construction is unknown. It was rebuilt in 1674 when the date was carved into a stone over the front door. It became a pub in the mid 19th century, although another building in the village had previously been known as "The Packhorse Inn". In 1939 the licensee was Mrs Emily Rose. The inn was owned by George’s Brewery.</p><br>
<p>It closed as a pub in 2012 and was sold with plans being submitted to turn it into a private house. A campaign has been instigated by the local population to save the pub and they successfully campaigned to have it designated as an asset of community value by Bath and North East Somerset council. This provides some protection from development under the Localism Act 2011.</p><br>
<p>The campaign group organised a share issue with over 200 investors raising £601,000 and made plans for the refurbishment and reopening of the pub. By September 2016 the total raised reached £685,000, enough to buy the building.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The two-storey stone building has freestone quoins and a tiled roof. The gabled dormers contain attics. Underneath the building is a cellar. It has a taproom which can seat 20 people and a lounge bar for another 20 with a large garden.</p><br>
<p>Jørnfjord is a fjord in the municipality of Bø in Vesterålen, Norway.</p><br>
<p>The fjord is an arm of Eidsfjord, and the inlet to the ford lies between Straumsnes to the west and Guvåg to the east. The fjord extends 7 km north to Verhalsen. The fjord reaches a depth of 67 m northeast of Auvåg.</p><br>
<p>The village of Auvåg lies on the west side of the fjord slightly past the inlet, and the village of Røsnes lies on the opposite shore, to the east. Immediately north of Auvåg there are two bays, Nordvåg and Langfjord. A small fjord arm further into the fjord, to the northeast, is named Kvernfjord. It extends 800 m inland to a village of the same name. The village of Klakksjorda lies on the other side, along an arm of the fjord named Vestfjord.</p><br>
<p>County Road 913 runs along the entire east side of the fjord.</p><br>
<p>The Aby Lagoon complex is the second largest lagoon in Ivory Coast, after Ébrié Lagoon. As a whole, the lagoon has an area of, a mean depth of, and a volume of.</p><br>
<p>The Aby Lagoon complex comprises three named sections: from west to east, they are the Aby Lagoon proper, Tendo Lagoon, and Ehy Lagoon. Covering, the main Aby Lagoon is the largest of the three sections, extending 24.5 km north from the mouth of the complex and having a maximum width of and a mean depth of.</p><br>
<p>The Bia River feeds the main Aby Lagoon from the north, while the Tano River discharges into Tendo Lagoon from the east. These two rivers combine to drain an area of.</p><br>
<p>The climate in the area features two rainy seasons (May to July; October to November) and two dry seasons (August to September; December to April). The annual rainfall is about.</p><br>
<p>Agriculture and fishing are the main economic activities around the lagoon. Ethmalosa fimbriata accounts for 60% to 80% of the fish catch in the lagoon. The main crops in the surrounding area are coconut, oil palm, banana, cocoa and coffee.</p><br>
<p>The Ehotilé Islands are protected as Îles Ehotilés National Park, established in 1974 on the initiative of the local communities. They also form part of the Ramsar site of Iles Ehotilé-Essouman, which covers of the lagoon and surrounding areas.</p><br>
<p>The Norfolk Country Club is a private country club at 50 Golf Road in Norfolk, Connecticut. Founded in the 1910s, it features a nine-hole golf course designed by A.W. Tillinghast, and a clubhouse designed by Alfredo S.G. Taylor that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Activities at the club include dining and social events, golf, and tennis.</p><br>
<h2>Setting</h2><br>
<p>The Norfolk Country Club is located southwest of the village center of Norfolk, a summer resort community in the northwestern hills of Connecticut. The club is set on the west side of Golf Drive, on a roughly L-shaped parcel of 36 acre. The clubhouse is located adjacent to Golf Drive, as are the tennis courts, with the golf course occupying most of its property. The course was designed by A.W. Tillinghast and went into service in 1928.</p><br>
<h2>Clubhouse</h2><br>
<p>The clubhouse is a U-shaped wood frame structure with Georgian Revival design. The open mouth of the U faces south toward the main parking area, and its western facade looks over the golf course, with a band of windows providing a view. Two brick chimneys rise near the bends in the U. Small gabled dormers adorn the roof faces on the inside of the U. The main entrance is in the center of the U, sheltered by a projecting gabled portico, which is supported by round columns and has a segmented arch at its center. The ends of the U legs have gabled ends with Palladian windows. The clubhouse was built in 1915-17 to a design by Alfredo S.G. Taylor, a New York City architect who summered in Norfolk, and is credited with more than thirty commissions in the community.</p><br>
<p>The John Glover Noble House is a historic house at 586 Danbury Road  in New Milford, Connecticut. Built in the 1820s, it is fine local example of Federal period architecture executed in brick. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. It has most recently been used for commercial purposes, housing an antique shop.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The John Glover Noble House is located on the west side of Danbury Road, a short way north of New Milford&#39;s border with Brookfield. It is a 2-1/2 story brick building, with a side gable roof and four end chimneys. It is oriented facing east on a rise above the road. It has a five-bay front facade, with sash windows set in rectangular openings topped by splayed stone lintels. The front entrance is at the center, flanked by sidelight windows and pilasters. It is sheltered by a shed-roof portico with slender round columns. A Palladian window is set above the entrance, with pilasters articulating its elements.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in the 1820s by John Glover Noble, a descendant of one of New Milford&#39;s founders, and remained in the family for several generations. Its bricks were made in a family brickyard, its iron fixtures in a family ironworks, and glass for its windows came from a glassworks in Marbledale. The house was described in the 1930s by Edna Ferber as "the most beautiful in America" in her novel An American Beauty. It is set to be opened as an antique shop in 2017.</p><br>
<p>Monte Albergian is a 3,041 m a.s.l. mountain of the Cottian Alps, located in Italy.</p><br>
<p>A battalion of 3rd Alpini Regiment, which during World War I earned a Silver Medal of Military Valor, was named after Monte Albergian.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>The name Albergian could come from the ancient celtic population of the Egyans (in Italian Egidini) and could mean High Egyans&#39; mountain (Alberg-Egyan) in their language. Another theory link the name of the mountain the Janus, a roman solar deity.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The mountain is located on a brief ridge heading North which originates from the water divide between Val Chisone and Valle Germanasca. Going South an unnamed saddle at 2,906 m divides Monte Albergian from Monte Gran Miuls (2,974 m a.s.l.), the latter standing on the Germanasca/Chisone water divide.</p><br>
<p>Administratively the eastern face of the Albergian belongs to the Fenestrelle municipality (comune) and the western one to Pragelato municipality, both in the Metropolitan City of Turin. In clear days its summit, marked by a cross, offers a great view of Western Alps.</p><br>
<h3>SOIUSA classification</h3><br>
<p>According to SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps) the mountain can be classified in the following way:</p><br>
<p>main part=Western Alps</p><br>
<p>major sector=North Western Alps</p><br>
<p>section=Cottian Alps</p><br>
<p>subsection=Alpi del Monginevro</p><br>
<p>supergroup=Catena Bucie-Grand Queyron-Orsiera</p><br>
<p>group=Gruppo Queyron-Albergian-Sestrière</p><br>
<p>subgroup=Sottogruppo Ghinivert-Albergian</p><br>
<p>code=I/A-4.II-A.2.b</p><br>
<h2>Access to the summit</h2><br>
<p>The usual route to Monte Albergian is the waymarked footpath starting from Soucheres Hautes (1,518 m), a frazione (village) of Pragelato municipaliy. While long (more than 1,500 metres of vertical drop) the route does not require alpinistic skills. On the WSW ridge of Albergian was described a climbing route of F+ grade.</p><br>
<p>Lake Golovița is part of a complex of lagoons on Romanias Black Sea coast. It is connected to the larger Lake Razelm on the north by a channel 1.9 mi wide, to Lake Zmeica on the south by three narrow channels, and separated from the Black Seas salt water by a narrow spit of sand no more than 150 ft wide at some points along its eastern margin. This closure was completed artificially in the 1970s, and has caused the lagoon to lose all salinity, increase renewal times to over a year, and develop eutrophication. It is part of the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve.</p><br>
<p>Because of their wide connection, Golovița is often subsumed under Lake Razelm in official documents. The Lake Razelm/Golovița complex is the largest lake in Romania.</p><br>
<p>The Norfolk Downs Shelter is a historic former golf club pavilion on Golf Drive in Norfolk, Connecticut. It was built in 1907 for a now-abandoned nine-hole golf course known as Norfolk Downs, to design by New York City architect Alfredo S.G. Taylor. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 for its association with the architect.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Norfolk Downs Shelter stands on the eastern edge of a large parcel of land south of the Norfolk Curling Club and Norfolk Country Club, southwest of the village center of Norfolk. The land is now mostly wooded, with some open areas, including between it and the road. The structure is a single story in height, with a central octagonal section flanked by uncovered rectangular wings. The central portion is covered by a low-pitch octagonal roof. The walls are built out of rubblestone, as is the chimney on the north side of the center. Access to the shelter is via wide steps facing east on the southern flanking terrace. The building was once enclosed with glass windows, but those and its interior fixtures have been removed. In the interior the roughly finished undressed rafters of the roof are visible.</p><br>
<p>The Norfolk Downs golf course was a public nine-hole course established in 1897 by the Eldridge sisters. This pavilion was designed for them in 1907 by Alfredo S.G. Taylor, The Eldridge sisters objected to the use of the facility on Sundays (the Sabbath), which prompted other citizens to form the adjacent (and private) Norfolk Country Club. Attempts to merge the two nine-hole courses into a single eighteen-hole course were unsuccessful, and the Downs was eventually abandoned. The surviving pavilion is seen as an architectural predecessor to the Tamarack Lodge Bungalow, another Taylor work in Norfolk.</p><br>
<p>Monte Curral , is a small hill in the interior of the island of Sal in Cape Verde east of the center of the island capital Espargos. The mountain is of volcanic origin and features mainly eroded volcanic caldeira. Its elevation is 109 meters, some incorrectly has it at 107 meters. It is also the highest point in the much of Espargos.</p><br>
<p>Neighborhoods bordering the mountain are Pretória in the east, the Bairro Novo section, Morro Curral in the south and the City Center in the west, much of the mountain is in Morro Curral and its boundaries encircles at the urban limits of the north. Nearby is the Espargos Center Elementary School near the foot of the mountain.</p><br>
<p>The mountain features the most of all, an air control tower for Amílcar Cabral International Airport and that section forms a part of the airport property cut off for nearly a kilometer with the rest of the airport. One of a few of these founded in African and could be the only one in the western part of West Africa. It is also a communications tower which is used for radio and television and signals throughout the island, it is also used for phones. One of these is Record Cabo Verde which is on channel 37 for all of Sal along with BOOM and Zap TVs which were installed in the late 2000s. One of the towers is also used as a radar for monitoring air traffic, one of three in the nation. The facilities are connected by a single road with Morro Curral, the southern portion until 1950 was used for ranching.</p><br>
<p>At the control tower, one of its employees was Lúcio Antunes who later became a football manager, his first club was Académica do Sal from 2009 to 2010.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Before Espargos was founded in the late 1940s, the slopes were used as a cattle ranch. Morro Curral was used as a ranch probably in the 16th and the 17th centuries and from around the 19th century to after Espargos was founded around the 1950s. Hence its etymology of the neighborhood and mountain name.</p><br>
<p>After Espargos was founded, an air control tower would be built at the summit of the mountain, radio transmitters were added in the 1970s, television in the late 1990s and cell phone usage around the early 2000s.</p><br>
<p>A built-up area appeared in the southwestern portion in the 1950s, then spread east in the late 1960s, much of it became concentrated in the 1990s and became surrounded around the 2000s. In the outer parts of the foot of the mountain, housing developments, complexes and some other buildings were built.</p><br>
<h2>Panoramic views</h2><br>
<p>At the top, it offers panoramic views of the city and most of the island up to Palmeira, Monte Grande, Pedra de Lume and most of the south of the island.</p><br>
<p>Puck&#39;s Glen is a river-formed ravine on the Cowal peninsula in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, with a popular scenic walking trail beside the Eas Mòr stream . It comes under the Forestry Commission which highlights it as a feature of the Argyll Forest Park , and describes it as "One of the most magical forests in Scotland, with a delightful trail along a rocky gorge."</p><br>
<p>The stream tumbles down a series of waterfalls and rapids, joining the River Eachaig about 1.2 km south of the entrance to the Benmore Botanic Garden. A car park off the A815 road (about 10 km from Dunoon on the road to Loch Eck) gives access by a track to the foot of the glen path, as well as forest paths giving an alternative route to the top of the glen.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Benmore Estate, previously hunting grounds of the Campbells of Ballochyle, was improved by a succession of owners in the 19th century. Forestry plantation began in the 1820s, and extensive garden improvements were made from 1862 by James Piers Patrick.</p><br>
<p>The Ordnance Survey from 1865 shows the Eas Mòr gorge extending uphill through a small area of woodland into open moorland with some trees in the ravine.</p><br>
<h3>Benmore Estate</h3><br>
<p>In 1870 the Greenock sugar refiner and philanthropist James Duncan bought the estate, and added the adjacent Kilmun and Bernice Estates. He arranged extensive plantings, including more than six million trees around the estate, and added paths leading up the Eas Mòr gorge for his visitors to enjoy the magical atmosphere of the glen, reminiscent of the mythological Puck, the character Puck in William Shakespeares play A Midsummer Nights Dream.</p><br>
<p>The Ordnance Survey map as revised in 1898 shows paths and bridges up the Eas Mòr gorge; the coniferous plantation of Uig Wood extends on each side.</p><br>
<p>Henry Younger of the Edinburgh brewer Younger&#39;s bought the estate in 1889, and with his son Harry George Younger made many improvements to the woods and gardens.</p><br>
<p>Two strips of Japanese larch planted at Puck&#39;s Glen around 1903 were successfully established by 1912, though European larch had failed in the locality.</p><br>
<p>In 1918, the Anchor Line Staff Magazine noted that Benmore House was celebrated for "Puck&#39;s Glen with its amber stream cutting a channel through moss-draped schistose rock, and tumbling from one silver rock-chalice to another."</p><br>
<h3>Forestry Commission</h3><br>
<p>In 1924, Harry George Younger presented the estates to the Forestry Commissioners.</p><br>
<p>The Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society made a visit in July 1925, and described Pucks Glen as "a striking example of how man, working hand in hand with nature, has made what was once a bare hillside ravine into one of the most lovely walks imaginable." Starting near the sixth milestone from Dunoon on the old main road to Arrochar, the bridle-path "by the stream which the Ordnance Survey map calls the Eas Mor, but which is better known as Pucks Burn" was soon hemmed in by steep banks, "while growing on their slopes are conifers of a dozen or more varieties, rhododendrons, and many of the rarer species of ferns. The path follows the stream through the whole course of the ravine".</p><br>
<p>In commemoration of the improvements James Duncan had made to the estate, Younger provided the Bayley Balfour Memorial Hut above the glen, dedicated to the memory of the botanist Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour. The hut was designed by Sir Robert Lorimer with wood panelling featuring all the varieties of timber grown at Benmore, The dedication ceremony in September 1928 enjoyed fine weather; The Gardeners Chronicle described its site as commanding "beautiful views above a gorge where the singing waters fall to the Eachaig River from lofty heights&#39; " amidst towering woods, with Beinn Mhòr visible through a faint blue haze.</p><br>
<p>In 1929 the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh opened the Younger Botanic Garden in the Benmore estate as its first outstation, and in the 1930s the Forestry Commission established Kilmun Arboretum to the south of Puck&#39;s Glen, planting large groups of tree species rather than individual specimens</p><br>
<p>The Forestry Commissions Scottish National Forest Park Guide, issued in 1947, calls Pucks Glen "a rocky cleft beside a rushing stream, leading up to a fine viewpoint, which may be visited without charge or formality", and describes access by Clyde steamer and bus services.</p><br>
<p>In 1948, the Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal noted regular visits to Puck&#39;s Glen, "attractive at all seasons but at its best in the Rhododendron month of June", and praised the view "from the Rest Hut, exquisitely designed by Robert Lorimer".</p><br>
<p>The Bayley Balfour Memorial Hut, Pucks Hut, was moved in 1968 to the walled garden in the Botanic Garden. It originally had a fireplace and chimney, but these were not reconstructed, and were replaced by an additional window. In 1992 the hut was listed as a Grade C listed building. The Pucks Glen path needed repair, and was restored in May 1986, with renewed bridges.</p><br>
<h2>Woodland trails</h2><br>
<p>The high rainfall, with an average annual precipitation of around 200 to 230 cm (80 to 90 in), is suited to temperate rainforest and associated undergrowth. The acid soil makes the area particularly suitable for conifers. The Forestry Commission has planted coniferous trees at the sides of Puck&#39;s Glen, which runs through Uig Wood. The lower slopes of this woodland feature some of the earliest tree plantations on the estate.</p><br>
<p>The wood forms part of Benmore forest, which features waymarked trails leading visitors among trees including giant Californian redwoods, Douglas fir and Western hemlock. Pucks Glen itself is part of the Pucks Glen Gorge Trail, leading from the car park, and the Black Gates Trail which starts at the entrance to Benmore Botanic Garden, and goes past extensive mature conifers on the hillside of Benmore forest before connecting to the top of the Upper Puck&#39;s Glen loop.</p><br>
<p>A signpost at the forestry track crossing Pucks Glen points south along the track to Kilmun Arboretum and north along the track to Benmore Botanic Garden. It also points to the Upper Pucks Glen Loop path which continues further uphill beside the stream before connecting to the top of the Black Gates Trail. Some detailed routes are available online at Walkhighlands.</p><br>
<p>The Pljačkovac / Пљачковац is a short river in Central Bosnia, right tributary of Ugar, the largest right tributary of the Vrbas.</p><br>
<p>Pljačkovac rises above the south Korićanian plateau at elevation of about 1360 m. In fact arises from two streams, one of which runs under Žežnička Greda (1477 m), and the other from the slopes of the hill Obadište (1466 m). They are connected at the end of Austro-Hungarian road and swing to pull forest goods. Now is the crossroads of four local road leading to Korićani (the north side) and Pougarje or village Sažići, Babanovac, Mudrike and Vitovlje (in the south).</p><br>
<p>Except several small creeks on both sides, there are no major tributaries. In the sixties of the 20th century, on the Pljačkovcu there were three watermills.</p><br>
<p>Karataş Islets are two Mediterranean islets in Turkey.</p><br>
<p>The islands face Karataş ilçe (district) of Adana Province at 36&deg;33&prime;23&Prime;N latitude, 35&deg;23&prime;21&Prime;E longitude and 36&deg;33&prime;27&Prime;N latitude, 35&deg;23&prime;44&Prime;E longitude.Their distance to Karataş is less than 1 km. The area of the western islet is about 5,000 m&sup2; and the area of the eastern islet is about 7,000 m&sup2;.</p><br>
<p>According to the municipality of Karataş these two islets were named "Didimae" in the antiquity. Currently, the islands are uninhabited. But, the ruins around the islets show that these islets were inhabited in the antiquity. According to the researcher İsa Besiç, during the construction of some 19th-century buildings in the mainland (Anatolia) construction material from the islets were used.</p><br>
<p>Clapton Court is a Grade II listed building, in Clapton in Gordano within the English county of Somerset.</p><br>
<p>Local lords of the manor, the Arthur family originally built on the site. The current porch tower remains from the 15th-century house; the rest was added in the 17th and 19th centuries. It has been owned by many local gentry, but changed from mansion house to farmhouse.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first manor house on the site was built by Sir William Arthur in the 13th century. Sir Thomas Arthur was the member of parliament for Somerset in the 1390s. In the 14th century his descendant Richard Arthur added to the house. He married Alice the daughter of James Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley and the entwined coats of arms of the two families appear on the entrance porch. Edward Arthur died in 1592, his daughter married William Winter (or Wynter) of Dyrham Park and the house was passed down in the Winter family. Their tombs can be seen in the neighbouring Church of St Michael.</p><br>
<p>Subsequent owners included: James Davis, who was a mine owner in the Victorian era, Sir Edward Payson Wills of the Wills baronets. In the 19th century it was owned by Sir Ernest Wills who was related to the family of W.D. & H.O. Wills the tobacco importers. It was then bought by Lady Smyth of Ashton Court and subsequently by Con Stevens. During the centuries the house moved from being a mansion house to a farmhouse and had various renovations and extensions.</p><br>
<p>In 2009 planning permission was gained to demolish some of the farm buildings and convert others into holiday homes and offices.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house has red sandstone walls, which are supported by buttresses in the northeast corner. The oldest part of the building is the 15th-century three-storey porch tower at the north front of the house. The rest of the building is of two storeys and dates from the 17th and 19th centuries.</p><br>
<p>A 13th-century wooden screen from the house has been in the Church of St Michael.</p><br>
<p>The archway entrance was built in the late 17th or early 18th century.</p><br>
<p>The Procurators House, , Magor, Monmouthshire, is a large, ruined mansion of the sixteenth-century, standing next to St Marys Church in the centre of the village. Although of ecclesiastical origin, it is unlikely the present house was ever occupied by a Procurator, who was a church official responsible for the collection of tithes. The lands owned by the Church of St Mary were controlled by the Abbey of Anagni, in Italy, in the Middle Ages and it is possible that an earlier building on the same site housed the abbeys procurator. The current building post-dates ownership by the abbey, however, and it was constructed when the avowson of St Marys was controlled by Tintern Abbey. The building is referenced in a document of 1585, when it is referred to as "the mansion house belonging to the vicarage of Magor." This accounts for the two alternative names for the ruin, Magor Mansion and The Church House.</p><br>
<p>The building or, more accurately, its site, is one of only two examples of such procurators&#39; houses known in Britain. Now completely ruined, the current house was constructed c.1500–1550. It is both a Scheduled Monument and a Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>During the thirteenth century, the Abbey of Anagni had become wealthy and powerful, producing four Popes within 100 years. In 1238, during the reign of Pope Gregory IX, who was born in Anagni, the church of St Mary&#39;s, Magor, and its associated lands, came under control of the abbey and remained its responsibility until 1385. The church was donated to the abbey by Gilbert Marshal, 4th Earl of Pembroke and Lord of Chepstow. In 1385, the church and tithes were leased, and subsequently permanently acquired, by the Cistercian Order of monks located at Tintern Abbey. and is referenced as a"mansion belonging to the vicarage of Magor" in a document of 1585.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The original building was constructed of Old Red Sandstone, over a rubble core, and with Triassic sandstone dressings. It was two storeys high with a cellar below.</p><br>
<p>The Procurator&#39;s House, or, more accurately, its site, is one of only two such houses known in Britain, the other being Chesterton Tower, near Cambridge.</p><br>
<p>A plaque attached to the ruins suggests that they date from the 14th century, rather than the 16th, and represent the remains of the original procurator&#39;s house. This claim is repeated on the Magor with Undy Community Council website. However, it is contradicted by John Newman, author of the Pevsner The Buildings of Wales: Gwent/Monmouthshire, by the British Listed Buildings website, and by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.</p><br>
<p>A Scheduled Monument, the ruins are also a Grade II* listed building due to their "important architectural and historic interest."</p><br>
<p>The Old Riverton Inn is a historic hotel and tavern at 436 East River Road in the Riverton village of Barkhamsted, Connecticut. Built in 1811, it has been in continuous operation as a traveler&#39;s accommodation since then. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Old Riverton Inn occupies a prominent position on the east side of the village of Riverton, standing on the east side of East River Road opposite the bridge across the East Branch Farmington River, the only bridge spanning that river in the immediate vicinity. It is a 2-1/2 story gable-roof wood frame structure, set on a brick foundation exposed on the western (street) side due to the sloping lot, giving it a three-story appearance. The street facade is five bays wide, with the main entrance originally located in the center bay. Due to road widening, the buildings 19th-century porch was lost, and the entrance (its original architectural surround preserved) was relocated to the south side. The main facade now has a three-part window topped by a broken pediment in the doors location, and a wide bay window in the basement level.</p><br>
<p>The inn was built about 1811, probably by Jesse Ives, to capitalize on traffic in the area. The bridge across the river was built in 1790, and was the only crossing for miles in either direction. The north-south road was a major route between New Hartford and Massachusetts, and the western road led to Winsted. The village of Riverton also began to assume its own economic importance soon afterward, with the establishment in 1818 of the chair-making factory of Lambert Hitchcock, some of whose buildings survive across the river. The inn survived the village&#39;s economic decline after it failed to secure a railroad connection, and has been operated for as a traveler accommodation for all but a twelve-year period in the early 20th century, when it housed migrant workers.</p><br>
<p>Domuz Island Domuz Adası, literally "Pig Island") is a Mediterranean island of Turkey. The island was popularly named after wild boars which were thought to live in the island.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Administratively, the island is a part of Fethiye ilçe (district) of Muğla Province. It is situated in the Gulf of Fethiye at 36&deg;39&prime;41&Prime;N latitude, 28&deg;53&prime;58&Prime;E longitude. The area of the island is about 1.5 km. The distance to the Tersane Island to the east is about and to the Kapıdağ Peninsula (Dalaman) of the mainland (Anatolia) to the south west is 100 m. There are pine and olive trees on the island. With beautiful scenery, it is a popular spot in daily excursion tours in the gulf.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>There are ruins, in and around the island. But the island now is uninhabited. During the Ottoman era, the island was purchased by Abbas II of Egypt, an Ottoman viceroy of Egypt. During the Turkish Republic it was sold to Sedat Simavi a journalist and a businessman. Simavi was the owner of Hürriyet newspaper and the island was also called "Hürriyet Island".</p><br>
<p>The Old Court, Llangattock Lingoed, Monmouthshire is a medieval hall-house dating from the late 15th century, with additions from the 17th and 19th centuries. "Of unusual sophistication", it is a Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The original house was a hall-house, probably dating from 1480–1520. In the 17th century, the Court was greatly extended, with a second storey being added, and the construction of wings to the North-West and South-East. Further modifications were made in the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The Court was home to the Morgans, a cadet branch of the Morgans of Tredegar House. Its most prominent inhabitant was the English Civil war general, Sir Thomas Morgan, 1st Baronet. Sir Thomas seized Chepstow Castle for the Parliamentary forces, and assisted Thomas Fairfax at the siege of Raglan Castle. He subsequently worked towards the Restoration of Charles II.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The house is of two storeys, with attics, and an interior still "largely in (its) 17th century state."</p><br>
<p>Tersane Island  is a Mediterranean Island of Turkey.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Administratively, the island is a part of Fethiye ilçe (district) of Muğla Province. It is situated in the Gulf of Fethiye at 36&deg;40&prime;14&Prime;N latitude, 28&deg;55&prime;09&Prime;E longitude. It is separated from Domuz Island by a narrow channel to the west. The triangular island has a surface area of about 2.5 km&sup2;. There are three small bays and the bay at the north west corner is well protected.The northeast part of the bay has a very shallow harbour.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The ancient name of the island was Telandria. There are ruins from the Lycian era.</p><br>
<p>During the Ottoman Empire age the island was probably a ship building and repair harbor. the population of the island left the island following the Population exchange agreement between Greece and Turkey. Although the island is currently uninhabited there is a restaurant with a quay for the yachters.</p><br>
<p>Sandy Island is an island in the Caribbean Sea which belongs to the Lesser Antilles and is part of the British overseas territories. It lies west of Anguilla.</p><br>
<p>Sandy Island is a small island on which a local restaurant is located. From Sandy Ground Anguilla can be reached in 15 minutes, and the owner of the restaurant takes care of the free boat crossing. The island is small (ca. 250x75 meters), consisting of round white sands with in the middle a little vegetation with shrubs and palm trees.</p><br>
<p>The island is popular with tourists for the richness of its seabed, the beach of fine sand and coral for the presence of a business (bar / restaurant) famous in the area.</p><br>
<p>In the late nineties the facilities were severely damaged by the passage of several tropical cyclones and, during one of these storms, vessel went aground on the island. The buildings were rebuilt later.</p><br>
<p>Even the flora was damaged by tropical storms, the palm trees and shrubs were uprooted by strong winds giving the island an aspect even more barren, almost without vegetation.</p><br>
<p>The Phelps Farm Historic District encompasses a collection of farm and residential properties on Connecticut Route 183 and Prock Hill Road in Colebrook, Connecticut. This area is a virtually intact mid-19th century farmstead, with its land under a single family&#39;s ownership since the 18th century. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Phelps Farm property consists of about 35 acre of land in northern Colebrook, a Litchfield County hill town on the state&#39;s northern border. The property is bounded on the west and south by Sandy Brook, and extends onto the east side of CT 183 and Prock Hill Road, where some of the district buildings are located. Most notable of these is the Arah Phelps Inn, at the junction of the two roads, a fine Federal period house that was also operated by the family as a tavern. On the west side is the Greek Revival house of Edward Phelps, along with a number of 19th century outbuildings. Most of the farm is open pastureland.</p><br>
<p>The farm&#39;s history really begins in the 1780s, when Arah Phelps dammed Sandy Brook and built a sawmill. He and his father Josiah built the inn in 1793, and it soon became the center of a small community. The inn was an economic success as the road (now CT 183) was part of the stagecoach route between Hartford, Connecticut and Albany, New York. In addition to operating the tavern and mill, Arah also sold his own farm products at the inn. His son Edward took over the property in the 1830s, and it is during his ownership that many of the surviving farm buildings were constructed. In addition to the new family house, he also built a fine Gothic Revival cottage as housing for farm hands. The family fortunes waned in the early 20th century, but Phelps family members continued to retain ownership of most of the nearly 500 acre. More than 300 acre of surrounding land have been given to the Nature Conservancy, and the farmstead is under a preservation covenant with Historic New England.</p><br>
<p>The Arah Phelps Inn is a historic house and traveler accommodation at Prock Hill Road and Connecticut Route 183 in Colebrook, Connecticut. Built in 1787, it is one Colebrook&#39;s oldest surviving buildings, and served as a fixture on the main Hartford-Albany stagecoach route for many years. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. It is now a private residence.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Arah Phelps Inn stands in a rural area of northern Colebrook, at the east side of the junction of CT 183 with Prock Hill Road. It is part of a larger cluster of Phelps family farm buildings in the immediate area. It is a two-story wood frame structure, with a hip roof, two interior chimneys, and a clapboarded exterior. It has a five-bay front facade, with a center entrance framed by pilasters, transom window, and corniced entablature. The interior follows an unusual center-hall plan, with the main stairs placed at the rear of the house, owing to the presence of a full-width ballroom space at the front of the second floor. Portions of the building were damaged by fire in 1942, but underwent a sensitive reconstruction with period materials.</p><br>
<p>The inn was built in 1787 by Arah Phelps and his father Josiah, Jr. The land on which it stands was originally granted to Josiah Phelps Sr. in 1720. Arah Phelps operated the inn for nearly fifty years, eventually turning it (along with the surrounding farm property) to his son Edward.</p><br>
