<p>Motu Moute is a 0.115 km&sup2; island in the Bora Bora Islands Group, within the Society Islands of French Polynesia. It is the located between Vananui, and Moute Iti.</p><br>
<h2>Administration</h2><br>
<p>The island is part of Bora Bora Commune.</p><br>
<p>Its current population includes some private households and also the staff of Moute Iti EcoLodge.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>Nearby Moute Iti, also known as Mai Moana Island, is the location of the Bora Bora Eco Lodge</p><br>
<p>In Moute Iti, you will have no direct neighbors, giving you the luxury of holidaying on your own private and secluded island.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>After arriving in Faaā International Airport, an Air Tahiti inter-island flight (50 minutes) will bring you to Bora Bora Airport.</p><br>
<p>You will need to board the airline’s catamaran shuttle to Vaitape, where the Moute Iti staff will take you to thee resort.</p><br>
<p>Motu Toopua is a 1.45 km&sup2; island in the Bora Bora Islands Group, within the Society Islands of French Polynesia. It is the located between Toopua Iti, and Tapu.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Motu Toopua in the west is a high island up to 148 m over the sea surface (Mount Mauaohunoa) of the rest of the former crater rim and also consists of volcanic rocks.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>On Toopua, as on the main island, was one of the stratified tribal societies (named Ativahia), and it was in constant rivalries and wars among the other tribes.</p><br>
<h2>Administration</h2><br>
<p>The island is part of Bora Bora Commune.</p><br>
<h2>Demographics</h2><br>
<p>Ativahia, the main village of the island, is on the south east corner, facing Bora Bora Island</p><br>
<p>Toopua is the 2nd most populous island in the Bora Bora Commune.</p><br>
<p>Its current population includes many private households and also the staff of the resorts on the island.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>The Island boasts many resorts.</p><br>
<p>Near the village of Teauratau, was the infamous Lagoon resort.</p><br>
<p>Near Tehou Bay village, is the Banana Cafe and pension.</p><br>
<p>At Mohio point, the southeast corner, is the biggest Bora Bora resort, called Conrad Hilton Bora Bora Nui. It was the location of Amazing Race filming.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>After arriving in Faaā International Airport, an Air Tahiti inter-island flight (50 minutes) will bring you to Bora Bora Airport.</p><br>
<p>You will need to board the airline’s catamaran shuttle to Vaitape, where you can hire a boat to Toopua.</p><br>
<p>Conrad Hilton resort operates a helipad on the island.</p><br>
<p>Motu Tapu, is a 0.026 km&sup2; private island in the lagoon of Bora Bora in French Polynesia.</p><br>
<p>It is the located between Toopua, and Ahuna.</p><br>
<p>Motu Tapu is located just outside the Teavanui Passage, and has the Teavanui front automated lighthouse installed, in Paparoto point on the north of the island.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Island is known also as royal family island, because in former times it belonged exclusively to the royal family of the Kingdom of Bora Bora.</p><br>
<p>In 1931, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau filmed the famous Silent film "Tabu: A Story of the South Seas", a mixture of documentary and feature film with local laity masters, on the beaches of Motu Tapu.</p><br>
<h2>Administration</h2><br>
<p>The island is part of Bora Bora Commune.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>The island was a private retreat owned by the Bora Bora Lagoon resort, but is currently up for sale.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>After arriving in Faaā International Airport, an Air Tahiti inter-island flight (50 minutes) will bring you to Bora Bora Airport.</p><br>
<p>There, you will need to hire a boat at the Rent-a-boat Office.</p><br>
<p>The Sacred Heart Church at 316 W. Benham in Glendive, Montana is a Catholic church which was built during 1924-26. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The architect was Montana architect Brynjulf Rivenes.</p><br>
<p>The church was built to serve the Catholic community in Glendive which had outgrown its first church, the St. Julianna Catholic Church established in 1886 in the former Congregational Church building at Power and Sargent Street on the east side. Property at the corner of Meade and Benham, on the west side of Glendive, was bought for $4,500; the church was built for $50,000 and a rectory (demolished in 1970) was built for $7,500. The church had a $5,000 organ installed in about 1927. The church&#39;s interior was remodeled extensively in 1973-74.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register along with several other Glendive properties covered in a 1987 study.</p><br>
<p>Tsunozuka Kofun is a keyhole-shaped kofun burial mound located in the Isawa district of the city of Ōshū, Iwate in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan. It is significant in that it is the northernmost keyhole-shaped kofun yet discovered, and indicates the penetration of Kofun period cultural into lands traditionally considered part of the Emishi cultural zone.</p><br>
<p>The Tsunozuka Kofun is located in the southern portion of the Kitakami Basin of the Kitakami River on the alluvial fan of the Isawa River. The tomb does not appear in any historical records and the name of rank of the person buried within is unknown. From the style of the mound and grave goods uncovered within, archaeologists have dated the kofun to the late 5th or early 6th century AD.</p><br>
<p>The kofun was excavated in 1935 and 1945, during which time a number of haniwa were discovered. However, it was not until 1947 that archaeologists confirmed that the structure was that of a keyhole-shaped kofun. The site received protection as an Iwate Prefectural Historic Site in 1957. During further excavations held from 1974-1975, more haniwa and the fukiishi stones which originally covered the tomb were uncovered. The site received further protection as a National Historic Site in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Total length: 43-45 meters</p><br>
<p>Circular Portion: 2-stages, 28 meter diameter x 4 meter height</p><br>
<p>Keyway Portion: 10 meter width in the north, tapering out to 15 meters in the south, 1.5 meter height</p><br>
<p>The artifacts uncovered in excavations are preserved at the Isawa Local History Museum.</p><br>
<p>The Glendive Heat, Light and Power Company Power Plant on Clough St. in Glendive, Montana was built in 1914. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. The listing included a contributing building and two contributing structures.</p><br>
<p>The power generating plant was built in 1914 by the Glendive Heat, Light and Power Co. and included two General Electric 500 KW turbo-generators and</p><br>
<p>three coal-fired sterling boilers. These burned lignite coal. The Eastern Montana Light and Power Company took over the plant in 1920. It was bought in 1926 by the Minnesota Northern Power Company, which installed a 2,000-KW Allis Chalmers generator with a Webster gas burner.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register as part of a study of multiple historic resources in Glendive which also listed several others.</p><br>
<p>Motu Piti Aau is a 2.25 km&sup2; island in the Bora Bora Islands Group, within the Society Islands of French Polynesia. It is the located between Pitiuu Tai, and Tape.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Motu Piti Aau is a low island, with a small hill near Reva Reva ranch.</p><br>
<h2>Administration</h2><br>
<p>The island is part of Bora Bora Commune.</p><br>
<h2>Demographics</h2><br>
<p>Taurere, the main village of the island, is on the south west corner, facing Bora Bora Island</p><br>
<p>Its current population includes many private households as the resorts staff usually commute daily to the pier at Eden beach.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>The Island boasts many resorts.</p><br>
<p>Near the island of Tape, is Le Meridien Resort.</p><br>
<p>Thalasso Intercontinental Resort</p><br>
<p>Eden Beach Resort</p><br>
<p>Bora Bora One Resort, near Taurere</p><br>
<p>Chez Nono operates a camping facility in Fareone point, at the south of Piti Aau, the cheapest in Bora Bora.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>After arriving in Faaā International Airport, an Air Tahiti inter-island flight (50 minutes) will bring you to Bora Bora Airport.</p><br>
<p>You will need to board the airline’s catamaran shuttle to Vaitape, where resorts staff take boats.</p><br>
<p>Motu Tane , is a 9.6 acre private island in the lagoon of Bora Bora in French Polynesia.</p><br>
<p>It is the located between Paahi, and Pitoraverahi.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Motu Tane is well known in Bora Bora as having been Paul-Emile Victor&#39;s home. Paul-Emile Victor was the famous French polar explorer and author and chose as his personal paradise refuge Motu Tane in Bora Bora, to live a peaceful and secluded life.</p><br>
<p>The island has coconut groves, encircled by a white sand beach with just beyond Polynesia&#39;s sparkling turquoise blue waters.</p><br>
<p>in 1997, it was purchased by François Nars, artistic director of the well-known cosmetic brand that he founded and carries his own name.</p><br>
<h2>Administration</h2><br>
<p>The island is part of Bora Bora Commune.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>The island is up for sale</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>After arriving in Faaā International Airport, an Air Tahiti inter-island flight (50 minutes) will bring you to Bora Bora Airport.</p><br>
<p>There, you will need to hire a boat at the Rent-a-boat Office.</p><br>
<p>Motu Tofari is a 1.132 km&sup2; island in the Bora Bora Islands Group, within the Society Islands of French Polynesia. It is the located between Taufarii, and Ome.</p><br>
<p>The island has some private households.</p><br>
<h2>Administration</h2><br>
<p>The island is part of Bora Bora Commune.</p><br>
<h2>Demographics</h2><br>
<p>Tenamanu, the main village of the island, is on the north west corner, next to the Four Seasons Resort.</p><br>
<p>Its current population includes many private households as the resorts staff usually commute daily to the piers of the resorts</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>The Island boasts many resorts.</p><br>
<p>Near the island of Taufarii, is St. Regis Resort.</p><br>
<p>The resort has extended Tofari with an artificial island inside the lagoon.</p><br>
<p>Four Seasons operates the large Four Seasons Resort Bora Bora</p><br>
<h2>Wildlife</h2><br>
<p>Ruahatu Lagoon Sanctuary is located on the island.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>After arriving in Faaā International Airport, an Air Tahiti inter-island flight (50 minutes) will bring you to Bora Bora Airport.</p><br>
<p>You will need to board the airline’s catamaran shuttle to Vaitape, where resorts staff take boats to the island.</p><br>
<p>Motu Tevairoa is a 2.363 km&sup2; island in the Bora Bora Islands Group, within the Society Islands of French Polynesia. It is the located between Haapiti Rahi, and Ahuna.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Motu Tevairoa is the second largest island in the Bora Bora group.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h2>Administration</h2><br>
<p>The island is part of Bora Bora Commune.</p><br>
<h2>Demographics</h2><br>
<p>Tevairoa, the main village of the island, is on the south corner.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>The Island hosts the Pearl Beach Resort.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>After arriving in Faaā International Airport, an Air Tahiti inter-island flight (50 minutes) will bring you to Bora Bora Airport.</p><br>
<p>You will need to board the airline’s catamaran shuttle to Vaitape, where you can hire a boat to Toopua.</p><br>
<p>Conrad Hilton resort operates a helipad on the island.</p><br>
<p>Searsville  was a former town that sat in present-day Searsville Lake, Woodside, San Mateo County, California. At Northwest Corner Sandhill Road and Portola Road is a plaque and this location is a California Historical Landmark in San Mateo County, since 1950.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Charles Brown, a former whaler from San Francisco purchased a portion of the Rancho Cañada de Raymundo Mexican-era land grant of John Coppinger and settled there with his wife. The newly acquired property was named the Mountain Home Ranch and previously had an adobe house built in 1839 (still located at the intersection of present day Portola Road and La Honda Road) and a sawmill. By 1854 John Howell Sears moved to the site, for whom the town was named based on his postal contract.</p><br>
<p>Because of the Gold Rush, there was a strong demand for lumber in order to quickly build local towns. Searsville was a lumberjack settlement of a hundred or more people and the heart of a robust logging industry. When the sawmills ran out of timber, the town died down. Because of the topography of Searsville being located in a floodplain, the town would have never survived long.</p><br>
<h2>Closure of the town</h2><br>
<p>In 1887 the land, including the town was sold to Spring Valley Water Works</p><br>
<p>For decades local families would swim and boat on the lake and in 1975, Stanford University closed the lake to the public. The site is now part of the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve.</p><br>
<p>There is rumors of the "ghosts of Searsville” from the vanished town, living in the bottom of Searsville Lake.</p><br>
<p>The Lochsa Historical Ranger Station, also known as Lochsa Ranger Station, near Kooskia, Idaho in Idaho County, Idaho, was built during 1927 to 1933. It served as administrative headquarters for the Lochsa Ranger District from 1922 to 1957. It was located within the Selway National Forest which was later merged into the Clearwater National Forest and the Nezperce National Forest. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>It is located on the Lochsa River. It was once isolated, accessible only by trail, but by 1976 the Lewis and Clark Highway (USA Highway 12) passed by.</p><br>
<p>The listing included four contributing buildings:</p><br>
<p>Combination building (1927-1933), built as four separate buildings later joined together by a common roof</p><br>
<p>Ranger dwelling (1932)</p><br>
<p>Alternate ranger dwelling (1931)</p><br>
<p>Boulder Creek cabin</p><br>
<p>The station is open as a museum; a self-guided walking tour is available.</p><br>
<p>Norton Court, Norton Brook, Skenfrith, Monmouthshire is a country house dating from c.1600. Its origins are older, beginning with its ownership by the monks of Grace Dieu Abbey, but the present building was constructed by the Walters of Grosmont at the beginning of the 17th century. It was extended and reconstructed in the 18th and 19th centuries. The court is a Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The earliest recorded building on the site was a farmhouse, supporting the abbey at Grace Dieu. Following the Dissolution the house was granted to Sir Thomas Herbert of Wonastow Court. At this time, the court was constructed of timber but, c.1600, it was rebuilt and extended in stone by the Walter family of Grosmont. Further rebuilding took place in the 18th and 19th centuries and recent renovations have uncovered many earlier historical features.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and description</h2><br>
<p>The architectural historian John Newman describes the court as "a handsome early 18th century farmhouse", reflecting its later extensions. The house is constructed of Old Red Sandstone rubble and is of two storeys with a hipped roof. The south-east side supports "a massive side-wall chimney of stone". The house is a Grade II* listed building, its listing recording it as "a substantial Monmouthshire vernacular house".</p><br>
<p>The State Bank of Kooskia in Kooskia, Idaho was built in 1912. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>It is a one-story 50x25 ft brick building with a later one-story brick addition at the rear which makes the building L-shaped. It has brick pilasters and terra cotta band molding. It has a brick parapet with stone capstones.</p><br>
<p>Its NRHP nomination asserts:The State Bank of Kooskia is architecturally significant as a good example of a rural communitys bank building. Its compact and concise design has charm and its brickwork exhibits good craftsmanship. It is also significant as a local landmark, being Kooskias oldest brick building and one of the few substantial structures of its period remaining in the town.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by Lewiston architect Ralph Loring, who also designed other banks in nearby small towns. It was built by Kooskia contractor George Trenary.</p><br>
<p>The Nottawa Stone School is a schoolhouse located at 26456 M-86  near Nottawa, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1870, the previous frame structure serving the local Nottawa school district was deemed too dilapidated to continue service. The director of the district at the time was John W. Schermerhorn; it is believed that Schermerhorn designed the school building after the school he attended as a boy in Schenectady, New York. The school was completed in 1870 for a cost of about $3000. Although originally designed to seat 150 pupils, it probably served around 50 when it first opened. Larger desks wre soon installed, reducing the capacity to about 70 students. In the lat 1880s, a second room was added, bringing the total capacity up to about 130 students.</p><br>
<p>The school remained in use until the late 1950s. In 1967, the Kalamazoo Valley Intermediate School System (now the St. Joseph County Intermediate School District) refurbished the school to allow school classes to use the building for a day to re-enact how school was held in the 1870s.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Nottatva Stone School is a single-story building containing two sections connected together in an L-shape and a small rear addition. Both main sections were originally built to house a single classroom, and the addition to house restrooms and storage. The original section of the school is built from fieldstone and measures 48 feet by 34 feet.</p><br>
<p>The second portion is built from brick and measures 35 feet by 22 feet. The stone section is gable-roofed and has rounded, arched door and windows.</p><br>
<p>On the interior of the original section, a c. 1870 rural school is set up. It contains slate blackboards, a raised platform for the teacher, wainscoting on the walls, and an oiled wood floor. The later brick portion contains a country store display.</p><br>
<p>The Governor John S. Barry House is a private house located at 280 N. Washington Street in Constantine, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. It currently houses the Governor John S. Barry Museum.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>John S. Barry was born and educated in New England in 1802. While there, he was a member of Vermonts governors staff and a captain in the militia, as well as practicing law privately. In 1831, he moved to White Pigeon, Michigan; three years later he moved to Constantine. In 1835 he purchased this property and constructed a house on it. While living in Constantine, he served as a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1835, as a state senator in 1837, and as governor from 1841-44 and 1849-50. He retired from politics in 1852, and operated a large store. Barry sold this house in 1847.</p><br>
<p>The house passed through a number of owners, but by the mid-20th century was vacant and deteriorating. The Governor Barry Historical Society purchased the house in the late 1960s and transformed it into a museum.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Barry House is a two-story, white-painted wood frame structure with a solid stone foundation, measuring approximately 24 feet by 76 feet. The windows are double-hung six over six lights with green shutters. The entry door has sidelights and opens into a large hall. THere are seven rooms on the first floor, including two large parlors, and five rooms on the second floor.</p><br>
<p>Pollentia  was a Roman city founded by Quintus Caecilius Metellus Balearicus in the present city of Alcúdia, in the year 123 BC.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Like the other Roman city founded by Consul Metellus, Pollentia was a Roman camp until the 1st century BC, when, according to the excavations in the forum, urbanization of the city was reorganized and monumentalized. Pollentia was a rich and prosperous city, whose conserved area is around 15 hectares. This area suffered a devastating fire in the 3rd century AD, but the city was not depopulated, since the construction of a fortification in the fifth century AD has been documented in the same forum. In the following centuries, the Pollentia site was partially or totally unpopulated, with the Christian medieval population settling down a bit further north, in the present town of Alcúdia. Excavations, since the 16th century, but especially since the beginning of the 20th century, have occurred mainly in the area of Sa Portella (a residential district), Camp d&#39;en França (the city forum and the tabernae), and in the Roman theater.</p><br>
<p>Willowdale Estate was constructed in 1902 as the summer home of wealthy Boston lawyer Bradley Palmer, Willowdale is an Arts and Crafts, Jacobean Revival mansion in Topsfield, Massachusetts. Palmer donated the mansion and the land around it to the State of Massachusetts between 1937 and 1944. While the surrounding area has become Bradley Palmer State Park, the mansion has been a civil defense training academy and is currently leased to the Forsythe-Fandetti family as part of the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation&#39;s Historic Curatorship Program.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Bradley Palmer began purchasing what would eventually be 10,000 acres of land across the North Shore. In 1898, he purchased a 747-acre farm owned by the Lamson family, one of the oldest families in Ipswich, Massachusetts. The familys patriarch, William Lampson, came to the New World in 1634, and his descendants spread to many of the towns in the North Shore region. Palmer purchased the hereditary home of the Lamson family from William Lampsons descendant Arthur Lamson. On the property is an 18th-century farm house, also a DCR property. The now heavily forested area would have originally been empty fields and pastures, ideal for Palmer&#39;s equestrian hobbies, especially with its close proximity to the famous Myopia Hunt Club. The mansion would have had a sweeping view of the surrounding landscape, including the Ipswich River.</p><br>
<p>Bradley Palmer chose Charles K. Cummings, a Boston architect with the firm Andrews, Jacques & Rantoul, to design his summer retreat. Cummings also designed the nearby Cummings Estate for his sister Margaret Cummings. The company hired for the stonework was Connolly Brothers of nearby Beverly, a company still in existence today. For the interior woodwork, Herbert W. Porter of Wenham was chosen. Cummings conceived Willow Dale (as it was originally called) as a single U-shaped building that included domestic, equestrian, and agricultural functions. In an article for Architectural Review in 1904, Cummings describes the layout of the building as a rather unusual arrangement, the master’s house, the quarters for a farmer or caretaker, and the stable, all being joined together under one roof. This was done with a view to economy of construction and management; and especially during the winter months this grouping together of quarters, which more often appear as separate buildings, has been found convenient and agreeable The north wing of the house was used for domestic functions, with a dining room, guest rooms, a study, and Palmer&#39;s master suite above the entrance so that he could look out at the Ipswich River. The southern wing held the carriage house and stable. The exterior of the mansion is made from fieldstone from the surrounding farms with a red-slate roof. For the interior, Cummings used primarily cherry and oak, finished with wax so that the interior maintained a natural look. Construction of the mansion concluded in December 1902, having begun earlier that year. The interior decoration would take a number of years to complete, however, though it was functionally done by 1904, as shown by the pictures Cummings provides in his article.</p><br>
<h3>Renovation and addition</h3><br>
<p>The Willow Dale property expanded throughout Bradley Palmers lifetime. At the peak of its operation, more than thirty buildings, primarily relating to agriculture or husbandry, but also a garage, a pump house, reservoir, and homes for staff. Records kept by the Topsfield Historical Society state that the addition of these buildings took place intermittently between 1902 and 1915. By 1915, Palmer had come to view his "modest summer home" as a bit too modest. His rapid financial success, shown by tax records stating the amount he payed increased from $15,645 in 1908 to $128,574 in 1923, meant a need for a home that could entertain guests beyond just a few intimate friends. For the job, Palmer again hired Cummings, who added a significant addition to the houses southern wing. The entrance changed from the north wing, directly under Palmer&#39;s bedroom, to the western face of the house where it still is today. In the south wing, the stable became a formal dining room, while the coach house became a ballroom, complete with an orchestra balcony, though the exterior of both remained the same. The dining room became an eclectic mix of classical, medieval, and even Central American artwork, while the ballroom resembles a medieval great hall. The interior of the mansion became more elegant with the addition of a number of stained glass windows and the replacement of small, tile fireplaces with ornate, Italian marble ones. Italian artisans were hired to do the design work on the fireplaces as well as the woodwork in the ballroom and new entrance.</p><br>
<h3>Landscaping and Scotland</h3><br>
<p>Palmer meticulously oversaw the landscaping of his new summer home. He imported plants to the estate from across the America, but especially his native Pennsylvania and New Hampshire.He consulted widely with botanists and gardeners in the Boston area, who recommended nurseries both domestic and foreign. One of his most remarkable influences was Scotland, where he not only got plants for his garden, but also his gardener. A series of letters held by the Topsfield Historical Society from the first two decade of the Twentieth Century document his extensive communication with Ben Reid & Company, Ltd. of Aberdeen, Scotland, now known as Ben Reid Nursery & Garden Centre. Palmer believed that, owing to the shared harsh climate of Scotland and New England, Scottish plants were well suited for his idyllic retreat. When Palmer visited the Ben Reid nurseries, the company arranged a meeting between the local Aberdeen gardener William Keith and Palmer. The story goes that Palmer was impressed by Keith, but, despite being a bachelor himself, Palmer had a policy that his employees be married. Palmer suggested that if Keith found a wife in the three days before Palmer sailed, he was welcome to take the job in Massachusetts. Keith apparently took this to heart, and three days later he and his new wife embarked with Palmer back to Topsfield. After twenty years of happy marriage, Mrs. Keith passed away at Willow Dale. Soon after, Bill Keith, evidently worried that this violated the terms of his employment, quickly wrote his wifes sister back in Scotland, asking for her hand in marriage. She accepted, moved to Willow Dale, and the two remained married the remainder of Keiths life. The Scottish connection carries throughout Palmer&#39;s home, not just in the landscaping. The prominent Cross of St. Andrew on the library mantelpiece demonstrates this, as well as the numerous Jacobean elements of the mansion.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Palmer and Cummings designed Willow Dale in the Arts and Crafts style. Arts and Crafts architecture built on the philosophical momentum of the Gothic Revival begun in England under the works of authors such as John Ruskin, Augustus Pugin, and William Morris. Ruskins The Seven Lamps of Architecture served as a philosophical manifesto for the movement while Morris was the embodiment of the movements ideals. These three major ideals, simplicity, unified expression, and use of regional traditions, derived from both medievalism and anti-industrial sentiments.</p><br>
<p>Willow Dale incorporates these ideals. Palmer intentionally desired his home to be "a modest country retreat." To modern visitors, the mansion may seem to have failed in this regard. However, when compared with other mansions of the era, such as the Breakers or even the neighboring Crane Estate, Willow Dale is simple. For example, Willow Dale uses comparable materials to these mansions, such as Italian marble and oak, there is minimal design work. The marble is unpolished and the wood uses a wax finish, so that natural forms of the elements are apparent. The use of fieldstone from the former Lamson farm in the exterior contributes to mansions subliminal weight, while also respecting the history of the area surrounding the mansion. Even after the 1915 renovation, when Palmers wealth had substantially increased, the interior design maintains the unified commitment to simplicity found in the original work. The design work added at this time refined many rougher elements of the original mansion, such as changing the materials used for the fireplaces and adding natural ornaments to the interior woodwork, while keeping its rustic charm.</p><br>
<p>Also added during the 1915 renovation were a number of stained glass windows, particularly in the dining room, which feature mythical figures, quotes from Virgil and Shakespeare, and the Palmer family crest. One of the more surprising features of the dining room is a large Madonna of Light mosaic taken from a Mexican church during one of Palmer&#39;s business trips for United Fruit Company.</p><br>
<p>Many describe Willow Dale as a Tudor Revival home, however, this is a misnomer. The relation between the Arts and Crafts movement and the various subsets of 19th-century architectural medievalism causes confusion the classification of Willow Dale&#39;s medieval elements. The lack of half-timbering, mullions, and jettying, for example, excludes Willow Dale from being considered Tudor Revival. Nevertheless, it could be considered as having a Jacobean influence shown in the blend of classical and medieval elements. In design work, this manifested in a natural interpretation of scrolls, lozenges, and straps found both in Jacobean Revival architecture and Willow Dale. The context of Jacobean architecture as Scottish inspired movement matches the Scottish emphasis placed on Willow Dale. While Willow Dale can by no means be considered an exclusively Jacobean structure, it certainly contains Jacobean elements.</p><br>
<h2>Uses</h2><br>
<h3>Police Training</h3><br>
<p>After Bradley Palmers death in 1946, the land around Willow Dale became what is now Bradley Palmer State Park, while the State of Massachusetts began using the mansion as a civil defense training academy in 1949. The formal dining room became a recreation room with a ping-pong table, while the once grand ballroom was used for drills and the occasional conference. Due to lack of funds, the building fell into disrepair over the next fifty years, eventually being deemed unfit for use for anything besides storage. The mansion was added to the Department of Conservation and Recreations list of threatened historic properties.</p><br>
<h3>Events Venue</h3><br>
<p>In 1994, the DCR began its Historic Curatorship Program designed to restore properties threatened by neglect and vandalism. In the program, a curator leases a property rent free from the DCR for a duration of twenty or more years, agreeing to front the money for the restoration and open the property to the public on at least a biannual basis. In doing so the "DCR secures the long-term preservation of threatened historic sites and Curators exchange their hard work and unique skills for the opportunity to live or work in a one-of-a-kind location."</p><br>
<p>In 1997, the Forsythe-Fandetti family signed a fifty-year lease with the DCR with the intent of turning the property into an events venue. The Forsythe-Fandettis had already restored multiple historic properties in Cambridge, Massachusetts and gave management of the company to their daughter Briar Rose Forsythe. In 1999 they began restoring the property, a process that would last nearly a decade. Besides of having to get the building up to code as an events venue, including installing modern plumbing, electricity, and heating, the building was in terrible disarray. The roof was in danger of collapse, thus a new red slate roof had to be installed. The total cost for the renovations exceeded $3 million.</p><br>
<p>Finally, in 2007 Willowdale Estate, as it was now called, hosted its first event, a wedding, on the 7-7-2007. Today, the estate offers full service events planning for both corporate and private events. A full-time catering staff is present along with events coordinators. Willowdale Estate has been awarded numerous awards including the 2016 A-list "Best Wedding Venue" award for the greater Boston area.</p><br>
<p>The Concordia Parish Courthouse, at 405 Carter St. in Vidalia in Concordia Parish, Louisiana, was built in 1939. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The 1939 courthouse replaced an earlier one demolished when, as part of a flood control project, the town of Vidalia was moved six blocks inland from the Mississippi River. It is a four-story brick and stone building with restrained Art Deco architecture. It has three-story wings on its sides and a small one-story wing on the rear. It was designed by J.W. Smith and Associates and was built by the M.T. Reed Construction Company.</p><br>
<p>The first floor originally was parish and school board offices, with second and third floors used for courthouses and the fourth story used as a jail.</p><br>
<p>Göynük Canyon  is a canyon in Antalya Province, southwestern Turkey.</p><br>
<p>The canyon is located inside the Beydağları Coastal National Park,</p><br>
<p>about to Göynük village of Kemer district in Antalya Province. The -long canyon is an important part of the long distance trail Lycian Way. There are waterfalls and ponds inside the canyon. It offers outdoor recreational activities such as hiking and trekking on a daily base. By April 2009, touristic facilities were opened in the canyon, which provide security equipment, guidance service and food.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>The canyon is accessible by an about 45-minute walk from Göynük or by ride on any off-road vehicle or motorcycle, which can be rented in the village. In addition, buses depart from Göynük to the canyon on an hourly base. The canyon entrance is then reached after hiking a mountainous trail. As of 2013, admission to the canyon cost 5.00 (approx. US$ 2.60), and a fee for compulsory rented security outfit was 30,00 (approx. US$ 15.80). The fenced canyon closes at 19:00 hours local time.</p><br>
<p>Grotta Regina del Carso  is a Karst cave in the village of San Michele del Carso  in the municipality of Savogna d&#39;Isonzo . The cave is not open to public, and the access is managed by Talpe del Carso/Kraški Krti speleological group, headquartered in the vicinity of the entrance.</p><br>
<h2>Morphology</h2><br>
<p>Grotta Regina opens 194 m above sea level. Overall, it is 320 m long and 57.4 m deep. The cave contains two main rooms, called respectively the Hall of the Council (Italian: Sala delle Riunioni), due to the presence of a number of stalagmites that seem to be the members of a municipality council, and the Hall of San Michele (Italian: Sala del San Michele), named after the main upland in the area. Two galleries connect the entrance with the Hall of the Council and this room with the Hall of San Michele. Rooms and galleries are full of cave formations (stalactites, stalagmites, columns, etc.), including a 3 m high stalactite in the Hall of San Michele. Next to the second room, a 30 m deep pit leads to a small lake in its bottom part. There are other small lakes, dropping bowls and gours into the cave. The innermost part of Grotta Regina consists of a meandering and muddy gallery, ending with a 5 m deep pit, after that the farthest point from the entrance is reached. A secondary branch leads to the Queens Idol (Italian: Idolo della Regina), a 2 m high stalagmite thats the most important limestone formation and the symbol of the cavity.</p><br>
<h2>The exploration</h2><br>
<p>The cave was discovered on 2 January 1972 by Dominik Grillo. Immediately, with some difficulties, cavers began to unblock the entrance and explore the cavity, discovering the most extended and beautiful cave in the Gorizia Karst. In the same year, cavers realised the survey of the cave, named Grotta Regina del Carso (Slovene: Jama Kraljica Krasa). The discover of the cave persuaded cavers to found a new group, called Gruppo Speleologico Talpe del Carso ("Karst Moles speleological group", Slovene: Jamarski Klub Kraški Krti), in the following year. The group has its headquarter, called baita ("lodge"), few meters far from the entrance of Grotta Regina.</p><br>
<p>In the following years, cavers widened the sides of the cave and discovered new branches, leading the total extension to 320 m. In 1973, some glass slabs were set in particular spots in the cave, in order to verify the solidity of subterranean space. The slabs resisted to 1976 Friuli earthquake, showing Karst region was avoided the quake. Later, geologists and biologists achieved studies and researches on cave geomorphology and animal species living in the cavity.</p><br>
<h2>Fauna</h2><br>
<p>Grotta Regina hosts some of the most common Karst cave dwelling species. Troglophiles include the spiders Meta menardi and Nesticus eremita, the cave cricket Troglophilus neglectus, the cricket Gryllomorpha dalmatina, the moths Scoliopteryx libatrix and Triphosa dubitata, and the fly Limonia nubeculosa. Troglobites include the woodlouse Androniscus stygius, the spiders Stalita taenaria and Mesostalita nocturna, the ground beetles Orotrechus muellerianus and Laemostenus cavicola, and the round fungus beetle Bathysciotes khevenhulleri tergestinus. Moreover, small lakes, dropping bowls and gours host many stygobites species belonging to roundworms, worms, copepods, Bathynellacea and amphipods.</p><br>
<p>The cave is the type locality (the place where the specimens were originally collected) of the diplurian Metajapyx peanoi (Pagés, 1980), a troglobite species known only living in this cavity and Grotta delle Radici in the Trieste Karst.</p><br>
<p>Vertebrates include some bats belonging to genus Rhinolophus, that use the cave mainly in summer. Moreover, between the 70s and the 80s, some specimens of the cave salamander Speleomantes strinatii from Grotte di Bossea (in Piedmont) were released in the cavity. A specimen was photographed in 2004, and, since then, any other one has been observed.</p><br>
<p>Farrand Hall is a private house located at 451 Farrand Road in Colon, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Henry K. Farrand moved from New York, to Colon Township in 1836 and settled on a 200 acre parcel at this location. He was accompanied by his aunt, Maria Farrand. Farrand settled in and began farming, and soon married and built a log house. He soon gained a reputation for raising livestock, and added another 600 acres to his farm.</p><br>
<p>In 1854, Farrand built this house for his family; it reportedly resembled his Aunt Marias birthplace in Philadelphia. Farrands wife died in 1855, leaving him with four young children. Farrand continued to live and farm here, and served as township supervisor from 1872 to 1883. He died in 1887. The farmland passed on to Farrand&#39;s descendants, who farmed the land until at least the early 1970s. The house was later sold to Robert La Valle.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Farrand Hall is a large two-story Greek Revival frame house with clapboard siding and a gable roof. Pilasters decorate the eaves and the corners of the house, and flank the front door. A single story addition is located at the rear. The windows have six over six lights, with slightly smaller windows in the rear, and eyebrow windows in the rear addition.</p><br>
<p>St. James United Methodist Church is located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States. The congregation began as a Sunday school in the northwest part of the city organized by Trinity Methodist Episcopal Church. The evangelist Billy Sunday had preached a revival there and over 300 people joined the church. St. James Methodist Episcopal Church, as it was then known, was established shortly afterward in February 1910. The congregation originally used the closed Danish Lutheran Church at K Avenue NW and Fourth Street NW for their services, and they moved the building that summer to Ellis Boulevard NW. St. James grew to the point that a new building was needed. In 1945 property across the street was purchased, and local architect William J. Brown designed the new church facility. Construction began in September 1952 and it was completed in April 1954 for $165,000.</p><br>
<p>The church building is a modern interpretation of the Gothic Revival style. The gabled-ell form structure houses the sanctuary, administrative, educational and social spaces. Brown utilized the Interdenominational Bureau of Architecture&#39;s guide Planning Church Architecture: Designs, Floor Plans and Recommendations to Help in Planning Church Buildings for Worship, Religious Education, and Fellowship Activities to Cost from $30,000.00 to $850,000.00 (1945) for the basis of his work. The exterior is composed of Tennessee quartzite stone with Bedford stone trim. T. Marion Jones built the wooden furnishings and Universal Art Glass Studios of Winona, Minnesota created the stained glass windows. The sanctuary has a seating capacity of 300, and there are 16 classrooms in the building. It received some damage in a 2008 flood that allowed the gymnasium to be returned to its original use after having been converted into office space. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<p>In July 2015 St. James UMC and Trinity UMC entered into a Cooperative Parish agreement. The idea was to combine their ministry efforts to better serve the community. They shared a pastor and their resources. Services were held at 9:00 AM at St. James and 10:30 AM at Trinity. A leadership council was formed to get input from both congregations. In 2016 several listening sessions were held with both congregations to find out what the congregations wanted to see of their future together. In May 2017 a vote was held at both churches regarding the merger of the two congregations into one. The vote was unanimous at both churches in favor of a merger. On Jun 4, 2017 a church conference was held, led by District Superintendent Rev. Kiboko Kiboko. At that time St. James United Methodist Church and Trinity United Methodist churches ceased to be, and the new congregation of Trinity-St. James United Methodist Church was formed.</p><br>
<p>The Best Oil and Refining Company Service Station is a historic building located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States. This was the third service station built by business partners George D. Shaler and George J. Albright. Albright had previously been a building contractor and had owned a lumberyard, while Shaler was one of the founders of the Best Oil Company. The two were also in a partnership that acquired a limestone quarry in Stone City, Iowa, and that stone may have been used for the exterior of this building. This service station was located near a southeast side residential neighborhood, commercial and industrial areas from which it could attract customers. Built in 1930, the station sold gasoline and provided a wide-range of automobile related maintenance needs until 1960 when it and other local service station operators gave way to the larger chain stores. While the station originally sold its own Best Oil brand gasoline, it eventually sold national brands such as Conoco. The building features a large canopy where the pumps were located, a metal cornice, and a service bay. After its use as a service station came to an end, the building has housed several non-automobile related businesses. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Doki River  is a Japanese stream that begins in the town of Mannō  within the Sanuki Mountains and ends in the city of Marugame. It is the only Class A river within Kagawa Prefecture. The river was named after Doki Village , which is presently known as the Doki vicinity or neighborhood within Marugame. Doki Village was located at the source of the river, and clay from there used to be made into earthenware goods . The central portion or the river is called haraikawa , which is a river in which worshippers purify themselves before praying. The population around the river basin is around 35,000 people.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The source of the Doki River is located on Mt. Ryuo (town of Mannō, Katsuura vicinity) in the Sanuki Mountains. It flows north along Japan National Route 438 through the Marugame Plain until it reaches both the Northern Doki River and Fujimi Vicinities within Marugame, where it merges into the Seto Inland Sea. At times parts of the river dry up due to the dry climate in Kagawa and a man-made channel modification which shortened the river.</p><br>
<p>The Marantette House is a private house located on Simpson Road in Mendon, Michigan. It is significant as an impressive vernacular version of Greek Revival architecture, and as one of the few local examples of a riverfront orientation of a house, dating from when river traffic dominated area transportation. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1829, brothers Peter and James Godfroy established a trading post on this site, which was then called Notawasepe, to trade with the local Potawatomi. Their father, Col. Gabriel</p><br>
<p>Godfroy, was the Sub Agent of Indian Affairs for the Michigan Territory. The Godfroys themselves remained in their home in Detroit, and Frances Mouton worked as their agent here at Notawasepe. The Godfroys owned a second trading post at Coldwater; their agent there was James&#39;s brother-in-law, Patrick Marantette. In 1833, Marantette replaced Mouton at Notawasepe. However, that same year the Treaty of Chicago was signed, which took most of the land owned by the local band of Potawatomi. Although some land was left to them, the US government was encouraging Native Americans to move west of the Mississippi River, and the writing was on the wall.</p><br>
<p>In 1835, Marantette married Francis Mouton, the daughter of Frances Mouton. That same year, he began working on constructing this house. He continued to provide supplies to the local band of Indians, but in 1840, the government decided to force the Indians to move. Negotiations to effect the move were undertaken at the Marantette House. The Potawatomi were persuaded to move, and Marantette was instructed to provide them with supplies totaling several thousand dollars. The US government failed to reimburse him for the expense until 1850, leading him to sell off much of his surrounding land to cover the costs.</p><br>
<p>Patrick and Francis Marantette raised their family in this house, and lived there until their deaths. It passed on to their descendants, and Marantette family members continued to own it through at least the early 1970s.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Marantette House is a two-story, frame, Greek Revival house located on a bluff overlooking the St. Joseph River. The river side has porches on both stories overlooking the river. A small entryway faced the road. The windows have six over six lights.</p><br>
<p>The Lincoln Park History Museum is an early 20th century library and historic site located between USA Route 202 and the Morris Canal in Lincoln Park, New Jersey. It was built in 1927 as a public library serving the citizens of rural Lincoln Park. Since its decommissioning, it has served a different role as a history museum with exhibits about Lincoln Park, the Morris Canal, and New Jersey. The site features canal sleeper stones, a section of Roebling cable, and a path to the decommissioned Morris Canal. The museum site is a part of the much larger Benjamin Estate which includes the Terhune Benjamin House. The site is owned by the Borough of Lincoln Park and managed by the Lincoln Park Historical Society.</p><br>
<h2>Early History and Ownership</h2><br>
<p>In 1917, a group of local married couples founds “The Fellowship Club,” a local social group. They headquartered in an old stone house, rented for the purpose, and the first local library was located in that building as of 1920. On March 11th 1922, the Beavertown area of Pequannock Township is incorporate as the borough of Lincoln Park by an act of the New Jersey State Legislature. During this year, the library also outgrew its home in the old stone house and its operators, “The Lincoln Park Public Library Association,” under the auspices of librarian Mrs. Ella Perry, sought another site. Later, on February 26th, 1925, the borough is reincorporated. The Benjamin Estate donates a parcel of land on Main Street for construction of the library. Local groups, “The Players” and the local home and school association donate towards the construction, but ultimately the library is funded through a $600 mortgage.</p><br>
<p>By late 1927, construction on the new library is complete and the library repays its $600 mortgage and maintains its self-sufficient operations via local funding consisting of membership fees, book sales, and bake sales. David Benjamin Sr. donated his expertise to design and construct the wooden library building which contains no plumbing is illuminated almost entirely via large windows in each wall.</p><br>
<p>From 1931 to 1934, the municipality begins to subsidize the operations of the library with an annual budget of $50 and in 1934, the library becomes fully funded by the municipality. The library operates this way until 1965 when, by referendum, it is decided to remove the library from the county system and operate it as a free independent library.</p><br>
<h2>1965 to 2015</h2><br>
<p>In 1966, the Beavertown Historical Society is founded. On November 26th 1967, ground is broken for the construction of a new municipal library funded via a local bond of $134,000.00 and a government grant of $86,129.00. The Lincoln Park Public Library opens the doors of its new building in 1969 and the Beavertown Historical Society take over operation of the old wooden library as a history museum.</p><br>
<p>By 2005, the Beavertown Historical Society suffers from low membership, with some members moving away from the area as they retire and between 2006 and 2008 the exterior of the building is repainted by a local Eagle Scout. Multiple factors conspire to shorten the lifespan of the new paintwork. As of 2010, the Lincoln Park History Museum is open only intermittently and suffers interior damage from a roof leak which requires major repairs to the roof and extensive drywall replacement. Repairs to the roof by the municipality prevent the complete loss of the building over the ensuing years. A single remaining member and a few new volunteers undertake the project to restore the interior of the building to usable condition, but funds are unavailable and work moves slowly.</p><br>
<h2>2016 to Present</h2><br>
<p>In February 2016, a meeting organized by the municipality and lead by then Beavertown Historical Society President George Shanoian is held. Following this meeting, membership increases to 44 paying members and numerous volunteers. Volunteers complete the spackling and painting of the interior. A local contractor volunteers to restore the original wood floors. In May 2016, the Lincoln Park History Museum resumed regular operation with two open days each month, special events, and group tours by appointment. A local Eagle Scout repaints the exterior of the building in colors historically appropriate the era of the building’s construction. A local landscaper completes a series of raised flower beds framing the entrance to the building. The museum is now operated by a reorganized Beavertown Historical Society known as the Lincoln Park Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>Shimoshima is the largest island in the Amakusa archipelago. Its coasts are washed by Ariake Sea, Amakusa-nada sea, East China Sea and Yatsushiro Sea. Most of Shimoshima Island is administered as part of Amakusa city, with 67 km patch on north-west coast belonging to Reihoku town. The island&#39;s highest peak is Mount Kagoyama 538.4 m.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>The Shimoshima is connected to Kamishima island and through it to Kyushu mainland by bridge (completed in 1966) and pedestrian bridge over 70-meter wide tidal channel. It is also connected by Ushibukahaiyao Bridge to the Gezu Island on the southern tip. The national roads serving the island are the Route 266, Route 324 and Route 389.</p><br>
<p>The Amakusa Airfield on the north of the island provide a scheduled services to the Itami Airport, Fukuoka Airport and Kumamoto Airport since opening in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The public transportation inside the island is provided by the extensive bus network with the hub in Hondo Bus Center near the bridge to the mainland.</p><br>
<p>At least five ferry lines also connect the Shimoshima island to other islands in Kagoshima, Kumamoto and Nagasaki prefectures.</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<p>Shimoshima Island is located in the humid subtropical climate zone (Köppen Cfa), with four distinct seasons. The island never sees snowfall during the winter. Spring in Shimoshima Island starts off mild, but ends up being hot and humid. The summer tends to be Shimoshimas wettest season, with the tsuyu — the rainy season — occurring between early June (average:Jun.7) to late July (average:Jul.21). The islands weather is affected by the nearby while being shielded from the warm Kuroshio Current by the Kyushu island, resulting in wetter and colder climate than should be expected at lower 30`s latitudes.</p><br>
<h2>Attractions</h2><br>
<p>Amakusa Christian museum</p><br>
<p>"Dolphin`s world" public aquarium</p><br>
<p>Tomioka Castle</p><br>
<p>The Arthur Silliman House is a private house located at 116 South Main Street in Three Rivers, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, and now houses The Historic Silliman Home and Blacksmith Shop.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Arthur Silliman was born in 1831 in White Deer Valley, Pennsylvania to Alexander Silliman. In 1845, Samuel Silliman, one of Arthurs brothers, moved to St. Joseph County and sent back glowing reports. Inspired by his sons success, Alexander Silliman moved his family to the same area in 1847. Arthur Silliman went into the blacksmith trade in the 1850s, first renting a building on Portage Avenue in Three Rivers. In 1864 he purchased two lots at the corner of Michigan and Main streets near this site, and constructed his own shop.</p><br>
<p>In 1867 Silliman sold his shop and purchased this plot of land next to the St. Joseph River. He likely constructed this house soon after, in about 1868. The building served both as as the Silliman family home and as Arthur Silliman&#39;s blacksmith and wagon-building shop. He used the house for a number of years, and in 1903 deeded it to his daughter, Sue I. Silliman. Sue Silliman was a librarian and state historian for the Michigan Daughters of the American Revolution. Her love of history prompted her to donate the house too the city of Three Rivers just before her death in 1945.</p><br>
<p>However, the city soon sold the house to the Three Rivers World War Veterans Home Association, and it was subsequently refurbished to provide a home for the local American Legion post. In 1976 the house was sold to the General Telephone Company of Michigan.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Arthur Silliman House is located on a sloped, narrow lot on the bank of the St. Joseph River, very close to the river itself. The house is a three-story rectangular flank-gable brick structure on a fieldstone foundation measuring 40 feet by 24 feet. Because of the slope of the lot, the lowest story is exposed on the river side, but underground on the opposite side. The windows are six-over-six lights with brick, segmental arch heads.</p><br>
<p>The house as originally built contained a blacksmith&#39;s shop on the first floor, living quarters (a hall, kitchen, dining room, living room, and two bedrooms) on the second, and open storage space on the third. There were no internal staircases connecting the floors, only exterior stairs.</p><br>
<p>The Marantette Bridge, also known as the Railroad Street Bridge, is a historic vehicle bridge, now closed to traffic, located at Railroad Street over the St. Joseph River in Mendon, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>One of the first settlers in Mendon was the Indian trader Patrick Marantette, who arrived in 1833 to manage a trading post located at the site of the Marantette House near this bridge on the south side of the river. The first local bridge over the St. Joseph River was constructed in 1839 about two-thirds of a mile upstream from the Marantette Bridge. In the late 1850s, the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad first proposed a line through Mendon, and in anticipation, Patrick Marantette platted the portion of his land north of the river, including the current Railroad Street. There was apparently no bridge serving Railroad Street until 1873.</p><br>
<p>The 1873 bridge was replaced in 1876. The current bridge was probably built in about 1900. The bridge was constructed by the Massillon Bridge Company located in Massillon, Ohio. The bridge served vehicular traffic until 1984, when it was closed.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Marantette Bridge is a single span, eight panel steel Pratt through truss bridge with pinned connections. It measures 141 feet in length and 16 feet in width, and is supported with rubble fieldstone abutments. The bridge has a wooden plank deck, now severely deteriorated, set atop steel stringers and supported by transverse girders. The upper structure is constructed of channels connected by cover plates.</p><br>
<p>Howell&#39;s House, Grosmont, Monmouthshire is an early 17th century house. Previously known as The Shop, it served as a village stores from the mid-19th century in the 1980s. Now a private residence, it is a Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house dates from the early 17th century. The door case carries the date 1611 and the initials HP, said to be of Howell Prichard, the builder of the house. Alterations were made in the early 19th and in the 20th centuries. A commercial premises for over 100 years until the 1980s, Sir Cyril Fox and Lord Raglan refer to the house as "The Shop" in their three-volume guide Monmouthshire Houses, the house is again a private residence.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and description</h2><br>
<p>The house is of stone, with a white render. The architectural historian John Newman noted the "heavy timber door-frame dated 1611". The interior is well-preserved and the attic contains "exceptionally unusual and rare fragments of 17th century decorative plasterwork". The building is Grade II* listed.</p><br>
<p>The Art Gallery Building is a commercial building located at 156 South Washington Street in Constantine, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Art Gallery Building was constructed in 1877 for George I. Crossett to house his Crossett Drug Store on the first floor, along with a photographic studio on the second floor. The studios on the second floor led to the name of the building. Over time, the second floor space was occupied by photographic studios operated by Arthur Swain, G. T. Stephens, D. C. Moyer, among others up until the 1920. A series of pharmacies occupied the first floor until the 1960s. A fire in 1970 destroyed some of the lower floor trim.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Art Gallery Building is a two-story narrow-fronted red brick, Italianate commercial building, with a roof that slants slightly downward toward the back. The building is located adjacent to a small alleyway. The cast iron facade contains an arcade-like set of round-head windows topped by faux masonry. A bracketed iron cornice above has a round-gable center section inset with the building&#39;s name and date of construction.</p><br>
<p>Atop the cornice line are rectangular urns with ball finials.</p><br>
<p>Gulshan Lake is a lake in Dhaka, Bangladesh, that borders Gulshan Thana, Shahjadpur, and Baridhara Diplomatic Zone.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>On June 2015 Bangladesh High Court ordered the government to free portions of Gulshan lake that had been encroached upon. Since the July 2016 Dhaka attack, all boats have been removed from the lake. The government announced plans to introduce water taxis in the lake. On April 2017, the Capital Development Authority under the Ministry of Housing and Public Works destroyed a number of structures on the banks of the lake to make way for the building of pathway on the banks of the lake.</p><br>
<h2>Ecology</h2><br>
<p>The lake has been declared by the city corporation as being "Ecologically Critical Area" in 2001. Direct dumping of sewage and water runoff had increased the pollution of the lake. The lake has also experienced an algal boom which has further reduced the oxygen available, harming the aquatic life.</p><br>
<p>Old Store at La Honda sat at the Northwest corner of CA Highway 84 at La Honda Road and Sears Ranch Road, this location is now listed as 8865 La Honda Road, La Honda, San Mateo County, California. This is a California Historical Landmarks in San Mateo County since 1939. A store is open and functions as a neighborhood market at this location, under a different name and ownership - nothing is left of the original store.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>When John Howell Sears had to leave Searsville because of the decline of the lumber industry in that area, he settled in the La Honda area in 1862, bought 400 acres of land, and built a store. The exact date of the building of the store is unknown but estimated between the 1860s to 1870s.</p><br>
<p>The store was nicknamed the "Bandit-Built Store" because its rumored that Jim, Cole and Bob Younger (of the bank robbing James–Younger Gang) helped build the store and worked there too, while hiding out in La Honda and pretending to be lumberjacks. However in Bob Doughertys 2007 book named La Honda, "...the story of the bandit built Sears store is improbable because the Younger brothers were already in prison in the summer of 1876 for the Northfield Bank robbery before the store was built the following year."</p><br>
<p>Kamishima  is the second largest island in the Amakusa archipelago. Its coasts are washed by Yatsushiro Sea and of Ariake Sea, both being the part of East China Sea. The western part of Kamishima Island is administered as part of Amakusa city, while eastern part is administered as part of Kami-Amakusa city. The island&#39;s highest peak is Mount Kuratake 682 m.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>The Five Bridges of Amakusa connects the Kamishima Island to the Kyushu mainland since 1966. Additionally, the connects Kamishima to Shimoshima island - the largest island in Amakusa archipelago. The national roads serving the island are the Route 266 and Route 324</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<p>Kamishima Island is located in the humid subtropical climate zone (Köppen Cfa), with four distinct seasons. The island never sees snowfall during the winter. Spring in Kamishima Island starts off mild, but ends up being hot and humid. The summer tends to be Kamishimas wettest season, with the tsuyu — the rainy season — occurring between early June (average:Jun.7) to late July (average:Jul.21). The islands weather is affected by the nearby while being shielded from the warm Kuroshio Current by the Kyushu island, resulting in wetter and colder climate than should be expected at lower 30`s latitudes.</p><br>
<h2>Attractions</h2><br>
<p>Five Bridges of Amakusa</p><br>
<h2>Notable people</h2><br>
<p>Amakusa Shirō</p><br>
<p>The mission of the United States Embassy is to advance the interests of the United States, and to serve and protect USA citizens in Nicaragua.</p><br>
<p>The USA Embassy in Nicaragua is located at Kilometer 5 1/2 (5.5) Carretera Sur, in Managua, Nicaragua.</p><br>
<h2>Enrollment</h2><br>
<p>Travelling in Nicaragua it is advised that all americans visiting or living in Nicaragua are encouraged to sign up with the USA Embassy through the State Department’s Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP) website, this ensures that U.S citizens receive updated information on travel and security within Nicaragua.</p><br>
<p>Nicaragua is the safest listed country in central america for tourism, though there is a travel warning for U.S citizens traveling to Nicaragua it is recommended that potential tourists and Investors check the State Department’s Smart Traveler website.</p><br>
<h2>U.S Embassy Information</h2><br>
<p>The main U.S Embassy is located in Managua, address: Kilometer 5 1/2 (5.5) Carretera Sur, in Managua, Nicaragua.</p><br>
<p>This is the location for the embassy for U.S Citizens wishing to visit or to make directions to the U.S Embassy facility.</p><br>
<p>The U.S Embassy is available for the following facilities:</p><br>
<p>Arrest of a USA Citizen</p><br>
<p>Death of a USA Citizen</p><br>
<p>Victims of Crime</p><br>
<p>Emergency Financial Assistance</p><br>
<p>Safety & Security Messages</p><br>
<p>Local Resources for USA Citizens</p><br>
<p>Citizenship Services</p><br>
<p>Passports</p><br>
<p>Internal Revenue Service</p><br>
<p>Selective Service Registration</p><br>
<p>Social Security</p><br>
<p>Veterans Affairs</p><br>
<p>Voting</p><br>
<p>Adoption</p><br>
<p>Birth</p><br>
<p>International Parental Child Abduction</p><br>
<h2>Ambassador to Nicaragua</h2><br>
<p>Hirado Island  is the 4th largest island in the Nagasaki prefecture. Its coasts are washed by East China Sea. The entire island and the part of the nearby Kyushu mainland is administered as part of Hirado city. The island&#39;s highest peak is Mount 535 m. The Saikai National Park comprise 24% of the island`s total area.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The Hirado island has formed as a horst elevated from the sea in Pliocene period. Its bedrock features a mixture of the sea sedimentary rocks of Tertiary period, mixed and overlaid by the recent Igneous rock. Due to being relatively young, the island is very hilly with large fraction of area over 200 meters elevation, and flat land is limited to marginal coastal plains. The coastline is highly indented and feature a large cliffs along the entire north-west coast facing East China Sea, except for river mouths.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Hirado Island port was the primary departure point for the Japanese missions to Sui China and Japanese missions to Tang China in 7th-9th centuries.</p><br>
<p>16 October 1274, the Hirado Island was invaded by the detachment of the Mongol army as the part of Mongol invasions of Japan. During the 2nd invasion of 1281, the island was an important rear base for the Mongols until been abandoned after the invasion failed.</p><br>
<p>Since Muromachi period in 14th century, the island has become the hub for the Wokou pirates.</p><br>
<p>In the wake of the Nanban trade, the Portuguese trade station was operational on island in 1550-1561 period. In 1584, the Spanish, British and Dutch traders have started visiting island once again.</p><br>
<p>The Hirado Domain was established and Hirado Castle built under leadership of Matsuura clan in 1599. The castle was subsequently razed in 1613 and re-built in 1704.</p><br>
<p>In 1609-1641, a Dutch trading factory was established in Hirado Island before been transferred to Dejima.</p><br>
<p>From 1613, the ships of William Adams have started operating from the Hirado Island too, but British trade mission was closed in 1623.</p><br>
<p>From 1955 to 2005, after a series of the municipal mergers, the Hirado city comprising the entire island was established.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>The Hirado Bridge over 570 meters wide strait connects the Hirado Island to the Kyushu. The bridge was completed in 1977 and the transit fee was cancelled in 2010. Also, Ikitsuki Bridge (completed in 1991) connects Hirado Island to the Ikitsuki Island. The island is served by the national Route 383. Ferries are available for transfer to the lesser inhabited islands nearby.</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<p>Hirado Island is located in the humid subtropical climate zone (Köppen Cfa), with four distinct seasons. The island rarely sees snowfall during the winter. Spring in Hirado Island starts off mild, but ends up being very humid. The summer tends to be Hirados wettest season, with the tsuyu — the rainy season — occurring between early June (average:Jun.7) to late July (average:Jul.21). The islands weather is affected by the nearby while being shielded from the warm Kuroshio Current by the Kyushu island, resulting in wetter and colder climate than should be expected at lower 30`s latitudes. The climate of Hirado Island is greatly moderated by the surrounding sea, resulting in reduced seasonal and diurnal temperature variations.</p><br>
<h2>Attractions</h2><br>
<p>Saikai National Park</p><br>
<p>Hirado Castle</p><br>
<h2>Notable residents</h2><br>
<p>Church Farmhouse, Kemeys Commander, Monmouthshire is a former parsonage dating from the mid-16th century. The farmhouse and the attached barn are Grade II* listed buildings.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Sir Cyril Fox and Lord Raglan, in their three-volume study, Monmouthshire Houses, date Church Farmhouse to 1550–1560. The farmhouse was originally the parsonage to the adjacent Church of All Saints On a tithe map of 1841, the farmhouse is recorded as being occupied by an Eleanor Morgan, who was farming 107 acres.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and description</h2><br>
<p>The building is a cruck-truss house but without the hall open to the roof, the more common style. It is constructed of whitewashed rubble. The building contains a Tudor door reused from nearby Allt-y-Bela. The attic partition has some, "now much faded", figure paintings of a man, a woman and a child. The farmhouse and its attached barn are Grade II* listed buildings, the listing describing the building as "a well preserved 16th century farmhouse".</p><br>
<p>The Artha, Tregare, Monmouthshire is a farmhouse dating from the mid-17th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The architectural historian John Newman dates the original house to c.1600. Sir Cyril Fox and Lord Raglan, in their three-volume study, Monmouthshire Houses, date the extensions, which make the house such a "showpiece", to 1678-9. The rebuilding was undertaken by Issac Williams, whom Sir Joseph Bradney, the Monmouthshire antiquarian, records as the first known owner of the house.</p><br>
<p>Bradney further notes that Williams&#39;s wife was "a papist and recusant", leading to John Arnold, the local Member of Parliament and known persecutor of Catholics, to give evidence against Williams in the House of Commons. Arnold declared, "Williams hath his Children Christened by a Popish priest, that his wife is a violent Papist and that Mass is very often said in his House".</p><br>
<p>Bradney goes on to record the many owners of The Artha into the mid-18th century. The house remains a farmhouse and is in private occupation.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and description</h2><br>
<p>The farmhouse is a three-unit, two-storeyed building on an L-plan.Newman describes it as "a farmhouse of exceptional pretension". The construction is principally of sandstone rubble, with some of the late-17th century extension being undertaken in brick. Fox and Raglan note that this is an exceptionally early use of brick in Monmouthshire for a gentry, as opposed to an aristocratic, house. The hipped roof is of slate. Very large chimney stacks at either end create "an architectural west front of dollshouse symmetry".</p><br>
<p>The interior has "exceptionally fine features" including a "remarkable" dog-leg stair with carved newel, "impressive" chimneypieces and an "alarmingly low-slung plaster ceiling" with a central rose and cherub heads at the corners. Fox and Raglan noted that the chimneypieces again demonstrated the house&#39;s modernity, the decoration echoing London examples of only some twenty-five years earlier - "the time-lag for metropolitan novelties in our corner of Britain is visibly shortening". The Artha is Grade II* listed.</p><br>
<p>Coliseum Mountain is a peak north of the town of Nordegg, Alberta, Canada. It is in the David Thompson Country of the Canadian Rockies. It has a summit of 2,035 m . The mountain was named after its amphitheatre bowl shape resembling the Colosseum of ancient Rome. The Stoney First Nations previously named the peak Yahareskin, meaning “mountain with a cap” because of its bare summit.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Coliseum mountain was first mapped by Sir James Hector of the Palliser Expedition in 1858. Martin Nordegg, the founder of the coal mining town of Nordegg, climbed the mountain in 1913.</p><br>
<p>Forestry Rangers went to the top of Coliseum as early as 1914 to scout the land for forest fires. A mountain fire lookout was built on the peak in 1927, when Nordegg was an up and running coal mining town. Some residents of Nordegg remember climbing up Coliseum to deliver mail to the ranger stationed in the lookout.</p><br>
<p>The lumber was hauled by packhorses to the top of the mountain to build the lookout tower, the first fire lookout in Alberta. Construction was under the supervision of District Forest Ranger Bill Shankland.</p><br>
<p>The people of Nordegg claim that the fire lookout ranger during the coal mining days of the 1950s, Leo Letourneau, “passed time by turning his telescope on town activities, the children nicknaming him “Old Leo”. This lookout has since been moved to the top of Baldy Mountain in the 1955, the neighbouring mountain just West of Coliseum.</p><br>
<h2>Hiking</h2><br>
<p>Coliseum mountain is a popular hike for those traveling to Nordegg and along the David Thompson Highway.</p><br>
<p>The most common way to the summit of Coliseum is up the Coliseum Trail, a 6.5 km trail or a 13 km return hike up a non-motorized switchback trail, gaining 635 metres (2083 ft) of elevation. The Coliseum Trail Staging Area can be accessed by taking the Shunda Creek Road through the Nordegg North Subdivision and following the signed arrows along the road, to Baldy Mountain Road up to Eagle Drive.</p><br>
<p>The Ridgeline Trail is a longer, more challenging and less used trail to the summit. It is a 7.2 km trip to the peak or a 14.4 km return trip beginning at the Ranger Station, east of the town of Nordegg just off the David Thompson Highway. It climbs the ridge across from the Beaverdam Provincial Recreation Area.</p><br>
<p>There is also the Ranger Station Trail, beginning at the Ranger Station and following the base of the mountain, eventually connecting with the Coliseum Trail or the Ridgeline Trail.</p><br>
<p>Some people choose to climb up the front face of the mountain, beginning at the Coliseum Staging Area. However, this trail is challenging and not clearly marked, with difficult scree sections, some scrambling and steep climbs.</p><br>
<p>Dunton Cove or the Covenanters Cave is an artificial cave in a craggy outcrop of rocks overlooking the Craufurdland Water just below the confluence of the Dunton Water and the Calf Fauld Water in East Ayrshire, Scotland, close to the village of Waterside. Traditionally it was used as a hiding place for Covenanters in the 17th century during the so-called Killing Times&#39; of the 1680s.</p><br>
<h2>Cave and access</h2><br>
<p>The Dunton Cove is located in a stone cliff above the Craufurdland Water on the east side of the water course, just off the private road leading from Airtnoch Farm through the forestry plantations to Craigendunton and the old reservoir.</p><br>
<p>The cave is only large enough for a few people and the regular lines of the rectangular opening add emphasis to its artificial origin or creation from a pre-existing cavity.</p><br>
<p>Several hand and foot holds have been cut into the rock face however access is difficult. Internally the cave has no special features such as a shelf for sitting and its therefore seems to have been used as a short term refuge used whilst soldiers were temporarily in the vicinity.</p><br>
<p>The opening is obvious from the level of the Craufurdland Water and it is said that a bush such as gorse or willow would be pulled up and tied with ropes over the entrance as camouflage.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The word cove in Scots means cave.</p><br>
<p>It is noted in the 1856 Ordnance Survey Name Book, Volume 27 as being recorded on "Mr. Craufords&#39; Estate" map and local information of its use by Covenanters and its artificial origin was provided by Matthew Dunlop of Craigendunton and John Dunlop of Waterside.</p><br>
<p>No specific record of the caves use are recorded however Covenanter sympathies were strong in the area and the Fugitive Roll&#39; of May 1684 records "Andrew Gemmil, in Bembreich (Benbeoch); James Lindsay and his son Thomas in Glerfin (Clanfin), and his son, Thomas Lindsay; James Howie and his son, John Howie at Lochgoin Farm and also living at Lochgoin was Isobel Howie, who is known to have gone into hiding after a raid on Lochgoin. Meadowhead and Airtnoch farms were rented by the Covenanter, John Paton."</p><br>
<p>A story is recorded by one author of soldiers pursuing a group of Covenanters across the moors and upon reaching the Craufurdland Water they became aware that their prey had entered this cave and rather than soak their uniforms crossing the water course they instead fired a number of rounds into the opening and left satisfied that the men had been killed however having laid themselves on the floor they were in fact unscathed.</p><br>
<p>Several other caves in Ayrshire and beyond are said to have been used as places of concealment by Covenanters, such as the Cleeves Cove on the Dusk Water near Dalry and Peden&#39;s Cave on the Lugar Water near Ochiltree.</p><br>
<p>Nuraghe Su Mulinu is an archaeological site located in the territory of Villanovafranca, in the province of South Sardinia.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The site is located less than a kilometer from the village, on a dorsal overlooking the Flumini Mannu.</p><br>
<p>It is a construction that dates back to 1500 BC, which has the peculiarity of being composed of different types of constructions such as those in corridor and false dome. The best preserved part is that dating back to the 7th-6th century BC. The site was abandoned around the 4th century BC.</p><br>
<p>Inside a tower was found the only example of nuragic altar of the first Iron Age, consisting of a stone carved on vertical motifs with the eagerness of the goddess Moon.</p><br>
<p>It was excavated several times since 1983 by archaeologist Giovanni Ugas.</p><br>
<h2>Bibliography</h2><br>
<p>G. Ugas, "Un nuovo contributo per lo studio della tholos in Sardegna. La fortezza di Su Mulinu-Villanovafranca", in Nuragic Sardinia and the mycenean world, 3, a cura di M. S. Balmuth, Oxford, BAR, 1987, pp. 77-128</p><br>
<p>G. Ugas, "Il sacello del vano E nella fortezza nuragica di Su Mulinu-Villanovafranca (CA)", in Scienze dell&#39;Antichità. Storia, Archeologia, Antropologia, 3-4, 1989-90, pp. 351-373</p><br>
<p>G. Ugas-M.C. Paderi, "Persistenze rituali e cultuali di età punica e romana nel sacello nuragico del vano e della fortezza di Su Mulinu- Villanovafranca (CA)", in L&#39;Africa romana. Atti del III convegno di studio (Sassari, 15-17 dicembre 1989), Sassari, 1990, pp. 475-479</p><br>
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<p>Mount Chual is a prominent peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains in southwest Santa Clara County, California, United States. The landmark lies 10 mi west of Morgan Hill, and approximately 0.8 mi northeast of Loma Prieta. It is the third highest peak in the Santa Cruz Mountains. Several tributaries to Llagas Creek originate on the southern and eastern flanks of the peak.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The name of the mountain first appeared on a Mexican-era map of New Almaden in 1848 as Picacho de Chual. The word "chual" refers in Spanish to the edible plant, chenopodium californicum, the common pigweed or goosefoot (a form of wild lettuce).</p><br>
<p>The summit has a radio communications facility, operating since 1965. The peak and surrounding land is currently owned by the Santa Clara Valley Open Space Authority.</p><br>
<p>Nuruyu Bansho Site is the location of a former barrier gate and guard post between Sendai Domain and Akita Domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan. The site is located within what is now the city of Kurihara in Miyagi Prefecture.</p><br>
<p>Under the Tokugawa shogunate, government installations were established at strategic locations along traffic routes, where travellers were stopped for inspection, tolls were levied and suspicious travellers detained for interrogation. The Nuruyu Bansho was one such location, erected in 1608, to control a mountain pass in the Ou Mountains. It was located about 27.4 km northwest of old Tsukiji town and 100 m east of an onsen village on the border of the domain.</p><br>
<p>The site consists of a four-pillar gate with a thatched roof, decorated with the Date clan mon. Within the gate is the bansho itself - a two-story late Edo-period building measuring 23.19 meters by 11.89 meters, which was built in the Ansei era. It contains a local history museum.</p><br>
<p>The site is protected by the central government as a National Historic Site.</p><br>
<p>Pedens Cave is at least partly artificial and is set into a craggy outcrop of red sandstone rocks overlooking the River Lugar just below the farm of Auchinbay in East Ayrshire, Scotland, close to the town of Ochiltree. Traditionally it is said that this cave was used as a hiding place for Covenanters, including the famous Covenanter minister Alexander Peden in the 17th century, mainly during the so called Killing Times&#39; of the 1680s.</p><br>
<h2>Cave and access</h2><br>
<p>Pedens Cave is located near the top of a much eroded red sandstone cliff, the cave floor being around 10 ft above the River Lugar on the south-western side of this water course, just off the old road that ran from Stair past Auchinbay Farm and over the old Slatehole Ford, later replaced by the now ruined Slatehole Bridge and its associated lodge, running into the Auchinleck Estate. The cave is well camouflaged from directly above. The well known Wallaces Cave&#39; is located at the junction of the River Lugar and the Dippol Burn, a short distance upstream.</p><br>
<p>The cave is not very large (6 ft high, 4 ft wide, and about 8 ft long) and the chisel marks add emphasis to its artificial origin or creation from a smaller natural cavity. A bench or shelf has been cut inside and six steps have been cut into the rock face leading down to it, however access is still hazardous.</p><br>
<p>The opening is obvious from the opposite side of the Lugar Water however this is difficult to access and it is likely that, as at Dunton Cove, a bush such as gorse or willow would be cut and then pulled up and tied with ropes over the entrance as camouflage. Next to the cave is a sizeable rectangular area which it has been noted has features indicating that it may have been artificially shaped or quarried and even roofed over for use in stabling of horses, storage of food, etc.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>As a Covenanter minister preaching at various outdoor conventicles, Alexander Peden is said to have used a number of other caves as places of concealment during his years on the run from the King&#39;s soldiers, including Barskimming, one on Craigie Hill near the village, another at the Nick of the Balloch, a further example near the Water of Girvan and his final cave hiding place may have been the Cleuch Glen in Sorn Parish which he reportedly asked to be made when he sensed that his illness was terminal, supposedly hiding beneath some straw when it was searched by soldiers.</p><br>
<p>The facts remain unclear, however one telling of the history is that a brother of the Covenanter minister lived at Tenshilling Farm, the surviving Ten Shilling Bridge lies close to the estates so called Deer Cave. Alexanders brother is said to have brought food to the cave to feed him and the various other Covenanters who hid with Peden from time to time.</p><br>
<p>It may have been this cave where he took ill before moving closer to his brothers farm where he died on 26th January 1686. He was secretly buried at Auchinleck in the churchyard however he was later exhumed by the Kings soldiers and later buried at the foot of the gallows tree in Cumnock where a graveyard is now located with memorials to Alexander Peden and several over Covenanters. The soldiers had intended to hang the minister&#39;s corpse from the tree however William, second Earl of Dumfries prevented this.</p><br>
<p>Several other caves in Ayrshire and beyond are said to have been used as places of concealment by Covenanters in general, such as the Cleeves Cove on the Dusk Water near Dalry and Dunton Cove on the Craufurdland Water near Waterside in East Ayrshire.</p><br>
<p>The cave&#39;s location is close to one of the few local fording places over the River Lugar that existed before any bridges were constructed, making it a surprising location for a hiding place and in addition Dumfries House, Auchinleck House and Ochiltree House were all in the immediate vicinity.</p><br>
<p>The cave may have seen various uses after the time of the Covenanters such as shelter for travellers or a base for people assisting travellers who were crossing the river by the ford, especially when the water was high or when it was in spate, certainly local anglers have found it to be a convenient shelter.</p><br>
<p>Many other sites have Pedens name attached to them such as the Pedens Pulpit near Failford, another at Dalry and a Pedens Stone as well as Pedens Hut, etc.</p><br>
<h2>Micro-history</h2><br>
<p>The mound that is all that remains of Ochiltree Castle lies upstream opposite Auchinleck Castle and the impressive red sandstone boulder known on the old maps as Kemps Castle is located between Ochiltree Castle and Pedens Cave. A Kemp in Scots is a hero or a champion of great strength and is a name applied to many hill forts, mottes, etc. throughout Scotland.</p><br>
<p>The Mitchell House is a Neo-Classical Revival Style building in Lebanon, Tennessee that was built as a home by Dr. David Mitchell and his wife, Elizabeth. It was designed by architects Thompson, Gibel & Asmus. Construction began in 1906 and was completed in 1910 with 10,600 square feet of living space. At the time, Dr. Mitchell was the president of Cumberland University and a co-founder of Castle Heights Military Academy. Craftsmen were brought in to work on the extensive millwork and wood panelings and floors. Chandeliers were imported from Italy and rugs were imported from Austria.</p><br>
<p>While the Mitchells lived in the home it was used for many community events and weddings. In 1919 there was a typhoid outbreak in the area and both of the Mitchell’s children became sick. Mrs. Mitchell nursed them both back to health before becoming ill with the disease herself. She died three days later at the age of 42. Dr. Mitchell was heartbroken and moved to California, leaving his children in the care of their maternal grandparents, Rev. and Mrs. Arthur Smith. They lived in the house until 1923 before moving the children to Florida. The home would stay empty until 1936.</p><br>
<p>While living in California, Dr. Mitchell deeded the house to his children to keep it from being foreclosed on by creditors. The children would never live in the house and sold it to Castle Heights Military Academy in 1936.</p><br>
<p>Castle Heights turned the home into a junior school. The upstairs was remodeled into living quarters for the students and the downstairs was turned into classrooms. and it became known as MacFadden Hall. The boys who lived in the hall were known as goobers and the house was called Goober School by the students. The building would remain a junior school for fifty years, until the academy closed in 1986.</p><br>
<p>After the closure of Castle Heights, the house would be abandoned for twelve years until it was purchased by Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Inc. in 1997. Cracker Barrel’s founder, Dan Evins, was a graduate of Castle Heights and had served as chairman of the board of directors for the school while his son attended it.</p><br>
<p>Evins and Cracker Barrel set about restoring the home and found the original construction drawings. The drawings did not have details for the inside of the building so the restoration crew had to use old photos they found in yearbooks and newspapers as well as memories of former students and teachers. The restoration took less than a year to complete even though many windows, panels, and ceilings, as well as the porches, had to be replaced. Mike Manous was the architect who oversaw the restoration with a budget of $2 million.</p><br>
<p>After the restoration the building became the home of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Corporate Headquarters (CBRL Group, Inc.).</p><br>
<p>In 2013, Cracker Barrel sold the building to Sigma Pi Fraternity which currently uses the building as its international headquarters. No purchase amount was made public but the house had been listed for $1,095,000 on loopnet.com. The fraternity has a museum and meeting spaces on the first floor with offices located on the second floor.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed as a historic landmark by the State of Tennessee and the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Sinclair Building-Smulekoffs Furniture Store, also known as the Warfield-Pratt-Howell Co. building and the Churchill Drug Co. building, is a historic building located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States. In 1901 Thomas Sinclair had the original section of this five-story brick structure built. It housed the wholesale grocer Warfield-Pratt-Howell Co. and another wholesaler, the Churchill Drug Co. It was the second of several large-scale warehouse buildings that were constructed in this section of the city along the Cedar River. A spur line of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad was located at the rear of the building. Rosenbaum Furniture Store bought the building in 1925, and it was converted from warehouse use to retail. In 1941 Smulekoffs Furniture Store took over the building and renovated the main floor. They remained here until 2014. The building is slated for apartments on the upper floors and retail on the main floor. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.</p><br>
<p>The Harper and McIntire Company Warehouse, also known as Smulekoff&#39;s Warehouse, is a historic building located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States. Harper and Mcintire was a wholesale hardware business that was established in Ottumwa, Iowa in 1867. A branch warehouse in Cedar Rapids was begun in 1921. The four-story, brick, Commercial structure was designed by the Minneapolis architectural firm of Croft and Boerner. Cedar Rapids contractor Theodore Stark & Company and Ferro Concrete Construction Company of Cincinnati were responsible for construction. The building was completed in 1922 in an industrial area where spur lines connected it to the Fourth Street Railroad Corridor. It was originally designed as a seven-story building, but by the time it was put out for bid it was reduced to four-stories with a two-story tower that enclosed a water tank. Two additions were added to be building that facilitated the change to shipping by truck. The east side addition was completed in the 1940s, and the west side addition  was built where the railroad spur track had been located. Smulekoffs Furniture Company took over the building in 1981 and remained until 2014 when they went out of business. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.</p><br>
<p>Pictou Harbour is a natural harbour in Nova Scotia on the Northumberland Strait.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The distance between the town of Pictou on the north shore, and the community of Pictou Landing to the south is about 1km. The harbour then opens into the broad mouth of the East River of Pictou which flows inland through the towns of Trenton and New Glasgow. The south-west end of the harbour is terminated by the Harvey Veniot causeway that carries Nova Scotia Highway 106. The harbour is now roughly 5km long. Prior to the opening of the causeway in 1968, the harbour continued into the confluence of the West River and Middle River.</p><br>
<p>The body of water immediately outside the harbour is known as the Pictou Road. The entrance to the harbour is protected by two sandbars and is about 400m wide. A lighthouse was installed on this bar in 1834 and lost to fire in 1903. Its replacement, a 55 foot octagonal tower was also destroyed by fire on July 5, 2004.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first settlers arrived in Pictou Harbour in 1767 on the Betsey from Philadelphia. The Hector arrived in 1773, bringing the first Scottish settlers to arrive in the province directly from Scotland. Timber was being exported to Britain from Pictou harbour as early as 1777 and the first ship was built there in 1788 by Thomas Copeland. By 1803, fifty vessels loaded squared timber for Britain. The Harriet was launched in 1798 with a registered tonnage of 422 tons and is believed to be the largest built in Nova Scotia at the time.</p><br>
<p>By 1830 coal was being brought from the inland towns by steamboat for transshipment and soon coal and iron were the chief exports through the harbour. In 1874 the Customs House was built by the Dominion Government to collect tariffs and duties, and control goods and people flowing through the port, which was a significant port of entry at the time, and the main passenger connection with Upper Canada.</p><br>
<p>The first railway to reach Pictou Harbour was in 1867 when the Pictou extension of the Nova Scotia Railway reached Pictou Landing on the south shore of the harbour. From there the railway company operated a steam-powered ferry to take passengers across the harbour where they could connect with ships leaving for Prince Edward Island and Montreal. crossing the harbour at the mouth of the West River. The bridge, known as Mile Bridge, was destroyed by fire in 1993. Ferry service from the upriver towns declined with the introduction of rail service and ceased in the 1920&#39;s due to the increasing use of cars, but the ferry between Pictou, Pictou Landing and Abercrombie continued until after World War 2.</p><br>
<p>On August 24, 1873 a hurricane caused extensive damage throughout the harbour. The water rose above the wharves, causing goods and lumber to be washed away. Wharves and coal piers on both sides of the harbour were extensively damaged and ships at anchor were driven ashore. The brigantine Willow Brae was driven up the Middle River and 300 tons of coal had to be unloaded before she could be salvaged. The schooner Guiding Star carrying 140 tons of coal went so far up the Middle River that she had to be abandoned.</p><br>
<p>The Canadian Trade Review reported in 1900 that Pictou harbour was also handling produce and dairy products from Prince Edward Island, as well as most of the lobster from the eastern end of the Gulf. It was also importing iron ore from the mine at Belle Isle, Newfoundland, for the Nova Scotia Iron Company smelters at Ferrona, and copper ore for the Copper Crown Company in Pictou. A pier at Granton on the Middle River, 3 miles upstream from the harbour, was loading steamships of 3,000 ton capacity with coal from the Drummond colliery in Westville.</p><br>
<p>On September 25, 1925 the cargo steamer Dieuze caught fire and sank outside the shipping lane. The captain was the only person aboard at the time and he survived. The wreck was rediscovered in 2015 during surveying work by the Canadian Hydrographic Service sitting upright on the bottom in 13.5 metre deep water, but it wasn&#39;t until divers explored the wreck that it could be identified.</p><br>
<p>Pictou Shipyard was established during World War 2, causing the population of the town to triple, and is notable for its construction of 24 Park ships over a two year period during World War 2, and continues in business today.</p><br>
<h2>Current usage of the harbour</h2><br>
<p>In Pictou town, the Pictou Marine Terminals offer three berths for ships up to 150m, On the outskirts of town is the private Pictou Marina, home of the Pictou Yacht Club. Directly across the harbour from there is a fishing wharf at Pictou Landing. Cruise ships began visiting Pictou in 2014.</p><br>
<h2>Environment</h2><br>
<p>Being an estuary, the water is considered brackish, with a density of about 1019kg/m that varies seasonally. The sand bar on the southside of the harbour entrance is an 8ha Provincial Nature Reserve, comprising beaches and dunes that provide habitat for the endangered piping plover. Human settlement and industrial activity have impacted Pictou harbour since the 18th century through pollution, impacts on wilderness habitat and harvesting of renewable resources.</p><br>
<p>Mount Clef Ridge is a 1,076 ft volcanic mountain in Thousand Oaks, California. It is a volcanic outcrop that resulted from 30 million year old lava eruptions. The ridge was formerly under ownership by the Janss Corporation, but was acquired by the Conejo Recreation and Park District  in 1967. Trails here are available from Santa Rosa Valley, Newbury Park and Wildwood Regional Park. Although being a major feature of Wildwood, it occupies its own open-space area bordering Wildwood’s northern boundaries. Mount Clef Ridge Open Space Area occupies 212 acres. From the ridge are great panoramic views of Santa Rosa Valley, Conejo Valley, Hill Canyon, as well as the Santa Susana-, Santa Monica- and Topatopa Mountains. The open-space area is home to plants such as coastal sage scrub, chaparral, Lyon&#39;s Pentachaeta and Conejo dudleya. The fauna includes mountain lions, deer, coyotes, gray foxes, and more.</p><br>
<p>Mount Clef Ridge was featured in the film Flaming Star (1960) starring Elvis Presley.</p><br>
<p>A rock shelter, known as Wildflower Cave (Ven-486), is located here and was utilized for shelter by the Chumash people in pre-colonial times.</p><br>
