<p>Loch Teàrnait, also known as Loch Tearnait or Loch Ternate, is a small, lowland, freshwater loch on the Ardtornish Estate on the Morvern peninsula in the Scottish Highlands. It lies in an east to west direction and is approximately 6.4 km southeast of Loch Arienas and 4.8 km east of Loch Aline. It is 1.21 km long and 0.53 km wide, and is at an altitude of 141 m. The average depth is 4.9 m and its maximum depth is 12 m. The loch was surveyed on 18 August 1904 by James Murray as part of Sir John Murray&#39;s Bathymetrical Survey of Fresh-Water Lochs of Scotland 1897-1909.</p><br>
<p>In the centre of the loch is a small, circular island which is thought to be the remains of a crannog. It is 18 m in diameter, built of timber and stone, and has two small inlets for boats. It is likely to have been occupied since the Middle Ages, and in local tradition it was said to have been used as a sanctuary for fugitives under the protection of the Lords of the Isles.</p><br>
<p>In 2009 the company Hydroplan began construction of a hydroelectricity generating facility at the outflow of the loch. Power generation began in December 2012, and the scheme was officially opened in May 2013. In 2008, prior to construction of the hydro scheme, an archaelogical survey was undertaken in and around the loch which documented 31 archaeological sites.</p><br>
<p>The loch holds native wild brown trout and permits are required to fish the loch.</p><br>
<p>The Holy Cave at Hunterston in the Parish of West Kilbride is associated with Saint Mungo, also known as St Kentigern and is often referred to as the Hawking Craig Cave however two caves exists in the Hawking Craig Wood and Three Sisters area of the cliffs, the other being Smith&#39;s Cave, better described as a rock shelter lying a short distance to the south. The main cave has been excavated and the finds indicate three periods of occupation over many centuries.</p><br>
<h2>Cave and access</h2><br>
<p>The cave stands about 300 yards from the northern end of the red sandstone cliffs and was formed by wave action working at a weak point, a fissure, at the base of red sandstone cliffs that run from the Brigurd Point to Portencross however it now stands stands about 10 ft above the level of the old raised beach that runs down to the sea. The cave is not very large (6 fthigh, 6 ftwide, and about 27 ftlong) and is now best accessed by entering the Hawking Craig Wood near the Three Sisters cliffs and carefully walking along the base of the escarpment.</p><br>
<h2>The Wishing or Holy Well</h2><br>
<p>A spring known as the Wishing Well was located near the rock shelter or cave, one reference stating that this deep well it is actually located within the cave or at the entrance. The name Wishing Well has been interpreted as deriving from Saxon and meaning the "The Wise man or Instructors Well" The most popular time to visit the well was on the first Sunday in May when water was collected for its supposed curative properties and it is further recorded that on occasions the local minister was persuaded to visit the well to baptise children using its holy water. The wells name also implies the common practice of making wishes and offerings of coins and other items.</p><br>
<h2>History and excavation</h2><br>
<p>When excavated in 1879 the cave was measured at 27ft long and 6ft high and wide for 15ft to the rear. The excavation went down to a depth of 6ft before hitting bedrock and three levels were discernible, each made up of layers of well trodden ashes and sea shells, the first at 18 ins, a second at 30ins, and the basal layer at 39ins deep. Many bones were found including Deer, cat, pig, horse, sheep, goat, ox, and rabbit bones were found, the horse bones between the upper and second level with dog bones between the middle and basal levels.</p><br>
<p>A significant find was a bone object with a rectangular hole at one end found on the second level and a flint object was found just above the basal level. An object made of slate object was found. Some pottery fragments were found including a coarse, unglazed, reddish appearance and a thinner example with a green-brown glaze similar to Scottish Medieval pottery. The National Museum of Scotland holds the bone implement and some pottery fragments (Accession Numbers. HM 3-4).</p><br>
<p>A shelter would most likely have once existed at the cave entrance although no recognisable signs survive of concavities etc used to support such an arrangement. Some apparent man-made workings on the rock face exist close by however their is an absence of religious symbols or graffiti of any kind, however the soft red sandstone is easily eroded by rain and wind action and any such markings may have been lost even if they ever existed.</p><br>
<p>A cave exists near the site of the old Ardeer House in Stevenston. Until covered over the remains of a dressed stone frame formed an iron grille over a hole in the cave roof suggesting its use as a grotto in the 19th century. The visible remains suggested a souterrain, but the near absence of records of these in south-west Scotland make this unlikely. The passage is lined with corbelled drystone walling, roofed with capstones, and leads into a natural cave section which may have been formed by wave action as it shows a water-scour likley to have been created by wave action. Some areas of undisturbed stratified deposits have been found, together with evidence of occupation, such as a hearth, bones, and a fragment of glass.</p><br>
<p>A similar cave or rock shelter survives on Holy Isle (off the east coast of Arran) where Saint Molaise, an early Irish saint and abbot of Old Leighlin in Co. Carlow, who is supposed to have lived in the 6th and 7th centuries. Parallels can also be drawn with Saint Ninian&#39;s Cave at Glasserton in Dumfries and Galloway.</p><br>
<h2>Micro-history</h2><br>
<p>The name Hawking Craig refers to the medieval practice of collecting young sparrowhawks and goshawks for the sport of falconry.</p><br>
<p>The famous Hunterston Brooch was found by workmen at the Hawking Craig in 1826.</p><br>
<p>Prior to the Battle of Largs in 1263 a skirmish is said to have taken place on the raised beach area in front of the cave and a cairn or cairns once stood here that were said to be the graves of Vikings killed during the engagement. Wilson records in the early 19th century seeing several graves made of six stones that only contained ashes and a large cairn at the base of the cliff where the skirmish took place in which coins were found. These were removed when the author was a boy.</p><br>
<p>Local legend has it that three sisters, Meg, Jean and Lizzie, were witches and whipped up the storm that caused such havoc amongst King Hacos fleet. The Three Sisters&#39; are named for them.</p><br>
<p>The Anglican Church of St Mary in Oare, Somerset, England was built in the 15th century. It is a Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The nave and inner chancel survive from a 15th century building, but the outer chancel and tower were rebuilt in the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The parish and benefice of Oare with Culbone is part of the Diocese of Bath and Wells.</p><br>
<p>The church was used as the location of a marriage in the novel Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore whose grandfather had been the rector of the church, between 1809 and 1842.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The stone building has slate roofs. It consists of a three-bay nave, with an inner and outer chancel, each of one bay. The three-stage is unbuttressed.</p><br>
<p>Inside the church are 18th century box pews and a Norman font on an 18th century base. There is also a 15th century piscina with a "grotesque head", It is believed to represent St Decuman.</p><br>
<p>The Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Combination Depot is a historic building located in Decorah, Iowa, United States. After the Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, later the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, choose a different route for their north-south mainline, community leaders convinced them to build a spur to Decorah. This would open the town to larger markets to ship the products produced there. The tracks were completed in 1869, and a boxcar served as the first depot. That same year this single-story, wood frame structure with Greek Revival features was completed south of the central business district. It served as a combination depot, servicing both passengers and freight. After the arrival of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad in 1884 the Milwaukee Road started to plan a new passenger depot in Decorah. It was completed on the east end of the main commercial street in 1888. When it opened, this building continued to serve as a freight depot. Over the years its platforms were shortened, and sometime between the 1930s and the 1950s, the southwest end of the building was shortened. The Milwaukee Road abandoned the depot in 1971, and the tracks that flanked the building were removed the same year. The former depot itself was renovated for non-railroad use. This is believed to be a rare extant example of a wooden combination depot in Iowa. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.</p><br>
<p>The Clovis Baptist Hospital, located at 515 Prince St. in Clovis in Curry County, New Mexico, was built in 1919-1920. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story stuccoed building with a hipped roof. It has a projecting entry portico with square stuccoed columns. It was built as the result of a drive by Clovis-area Baptists, including of the First Baptist Church, Clovis, to create the first hospital in the area. It was described at its opening on October 7, 1920 as "the only city of refuge on the high plains of eastern New Mexico."</p><br>
<p>It was operated as a hospital for 19 years until 1939, when a larger hospital was opened. The building then was re-used as the Ramsey Hotel. In 1981 it was in use as a restaurant and art gallery, "The Landmark".</p><br>
<p>Stoke Pero Church in Stoke Pero, Somerset, England was built in the 13th century. It is a Grade II* listed building. it is claimed to be at a higher altitude than any other church in England. It is certainly the highest church on Exmoor.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The church has no known dedication to any saint, however an inscription on one of the three bells suggests it may have been dedicated to Saint Barbara.</p><br>
<p>The tower dates from the 13th century. The rest of the church was largely rebuilt in 1897 by Sir Thomas Dyke Acland, 12th Baronet.</p><br>
<p>The list of rectors goes back to 1242.</p><br>
<p>Occasional services are held at the church by the parish of Porlock with Stoke Pero which is within the Diocese of Bath and Wells.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The stone building has slate roofs. It consists of a three-bay nave and chancel with a porch to the north. The tower is supported by diagonal buttresses and has a stair turret.</p><br>
<p>Inside the church is a baluster font.</p><br>
<p>The Carey Dome Fire Lookout is a fire lookout tower complex located in Nez Perce National Forest, 9 miles north of United States Forest Service Burgdorf Guard Station, near Burgdorf in Idaho County, Idaho. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>The listing included two contributing structures (a fire lookout tower and a weather station), one contributing building (a log cabin residence), and a non-contributing structure (a flagpole).</p><br>
<p>The tower is an Aermotor Company steel tower assembled in 1934, which has a 7x7 ft steel cab at the top. It is 85 ft tall from ground level to top of the cab.</p><br>
<p>The log cabin was built in 1943.</p><br>
<p>The weather station was installed in the 1950s or before.</p><br>
<p>The Herrold Bridge is a historic structure located near the unincorporated community of Herrold, Iowa, United States. It carried a gravel road for 156 ft over Beaver Creek. Completed in 1921, this concrete cantilevered deck girder bridge replaced an earlier timber pile structure. It was designed by the Iowa State Highway Commission the previous year, and the Polk County Board of Supervisors awarded the construction contract to Ben Cole of Ames. The total cost of construction was $24,283.36. The bridge features three arched concrete deck girder spans that are cantilevered from concrete abutments and piers. It is considered one of the most technologically significant of Iowa&#39;s concrete girder bridges. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. While it remains in place, the Herrold Bridge was replaced by a newer span sligtly downstream.</p><br>
<p>The Chamberlain Ranger Station Historic District, also known as the Chamberlain Guard Station, is located in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness within Payette National Forest in Idaho County, Idaho. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The listing was for a 100 acre area which included four contributing buildings and two contributing sites. The station&#39;s residence was built during 1937 to 1938. It is a one-and-a-half-story 28x33 ft log building on a concrete and rock masonry foundation, based on a USFS Standard Plan model R-4 #53-c. Its walls are peeled lodgepole pine logs from trees cut on the site. Its corners are saddle-notched.</p><br>
<p>Other structures include one built during the first decade of the 20th century, moved to the site in 1954, and another built c.1921.</p><br>
<p>The Columbia Road–Bellevue Street Historic District encompasses a collection of brick residential apartment houses on Columbia Road and Bellevue Street in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Arrayed mainly on Columbia Road between Wheelock Avenue and Bodwell Street, south of the Uphams Corner commercial area, area collection of primarily late 19th and early 20th-century multiunit residential buildings, built when the area was developed as a streetcar suburb. Most of these are Colonial Revival masonry or frame buildings three and four stories in height, although some exhibit Queen Anne features. There are a few older Greek Revival buildings in the district, and a number of apartment blocks built in the 1920s during a second phase of development.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.</p><br>
<p>The castle of Banyeres de Mariola , Valencian Community,  is an Almohad fortress built in the 13th century, which is situated on the tossal de l&#39;Àguila , eng: hill of the eagle, in the geographical center of Banyeres, with an elevation of 830 meters above the sea level.</p><br>
<p>The castle, irregularly shaped, has two enclosures and adapts to the ground. His most significant element is his tower of 17 meters. It has a square ground plan and three heights and is made of rammed earth. The remains of walls, also made with mud, they have pockets made in later period and dominated the arches with voussoirs. Within the grounds there is a cistern and a chapel.</p><br>
<p>It is currently the headquarters of Banyeres festive museum (Museu Fester).</p><br>
<p>The St. Gertrude&#39;s Convent and Chapel near Cottonwood in Idaho County, Idaho was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>It consists of a 50x127 ft basilican chapel plus a 127x164 ft convent wing. The chapel has two 97 ft high corner towers capped by domed roofs.</p><br>
<p>The chapel and its altar were designed by Mount Angel, Oregon architect Engelbert Gier. The altar was built in 1928 in Sigmaringen, Germany "by a company whose master</p><br>
<p>recently had been awarded the insignia "Pro Papa Et Ecclesta" (for the Pope and Church) for outstanding service to the cause of religious art. This distinction is rarely conferred and this man was, as far as is known, the only one so honored in Germany up to that time."</p><br>
<p>Kilcoolaght East Ogham Stones  are a collection of ogham stones forming a National Monument located in County Kerry, Ireland.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Kilcoolaght East Ogham Stones are located 4.6 km southeast of Killorglin, to the west of the Glasheenasheefree River.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The stones were carved in the 5th and 6th centuries AD and served as burial markers. This was a ceallurach (burial ground).</p><br>
<p>All the stones were found in a souterrain nearby.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The stones are sandstone pillars.</p><br>
<p>CIIC 206: ("name/inscription of Ferchán/Fírchán? of Tigern") and ("of Cétadach? son of Fedelmid/Feidlimid")</p><br>
<p>CIIC 207: ("of ? son of Luccreth")</p><br>
<p>CIIC 208:</p><br>
<p>CIIC 209: ("...ggo son of Agi...")</p><br>
<p>CIIC 210: and</p><br>
<p>CIIC 211: ("of Rethach son of Feddonos&quot this name survives in the Iveragh Peninsula)</p><br>
<p>CIIC 212: highly fragmentary</p><br>
<p>CIIC 213:</p><br>
<p>Goldbug Hot Springs is a hot spring located in the Salmon-Challis National Forest about 20 miles south of Salmon, Idaho. The spring is along Warm Spring Creek and there are about six waterfall-fed pools. Goldbug is listed as having a temperature of 113 &deg;F, but the temperature of the pools will vary depending on the time of year. The pools have a sand/gravel bottom and are dammed by boulders. Due to the hike and remoteness of the trailhead, it is not usually crowded.</p><br>
<p>Water from Goldbug Hot Springs flows into Warm Springs Creek, which flows into the Salmon River.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>The trailhead for Goldbug Hot Springs can be accessed from a well maintained dirt road off US 93. The first.25 mi of the trail is on private land that is part of a Bureau of Land Management easement. Hikers will experience 1,350 ft in elevation gain along the 2 mi hike. The trail is maintained with sturdy bridges, and there are sections where hikers will be climbing steps. The last.5 mi of the hike is the steepest, and the trail continues beyond the hot spring itself.</p><br>
<p>Camping is prohibited at the trailhead, on the easement and within 500 ft of the hot spring itself. Along the trail, however, there are numerous primitive camprounds. There is also a campground above the highest pool along Warm Spring Creek. Overnight campers will enjoy almost zero light pollution.</p><br>
<p>The hot spring is free and open year-round. It is not unusual to find visitors skinny dipping.</p><br>
<h2>Weather</h2><br>
<p>While the hot spring is open year-round, heavy snow in the winter may cause difficulties in accessing it. Temperatures in the pools will be rather chilly in the winter. Summertime temperatures can get extremely hot, and it is suggested that hikers bring extra water and sunblock with them.</p><br>
<h2>Flora and Fauna</h2><br>
<p>It is not unusual to see snakes in the area, including poisonous rattlesnakes. Big game, such as Mule deer can be seen occasionally, along with rare black bears. Jackrabbits, badgers and other small game are fairly common.</p><br>
<p>Cottage Grove Avenue Presbyterian Church is a historic building located in Des Moines, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The congregation began in 1888 as Sixth Presbyterian Church and became Cottage Grove Avenue Presbyterian in 1910. They originally worshiped in tents and in a commercial building near the location of the present building. A brick, Gothic Revival church building was completed on this property in 1893. It was destroyed two years later in a fire caused by lightning.</p><br>
<p>A new brick church was completed at the same location in 1903. Structural flaws in the building were diagnosed ten years later. The congregation maintained the Sunday School wing and replaced the sanctuary in 1918.</p><br>
<p>Waterloo, Iowa architect Clinton P. Shockley designed the 1918 sanctuary in the Neoclassical style. It was built by Des Moines contractor B. F. Segner. The building is a trapezoid, matching its lot, and features a veneer of Bedford stone and a flat roof. The south and east elevations feature five bays separated by four pilasters. A semi-circular niche is located in the southeast elevation. On the same elevation the maxim, "Ye Shall Know the Truth and the Truth Shall Make You Free" is cut into the limestone frieze. A veneer of stone was applied to the south elevation of the Sunday School wing, with its original painted brick on the other elevations.</p><br>
<p>At about the same time as the present sanctuary was built, the congregation began to take on the Progressive ideals of social reform and community service. The congregation&#39;s name change suggests its commitment to the neighborhood, and the new sanctuary does not have any traditional church embellishments on the exterior, but that of a home. The maxim etched into the southeast elevation stresses moral rectitude rather than Christian theology. During the pastorates of the Revs. William Burton Sanford and James Thompson Mordy the congregation took on the issues of restricted residential zoning in the area, the Negro Community Center, and youth programs. During the 1960s and the 1970s, the development of Interstate 235 to the south cut through the neighborhood, and the congregation found itself as an inner-city church. That provided it with opportunities for more community service.</p><br>
<p>At the same time the congregation began to lose membership, and in 2014 it decided to disband. The Presbytery of Des Moines now owns the building. They will continue to use the building for their offices, for a social outreach ministry to the areas homeless, and two Sudanese congregations, whose members emigrated to this country after civil wars in Sudan and South Sudan.</p><br>
<p>Wallaces Cave in the Lugar Gorge at Auchinleck in the Parish of Auchinleck is an 18th century grotto contemporary with Dr Johnsons Summerhouse, also located on the Auchinleck Estate. It shows superior workmanship in its construction, possibly being the enlargement of a pre-existing cave. The cave or grotto lies downstream of the confluence of the Dippol Burn with the River Lugar and is reached via a once well formed path, however access is now hazardous due to the condition of the cliff edge path and the vertical drop into the River Lugar.</p><br>
<h2>Cave and access</h2><br>
<p>The cave is a Category B Listed Building that is reached via a narrow path and some rock cut steps that follow the River Lugar gorge. Lying within a side gorge cut by a small burn the final approach requires the crossing of the burn. The masons chisel marks are very clear on the walls and their work created a chamber with a floor area of approximately 14 square feet with prominent rib vaults that rise from the four corners meeting at the central roof apex, thus creating the impression, deliberately or not, of a cross or Saltire. The cave height is approximately ten feet and access is via a pointed seven foot high arched doorway, now minus its door, with one small, similarly shaped window to left as seen from the outside. The window shows no obvious sign of having been glazed.</p><br>
<p>The eminent antiquarian John Smith visited the area circa 1895 recording historic sites but makes no reference to the two caves on the estate. It has been suggested that this or a previous cave dates from the late 13th or 14th century. Warrick, writing in 1899, makes no reference to Wallaces Cave at this site although he mentions one near Lugar in the Cubs Glen on the Glenmuir Water.</p><br>
<p>John Thomsons map of 1832 does not mark the cave however the natural feature Kemps Castle and the ruins of Ochiltree Castle and Auchinleck Castle are shown. The 1857 OS map shows a path leading to the site with no cave indicated, however by 1896 it is recorded. The 1908 map records the cave however the access path is no longer shown.</p><br>
<h3>Other Wallace's Cave sites</h3><br>
<p>A Wallace&#39;s Cave or Hawthornden Castle Cave exists in Roslin Glen, in Midlothian. Hawthornden Castle stands nearby and the patriot took part in the Battle of Rosslyn on 24 February 1303.</p><br>
<p>A Wallace’s Cave was located in Bothwell Parish on the South Calder Water, Lanarkshire, to the west of Cleland and close to the site of the old Ravenscraig Steelworks.</p><br>
<p>Crawhill in Lothian has a Wallace&#39;s Cave that is said to have been used by him after the Battle of Falkirk.</p><br>
<p>The River Clyde has an example at Corra Linn near New Lanark, Lanarkshire.</p><br>
<p>On the opposite side of the River Ayr from Wallaces Heel Well a Wallaces Cave was located and it is said that William Wallace used it to hide from English troops. No sign of it remains.</p><br>
<p>A natural cave in the Cartland Craigs (NS 8691 4454) ravine in South Lanarkshire is locally said to have been used as a refuge by William Wallace.</p><br>
<p>Tradition identifies a Wallaces Cave located at a rock shelter near Lugar in the Cubs Glen on the Glenmuir Water.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It has been estimated as dating from circa 1760 and has been hewn from soft red sandstone in the Gothic style as a man-made folly or grotto, although the possibility remains that it was an extension of a natural cave. The RCAHMS Canmore site classifies the site as post-medieval and holds no details of the grotto. The original Auchinleck Castle stands upstream of the cave just above the confluence of the Dippol Burn with the River Lugar.</p><br>
<p>The first Laird of Auchinleck or Affleck on record was Nicol de Achethlec or Achethlic who was a great supporter of Scottish independence and is said to have been related to Sir William Wallace.</p><br>
<p>It is known that Nicol rode with Wallace to Glasgow where the English soldiers were defeated at the Battle of the Bell of the Brae. It has been surmised that the grottos name patriotically commemorates the romantic Boswell family association with the national hero and that it is contemporary with the surviving Gothic grotto variously known as Dr Johnsons Summerhouse, Boswells Summerhouse or the Deer Cave&#39; situated further upstream on the Dippol Burn near the Ten Shillings Bridge, making two grottoes hewn in the picturesque landscape circa 1760 to enhance the new Auchinleck House and pleasure gardens.</p><br>
<h2>Micro-history</h2><br>
<p>A visitor to one of the caves in circa 1947 describes a walk that takes him to "a staircase of broad wooden steps built into the steep bank, but so deep in leaves that the stepping places were hard to distinguish. It led down to the waters edge, and gave access to a large cave hewn in the solid rock. A fine dry apartment it was, and to sit on the carved ledge and watch the wagtails dipping from stone to stone, the burn clear as a sheet of crystal, was most restful." This may refer to the summerhouse named in Dr Samuel Johnsons honour.</p><br>
<p>The Amb Temples , locally known as Amb Sharif , are part of an abandoned Hindu temple complex on the Sakesar mountain, located at the western edge of the Salt Range in Pakistan&#39;s Punjab province. The temple complex was built in the 7th to 9th centuries CE during the reign of the Hindu Shahi empire.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The ruins are located near Amb Sharef village, on Sakesar mountain in the Soon Valley of Pakistan. The ruins form the westernmost ruins of a string of Hindu temples in the Salt Range mountains that includes the Katas Raj Temples and Tilla Jogian monastic complex.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The main temple is roughly 15 to 20 metres tall, and built out of brick and mortar on a square plinth. It is regarded as the "loftiest" of temples built by the Hindu Shahi empire. The temple ruins have three stories, with stairwells leading to inner ambulatories.</p><br>
<p>The temple is decorated with Kashmiri style motifs on its exterior, including a cusped niche. The structure of the main temple, differs from Kashmiri temples which typically have pointed tops. The main temple is instead similar in style to the nearby Kalar temple, and Kafir Kot temple in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.</p><br>
<p>To the west about 75 metres lies another smaller temple, which is 2 story or 7 to 8 meters high, situated near a cliff. The temple features a small vestibule chamber facing towards the main temple. It was a few metres from a second similarly sized temple, which no longer exists. The entire temple complex was surrounded by a fortification, with the earliest construction at the site dating to the late Kushan period.</p><br>
<h2>Conservation</h2><br>
<p>The site was visited by Alexander Cunningham in the late 19th century, and was partly conserved in 1922-24 by Daya Ram Sahni. The temple had been looted over the centuries, with the last remaining statuary removed from the site in the late 19th century and placed in the Lahore Museum. The site is currently protected by Pakistan&#39;s Antiquities Act (1975).</p><br>
<p>The Royal Palace was first built by king Suryavarman I and used continuously from the 11th to the late 16th century AD. During that period, the area was transformed and restored several times. Recent excavations have revealed many remains, such as a 10th century temple which was built by a minister to Yasovarman I, was probably considered to be this minister&#39;s residence.</p><br>
<p>Most of the royal palace buildings were constructed by using perishable materials because they would have been non-religious in nature.</p><br>
<h2>Plan</h2><br>
<p>The rectangular place of the royal palace was surrounded by a 5 meters high laterite wall with 246 meters along the north-south axis and 585 meters along the east-west axis, covering an area of more than 14 hectares. Five sandstone gopuras with steps served as the entrance to the palace. Two gupuras are located on the south ,other two are on the north, the largest one faces to the east and aligned with the Elephant Terrace and Victory Gate. The first group of buildings, built by king Suryavarman I, was surrounded by a moat on the east. The ground inside the palace compound is 1.2 meters higher than outside that necessitating a double course of stone on the exterior of the entrances and in some places, the ground has been raised even higher.</p><br>
<h2>The Large Pond</h2><br>
<p>The 5625 square meters pond, probably built by king Jayavarman VIII, is faced with sandstone around its circumference. 13 tiers of steps descend 5.32 meters to the laterite paving. A wall was built on the south and to a lesser extent on the west which probably retain the embankment that extends to the pond from Phimeanakas. Dominating the pond on top of the wall is a paved terrace.</p><br>
<p>The walls are completely carved with bas-reliefs the lower sections show marine lives, heads of cow or horse, There are two rows of princes and naga princesses in the middle part which is similar to Terrace of the Leper King that located above winged figures, male and female guardian figures.</p><br>
<h2>The East Pond</h2><br>
<p>A 800 square meters sandstone pond, situated near the east gopura, was probably part of the first palace.</p><br>
<h2>Terrace and the West Pond</h2><br>
<p>A small pond and low terrace are located to the west of the Large Pond that both connected by a laterite wall to the west northern gopura of the royal palace. The walls are carved with fascinating bas-reliefs of a procession of people, elephants and horses above a frieze of hamsas.</p><br>
<h2>Terrace to the east</h2><br>
<p>The cruciform terrace with round column and overhanging top was typically built in the 16th century AD.</p><br>
<h2>Four small sanctuaries to the east</h2><br>
<p>The four small sanctuaries were constructed in the early phase, which evidenced by their floor level. They are opening to the west and parallel to the southeast of the second part of the Royal Palace.</p><br>
<p>The Charles A. Bottger House is a historic house in the Old Town neighborhood of Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is listed on the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties and the National Register of Historic Places. The house was built in 1911–12 for Charles A. Bottger , a German-American businessman who moved to Old Town from Rutherford, New Jersey in 1889. The house was designed by local architect Edward B. Christy, who was also responsible for the remodeling of Hodgin Hall in 1908.</p><br>
<p>Built in the American Foursquare style, it is a square, two-and-a-half-story building of balloon frame construction with a shallow hipped roof. A glassed-in sun porch wraps around the south and east sides of the house, while a smaller sun porch projects from the north (rear) facade. The wide eaves are supported by paired Italianate brackets and the metal tile roof is punctuated by dormers on three sides. Inside, the house was equipped with modern conveniences like speaking tubes and a dumbwaiter and also has a notable pressed metal ceiling.</p><br>
<p>The house is currently operated as a bed and breakfast.</p><br>
<p>Gold Point Mill, located is on United States Forest Service Road 222 near Elk City in Idaho County, Idaho. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The building, on a hillside, is a shed-roofed rectangular building constructed in 1936 which housed machinery for amalgamation and concentration of gold ore. It was deemed significant "because it reflects the 1930s boom in lode mining in Idaho County caused by higher prices of gold and improved transportation because of its architectural design and its extraordinarily well-preserved interior. Still intact inside the mill are the jaw crusher, ball mill, rake classifier, bucket elevator, and shaker tables, plus drive shafts, water pipes, launders, and miscellaneous other machinery. The flow of ore inside the mill can be followed from the coarse ore bin at the top to the troughs for concentrates at the bottom. The mill only processed ore for a very short period before the company ran out of cash and of gold-bearing ore, but this is typical of many Idaho County lode mines of this period. Gold Point Mines owned the mill and associated claims and other improvements from 1934 until 1957; they sold to the property to Floyd Patrin, who owned it until 1996. The mill itself has excellent integrity of location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, feeling, and association. The only major changes to the exterior of the mill are the loss of the metal shed housing the steam plant and the loss of the log trestle that supported a ramp leading to the hopper of the coarse ore bin."</p><br>
<p>Zinkyaik Pagoda is a Buddha Hair Relic Pagoda on top of Zinkyaik Mountain in Mon State, Myanmar.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Zinkyaik Mountain is located in Mon State in the northern part of the Tenasserim coast. It can be driven up to by truck due to road construction complete by the late Kyaikhtisaung Sayadaw. The range is part of the or Eastern Arakan Yoma Mountains. It is at a distance of 266 km from Yangon and 45 kilometers north of Mawlamyine, the capital of Mon State. The summit is above 3,000 ft. Near the foot of the mountain and located near the main road and rail line of Yangon-Dawei, near by Zinkyaik Village, is Zinkyaik Waterfall. The waterfall is frequented by locals, especially during the Fullmoon Day of Waso and rainy season. During dry season there is no water to supply the falls and it dries up.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Tissa and Thiha</h3><br>
<p>Before the Buddha attained enlightenment, there was a kingdom situated near Gisa Gi Yi, now known as Zinkyaik Mountain. The king of this region was Tissa Dama Gyaik and his queen was Thi Yi Kappar Dawi. They ruled the kingdom well, therefore it was calm, rich, and well-developed. The pair had two sons, who had been mentioned before in prophecy by wise men. The oldest son resembled his father in build and appearance. A Brahman had prophesied to King Tissa Dama Yaza that the prince would "have the traits of a moral principles, good character, politeness, cleverness, and great skill." When the king heard this, he was pleased and gave the prince the name Tissa Kumaya, after himself. When the youngest son was born, he was a beautiful child. On both of the soles of his feet, he had markings that looked like lions. So, the king named him Thiha Kumaya.</p><br>
<p>The two princes loved each other very much. They were raised with access to every kind of sensual pleasure and luxury. The king and queen guarded them against unpleasant dangers such as gnats, mosquitoes, houseflies, and insects. When they reached the ages of 23 and 21 years old, the eldest brother, Tissa Kumaya, who had strong moral principles, had mastered the skill in meditation of remorse. He realized that no being was free from suffering old age, pain, and death. He decided to retire to the forest and become a recluse. He met with his younger brother and discussed his plans for abdicating the throne. He asked his brother to assume the position of king instead of himself and to take care of their parents. The youngest brother decided instead to follow his brother into the forest and also live as a hermit. They agreed to wait for a suitable time to retire to the forest.</p><br>
<p>When King Tissa Dama Yaza and Queen Thiyi Kappar Dawi reached old age, they decided to retire into meditation and give the throne to their eldest son and the royal title of Crown Prince to their youngest son. They gathered their lawmakers and made legal arrangements for their sons to assume their new positions. The princes denied their inheritances and asked permission to retreat to the jungle as hermits. They requested their parents&#39; blessing many times. The king and queen did not think that their sons were suitable for forest life, since they had been raised in a palace. The two sons became depressed and would not eat. They became very thin. Finally, the king and queen relented and agreed to allow them to go into the forest.</p><br>
<p>The princes were pleased and began to eat again. After a week, they went to the jungle in a grand procession followed by the king, queen, and public. A monastery was built where there was fresh water and natural food sources for them. This monastery was at the bottom of Zinkyaik Mountain. The two brothers stayed there and were then referred to as "Tissa Hermit" and "Thiha Hermit". Tissa and Thiha were not satisfied to stay together, since there was temptation to waste meditation time in conversing with each other. Therefore, Tissa decide to stay at Zinkyaik while Thiha decided to transfer to Mount Zwegabin, which could be seen from Zinkyaik Mountain.</p><br>
<h3>The Twins</h3><br>
<p>Local legend has it that two twin brothers, the children of a weizza from the Himalayas and a naga (dragon) princess were abandoned by their mother as eggs on the western base of Zinkyaik Mountain, where there was an island not far from the beach. Tissa, while walking and meditating, found the eggs and carried them back to his monastery at Zinkyaik Mountain. That night, Tissa saw a signal light from Mount Zwegabin from his brother, Thiha. Thiha met Tissa ans Tissa gave him one of the eggs. Thiha took one egg to Mount Zwegabin, and one remained with Tissa. Tissas egg hatched first on top of Zinkyaik Mountain, and later, Thihas egg on Mount Zwegabin. Tissa named the baby under his care Thuriaya Kumaya because he was born at sunrise. The youngest brother passed away at the age of ten due to smallpox. Thiha came to raise Thuriaya Kumaya together with Tissa at Zinkyaik Mountain. The hermits became well-known and the area surrounding the mountain became crowded. Therefore, Tissa moved away from Zinkyaik to Kyaikhtiyo Mountain. Thuriaya Kumaya, who was taught meditation and the art of ruling from Tissa, eventually became the first king of Thaton.</p><br>
<h3>Buddha Hair Relic</h3><br>
<p>The Chakesadhatuvamsa, or chronicle of the six hair relics of the Buddha, was written in Myanmar. The text says that Buddha gave six hairs to disciples at Venuvana in Rajagrha. These were given to 6 bordering countries who had never seen the Buddha. The stories say that when the Buddha came to Mon State to give sermons, he gave six of his hairs to hermits from Kyaiktiyo, Zinkyaik (to Tissa, Mount Zwegabin (to Thiha), Kaylartha, Kuthaerayone and Melan. A pair of belu brothers from Kyaikhtisaung also received a hair. All the hermits and belus enshrined the hair in great stones. Tissa brought his hair to the top of Zinkyaik Mountain and built a pagoda there.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>The Kyaikhtisaung Sayadaw restored nine Buddha hair relic pagodas during his lifetime, with Zinkyaik Pagoda being one of them. He built a compound around the pagoda and paved a road up to the top. It is now a popular spot for tourists and locals and had a resident abbot and monastery at the summit of the mountain.</p><br>
<p>Kaylartha Pagoda is a Buddhist Pagoda that sits atop the summit of Mount Kaylartha in Mon State, Myanmar. Local legend claims that at the foot of Kaylartha Mountain sat the ancient Kingdom of the Gold.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Kaylartha Mountain is situated 3 miles from Taungson, Mon State, and can be driven up to by truck. The range is part of the or Eastern Arakan Yoma Mountains. It is at a distance of 184 km from Yangon and 136 kilometers north of Mawlamyine, the capital of Mon State. The summit is above 1,600 ft. Monkeys live atop the mountain and are fed by pilgrims.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>At the top of Mount Kaylartha stands a pagoda said to house a hair of the Buddha. It is believed that in the Tharthanar Era (111), the Gautama Buddha arrived at the Kaylartha Mountain, Thuwunna Bonmi. He stayed at a monastery built by King Tissa Dama Thiha Yaza. The Buddha preached sermons to the public for seven days. During that time, he became close with the Hermits Tissa and Thiha and the local hermit of Kaylartha Mountain. They requested that he leave behind some relic to be revered by the people in his place after he left to return home. Buddha agreed and gave six of his hairs to hermits from Kyaiktiyo, Zinkyaik (to Tissa), Mount Zwegabin (to Thiha), Kaylartha, Kuthaerayone and Melan. A pair of belu brothers from Kyaikhtisaung also received a hair. All the hermits and belus enshrined the hair in great stones.</p><br>
<p>The Hermit of Kaylartha, whose name was Tila of Dokkhalun, discussed how to go about enshrining the hairs and building pagodas around them with Hermits Tissa and Thiha and Indra Sakka, who had supported Thiha in constructing a pagoda on Mount Zwegabin. He enshrined the hair relic in the pagoda atop Kaylartha Mountain, and was advised by Indra Sakka.</p><br>
<p>The hermits communicated with each other by shining lights atop their respective mountains at nighttime. Tissa, who stayed atop Zinkyaik Mountain, did not see light coming from Mountain Kaylartha and wondered what might have occurred. He went to Kaylartha Mountain and found the body of the Kaylartha Hermit. The body was burnt and buried, while the head, which was not burnt nor decomposed, held one of Buddha&#39;s hairs in its braid. It was returned to Mok Soe Taung Pagoda and joined the original two hair relics there.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>The Kyaikhtisaung Sayadaw restored nine Buddha hair relic pagodas during his lifetime, with Kaylartha Pagoda being one of them. He built a compound around the pagoda and paved a road up to the top. It is now a popular spot for tourists and locals and had a resident abbot and monastery at the summit of the mountain.</p><br>
<p>The Azov Fortress  is a fortified complex of Azov, Rostov oblast, Russia, overlooking the Don River and the Port of Azov to the north. It includes a rampart, watchtowers and gates. The Azov fortress  was founded by Turks on behalf of the Ottoman Empire in 1475. It guarded the northern approaches to the Empire and access to the Azov Sea. After a series of conflicts, a peace treaty was signed in Constantinople on July 13, 1700 between the Tsardom of Russia and the Ottoman Empire. The sultan recognized Russia&#39;s possession of the Azov area.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Origin</h3><br>
<p>The site has been Venetian and Genoese colonies before the second half of the 15th century. A town named Tana served as major transit point for trafficking between West and East. Tana was occupied by the Ottoman Empire in 1471. Turks founded enormous fortress here. It consisted of a stone wall with 11 towers round a hill. Faubourg was separated by a moat and rampart. The fortress garrison was armed with 200 cannons.</p><br>
<h3>Cossack period</h3><br>
<p>The Don and Zaporozhian Cossacks stormed the fortress in June 1637. Cossack cavalry with the strength of 400 horsemen defended the fortress from steppe side. Turkish army attempted to retake Azov in 1641. The fortress sustained heavy shelling by guns that reduced much of the fortress to rubble. Turks spent 700-1000 shells per day. The walls were completely destroyed in parts. Only three towers among 11 were spared during the battle. Forces of Ottoman Empire stormed the fortress, but they sustained heavy losses and retreated. After the gun-fire forces of Ottoman Empire organized a massive attack against the fortress. Outnumbered Turkish Army forced the cossacks to retreat to the Citadel. Siege of Azov ends due to heavy toll (20–70 thousand wounded or killed in three months) problems with turkish army support and supply of the provisions.</p><br>
<p>The Cossacks proposed the annexation of Azov by the Tsardom of Russia. Russian tsar Michael I and the zemsky sobor refused the offer because it has resulted in next Russo-Turkish war to which Russia was not ready. The cossacks did not have resources to the reсonstruction of the fortress. That is why blasted and desolate fortress was left in the summer of 1642.</p><br>
<h3>Russian period</h3><br>
<p>Peter the Great led the Azov campaigns of 1695–96. The military expedition advanced by land and water (the rivers of Voronezh, Volga and Don). The first attempt of storm of the Azov Fortress under the command of general admiral Franz Lefort has been undertaken on 5 August 1695. It has not been successful. The Russian Army succeeded in occupation of watchtowers only. The number of dead and wounded Russian soldiers reached over 1500 during the storm. The second storm of the Azov fortress has been undertaken on 25 September. The Lifeguard Preobrazhensky Regiment and Semyonovsky Regiment under Fyodor Apraksin occupied most of fortifyings and were able to enter the town. However turks had time to regroup and Apraksin&#39;s advance had failed without support of other army units. The siege was lifted on 2 October.</p><br>
<p>The second Azov campaign was held in July 1696. The requisite preparations were completed to implement the second storm on 16 July 1696. 1,500 of the Don and Zaporozhian Cossacks invaded on 17 July. They managed to take two bastions. The garrison of the fortress surrendered on 19 July during a long period of shelling. In 1700, by concluding the Treaty of Constantinople the Ottoman Empire reaffirmed recognition of Russia&#39;s possession of the Azov fortress.</p><br>
<p>The Treaty of the Pruth of 1711 stipulated the return of Azov to the Ottoman Empire. The Tsardom of Russia was forced to sign the treaty because of severe situation of its army on the banks of the river Pruth at the end of the Russo-Ottoman War of 1710–11.</p><br>
<p>The Don army (28,000 strong) under the command of imperial commander Peter Lacy besieged the fortress in 1736. Forces of Russia opened continuous artillery fire on the fortress on 11 June. Lacy gave an order to begin the storm in the night of 28/29 June. During the battle the Russian Army encountered unexpected resistance. The total Russian losses in the battle for the Azov fortress were 7 killed and 38 wounded. After the night attack Azov Pasha Mustafa Agi invited to surrender the fortress to the Russians. Per the terms of the Treaty of Belgrade the city became part of the Russian Empire.</p><br>
<p>The old Waltham High School  was constructed in 1902. Designed by Samuel Patch and Robert Glancey, it follows the local contemporary style of Romanesque and Classical Revival architecture. Expanded in the 1920s, the building eventually fell out of favor and was replaced with the current Waltham High School at a different location in 1969. It was used as the Central Junior High School in the 1970s and 1980s. The old Waltham High became defunct by the 1990s and sat empty for many years. The building was ultimately reoccupied; the additions constructed in the 1920s were removed, restoring the school to its 1902 appearance, and a modern addition was added directly behind the old building, which left the historical structure as the façade. The new construct, known now as John W. McDevitt Middle School , entered service in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The old Waltham High building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The White Hart Inn, Llangybi, Monmouthshire is an inn dating from the early 17th century. Located at the a crossroards in the centre of the village, it is a Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was begun in the very late 16th century or early 17th centuries. Cadw suggests a building date as early as 1590, but the architectural writer John Newman, recording the inn in the Gwent/Monmouthshire volume of the Buildings of Wales series, favours an early 17th century date. In the mid-17th century it became the property of Henry VIII as part of Jane Seymour&#39;s wedding dowry. The inn is often said to have a priest hole, and to have been the headquarters of Oliver Cromwell during his campaigning in Monmouthshire in the English Civil War, but the main sources do not support these suggestions.</p><br>
<p>In 2003 Philip Edwards, former King Alfred professor of English literature at Liverpool University suggested that T. S. Eliot made cryptic reference to this pub and the village well in his 1935 poem "Usk". The relevant lines read:</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and description</h2><br>
<p>Coflein describes the building as a double-house, although sources agree that it appears to have been a single dwelling form its earliest construction. The building is white-washed and of two storeys with a roof of Welsh slate. It is constructed to an L-plan. Newman notes the "fine array" of mullioned windows and the plaster ceiling in the upstairs parlour, decorated with "sunflowers and fleurs-de-lys".</p><br>
<p>Leacanabuaile is a stone ringfort  and National Monument located in County Kerry, Ireland.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Leacanabuaile is located immediately northwest of Cahergal, 3 km northwest of Cahirciveen.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The cashel was built around the 9th century AD as a defended farmstead.</p><br>
<p>The Irish name means "hillside of the milking-place."</p><br>
<p>The site was excavated in 1939–40; objects found included iron knives and pins, bone combs, bronze, millstones and lead, dating from the 9th or 10th century AD.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>This is a circular stone ringfort (caiseal) of internal diameter 30 m with outer walls over 2 m high and 3.3 m thick. Protected on three sides by steep grassy slopes, the entrance is on the east side. It is built of drystone with gaps filled in with rubble.</p><br>
<p>Inside are three stone beehive houses and a souterrain.</p><br>
<p>The Anglican Church of St Andrew in Withypool, Somerset, England was built in late medieval period. It is a Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The church was built in the Middle Ages but the tower was rebuilt in the early 17th century. A Victorian restoration was carried out in 1887 with further rebuilding in 1902.</p><br>
<p>The parish is part of the Exmoor benefice within the Diocese of Bath and Wells.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The stone building has slate roofs. It consists of a three-bay nave and a north aisle. The two-stage tower is supported by diagonal buttresses. Partly set into the northwest buttress is a medieval carved stone cross.</p><br>
<p>Within the church is a Norman font. The white stone chalice-shaped font has a scalloped bowl on a cylindrical shaft.</p><br>
<p>Newland House is an 1898 farmhouse in a midwestern adaptation of a Queen Anne architectural style in Huntington Beach, California, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is one of 123 historic places and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Orange County, California. The Newland House is listed as the ninth historic place to receive a historical plaque from the Orange County Historical Commission in cooperation with the Orange County Board of Supervisors.</p><br>
<h2>Newland House Museum</h2><br>
<p>The Newland House Museum is located at 19820 Beach Boulevard in Huntington Beach, California, 92648 (33°40′35″N 117°59′14″W), and is managed by the. Constructed in 1898 by William Taylor Newland and Mary Juanita DeLapp Newland, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 and is a historical pioneer museum. The house was built by Dawes & Kuechel of Santa Ana, California. One of the first homes constructed in the area, lumber for its construction was transported from McFadden’s Wharf in Newport Beach, California, by horse-drawn wagon. The gravel for the cement foundation was hauled from the beach at what is now Huntington Beach.</p><br>
<p>The Newland ranch contained vegetable gardens, orchards, a variety of farm animals, and pet peacocks; it covered more than 500 acres of land. Celery and sugar beets were the main product of the ranch&#39;s gardens, though other crops were also grown. The outbuildings contained a large barn, stables, corrals and bunkhouses for ranch hands. During the early years, water was obtained from a natural spring near the present day intersection of Adams Avenue and Beach Boulevard. William Newland later developed a water well closer to the Newland House and constructed a water tower. The water tower was reproduced in the 21st Century by the Huntington Beach Historical Society in the back yard of the Newland House. Another feature of the site was the present of an ancient Native American settlement, which many artefacts were retrieved from.</p><br>
<p>The property came under the control of the Signal Oil & Gas after Mary Juanita Newland&#39;s death in 1952. Signal Oil used the home for workers for approximately 20 years. Signal Oil originally planned to use the property for an oil refinery, but later dropped those plans due to community objections. Signal Oil formed the Signal Landmark development company and began planning for a commercial shopping center on the former Newland Rancho. A community effort to preserve the Newland House as a local landmark and museum initiated in 1964. In 1974, Signal Landmark Homes donated the Newland House and associated land to the City of Huntington Beach for a historic park.</p><br>
<p>A community-based historic preservation group organized with leadership from the Huntington Beach Junior Women&#39;s Club in 1976. The Newland House first opened for public tours in 1978. The historic preservation project was supported financially by the City of Huntington Beach in 1983, investing in the construction of the Newland Barn to provide event space. The Huntington Beach Historical Society continues to work cooperatively with the City of Huntington Beach regarding use of the property, ongoing maintenance, and community events.</p><br>
<p>In 1998, the Newland House marked its 100-year anniversary. The Huntington Beach Historical Society attempted to obtain the Native Californian basketry collection of Mary Juanita Newland, lent to the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, California, in 1935. A variety of prehistoric stone artifacts, such as mortars and pestles, were unearthed in 1898 during construction of the house, built on the site of a Native American settlement. A majority of those artifacts reportedly also are in the Bowers Museum collection. The dispute was not resolved and the Mary Juanita Newland collection, as well as artifacts unearthed at the Newland Rancho in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, remain in the collection of the Bowers Museum.</p><br>
<h2>William Taylor and Mary Juanita DeLapp Newland</h2><br>
<p>William Taylor Newland was born in Camp Point, Illinois, in October 1850. He was one of the developers involved in the sale of the first lots at Huntington Beach. The in the Fountain Valley School District, Fountain Valley, California, is named after William Taylor Newland.</p><br>
<p>William Taylor Newland was eleven years of age when his father, John Newland, enlisted for service in the Civil War in 1862. His father was killed in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1865. His mother died in 1869, leaving him orphaned at age 19. He went to work on the farm of John M. DeLapp, whose daughter, Mary Juanita DeLapp, he married six years later.</p><br>
<p>A biographical account of William Taylor Newland in 1933 noted,</p><br>
<p>Mary Juanita DeLapp was born in Jacksonville, Illinois, in 1859, and was married to William Taylor Newland in 1875. She served on the local school board for sixteen years, founding the Huntington Beach Townships first parent-teacher organization in 1908. She was a charter member of the Huntington Beach Womans Club and in 1939 was named "Woman of the Year" in recognition of her community service.</p><br>
<p>The Newlands moved from Illinois to California during the land boom of the 1880s. William purchased five-hundred acres of the former Rancho La Bolsa Chica in 1897, paying carpenters $2.50 per day to clear the land and begin construction of the Newland&#39;s home. The Newlands moved into their home in the summer of 1898.</p><br>
<p>William Newland died of a heart attack on his ranch in 1933 at age 83. Mary Juanita DeLapp Newland continued to live in the home until her death in 1952, at the age of ninety-three. Ten Newland children were raised in the house and two born in the house.</p><br>
<h2>Huntington Beach Historical Society</h2><br>
<p>The Huntington Beach Historical Society is responsible for the maintenance and improvements of the Newland House Museum. The Huntington Beach Historical Society&#39;s mission is to protect local history, and to promote and facilitate historical education and awareness. The Society annually awards the Order of the Newland Rose to honor a person who has been active in preserving heritage of Huntington Beach.</p><br>
<p>The Huntington Beach Historical Society organizes several annual events, including The Revolution, in Huntington Beach Central Park, an American Revolution reenactment, an American Civil War reenactment in Huntington Beach Central Park, an annual joint event with the Historic Wintersburg Preservation Task Force, Holidays in Huntington Beach, an event that each year turns back the clock to reenact community holiday celebrations of 100 years ago.</p><br>
<p>The 2017 Board of Directors for the Huntington Beach Historical Society are President, Darrell Rivers; Vice President, Kelly Rivers; 2nd Vice President, Patrick Kreeger; Recording Secretary, Stephanie Tiedt; Treasurer, Cindy Carr; Corresponding Secretary, Eric Edborg.</p><br>
<p>Ty Uchaf Farmhouse, Llanelly, Monmouthshire is a farmhouse in the west of the county dating from the early 17th century. Located 0.5km north-west of the Church of St Elli, it is a Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The farmhouse dates from the early 17th century, with a large wing added in the mid 17th century. A later block was added at the end of the 17th, or the beginning of the 18th century. A map of 1847 shows the farmhouse in the occupation of James Davies, who was farming 76 acres.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and description</h2><br>
<p>The farmhouse is of stone and the chimneystack in the later block indicates that the upper parlour had a fireplace, which is unusual for a building of this date and location. The farmhouse is listed Grade II*. The external kitchen, dated 1697, and the barn range have their own Grade II listings.</p><br>
<p>Ty-Hwnt-y-Bwlch Farmhouse, Cwmyoy, Monmouthshire is a farmhouse in the north of the county dating from the late 16th century. Located on the hillside above the Church of St Martin, it is a Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The architectural historian John Newman describes the site as "a hillside which one would think too steep to make a practical site for building". The farmhouse dates from the late 16th century, with additions in the 17th century and is of a Welsh longhouse plan. Cadw records that it is reputed to include elements taken from Llanthony Priory including the arch to the porch. At the time of the Cadw surveys in the late 20th century, the building was "in poor condition" but renovation has subsequently been undertaken.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and description</h2><br>
<p>Ty-Hwnt-y-Bwlch is constructed in stone to a L-plan and is "exceptionally unaltered". The interior has an elaborate doorcase, carved with "stags, hounds, harps and leaves". The house is listed Grade II*. The barn and stables have their own Grade II listings. The courtyard wall to the north of the farmhouse incorporates a set of bee boles.</p><br>
<p>Lake Menghough was an intermittent lake in the southeast of Algeria. It is described in the account of the first Flatters expedition, which reached the lake in April 1880. Other European visitors found the lake dry or filled depending on rainfall.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The lake was to the east of the Tassili n&#39;Ajjer.</p><br>
<p>The lake is 120 km from Ghat, Libya.</p><br>
<p>The Flatters expedition came to it when travelling southeast along the well-wooded Irhararer valley (Oued i-n-Karaha?) to the point where it joined the Tijoujelt valley, not far from Tajenout.</p><br>
<p>At this point, the surplus waters of the Tijoujelt during the rainy season empty into lake Menghough.</p><br>
<p>Lake Menghough is located on the northern shore of the Wadi of the same name.</p><br>
<p>The sheet of water is enclosed in a sort of circle surrounded by high dunes beside the Wadi Tidjoudjelt, an affluent of the Wadi Igharghar.</p><br>
<h2>Flatters expedition</h2><br>
<p>The first Flatters expedition left Biskra early in February 1880 and travelled south by Touggourt, Ouargla, Aïn-el-Taïba and Temassinin.</p><br>
<p>The expedition encamped on shores of Lake Menghough on 16 April 1880.</p><br>
<p>At this time the lake was about 1,100 by, with creeks fringed by tamarisk and flowering plants on its southern side.</p><br>
<p>The other shores were low and clayey.</p><br>
<p>They found yellow-eyed Clarias lazera (African sharptooth catfish) in the lake.</p><br>
<p>The expedition members swam in the lake, and caught five fish, the longest of which was 2 ft long.</p><br>
<p>Near Lake Menghough in the Ighargharen valley the expedition found two double stone tombs surrounded by a circular wall about 9 m in diameter, with a gap in the wall towards the east.</p><br>
<p>The Tuaregs could not supply any information about the tombs.</p><br>
<p>With provisions running short and the local people showing hostility, Flatters decided to return by the same route.</p><br>
<p>A member of the Flatters expedition reported that:</p><br>
<h2>Later expeditions</h2><br>
<p>The French explorer Gaston Méry visited the lake in 1893 after a long period of drought, and found it completely dry.</p><br>
<p>Méry was the first French explorer to visit the region since the massacre of the second Flatters expedition.</p><br>
<p>He and Guilloux were accompanied by five local Algerians.</p><br>
<p>At Lake Menghough Méry met with some of the Kel Ajjer chiefs.</p><br>
<p>Antoine Bernard d&#39;Attanoux found water in the lake when he visited it in March 1894.</p><br>
<p>This was in a rainy period, and the rains in the preceding weeks had overwhelmed the wadis and turned the plain into a vast swamp.</p><br>
<p>The expedition had to avoid the valley floors and travel with some difficulty by the higher land.</p><br>
<p>Attanoux could not approach the lake very closely, and set up his camp a few kilometers to the southwest at the mouth of the Wadi Timatouiet.</p><br>
<p>Attanoux noted that Colonel Flatters had thought the lake was few by an underground source, and that this was plausible despite the lake drying up, since there was no permanent water table in the region and the source could therefore have dried up.</p><br>
<p>He reported that the Ighargharen valley with its sand-clay soils seemed to have great potential for agriculture, particularly cereals.</p><br>
<p>Boreholes would be enough to find water from the rains that sometimes fall in several consecutive years.</p><br>
<p>However, the nomadic Tuaregs did not practice agriculture.</p><br>
<p>54 Parkside  is a large detached house in Wimbledon, London, SW19, overlooking Wimbledon Common. It was designed in c.1897 by architect C.W. Stephens. It has been listed Grade II on the National Heritage List for England since September 1988.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1896 the house had six bedrooms and a ha-ha divided the house from its neighbour, Wressil Lodge. The house was owned by a Charles Anthony Mills in 1896; Mills named the house Winkfield Lodge after winning £20,000 on a horse named Winkfields Pride that had been a 200 to 1 gamble at a race at Newmarket. Prior to Millss renaming it had been known as Tudor House. The Wimbledon Borough News later described Mills in 1908 as the great turf man who lives in splendid style in Parkside.</p><br>
<p>Mills sold the house to an Arthur Sutton who leased the house to Captain Edward Tighe and his family in 1917. Tighe was a wealthy Irish landowner and British Army officer who had served in the Anglo-Burmese Wars. On 13 November Tighe was found by his wife with severe head wounds in his bedroom at the lodge. A bloodied poker was found nearby, and some small objects had been stolen, including a pocket watch. Tighe died a few days later on 17 November having never regained consciousness; his body was identified by Francis Younghusband. A burglar, Arthur Henry de Stamir, was later found with Tighes possessions at his lodgings. Stamir was found guilty of Tighes murder and was hanged at Wandsworth Prison on 18 February 1918.</p><br>
<p>Following Tighe&#39;s death the house was owned by the British businessman and politician Joseph Hood.</p><br>
<p>The house has been the home of the Apostolic Nunciature to Great Britain, the diplomatic representative of the Vatican City to Great Britain, since 1938.</p><br>
<p>The house is 2 storeys in height, made from Portland stone and has a steeply pitched green slate roof with tall chimneys. Divided into 11 bays, the entrance to the house is in the fourth bay, under a projecting porch.</p><br>
<p>The Wendell Town Common Historic District encompasses the historic heart of the small town of Wendell, Massachusetts. Centered on a town common established in 1782, it includes a significant number of well preserved Greek Revival buildings. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Colonial settlement of what is now the town of Gill began in the mid-18th century, and the town was incorporated in 1794. Riverside, located on the northern bank of the Connecticut River, now opposite the 19th-century industrial village of Turners Falls, was its first point of settlement. The oldest surviving building in Gill is the Howland Tavern, built about 1760 and now set on the south side of the French King Highway (Massachusetts Route 2). In the early 19th century sawmills were erected along the river, which produced lumber used in the development of Gill and neighboring communities. When Turners Falls was developed later in the 19th century, Riverside was economically eclipsed, and became a place for workers there to live. The Turners Falls Lumber Company, located in Riverside, burned down in 1903, and its site was never redeveloped.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is roughly bounded on the north by the French King Highway and the south by the river. A network of mainly residential streets is clustered southwest of the highway and the Gill–Montague Bridge, built in 1937-38 as a replacement for an older failing suspension bridge. Most of the buildings in the district are modest frame houses. They are built in a diversity of styles, representing the shifts in fortunes of the community and its industries. Notable non-residential buildings include a c. 1920 gas station, a 1926 schoolhouse, and a vegetable stand built in the 1940s to serve traffic passing on the highway.</p><br>
<p>Ilhéu Quixibá, commonyl as Quixibá is an islet in the Gulf of Guinea and is one of the smaller islands of São Tomé and Príncipe. The islet is located 375 m southeast of the southernmost portion of the island of São Tomé. Its length is 125 m, it has a triangular shape. The entire terrain is completely forested. During the Ice Age, it formed a part of the island of São Tomé up to around 4,000 to 2,000 BC. The islet is located south of a point that is southwest of Ribeira Peixe and forms a part of Baía de Praia Grande. Southeast of the islet are a couple of rock islets known as Sete Pedras.</p><br>
<p>The islet name etymology is predominantly of Angolan origin and its approximate spelling is Kishiba.</p><br>
<p>The islet is not inhabited by humans. Fauna dominate the island, the dominant are just birds and of the sea including fishes and crustaceans. The islet is of volcanic origin and the islet is likely not a volcanic vent from nearby São Tomé but formed from.</p><br>
<p>The islet was discovered by the Portuguese in January 1471 when the nearby island of São Tomé was also discovered.</p><br>
<p>Anneville is an estate in Ulvenhout in the Dutch province of North Brabant. It is located just south of the city of Breda. It is a small country estate, best known for being the temporary residence of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands when she first returned to the Netherlands near the end of the Second World War.</p><br>
<p>Anneville lies in the municipality of Alphen-Chaam in southern Netherlands.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Anneville was founded by the famous Dutch archeologist and historian Prosper Cuypers van Velthoven, who built his country estate there in the neighborhood of Geersbroek south of Breda and just southeast of Ulvenhout. The estate was named for his wife, Anna van Velthoven. The land was originally a group of ten small farms, which were purchased by Velthoven over a few years, with the first purchase made in 1845. The properties were combined to form a suitable estate to surround a large country house. Cadastral records indicate a number of small houses and sheds had stood within the current park area. Construction on the house commenced in 1851 and was completed in 1852. The manor house was designed by architect Antoine Trappeniers. Some 40 years later in 1898 a coach house was added to the grounds, built by Prosper Cuypers&#39; son, Edouard van Velthoven.</p><br>
<p>After the marriage of his son Edourd in 1862, Prosper Cuypers and his wife moved out of the house and returned to Brussels. He continued his work on history there, while his son and his new wife moved in to the manor house at Anneville. For his career recording Belgium history he was awarded the Leopoldsorde in 1868. The house continued to be used as a residence for the Velthoven family until the 1920s. In the 1930s Anneville was rented out to the Bredase hotelier Coumans, who converted Anneville into a hotel, restaurant and tea house.</p><br>
<p>During the German occupation in World War II the estate was requisitioned by the Germans. About 1.5 hectares (roughly 4 acres) of the surrounding woods were cut down, and outdoor ovens were set up on the grounds around the coach house. These were used to bake bread. After the region was liberated in October 1944 the mayor of Ulvenhout claimed the house for Prince Bernhard, who took residence there 19 November 1944 while he set up his headquarters in nearby Breda. He occupied the estate until May 1945, when he vacated the premises to allow Queen Wilhelmina to use it as a residence.</p><br>
<p>The house lies in the woods of Ulvenhout. A row of beeches line the approach to the estate. Its driveway curves around a lawn where stone steps rise to a small portico. In the back high glass doors open on to a veranda that looks out over gardens and the Brabant countryside. Two ponds are surrounded by wide lawns, tall trees, walking paths and clusters of flowering rhododendrons.</p><br>
<p>Queen Wilhelmina arrived there 2 May 1945. With her at Anneville was her daughter Princess Juliana, and adjuncts Peter Tazelaar, Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema and Rie Stokvis. The three adjuncts were not from the royal household, but all three had been Engelandvaarders. There presence was a part of the queen&#39;s effort to decrease the barrier between the royal family and the people. Though Anneville was a serene and stately manor house, it was a far cry from the palace at Het Loo, and symbolized a formal break from the highly formalistic and class conscious existence the royal family had been confined to before the war.</p><br>
<p>During this period the ground floor of the coach house served as a motor garage, while the rooms above were used to house a small guard detail. Anneville was the scene of a number of spontaneous gatherings of the people of the Netherlands, where they walked from Breda and the surrounding communities and made a procession past the house to greet their queen. The queen stayed at Anneville for a little over 6 weeks, and for this brief period of time Anneville became the centre of the Netherlands.</p><br>
<p>A couple of days after the queen&#39;s arrival Peter Tazelaar gave her the news that Germany had surrendered. It was a time of great joy in the Netherlands. In late June her stay at Anneville was concluded. The royal family held a party for the local neighborhood on 20 June 1945. She confided later that her time at Anneville was the happiest period of her reign. She reportedly told Hazelhoff at their last meeting "Anneville... Dat was onze sprookjestijd." (Anneville... That was our fairytale time.)</p><br>
<p>After the Queen left the building was put back into use as a hotel, restaurant and tea shop. It remained so from 1946 until 1955, and was used for staff meetings, business courses and conferences. A number of the Benelux treaties were signed at Anneville in the first half of the 1950s. After that, it was rented in succession by Thomsen&#39;s United Port Authority in Rotterdam and the Outward Bound School Netherlands.</p><br>
<p>In 1992, the house was renovated and rented out for use as an office and residence. In 1998 the coach house was restored and renovated to make a conference and wedding hall, the "Koetshuis Anneville". The main house is still being used as a residence for the owner, whose family run the operation of the "Koetshuis Anneville" meeting place.</p><br>
<h2>Anneville gallery</h2><br>
<p>Schilde is a river of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is a left tributary of the Schaale. The Schale flows into the Sude which is a tributary to the Elbe.</p><br>
<h2>River Flow</h2><br>
<p>The source area of the Schilde is located in the nature reserve Neuendorfer Moor, which belongs to the district Neuendorf of the municipality Pokrent, about 20 km west of Schwerin. It first turns in a southerly direction and, after about 13 km, flows through Woezer See in the municipality of Wittendörp. From here, the Schilde flow towards the south-west. In Camin (district of Vellahn), the Motel, the only notable tributary flows into the Schilde. The river flows then into the Schale near Bennin, a district of Vellahn.</p><br>
<p>The height difference from the source to the mouth is about 43 m – from 58 m to 15 m above sea level.</p><br>
<p>At the Schilde, the communities Pokrent, Lützow, Schildetal of district Nordwestmecklenburg and Wittendörp and Vellahn of district Ludwigslust-Parchim are situated.</p><br>
<h2>Water shed</h2><br>
<p>The source area of the Schilde lies on the North Sea / Baltic Sea watershed: while the Schilde flows over the Elbe into the North Sea, the area north of the springs drains over the Stepenitz and the Trave into the Baltic Sea.</p><br>
<p>Sete Pedras is an islet in the Gulf of Guinea and is one of the smaller islands of São Tomé and Príncipe. The islet is under 5 km southeast of the southernmost portion of the island of São Tomé with the closest landmass at Ponta Haleia to the west, northwest are its nearest islet Ilhéu Quixibá, a few kilometers to the south is the equator. The name is Portuguese for Seven Rocks which still exists today and are divided into four large and 11 small rocks. Also its length is 690x440 m, it has a triangular shape. It is one of the very small areas in the nation where vegetation does not exist. During the Ice Age, it formed the southeastern part the island of São Tomé up to around 8,000 and 7,000 BC.</p><br>
<p>The only fauna prevalent in the island are birds and some marine creatures including molluscs. Other fauna are fishes and coral surrounding the islets.</p><br>
<p>Silver Lake is an almost circular, natural freshwater lake in Lake County, Florida. Silver Lake Drive surrounds the lake. Much of it is surrounded by residences and private boat and fishing docks, which dot the lake. On the northeast is Silver Lake Country Club, on the southeast is the Lake-Sumter State College campus and a flight line of Leesburg International Airport. Also, inside the end of the flight line is the Leesburg Dog Park. All of the lake is inside the city of Silver Lake, Florida.</p><br>
<p>There are no public boat ramp or swimming beach. According to the Hook and Bullet website, this lake contains panfish and bass (fish). However, since there is no public access to the shore, permission from landowners must be obtained prior to fishing here.</p><br>
<p>The Advent Camp Meeting Ground Historic District encompasses the early surviving elements of a religious summer camp meeting ground in Hartford, Vermont. Founded in 1887, it is one of a small number of camp meetings surviving from the 19th century in the state, and the only surviving one run by Adventists. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Advent Camp Meeting Ground is located in the village of Wilder, on 7.5 acre of land between Mount Olivet Cemetery, and the tracks formerly of the Boston and Maine Railroad (B&M) that parallel the Connecticut River. Prior to its acquisition by the Advent Camp Meeting in 1887, it was part of the large landholdings of Orren Taft. It was not the first Adventist camp to be established in Vermont; one in Bethel was founded in 1868. That same year, the Adventist Christian Conference was organized, and also held a camp meeting in White River Junction. In 1886 members of the Bethel camp meeting split from that group, seeking to establish a permanent meeting ground near White River Junction. They acquired the land from Orren Taft in August 1887, and had a tabernacle tent and residence cabins built. The sites proximity to the B&M railroad line brought significant numbers of attendees over the next several decades, aided by the construction of a siding platform. A major fire in 1895 destroyed most of the early structures on the grounds, and resulted in the present-day wider spacing of buildings on the wooded grounds. The camp meetings attendance declined beginning in the 1920s, but it has remained in continuous operation, with events every summer.</p><br>
<p>The buildings of the camp are organized around a central tabernacle, a single-story frame building with a shallow-pitch gabled roof. Its sides consist of removable wall sections covered with asphalt shingling, which are removed when the camp is in session to provide an open-air experience. Institutional buildings on the grounds include a kitchen/dining room, classroom buildings, and physical plant support. Residential buildings include two dormitories for group housing, and a large number of cabins. Some of the cabins are privately owned; all are of relatively modest proportions and styling.</p><br>
<p>The H.C. White Company Mill Complex, is a historic industrial complex at 140 Water Street in North Bennington, Vermont. The White Company was founded in 1879, producing stereographic viewers and stereograph cards, as well as the Kiddie-Kar, a three-wheeled wooden scooter for children. These premises were occupied by the company from then until its closure in 1935. The complex, with buildings dating from 1887 to 1919, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former White Company Mill complex is located on the south side of North Bennington, on the west bank of Paran Brook above its mouth at the Walloomsac River. The complex includes a number of brick and wood-frame buildings, as well as a c. 1900 concrete dam across the brook, creating a mill pond north of the complex. The oldest building in the complex is a timber-framed three-story building constructed in 1887, after an earlier mill building was destroyed by fire. The major feature of the complex is a larger three-story brick building dating to the late 1910s. Other significant buildings include a two-story office building and a smaller two-story factory building. A number of smaller buildings dot the 12 acre site.</p><br>
<p>Hawley C. White was a North Bennington native who learned the trade of grinding optical lenses in New York City. He returned to North Bennington in 1874, where he continued this trade, apparently in partnership with B.G. Surdam, producing lenses and stereoscope viewers. In 1878 White struck out on his own, acquiring this property, which then had industrial buildings already standing. These were destroyed by fire in 1887, after which White quickly rebuilt. In 1899 White expanded his business to include the production of stereoscopic images, sending photographers out to take pictures of the wonders of man and nature across the world. The companys high-quality images made it one of the leading producers of such imagery for over a decade. In the 1910s, seeking a new market, White embarked on the manufacture of wooden childrens furniture and the highly popular Kiddie-Kar, a three-wheeled scooter. The company exited the steoroscope business in 1915, selling its image collection to the Keystone View Company. The company survived until 1935, when it went into receivership and closed. The complex has since been adapted to a variety of other uses, including office space, light industrial manufacturing, and residences.</p><br>
<p>Thompson Sound is a sound of the South Island of New Zealand. It is one of the sounds that form the coast of Fiordland.</p><br>
<p>The sound is connected at its farthest extent with Pendulo Reach, part of Doubtful Sound, and between them Thompson and Doubtful Sounds form the non-Tasman Sea coast of Secretary Island. It is 21 kilometres in length. Bradshaw Sound, which extends east from the junction of Doubtful and Thompson Sounds, is geographically and geologically an extension of Thompson Sound. Several small rivers flow into Thompson Sound, among them the Pandora and Namu Rivers.</p><br>
<p>Thompson Sound was named by John Grono, a sealer who worked the Firdland coast in the early 19th century, after his boat&#39;s owner, Andrew Thompson. Grono himself is honoured in the name of the 1196-metre Mount Grono, the highest point on Secretary Island. Later surveyor John Stokes incorrectly thought that the sound had been named after Colonial Secretary Edward Deas Thomson, and named an indentation in the sound&#39;s Secretary Island coast as Deas Cove.</p><br>
<p>Montão de Trigo is a Brazilian island 14 km south from the coast of São Sebastião, São Paulo. Its summit reaches a height of 276 or 300 m above sea level according to different sources and its depth varies between 3 and 20 m. The island is the result of intense ancient volcanic activities.</p><br>
<p>In between 20 minutes and half an hour, one can reach the island by renting a boat at the Juqueí and Barra do Una beaches. There are no beaches there, but access is made possible with an improvised pier.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism and wildlife</h2><br>
<p>Montão de Trigo Island is a fine place for both free and scuba diving. The best season for the activity is the summer, when the waters&#39; temperature rises and visibility improves. Windsurf is another popular activity there.</p><br>
<p>The local sea life is not very rich, but the island still offers caves and holes in its area where tourists can find pargos, badejos, grouper, lobsters, salemas and French angelfish, in couples or alone. Around the island, its possible to sight penguinsand cetaceans such as Brydes whales and dolphins.</p><br>
<h2>Economy</h2><br>
<p>Almost all the island&#39;s inhabitants make a living out of artisanal fishing, since trawling is forbidden. In the past years, the fishes population have been decreasing, and by 2013, fishermen captured 1/6 of what they used to capture in 2005, due to the competition with bigger boats. Some families make some extra money by selling handicrafts.</p><br>
<h2>Infrastructure</h2><br>
<p>For the last three centuries, the island has ben permanently inhabited by caiçara families (around 52 in January 2012, a number that remained unchanged in March 2013 and in January 2014; the locals are known as "monteiros"), who earned in early 2012 permission to occupy and explore the island, which still belongs to the government, but will no longer be subjected to real state projects. The permission is part of a program by the federal government which aims to benefit small villages with native people throughout the country. The permissions are called TAUS - Termo de Autorização de Uso Sustentável (Term of Authorization of Sustainable Use). Normally, they are given to river villages in Northern Brazil; this was the first time an island population received such benefit. With the TAUS, the locals can request improvements such as sewer, drinking water and housing programs.</p><br>
<p>The local population lives with little infrastructure: theres no electricity, so they live on batteries. Theres no sewer system and many houses have no toilets, so the locals urinate and defecate in external dry toilets or simply in the woods. In 2012, no doctor had visited the island for two years.</p><br>
<p>There&#39;s only one school which teaches up to the fourth grade (fifth since 2010), which has a bedroom for the teacher to spend the nights and only go back to the continent on the weekends.</p><br>
<p>Since most marriages occur among the same family, most inhabitants share the Oliveira surname.</p><br>
<p>Island of Krčedin or Krčedinska Ada  is a river island in Serbia. It is located on the left bank of the Danube across the village of Krčedin, in the municipality of Inđija, Autonomous Province of Vojvodina. The uninhabited island is part of the</p><br>
<p>. It is one of the largest remaining natural pastures in the Podunavlje, known for the traditional stock breeding, with only basic human interference.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The island stretches approximately between the Danubes 1,226 and, on the rivers left bank. Across the Danube, a bit further from the bank, is the village of Krčedin, after which the island was named. Though it is geographically in the Bačka region, administratively it belongs to the municipality of Inđija (so as the village), in the Syrmia region. Right north of the island, closer than the village of Krčedin, is the village of Gardinovci, in the municipality of Titel. Just west of the island the Beška Bridge crosses the Danube while to the northeast are the village of Kovilj and the Kovilj Monastery.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The island is roughly shaped as a rounded triangle, with the top on the north. It is located in the valley of the Danube and on the east extends into the micro-region of Kožjak, within the Marsh of Kovilj (Koviljski Rit). It was created when the Danube shifted its course to the south and cut through its own meander curving around the northern slope of the 269 m Koševac Hill on the Syrmian side, northeast of the village of Krečedin. It appears as if being embedded into the Bačka mainland and the narrow arm of the Danube which separates it from the land is called Dunavac ("Little Danube") on the west and Arm of Gardinovac on the east side. This arm then branches into numerous smaller arms and ponds. Still, during the normal water level, majority of the island remains dry, while most of it got flooded during the rainy season and high water levels. The highest point on the island is 75 m.</p><br>
<p>The island is 5 km long, 3 km wide</p><br>
<p>Across the river, to the west, are two archaeological sites, and.</p><br>
<h2>Plant life</h2><br>
<p>The island is rich in fresh water and grass. It is also partially forested, mostly by the willows, some of which originate from c. 1810s.</p><br>
<h2>Wildlife</h2><br>
<p>The arm which separates the island from the mainland is a rich, natural spawning area for common carp, northern pike, Prussian carp and sterlet. The Island of Krčedin is one of the largest spawning areas of common carp in Europe.</p><br>
<p>Birds inhabiting the island include storks, herons, mallards and cormorants. In total, there are 172 bird species on the island, of which 103 are declared rare. Among them are the white tailed eagle, great white heron, black stork, Eurasian eagle-owl and saker falcon.</p><br>
<p>During the hot summers and the low water level, the Dunavac partially dries up, so the island can be visited by bicycle. The natural bridge is also, albeit rarely, used by wild animals to reach the island, like deer, jackals or wild boars.</p><br>
<h2>Husbandry</h2><br>
<p>The villagers from Krčedin were the first who began transporting their livestock to the island, by the ferries, in the 19th century. They were later followed by the inhabitants of other neighboring villages: Kovilj, Šajkaš, Gardinovci, Čortanovci, Stari Slankamen. The animals are transported in the early spring and left until the late autumn to live completely freely as the island is uninhabited, without natural predators and with preserved natural habitat since it is undisturbed by the urban development. The livestock includes horses, sheep, cattle, pigs and donkeys. The well fed animals and their young born on the island are returned to the mainland, into the stables only when it gets too cold or rainy, though horses and pigs are sometimes left on the island even during the winter. Some rare breeds, like the mangalica pigs, local breed of the shepherd dog pulin or the Podolian cattle are also kept on the island, so as a lots of poultry, like hens, turkeys and peacocks.</p><br>
<p>As of 2017 the island numbered 1,000 cattle and pigs, 200 horses and over 100 Balkan donkeys. Donkeys are becoming more and more popular, due to the high prices of their milk. In the 1990s however, over 6,000 animals were kept on the island.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>The island is part of a much larger Special Natural Reserve "Koviljsko-Petrovaradinski Rit", a wetland along the Danube. Municipality organizes photo safari-like tours to the island from May to September. They are conceived as one-day excursions with the small groups of visitors.</p><br>
<p>Red Rock is a Quaternary complex volcano in the Australian state of Victoria. It is located northwest of the small city of Colac near the southeastern shore of Lake Corangamite. The volcano is structurally complicated, consisting of a series of volcanic cones and maars. Some of the maars are intermittently filled by brackish to saline crater lakes. These include Lake Werowarp, Lake Coragulac, Lake Gnalinegurk and Lake Purdiguluc.</p><br>
<p>Red Rock, along with Tower Hill, Purrumbete and Leura, is one of the best preserved phreatomagmatic features in Eastern Australia. At least 30 eruptive vents have been identified at the volcano, with the latest known eruption having taken place possibly in 5850 BCE. This makes Red Rock one of the Newer Volcanics Province centres to have been active during the Holocene epoch.</p><br>
<p>The Red Rock Reserve was established in 1903 to preserve the volcanic landscape. This protected area was upgraded to a public recreation reserve in 1934.</p><br>
<p>Raijinyama Kofun is a kofun burial mound located approximately two kilometers south of the center of the city of Natori, Miyagi in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan. The site is a double mound, consisting of a large keyhole-shaped kofun with a smaller adjacent circular kofun. Both were collectively designated a National Historic Site in 1956.</p><br>
<p>The tomb does not appear in any historical records and the name of rank of the person buried within is unknown. It has only been partially excavated; however, From the style of the mound and haniwa and pottery fragments discovered at the site, archaeologists have dated the kofun to the late 4th or early 5th century AD.</p><br>
<p>Raijinyama kofun</p><br>
<p>Total length: 168 meters</p><br>
<p>Circular Portion: 3-stages, 96 meter diameter x 12 meter height</p><br>
<p>Keyway Portion: 72 meter length x 96 meter max width, 6 meter height, 2-stage</p><br>
<p>Kozuka kofun</p><br>
<p>Circular Portion: 3-stages, 54 meter diameter</p><br>
<p>Sanjusangendō Government Offices Site is the site of a Heian period government office complex located in what is now part of the town of Watari, Miyagi prefecture in the Tōhoku region of far northern Honshu, Japan. It is protected by the central government as a National Historic Site.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>In the late Nara period, after the establishment of a centralized government under the Ritsuryō system, the Yamato court sent a number of military expeditions to what is now the Tōhoku region of northern Japan to bring the local Emishi tribes under its control.</p><br>
<p>The site is believed to have been the location of the civil administration of Watari District in the Heian period. The site was excavated by the Miyagi Prefectural Board of Education (1986-1988), and by Watari Town (since 2002).</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The ruins are located on the south bank of the Abukuma River in southern Miyagi Prefecture. The site consists of the remnants of a rectangular enclosure, approximately 180 meters east-west by 200 meters north-south, with remnants of a moat and earthen rampart, presumably surmounted by a wooden palisade. Inside the enclosure, there was a secondary wall 50 x 60 meters, containing the elevated foundation base of a large building.</p><br>
<p>There are traces of the gate on the east and south side of the palisade. Earthenware from the 9th century has been excavated from the south gate. To the south of the central complex were two long buildings, 6 meters east and west and 26 meters north and south, in symmetrical positions in the east and west, forming a “U”-shape. Both long buildings have been rebuilt once, and were presumably barracks. Up to ten warehouse ruins on the southern end the ruins were surrounded on all sides by a moat of about 150 meters wide. These warehouses were presumably for storing tax rice.</p><br>
<p>This arrangement was common to Nara period and Heian period county administrative complexes in other parts of the country.</p><br>
<p>There is nothing to be seen at the site today except for a commemorative stone marker.</p><br>
<p>The Eawy Forest is one of the biggest forests of the Pays de Bray in Normandy, France. It covers an area of 6550 hectares between the communes of Saint-Saëns and Dampierre-Saint-Nicolas, about 20 km south-east of Dieppe and not far from Neufchâtel-en-Bray. The village of Ventes-Saint-Rémy is located in the centre of a clearing.</p><br>
<h2>Toponymy</h2><br>
<p>Eawy (pronounced IPA, but previously ) is an Old French term, derived from the noun eve, ewe an old form of the French word eau, meaning here "wet".</p><br>
<h2>Natural environment</h2><br>
<p>The forest borders a large ridge which separates the Varenne in the SW from the Béthune in the NE); it is a small chalk plateau, varying in altitude between 130 and 230 metres, descending in a convex slope to the Varenne. Although the forest is not crossed by any watercourse, the flint clay which covers the chalk retains a fair amount of moisture.</p><br>
<p>Previously an oak plantation, it was transformed into a beech grove in the 19th century by the forestry workers. Thus it now mainly comprises beeches (Fagus sylvatica); there are also some oak, hornbeam, ash, wild cherry and sycamore maple. The forest is crossed, at its centre, by the Allée des Limousins, a mostly straight clearing 14 km long and 20 to 30 metres wide,cut in the 16th century by Gabriel de Limoges.</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<p>There is an oceanic climate, with mean annual precipitation of 950 mm and a mean annual temperature around 10.1 °C and a narrow temperature range (4.5 °C in January, 16.5 °C in August).</p><br>
<h2>History and exploitation</h2><br>
<p>The Eawy Forest is a vestige of the large forests which covered the region in the first millennium AD, but has suffered great clearances. Owned by the Dukes of Normandy, it was seriously damaged during the Hundred Years&#39; War. In the Second World War, the forest sheltered launching pads for the German V1 rockets targeted at London. The forest was further damaged by these military installations and by Allied bombing. The damaged areas were replanted with conifers after the war.</p><br>
<p>The Eawy forest was long a source of wealth for the inhabitants of the region, providing wood for many sawmills and glassworks. The quality of the oak wood drew many wood workers to settle in the nearby villages, starting in the Middle Ages, making wooden chests. In the 16th century, these wood workers constructed recreational houses for the nobility. The desire for luxury furniture in the Italian style led to a heavy demand for their services.</p><br>
<p>Nowadays, families use the forest for walks and cycle rides. It is also used for hunting and for wood. It is well stocked with game, including red deer, wild boar and roe deer.</p><br>
<h2>Protection</h2><br>
<p>A Natura 2000 zone covers a part of the plateau, at the north (Croc massif) and south (Cusson camp) extremities, with an area of 692 ha.</p><br>
<h2>Curiosities</h2><br>
<p>The Père Antoine is a hundred year old beech with a exceptional circumference; it is located at Les Grandes-Ventes.</p><br>
<p>Lepar  is an island in Indonesia, located off the southeastern coast of Bangka. Administratively part of South Bangka in Bangka Belitung province, it is the third-largest island in the province with an area of 169 square km after its much larger namesakes Bangka and Belitung. Lepar sits in the Gaspar Strait which separates the two islands. It stretches about 22 km east-west and 17 km north-south, with the towns of Tanjunglabu, Tanjungsangkar and Penutuk being the main population centers. It is governed as its own subdistrict of Lepar Pongok, which used to include a nearby, medium-sized island of Pongok until 2012 when it separated as its own subdistrict of Pongok Islands.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The island is largely flat with no prominent elevations, with the southeastern side having the steepest slopes. It is separated by Bangka by a strait known as the Lepar Strait. The island is surrounded by about a dozen tiny islands, some of which are uninhabited. Four small rivers flow in the island, named Pangku, Elang, Bunut and Bayan.</p><br>
<h2>Administrative divisions</h2><br>
<p>Lepar is divided into 4 villages (desa), which also includes the smaller islands surrounding Lepar:</p><br>
<p>These villages are further subdivided into multiple orchards (dusun), totaling 12 throughout the subdistrict including settlements of Lepar.</p><br>
<h2>Economy and facilities</h2><br>
<p>Agriculture and fisheries dominate the subdistrict&#39;s economy, employing about 2,650 and 1,150 people respectively in 2016. Agricultural commodities include palm oil, rubber and pepper. A palm oil plantation company holds usage rights to just over half the island, with a concession of 8,500 hectares. Unconventional tin mining also employs 200.</p><br>
<p>Public schools are present, with 5 elementary schools (SD), 3 junior high schools (SMP) and a senior high school (SMA) alongside a private Islamic school.</p><br>
<p>The Bridge No. 63-137-90 is a historic bridge near Parker in rural Turner County, South Dakota. It was built sometime between 1934 and 1936, and is one of a large number of surviving stone bridges built as part of federal jobs programs in the county. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999 as Bridge No. 63-137-090-Parker.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Bridge No. 63-137-090 is located in north central Turner County, a rural county in eastern South Dakota. It is located on 277th Street, about 2 mi south of Parker, between 453rd and 454th Avenues. It is a two-arch stone structure, about 25 ft long, built out of crudely worked fieldstone, predominantly granite. Each arch is about 10 ft long, with a rise of 4 ft above that width. It has flared and sloping wing walls, which rise slightly above the road level to form low parapets.</p><br>
<p>This bridge is one of 65 stone bridges built in Turner County as part of a New Deal-era federal jobs program. The county administration was able to build stone bridges at a lower cost than then-conventional steel beam bridges because of the availability of experienced stone workers, and the federal subsidy to the wages they were paid. The county was responsible for supervising the work crews and providing the building materials. This bridge was built by a county crew, sometime between 1934 and 1936 (records have not survived for an exact construction date).</p><br>
<p>Caer Bach is a Welsh hillfort of indeterminate age, on a rounded hillock situated near the village of Rowen; in Conwy County, North Wales. Its name in English translates as Small Fort; or alternatively Little Fortress. It is situated on the Eastern slopes of Tal-y-Fan, an outlying peak of the Carneddau mountain range in northeast Snowdonia; at an altitude of approximately 413 metres . Little information is known about the history of the fort, as to date, the site has undergone minimal investigation. The fort is classed as a scheduled ancient monument and is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of prehistoric settlement. It is said to retain significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The site has been identified as a partial contour fort, unusual for its poorly defensible position within the wider landscape, and also for its small size. The fort has broad views over the Conwy valley and it has been speculated that its position is related to a prehistoric trackway, which ran from the mouth of the River Conwy, through to the mountain pass at Bwlch-y-Ddeufaen. Minimal investigations into the site mean that no dating evidence has been made available.</p><br>
<h2>The wider landscape</h2><br>
<p>Thirty yards southwest of the fort are the remains of a round hut, about 24 feet in diameter and cut into the slope on the northeast and dating from the Iron Age / Roman period (Grid ref: SH74377292).</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>The fort is in quite a remote, hilly area; and access necessarily involves at least a little walking over some uneven, upland terrain. The quickest route is to drive up to Llangelynin church via a narrow road that leads through Henryd, utilise the small car park and make your way on foot to the fort, using the public footpath which forms a small part of the North Wales Pilgrim&#39;s Way as it runs West past the church, before bearing South towards the fort. The church is not named on the Ordnance Survey map, but lies at reference SH751737.</p><br>
<p>An alternate route by car, is to park in the public car park at Bwlch-y-Ddeufaen and follow the line of the old Roman road past Cae Coch farm, before leaving the track to take the public footpath which runs in a north-easterly direction, and leads directly to the fort. This route will take you very near to the Bronze Age burial chamber, Maen-y-Bardd (see link below for further details).</p><br>
<p>Public footpaths converge on the site from all directions.</p><br>
<h2>Nearby prehistoric sites</h2><br>
<p>Whilst the area is full of prehistoric remains, some nearby, but by no means exhaustive sites of note are:</p><br>
<p>(SH75427395) Iron Age hillfort.</p><br>
<p>(SH74067178), a Neolithic burial chamber, believed to have been constructed around 3500 BC.</p><br>
<p>(SH74127188).</p><br>
<p>(SH73907357)</p><br>
<p>(SH71517177) Bwlch-y-Ddeufaen.</p><br>
<p>(SH72457132), stone circle.</p><br>
