<p>The Clark House is a historic building located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. This property was originally part of Plum Grove, the estate of Iowa&#39;s first Territorial Governor, Robert Lucas. This lot was eventually sold to Florence A. Clark in 1870. She was a granddaughter of Governor Lucas, and her husband, Augustus L. Clark, was a direct descendant of a signer of the Declaration of Independence, Abraham Clark. Built in 1874, the house is a transitional style from the simplicity of Plum Grove to the richness of the Victorian. The 2½-story brick Italianate has an L-shaped main block and a 1½-story wing off the back. The main block is capped with a hip roof with gable ends and bracketed eaves. It also has a wrap-around porch. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Monte Vista Fire Station is a historic former fire station in the Nob Hill neighborhood of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Built in 1936 using Works Progress Administration funding, it is notable as a well-preserved WPA municipal project and for its significance in the early development of the Nob Hill area. The building served in its original role as a fire station until 1972 and currently houses a restaurant. It is the city&#39;s second oldest surviving fire station after the AT&SF Fire Station, built in 1920.</p><br>
<p>The fire station is listed in the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties and the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the 1930s, Albuquerque was undergoing rapid development along Central Avenue on the high ground east of Downtown, an area then known as the East Mesa. As the city worked to extend municipal services to the new residents, it was able to take advantage of federal funding from New Deal programs for many of its projects. This included a Works Progress Administration grant of $14,300 to build a new fire station. The building was designed by city architect E. H. Blumenthal and was completed in November 1936 after just five months of construction. The total cost of the project was about $24,000.</p><br>
<p>The building served the city as Fire Station No. 3 for over thirty years. The station originally housed one pumper truck with a crew of five, but was expanded in 1952 to accommodate a longer ladder truck and a crew of ten. However, by the 1970s the station&#39;s doors were too small for the newest fire engines and its location on traffic-heavy Central Avenue was inconvenient. The city built a new Fire Station No. 3 about four blocks away on Girard Boulevard in 1972 and the old station was sold.</p><br>
<p>During the 1970s and 80s, the building housed a variety of tenants including an art gallery, a church, and a film production studio. In 1985 it was converted to a restaurant and bar called Monte Vista Fire Station, which has remained in operation since. The fire station was added to the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties in 1981 and the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Designed by E. H. Blumenthal, the Monte Vista Fire Station is a two-story Pueblo Revival building with a three-story corner tower. The building is constructed from structural clay tile and stuccoed to resemble New Mexico&#39;s traditional adobe buildings with stepped parapets, projecting vigas, and ladders. The tower has staggered windows following the stairs inside and contains a three-story central shaft for drying fire hoses. The building retains its original 14 ft garage doors and wood-framed 6/6 sash windows. A matching addition at the rear of the building was added in 1952 to accommodate larger trucks.</p><br>
<p>The Kirkwood House is a historic building located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It was built for local attorney and businessman Samuel J. Kirkwood who also served as Governor of Iowa, represented Iowa in the United States Senate, and was Secretary of the Interior in the cabinet of President James A. Garfield. The house was built after his second term as governor and remained his home until his death in 1893. His widow remained here until her death in 1923. This was his home during most of his political career and it reflects the "rural and unpretentious style of living" that the Kirkwood&#39;s preferred. The house was originally located on a much larger estate, but the rest of it has subsequently been divided into lots and sold. The two-story L-shaped wood frame structure, which sits further back from the street than other houses on the block, has paired brackets and a roof line cornice as its only ornamentation. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The Letovsky-Rohret House is a historic building located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. This simple two-story wood frame structure largely embodies the Greek Revival style with its side gable roof, entablature window and door heads, boxed cornice and plain frieze, and its pedimented attic vents. The tall windows on the first floor and arched windows on the main door reflect elements of the Italianate style. Built in 1881, the house originally faced Van Buren Street, but it was turned to face Davenport Street in 1919 and placed on the eastern end of its lot so two more house could be built there.</p><br>
<p>The house is associated with two immigrant families. Bonhumil Barta Letovsky, who had the house built, was born in present-day Czech Republic. His father helped found the first Czech language newspaper in the United States, Slovan Amerikansky, in Wisconsin. After they settled in Iowa City they established Iowas first Czech newspaper, Slovan Americky. After the family relocated to Cedar Rapids, Iowa with its larger Czech community, the house was bought by Mary H. Rohret in 1891. Her husband Peter was a native of Bavaria and was known for his ax skills. While he worked most of his life as a farmer, Rohert is thought to have helped build the Old Capitol in Iowa City in his youth. He was also involved in local politics. The Roherts lived here until their respective deaths in 1914 (Peter) and 1918 (Mary). The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Hamburg-America Shipping Line Administrative Offices, also known as United States District Courts Building, in Charlotte Amalie in Saint Thomas, USA Virgin Islands, was built in 1914. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>It was built for die Hamburg - Amerikanishe Packetfahrt Aktien Gesellschaft and held offices for the Superintendent Counsul and also for the Imperial German Consulate. The German connection was lost when the USA purchased the Virgin Islands from Denmark just prior to joining World War I against Germany.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story reinforced concrete building about 82 x in plan, with eight bays on its east and west facades and six on its south facade.</p><br>
<p>Designed by German architect Fritz Klein, it is one of the United States&#39; earlier examples of Modern architecture.</p><br>
<p>In 1978 it housed the USA Immigration and Naturalization Service, the USA Marshal Service, and the USA District Court.</p><br>
<p>The Bomante House, also known as the Bomonti House, is a historic home located at 3000 Mapledale Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States. Built in 1905 in the Swiss Chalet Revival, it exemplifies the architectural impact of one of Cleveland&#39;s largest immigrant communities.</p><br>
<h2>About the structure</h2><br>
<p>Frederick W. Bomonti was born in Switzerland about 1864. He emigrated to the United States in 1882, and in 1883 joined Loew & Sons Co., a wholesale liquor business. In 1911, he opened a delicatessen in the Cleveland Arcade. It proved so popular that he later enlarged it into a restaurant which became one of the most famous in Cleveland. In 1916, Bomonti became a manager of Loew & Sons. He retired from the restaurant business in 1920 in favor of his son, Werner.</p><br>
<p>Bomonti was nationally known in Swiss American circles. For 10 years, he was national treasurer of the North American Swiss Alliance, a federation of 90 Swiss American benevolent societies.</p><br>
<p>The Bomonti House was built in 1905. The house is in the Swiss Chalet Revival style, as befitted Bomonti&#39;s ethnic heritage. The architect is not known. The state of Ohio was the top destination from 1870 to 1890 for Swiss emigrating to the United States, and Cleveland was one of the top cities in Ohio for Swiss to settle. The Bomonti House exemplifies the type of architecture preferred by this large and important ethnic group in Cleveland.</p><br>
<p>Martha "Fannie" Loew ( Bomonti), Fredericks sister, married into the Loew family and lived with Frederick Bomonti in the house after her husband died. She continued to live there after Frederick Bomontis death in February 1941.</p><br>
<p>The Grey Eagle Village Hall is a multipurpose municipal building in Grey Eagle, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1934 as a federally-funded New Deal project to create jobs during the Great Depression. It originally contained local government offices, a fire station, and a community auditorium. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 for having local significance in the themes of architecture and politics/government. It was nominated for being a superlative example of the public works projects of the Civil Works Administration.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Grey Eagle Village Hall is a rectangular, two-story building measuring about 40 ft wide and 90 ft long. The walls are uncoursed, undressed fieldstone. This contasts with the smooth, cast concrete trim used for window surrounds, quoins, a belt course, and the projecting main entry. The entry, centrally placed on the south façade, is surmounted by a large panel engraved with the words "Grey Eagle Village Hall" and a 4 ft sculpture of an eagle. Directly above the front doors is a smaller concrete panel inscribed with the word "Welcome". The east and west walls each have six fieldstone pilasters. Windows are narrow and filled with glass brick.</p><br>
<p>A garage door at the northwest corner allowed for storage of Grey Eagle&#39;s firefighting equipment. Later in the 20th century this was augmented with a two-stall cinder block addition. A one-story pump house with fieldstone construction similar to the main building stands just to the northeast.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the auditorium occupies the main space of the upper floor, with an elevated stage at the north end as well as dressing rooms. A wraparound balcony originally provided additional viewing. The elevated stage allowed the necessary height for the fire equipment stall, which is at ground level while the rest of the lower floor is half-sunk. At the time of the building&#39;s National Register nomnination, that level contained a meeting room, kitchen, bowling alley, and utility space for a boiler and coal storage.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Grey Eagle Village Hall was built as a project of the Civil Works Administration (CWA). This was a temporary agency created just for the winter of 1933–34 to create work for an anticipated surge of unemployed people which the existing New Deal agencies weren&#39;t prepared to handle. The CWA, moreover, distributed funds directly from the federal government, while its sister agencies—namely the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and the Public Works Administration—allocated money to state agencies that decided which projects to accept.</p><br>
<p>The Grey Eagle Village Hall was designed by CWA staff architect Fred Pfeiffer. The use of fieldstone conformed to usual New Deal guidelines: it was inexpensive and available locally, but time-consuming to gather and transport, so the majority of the funds went to the laborers.</p><br>
<p>There were plenty of applicants looking for work in the largely agricultural Todd County, mostly farmers hit hard by a soft market for produce and dairy goods. Construction began in March 1934. The CWA—always intended as a temporary program—disbanded that same month but the Grey Eagle project continued without interruption. Laborers were divided into three shifts each working two days a week. The concrete trim was cast on site. The concrete eagle statue topping the entryway not only reflected the town name but happened to be the symbol of the CWA.</p><br>
<p>The CWA covered 90% of the costs of the project. This allowed for a building that would have been far beyond the means of local government. In fact the auditorium was very generously proportioned given that Grey Eagles population was under 500. John P. Devaney, chief justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court, spoke at the halls dedication ceremony on September 27, 1934.</p><br>
<p>A local memoirist recalled the auditorium being used as a roller rink around the early 1940s. The village hall was Grey Eagle&#39;s primary meeting space until the construction of a new high school with a gymnasium/auditorium around 1960. At time of its National Register nomination in 1985, the fire department and city offices had recently moved to new building and the hall was being used by a local company to manufacture personal flotation devices.</p><br>
<p>Craig Gwrtheyrn, or Caer Gwrtheyrn, is an Iron Age hillfort on the south side of the River Teifi, about 1.2 mi west of the village of Llanfihangel-ar-Arth, in Carmarthenshire, Wales.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The fort is on an imposing hill overlooking the River Teifi. The defences measure about 160 m north to south, and 125 m east to west, following the contours of the hill, enclosing an area of about 1.5 hectare. The drystone rampart, of which traces remain, was originally 2 – thick. There is a ditch around the rampart (except on the very steep north-east side); stones from the rampart have fallen into this. There is an entrance on the south-west, where two further banks create a barbican and where there is also a small area of chevaux de frise: sharp stones set on end, of which about 30 remain.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>Craig Gwrtheyrn (Vortigerns Rock), or Caer Gwrtheyrn (Vortigerns Castle), is associated with the 5th-century British warlord Vortigern. He may be mythical; there are various historical accounts written in subsequent centuries in which he seems to be described. According to one story (in Historia Brittonum, compiled in the 9th century) Vortigern, fleeing from St Germanus, built a castle on the River Teifi. A fire, brought from heaven by the prayers of St Germanus, who had followed him there, set the castle alight; Vortigern, his family and other inhabitants of the castle perished.</p><br>
<p>There are other versions of Vortigern&#39;s death, and other places where it is claimed he was buried. It is not known if the hillfort acquired its name later or earlier than this legend associated with it.</p><br>
<p>The East Granby Historic District encompasses a predominantly rural and agricultural area of the town of East Granby, Connecticut. Extending northward from the town center and covering some two square miles, it includes one of the state&#39;s highest concentrations of surviving 18th and early 19th-century farmsteads, and a relatively little-altered landscape. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of East Granby, originally known as Turkey Hills, was settled in the early 18th century as part of Simsbury, was incorporated as part of Granby in 1786, and was separately incorporated in 1858. Throughout most of its history it has been an agricultural community, although there have been suburban development pressures beginning in the 20th century. Early settlers laid out strips of land along North and South Main Street, on which they lived and farmed, also engaging in other trades. It was a basically subsistence economy until the early 19th century, when more market-oriented agriculture began to take place. The town was bypassed by railroads, and had little industry, resulting in a slow pace of development. The town center has significant modern elements, but retains aspects of its early rural period, which are also part of the historic district.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is roughly centered on the town center, extending southward from the Suffield town line to about one mile south of the center. Most of this area is still in agriculture, and the area north of the center has a large concentration of late 18th and early-to-mid-19th century farmsteads. Most of the early farmsteads have either colonial Georgian, or later Federal and Greek Revival styles; later buildings tend to be vernacular, lacking Victorian ornamentation. There are two institutional buildings in the district: the stone Congregational Church, located in the town center, and a school building that was repurposed as a library. Most of the buildings are wood frame; only two houses are brick.</p><br>
<p>Fortsberg, a fortification overlooking Coral Bay in Saint John, USA Virgin Islands also known as Frederiksvaern, was built in 1760. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The preceding fort on the site was seized by slaves in a November 23, 1733, rebellion. The slaves "massacred the garrison and occupied most of the plantations of St. John. The plantation owners fled to Mr. Durlo&#39;s plantation, now Caneel Bay, which was fortified and successfully defended. Two attempts by the Danes to the rebellion were unsuccessful. Finally aid was secured from the Governor of Martinique. Four hundred French soldiers encamped near Fortsberg and the rebellion was suppressed after a campaign of six months."</p><br>
<p>The listing included two contributing structures and one contributing site. The fort is a 120 x structure with high walls and four bastions, built over ruins of an earlier one dating from 1723. Ruins of an unidentified structure are nearby.</p><br>
<p>The second structure is the ruins of a supporting shore battery, about 1,000 ft southeast of the fort. It has a 37 x interior area. As of 1976, five historic cannons survived in the battery, although without their carriages.</p><br>
<p>The fort was occupied by British military in 1801 and during 1807 to 1815, during the Napoleonic Wars.</p><br>
<p>Wolf Creek Falls, is a two tier waterfall located on the west skirt of the Umpqua National Forest, in Douglas County, in the USA state of Oregon. It is located in a privileged area where rivers of the forest create several waterfalls: Cavitt Creek Falls, and Shadow Falls are within five miles of Wolf Creek Falls. Grotto Falls is further to the east off Little River Road and National Forest Road 2703.</p><br>
<h2>Trail</h2><br>
<p>Wolf Creek Falls totals 125 ft fall in two wide cascades and is the centerpiece attraction of the Wolf Creek Falls trailhead and Recreation Site. A foot trail loops out and back for a total of approximately 2.3 mi starting near Glide, Oregon. The first mile of the trail is wheelchair accessible with view points of the dense conifer forests.</p><br>
<p>The Jackson-Swisher House and Carriage House, also known as the Old Swisher Place, is a historic building located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Louis H. Jackson, who built the house, was a local attorney until he relocated to Denver, Colorado. Stephen A. Swisher, who lived here for 40 years, started an insurance agency and served as a curator and president of the State Historical Society of Iowa. Both were graduates of the University of Iowa. The house&#39;s primary significance is architectural, and it is said to have "more characteristics of the Gothic Revival than any other house in Iowa City." The steeply pitched cross gable roof is set off by bargeboards with quatrefoil and circular openings. The paired windows of various designs, the window bays, the dormer-like window above the main entrance, and the fluted chimneys lend a picturesque quality. The front porch features tracery ornamentation. The former carriage house, converted into a garage in 1946, is simpler in its ornamentation. It has paired windows on the second floor, and like the main house, there is a gentle flair at the eaves. The buildings were listed together on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Wargatie Lake is a glacial lake in Manitoba, in Canada, formerly known as Dummy Lake.</p><br>
<h2>Ecology</h2><br>
<p>The Municipality of Harrison Park manages the lake, offering recreational fishing for northern pike, walleye, and yellow perch. Wargatie Lake also supports a large population of the northern leopard frog, a Species of Special Concern in Canada; the lake is believed to provide an overwintering habitat for the frogs.</p><br>
<h2>Hydronymy</h2><br>
<p>The lake was named for the family of Onofrey Wargatie, whose 1910 homestead was located nearby. Members of the family were deaf-mute, leading to the original name, Dummy Lake. In 2000, the derogatory name was rescinded and replaced with the current name, which "commemorates the family more appropriately."</p><br>
<p>Rose Hill, also known as the Irish-Goetz House, is a historic building located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It was built as a farmhouse in 1849 by Frederick Irish, an early settler in this community. His descendants would own this house until 1964. After he arrived in 1839, Irish built a cabin wherein the commissioners chose the site for the new</p><br>
<p>territorial capital and then the design for the building. Irish remained a prominent citizen in Iowa City who was appointed, along with former Governor Robert Lucas, to a group working to bring the railroad to Iowa City. When he built this house he chose the Greek Revival style, which might reflect his relationship with John F. Rague who designed the Capitol building here. It also reflects the housing styles of his native New York, and is very similar to the "farmhouse elevation" found in Minard Lafevers work, Young Builders General Instructor. The house was listed together on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Ponta do Lobo is the eastern point of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde inside the municipality of São Domingos. It is about 2 km northeast of the nearest village, Vale da Custa and southeast of Achada Baleia and is northeast of the capital Praia. It has a small headland. Its length is about 500 meters long east to west and its width is about 200 meters. To the north is Porto Lobo and its bay, there just 100 meters is the 15th parallel north, also further north is the village of Moia Moia.</p><br>
<p>Its origin of the name is related to the wolves surrounding the area. Cape Verde does not have large wild animals, not even wolves, as there are no wolves in the tropics. The other name origin may be related to a lobe.</p><br>
<p>About 10 km immediately to the east has a depth of 1,000 meters and that portion forms a part of the Cape Verde Rise. 20–30 km north has the deepest portion being about 3,000 meters below sea level.</p><br>
<p>During the Ice Age, the point then unnamed was about a kilometer east. Around it has a dirt road.</p><br>
<p>The island along with the point was first discovered by António da Noli in 1460 and may be the first land feature to be known. Before the eastern part was settled around the early 16th century, shrubs dominated the area its geography of that time is unknown.</p><br>
<p>The point and its port were mentioned the 1747 French/Dutch map by Jacques Nicolas Bellin.</p><br>
<h2>Lighthouse</h2><br>
<p>Near the point has a homonymous lighthouse located near the point at the elevation of about 10 meters above sea level. The lighthouse was built in 1887 and is the island&#39;s second oldest. Its class of light is Fl (4) W 15s., its focal height is at 17 meters above sea level and its range extends up to 11 km (6 nmi).</p><br>
<p>Wizard Falls, was a waterfall located in Jefferson County, in the USA state of Oregon. It was located in a privileged area on the northwest foothills of Deschutes National Forest, just north of Black Butte and the city of Sisters, Oregon. To the west sits volcano Three Fingered Jack, between Mount Washington to the South and Mount Jefferson to the North.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Wizard Falls Fish Hatchery was constructed in 1948, which required the section of river upstream to be diverted to provide water for the rearing ponds. The process rendered Wizard Falls dry. Unless the hatchery is shut down completely for cleaning or maintenance, the waterfall does not flow. There is a rapid adjacent to Lower Bridge (also known as bridge 99), along the Metolius River leading to the hatchery, that is often incorrectly assumed to be Wizard Falls.</p><br>
<h2>Trail</h2><br>
<p>Wizard Falls was situated at the Metolius Springs near Black Butte and totaled 12 ft. The area is the centerpiece attraction of the Wizard Falls trailhead and Recreation Site. The trail follows along Metolius River most of the way. The Wizard Falls fish hatchery is located in the beginning of the trail, as well as the Alder Springs campground and the Pioneer Ford campground.</p><br>
<p>Hālaliʻi Lake is an ephemeral lake in the south central region of the island of Niʻihau . During the rainy seasons, it becomes the largest lake in the Hawaiian Islands. It is located near the smaller Halulu Lake, regarded as the largest  natural lake in the Hawaiian Islands.</p><br>
<p>The lake measures around 840.7 acres during the rainy seasons. During dry periods on the arid island, the lake transform into a dry reddish flat punctuated by small saline lakes. Other sources states that it has an area of 860 acres. Sometimes it is not regarded as a lake due to the irregularity of the water level.</p><br>
<p>According to Hawaiian linguists Mary Kawena Pukui, Samuel H. Elbert, and Esther T. Mookini, the lake and the surrounding land division was named after its owner, either the Hawaiian high chief (aliʻi) or the Oʻahu trickster god Hālaliʻi. Hālaliʻi and Halulu were both aliʻi of the island of Niʻihau. A cinder cone of Haleakalā on the island of Maui also shares the same name.</p><br>
<p>The Makaloa sedge (Cyperus laevigatus) grows along its shore and was traditional used by the Native Hawaiians for weaving the Makaloa mats. The lake bed was also used for the cultivation of sugarcane where famously it grew "in the sand with only leaves protruding".</p><br>
<p>The lake provides natural wetland habitats for Hawaiian bird species including the ʻalae keʻokeʻo (Hawaiian coot), aeʻo (Hawaiian stilt) and koloa maoli (Hawaiian duck).</p><br>
<p>The lake is also used for mullet farming. Hawaiians bring the baby pua mullets from the sea in barrels, release them during the rainy seasons and then catch the grown fish when the water recedes in the summer. In Halulu Lake, the fish naturally enter the lake from the sea through lava tubes when they are young.</p><br>
<p>The grown fish are often sold at market on Kauaʻi and Oʻahu.</p><br>
<p>Halulu Lake is a lake in the south central region of the island of Niʻihau . It is the largest  natural lake in the Hawaiian Islands and ranks third in size after Hālaliʻi Lake  and Keālia Pond  which are intermittent bodies of water.</p><br>
<p>The lake measures around 182 acres during the rainy seasons. During dry periods on the arid island, the shallow lake shrinks due to effect of evaporation. Other sources give it the measurement of 371 acres.</p><br>
<p>According to Hawaiian linguists Mary Kawena Pukui, Samuel H. Elbert, and Esther T. Mookini, the lake share its name with the land division of Halulu on the island and probably originated from the man-eating halulu bird of Hawaiian mythology. Hālaliʻi and Halulu were also the names of important Hawaiian high chiefs (aliʻi) of the island of Niʻihau.</p><br>
<p>Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II, Niʻihau owner and rancher Aylmer Francis Robinson plowed trenches using mules and tractors into the lakes and surrounding lands on Niʻihau to prevent Japanese planes from landing and using the island as a military airfield. These efforts led to the crash landing of Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service pilot Shigenori Nishikaichi during the Niihau incident. Many of the furrows are still visible today on the island.</p><br>
<p>The lake provides natural wetland habitats for Hawaiian bird species including the ʻalae keʻokeʻo (Hawaiian coot), aeʻo (Hawaiian stilt) and koloa maoli (Hawaiian duck).</p><br>
<p>The lake is also home to mullets which naturally enter the lake from the sea through lava tubes when they are young. In ancient Hawaii, a kapu forbade Hawaiians from catching the fish in the lake except during harvest time. Modern day Niihauans use the lakes and ponds on the island for mullet farming, bringing the baby pua mullets from the sea in barrels. The grown fish are later sold at market on Kauaʻi and Oʻahu.</p><br>
<p>Vanishing Falls is a ledge waterfall that drains into a sinkhole on the Salisbury River. It is located within the Southwest National Park in south-west Tasmania, Australia.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>At Vanishing Falls, the Salisbury River flows over a dolerite plateau underlain by limestone. The river flows over the edge of the dolerite sill and drains straight into a cave system in the limestone, a phenomenon attributed to karst processes. The above-ground channel downstream of the plunge pool flows only during floods.</p><br>
<p>The Salisbury River is a tributary of the New River.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>The falls are surrounded by dense scrub and are located in remote wilderness, accordingly there are no designated trails leading to the falls.</p><br>
<p>The Nine Maidens, also known as the Seventeen Brothers, is a Bronze Age stone circle located near the village of Belstone on Dartmoor in Devon, England. The stone circle functioned as a burial chamber, although the cairn has since been robbed and the cist, known locally as a kistvaen, destroyed.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Nine Maidens is an incomplete stone circle with sixteen still standing. The circle stands to the west of the village of Belstone in an area of clitter. This additional source of stone may have saved the destruction of the circle by local masons. None of the stones are much higher than three feet (one metre) and the diameter of the circle is approximately twenty-one feet (seven metres). Samuel Rowe, a nineteenth-century rambler, provided a description of the stones in his 1848 book A Perambulation of the Ancient and Royal Forest of Dartmoor and the Venville Precincts:</p><br>
<p>The missing seventeenth stone may have since fallen down to join several other stones that are no longer upright. The Book of Belstone says the tally of stones can be increased to twenty should small stones and five toppled or insecure temporary ones be included. Dora James wrote in 1930 that four stones had been wantonly defaced and broken in 1929.</p><br>
<h2>Folklore</h2><br>
<p>Despite the fallen stones, locals are said to be apprehensive of restoration work, believing that tamperers will be cursed. Locals cite a film crew which added a stone to the circle in 1985 - the curse was the unfortunate loss of the only copy of the film, The Circle of Doom, in the post.</p><br>
<p>St Michaels ley-line, which runs 350 miles from Lands End to Hopton-on-Sea, Norfolk, runs through the Nine Maidens. This ley-line goes through many sites dedicated to St Michael, such as St Michael&#39;s Tower on Glastonbury Tor, with the line matching the sunrise on 8th May when Latin liturgy celebrates the apparition of St Michael.</p><br>
<p>Local folklore suggests that the stones dance:</p><br>
<p>The stones are said to have originally been nine maidens who were cast into stone and damned to dancing every noon for eternity as a punishment for dancing on the Sabbath. Equally, the story has involved seventeen brothers. It is also said that the ringing of the nearby church bells brings them to life.</p><br>
<h3>Etymology</h3><br>
<p>The differing number of stones cited in the name is explained in folklore through the fact that the stones are not still enough whilst dancing to count their number accurately. John Chudleigh noted in 1892 that heated air which rises from the ground gives the appearance of movement, which may give an origin to the legends of dancing maidens.</p><br>
<p>Another etymological explanation is based on Phoenician tin traders. The Phoenicians worshipped the god of life and fertility Baal with Belstone representing a corruption of Baals ton, that is Baals settlement. The stone circle could be related to this interpretation, with a reference to the Phoenicians dragging a stone in the shape of a sacred bull to the summit of the tor and worshipping it. It has been suggested that locals who knew of this legend placed a stone there to fulfil the legend. Other explanations for the name Belstone have been given including the Old English belle (bell) and stan (stone), which Sabine Baring-Gould suggests could be in reference to a logan stone.</p><br>
<h3>Folkloric poetry</h3><br>
<p>A poem illustrating the folklore surrounding the stones is recorded in The Witchcraft and Folklore of Dartmoor by Ruth St Leger-Gordon, originally written by Eden Phillpotts in the Book of Avis trilogy:</p><br>
<p>St Leger-Gordon suggests Phillpotts could be referring to another stone circle due to certain inaccuracies in the poem, although these inaccuracies could simply be a generous usage of artistic licence. Hunter&#39;s moon refers to the first full moon following the harvest moon and usually occurs in October. Victorian archaeologists interpreted the stone circle as representing a full sun and full moon.</p><br>
<p>Violet Lake , is a small high-elevation lake located at 5,020 ft above sea level on Mauna Kahalawai , situated in the western part of the island of Maui. It is located in the boggy slopes near the ʻEke Crater and Puʻu Kukui, the highest peak of the West Maui Mountains. It is approximately 10x20 ft in size.</p><br>
<p>The lakes English name derive from the reflected color of the lakes surface and also the Maui violet (Viola mauiensis) which grows on its banks. The Hawaiian language name Kiʻowaiokihawahine means the "pond of Kihawahine".</p><br>
<p>The lake was important to the traditional Hawaiian religion. During ancient times, the lake and surrounding summit area was protected by kapu and regarded as the meeting place of heaven and earth.</p><br>
<p>The surrounding montane rainforest ecosystem on the slopes of Puʻu Kukui Watershed Management Area (the second wettest spot in the Hawaiian Islands) is extremely diverse and home to many endemic species. The lake&#39;s own unique ecosystem have not been well studied.</p><br>
<p>Species include the dwarfed ʻōhiʻa lehua tree (Metrosideros polymorpha), the Maui violet (Viola mauiensis), a variety of Hawaiian lobelioids (Lobelia gloriamontis), the Hawaiian damsel flies (Megalagrion spp.), and others. It has been described as an "extremely rare gem" which have "residents and visiting scientists alike".</p><br>
<p>The "Temple of Janus" is a cultic structure of Romano-Celtic design located in Autun, Saône-et-Loire, France, to the North-West of the ancient city of Augustodunum.</p><br>
<p>The temple lies in the center of a vast sanctuary, whose extent and complexity was revealed by excavations conducted from 2013 to 2016, on a site whose history goes back to Neolithic times, and which experienced an important phase of monumental constructions in the 1st Century CE. The temple was abandoned at the onset of the Early Middle Ages, and its structures were later reused in the fashioning of a Medieval defensive work. The temple has retained two sides of its square cella, at a height of over 20 meters, as well as vestiges of its ambulatory and side structure foundations. The temple&#39;s supposed dedication to the Roman god Janus is not based on any archaeological or historic fact, and the deity that was venerated in the temple is unknown.</p><br>
<p>The Temple of Janus was included on the first list of protected historical French monuments, established in 1840.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The temple was built outside the walls of the ancient city of Augustodunum, in a place known as la Genetoye, beside a road that, after passing through the Arroux gate and over the river, headed West towards Lutetia (Paris), the valley of the Loire, and Cenabum (Orléans).</p><br>
<p>The site sits at an average altitude of 290 meters, atop a plateau that gradually slopes downward towards the valleys of the Arroux to the South and the Ternin, one of its tributaries, to the East.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The history of the temple is inseparable from the whole in which it is part. The site of la Genetoye was used since Neolithic times without notable interruption until the Middle Ages.Labaune (2013),</p><br>
<p>Geophysical exploration and aerial photography have demonstrated the existence of a vast Neolithic enclosure, accompanied with layouts whose functions are ill-defined.</p><br>
<p>On-site excavations over the course of 2012 have revealed the presence of La Tène usage which lasted up until the Augustan age. Some outlines, whose nature and function have yet to be defined (perhaps an earlier cultic structure), have also been found within the footprint of the temple. They are dated to the first half of the 1st Century CE.</p><br>
<p>The Haut-du-Verger theater, discovered in the same area in 1976 and excavated the following year, provides an additional structure in this area. The principle monuments of the site, the theater and Temple of Janus, appear to have been constructed in the second half of the 1st Century or at the onset of the 2nd Century, with later modifications and adjustments. The site could have hosted a military presence at the end of the Third Century, beyond which period no convincing evidence has been recorded.</p><br>
<p>In the Middle Ages, the cella of the temple was reused for the construction of a fortification that included a ditch. This reuse may partially explain the temple&#39;s good state of preservation.</p><br>
<p>The Temple of Janus was designated as a monument historique in 1840.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Temple of Janus probably dates back to the second half of the 1st Century CE, like the other principal monuments of Augustodunum.</p><br>
<p>Although it is truly an ancient monument, its claimed dedication to the cult of Janus is not based on any reality. The deity to which the temple had been consecrated is unknown. The name of Janus could simply be a corruption of the toponym Genetoye (meaning a place where broom, genêts in French, was said to grow since the 16th Century). A historical marker near the temple explains:</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<h3>The sanctuary (cella and gallery)</h3><br>
<p>The cella was built with a nearly square footprint (16.80 x 16.35 m) and its elevation reaches up to around 24 meters, a record for Gaul. The walls have a thickness of 2.2 meters, built in small, meticulous stonework. The entryway must have been formed by one of the missing walls, probably on the East side.</p><br>
<p>Two walls (South and West) are fully preserved, and the initial construction of the other two walls is still visible. The facing of the walls is entirely made up of small, square sandstone rubble with no terracotta inclusions, and the putlog holes that had supported the scaffolding are still visible. The core of the wall is composed of blockage and rubble mortared in Roman concrete. The wall was probably penetrated by the cellas front door, a common placement in Romano-Celtic temples. The exterior of the walls featured four rectangular niches and three small openings crowned with stone discharging arches 13 meters above ground, which illuminated the interior of the cella. The interior side of the wall was hollowed by four large, arched niches, 3 meters wide and 5.6 meters tall, but breaches in the wall now give them the appearance of large picture windows. The Western wall features a semi-dome in its center, which, facing the entry, may have housed the statue of the divinity to which the temple was consecrated. The cella floor was inlaid with opus sectile, fragments of which have been retrieved, and the base of an aedicula which was installed at the cellas center is still in place. The cella would have been covered by a four-sided roof.</p><br>
<p>Holes from the joists on the exterior side of the walls 9 meters above the ground, and bases parallel and 5.4 meters away from the walls, prove the existence of a covered gallery (ambulatory) which went around the cella, in accordance with the Gallo-Roman temple model observed at Périgueux with the tower of Vésone. This gallery was probably composed of columns built on the peripteros wall and supporting a sloping roof.</p><br>
<h3>The ambulatory</h3><br>
<p>An ambulatory demarcated the sacred area around the sanctuary, as is often the case for this type of structure. The dimensions proposed after the 19th Century excavations (75 x 50 m) cannot be confirmed. Studies undertaken in 2012 revealed the existence of two successive and concentric ambulatories, the older, perhaps featuring a portico, could have been connected to the Temple of Janus or an earlier cultic structure. To the South of the cella, and in the enclosure of the ambulatory, demolished walls could show the presence of an ancillary building.</p><br>
<h2>Archaeology of the temple and its surroundings</h2><br>
<p>In 1871, Jacques Gabriel Bulliot undertook excavations to the North-West of Autun and around the temple that led to the establishment of a detailed map drawn by Jean Roidot-Déléage. Jean Roidot-Déléage also devoted eight plates of surveys and drawings to the Temple of Janus, which were not published or commented on until 1963. The presumably Neolithic structures were revealed in 1886. Until the 1970s, no excavations were carried out in the area of the Temple of Janus.</p><br>
<p>Aerial surveys lead by René Goguey in 1976 resulted in the discovery of the Haut-du-Verger theater, allowing the collection of sparse information obtained on the district, which has since been seen as a vast peri-urban sanctuary having "the function of uniting different cults of the city". In the years that followed, public authorities proceeded to acquire the lands in question, finally allowing excavations to take place. Aerial surveys continued until the 2000s when, in 2009, a magnetic survey finally completed the obtained data. A vast archaeological dig and study site was put in place in 2012. It is expected to complete in 2016 and put forth a global vision of the la Genetoye district, both geographically and historically.</p><br>
<h2>Image gallery</h2><br>
<p>Temple Janus Autun 8.jpgDetail of the niches found on the cella&#39;s interior Western wall.</p><br>
<p>Temple_Janus_Autun_11.jpgDetail of the interior Western wall&#39;s semi-dome niche.</p><br>
<p>Temple_Janus_Autun_34.jpgInterior view of the cella.</p><br>
<p>Temple Janus Autun 15.jpgBlackbirds perched on top of the cella wall.</p><br>
<p>Temple Janus face.jpgWestern wall, face.</p><br>
<p>Temple Janus Autun 35.jpgSouthern wall, face.</p><br>
<p>Temple_Janus_Autun_31.jpgView from South-West</p><br>
<p>Temple_de_Janus,_Autun_-_05.jpgView from North-West</p><br>
<p>The Likangala River originates at Zomba mountain in southern Malawi and flows through both urban and rural areas before it flows into Lake Chilwa, a</p><br>
<p>wetland of international significance being a UNESCO Biodiversity Reserve and RAMSAR site</p><br>
<p>The river has a length of 50km and flows along varying topography between elevations of 1265m and 790m above sea level. Its catchment covers 756km².</p><br>
<p>It is an important river providing water for domestic uses and irrigation. It is also the river that provides water for the Likangala Rice Irrigation scheme which was established in 1969, which caters to about 200 farmers and covers an area of 415ha in size. Communities living in the catchment benefit from many provisioning services including wild foods, reeds, sand, stone, fish and wood. Water quality of the Likangala varies along its length, and point and non-point sources of pollution impact on it.</p><br>
<p>The Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company in Miles City in Custer County, Montana was built in 1914. Also known as the Rowland, Thomas & Co. Building, it includes Renaissance Revival. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The building was originally occupied by Mountain States Telephone Company, later by the Rowland, Thomas & Co public accounting firm which was acquired by Avitus Group, Inc (the current occupant).</p><br>
<p>The building is a tall two-story building, on a raised basement and with a high parapet with a pressed metal cornice. Its walls are of pressed red brick, and it has rusticated piers made of buff-colored brick.</p><br>
<p>The Mesker Bros. Iron Co. of St. Louis provided the buildings hollow section steel window sashes and its cast iron stairs, and it may also have provided the buildings entrance canopy and the cornice.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by an unknown architect of the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co. and was built for $30,000 by C.E. Walker Contracting Co. of Denver, Colorado. C.E. Walker built similar buildings for the company in Lewistown, Montana in 1912, in Helena, Montana (a major addition) in 1926, in Missoula, Montana (a major addition) in 1926-29, all in Renaissance Revival style. It also built buildings in Havre, Montana (in Prairie style) in 1925, in Great Falls, Montana (in Art Deco style) in 1930, and in Billings, Montana (in Collegiate Gothic) in 1930.</p><br>
<p>The listing includes a 1931-built garage at the back of the property, which is a second contributing building.</p><br>
<p>The Prescott School at Third and Main in Prescott in Linn County, Kansas, also known as the old Prescott School, was built in 1882-83 with Italianate style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story brick building, about 55 x in plan, on a limestone foundation, with 14 in thick walls. The building was wired for electricity in 1924. Its coal burning stoves were used until 1956 when gas heating was installed. It was modified by addition of an entry hall in 1949 but that was removed in 1980. It was modified by the relocation and attachment of rural schoolhouses in 1953 and 1958, but those were removed in 1956.</p><br>
<p>As of 1982, a 1924 high school nearby served as an elementary school.</p><br>
<p>The Gratiot House, located about 2 mi south of Shullsburg, Wisconsin is a Georgian-styled limestone house built by Henry Gratiot in 1835. It is the last remaining building of Gratiot Grove, one of the state&#39;s first settlements, a lead-mining outpost begun in Winnebago territory in 1826 on the stage road from Galena to Chicago. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The house&#39;s exterior has been changed only by the c.1890 addition of porches on the south and west sides and later by the addition of a metal raised-seam roof and by the removal of cornice returns. The house is "imposing", standing out from the appearance of small farmhouses in the area. According to its NRHP nomination, it was also deemed significant "as an example of indigenous American building techniques of the nineteenth century. The coursed ashlar on the main facade and almost rubblestone surface on the remaining sides gives a rich texture to its simple form. Through the use of wood splayed lintels to emphasize the windows and doors, the builder showed a desire for originality. The house is the largest limestone residence in Lafayette County and recalls an era when Gratiot*s Grove was a thriving lead-mining settlement."</p><br>
<p>Yocum Falls, is a waterfall located in the heart of the Mount Hood National Forest, in Clackamas County, in the USA state of Oregon. It is located in a privileged area in Zigzag canyon with several waterfalls including Little Zigzag Falls and Ramona Falls. The name, as well as Yocum Ridge, the south ridge of the Sandy Glacier on the west slope of Mount Hood, comes from businessman Oliver C. Yocum.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Yocum Falls about 10 miles from the town of Government Camp on USA Route 26 as it goes through Mount Hood National Forest. It sits in a new space of protected land on the north skirt of the Tom Dick and Harry Mountain.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Yocum Falls is surrounded by a forest that has grown the last 100 years to cover the consequences of the Sherar Burn, a massive fire that destroyed forests from the Salmon River to Camp Creek. The fields of beargrass and huckleberry characteristic of the 1920s are now filled with trees up to Mirror lake. In the early 1930s, a new trail to Mirror Lake was constructed from the newly built Route 26.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Yocum Falls is composed by a series of consecutive cascades. The upper tier and its lower drop, that spreads 25-35 feet over a ledge along Camp Creek are accessible, whereas the middle section is crowded by matured timber and difficult to access. The surrounding hills of Tom Dick and Harry Mountain are of Pleistocene or Pliocene origin with andesite originating from moderately porphyritic pyroxene lava flows. Further towards Mirror Lake the andesite is basaltic from lava flows of the north side of the Tom Dick and Harry Mountain.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>Hiking to Yocum Falls starts at the historic Laurel Hill monument on the Barlow Road of the Oregon Trail. The trail is approximately 1.6 mi long round trip and requires skill, visitors should always follow rules of safe waterfall hiking when visiting Yocum Falls. Approximately half way up, the trail crosses with the Pacific Crest Trail. A little over a mile south is Mirror Lake and the trail that leads to the lake starts at the point where Route 26 allows access to Yocum Falls. Approximately 2 miles further south, the trail reaches the summit of Tom Dick and Harry Mountain.</p><br>
<p>Cunningham-Hall PT-6 NC692W is one of two surviving aircraft of its type from the early days of aviation in the history of Alaska. The Cunningham-Hall PT-6 is a single-engine six-seat cabin biplane built by the Cunningham-Hall Aircraft Corporation, which was designed mainly as a personal transport. The aircraft, registered as NC692W, with c/n. 2962, was built in 1930 and is the second of its kind constructed. It was entirely rebuilt as a static display using non-airworthy materials in the 1970s.</p><br>
<p>At the time of its listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, it was stationed in Transportation Museum of Alaska, in Palmer. It was later moved to the Alaska Museum of Transportation and Industry in Wasilla, Alaska.</p><br>
<p>The Heurich-Parks House at 3400 Massachusetts Avenue on Observatory Circle, Washington, D.C. was built in 1925 by philanthropic businessman Christian Heurich, Jr. The home was sold to ophthalmologist Marshall M. Parks in 1960. On October 13, 2015, the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Christian Heurich, Jr.</h2><br>
<p>Christian "Chris" Heurich, Jr. (1901–1979) was the heir to the Chr. Heurich Brewing Co. in Washington D. C. He married Consuelo Young in 1925, and that year William H. and Mary M. West sold Heurich Lots 9 and 10, 3400 Massachusetts Avenue on Observatory Circle, Washington, D.C.</p><br>
<p>A two-story brick, tile, and stucco, L-plan residence was designed by architect Albert S.J. Atkinson, and may have been decorated by the New York firm of H.F. Huber & Company, the same firm that designed the interiors of the Heurich mansion in Dupont Circle that was built from 1892-1894 by his father, Christian Heurich. The National Park Service estimates the cost of the original construction for the Century Revival-Mission/Spanish style architecture house to have been $30,000. Fred Drew Construction Company strengthened the foundation of a portion of the house with underpinning in 1941, and a two-story “servants quarters” was added in 1948 by the same construction company. Chris and Consuelo divorced on September 5, 1951.</p><br>
<h2>Marshall M. Parks</h2><br>
<p>Consuelo Young Heurich sold the house to ophthalmologist Marshall M. Parks (1918–2005) and his wife Angeline Miller Parks on June 27, 1960. Dr. Parks and his wife ran an ophthalmology practice out of the home. In 1960, Parks added a Porter & Lockie-designed wing on the house to accommodate his practice.</p><br>
<h2>NRHP listing</h2><br>
<p>The house was added to the NRHP in western Washington, D.C. on October 13, 2015.</p><br>
<p>Monte das Vacas is a mountain located in the southeastern part of the island of Santiago, Cape Verde 8 km from the capital Praia, north of the subdivision of Achada de São Filipe and southwest of Ribeirão Chiqueiro. Its elevation is 437 meters. From its base it is around 150 meters from the plateau at an elevation of 180 meters.</p><br>
<p>The mountain is of volcanic origin and is made up of what was a large volcanic crater, once a subsidiary vent, it was not often erupted as in Pico da Antónia millions of years ago. Only the southwest part remains along with bits of the northeast while the remainder are eroded.</p><br>
<p>Most of the mountain is in the Praia, the northernmost part is in São Domingos with the boundaries going east-west at the mid north part. Less than a kilometer north is the 15th parallel north. East is the Praia-Tarrafal Route, the EN1-ST01 (Primary Route 1) and west is Ribeira da Veneza with its settlement in the southwest. South is the source of Ribeira de São Filipe, a small stream that empties into Ribeira da Trindade just short of Praia Harbour.</p><br>
<p>Surrounding the mountains, the outer areas are forested but the middle portion are grassland. Before settlements appeared at the 15th century, it was believed to be dominated by shrubs, decades later, it became mostly a barren grassland.</p><br>
<p>Its geology consists of the Monte das Vacas formation spreading across the southeast portion of the island and including much of its hills, it was formed between 1 million to 700,000 years ago.</p><br>
<p>During the Ice Age, its elevation was about 567 meters, at around 10000 BC, the elevation was at 500 meters, up to about 4000 BC, the elevation was at 450 meters.</p><br>
<h2>Panoramics</h2><br>
<p>The mountain can be seen in most parts of Praia, in areas by the sea and the uppermost parts, also it can be seen in the area of Ribeira Grande de Santiago and the south of São Domingos Municipality.</p><br>
<p>The Main Street Historic District in Darlington, Wisconsin is roughly bounded by Main, Ann, Louisa and Wells Streets. It was listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. It included 40 contributing buildings on 8 hectare.</p><br>
<p>It includes Darlingtons old downtown, including the 1860 J.B. Cutting Livery Stable, the 1879 Italianate-styled Schreiter Building, the 1883 Romanesque Revival Drivers Store and Opera House, the 1896 Queen Anne Miller and Fardy Dry Goods Store, the 1911 Neoclassical Odd Fellows Hall, the 1919 Commercial Vernacular Hotel Olson, and the 1930 Moderne-style Iowa Oil Co. & Filling Station.</p><br>
<p>The First National Bank building was probably designed by an architect. But the Citizens National Bank (1885), at 330 Main Street, is the only building known specifically to have been architect-designed: its new facade in 1928 was designed by Madison, Wisconsin architects Frank Riley and Lewis Siberz. According to the NRHP nomination, the building&#39;s facade has monumental fluted Doric pilasters, an entablature, and a pediment "enriched with a large medallion", and overall "recalls a Greek temple front."</p><br>
<p>The Elmore Houses are a pair of historic farmhouses at 78 and 87 Long Hill Road in South Windsor, Connecticut. The two houses, one built before 1819 and restyled in the 1840s, and the other one built new in the 1840s, are locally important rural examples of Greek Revival architecture. They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Elmore Houses are located on southwestern South Windsor, on either side of Long Hill Road just south its crossing of Interstate 291. Number 87 is the older of the two houses: it is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof, central chimney, and an exterior of asbestos siding over original wooden clapboards. The main entrance is at the center of its five-bay facade; it has a Greek Revival surround built around the entrance, which is topped by a more Federal appearing fanlight. The interior follows a somewhat typical Georgian Colonial plan, with a narrow vestibule leading to chambers on either side of the chimney. It differs from that plan in not appearing to ever have had a winding staircase in the vestibule, an otherwise common feature.</p><br>
<p>Number 87 is a more straightforward example of Greek Revival architecture, with a front-gable roof and three-bay facade. The main entrance is in the leftmost bay, sheltered by a finely styled portico. The gable end above is fully pedimented, with a rectangular fixed window at its center.</p><br>
<p>The house at number 87 was acquired in 1816 by Sally Elmore Burnham, which is the first documented record of its existence. It was probably built at an earlier date by another member of the Elmore family. In the 1840s, Burnham&#39;s nephew Timothy restyled that house in the Greek Revival style, and Dennis Burnham, a family relative who was a builder based in Hartford, built the house at number 78. The land that both houses stand on was associated with the Elmore family and descendants from the 17th to 20th centuries.</p><br>
<p>Gandhi Ghat  is one of the main ghats on the Ganges River in Patna. It is named after the leader of the Indian independence movement Mahatma Gandhi. The ghat is famous for its Evening Ganga Aarti. It is also associated with the immersion of ashes of Mahatma Gandhi in the river Ganges.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Gandhi Ghat is situated on the bank of the Ganges. It is located behind National Institute of Technology, Patna and is around 5 Kilometers North East of Patna Junction railway station.</p><br>
<h2>Ganga Aarti</h2><br>
<p>Ganga Aarti on Gandhi Ghat is performed with 51 lamps, by a group of priests, dressed in saffron robes. The Aarti starts with the blowing of a conch shell and continues with the movement of incense sticks in elaborate patterns and circling of large burning lamps that create a bright hue against the darkened sky. The ritual was started in 2011 on the lines of Ganga Aarti in Varanasi and Haridwar.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>Bihar State Tourism Development Corporation (BSTDC) operates MV Ganga Vihar from Gandhi Ghat. Ganga Vihar is a River Cruise ship with restaurant on-board also known as the floating restaurant. It runs Sunset Cruise and Leisure Cruise/Corporate Cruise with boarding for tourists from the ghat. Another vessel MV Kautilya was added in 2016 which is a cruise boat for tourist rides on river Ganges from Gandhi Ghat. The Tourism Department also plans to keep a floating jetty that would be placed at Gandhi Ghat, from where the two vessels operate.</p><br>
<h3>Kite Festival</h3><br>
<p>State tourism department organises a kite festival on the Sabbalpur diara island, across the river on the occasion of Makar Sankranti. Festival first started in 2011 and has been organised every year since then.</p><br>
<p>Warren Creek Falls, was a waterfall located in the Starvation Creek State Park at the north skirt of the Columbia River Gorge, in Hood River County, in the USA state of Oregon. It was located in a privileged area along the Historic Columbia River Highway, where several waterfalls are located in the Starvation Creek State Park, including Cabin Creek Falls, Lancaster Falls, and Starvation Creek Falls—all within 2 miles from each other. It is frequently referred as the name for Hole-in-the-Wall Falls, a few yards downstream of Warren Creek.</p><br>
<p>The remaining bedrock and its river trail are surrounded by forests in the heart of the Columbia Plateau, off the western skirt of Viento Ridge. When water levels of the diversion tunnel reach over the crest, the overflowing waters run the old natural course of Warren Creek and a stream falls down the old site of the diverted cascade.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Warren Creek Falls was formed as a result of the cataclysmic Missoula Floods, also known as Bretz Floods, about 13,000 years ago. In 1938 Warren Creek was diverted through a tunnel to prevent washouts of the newly constructed Columbia River Highway. The creation of the diversion shut off the natural cascade and formed Hole-in-the-Wall Falls downstream.</p><br>
<p>Parish Apartments, also known as the Sigma Pi Fraternity House and the St. Thomas More Parish Center, is a historic building located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Located in the Manville Heights neighborhood, it was built as a fraternity house for Sigma Pi in the 1929. The design for the three-story stone Tudor Revival structure is attributed to Madison, Wisconsin architect Myron Edwards Pugh. It was built at the height of fraternity house construction at the University of Iowa. The Xi Psi Phi fraternity joined Sigma Pi in the house in 1936, and Psi Omega joined two years later. The residency of these other fraternities was most likely due to a decline in enrollment during the Great Depression. It was not enough, however, as First Trust and Savings Bank of Davenport acquired the building at a sheriff&#39;s sale in 1943.</p><br>
<p>Not long after that the property transferred to the Catholic Diocese of Davenport for use as the Catholic Student Center and Newman Club for Catholic students who were enrolled at the University of Iowa. Under the patronage of St. Thomas More, the building housed a chapel from 1943 to 1947. A Quonset hut was used as a church from 1947 to 1965 when a new church was built on Riverside Drive. This building remained the student center until 1969 when it moved to the former school building at St. Mary&#39;s Church and St. Thomas More became a territorial parish the following year. The parish continued to use the building as a parish center until it moved to Coralville in 2009. The former church building was sold to the university for an organ and music concert hall, and this building was converted into 16 one-bedroom and studio apartments. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013 as the Sigma Pi Fraternity House.</p><br>
<p>El Oued Silianais a river of Tunisia in the region arising from Marktar, which runs north and drains into the river Medjerda about 5km west of Testour.</p><br>
<p>On his way to collect the rainy season, water numerous wadis that are dry much of the year. Its course is about 120 km. the average rainfall is 455 mm / year between September and January grew between 15 and 11 percent. The city&#39;s main course is still Gaâfour and Siliana. The course begins wadis are controlled by the dam of El Akhmim; above of Siliana Siliana and the reservoir; and on the left side near the mouth is the Sidi Salem Reservoir. The river crosses between different altitude regions clothes Yahia OLED 584 meters and 1347 meters in Jebel Serj an average difference of 400 meters and different rainfall (a difference of 150 mm / year).</p><br>
<p>The Piers and Revetments at Grand Haven, Michigan are navigational structures located at the mouth of the Grand River in Grand Haven, Michigan. The structures were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Grand Haven was first settled in 1827 as an outpost of the American Fur Company. When this operation was disbanded, former company agents Rix Robinson and John Stuart acquired the property and in 1834 platted the settlement of Grand Haven. By 1836, over 400 people lived there, and in 1838 the Federal government constructed a lighthouse at the mouth of the Grand River. In the 1840s, the lumber industry in the area gained momentum, with the increase in volume continuing through the 1850s. At the same time, Grand Haven&#39;s usage as a port facility was on the upswing. In 1855, the lighthouse, which had been damaged in a storm, was reconstructed on higher ground.</p><br>
<p>Also in 1855, two competing railroad lines serving Grand Haven, the Oakland and Ottawa Railroad and the Detroit and Pontiac Railroad, merged to form the Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad. The Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad aimed to develop a direct car ferry route across Lake Michigan from Grand Haven. Over the next three years, they developed the infrastructure to begin ferry service, including a 3185 foot long pier at the south side of the entrance to the harbor. The first through train from Milwaukee to Detroit connected through the port in September 1858.</p><br>
<p>Meanwhile, the United States Army Corps of Engineers (COE) was developing a plan for harbor improvements in Grand Haven, which was completed by Col. J.D. Graham in 1857. However, the improvements were not authorized until 1866. Work soon began on the COE plan, starting with repairs to the Detroit and Milwaukee-built pier, whose design had caused washouts in several locations, and a portion of which had been heavily damaged by fire. Repairs were completed in 1867, and work began on the remainder of the COE plan. The improvements were slowly implemented through the rest of the 1860s and into the 1870s. In addition to the pier repairs, these improvements included construction of pile revetment, and strengthening the existing pierhead, dredging the channel, constructing a north pier, and constructing an additional revetment along the bend in the river. A light was added toe ht south pier in 1881.</p><br>
<p>By 1880, the COE had completed most of the construction work. During the 1880s, both of the piers were extended to give greater protection to the harbor and reduce the shoaling of sand into the channel. By 1890, the north pier was about 1,120 feet long, and the south pier approximately 1,300 feet. Despite the improvements to the harbor, serious problems with sand bars developing remained, and the piers were extended again, the north pier by 600 feet and the south pier by 550 feet.</p><br>
<p>Additional harbor improvements were made in the 20th century, starting with the extension of the revetments and the addition of concrete reinforcement. Dredging of the channel continued in the 1910s and 1920s. Between 1951 and 1983, sheet steel substructures were set into place along the piers and revetments.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The navigational structures at Grand Haven consist of two piers and two revetments located at the mouth of the Grand River. The northern pier is 1,414 feet long, and the southern pier is 1,495 feet long. The channel itself is 300 feet wide and 23 feet deep, running from Lake Michigan to a point 1,000 feet inside the ends of the pier. The revetments are placed along the channel for a distance of 2,159 feet along the north bank and 3,674 feet along the south bank.</p><br>
<p>The construction on these structures spanned a 62-year period between 1857 and 1919. The substructures installed at the time consist of stone filled timber cribs, close driven round timber piles, and wood plank sheet piles. In addition, most of the substructure is covered with a steel sheet pile facade which was installed between 1951 and 1983. A slab concrete superstructure was built along the piers and revetments between 1916 and 1938.</p><br>
<p>The Pambamarca Fortress Complex consists of the ruins of a large number of pukaras  and other constructions of the Inca Empire. The fortresses were constructed in the late 15th century by the Incas to overcome the opposition of the people of the Cayambe chiefdom to the expansion of the Incas in the Andes highlands of present-day northern Ecuador. The Pambamarca fortreses are located in Cayambe Canton in Pichincha Province about 32 km in a straight-line distance northeast of the city of Quito.</p><br>
<p>In 1998, Pambamarca was placed on the tentative List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.</p><br>
<h2>The opponents</h2><br>
<p>The Pais Caranqui. In the 15th century, the people of the Andes highlands of Ecuador north of Quito were organized into several chiefdoms, apparently similar in language and culture but competitive with each other and frequently engaged in internecine warfare. The names of the most prominent chiefdoms were the Caranqui, Cayambe, Otavalo, and Cochasquí. Pais Caranqui (Caranqui country) is the collective name often used to describe the chiefdoms, although the Caranqui may not have been the most powerful of them. The Cayambe were the primary defenders who faced the advance of the Incas at the Pambamarca Fortresses. Scholars estimate the collective pre-Inca population of the chiefdoms at between 100,000 and 150,000.</p><br>
<p>There is considerable confusion among scholars as to the pre-Columbian Andean people of northern Ecuador. The Caranqui and other nearby people are often identified as the Cara people and with Cara culture and as descendants of the semi-mythical Quitu culture, from whence comes the name of the Ecuadorian capital of Quito.</p><br>
<p>The Inca. In the 1460s, as a military leader, the future emperor Topa Inca Yupanqui (ruled c. 1471-1493) may have begun the Inca conquest of Ecuador He encountered stiff resistance from the Cañari but advanced as far as Quito during his reign. His son Huayna Capac (ruled 1493-1525) would spend nearly all his reign completing the conquest of northern Ecuador of which the first major barrier to the Incas was probably the Cayambe defense at Pambamarca.</p><br>
<p>The battles at Pambamarca apparently extended over several years terminating in an Inca victory, possibly about 1505. The Incas then went on to complete the conquest of northern Ecuador, achieving a final victory over the Caranqui at Yawarkucha (Blood Lake) which may have occurred as last as 1520. In the 1530s the Incas would in turn be conquered by the Spanish. The intensity of the struggle is illustrated by the fact that 106 of 184 known Inca pukaras are in northern Ecuador, a relatively small area in an empire that stretched 4,000 km north to south.</p><br>
<h2>The archaeological site</h2><br>
<p>The Pambamarca Fortress Complex consists of 14 Inca pukaras and related structures, scattered over an arc 8 km long on the northern slopes of the Pambamarca Volcano. The pukaras are located an elevations of 3,300 m to 3,780 m. Approximately 4 km northeast of the Inca pukaras is the defensive perimeter of the Cayambe, consisting of two pukaras which protected the cultivated valley of the Pisque River and the Cayambe capital, still called Cayambe. Between the two sets of fortresses is one pukara of uncertain origin.</p><br>
<p>The best known and one of the largest fortresses is Quitoloma (hill of Quito). It is the southernmost of the Pambamarca fortresses, located at an elevation of 3,780 m atop a small hill. It measures about 700 m long by 400 m wide. The highest level of the site consists of an ushnu, a terraced platform used for religious ceremonies. The ushnu is surrounded by the remains of more than 100 buildings which served as living quarters, storehouses (qollqas), and administrative buildings. The inhabited area was surrounded by three concentric walls, each about 3 m high and accessible through gates defended by towers, ditches, and other defensive works. Quitoloma was probably an administrative center and had the dual purpose of persecuting the war against the Pais Caranqui and defending the city of Quito and the sacred site of El Quinche. Archaeologists have found weaponry and large caches of stones used by the Incas&#39;s principal long-range weapons of slings and bolas scattered along the inside faces of the walls. An Inca road ran from Quito by Quitoloma and continued eastward toward the lowlands of the Amazon basin.</p><br>
<p>The Nathaniel and Esther  Robbins House is a private house located at 20 South 5th Avenue in Grand Haven, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Nathaniel Robbins V was born on September 29, 1866 in Benton Harbor, Michigan, the son of Captain Nathaniel Robbins IV and Hannah (Nickerson) Robbins. The elder Nathaniel Robbins operated lumber sailing ships between Benton Harbor and Grand Haven in the 1870s. The younger Robbins sailed with his father, then took on various jobs before settling in Grand Haven in 1884. He soon joined the firm of H. L. Chamberlain & Company, a coal and wood retailer, and became sole proprietor of the business in 1887.</p><br>
<p>On September 3, 1891 Nathaniel Robbins V married Esther Savidge. Esther was born in Spring Lake, Michigan on May 17, 1866, the daughter of Hunter and Sarah Savidge. Hunter Savidge eventually became a leading lumberman and businessman in the Ottawa County area. Nathaniel and Esther Robbins purchased the site this house is located on in 1891. At the time a brick house known as the Vanderhoef house was located on the site. in 1899 they demolished the Vanderhoef house and hired Baldus Pellegrom, a Grand Haven carpenter and ship&#39;s carpenter, to construct the current house. Construction was complete in 1900.</p><br>
<p>Nathaniel and Esther Robbins had three children: Nathaniel VI, who was born in 1896, Dorothy, who was born in 1898, and Hunter, who was born in 1920. Esther Robbins died on June 20, 1920, after surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Minneapolis. In 1923, Nathaniel Robbins V married Alice Hood. The couple lived in this house until Nathaniel&#39;s death in 1940.</p><br>
<p>After Robbins died in 1940, the house passed to Gordon and Joan Laughead. The Laugheads lived in the house for nearly 50 years. Gordon died in 1969 and Joan sold the house in 1988, shortly before her own death in 1989. The house passed through multiple owners until 1993, when it was purchased by Laura and Ed Grafton of Spring Lake. They made extensive renovations and restorations to the house. In 2002, William and Linda Swano purchased the property to house their Grand Haven Financial Center.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Robbins House is a 2-1/2 story Colonial Revival house with a hipped roof and a coursed ashlar stone foundation. The facade is symmetric, and contains an entry veranda with classic columns and corner pilasters. A shallow bay window is placed on the second floor above the entry. The corners of the house are marked by pilasters with Ionic capitols; likewise, Tuscan pilasters frame the windows in the three roof dormers.</p><br>
<p>On the interior, the main floor contains four large rooms, a kitchen, and two bathrooms. The second floor contains five bedrooms and three bathrooms. The third floor was originally a ballroom, but has been re-purposed into three bedrooms and a modern kitchen. The house contains walnut and mahogany throughout, as paneling, stairways, pocket doors, and other millwork. There are extensive rich plaster moldings, leaded glass windows, and other fine details throughout.</p><br>
<p>The Elm Street Historic District encompasses a colonial-era roadway layout and a cross-section of historical residential architecture styles in Rocky Hill, Connecticut. Elm Street between Silas Deane Highway and Grimes Road is an old colonial road, laid out in the late 17th century, and has retained an unusually wide right-of-way, typical for the period but rarely preserved. The houses lining it date from 1769 to the 1930s. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Rocky Hill&#39;s Elm Street was laid out in the late 17th century, as a major road leading west from the Rocky Hill–Glastonbury ferry. This ferry (now seasonal) began service in 1655, and is believed to be the oldest continuously operating ferry in the United States. The road was laid out to a then-standard width of 20 rods, about 300 ft. This portion of the road has retained this width, with two rows of trees on its north side and one to its south filling out the right of way. The earliest surviving buildings, the oldest of which dates to 1769, are located near its junction with Chapin and Ashwell Streets.</p><br>
<p>The district includes 35 residential buildings, all but one of which are wood frame structures 1-1/2 to 2-1/2 stories in height. The one exception is the brick house at 43 Elm Street, which is not historically significant. The main period in which houses were built in the district was the first quarter of the 20th. Examples of the Colonial Revival are the most numerous, with American Foursquare, Tudor Revival, and Craftsman/Bungalow styles also well represented. There are only three instances of the more ornate Italianate and Queen Anne styles (of which two are transitional), and three late Greek Revival buildings.</p><br>
<p>The Summit Apartment Building, also known as the Summit Street Cooperative Apartments, is a historic building located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. This is the only known Iowa work of Chicago architect Parker Nobel Berry, a student of, and chief designer for, Louis Sullivan. The present building is a stripped-down version of his original plan, which proved too expensive to build. The three-story structure follows a U-shaped plan, and is built on a raised basement. Completed in 1916, it was Iowa City&#39;s first apartment flat. The Prairie School-style building was built by local developer, Dr. Frank C. Titzell, who continued to own it until his death in 1932. His wife Bertha owned it until 1939 when she sold it to an out-of-state buyer. In 1947 is became the first Housing cooperative in the state after the Iowa General Assembly passed the Cooperative Housing Authorization Act earlier in the same year. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The James McCollister Farmstead, also known as the Old Charlie Showers Place, is a historic farmstead located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. This property was first settled in 1840 by Philip Clark. He laid a claim on the land in 1836, but it was not available until after the Second Black Hawk Purchase of land from the Sauk, Meskwaki , and Ho-Chunk  tribes in 1837. The claim was secured by The Claim Association of Johnson County until the land was put up for sale in 1840. This was the first farm listed in Johnson County. Clark sold the farm to James McCollister in 1863, and he expanded it to 750 acres. He also built the house and the barn, which are the subjects of the historical designation. The farm was owned by his descendants until 1974.</p><br>
<p>The first section of the two-story brick house was completed in 1864, with an expansion built onto the front in 1880. That gave the house an Italianate appearance. The wood-frame barn is built on a limestone foundation, just like the house. At the time of the historic nomination the foundation and fire pit for the smokehouse were in existence. The farmstead was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Ka Island  is a North Korean island in the Pansong Archipelago in West Korea Bay. It lies just south of the Cholsan Peninsula. It includes Ka Island Village  and forms part of North Korea&#39;s Cholsan County.</p><br>
<h2>Names</h2><br>
<p>"Ka Island" or "Ka-to" is the official North Korean romanization of the island&#39;s name, using its form of the McCune–Reischauer system. Since 2000, its South Korean equivalent has been "Gado" or "Ga-do", using its Revised Romanization system. In Chinese sources, the same name appears as Jiadao. The names all translate as "Pomelo Island".</p><br>
<p>In the 17th century, the Chinese knew Ka as "Hides Island", which appears in English accounts of the era as Pi Island or Pidao. It was also known as the DongjiangGarrison, from Mao Wenlong&#39;s settlement there.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Ming soldiers were stationed on the island during the reigns of the Joseon kings Gwanghae (.1608–1623) and Injo (.1623–1649). Owing to the Manchu invasion of Liaoning, the island flooded with both Ming troops and northern refugees.</p><br>
<p>The Ming general Mao Wenlong attacked from and retreated to Ka Island during the 1621 Battle of Fort Zhenjiang. He then used the island as a personal base of operations from 1622. Its supply was largely organized from the port of Dengzhou (now Penglai) on the north coast of Chinas Shandong Peninsula, but—partially owing to continued Korean gratitude for the Mings help repelling Japan that ultimately contributed about 260,000seom of rice.</p><br>
<p>After the fall of Lüshun to the Manchu, Mao was freed from most oversight and began to establish Ka as an independent maritime kingdom with open markets at Ka and Tieshan. He attempted to negotiate an official free trade policy between China and Korea, ending their remaining sea bans and restrictions on exportation of goods considered strategically important, but also aimed to restrict Korea&#39;s direct tributary trade with China, driving its goods to his markets. and smugglers, and so drew in much of the Yellow Sea trade between Manchuria, China, and Korea. Scholars estimate he was able to collect tens of thousands of silver tael a year; he also sought supplies of Korean copper and iron to mint his own currency.</p><br>
<p>Even after Maos assassination by the Ming in 1629, troops and refugees remained stationed on the island until 1636. As preparation for the Manchus second invasion of Korea, Hung Taiji travelled to Zhenjiang and sent Abatai, Jirgalang, and Ajige to secure its western coast in the 12th lunar month of 1636. Shen Shikui was well ensconced in Ka Island&#39;s fortifications and hammered his attackers with heavy cannon for over a month. In the end, Ming and Korean defectors including Kong Youde landed 70 boats on the eastern side of the island and drew out his garrison in that direction. On the next morning, however, he found that the Qing—"who seem to have flown"—had landed to his rear in the northwest corner of the island in the middle of the night. Shen refused to surrender, but was overrun and beheaded by Ajige. Official reports put the casualties as at least 10,000, with few survivors. The Ming general Yang Sichang then withdrew the remaining Ming forces in Korea to Denglai in northern Shandong. (The removal of the Chinese settlement is sometimes portrayed as reducing the tax burden on nearby Korean settlements, but in fact the Qing merely continued them under another name.)</p><br>
<p>In late October 1951, the PLA made a concerted push to remove UN troops from islands near the mouth of the Yalu. The most significant was Taehwa Island, but Ka Island was also assaulted during the night of 5 November and then strafed by Yak fighters on 14 November. During the second attack, the garrison was quickly overrun.</p><br>
<p>Aberconwy House, 2 Castle Street, Conwy, Wales is a medieval merchant&#39;s house and one of the oldest, datable, houses in Wales. Constructed in the 15th century it is, along with Plas Mawr, one of the two surviving merchants houses within the town. Its historical and architectural importance is reflected in its status as a Grade I listed building. The house is administered by the National Trust.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Following the conquest of Wales by Edward I in the late 13th century, Conwy, with its castle and walls, became an important strategic and commercial centre. The town was granted a Royal charter in 1284 and English settlers, particularly from the counties of Cheshire and Lancashire, were encouraged to populate the new borough. Aberconwy House is a rare survivor of a number of such houses-cum-warehouses built by English merchants trading on the Welsh Marches in the medieval period. Tree-ring analysis of the roof timbers shows that the trees were felled. This dating makes it one of the oldest, datable houses in Wales and the importance of the building was recognised in 1950 when it was designated a Grade I listed building. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the house served as a temperance hotel and, following closure and other subsequent uses, it was left to the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty in 1934. The Trust undertook an extensive restoration in 1976 and the house is now run as a museum.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and description</h2><br>
<p>The house is of two upper-storeys, over a cellar. The top floor is jettied, with the overhanging structure supported on corbel stones, "a mark of prosperity". The building is constructed around a timber frame which shows a Kentish or Wealden influence.</p><br>
<p>Byerley House, at the corner of Lake and Ingram Streets in Lake Providence in East Carroll Parish, Louisiana, is a one-story house built in 1902. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The house has Queen Anne styling including asymmetrical massing, textured surfaces, a wraparound gallery, and a hexagonal bay as well as a rectangular bay. The textured surfaces include "beaded board siding on the facade and gable peaks combining fishscale, diamond, and crescent shaped shingles." Although perhaps modest relative to two-story Queen Anne houses with turrets and other features elsewhere, it was deemed significant in its NRHP nomination to be "an intact and extremely rare example of the Queen Anne Revival style within Lake Providence". The house also has Stick/Eastlake details including "turned gallery columns and circular grilled vents piercing each of the building&#39;s major gables."</p><br>
<p>The house was moved one block&#39;s distance in 1991 to save it from demolition, but as before it stands on a large corner lot. It is located near the southeastern shore of an oxbow lake.</p><br>
<p>The Boerner-Fry Company/Davis Hotel is a historic building located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Emil Louis Boerner was born in Prussia and came to Iowa City with his family when he was 12. He was educated at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, and he owned and operated a drugstore in Iowa City for 57 years. He was also one of the primary organizers of the Iowa Pharmaceutical Association, a member of the faculty at the newly established Iowa College of Pharmacy in Des Moines, and was involved in establishing the Department of Pharmacy at the University of Iowa where he served as its first dean. Boerner and his partner William A. Fry had this build constructed in 1899 as a factory that produced toilet articles and light pharmaceuticals. Local contractor Jacob J. Hotz was responsible for its construction. The factory relocated to another facility in 1915, and went out of business the following year. This building was used for a variety of businesses until 1922 when it was converted into the Washington Hotel. George W. Davis renamed the hotel after himself in 1952, and he continued to operate it until 1972. It was then converted into office and retail space. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Endee Manor Historic District encompasses a well-preserved and cohesive early 20th-century worker housing area in Bristol, Connecticut. Located on Sherman, Mills and Putnam Streets, the area was built out in a four-month period in 1916-17, and is the largest such development in the city. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Endee Manor was the largest of four significant worker housing developments built in Bristol in the 1910s. It was designed by Harold Haydon for the New Departure Manufacturing Company, a subsidiary of General Motors and one of the city&#39;s largest employers at the time. The houses in the development were constructed in a four-month period in 1916 and 1917, partly as a response to labor unrest surrounding hiring difficulties by the company (due in part to a housing shortage) that suggested it might leave the community. In contrast to many earlier worker housing initiatives, it was designed to have a park-like setting, with all of the modern conveniences. Its construction received favorable notice in the architectural press of the time as a model for this type of development.</p><br>
<p>The historic district encompasses a densely built subdivision entered from Terryville Street at Sherman Street, northwest of downtown Bristol. It is bounded on the east by West Cemetery and the west by railroad tracks. The development, which was completely built out by 1917, has 102 frame one and two-family houses, all in Bungalow style, that are one or two stories in height. Some of the properties also have garages, most of which were built in the following ten-year period. Most of the buildings follow one of eight different plans, but are placed to avoid repetition.</p><br>
<p>The College Block Building is a historic building located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Completed in 1883, this is the first known architect-designed commercial building in Iowa City. It was designed by local architect Chauncey F. Lovelace, who moved his office into the building. The main facade of this two-story brick structure is capped with an ornate, bracketed, tin cornice with the words "College Block" on an ornamented crest. There are eight windows on the second floor, all with ornate windowhoods. The second and third windows on both ends are coupled together under a larger hood. The main floor is occupied by commercial space, and the second floor contains apartments. Urban renewal threatened the building&#39;s existence in the 1970s. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Estate Judith&#39;s Fancy, located in Sion Farm subdistrict of Saint Croix, USA Virgin Islands, 4 mi northwest of Christiansted is a former sugarcane plantation whose great house was built in 1733. Its surviving 3.6 acre property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The listing included six contributing sites.</p><br>
<p>The site is significant for being the location of government headquarters during the French occupation of St. Croix during 1651-65, under the Knights of Malta&#39;s ownership, as well as for preserving remnants of typical buildings of a sugar plantation. The property includes stonework ruins from a sugar factory, from a windmill which drew water, from a chimney of a later steam mill, and a small house. The factory building is T-shaped, with a two-story section being 22 x in plan. An 18.5 x wing was the boiling room. A one-story 10.67 x cookhouse with a charcoal stove is also attached.</p><br>
<p>Koggala Lagoon is a coastal waterbody located in Galle District,Southern Sri Lanka. It is situated near the town of Koggala and adjacent to the southern coast, about 110 km south of Colombo. The lagoon is embellished with eight ecologically rich small islands.</p><br>
<h2>Features and location</h2><br>
<p>The lagoon has a surface area of approximately 7.27 km&sup2; measuring 4.8 km in length and 2 km in width. The water depth ranges from 1.0 m to 3.7 m. The lagoon is largely rain fed and a number of streams are connected to it. Warabokka-ela stream (Koggala-oya) that enters the lagoon from the north-west is the main freshwater supply. Kerena anicut, which was constructed combining two streams, Mudiyansege-ela stream and Thithagalla-ela stream, is the second largest freshwater inflow. Heen-ela stream contributes a minor to the freshwater inflow In addition to above four streams, Kahanda-ela stream, Gurukanda-ela stream and Thelambu-ela stream are also contributors for freshwater inflows but are presently abandoned with overgrown vegetation. The only outlet of the lagoon is Pol-oya located at the southeast corner; a narrow 300 m long canal, which connects the lagoon with the Indian Ocean.</p><br>
<p>The lagoon has a hydro-catchment area of approximately 55 km&sup2;. Various land use practices exist in the catchment, which mainly includes small-scale fishing industry and paddy farming. The Koggala Export Processing Zone (KEPZ), is an industrial area with a surface area of 91 hectare located within the catchment area of the lagoon.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>The Koggala Lagoon is one of the main features for tourists who visit southern coastal areas in Sri Lanka with rich bio diversities and eco systems. The Lagoon is scattered with eight small islands. The islands consist of lush mangrove swamps. Anchored in mud, the mangrove roots are coated with a variety of creatures, including barnacles, oysters and crabs. The dense, intertwining roots serve as nurseries for many fish species. There are seven islands in the lagoon, that can be reached by boat. Tourists can witness the varying species of Mangrove, about ten of which are endemic to Sri Lanka. Wildlife of these islands inherited to a wide variety of flora and fauna, like monitor lizards and a number of birds.</p><br>
<p>In addition to wildlife and the scenery, Kathaluwa Buddhist Temple (Kathaluwa Purvarama Maha Vihara) is one of the main tourist attractions in the lagoon with Kandyan-style paintings dated 19th century. Some images include colonial rulers and strangely Queen Victoria herself to commemorate her support for local Buddhism in the face of British missionary Christianity.</p><br>
<h2>Environmental problems</h2><br>
<h3>Destruction of the natural sand bar</h3><br>
<p>The Koggala lagoon was once a paradise for its ecological community. However, human intervention has changed the fate of the lagoon with the destruction of the natural groyne (sand bar) during coastal defense activities in early 1990’s. This has been followed by unplanned removal of sand at the Pol-oya outlet near the lagoon mouth. The naturally built sand bar, which was perpendicular to the lagoon mouth controlled the seawater intrusion into the lagoon. With the opening of the lagoon mouth during the rainy season, rapid outflow of water began. However, the flow of seawater into the lagoon during the monsoon and high tides ceased the formation of sand bar again in the dry season. This natural dynamic rhythm causes high seasonal variations in most of the physical and chemical properties of lagoon water.</p><br>
<p>After the removal of the natural sand barrier, the formation of sand bar shifted towards the “Kathaluwa” bridge (highway bridge) by exposing the bridge to wave attack. Breaching the sand bar became increasingly difficult and erosion close to the bridge posed a risk to the bridge. Subsequently in 1995, the Southern Provincial Council built a groyne system to protect the bridge from the wave attack. Another groyne was built in 2005 to control the erosion at the west side of the mouth due to prevailing groyne structure. Construction of the groyne provoked concern over local resource users and environmentalists as the lagoon hydrology and water quality showed drastic changes and variations.</p><br>
<h3>Threats to ecology and livelihoods</h3><br>
<p>Due to the increased salinity of the lagoon, the ecological system has also been affected severely. Many freshwater species (Ex; Malpulutta kretseri, Etroplus suratensis) is at the risk of being prone to growth difficulties or they might even face extinction if the breeding grounds are undesirable.</p><br>
<p>Increased salinity in the lagoon water affects the growth cycles of shrimp. Recent studies suggested that shrimp and fish production in the lagoon had significantly decreased over the years.</p><br>
<p>Fishermen who engage in Koggala lagoon claimed that their harvest of large mud crabs has decreasing due to the increased salinity as a result of the groyne construction and open mouth throughout the year. Livelihoods of stilt fishermen were endangered too as the fish shoals start swimming inland waters and villagers use large nets to catch them in large batches since the lagoon area is now filled with saline water.</p><br>
<h3>Remedial action</h3><br>
<p>As a solution to this environmental crisis the groyne system was modified in 2013 to allow the natural way of water flushing in the lagoon with proper salinity in the lagoon water. The Practical Action (non-government organisation) together has sought to redress the problems by consulting and coordinating with the Coast Conservation Department, Galle District Secretariat and other authorities such as the Agricultural and Fisheries Departments. The project of rehabilitating the lagoon is also assisted by experts from the Moratuwa University, University of Ruhuna in Sri Lanka and Saitama University in Japan.</p><br>
<h2>Research work</h2><br>
<p>A number of studies have been carried out over the past decade on lagoonal hydrology, hydrodynamics and fisheries. The majority of these projects have been done in collaboration with the University of Ruhuna, Moratuwa University and Saitama University.</p><br>
<p>Applicability of Salinity Stratification Estimation by New Bulk Model for Two Choked Coastal Lagoons in Sri Lanka.</p><br>
<p>Mud Crab (Scylla serrata) population changes in Koggala Lagoon, Sri Lanka since construction of the groyne system.</p><br>
<p>Effect of inlet morphometry changes on natural sensitivity and flushing time of the Koggala lagoon, Sri Lanka.</p><br>
<p>The Current status of density stratification of Koggala lagoon.</p><br>
<p>Restoration of Koggala lagoon: Modeling approach in evaluating lagoon water budget and flow characteristics.</p><br>
<p>Impact of rubble mound groyne structural interventions in restoration of Koggala lagoon, SriLanka. Numerical modeling approach.</p><br>
<p>Some hydrographic aspects of Koggala Lagoon with preliminary results on distribution of the marine bivalve Saccostrea forskalli: Pre-tsunami status.</p><br>
