<p>Chaiwopu Lake is a freshwater lake located in Dabancheng District, some 45 km southeast of Ürümqi, in Xinjiang, China. The lake receives  water from several streams from the Bogda Shan range.</p><br>
<p>The lake is almost round, some 5–6 km in diameter, which makes it the largest freshwater lake in the Ürümqi region. Chaiwopu Township, Chaiwopu Railway Station on the Lanxin Railway, and China National Highway 312 are located near the northern and northeastern shore of the lake.</p><br>
<p>Local media has referred to Chaiwopu Lake as "charming and beautiful". The lake and its surroundings are officially protected as Ürümqi Chaiwopuhu National Wetland Park (乌鲁木齐柴窝堡湖国家湿地公园).</p><br>
<p>The name of the lake (and of the eponymous township) is occasionally written as Chaiwobao. This is probably a misspelling: although the Chinese character 堡 has two readings, "bao" and "pu", it is the latter reading that, according to dictionaries, is normally used in place names.</p><br>
<p>Kanas Lake  is a lake in Altay Prefecture, Xinjiang, China. The lake is located in a valley in the Altai Mountains, near the very northern tip of Xinjiang, and the provinces borders with Kazakhstan, Mongolia, and Russia. The lake was formed around 200,000 years ago during the Quaternary period as a result of glacier movement. The crescent moon shaped lake has an estimated water storage capacity of 53.8 billion cubic meters, coupled with an average depth of around 120 meters.</p><br>
<p>The Kanas River, flowing out of the lake, later merges with the Hemu River to form the Burqin River, which itself discharges into the Irtysh River at Burqin Town, the county seat of Burqin County.</p><br>
<p>There is a large population of ethnic Tuvans and Kazakhs in the Kanas valley. While most of these people have maintained their traditional agricultural and nomadic life styles, many work in the developing tourism industry, and have established facilities for orienteering, hiking, rafting, rock climbing, paragliding and camping. The scenic spot is classified as a AAAAA scenic area by the China National Tourism Administration.</p><br>
<p>About 117 different kinds of birds live along the lake.</p><br>
<h2>Lake creatures</h2><br>
<p>For several centuries there have been sightings of large lake creatures in the waters. First efforts in research of these legends were done by Yuan Guoying (Xinjiang University) who observed fish of enormous size in 1985. He and his students assessed that the fish could be 10 – 15 m long and more than 4 tons heavy, with total population in excess of 50 individuals.</p><br>
<p>Frequency of observation has increased in the 21st century, with the development of mass tourism. A video was taken and shown in the local Chinese media where numerous unidentifiable creatures can be seen.</p><br>
<p>According to CCTV10, the creatures living in the lake are speculated by Chinese scholar as giant Hucho taimen.</p><br>
<p>Sayram Lake is located in the Bortala Prefecture near the Tian Shan Mountains, Xinjiang, China.</p><br>
<p>In the Kazakh language Sayram means blessing.</p><br>
<p>It is also known as Santai Haizi.</p><br>
<p>It is the largest (458 km²) alpine lake in Xinjiang and also the highest (2,070 m).</p><br>
<p>"There is a touching love story about Sayram Lake. It is said that it was composed of the tears of a couple of Kazak young lovers. A beautiful girl and a young man were deeply in love. One day, a cruel devil was captivated by the girl&#39;s beauty. He captured the girl and confined her to his residence. The girl took a chance to escape, but the devil found out very soon and went after the girl. She was forced to jump into an abyss. Later, her boyfriend heard of this and he was so sad that he jumped into the abyss to be reunited with his lover. Their painful tears flooded into the abyss and formed Sayram Lake."</p><br>
<p>Ulungur Lake is located in Fuhai County, Xinjiang, China. With an area of 1,035 square kilometers, the lake is one of China&#39;s ten largest freshwater lakes. Its main tributary is the Ulungur River. It is an endorheic lake, though the Irtysh River flows towards the Arctic Ocean less than 4 km away to the northeast.</p><br>
<p>Lake Ulungur is divided into two sections, often viewed as to separate lakes: the Buluntuo Lake (or the Ulungur Lake proper) and the smaller Jili Lake (吉力湖, 46&deg;55&prime;00&Prime;N latitude, 87&deg;25&prime;00&Prime;E longitude), connected by a narrow channel. The main affluent of the Ulungur-Jili system is the Ulungur River; presently, its main channel enters the Jili Lake at around 46&deg;59&prime;30&Prime;N latitude, 87&deg;26&prime;00&Prime;E longitude.</p><br>
<p>Between 1960 and 1987, the lake level dropped by 4.2 m, due to the increasing use of the river water for irrigation and other needs. To alleviate this problem, in 1987 a canal was built through the narrow isthmus between Lake Ulungur and the Irtysh River, diverting some of the Irtysh water into the lake.</p><br>
<p>(The canal can be seen on Google Maps, starting at 47&deg;26&prime;31&Prime;N latitude, 87&deg;34&prime;11&Prime;E longitude and ending in two outlets, at 47&deg;25&prime;16.3&Prime;N latitude, 87&deg;33&prime;04.6&Prime;E longitude and 47&deg;25&prime;21.6&Prime;N latitude, 87&deg;33&prime;27.5&Prime;E longitude).</p><br>
<p>By the fall of the following year this allowed the lake to return to its original level, and for the wetlands around its shore to revive; this made it</p><br>
<p>possible for the lake fisheries to recover.</p><br>
<h2>Fishing</h2><br>
<p>Along with Bosten Lake, Ulungur Lake is one of the two most important fishing lakes in Xinjiang. The main fish species in the lake are</p><br>
<p>the common bream (Abrmais brama orientalis), Siberian dace (Leuciscus baicalensis), and the European perch (Perca fluviatilis).</p><br>
<p>The annual Lake Ulungur fish catch reached the record value of 4,500 tons in 1971, but has fallen since then, to more sustainable levels.</p><br>
<p>During the winter, ice fishing is carried out on the lake.</p><br>
<p>Hulun Lake  or Dalai Lake , is a large lake in the Inner Mongolia region of northern China.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>It is one of the five largest freshwater lakes in all of China, covering approximately 2,339 km².</p><br>
<p>The lake is not far from Manzhouli, which is on a major passenger rail-line. Although there are several villages nearby, and Manzhouli is the nearest city of notable size.</p><br>
<p>In years with high precipitation, the normally exit−less endorheic lake may overflow at its northern shore, and the water will meet the Argun River (Ergune) after about 30 km. The Amur Basin of the Kherlen River−Argun/Ergune River−Amur River system has a total length of 5,052 km to its river mouth on the Sea of Japan.</p><br>
<h2>Economy</h2><br>
<p>As in 1995 annual fish production was about 7,000 tons, 100 tons of shrimp, 4 kilograms of pearls, 1.5 million crayfish.</p><br>
<p>Hulun Lake is also one of the key reed production areas in China.</p><br>
<p>The lake and lakeshore is a tourist destination during the summer. During the other seasons there are few visitors. Hulun Lake and its wetlands are a Biosphere reserve of China.</p><br>
<p>Thutade Lake is located in the Omineca Mountains of the Northern Interior of British Columbia, Canada. About 40 km in length, and no more than about 2 km wide, the lake is primarily significant as the ultimate source of the Mackenzie River. The lake is at the head of the Finlay River, which joins the Peace River via Williston Lake. The area is very remote, being located about 260 km north of Smithers, although several mining operations for ores containing copper, lead, zinc and silver have occurred around the lake. The largest of these is the Kemess Mine, an iron and copper property originally owned by Royal Oak Mines and now by Northgate Minerals, located in the valley of Kemess Creek, which is off the northeast end of Thutade Lake. The mine is accessed by the Omineca Resource Road and other resource routes, and is 400 km by road from Prince George. Just downstream from the outlet of Thutade Lake, the Finlay plunges over 180 ft Cascadero Falls, and then through a series of cataracts in a twisting course until it begins its main northeastward trend. Cascadero Falls is slated for hydroelectric development in connection with the power needs of the area&#39;s mines.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first European to explore the lake and its surrounding area was Samuel Black in 1824. The upper end of the lake is the Tatlatui Range, which is astride the Continental Divide of the Americas, and which with the adjoining valley of Tatlatui Lake forms Tatlatui Provincial Park.</p><br>
<p>Jingpo Lake or Lake Jingpo is a lake located in the upper reaches of the Mudan River among the Wanda Mountains in Ningan County, Heilongjiang, in the People&#39;s Republic of China. Earlier names for the lake include Meituohu Lake , Huhanhai Lake , and Bilten Lake .</p><br>
<p>The length of the lake from north to south is 45 km and the widest distance between east and west is only 6 km. The area is 95 km&sup2; and the storage capacity is 1.63 billion m. The south part of lake is shallow with the deepest place in the northern part at 62 m.</p><br>
<p>The lake was created about 10,000 years ago when volcanic eruptions in the region blocked the flow of the Mudanjiang River.</p><br>
<p>The northern side of the river cascades down the Diaoshuilou Falls, a 40 m waterfall formed by the lake. This lake is famous for its craggy limestone cliffs (similar to those of Guilin) and its turquoise-colored waters containing 40 types of fish and fresh water coral.</p><br>
<p>On Titan, the largest moon of the planet Saturn, there is a large surface body of liquid hydrocarbons, Jingpo Lacus, named after Jingpo Lake.</p><br>
<p>South Para Reservoir is the second largest reservoir in South Australia, behind Mount Bold Reservoir, and the principal reservoir of the South Para River system. The reservoir&#39;s large capacity of around 45,330 megalitres and its location in the catchment area mean that it only ever fills completely once in every five years.</p><br>
<p>Costing A$6.4 million, the reservoir took almost a decade to construct, between 1949 and 1958, due to a demand on resources in the post-war boom. The building of the historic Mannum-Adelaide Pipeline from the River Murray to the water-short city of Adelaide was a key delay in South Para&#39;s construction; that Pipeline today disperses water into the reservoir.</p><br>
<p>The Reservoir is surrounded by nature reserve and has been a focus for two major revegetation projects, the first in the late 1950s when over 5000 trees and shrubs were planted, and the second as part of the South Australian Government&#39;s "Million Trees" initiative.</p><br>
<p>In 1979 the mutilated body of 17-year-old Alan Barnes was found after being dumped in the South Para Reservoir. His murder, one of the five cases known as The Family Murders remains unsolved.</p><br>
<p>Capacity: 45,330 ML</p><br>
<p>Length of wall: 284 m</p><br>
<p>Height of wall: 44.2 m</p><br>
<p>Type of wall: rolled fill</p><br>
<p>Alport Height is a hill near Wirksworth in Derbyshire. It is a popular picnic site, since it has extensive views to the South, and is the first hill over 1,000 ft within easy reach of the Derby area. Like Shining Cliff Woods, 2 km to the east, it is in the care of the National Trust. It was one of their first acquisitions in Derbyshire, acquired in 1930.</p><br>
<p>It is possible to see Derby city centre from the summit, as well as The Wrekin, the Long Mynd, Clee Hill and the Malvern Hills. On an exceptionally clear day it is also possible to see the Sutton Coldfield and Tamworth masts, and the Birmingham city centre skyline, and also the Lickey Hills just beyond Birmingham.</p><br>
<p>At night, Pye Green mast can also be seen.</p><br>
<p>There are eight radio masts and associated buildings in a compound on the summit (not on Trust land).</p><br>
<p>The hill is sometimes known as Alport Stone after the name of the conspicuous pillar of quarried gritstone, some 20 ft high, near its summit. The boulder has 3 or 4 recognised climbing routes up it, one being an 8 m route of Grade (climbing)</p><br>
<p>climbing-grade E5. John Gill&#39;s bouldering website has early photographs of pioneer climbers in action on the Stone.</p><br>
<p>The Sihlsee  is an artificial lake in the Swiss canton of Schwyz, near the town of Einsiedeln. The lake was created by damming the river Sihl and flooding a section of the upper Sihl Valley.</p><br>
<p>The lake feeds the Etzelwerk power station, which is located 5 km to the north-east in Altendorf on the upper section of Lake Zürich (the Obersee) and which supplies electricity to the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB). Its concrete dam is 33 m high and 124 m m long. The lake is the largest artificial lake of Switzerland in terms of surface with a maximum length of 8.5 km and maximum width of 2.5 km. The maximum depth is 17 m, and the lake has an approximate volume of 96,000,000 m³.</p><br>
<p>The power plant project started in 1932. A concrete dam and two viaducts over the lake were built before 1937 when the valley was flooded. As a result 107 farms disappeared completely and 1762 persons had to leave their homes.</p><br>
<p>A failure of the dam could lead, according to studies, to an 8 m high flood wave through the lower Sihl Valley reaching the Altstadt of the city of Zürich, the biggest city in Switzerland, within 2 hours. This threat has led the City of Zürich to develop, publish and test evacuation plans for the affected areas of the city, and especially the area around Zürich Hauptbahnhof railway station.</p><br>
<p>The Reliance Building is a skyscraper located at 1 W. Washington Street in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. The first floor and basement were designed by John Root of the Burnham and Root architectural firm in 1890, with the rest of the building completed by Charles B. Atwood in 1895. It is the first skyscraper to have large plate glass windows make up the majority of its surface area, foreshadowing a design feature that would become dominant in the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The Reliance Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970; and on January 7, 1976, it was designated a National Historic Landmark.</p><br>
<p>The Reliance Building is also part of the Loop Retail Historic District, a collection of over one hundred buildings that reflects the growth of State and Wabash Streets as the central retail district of Chicago. The building fell into disrepair starting in the 1940s, and was restored in the late 1990s. Since 1999, the building has housed the 122-room The Alise Chicago hotel (formerly the Hotel Burnham) and Atwood Cafe.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Commercial real estate in Chicago, Illinois boomed in the late 1870s due to the recovery from the Great Chicago Fire in 1871 and the Depression of 1873–79. In 1880, William Ellery Hale purchased a small lot in the Loop community area containing the four-story First National Bank Building, one of the few offices in downtown Chicago to partially survive the Great Fire. Hale was the founder of the Hale Elevator Company, an early producer of hydraulic elevators necessary in skyscraper design. Hale envisioned a new tower on the site, but first needed to raze the existing structure. However, its tenants did not want to terminate their leases.</p><br>
<p>Instead, Hale lifted the second, third, and fourth floors on jackscrews and demolished the first. A new basement and ground floor, designed by John Wellborn Root of the Burnham & Root firm, were constructed in 1890.</p><br>
<p>Hale had become acquainted with Burnham & Root through his other real estate projects, such as the Rookery Building. Burnham & Root were renowned in Chicago by this point, having already designed twenty other buildings in the Loop. Root developed the floating raft system, which enabled designers to build large, steel-frame buildings on a reinforced concrete foundation, a necessity in Chicago&#39;s moist soil. Root and Hale agreed that the new building needed to have large glass windows on the first floor with large, open spaces. On the upper floors, Hale intended to have several stories dedicated to smaller tenants, with offices for doctors and other professionals on the top floors. He also specifically emphasized the need for natural lighting on all floors. The plan for the Reliance Building was consistent with the growing concept of the Chicago school of architecture, which emphasized the importance of form following function. Root died of pneumonia on January 15, 1891, before the completion of his portion of the Reliance Building; his intended design for the rest of the building has never been found. Carson Pirie Scott & Co. was the first tenant of the Reliance Building, opening a dry goods store on the first floor once it was completed.</p><br>
<p>Daniel Burnham recruited Boston architect Charles B. Atwood to complete the building with E. C. Shankland as lead engineer. After raising the original buildings remaining three floors Atwood used white glazed architectural terra-cotta cladding, a feature that would later become strongly associated with him following his works for the Worlds Columbian Exposition in 1893. At the time, it was believed that the recently developed enameled terra-cotta would never need to be cleaned because its smooth surface would allow any dirt to wash away in the rain. The steel framing on the top ten floors was completed over fifteen days, from July 16 to August 1, 1895. The Reliance Building, so named for its functionality, opened in March 1895. It was one of the first skyscrapers to offer electricity and phone service in all of its offices. In its first few decades, it provided office space for merchants and health professionals, including Al Capone&#39;s dentist.</p><br>
<p>The building struggled during the Great Depression, and slowly declined. In October 1948, Karolls Mens Shop opened a store on the lower two floors, with a modern façade that obliterated the original storefront. However, the upper floors remained hard to fill. The Reliance Building&#39;s rehabilitation was completed in 1999 at a cost of $27.5 million ($36.7 million in 2011 dollars) as the former retail space was converted into a luxury hotel. Canal Street Partners, LLC bought the revitalized space and created the Hotel Burnham. The preservation of this building was championed by the Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois. Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley was presented with a National Trust for Historic Preservation Honor Award in 2001 for the role of the city in preserving the structure. In December 2016, Pineapple Hospitality purchased the building and renamed the hotel as The Alise Chicago.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Reliance Building has been called "proto-Modernist" in its lack of the hierarchy found in Classical facades. Its stacks of projecting bay windows and terra-cotta cladding create an effect of extraordinary lightness. Its steel frame construction is physically light as well, being one-third the weight of an equivalent stone structure. It was a direct precursor of the all-glass Friedrichstrasse skyscraper proposed by Mies van der Rohe in 1921. Richardson&#39;s Marshall Field Warehouse, built only eight years earlier, seems in comparison to be heavy, ponderous, and of another era.</p><br>
<p>Amini  is a census town in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep, India. It is also the name of the island where the town stands and of the atoll that contains that island.</p><br>
<p>It has a distance of 1,994 km south of the city of Delhi.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Amini Island was one of the first islands in the archipelago to be inhabited. The artisans on this island are known for making walking sticks out of coconut shells and tortoise shells as well as carved stone and coral motifs.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The channel between Amini Island and Cardamom Island is safe and deep, but depths of less than 10 meters project 0.5 mile south from the south tip of the reefs surrounding Cardamom Island. Amini Island Light is shown on the south point of the island.</p><br>
<p>Amini Island, the most important of the Amindivi Islands, is oval, with the long axis oriented northeast-southwest. It is 2.8 km long and up to 1.3 km wide, yielding a land area of 2.71 km&sup2;. It is fringed by a reef 0.3 to 0.6 km wide.</p><br>
<h3>Demographics</h3><br>
<p>Amini village is in the middle of the west coast of the Island. A raised stone platform jetty, with steps leading to the beach, is in front of the village. There is a post office and a hospital at the village.</p><br>
<p>The small village of Hujrapali is on the east coast.</p><br>
<p>As of the 2011 India census, the island of Amini had a population of 7,657. Males constitute 50% of the population and females 50%. Amini has an average literacy rate of 71%, higher than the national average of 59.5%, with 55% of the males and 45% of females literate. 15% of the population is under 6 years of age.</p><br>
<h2>Pitti Bank</h2><br>
<p>Amini Island lies at the northeastern extremity of Pitti Bank, 42 km from small, uninhabited Pitti Island (not to be confused with Pitti Islet of Kalpeni Atoll), which is located at the opposite southwestern extremity of the bank. Pitti Bank, also oriented along a northeast-southwest axis, is 49 km long, in the northern part from 2 to 7 km wide and in the southern part up to 18 km wide. Pitti Bank may be considered a largely submerged and sunken atoll, with an estimated lagoon area of 415 km&sup2, with just the two islands Amini and Pitti remaining at its opposite ends. Kadmat island, although just 5 km northeast of Amini Island, is separated from it by a deep channel and thus forms a separate geographical unit.</p><br>
<h2>Administration</h2><br>
<p>The bank belongs to the township of Amini Island of Aminidivi Tehsil.</p><br>
<h2>Image gallery</h2><br>
<p>Bitra , also known as Bitrā Par, is a coral atoll belonging to the Amindivi Subgroup of islands of the Union Territory of Lakshadweep in India.</p><br>
<p>It is 1,958 km south of the city of Delhi.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Prior to the 20th century, islanders from Kiltan and Chetlat visited the island to collect the eggs of pelagic birds breeding there. Until 1945, when a woman from Chetlat made this island her home, there were no attempts to settle this island permanently. There is a small shrine dedicated to an old Arab saint by the name of Malik Mulla who was buried on the island. The shrine has become a pilgrimage site.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The atoll of Bitra encompasses two islands.</p><br>
<p>The main Bitra Island 0.177 km&sup2; is located at the northern end of the Bitrā Par coral reef 11.598&deg;N latitude, 72.187&deg;E longitude.</p><br>
<p>The small south cay 0.009 km&sup2;is located on the southern part of the coral reef 11.524&deg;N latitude, 72.176&deg;E longitude.</p><br>
<p>Bitra is one of the populated islands of Lakshadweep. It is located 33 km to the north of Perumal Par and 41 km to the southeast of Byramgore Reef.</p><br>
<p>The Bitra Par lagoon area is 54.61 km&sup2;.</p><br>
<h2>Population</h2><br>
<p>The 2011 census determined that 271 people made this island their home, making it one of the least populated among the inhabited islands in Lakshadweep.</p><br>
<h2>Administration</h2><br>
<p>The atoll belongs to the township of Bitra of Aminidivi Tehsil.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>The main island has a small jetty on the south shore and a helipad on the westpoint.</p><br>
<h2>Economics</h2><br>
<p>The inhabitants on the island are engaged in very small scale farming and fishing which are mainly for the island consumption.</p><br>
<h2>Image gallery</h2><br>
<p>Kiltan or Kiltān Island  is a coral island belonging to the Amindivi Subgroup of islands of the Lakshadweep archipelago in India.</p><br>
<p>It has a distance of 1,947 km south of the city of Delhi.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the past, the island was part of an international trade route between the Persian Gulf and Ceylon.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Kiltan is one of the populated islands of Lakshadweep. It is located 47 km to the northeast of Amini Island and 37 km to the southeast of Chetlat Island. The reef and lagoon (total area of 3.76 km&sup2;) are located to the west of the island and the length of the dry land area is 3.2 km.</p><br>
<h2>Economics</h2><br>
<p>Traditionally the basic earning method was fishing and coconut production. Now the island people have moved to several directions, including Government jobs (Education, Police, Communication, Transportation, Business and IT also), private job opportunities such as Construction (buildings, road), Plumbing, Electrifying etc.</p><br>
<h2>Demographics</h2><br>
<p>The population in Kiltan was 3945 as per census 2011. Most people from Kiltan, as in Amini and Kadmat, belonged to the Koya, Mali and Melacheri families.</p><br>
<p>The language spoken is Jasari, a form of Malayalam, as in other islands. But the peoples don&#39;t use its script because its writing was stopped too earlier period. Kiltan has rich folk cultures and warm hospitality to its tradition.</p><br>
<p>Most of the island is rural, with the bulk of population concentrated near the jetty.</p><br>
<h2>Administration</h2><br>
<p>The island belongs to the township of Kiltan of Aminidivi Tehsil.</p><br>
<h2>Image gallery</h2><br>
<p>The Sanaga River is a river of South Province, Cameroon, Centre Province, Cameroon, and West Province, Cameroon. Its length is about 600 kilometres.</p><br>
<p>The Sanaga River (formerly Zannaga) forms a boundary between two tropical moist forest ecoregions. The Cross-Sanaga-Bioko coastal forests lie to the north between the Sanaga River and the Cross River of Nigeria, and the Atlantic Equatorial coastal forests extend south of the river through southwestern Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, Cabinda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.</p><br>
<p>The Sanaga River originates in the Adamawa Plateau where the Djérem River and Lom River meet. Apart from those originating rivers, its main tributary is the Mbam River.</p><br>
<h2>Transport</h2><br>
<p>*The Camrail railway bridges the Sanaga River at Edea.</p><br>
<h2>Towns</h2><br>
<p>* Nanga Eboko</p><br>
<p>* Bélabo</p><br>
<h2>Dams and reservoirs</h2><br>
<p>Beginning at the headwaters, there are 2 dams on the Sanaga River:</p><br>
<p>Kalpeni is an inhabited Atoll in the Union Territory of Lakshadweep, India.</p><br>
<p>It has a distance of 2,079 km south of the city of Delhi.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Kalpeni is 218 km west from the port of Kochi and lies 71 km south of Andrott and 201 km to the NNE of Minicoy, with the broad Nine Degree Channel between them. Suheli Par atoll lies 139 km to the west of Kalpeni.</p><br>
<p>Kalpeni forms a single coral atoll along with the uninhabited islands of Cheriyam, Tilakkam, Kodithala and Pitti islet.</p><br>
<p>The eastern and southern shorelines of the island have accumulations of coral debris, the result of a violent storm that hit the area in 1847.</p><br>
<p>It has a lagoon area of 25.6 km&sup2;.</p><br>
<h3>List of Islands</h3><br>
<p>Kalpeni is the main island. it has an area of 2.482 km&sup2, and located at 10.076&deg;N latitude, 73.646&deg;E longitude.</p><br>
<p>Kodithala is immediately to the north of Kalpeni, at, with an area of 0.01 km&sup2;.</p><br>
<p>Cheriyam is the northernmost island, with a population of 10. The island has a water tank, a pond, a small 2.8 km road from the village to a lighthouse at the north point, constructed by MGNREGS at 2015. it has an area of 0.537 km&sup2, and located at 10.142&deg;N latitude, 73.664&deg;E longitude. It is the largest of Kalpeni&#39;s Satellite islands. The land in Cheriyam belongs to 49 families living in Kalpeni.MGNREGS is currently making an economic development on the island to accommodate a new village and resort like on Sentosa. It would impact the economic growth of Kalpeni Island.</p><br>
<p>Tilakkam group are a group of islands off the west of Kalpeni. The land of these islands 0.055 km&sup2; belong to two different families of Kalpeni:</p><br>
<p>Koomel is a small islet off the west tip of Kalpeni. it has an area of 0.2 hectare, and located at 10.073&deg;N latitude, 73.635&deg;E longitude.</p><br>
<p>Tilakkam east has an area of 0.88 hectare, and located at 10.069&deg;N latitude, 73.633&deg;E longitude.</p><br>
<p>Tilakkam west has an area of 0.82 hectare, and located at 10.069&deg;N latitude, 73.631&deg;E longitude.</p><br>
<p>Pitti islet has an area of 3.6 hectare, and located at 10.074&deg;N latitude, 73.628&deg;E longitude.</p><br>
<h2>Demographics</h2><br>
<p>Kalpeni was the first island in the Union Territory where women were allowed to go to school and get an education.</p><br>
<h2>Administration</h2><br>
<p>The island belongs to the township of Kalpeni of Andrott Tehsil.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>Kalpeni has a beach at the northern tip of the island called Tip Beach where one can do snorkeling, sea bath and kayaking. Because of the coral reefs present in the sea near the beach, the water is shallow and calm, making it an excellent spot for beach activities.</p><br>
<p>There is a 37 m lighthouse in Kalpeni from whose top one can see a bird&#39;s eye view of the island, the lagoon with the smaller islands, the reef and the surrounding ocean. From the top of the lighthouse, one can visualize the abundance of coconut trees and the ground is not visible due to dense packing of the tops of these trees.</p><br>
<h2>Image gallery</h2><br>
<p>The Aline Barnsdall Hollyhock House is a building in the East Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, originally designed by Frank Lloyd Wright as a residence for oil heiress Aline Barnsdall, built in 1919–1921. The building is now the centerpiece of the city&#39;s Barnsdall Art Park.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Barnsdall originally intended the house to be part of an arts and theater complex on a property known as Olive Hill, but the larger project was never completed. This was Wright&#39;s second project in California, and, atypically for Wright, he was not able to personally supervise much of the construction due to his preoccupation with designing the Imperial Hotel in Japan at the time. He delegated many of the responsibilities involved in designing the house to his assistant, Rudolph Schindler, and his son, Lloyd Wright.</p><br>
<p>Disillusioned by the costs of construction and maintenance, Barnsdall donated the house to the city of Los Angeles in 1927 under the stipulation that a fifteen-year lease be given to the California Art Club for its headquarters, which it maintained until 1942. The house has been used as an art gallery and as a United Service Organizations (USO) facility over the years. Beginning in 1974, the city sponsored a series of restorations, but the structure was damaged in the 1994 Northridge earthquake. It was again restored, and was open to the public as of June 2005.</p><br>
<p>The USA Department of the Interior designated Hollyhock House a National Historic Landmark in 2007. It was the seventh site in the city of Los Angeles to receive that designation.</p><br>
<p>In 2008, the USA National Park Service submitted the Hollyhock House along with nine other Frank Lloyd Wright properties to a tentative list for designation as World Heritage Site. The ten sites were submitted as one total site.</p><br>
<p>The house was included in a list of all time "top ten" Los Angeles houses in a Los Angeles Times survey of experts in December 2008.</p><br>
<p>In January 2015 it was announced on the official site that, following extensive renovations, the house would once again open for tours on 13 February. The 24-hour event drew large crowds through the night, with many waiting in line for over three hours for admittance.</p><br>
<h2>Features</h2><br>
<p>As with many of Wright&#39;s residences, it has an "introverted" exterior with small windows, and is not easy to decode from the outside. The house is arranged around a central courtyard with one side open to form a kind of theatrical stage (never used as such), and a complex system of split levels, steps and roof terraces around that courtyard. The design features exterior walls that are tilted back at 85 degrees (which helps provide a "Mayan" appearance sometimes referred to as the Mayan Revival style), leaded art glass in the windows, a grand fireplace with a large abstract bas-relief, and a moat. Water is meant to flow from a pool in the courtyard through an underground tunnel to this inside moat, and out again to a fountain.</p><br>
<p>The front doors are stepped similarly to the entryway. The split doors rest on pins and swing open easily despite their massive weight. The keyhole is concealed with a decorative flap.</p><br>
<p>The hollyhock is used as a central theme to the house, with many symmetrical decorations adapting the plants general appearance. Planters are decorated with the motif and filled with the plants themselves, and Wrights stained glass windows feature a highly stylized hollyhock pattern. An interesting feature is the glass corners, an early Wright idea later used at Fallingwater.</p><br>
<p>Hollyhock House features an entertainment room immediately to the right of the entrance. This room contains possibly the first built-in entertainment center, complete with LP-sized cabinets along the floor. Other notable rooms include a child&#39;s play area as well as a modernist kitchen, which long housed the museum gift shop.</p><br>
<p>Like many houses designed by Wright, it proved to be better as an aesthetic work than as a livable dwelling. Water tended to flow over the central lawn and into the living room, and the flat roof terraces were conceived without an understanding of Los Angeles rains. The cantilevered concrete also has not stood up well to the areas earthquakes.</p><br>
<p>There were a considerable number of revisions. Two smaller structures, called Studio Residence A and B, were built on the grounds. Residence A still stands. The client also commissioned a private kindergarten which was never built.</p><br>
<h2>Use in film production</h2><br>
<p>The house and grounds were used as the temple of the Piranha Women in 1989&#39;s Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death.</p><br>
<h2>Friends of Hollyhock House (FOHH)</h2><br>
<p>The FOHH provide an increased public awareness of Frank Lloyd Wright, Aline Barnsdall, and Hollyhock House through public tours, special events, and the Friends of Hollyhock House Library. The library is a small research library that contains books and articles on Frank Lloyd Wright and Aline Barnsdall. All docents are members of the Friends of Hollyhock House.</p><br>
<p>Lake Crescent is a deep lake located entirely within Olympic National Park in Clallam County, Washington, United States, approximately 17 mi west of Port Angeles, Washington on USA Route 101 and nearby to the small community of Piedmont. At an official maximum depth of 624 ft, also the maximum depth of the depth sounder used to find that depth , it is officially the second deepest lake in Washington. Unofficial depth measurements of more than 1,000 ft have been rumored in the region for years, although this figure has recently been proven false after a lake-wide bathymetric survey was performed from 2013 to 2014 by Eian Ray and Jeff Enge. The results of this survey showed the maximum depth as being 596 feet. Using GIS statistical analysis, this survey also showed the lake contains approximately 0.5 cubic miles of fresh water.</p><br>
<p>Lake Crescent is known for its brilliant blue waters and exceptional clarity, caused by a lack of nitrogen in the water which inhibits the growth of algae. It is located in a popular recreational area which is home to a number of trails, including the Spruce Railroad Trail, Pyramid Mountain trail, and the Barnes Creek trail to Marymere Falls. The Spruce Railroad Trail follows the grade of what was once the tracks of a logging railroad along the shores of the lake. Following this trail on the north side of the lake, one can find the entrance to an old railroad tunnel as well as "Devils Punch Bowl", a popular swimming and diving area.</p><br>
<h2>Origins</h2><br>
<p>The lake was formed when glaciers carved out deep valleys during the last Ice Age. Initially, the Lake Crescent valley drained into the Indian Creek valley and then into Elwha River. Anadromous fish such as steelhead and coastal cutthroat trout migrated into the valley from lower waters.</p><br>
<p>Approximately 8,000 years ago, a great landslide from one of the Olympic Mountains dammed Indian Creek and the deep valley filled with water. Many geologists believe that Lake Crescent and nearby Lake Sutherland formed at the same time, but became separated by the landslide. This theory is supported by Klallum tribe legend which tells a story of Mount Storm King being angered by warring tribes and throwing a boulder to cut Lake Sutherland in two, resulting in Lake Crescent. The results of the landslide are easily visible from the summit of Pyramid Mountain. Eventually, the water found an alternative route out of the valley, spilling into the Lyre River, over the Lyre River Falls, and out to the Strait of Juan de Fuca.</p><br>
<h2>Ecology</h2><br>
<p>The anadromous fish populations in the lake became landlocked, because those fish could not ascend Lyre River Falls, making a barrier in that direction. Over time, two different subspecies of fish evolved in the lake: the endemic Beardslee trout, a relative of rainbow trout, spawns in the Lyre River above the falls, while the Crescenti Cutthroat Trout spawns in Barnes Creek.</p><br>
<h2>Depth</h2><br>
<p>In the early 1960s, the USA Navy did a survey of the lake using a Furuno depth sounder. They were not able to verify the maximum depth on their equipment. During a 1970 depth survey conducted by the students of the fisheries program at Peninsula College in Port Angeles, Washington, students used instruments that could not record measurements beyond a depth of 624 feet, which thus became the "official" depth of the lake as recorded by the National Park Service. However, when power cable was being laid in the lake in the 1980s, instruments showed depths in excess of 1000 feet, the maximum range of the equipment used.</p><br>
<p>The Lake Crescent Bathymetric Survey: In 2013 and 2014 geographic data scientists Eian Ray and Jeff Enge performed a lake-wide bathymetric survey, taking over 5,000 depth soundings. GIS statistical analysis showed the lake contains approximately 0.5 cubic miles of fresh water. The deepest spot was shown to be 596 feet deep. Much of the shoreline of the lake drops off steeply, in many cases a shear underwater cliff face. During the Lake Crescent Bathymetric Survey it was speculated that the erroneous depth record of 1000 feet from the 1980s was a result of the sonar signal reflecting off the steep underwater slopes near the shore.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It is not certain whether the lake was named for its crescent shape or for its proximity to Crescent Bay, which was named by Henry Kellett in 1846. In 1849 two British–Canadian fur trappers, John Sutherland and John Everett, forged inland from Crescent Bay. The two lakes they found became known as Lake Sutherland and Everett Lake. Later, Everett Lake was renamed Lake Crescent. It has also been known as Big Lake and Elk Lake.</p><br>
<p>In 1890, while the Port Crescent Improvement Company was promoting its townsite near the lake, M.J. Carrigan started the Port Crescent Leader to help boost the town. He wrote of the beautiful lake, which he called Lake Crescent, and the name soon became well established.</p><br>
<h2>Notable Incidents</h2><br>
<p>In 1929, Russell and Blanch Warren disappeared while driving in the vicinity of Lake Crescent. Their whereabouts remained unknown until 2002, when their 1927 Chevrolet automobile was found over 160 feet beneath the surface of Lake Crescent. Also, in 1937, a waitress named Hallie Illingworth went missing, and was found three years later by local fishermen. She was apparently weighted down, and over time her restraints had decayed, allowing her corpse to float to the surface. The corpse was completely preserved by the near-freezing lake temperature. Her skin had turned into a substance described as "ivory soap," which was caused by minerals in the lake water interacting with Illingworth&#39;s body fat in a process called saponification. Her husband, Montgomery J. "Monty" Illingworth, was later convicted of the murder. He served nine years in prison, until he was paroled in 1951.</p><br>
<p>The Virgin Mountains are a mountain range of the northeastern Mojave Desert, located in Clark County, southeastern Nevada and Mohave County, northwestern Arizona.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Virgin Peak, at 7,946 ft in elevation, is the highest point in the range. The range is northeast of Lake Mead, and around 15 mi south of the Nevada town of Mesquite.</p><br>
<p>Hydrologically, the range is located in the Lower Colorado—Lake Mead watershed. (USGS Huc 1501),</p><br>
<p>91.6% of the range is managed by the Bureau of Land Management, with a section of the Virgin Peak area designated within the BLM Virgin Mountain Natural Area.</p><br>
<h2>Natural history</h2><br>
<p>The range has many species of lizards, as well as the Panamint rattlesnake and glossy snake. Trees found in the range include Single-leaf pinyon pine (Pinus monophylla), Arizona cypress (Cupressus arizonica), White fir (Abies concolor), Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), and Utah juniper (Juniperus osteosperma), and Rocky Mountain juniper (Juniperus scopulorum).</p><br>
<p>Port Gamble is an unincorporated community and census-designated place  on the northwestern shore of the Kitsap Peninsula in Kitsap County, Washington, United States. It is also a small, eponymous bay, along which the community lies, near the entrance to Hood Canal. The unincorporated communities of Port Gamble and Little Boston, part of Kitsap County, lie on either side of the mouth of this bay. The Port Gamble Historic District, a USA National Historic Landmark, covers one of the nation&#39;s best-preserved western lumber towns. The population was 916 at the 2010 census.</p><br>
<p>The community of Port Gamble has a wide range of shops from antiques to a tea shop to an old-fashioned general store. It is a popular tourist destination, due to its location near Bremerton, Port Townsend, Bainbridge Island, and Seattle and its downtown. Port Gamble is also home to the grave of Gustave Englebrecht, the first USA Navy sailor to die in the Pacific.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Gamble Bay was named by the Wilkes Expedition in 1841. The source of the name is unclear. Wilkes often named places after historical figures, and speculation centers on Lt. Col. John M. Gamble, an illustrious figure in the War of 1812; or USA Navy Lt. Robert Gamble, an officer aboard the frigate USS President wounded in an exchange with the HMS Belvedira. But the name may have had a more prosaic origin. Wilkess published account of the expedition omits mention of either Gamble but does say that a lieutenants survey party "n entering canal camped near some Suquamish Indians who had received as visitors a party of fifty Clalams, by appointment to gamble for blankets: they continued their games throughout the night.”</p><br>
<p>The community, originally known as Teekalet and later renamed Port Gamble for the bay which gave it access to ocean commerce, was founded as a company town by Josiah Keller, William Talbot, and Andrew Pope&#39;s Puget Mill Company in 1853.</p><br>
<p>In 1856, the was sent from Seattle to Port Gamble, Washington Territory on Puget Sound, where indigenous raiding parties from British and Russian territories had been raiding and enslaving local Native Americans. When the warriors refused to hand over those among them who had attacked the Puget Sound Native American communities, Massachusetts landed a shore party and a battle ensued in which 26 natives and 1 sailor were killed. In the aftermath of this, Colonel Isaac Ebey, the first settler on Whidbey Island, was shot and beheaded on August 11, 1857 by a Haida raiding party in revenge for the killing of a native chief during similar raids the year before. British authorities demurred on pursuing or attacking the northern tribes as they passed northward through British waters off Victoria and Ebey&#39;s killers were never caught.</p><br>
<p>The first school in the county went up in 1859, and the community took its present name in 1868. In 1966, the town of Port Gamble was designated a National Historic Landmark District. In 1985, Pope & Talbot, the successor company to Puget Mill, split into Pope & Talbot and Pope Resources, the latter of which took over the site and the sawmill. In 1995, the mill shut down after 142 years, making it the longest operating sawmill in the country.</p><br>
<h3>Founding</h3><br>
<p>In 1849, William Talbot and Andrew Pope arrived in San Francisco from East Machias, Maine in hope of taking part in its shipping and lumber industry, for the shipping of lumber to the rapidly growing Western United States was becoming a very lucrative business. Pope and Talbot quickly realized that the lumber shipments from New England were not enough to meet the growing demand for building materials in the West. After hearing about the dense forests in the Oregon Territory, William Talbot and Andrew Pope, along with partners Josiah Keller, and Charles Foster, formed the Puget Mill Company to harvest the much-needed lumber for the expanding West. In the summer of 1853, William Talbot, after searching the Puget Sound for the best possible site for a mill, spotted a sand spit at the mouth of the Gamble Bay as an excellent location, for it provided a location near the abundant trees of the Oregon Territory and a port for shipping the cut lumber to California. Soon after arriving, Josiah Keller sailed up the coast to join him with the boiler, engine, and muley saw for the mill. By September, the new mill was cutting logs into lumber.</p><br>
<p>Although they had a ready and working mill, Pope, Keller, and Talbot had difficulty finding enough workers to run the mill. During the 1850s, the Pacific Northwest was frontier territory with little population. With the help of their partner in Maine, Charles Foster, the mill was able to recruit experienced mill workers from East Machias to come West to Gamble Bay.</p><br>
<p>The founders of the mill of Port Gamble, however, were not the first to occupy the Gamble Bay, the SKlallams, or Nux Sklai Yem, had been living in the Puget Sound basin since 2400 B.C. Legally, land wasnt available for non-Native settlement until March 8, 1859, when Congress ratified the Treaty of Point No Point, which was signed January 26, 1855 by representatives of the United States and the Chemakum, S&#39;Klallam and Skokomish nations. But by that time, S’Klallam people had moved across the bay to Point Julia. As part of an agreement between them and the mill company, the S’Klallams were given jobs at the mill and lumber to build their new homes, community facilities, and a new school. The new little town across Gamble Bay became known as Little Boston.</p><br>
<h3>Tree Farms</h3><br>
<p>As the Port Gamble mill continued to expand and increase its production of lumber their need for suitable logging areas increased. The Puget Mill Company continued purchasing viable timberland, and by 1892 had ownership of 186,000 acres. With the depletion of forestland in other states more and more companies turned to Washington to supply the growing need for timber, by 1906 there were over 900 lumber mills of various sizes in Washington alone.</p><br>
<p>As Washington&#39;s old growth forests were dwindling the need for new sources of lumber became readily apparent. On June 12, 1941 the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company designated the first certified tree farm, the Clemons Tree Farm in Washington state. The Puget Mill Company, now known as Pope & Talbot, Inc. soon followed suit, forming the Hood Canal Tree Farm in 1946 and having 75,000 acres in the tree farm by 1953.</p><br>
<p>The intentions of tree farms are to provide stable sources for wood products. As Gifford Pinchot, First chief of the USDA Forest Service once said “Wood is a crop, Forestry is Tree Farming." This relates trees to other crops, such as corn and wheat, and makes people realize the connection and understand that trees cannot continue to be cut down and not replaced without consequences.</p><br>
<h3>Economic boom of Port Gamble</h3><br>
<p>During the mid-1800s, California experienced an expansive economic boom and an increase in the population from the California gold rush. The gold rush opened the door to a vast unknown of resources and fortune. The constant flow of settlers into the frontier and expanding economic influence demanded a high-level of resources to maintain stability and growth. California then looked to tap into the high abundance of timber and mining in the Oregon Territory. This called for three explorers to set sail up along the Pacific Coast to explore the unknown territory. When William Talbot, Andrew Pope, and Josiah Keller washed up on the sandy shores of the Hood Canal they discovered the fortune of timber along the Olympic Peninsula. Talbot, was a lumber merchant from the San Francisco area and partnered with Pope who was an experienced sea captain, both dominated the lumber industry in North America. The characteristics of the two men drove them through the ups and downs of global economic woes and stiff competition, especially their eventual counterparts in the Oregon Territory. After the founding of Port Gamble, these three men established the longest working lumber mill on the North American continent and influenced the entire world in the timber industry.</p><br>
<p>Port Gamble established itself as an industrial power house globally. The Puget Mill Company became a source of lumber all around the world from Shanghai, China to Cape Town, South Africa. Trees coming straight from the Olympic Peninsula were shipped to 37 other ports around the world.</p><br>
<p>During the turn of the century, The Puget Mill Company and the Pope and Talbot Lumber Company shipped their lumber from Port Gamble lumber across the Atlantic Ocean to be used in the British, French and Russian navies for their sparing around the world. Captain Keller took hold of the shipment plans for the Pope and Talbot Lumber Company and created routes along the Pacific Coast to help supply the large demands of the California Gold Rush. This transportation of lumber opened the door for shipments to China and Southeast China. Because Talbot and Pope resided from the state of Maine, their connections to the East Coast and constant travels back to their hometown, many of the ports along South America and the West Indies experienced contact from the Port Gamble shipments.</p><br>
<h3>Sale of Puget Mill Company</h3><br>
<p>In July 1925, the board of directors for the Puget Mill Company, including William H. Talbot, George A. Pope Sr., Talbot C. Walker, John Deahl and A.G. Harms met in an office to discuss the sale of the company.</p><br>
<p>A little over a year earlier in May 1924, William Talbot had already reached his own decision regarding the future of the Port Gamble mill. In a letter to Northwest Operations Manager, E.G. Ames, Talbot mentioned that it was “suicidal to continue operating the Port Gamble Mill.” He also informed Ames that production of lumber at the mill must cease once all remaining orders had been filled. When the board of directors met over a year later it took only a few minutes for them to decide that selling the company was the only option. After the meeting had concluded, Talbot met with Charles McCormick of the Charles McCormick Lumber Company. McCormick agreed to purchase the Puget Mill Company for $15 million.</p><br>
<p>This was a significant period in the history of Port Gamble and the Puget Mill Company. For almost a hundred years the Puget Mill Company had been owned and operated by the descendants of the Pope and Talbot families, but this sale meant that the mill would no longer be operated by the descendants of the men that had helped establish Port Gamble. William H. Talbot was reluctant to sell the company, but the early 1900s were a trying time for the lumber industry. The troubles for the company began in 1907, when the state of Washington instituted a tax increase on timber acreage held by mill companies. This combined with inefficient operations, outdated equipment, and increasingly dilapidated facilities became too much of a burden for William Talbot. Despite the sale of the company Talbot devised a way to ensure that the Port Gamble Mill would remain operational. In the agreement with McCormick, Talbot specified that McCormick must build a brand new mill at Port Gamble.</p><br>
<h3>Creation of Pope & Talbot Co.</h3><br>
<p>McCormick had very little success as the President and owner of the Puget Mill Company. The cost of building the new mill in Port Gamble along with the cost of modernizations and improvements being made to other mills quickly added to the company’s debt. In 1938, McCormick owed over $7 million to the original owners of Puget Mill, but unable to make payments, McCormick was forced to return all of the company holdings to the principals of the foreclosure suit filed against him. The principals were all descendants of the original founders of the Puget Mill Company. By 1940 the company was running under the guidance of another descendant of the Pope family, George Pope, Sr., when it was decided that the business should be renamed Pope & Talbot Mills. The entrance of the USA into WWII brought plenty of business to Pope & Talbot Mills. During the entire war the mills operated at full capacity. The company’s vessels were involved in transporting supplies necessary for battle to areas of conflict such as Guadalcanal and Okinawa.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>Many of the buildings are well maintained historical sites. Most of the town is still owned today by the mill. There is an old church that has been restored to its original orientation. The St. Paul’s Episcopal “church on Rainier Avenue dates from 1870. Built from the same plans used for the construction of the village church in East Machias, Maine, in 1836.” Many of the remnants of the colonial architecture are left behind from the settlers that came from Maine such as Pope and Talbot. The National Park Service has cited Port Gamble as “the finest example of a nineteenth century Pacific Coast Logging community.” There is a museum in town that tells about the history of the town and how the Pope and Talbot mill impacted Port Gamble. The general store was the:</p><br>
<p>There is still a general store that stands in the town of Port Gamble that is newly renovated from 1916 and is still today a great tourist attraction with selling old fashion candy and old photos on the walls in remembrance of the Port Gamble mill. The town has an Old Mills Days festival in Port Gamble that keeps alive the spirit of the mill. Port Gamble gives out pamphlets for a walking tour that anyone can pick up and read up on the historic buildings.</p><br>
<p>The preservation of the town of Port Gamble began in the mid-1960s, when Pope & Talbot rebuilt and restored 30 houses and buildings, located utilities undergrounds and installed gas street lamps. In 1966, Port Gamble was declared a National Historic Landmark. One of the oldest houses in Port Gamble that is still standing is the Thompson house. The Thompson house was built in 1859 and was owned by James A. Thompson.</p><br>
<h2>Events</h2><br>
<p>The annual Old Mill Days festival takes place over the course of three days during early July and encompasses the entire downtown area. The event includes craft and food stands, a logging show, fireworks, and various other forms of entertainment.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>Port Gamble was the setting of and filming location for the 2010 film ZMD: Zombies of Mass Destruction. The Walker-Ames House and Port Gamble were settings for a supernatural horror film under production, “Squatter.” And best-selling author Gregg Olsen made Port Gamble the setting for his "Empty Coffin" series of books, which include "Betrayal" and "Envy." Author M.M. Atkinson made Port Gamble and the Walker-Ames House the setting for her debut novel "The Ghost From Nowhere."</p><br>
<p>Boulevard Oaks is a neighborhood in Houston, Texas, United States, containing 21 subdivisions north of Rice University and south of USA Highway 59. Developed primarily during the 1920s and 1930s, Boulevard Oaks contains two National Register historic districts, Broadacres and Boulevard Oaks. The Boulevard Oaks Civic Association  is the common civic association for all 21 subdivisions.</p><br>
<p>Boulevard Oaks is in Texas&#39;s 7th congressional district.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>17 communities developed over a period of two decades. In 1980 the Boulevard Oaks Civic Association was created to provide a single management organization for all 17 areas.</p><br>
<p>The Poe Elementary School bombing occurred in 1959.</p><br>
<p>The National Register of Historic Places designated the Boulevard Oaks Historic District, located within Boulevard Oaks and roughly bordered by North Boulevard, South Boulevard, Hazard Street, and Mandell Street, as a historical district on February 22, 2002.</p><br>
<h2>Composition</h2><br>
<p>The subdivisions of Boulevard Oaks are Chevy Chase, Edgemont, Ormond Place, Broadacres, Vassar Place, Ranch Estates, North Edgemont, West Edgemont, West Ormond Place, Cresmere Place, Cherokee, Vassar Court, Greenbriar Addition, Keithly Place, Sunset Court, Sunset Place, Sunset Estates, Cheyne Walk, Hermann Hospital Estates, Wroxton Court, and portions of the O. Smith Survey.</p><br>
<h2>Government and infrastructure</h2><br>
<p>Boulevard Oaks is a part of the University Place Super Neighborhood Council.</p><br>
<p>The community is in Houston City Council District C.</p><br>
<p>The Houston Police Department&#39;s South Central Patrol Division, headquartered at 2022 St. Emanuel., serves the neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>The Southampton/Boulevard Oaks Patrol Service provides private security to the community and to Southampton.</p><br>
<h2>Schools</h2><br>
<p>The neighborhood is zoned to Houston Independent School District (HISD) schools. Poe Elementary School is located in the Chevy Chase subdivision in Boulevard Oaks.</p><br>
<p>Area K-8 private schools include Presbyterian School in Houston. Area 9-12 high schools include St. Agnes Academy and Strake Jesuit College Preparatory in Houston. K-12 private schools include St. John&#39;s School in Houston and The Kinkaid School in Piney Point Village.</p><br>
<h2>Parks and recreation</h2><br>
<p>The Vassar Spaceway Park is located in Boulevard Oaks. It was dedicated as a municipal park in the late 1980s. Evalyn Krudy, the director of the University Place Super Neighborhood Council, said that since the creation of the park, it had been affected by drainage issues. The Boulevard Oaks association received $5,000 in matching grant funds from the Matching Grant Program of the City of Houston Planning and Development Department. The funds were used to create a comprehensive drainage and maintenance plan to prevent standing water from accumulating and to beautify the park.</p><br>
<h2>Neighborhood in film</h2><br>
<p>Boulevard Oaks appears in the films Terms of Endearment (1983), Rushmore (1998), Sidekicks (1992), My Best Friend is a Vampire (1988). Ms. Cross&#39; temporary home in Rushmore is on North Boulevard. Mr. Blume and Ms. Cross also take a walk down North Boulevard in the film. In Terms of Endearment, Garrett Breedlove and Aurora take a walk down North Boulevard.</p><br>
<h2>Media</h2><br>
<p>The Houston Chronicle is the area regional newspaper.</p><br>
<p>The West University Examiner is a local newspaper distributed in the community.</p><br>
<p>Fury and Hecla Strait is a narrow  channel of water located in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. Situated between Baffin Island to the north and the Melville Peninsula to the south, it connects Foxe Basin on the east with the Gulf of Boothia on the west.</p><br>
<p>The first European to see it was William Edward Parry in 1822. It used to be always covered in ice, making the navigation difficult. The first transit (west to east) was by icebreaker in the middle of the 20th century. In the summer of 2016 the strait was transited east to west for the first time, by David Scott Cowper.</p><br>
<p>The Strait is named after the Royal Navy ships HMS Fury, commanded by William Edward Parry, and HMS Hecla.</p><br>
<p>On November 2, 2016, CBC News reported that residents were describing a hum or buzz, coming from deep within the Fury and Hecla Strait—near Steensby Inlet where Baffinland has one of its ports.</p><br>
<p>Paul Quassa, Igloolik&#39;s representative to the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut, said the hum had been disturbing the sea mammals community members rely on for food. The hum is very loud, so loud the complement of vessels transiting the straits can hear it transmitted through the hulls, without any electronic aids. The Royal Canadian Air Force sent a Lockheed CP-140 Aurora to the area but were unable to detect the noise or the source.</p><br>
<p>Smila  is a village in the municipality of Olympia, Elis, Greece. It is situated in the plains north of the river Alfeios, 1 km north of Strefi, 3 km west of Pelopio, 7 km northwest of Olympia and 10 km east of Pyrgos. In 2011 its population was 341 for the village and 390 for the municipal district, which includes the small village Karoutes.</p><br>
<p>The myth says that the village was called Smila because Praxiteles (the artist who made the famous statue of Hermes), lost his chisel (σμίλη) here. Many ancient artifacts have been found in this village, especially in the northern part. They are exhibited in the Archaeological Museum of Olympia. A great cheesemaking tradition has been established in Smila over the past few years, and several well known cheesemakers have been born in Smila, some of whom have found extensive occupation as ship chefs. Smila suffered damage from the 2007 Greek forest fires.</p><br>
<h2>Population</h2><br>
<p>The Calf, at 676 m, is the highest top in the Howgill Fells, an area of high ground in the north-west of the Yorkshire Dales in the county of Cumbria . It can be ascended from the town of Sedbergh to the south, by way of Cautley Spout from the east, or up the long valley of Langdale from the north. The Sedbergh ascent is the most popular, and has the distinction of being on good paths all the way.</p><br>
<p>The summit commands an extensive panorama, although foreground detail is obscured by the extreme flatness of the plateau. A twenty-mile skyline of the Lakeland peaks can be seen, as well as the Yorkshire Three Peaks and many of the nearer Howgill Fells.</p><br>
<p>Calders at 674 m is about 1 km SSE of the summit of The Calf. It is classified as a Hewitt.</p><br>
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<p>The Nišava or Nishava  is a river in Bulgaria and Serbia, a right tributary, and with a length of 218 km also the longest one, of the South Morava.</p><br>
<h2>Bulgaria</h2><br>
<p>The Nišava originates in western Bulgaria, in the Stara Planina mountains (east of Kom Peak) near the village of Gintsi. Its source is close to the Serbian border. It enters Serbia after 67 km of flow through Bulgaria without receiving any major tributaries.</p><br>
<p>Because it flows through Gintsi, the upper course of the river is known as Ginska (Cyrillic: Гинска). It first flows to the south, then sharply turns west into the Godech Kettle, passing through Razboishte, after which it forms a gorge. Coming out of the gorge, it reaches Kalotina, a major border crossing on the Bulgarian-Serbian border (Kalotina-Gradina), and continues to the west into Serbia.</p><br>
<h2>Serbia</h2><br>
<p>Flowing generally to the west for the remaining 151 km, it passes near Dimitrovgrad, Pirot, Bela Palanka, Niška Banja and Niš, one of the largest cities in Serbia, 10 km after which the Nišava empties into the Južna Morava. However, with the rapid growth of Niš in previous decades and its still fast growing suburbs, the banks of the Nišava are urbanized almost to its mouth.</p><br>
<p>After being divided into districts in 1992, the Nišava District (with Niš as administrative center) is named after the river.</p><br>
<h2>Characteristics and importance</h2><br>
<p>The river belongs to the Black Sea drainage basin. Its own drainage area covers 3,950 km (1,237 km in Bulgaria and 2,713 km in Serbia). The Nišava is not navigable. It is not only the longest tributary of the Južna Morava, but also the largest one in terms of discharge (36 km/s). It has many smaller tributaries, the most important being the Temštica from the right, and the Jerma (or Sukovska reka), Crvena reka, Koritnička reka and Kutinska reka from the left.</p><br>
<p>The Nišava valley is part of a major natural route that from ancient times has connected Europe and Asia: the route follows the valleys of the Morava, Nišava and Maritsa and onwards towards Constantinople, present-day Istanbul. Both the Belgrade-Sofia-Istanbul road and the railway follow this route.</p><br>
<p>Nishava Cove in Rugged Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after Nishava.</p><br>
<h2>Sićevo gorge</h2><br>
<p>In its Serbian part, the Nišava carved a composite valley with several depressions (Dimitrovgrad, Pirot (or Basara; Cyrillic: Басара), Bela Palanka and Niš). However, the most prominent geological feature the river formed is the Sićevo gorge (Sićevačka klisura; Cyrillic: Сићевачка клисура) between Bela Palanka and Niška Banja. The river is quite powerful in the gorge, which is used for two power stations (Sićevo and Ostrovica) used for electricity production, irrigation and fishery. The gorge is 17 km long, 350–400 m deep, in some parts developing canyon like-structures (like inverse valley slopes at Gradiški kanjon; Cyrillic: Градишки кањон). The gorge itself carved through the Kunovica plateau between the southern slopes of the Mountains of Svrljig and the mountain of Suva Planina, and the surrounding areas are known for their high-quality vineyards. There is also a huge quarry in the gorge (Ostrovica), where six villages are located, the largest one being Sićevo that gives the name to the whole gorge.</p><br>
<p>Lake Bled  is a lake in the Julian Alps of the Upper Carniolan region of northwestern Slovenia, where it adjoins the town of Bled. The area is a tourist destination. The lake is 35 km from Ljubljana International Airport and 55 km from the capital city, Ljubljana.</p><br>
<h2>Geography and history</h2><br>
<p>The lake is of mixed glacial and tectonic origin. It is 2,120 m long and 1,380 m wide, with a maximum depth of 29.5 m, and it has a small island. The lake lies in a picturesque environment, surrounded by mountains and forests. Medieval Bled Castle stands above the lake on the north shore. The Zaka Valley lies at the west end of the lake.</p><br>
<p>The World Rowing Championships in 1966, 1979, 1989, and 2011 were held at Lake Bled.</p><br>
<h2>Bled Island</h2><br>
<p>The lake surrounds Bled Island (Blejski otok). The island has several buildings, the main one being the pilgrimage church dedicated to the Assumption of Mary (Cerkev Marijinega vnebovzetja), built in its current form near the end of the 17th century, and decorated with remains of Gothic frescos from around 1470 in the presbyterium and rich Baroque equipment. The church has a 52 m tower and there is a Baroque stairway from 1655 with 99 stone steps leading up to the building. The church is frequently visited and weddings are held there regularly. Traditionally it is considered good luck for the groom to carry his bride up the steps on the day of their wedding before ringing the bell and making a wish inside the church.</p><br>
<p>Khunyang Chhish or Kunyang Chhish is the second-highest mountain in the Hispar Muztagh, a subrange of the Karakoram mountains of Pakistan. Alternate variations of the name include Kunyang Kish and Khiangyang Kish, among others. Its height, also sometimes given as 7,823 m, is ranked 21st in the world and 8th in Pakistan.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Khunyang Chhish lies in the heart of the Hispar Muztagh, north of the Hispar Glacier, one of the major glaciers of the Karakoram. It rises on the southwest side of the Khunyang Glacier while Distaghil Sar</p><br>
<p>(the highest peak of the Hispar Muztagh) dominates the glacier on its northern end.</p><br>
<h2>Notable features</h2><br>
<p>Khunyang Chhish is the twenty-first-highest independent mountain in the world. It is also notable for its rise above local terrain: for example, it rises almost 4,000 m above its southern base camp on the Khunyang Glacier, and it rises 5,500 m above the Hunza valley in about 33 km. It is a steep, pointed, and complex peak; it easily rivals the slightly higher Distaghil Sar to the North, which has a more rounded profile.</p><br>
<p>Not counting the two Pumari Chhish summits 4 km to the ENE, the Kunyang Chhish massive has five peaks:</p><br>
<p>Kunyang Chhish Main, 7,852 m</p><br>
<p>Kunyang Chhish South, 7,620 m, 700 m SSW, with a prominence of only about 100 m</p><br>
<p>Kunyang Chhish East 7,400 m, 2 km ESE, 240 m prominence.</p><br>
<p>Kunyang Chhish West, 7,350 m, 1.5 km W, 170 m prominence. Also known as Pyramid Peak.</p><br>
<p>Kunyang Chhish North, 7,108 m, 6 km NNE, 517 m prominence.</p><br>
<h2>Climbing history</h2><br>
<p>The first climbing attempt on Khunyang Chhish was made in 1962 but the climb was aborted after an avalanche on 18 July killed two climbers, Major James Mills and Captain M. R. F. Jones. Their bodies were never recovered.</p><br>
<p>The next attempt was in 1965 by a Japanese party mainly consists of the University of Tokyo members. They chose the south ridge of Khunyang Chhish, but another climber Takeo Nakamura died after the collapse of a narrow ridge at 7,200 m.</p><br>
<p>The first ascent was accomplished by a Polish team led by Andrzej Zawada in 1971. They climbed a long route up the South Ridge of the peak from the Pumari Chhish Glacier. However, one of their members was killed in a crevasse accident.</p><br>
<p>The second, and only other recorded ascent, climbed the Northwest Spur to the North Ridge. Two British climbers, Mark Lowe and Keith Milne, completed this route on July 11, 1988. The route had first been attempted in 1980, and had been attempted again in 1981, 1982 and 1987.</p><br>
<p>The lists three recent attempts on this peak, in 2000 and 2003.</p><br>
<p>After four failed expeditions, starting in 2003, the East summit was first ascended in July 2013 by an Austrian/Swiss team over the South Wall.</p><br>
<p>Sud Radio Transmitter Pic Blanc is a facility for high power medium wave broadcasting located on Pic Blanc, a 2650 metre high mountain at 1°43&#39;1"E and 42°32&#39;5"N in Andorra. Whilst in operation, it was the highest medium wave transmitting station in Europe. It was built in 1972 by Sud Radio and uses a directional antenna consisting of two free-standing 86 metre tall lattice towers. One of these towers is insulated against ground, while the other one is grounded and carries a cage aerial.</p><br>
<p>The transmitter worked on 819 kHz with a power of 900 kilowatts. It was shut down in November 1981. As replacement, a small transmitter at Gauré near Toulouse was built.</p><br>
<p>Now the facility is abandoned and one of the two towers has been partly dismantled.</p><br>
<p>Jemo Island Atoll  is an uninhabited coral island in the Pacific Ocean, in the Ratak Chain of the Marshall Islands north-east of Likiep Atoll. The island is oval-shaped, and occupies the southwestern end of a narrow submarine ridge that extends to the northeast for several kilometers. Its total land area is only 0.16 km&sup2;. The island is traditionally held as a food reserve for the family of Joachim and Lijon deBrum, passed down to Lijon debrum from Iroijlaplap Lobareo and is owned by the current Likiep land-owning families of Joachim and Lijon debrum, grandkids of Iroijlaplap Jortõka of Ratak Eañ.</p><br>
<p>First recorded sighting of Jemo Island by Europeans was by the Spanish expedition of Miguel López de Legazpi on 10 January 1565. It was charted as Los Pajaros (The Birds in Spanish).</p><br>
<p>Lake Tota , the largest lake in Colombia, located in the east of Boyacá department, inside the Sugamuxi Province, it is the source of the Upia River which flows into the Orinoco River basin.</p><br>
<p>The major town on the lake is Aquitania, located on its eastern side. Other nearby villages include Tota, Iza and Cuítiva.</p><br>
<p>Lake Tota was an important religious center for the Muisca culture. The name Tota comes from the Chibcha language of the Muisca and according to linguist Mariana Escribano its main name refers to "Astronomic Observatory", relating to its sacred uses for that culture. There are legends which relate to the way the lake was formed by the hands of ancient ancestors.</p><br>
<p>The area around Lake Tota is one of the major onion producing regions of Colombia. The western shore of the lake is a popular tourist destination for Colombians.</p><br>
<p>The average water temperature of 13 °C allowed for the introduction of rainbow trout (Onchorynchus mykiss) which created a valuable wild fishery (a mounted specimen in Restaurante Lucho, Aquitania, reportedly early in the 1990s, weighed 7 kg) and cage culture aquaculture, but predation on native fish species as led to the now accepted extinction of the pez graso or grease fish (Rhizosomichthys totae) believed native to only this lake.</p><br>
<p>Lake Tota is a breeding ground for several threatened or endangered bird species, including the least bittern (Ixobrychus exilis bogotensis), the Colombian ruddy duck (Oxyura jamaicensis andina), the Bogotá rail (Rallus semiplumbeus) and Apolinar&#39;s wren (Cistothorus apolinari). The last confirmed sighting of the Colombian grebe (Podiceps andinus), now considered to be extinct, was at Lake Tota.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>In the Chibcha language of the Muisca people, Tota means "Farmfields of the river".</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Lake Tota consists of an area of 55.1 km&sup2; with a length of 11.8 kilometers, a width of 6.2 kilometers and a depth of 58 meters being the largest natural lake in Colombia.</p><br>
<p>The Tarbagatai Mountains , literally: "range with marmots"); ) are a range of mountains located in the north-western parts of Xinjiang, China and East Kazakhstan. The name of the mountain derived from Mongolian word: in Traditional Mongolian alphabet: ᠲᠠᠷᠪᠠᠭ ᠠ  with suffix ᠲᠠᠢ .</p><br>
<p>Many Tarbagan marmot live in this mountain range. (Their name does not have a direct translation from the English in Mongolian, as it would mean marmot&#39;s marmot.</p><br>
<p>An eastern extension of the Tarbagatai is the Saur Range.</p><br>
<h2>Drainage</h2><br>
<p>As it is common for mountain ranges, there is more precipitation in the Tarbagatai mountains than in the adjacent flatlands. The mountains are thus an important watershed. Streams from the northern slopes of the Tarbagatai flow into Lake Zaysan, which eventually drains (via the Irtysh) into the Arctic Ocean. The streams of the southern slope, many of which merge into the Emil River, flow into the Emin Valley (the basin of the endorheic Lake Alakol); they are an important source of water for several counties of Tacheng (Tarbagatay) Prefecture in China.</p><br>
<p>The Convent of Las Descalzas Reales  is a royal monastery situated in Madrid, Spain, administered by the Patrimonio Nacional.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales, literally the "Monastery of the Royal Barefooted", resides in the former palace of Emperor Charles V and Empress Isabel of Portugal. Their daughter, Joanna of Austria, founded this convent of nuns of the Poor Clare order in 1559. Throughout the remainder of the 16th century and into the 17th century, the convent attracted young widowed or spinster noblewomen. Each woman brought with her a dowry. The riches quickly piled up, and the convent became one of the richest convents in all of Europe. Tomás Luis de Victoria, Spain&#39;s finest Renaissance composer, worked at the convent from 1587 to the end of his life in 1611.</p><br>
<p>The demographics of the convent slowly changed over time, and by the 20th century, all of the sisters were in poverty. The convent maintained the riches of its past, but it was forbidden to auction any of the items off or spend any of the money it received from the dowries. The state intervened when it saw that the sisters were poor, and the pope granted a special dispensation to open the convent as a museum in 1960.</p><br>
<p>Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz (died 1989) is buried in the Chapel of Saint John the Baptist next to his elder son Francisco de Asís (died 1984). Alfonso&#39;s younger brother Gonzalo (died 2000) is buried in the Chapel of Saint Sebastian.</p><br>
<h2>Museum</h2><br>
<p>While in the past, the treasures of the monastery were not visible, today the monastery houses only a few nuns, and the site is a well-visited national monument. The noblewomens dowries were often invested into relics and their bejeweled exhibition pieces. Among the many relics on display are putatively pieces from Christs cross and the bones of Saint Sebastian. Among the priceless art masterpieces are Titians Caesars Money, tapestries woven to designs by Rubens, and works by Hans de Beken and Brueghel the Elder.</p><br>
<p>The museum collection also includes such rarities as portraits of royal children of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth from the late 16th century, referring to Polish–Spanish relations that inspired Calderón&#39;s La vida es sueño. Portraits of the son and daughter of King Sigismund of Poland were painted by Martin Kober in 1596 and were sent as a gift to King Philip III of Spain.</p><br>
<h2>The Church</h2><br>
<p>The original architect of the church was Antonio Sillero. The facade was designed by Juan Bautista de Toledo in 1559; who also helped in the roofing of the church. Parts of the altar, choir, and sacristy, were designed by Juan Gómez de Mora in 1612. Gaspar Becerra in 1562 completed the main retablo of the altar, which was considered his master work. Unfortunately, this retablo was destroyed by fire in 1862, along with many of the paintings and frescoes by Juan Pantoja de la Cruz. In 1863 the altar was replaced by one commissioned in 1716 by Philip V of Spain to commemorate the beatification of the French Jesuit John Francis Regis, including canvases by Michel-Ange Houasse. It has a sculpted relief of the Apotheosis of Juan Francisco Régis, by Camillo Rusconi. The lateral panels were sculpted by Jose Bellver. The recumbent statue of the Jesuit was sculpted by Agostino Cornacchini. A chapel contains the marble statue of Joanna of Austria at prayer, by either Pompeo Leoni or Crescenci.</p><br>
<p>Ricina or Helvia Recina  was a Roman town located in the lower Potenza valley, the contemporary Italian region Marche.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>In the lower Potenza valley, on the left bank of the river Flosis (modern River Potenza), some 15 km from the estuary of the river, lies the Roman town of Ricina. The area today is in part occupied by the small hamlet of Villa Potenza, part of the comune of Macerata, and is partially used as farmland. The town is located at the junction of the river Flosis with a crossroad of the Via Salaria Gallica Gallica and a byroad of the Via Flaminia.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Due to small-scale rescue digs in several parts of the town, it is suggested that Ricina was already quite extensively occupied from the later 2nd century BC on however most of the urban evidence belongs to the period between the 1st century BC and the 4th century AD. Ricina became a municipium from the mid-1st century BC when the first colonists, veterans of the Civil Wars, were settled here. It flourished under the reigns of Augustus (27 BC - AD 14) and Tiberius (AD 14-37) to judge by a series of funerary monuments and inscriptions which probably originate from a cemetery on the SW side, the construction of an aqueduct, and the largest theatre in Picenum. During the 2nd century AD a good deal of public building was achieved and squares and streets were repaved. Traces of a baths complex near the theatre and parts of houses with mosaic floors are also dated to the 2nd century AD. But as early as the first half of the 2nd century AD the municipal finances seem to decline when a curator rei publicae Riciniensium was appointed. During the reign of Septimius Severus (AD 193-211), the town became a colony with the name Helvia Ricina Pertinax (CIL IX 5747), in honour of Septimius’ predecessor. The town may have suffered from invasions in the 5th and 6th centuries AD, with the remaining population seeking new dwellings in the hills to the east and west of the former Roman town.</p><br>
<h2>Research</h2><br>
<p>Due to several aerial photography campaigns and surveys on the farmland conducted by the more information has been available about the general layout and organization of the town. Recently in July and October 2013, also geophysical surveys were undertaken by the geophysical survey company Eastern Atlas with the objective of locating and mapping more remains of subsurface archaeological features in Trea. Also the recent study of the Roman pottery to deliver chronological clues and help to determine functional zones as well as the study of stone architectural decoration to gain more insights in the embellishment of the town, has led to more information.</p><br>
<p>It seems that the layout of the town was a fairly regular and quite flat, almost rectangular area of c. 22 ha. The valley road from Trea to Potentia crossed roughly the centre of town from southwest to northeast and served as its main decumanus. One main NW-SE axis, if confirmed by further fieldwork, could have linked the main decumanus with the Roman bridge over the Potenza, which earlier observations located a few meters upstream from the present-day bridge. This street passed directly in front of and parallel with the stage building of the theatre.</p><br>
<p>The forum was probably located near the intersection of the north-south axis with the main decumanus. Although a major part of the ancient town is built over by the houses and streets of Villa Potenza, several large buildings can be distinguished in the crops of the fields north of the central area. One of them is a rectangular building (at least 18 x 33 m) oriented northwest-southeast, perpendicular to the main decumanus and possibly bordering a forum on its south. This was probably the main temple (Capitolium?) of Helvia Ricina. Other traces of buildings may be seen in the fields: several large domus, a large cistern, which may point to a nearby public facility or baths and a row of similar rectangular rooms, flanked by a corridor or portico suggest a set of tabernae or possibly a horreum. The latter is supported by the presence of many dolia and amphora sherds found at this location.</p><br>
<p>There are also signs of habitation outside the walls, more specifically directly southwest of the town, outside the presumed location of the southwest gate and alongside the road to Trea as well as at the northeast side of the town were crop-marks and a wide scatter of Roman material point to an extramural settlement.</p><br>
<p>The theatre is the only well-preserved remain of the city above ground. It has a cavea of 71.80 m diameter and is now surrounded by modern houses of Villa Potenza. During an aerial photography campaign conducted by the PVS team in May 2009 clear traces of an amphitheatre were detected as well. The building, positioned east of the theatre, was possibly originally connected with it and thus formed part of one architectural complex.</p><br>
<p>Because of its position on the main east-west road along the valley to the coastal town of Potentia, which acts as the town’s decumanus, Ricina can be characterized as a road-town.</p><br>
<p>The former Santa Fe Railway Shops in Albuquerque, New Mexico, consist of eighteen surviving buildings erected between 1915 and 1925. The complex is located south of downtown in the Barelas neighborhood, bounded by Second Street, Hazeldine Avenue, Commercial Street, and Pacific Avenue. The shops were one of four major maintenance facilities constructed by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, the others being located in Topeka, Kansas, Cleburne, Texas, and San Bernardino, California. The railway shops were the largest employer in the city during the railroad&#39;s heyday. Currently they have been empty for years but a variety of plans have been proposed for the historic complex.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Railroad shops and a roundhouse were first erected on the site in the 1880s, after Albuquerque was designated as the division point between the AT&SF railway and the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad. After buying out the A&P in 1902, the Santa Fe Railway began expanding and modernizing the old A&P shops in 1912. The first buildings to be completed were the roundhouse, storehouse, power station, and freight car shops, all of which were located south of the surviving complex near the present Bridge Boulevard overpass. These structures have since been demolished, but the subsequent buildings completed after 1915 are all still standing.</p><br>
<p>The current railyard buildings were constructed between 1915 and 1925. The shops became Albuquerques largest employer, with 970 employees (then about a quarter of the citys workforce) in 1919, and a peak of 1,500 in the 1940s. The core operation was maintenance of steam locomotives, which required a complete rebuild every 12 to 18 months. At their peak, the Albuquerque shops completed around 40 such overhauls per month. However, activity at the railyard declined in the 1950s as the Santa Fe transitioned from steam to diesel locomotives. The railroad decided to locate its diesel repair facilities at the Cleburne and San Bernardino yards, scaling back operations in Albuquerque to around 200 employees.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings</h2><br>
<h3>Machine shop</h3><br>
<p>By far the largest building at the railyard is the machine shop, which spans the full width of the site from Second to Commercial and contains about 165,000 ft&sup2; of floor space. The building was designed in 1920 and built in eight months starting in February 1921. At the time it was considered to be at the forefront of industrial design, comparable to the Glass Plant at the Ford River Rouge Complex in Michigan. The building has a steel structure, with uninterrupted glass curtain walls on the north and south faces and more substantial reinforced concrete facades on the east and west sides. The expansive main bay is 57 ft high and 604 ft long with several overhead cranes, the largest of which has a 250-ton capacity. The building is floored with wooden blocks to cut down on noise.</p><br>
<h3>Boiler shop</h3><br>
<p>The smaller boiler shop, which was completed in 1923, stands to the north of the machine shop and is similar to it in design and appearance. It has a floor area of 58,100 ft&sup2;. Like the machine shop, the boiler shop employs a cross-axial design with the rail lines perpendicular to the main axis of the building.</p><br>
<h3>Blacksmith shop</h3><br>
<p>The blacksmith shop was completed in 1917 and stands to the east of the boiler shop. It is the third largest building on the site at approximately 25,000 ft&sup2;. The building is of steel frame construction with brick and glass exterior walls. The blacksmith shop was responsible for repairing cracked locomotive frames as well as forging replacement parts.</p><br>
<h3>Fire station</h3><br>
<p>Another significant structure is the fire station, a rustic, Mediterranean-style building with sandstone walls, crenelated parapets, and an asymmetrical corner tower. It was designed by E.A. Harrison and stands on the northwest corner of the railyard complex, near the intersection of First and Second streets. Built in 1920, it is the oldest surviving fire station in Albuquerque. The building has been designated an Albuquerque historic landmark and is thus protected from alteration without city approval.</p><br>
<h3>Other buildings</h3><br>
<p>The complex includes around a dozen other buildings including the flue shop (1920), tank shop (1925), and storehouse (1915).</p><br>
<h2>Current status</h2><br>
<p>Various ideas have been discussed for the Santa Fe shops, including a transportation museum to be called the Wheels Museum, mixed-income housing, a multi-use retail and exposition center, and a state-of-the-art digital film studio. The complex was purchased by the city of Albuquerque in 2007 for $8.5 million and redevelopment was said to be pending as of 2011. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.</p><br>
<p>In the meantime, the abandoned railyard has become a popular filming location. Movies with scenes filmed there include Beerfest (2006), The Spirit (2008), Gamer (2009), Terminator Salvation (2009), and The Avengers (2012). The pilot episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles also used the railyard as a location., Several Episodes of Sci-Fi&#39;s Lost Room were filmed there, as was the yet to be released 0000 movie.</p><br>
<p>Ute Mountain , is a peak within the Ute Mountains, a small mountain range in the southwestern corner of Colorado. It is on the northern edge of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe Reservation. The Reservation forms the southwestern corner of the state and of Montezuma County.</p><br>
<p>Nomenclature for this peak and its range varies. The highest peak is sometimes known as Sleeping Ute Mountain; the entire range is also identified as one large mountain, called Sleeping Ute Mountain,</p><br>
<p>on some maps</p><br>
<p>and the range is sometimes called the Sleeping Ute Mountains. All of these forms of the mountains name and of the ranges name can be found on various USGS maps, databases and reports.</p><br>
<p>The Ute Mountains, with a collective profile commonly known as “The Sleeping Ute”, are a dense cluster of peaks approximately 5 by in extent and stand in isolation from other mountains. Despite being much lower than Colorado&#39;s highest peaks, Ute Mountain is the eighth most topographically prominent peak in the state, due to this isolation. It is also notable for its large local relief in all directions, especially its rise of roughly 4,250 ft (1,295 m) over the Montezuma Valley to the southeast.</p><br>
<p>The Sleeping Ute is said to resemble a Ute Chief lying on his back with arms folded across his chest. The mountains were valued as a sacred place by the Weeminuche Ute band. It is still a sacred place to their descendants, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe and still plays a role in their ceremonies as indicated by the “Sundance Ground” on some topographical maps nestled between The Knees and Horse Peak (ribcage).</p><br>
<p>Originally, the northern part of the mountains were outside the reservation boundaries as reduced following a series of treaties in the late 19th century, but a trade of land now in Mesa Verde National Park, approximately 15 miles east, for federal land on the mountain, allowed the reservation boundary to be extended north to McElmo Creek and encompass the entire mountain range. In particular, this means that recreational access to the range by outsiders is severely restricted. Few roads or trails are found in the mountains, although radio towers and water tanks have been built, and a road along Cottonwood Wash from Towaoc nearly reaches the summit of Ute Peak.</p><br>
<h2>Legend</h2><br>
<p>A Ute Indian legend</p><br>
<p>describes the Sleeping Ute as the sleeping form of a “Great Warrior God who was also known as a chief” who fell asleep while recovering from wounds received in a great battle with “the Evil Ones”. Various other forms of the legend can be found.</p><br>
<h2>Visual Profile</h2><br>
<p>Readily recognized from many spots up to 50 mi east or west (e.g. the Four Corners Monument and parts of Mesa Verde National Park), the profile is best seen from 15 to 25 mi somewhat north of east of the mountains as in the accompanying photograph.</p><br>
<p>Easily identified features of the profile include the following (north to south):</p><br>
<p>Head - the profile of Marble Mountain provides readily recognized facial features while a feathered headdress can be seen tapering north from Black Mountain and Marble Mountain.</p><br>
<p>Crossed Arms – Ute Peak is the highest, the most prominent and eastern-most peak in the Ute Mountains</p><br>
<p>Ribcage – Horse Mountain to the east and the twin peaks Black Mountain/Ute Mountain to the west form a recognizable ribcage.</p><br>
<p>Knees – Hermano Mountain or “The Knees” are obviously the knees of the figure.</p><br>
<p>Toes –</p><br>
<p>East Toe is a relatively small, sharp and prominent igneous protrusion at the south-eastern end of the Ute Mountains proportioned and perfectly placed to complete the figure from the east.</p><br>
<p>West Toe, a second protrusion, has a very similar profile and is perfectly placed to complete the figure from the west.</p><br>
<p>The illusion of a reclining figure is further reinforced by its symmetry. The figure is nearly as complete seen from the west as from the east.located east of cortez</p><br>
<h2>Region</h2><br>
<p>Though on the southwestern fringe of the original Rocky Mountain home of the Ute Tribe, the Sleeping Ute is the most prominent feature of the high-desert Ute Mountain Ute Reservation. The only town on the Reservation, Towaoc, lies at the feet of the figure and is home to most of the Reservation&#39;s population. As the Reservation capital, Towaoc is the Ute Mountain Ute tribal headquarters.</p><br>
<p>Cortez, the largest town in the area with a population of over 8000, lies outside the reservation 11.5 mi east-northeast of Ute Peak. The elevation of Cortez is 6,200 ft and can be considered the base elevation of the Ute Mountains.</p><br>
<p>The Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park adjoins Mesa Verde National Park to the east of the mountains. The western boundary of Mesa Verde National Park is 12 mi east of Ute Peak. The Mesa and the Sleeping Ute share equal prominence as regional landmarks.</p><br>
<p>McElmo Creek and Canyon Of The Ancients National Monument form the northern terminus of the Ute Mountains and the Reservation.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The Ute Mountains were formed by intrusion of igneous rocks at about 72 million years (Late Cretaceous), concurrent doming, and subsequent erosion. The most common type of igneous rock is porphyritic hornblende diorite, but rock types present range from gabbro to granite. Forms of intrusions include laccoliths, stocks, dikes, and sills. One dike extends north to McElmo Creek and can be examined at a roadside there. The igneous rocks intrude a sedimentary section of Jurassic and Cretaceous rocks and the youngest rocks intruded are in the Point Lookout Sandstone.</p><br>
<p>The intrusions are similar in form and rock type to those in other Colorado Plateau mountain ranges, such as the Henry Mountains and the La Sal Range and the Abajo Mountains, all nearby in Utah, but the intrusions at these three Utah occurrences are about 20 to 30 million years in age. The Ute Mountains and the similar Carrizo Mountains, nearby in Arizona, lie within a southwest extension of the Colorado Mineral Belt, but no ore deposits are known to be associated with these igneous rocks.</p><br>
<p>Sedimentary units are listed below, from youngest to oldest:</p><br>
<p>Point Lookout Sandstone (the oldest formation of the Mesa Verde Group)</p><br>
<p>Mancos Shale</p><br>
<p>Dakota Sandstone</p><br>
<p>Burro Canyon Formation</p><br>
<p>Morrison Formation</p><br>
<p>Bluff Sandstone (formerly called the Junction Creek Sandstone)</p><br>
<p>Summerville Formation</p><br>
<p>Entrada Sandstone</p><br>
<p>Navajo Sandstone</p><br>
<p>In some areas the soft lower unit of the Entrada weathers into characteristic rounded forms, commonly called hoodoos. The underlying Navajo weathers into rough, rounded surfaces, commonly pitted, and usually forms cliffs.</p><br>
<p>Lake Guatavita  is located in the Cordillera Oriental of the Colombian Andes in the municipality of Sesquilé, in the Almeidas Province, Cundinamarca department of Colombia, 57 km north-east of Bogotá, capital of Colombia.</p><br>
<p>The lake is circular and has a surface area of 19.8 hectares. The earlier theories of the crater&#39;s origin being a meteorite impact, volcanic cinder, or limestone sinkhole are now discredited. The most likely explanation is that it resulted from the dissolution of underground salt deposits from an anticline, resulting in a kind of sinkhole.</p><br>
<p>There are hot springs nearby in the municipality of Sesquilé, which means "hot water".</p><br>
<p>While the existence of a sacred lake in the Eastern Ranges of the Andes, associated with Indian rituals involving gold, was known to the Spanish possibly as early as 1531, its location was only discovered in June 1537 by conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada while on an expedition to the highlands of the Eastern Ranges of the Andes in search of gold. This brought the Spanish into first contact with the Muisca inhabiting the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, including around Lake Guatavita.</p><br>
<p>The lake is now a focus of ecotourism, and its association with the legend of El Dorado is also a major attraction.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>The name of the lake is derived from Chibcha, the language of the Muisca: gwa: mountain or gwata, gwate: high elevation, or gwatibita: high mountain peak; hence, a pool at a high mountain peak. Another meaning is "End of the farmfields".</p><br>
<h2>Muisca mythology</h2><br>
<p>Lake Guatavita was reputedly one of the sacred lakes of the Muisca, and a ritual conducted there is widely thought to be the basis for the legend of El Dorado, "the golden one". The legend says the lake is where the Muisca celebrated a ritual in which the zipa (named "El Dorado" by the conquistadors) was covered in gold dust, then venturing out into the water on a ceremonial raft made of rushes, he dived into the waters, washing off the gold. Afterward, trinkets, jewelry, and other precious offerings were thrown into the waters by worshipers. A few artifacts of gold and silver found at bottom hold proof to this claim; however, to date, attempts to drain the lake or salvage the gold (see Lake Guatavita gold) have yielded no more than these.</p><br>
<h2>Trivia</h2><br>
<p>Lake Guatavita is the filming location of the music video of the song No Te Pido Flores by Fanny Lú</p><br>
<p>Mossbrae Falls is a waterfall flowing into the Sacramento River, in the Shasta Cascade area in Dunsmuir, California. The falls are located just south of the lower portion of Shasta Springs. Access to the falls via a mile-long hiking trail on the Union Pacific Railroad tracks is currently closed, as Union Pacific and the City of Dunsmuir figure out a safer route to the falls.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Mossbrae Falls is one of the most scenic waterfalls in California. Approximately 50 ft in height and 175 ft wide, the falls are fed by springs, which course down the canyon wall, and into the Sacramento River, creating the effect of many waterfall streams falling into the river. The entire course of the falls is longer than 52 ft, however the upper cascades cannot be observed through flora which covers the mountainside. The bottom 50 ft is a straight plunge into the river. The falls are mostly two major outfalls. Pictured here are both, with smaller drops between them.</p><br>
<p>The trail to the falls follows beside the Union Pacific railroad tracks, and is narrow in some places. The waterfall is to the right, immediately before a nearby railroad trestle that crosses the river.</p><br>
<h2>Trail closure</h2><br>
<p>In the summer of 2011, city officials began urging people not to visit the falls, citing the danger of walking on and along active railroad tracks. To discourage trespassing, citations are being issued to people who park in the Shasta Retreat. Work continues on the development of an alternate route. City of Dunsmuir is planning on connecting the Hedge Creek Falls Trail with a new paved pathway and pedestrian bridge over the river at Mossbrae Falls. Former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger took former President George W. Bush to see these falls.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>Alternate access are through Mineral Spring Trail and Angel Trail in Shasta Springs, a private property owned by Saint Germain Foundation and white water rafting from Box Canyon Dam (California).</p><br>
<h2>Photos</h2><br>
<p>Rabi  is a volcanic island in northern Fiji. It is an outlier to Taveuni , in the Vanua Levu Group. It covers an area of 66.3 square kilometers, reaching a maximum altitude of 463 meters and has a shoreline of 46.2 kilometers. With a population of around 5,000, Rabi is home to the Banabans who are the indigenous landowners of Banaba Island; the indigenous Fijian community that formerly lived on Rabi was moved to Taveuni after the island was purchased by the Banabans. The original inhabitants still maintain their links to the island, and still use the Rabi name in national competitions.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Rabi has four main settlements – all named after, and populated by the descendants of, four villages on Banaba that were destroyed by the invading Japanese forces in the Second World War. Tabwewa Village, formerly known as Nuku in Fijian, is the administrative centre of Rabi. Located in the far north of the island, Tabwewa boasts administrative buildings, a wharf, a post office, court house, a hospital, and a guest house – the only one on the island. 14 kilometers to the south of Tabwewa is Tabiang (formerly Siosio), the home of Rabi&#39;s only school and an airstrip. Other major settlements include Uma (formerly Wiinuku), between Tabwewa and Tabiang, and Buakonikai (formerly Aoteqea), some 22 kilometers from Tabwewa. Rabi is the eighth largest island of Fiji and the antimeridian passes through this island.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Rabi was the first place in Fiji where Indian indentured labourers were employed. When the first Indians were brought to Fiji abroad the Leonidas in 1879, most European planters refused to employ them because of the extra cost involved. One planter who was sympathetic to Government policies was Captain J. Hill of Rabi Island, and he agreed to take 106 of indentured labourers as field workers.</p><br>
<p>Prior to the Banaban resettlement on Rabi, the island was owned and used as a copra plantation by the Lever’s Pacific Plantations Pty Ltd. At the beginning of World War II, the British government purchased the island with phosphate royalties from Banaba, in the quest to relocate the Banabans from Banaba.</p><br>
<p>At the end of World War II, Kiribatis (and Fijis) British colonial rulers decided to resettle most of Banaba&#39;s population on Rabi Island, because of the ongoing devastation of Banaba caused by phosphate mining - or, as some would say, to get them out of the way of the mining. Some have since returned, but the majority have remained on Rabi or elsewhere in Fiji.</p><br>
<p>The Banabans came to Fiji in three major waves, with the first group of 703, including 318 children, arriving on the BPC vessel, Triona, on 15 December 1945. Accompanying them were 300 other I-Kiribati. The Banabans had been collected from Japanese internment camps on various islands; they were not given the option of returning to Banaba, on the grounds that the Japanese had destroyed their houses - this was not true. They were told that there were houses waiting for them on Rabi: in fact they were given tents to live in and food rations which lasted for only two months. It was the middle of the hurricane season, and they were still weak from years of Japanese imprisonment: 40 of the oldest Banabans died. They were joined by a second wave between 1975 and 1977, with a final wave arriving between 1981 and 1983, following the ending of phosphate mining in 1979. Recognizing the lack of opportunities for Banabans in their homeland, the Rabi Council assisted the remaining population to move to Rabi after 1981.</p><br>
<p>On 15 December 2005, sixty years to the day since the arrival of the first Banabans, more than 500 Rabi Islanders were granted citizenship at a ceremony led by Minister for Home Affairs Josefa Vosanibola and fellow-Cabinet Minister Ratu Naiqama Lalabalavu, who is also the Tui Cakau, or Paramount Chief of Cakaudrove and Tovata, to which Rabi belongs. These islanders, who had not previously been naturalized, came from the second and third waves of migration, which were technically illegal but tolerated by the Fijian government on humanitarian grounds.</p><br>
<p>A decision was made by the Fijian Cabinet in early 2005 to grant citizenship to the residents of Rabi and Kioa Islands, concluding a decade-long quest by the people of both islands for naturalization, which entitles the islanders to provincial and rural development assistance from the government of Fiji. Vosanibola said that although not all of the Rabi islanders had been granted citizenship until now, their contribution to Fiji was enormous, and the government had decided to waive F$1 million of citizenship application fees.</p><br>
<h2>Politics</h2><br>
<p>In a number of ways, Rabi is a political anomaly. Though part of the Province of Cakaudrove, Rabi has a degree of autonomy, with its own council controlling local affairs, though this council is to be merged with its counterpart from Kioa, according to a Cabinet decision of 15 January 2006. And though citizens of Fiji, the Rabi Islanders still hold Kiribati passports, remain the legal landowners of Banaba, and send one representative to the Kiribati parliament (a second one is elected in Banaba), and the Rabi Council municipally administers their original homeland of Banaba. They are also represented in the Fijian House of Representatives, classified as General Electors (an omnibus category for Fijian citizens who are neither indigenous nor of Indian origin). Rabi Island forms part of the North Eastern General Communal Constituency, one of three reserved for General Electors, and of the Lau Taveuni Rotuma Open Constituency, one of 25 seats elected by universal suffrage.</p><br>
<p>On 19 December 2005, Teitirake Karoro, the Rabi Council of Leaderss representative to the Parliament of Kiribati, said that the Rabi Council was considering giving the right to re-mine Banaba Island to the government of Fiji. This followed the disappointment of the Rabi Islanders at the refusal of the Kiribati Parliament to grant a portion of the A$786 million trust fund from phosphate proceeds to elderly Rabi islanders. Karoro asserted that Banaba is the property of their descendants who live on Rabi, not of the Kiribati government. "The trust fund also belong to us even though we do not live on Kiribati," he asserted. He condemned the Kiribati governments policy not to pay the islanders. Council Secretary Molly Amon said, however, that the Rabi Council had yet to reach a consensus on the matter of transferring any mining rights to the Fijian government.</p><br>
<p>On 23 December, Reteta Rimon, Kiribati&#39;s High Commissioner to Fiji, clarified that Rabi Islanders were in fact entitled to Kiribati government benefits - but only if they returned to Kiribati. She called for negotiations between the Rabi Council of Leaders and the Kiribati government.</p><br>
<h2>Economy and culture</h2><br>
<p>Gilbertese is the main language of daily communication on Rabi Island. The islanders have held fast to many Banaban customs. Development on Rabi is limited; only two manual telephone lines are in operation, and only a few generators electrify the island.</p><br>
<h2>Notable Rabi Islanders</h2><br>
<p>David Ariu Christopher, who served in the House of Representatives from 2001 to 2006, was the first Rabi Islander to hold national office in Fiji.</p><br>
<p>John Tabakitoa Teaiwa was the first Banaban (Rabi Islander) to graduate from university, gaining a bachelors degree in Agriculture at the University of Hawaii. He served as Permanent Secretary in the Fiji Ministries of Agriculture; and Housing, Urban Development and Environment from 1989-1996. He was Chairman of the Rabi Council of Leaders from 1996-2001 and after the 2000 coup was temporarily appointed a Minister in the Qarasea government.</p><br>
<p>Tebuke Rotan and Rotan Tito were important Banaban leaders and church ministers who challenged the British Phosphate Commissioners and British Government on the terms of phosphate mining on Banaba, and the destruction of the island.</p><br>
<p>Nei Makin Corrie Tekenimatang was a school teacher and the first Banaban (Rabi Islander) woman to be elected to the Rabi Council of Leaders. She was the co-editor with Jennifer Shennan of "One and a Half Pacific Islands: Stories the Banaban people tell of themselves" which marked the 60th anniversary of the Banaban landing on Rabi Island</p><br>
<p>Chao Lake , also known by its Chinese name Chao Hu, is a lake at the juncture of Chaohu and Hefei cities in Anhui Province, China. It is the largest in Anhui and one of the five largest freshwater lakes in China. Mushan Island is in the lake. About 5 million people live near the lake and use it for irrigation, transportation and fishing. Heavy use in recent years has led to eutrophication and silting. Due to Chinas rapid economic growth, the lake is now one of Chinas most polluted. It is also regarded as one of the most polluted lakes on the planet and has featured on many lists of similar attribute.</p><br>
<p>Noted tourist sites around the lake include Mount Mu, Zhongmiao Temple, Tongyang River, Mount Yinping, and the Immortals Cave. The silver fish, shrimps, and crabs of Lake Chao are called the Three Treasures. It enjoys the grand name of "Land of Plenty".</p><br>
<h2>In legend</h2><br>
<p>According to legend, the site of the lake was once a prosperous city named Chaozhou. Because of sins of its people, it was cursed by the heavens and ordered to be destroyed by flood. The task was to be carried out by a white dragon who was only able to find one good person, an old lady (Lao in Chinese) surnamed Jiao. After the destruction of Chaozhou, only the old lady and her daughter were saved. They became the two islands emerging from the lake.</p><br>
<p>This legend may be rooted in geological history, since Lake Chao is on the intersection of several major faults, of which the most famous is the Tan Lu Fault, which caused the great 1976 Tangshan earthquake in its northern section.</p><br>
<p>Bok Tower Gardens  is a National Historic Landmark, contemplative garden, and bird sanctuary located north of Lake Wales, Florida, United States. It consists of a 250 acre garden, the 205 ft tall Singing Tower with its carillon bells, Pine Ridge Trail, Pinewood Estate, and a visitor center. The tower is built upon Iron Mountain, one of the highest points of peninsular Florida, estimated to be 295 ft above sea level. It is a National Historic Landmark that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Bok Tower Gardens is open daily, and an admission fee is charged.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The gardens began in 1921 when a Dutch immigrant, Edward W. Bok, editor of the popular womens magazine Ladies Home Journal and his wife, Mary Louise Curtis Bok, who would found the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia in 1924, were spending the winter beside Floridas Lake Wales Ridge and decided to create a bird sanctuary on its highest hill (298 feet above sea level, 91 meters).</p><br>
<p>Bok commissioned noted landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. to transform what then was an arid sandhill into "a spot of beauty second to none in the country". The first year was spent digging trenches and laying pipes for irrigation, after which soil was brought to the site by thousands of truck loads and plantings began. The Olmsted plan included the planting of 1,000 large live oaks, 10,000 azaleas, 100 sabal palms, 300 magnolias, and 500 gordonias, as well as hundreds of fruit shrubs such as blueberry and holly.</p><br>
<p>Attempts were made to introduce flamingos to the sanctuary several times, which is why early renderings of the tower show flamingos at the reflection pool rather than swans. These early efforts were unsuccessful, however, as the flamingos were not native to central Florida and could not survive the winters that were cooler than those of southern Florida, where they may be found.</p><br>
<p>Under construction for over five years, Bok Tower Gardens was dedicated by President Calvin Coolidge on February 1, 1929. Edward Bok died on January 9, 1930 and was interred at the base of the tower.</p><br>
<h2>Gardens</h2><br>
<p>Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. designed the meandering gardens of Bok Tower Gardens to feature acres of ferns, palms, oaks, pines, and wetland plants. The plantings also include camellias, tree ferns, creeping fig, yaupon and dahoon holly, Asiatic jasmine, Justicia, crinum and spider lily, monstera, wax myrtle, date and sabal palm, papyrus, philodendron, blue plumbago, and horsetail rush. The site is a refuge for more than a hundred bird species. Wild turkey and groups of sandhill cranes are also often seen wandering the grounds.</p><br>
<h2>Singing Tower</h2><br>
<p>The Singing Tower is the centerpiece of the gardens. The tower was built at the highest elevation of the site, south of a reflection pool that allows the water to reflect its full image. A 60-bell carillon (cast by Taylor) set within the 205 ft tall, Gothic Revival and Art Deco tower that was designed by architect Milton B. Medary. Construction on the tower began in 1927 and was completed for the dedication of the gardens in 1929, when it was dedicated by President Calvin Coolidge. The tower is 51 ft square at its base, changing form at 150 ft high to an octagon with 37 ft sides that include sculptures designed by Lee Lawrie. The tower is surrounded by a 15 ft moat that serves as a koi pond. It is built of pink Etowah marble and gray Creole marble, mined in Tate, Georgia, and coquina stone from St. Augustine, Florida.</p><br>
<p>Although the tower&#39;s interior is not open to the public, it contains the Anton Brees Carillon Library, said to be the largest carillon library in the world. It also is home to the Chao Research Center Archives, which keeps various institutional records related to Bok Tower.</p><br>
<p>Inside the bell chamber is a playing room that houses a clavier, or keyboard, that is used for playing the carillon bells. Recitals are given daily from the 60-bell carillon set.</p><br>
<h2>Library and Archives</h2><br>
<p>Bok Tower Gardens currently houses a substantial amount of collections that document the history and growth of the Singing tower, the Gardens, and Pinewood Estate. While many of the collections are closed to the public for viewing, some selections from the archives about the history of the Gardens, Singing Tower, and Edward Bok are on display in the Visitor Center.</p><br>
<h3>Anton Brees Carillon Library</h3><br>
<p>The Anton Brees Carillon Library was established in 1968 after the death of Anton Brees, the beloved first carillonneur of the Singing Tower. The library is located on the fifth floor of the Singing Tower. It is often considered to be one of the largest collections of carillon-related materials in the world.</p><br>
<p>The Anton Brees Carillon Library includes over 1500 books, 200 collections of scores for keyboard instruments, 3000 scores and musical compositions for carillon, 1600 audio and video recordings, and 15 international professional journals that include more than 900 individual volumes. The library also houses vertical files on international carillons that include newspaper clippings, biographical information and concert programs along with the original blueprints and plans for the Singing Tower and Gardens and thousands of photographs and slides. There are several important collections located in the Anton Brees Carillon Library, including the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America Archives, Ronald Barnes Collection, Anton Brees Collection, Sidney Giles Collection and Arthur Bigelow Collection.</p><br>
<p>Access to the collections in the Anton Brees Carillon Library is available by appointment only. To make an appointment, the Bok Tower librarian should be contacted.</p><br>
<h3>Chao Research Center Archives</h3><br>
<p>The Chao Research Center Archives was formed in 2008, after a generous donation made by the Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Foundation. With this donation, space was made available on the second floor of the Singing Tower to accommodate a growing need for delicate archival documents. The Chao Research Center Archives stores the official archives of Bok Tower Gardens along with other significant collections. These significant collections include the Nellie Lee Bok Collection, American Foundation Collection, and Edward Bok Newspaper Scrapbook Collection.</p><br>
<p>The Nellie Lee Bok Collection includes her personal communications, photographs, manuscript writings, and family possessions. The American Foundation Collection includes newspaper scrapbooks, meeting minutes, publications, and other manuscript materials. The Edward Bok Newspaper Scrapbook Collection is made up of 42 bound scrapbooks filled with newspaper clippings about Bok’s publications and charitable acts.</p><br>
<p>Access to the collections in the Chao Research Center Archives is available by appointment only. To make an appointment the Bok Tower Librarian should be contacted.</p><br>
<h3>Pinewood Estate Collections</h3><br>
<p>The Pinewood Estate Mansion holds furniture, ceramics and other objects that were kept in the house before Bok Tower purchased it in 1970. Other collections held at Pinewood Estate include letters, promotional materials, and manuscripts. Pinewood Estate is open to the public throughout most of the year at a small fee. To explore the Pinewood Estate Collections an appointment must be set with the Pinewood Estate coordinator in advance.</p><br>
<h2>Pine Ridge Trail</h2><br>
<p>The Pine Ridge Nature Preserve and Trail is an ecosystem typified by an over-story of Longleaf Pine, sandhill habitats, and a dense ground cover of perennial grasses that includes a nature trail that begins at the Window by the Pond and extends for three-quarters of a mile ending at the Visitor Center. The trail is located on one of the highest points in peninsular Florida at 298 feet above sea level. Long ago the Ridge was a chain of islands. The plants and animals found on the Ridge are unique because they evolved on the chain of islands, which is why the most rare plants and animals can be found in this area. The Pine Ridge is home to several endangered animals including the gopher tortoise, eastern indigo snake, gopher frogs, and the Florida mouse. Conservation efforts for the pine trail by Bok Tower include restoration of native plants, the regulation of invasive species and educating the public.</p><br>
<h2>Pinewood Estate</h2><br>
<p>8 acre of the Gardens include the Pinewood Estate, which features a twenty-room Mediterranean Revival mansion. This mansion was built between 1930-1932 by C. Austin Buck, vice-president of Bethlehem Steel Co. in Pennsylvania, as a winter residence. Its original name was "El Retiro", and it has been restored to its 1930s appearance. The sanctuary features several events at this mansion during the year. Guided tours of the 20-room Mediterranean-style mansion are given daily.</p><br>
<h2>Exhibit Hall and Museum</h2><br>
<p>Historical perspective on the life of Edward W. Bok and the story of the creation of the garden.</p><br>
<h2>Education</h2><br>
<p>All of the Education Department’s programs and field trips align with the Florida Sunshine State Standards and Polk County Curriculum Maps. The lessons presented in the Education Department’s curriculum guide cover academic areas such as science, nature, visual & performance arts, culture and history. The curriculum guide was created to help students explore and discover Bok Tower Gardens before, during and after their trip. Students are able to learn detailed information about the gardens, the singing tower, Pinewood Estate and the Visitor Center that is contained within the curriculum guide.</p><br>
<h2>Events</h2><br>
<p>Throughout the year, there are numerous events designed to draw visitors to the Gardens. These events include concerts featuring jazz, orchestras, and the carillon bells of the Tower. The most popular are the semi-annual symphony concerts, given in the evening once in the fall and once in the spring. These events draw thousands of visitors to the large field in front of the Tower for an outdoor picnic. They feature music from both the symphony orchestra and carillon bells.</p><br>
<p>Saepinum  was a Samnite town located c. 15 km south of the modern Campobasso .</p><br>
<p>Saepinum was on the ancient road from Beneventum to Corfinium.</p><br>
<p>It was captured by the Romans in 293 BC. The position of the original town is on the mountain far above the Roman town, and remains of its walls in Cyclopean masonry still exist. The city walls (in opus reticulatum) of the Roman town were erected by Tiberius before he became emperor, the date (between 2 BC and 4 AD) being given by an inscription. Within the city walls are remains of a theatre and other buildings, including temples of Jupiter and Apollo. There still exists, by the gate leading to Bovianum, an important inscription of about 168 AD, relating to the tratture (see Apulia) in Roman days, forbidding the natives to harm the shepherds who passed along them.</p><br>
<p>The presence of tombs from the 4th century, within the city walls, suggests that the city had been largely abandoned by that time. Following the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, Saepinum was taken in 882 by Saracens.</p><br>
<p>Lake Saiko is the one of the Fuji Five Lakes and located in southern Yamanashi Prefecture near Mount Fuji, Japan.</p><br>
<p>It is the fourth of the Fuji Five Lakes in terms of surface area, and second deepest, with a maximum water depth of 71.1 m. Its surface elevation of 900 m is the same as for Lake Motosu and Lake Shōji, confirming that these three lakes were originally a single lake, which was divided by an enormous lava flow from Mount Fuji during an eruption from 864 to 868 AD. The remnants of the lava flow are now under the Aokigahara Jukai Forest, and there is evidence to indicate that these three lakes remain connected by underground waterways.</p><br>
<p>The lake is within the borders of the Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park.</p><br>
<p>Saiko has no natural drainage, but an artificial channel now connects it to Lake Kawaguchi.</p><br>
<p>As with the other Fuji Five Lakes, the area is a popular resort, with many lakeside hotels, windsurfing facilities, camp sites, and excursion boats. Japanese crucian carp, wakasagi and Kunimasu were introduced to the lake in the Meiji period, and sports fishing is also popular.</p><br>
<p>However, Kunimasu, which had been introduced to a number of lakes in Japan in the Taishō period were believed to have died out and become extinct, with the last reported sighting in 1935, until rediscovered in Lake Sai in 2010.</p><br>
<p>West Lake in Hangzhou, China, is written with the same kanji as Lake Sai.</p><br>
<p>The Strait of Otranto  connects the Adriatic Sea with the Ionian Sea and separates Italy from Albania. Its width at Punta Palascìa, east of Salento is less than 72 km. The strait is named after the Italian city of Otranto.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Since ancient times the Strait of Otranto was of vital strategic importance. The Romans used it to transport their troops eastwards. The legions marched to Brundisium (now Brindisi), had only a one-day sea voyage to modern Albania territory and then could move eastwards following Via Egnatia.</p><br>
<p>During World War I, the strait was of strategic significance. The Allied navies of Italy, France, and Great Britain, by blockading the strait, mostly with light naval forces and lightly armed fishermen, hindered the cautious Austro-Hungarian Navy from freely entering the Mediterranean Sea, and effectively kept them out of the naval theatre of war.</p><br>
<p>However, the barrage was notoriously ineffective against the German U-boats operating out of the Adriatic, which were to plague the Allied powers for most of the war throughout the Mediterranean.</p><br>
<p>In 1992, Albania and Italy signed a treaty that delimited the continental shelf boundary between the two countries in the strait.</p><br>
<p>In 1997 and 2004, nearly 100 people lost their lives trying to illegally cross the strait following the 1997 unrest in Albania and poor economic conditions in the Tragedy of Otranto and the Karaburun tragedy.</p><br>
<p>In 2006, the Albanian government imposed a moratorium on motor-powered sailing boats on all lakes, rivers, and seas of Albania to curb organized crime. The only exemption to the rule are government owned boats, foreign owned boats, fishing boats, and jet boats. In 2010, the moratorium was extended for 3 more years, until 2013.</p><br>
<p>Lagonisi  is a seaside residential area in the southern part of Kalyvia Thorikou in East Attica. It is situated close to the shore and on a peninsula by the Saronic Gulf. Lagonisi is located approximately 30 km southeast of Athens and 35 km northwest of Cape Sounio. Being filled with luxury homes, beaches as well as a 5-star hotel that lie within the Saronic, it is one of the most expensive areas in Attica Prefecture. Restaurant facilities, cafeterias and bars are located mainly on the heart of Lagonissi, close to Kalyvion Avenue .</p><br>
<h2>Beaches</h2><br>
<p>Lagonisi has many beautiful sandy beaches including those of Pefko, Agios Nikolas and Galazia Akti which are organised. In recent years, the Greek government-debt crisis has led to the privatisation of many state owned properties, including beaches. The state is oriented towards their privatisation, although locals opposition makes beaches future property status uncertain.</p><br>
<h2>Education</h2><br>
<p>The increasing number of new residents, most notably from the southern suburbs of Athens has led to the construction of public schools for children of all ages. Most specifically, the last decades there have been built 2 nursery schools, 2 primary schools, 1 gymnasium and 1 lyceum. There are also two private nursery schools, one of whom is English-speaking.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>Greek National Road 91 connects Lagonissi with Athens and Sounio, while new-built Thorikou road connects Lagonisi with Greek National Road 89. OASA (Athens Urban Transport Organisation) operates a frequent all-year round bus service to and from Elliniko metro station with the designation 122. The average travel time between Lagonisi and Elliniko metro station is about 50 minutes. Furthermore, there is a KTEL coach service connecting central Athens with the entire coastal area of western Attica, from Palaio Faliro to Cape Sounion. An inter-municipality bus service operating four to five times per day connects Lagonissi with Kalyvia Thorikou. Taxi service is available as well.</p><br>
<h2>Sports</h2><br>
<p>Lagonisi has an indoor basketball/volleyball arena located close to the gymnasium. There are numerous outdoor basketball courts and football pitches, a tennis court and two beach volleball courts. Furthermore, there is a gym and many indoor areas provide lessons for martial arts, yoga and aerobic exercises. An equestrian club called "St.George" is located in the eastern outskirts of the community as well.</p><br>
<p>The Peters Cartridge Company was a company in Kings Mills, Ohio that specialized in gunpowder and ammunition production. Its historic buildings, built in 1916 at 1915 Grandin Road, were added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 10, 1985.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Joseph Warren King purchased the Austin & Carleton powder mill on the Little Miami River in 1855 and expanded it as the Miami Powder Company including the company town of Goes Station, Ohio. King sold the Miami Powder Company in 1877 to build the Great Western Powder Works with the company town of Kings Mills at a more favorable hydropower location downstream of Goes Station. A wooden dam diverted water into a power canal through the gorge in a narrow valley between steep adjacent hills. Manufacturing facilities were dispersed along the 2 mi power canal to minimize damage during infrequent explosions. King&#39;s son-in-law Gershom Moore Peters began working at the powder mill in 1881 and became president of the powder company when King died in 1885. Peters formed the Peters Cartridge Company at Kings Mills in 1887. Machinery was manufacturing four-thousand cartridges per hour by 1889.</p><br>
<p>A collision of loaded railway cars being shunted at the powder works on 15 July 1890 triggered an explosion killing twelve people and starting fires destroying the railroad station, the freight house, two Peters Cartridge Company office buildings, the shell factory, the cartridge loading plant, a large warehouse and six employee residences. Wood-frame structures were rebuilt on the opposite side of the river from the old powder works included a large shot tower completed in 1895. The last wood-frame structures were machine shop building R-3 and shotgun shell loading building R-21 built in 1907. With the approach of World War I the company received large ammunition orders from the Russian Empire and from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Bullet manufacturing building R-6 was built of brick; and money from wartime contracts was used to replace most of the old wooden framed buildings with brick and reinforced concrete structures including the main R-1 building in 1916, the R-17 power house in 1917, metallic cartridge loading building R-2 in 1918, primer assembly building R-9, and the R-23 indoor shooting range and ballistics laboratory in 1919. A taller brick shot tower painted with a large P became a local landmark.</p><br>
<p>Remington Arms purchased the Peters Cartridge Company in 1934. Facilities were expanded during World War II to include the federally owned Kings Mills Ordnance Plant manufacturing military ammunition on an adjacent hill south of the Peters factory complex. Production of military ammunition ended in March 1944, and Remington sold the Kings Mills factory to Columbia Records. Columbia manufactured 78 rpm phonograph records at Kings Mills until 1949. When 45 rpm records became more popular the buildings were subsequently leased to Seagram distillers as warehouse space until 1968. Building R-1 and the brick shot tower survived into the 21st century. The site was listed as a Superfund National Priorities List site by the Environmental Protection Agency in April 2012 for copper, lead and mercury soil contamination.</p><br>
<p>Fogn is an island in Finnøy municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The 10.4 km&sup2; island lies southeast of the island of Finnøy and northeast of the island of Talgje. The Finnøyfjorden lies between Fogn and Finnøy and the Fognafjorden lies between Fogn and the mainland to the southeast. The highest point on the island is the 166 m tall mountain Domfjellet. Fogn Church is located on the island.</p><br>
<p>The island is especially well known for its large production of tomatoes in greenhouses, about 15 percent of Norway&#39;s total production. This employs large amounts of foreign labor on the island. There are about 354 inhabitants on the island (2014), with many more summer residents who live in summer cottages on the island. The island has its own kindergarten and an elementary school that provides education through 7th grade. Starting with 8th grade, students must take the boat to middle school, located on the island of Finnøy.</p><br>
<p>There is no road connection to the island. There are regular ferry connections to Judaberg on Finnøy island as well as to some of the other small surrounding islands, and on to the mainland.</p><br>
<p>Stock Island is an island in the lower Florida Keys immediately east of Key West  wide). Immediately northwest is Key Haven , from which it is connected by causeway with US 1 . The part north of U.S. 1 is part of the City of Key West, while the southern part is a census-designated place  in Monroe County, Florida, United States. The population of the CDP was 4,410 at the 2000 census. Stock Island was supposedly named for herds of livestock formerly kept there. Alternatively, some local historians suggest that it may be named for an early settler.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Stock Island is located at 24&deg;34&prime;12&Prime;N latitude, 81&deg;44&prime;15&Prime;W longitude (24.570075, -81.737376).</p><br>
<p>USA 1 (or the Overseas Highway) crosses the key at approximately mile markers 4—6, immediately east of Key West.</p><br>
<p>The northern side of stock island is home to the Key West Golf Course and the Monroe County Detention Center. The southern side of the island is home to numerous mobile homes and marinas.</p><br>
<p>Not to be confused with Black Mountain Open Space Park, containing a different Black Mountain in the city limits of San Diego.</p><br>
<p>Black Mountain is a summit in the Cleveland National Forest of the Peninsular Ranges in eastern San Diego County, California, north of Ramona. The peak is measured at 4,048 ft, and is sometimes referenced as Big Black Mountain to distinguish it from the smaller Rancho Peñasquitos Black Mountain Open Space Park in the city of San Diego. Black Mountain offers a WX channel for people who wish to tune in on radios to hear the weather; channel is located on VHF frequency 162.4000 MHz.</p><br>
<p>Black Mountain is home to one of the largest remaining tracts of the threatened Engelmann Oak (Quercus engelmannii).</p><br>
<p>Kegon Falls is located at Lake Chūzenji  in Nikkō National Park near the city of Nikkō, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. The falls were formed when the Daiya River was rerouted by lava flows. The main falls had a height of approximately 97 m and about twelve smaller waterfalls are situated behind and to the sides of Kegon Falls, leaking through the many cracks between the mountain and the lava flows.</p><br>
<p>In the autumn, the traffic on the road from Nikko to Chūzenji can sometimes slow to a crawl as visitors come to see the fall colors.</p><br>
<p>In 1927, the Kegon Falls was recognized as one of the "Eight Views" which best showed Japan and its culture in the Shōwa period. It is also listed as one of the "Japan’s Top 100 Waterfalls", in a listing published by the Japanese Ministry of the Environment in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Kegon Falls are infamous for suicides, especially among Japanese youth.</p><br>
<h2>Suicides</h2><br>
<p>Misao Fujimura (1886 – May 22, 1903), a Japanese philosophy student and poet, is largely remembered due to his farewell poem written directly on the trunk of a tree before committing suicide by jumping from the Kegon Falls.</p><br>
<p>The story was soon sensationalized in contemporary newspapers and was commented upon by the famed writer Natsume Sōseki. This led the famed scenic falls to become a notorious spot for lovetorn or otherwise desperate youngsters to take their lives (Werther Effect).</p><br>
<p>The Weissmies 4,017 m is a mountain in the Pennine Alps in the canton of Valais in Switzerland near the village of Saas-Fee. It is the easternmost four-thousander of its range.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Weissmies is located on the main Alpine chain, on a massif separating the Saastal valley on the west and Simplon valley on the east. The massif consists of two other main summits lying to the north at almost the same altitude, the Lagginhorn and Fletschhorn. The mountain lies between the Lagginjoch (3,500 m) to the north and the Zwischbergen Pass (3,260 m) to the south.</p><br>
<p>The Weissmies is one of the 10 four-thousanders surrounding the Saastal, facing the Dom on the west, the third highest summit of the Alps.</p><br>
<h2>Climbing</h2><br>
<p>It was first climbed by Jakob Christian Häusser and Peter Josef Zurbriggen in 1855 via the Triftgrat. The ascent was mired in some controversy as the local guides did not believe that the peak could be ascended without their help; when they themselves ascended to the summit by following Häusser and Zurbriggen&#39;s footprints, they found that the highest point had indeed been reached.</p><br>
<p>The east face was climbed first by J. A. Peebles, Mr E. P. Jackson and Margaret Jackson with guides P. Schlegel, U. Rubi and J. Martin on 17 October 1876. The more difficult south face was climbed in 1884 by C. H. Wilson, A. Burgener, J. Furrer. Two weeks later, W. H. and E. Paine with T. Andenmatten and P. Zurbriggen opened a route on the northern ridge.</p><br>
<p>The approach to the Trift Glacier/south-west ridge (Triftgrat) route can now be made via lift to Hohsaas (3,100 m), which is located virtually at the edge of the glacier. The ascent from Hohsaas takes about 4 hours and involves slopes to 40 degrees and crevasses. Another route starts from the Zwischbergen Pass (above Almageller Hut) at the foot of the southern ridge.</p><br>
