<p>Amorium was a city in Phrygia, Asia Minor which was founded in the Hellenistic period, flourished under the Byzantine Empire, and declined after the Arab sack of 838. It was situated on the Byzantine military road from Constantinople to Cilicia. Its ruins and höyük  are located under and around the modern village of Hisarköy, 13 kilometers east of the district center, Emirdağ, Afyonkarahisar Province, Turkey.</p><br>
<p>Amorium is the Latinized version of its original Greek name Amorion (Ἀμόριον). Arab/Islamic sources refer to the city as ʿAmmūriye. Under Ottoman rule the site, which never regained importance, was called Hergen Kale or Hergen Kaleh.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Antiquity</h3><br>
<p>The city minted its own coins beginning between 133 BC to 27 BC until the 3rd century AD, indicating its maturity as a settlement and military importance during the pre-Byzantine period. Amorium then must have been prestigious and prosperous. But early historical records that mention the city are strictly limited to a reference by Strabo, although it is expected that new discoveries will shed light on the city&#39;s Roman period and before.</p><br>
<h3>Byzantine period</h3><br>
<p>The city was fortified by the emperor Zeno in the 5th century, but did not rise to prominence until the 7th century. Its strategic location in central Asia Minor made the city a vital stronghold against the armies of the Arab Caliphate following the Muslim conquest of the Levant. The city was first attacked by Muʿāwiya in 646. It capitulated to ‘Abd ar-Rahman ibn Khalid in 666 and was occupied by Yazid I in 669, then retaken by Constans IIs general Andreas. Over the next two centuries, it remained a frequent target of Muslim raids (razzias) into Asia Minor, especially during the great sieges of 716 and 796. It became capital of the thema of Anatolikon soon after. In 742-743, it was the main base of Emperor Constantine V against the usurper Artabasdos, and in 820, an Amorian, Michael II, ascended the Byzantine throne, establishing the Amorian dynasty. This began the period of the citys greatest prosperity, when it became the largest city in Asia Minor. Its status however as the native city of the reigning dynasty also spelled its doom: in 838, the Caliph Al-Mu&#39;tasim launched a campaign specifically against the city, which was captured and razed, an episode recounted in a poem of Abu Tammam.</p><br>
<p>The town was rebuilt, but was burned by Thamal al-Dulafi in 931. Nonetheless, it remained an active Byzantine city at least into the 11th century. Following the Battle of Manzikert, it was devastated by the Seljuks and a large proportion of its inhabitants were killed. Emperor Alexios I Komnenos defeated the Seljuks at Amorium in 1116, but the area was never recovered.</p><br>
<p>It remained an important place in the 12th–14th centuries according to al-Idrisi and Hamdallah Mustawfi.</p><br>
<h3>Bishopric</h3><br>
<p>Amorium was a bishopric at latest by 431, when its bishop, Abraham or Ablabius, was at the Council of Ephesus. The acts of the earlier First Council of Constantinople (381) were signed by a priest, Tyrannus, of Amorium. Other bishops were Mysterius, who took part in the Council of Chalcedon in 451, Theodorus, in the Trullan Council of 692, Theodosius, in the Second Council of Nicaea in 787, and Bessarion in the Council of Constantinople (879). Theophilus was part of the mission that Photius sent to Rome about 20 years earlier.</p><br>
<p>In the Notitiae Episcopatuum of Pseudo-Epiphanius (c. 640), Amorium appears as a suffragan of Pessinus, capital of Galatia Salutaris. It appears with the same rank in another of the end of the 8th century. Soon afterwards, presumably as a result of citizens of Amorium taking the imperial throne, it became a metropolitan see with, as shown by the early 10th-century Notitiae Episcopatuum of Leo VI the Wise, five suffragan sees: Philomelium, Claneua, Docimium, Polybotus. and Pissia. There is no longer any mention of the see in the 14th-century Notitiae Episcopatuum.</p><br>
<p>No longer a residential bishopric, Amorium is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.</p><br>
<h3>42 Martyrs</h3><br>
<p>Following the 838 sack, 42 officers and notables of Amorium were taken as hostages to Samarra (today in Iraq). Refusing to convert to Islam, they were executed there in 845, and became canonized as the "42 Martyrs of Amorium".</p><br>
<h2>Excavations</h2><br>
<p>Amorium&#39;s site was long unknown, though its name appears on many maps of the 18th and 19th centuries. It was rediscovered by Richard Pococke in 1739, but the first visit by a western scholar was by the English geologist William John Hamilton in 1836; subsequently, maps placed it more accurately.</p><br>
<p>In 1987, R.M. Harrison of Oxford University conducted a preliminary survey of the site, with excavations being started in 1988. From its inception the Amorium Excavations Project has been principally concerned with investigating post-classical, Byzantine Amorium. During 1989 and 1990, an intensive surface survey was conducted of the man-made mound in the upper city. In 2001, Ali Kaya made a geophysical survey of the church found in the upper city, although a full excavation has yet to be undertaken. The Project is sponsored by the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara and funded by grants from various institutions in the United States including the Adelaide and Milton De Groot Fund at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Friends of Amorium.</p><br>
<p>After more than 20 years of British led excavation at Amorium, fieldwork restarted in 2014 with a new Turkish team under the direction of Doçent Doktor Zeliha Demirel Gökalp of Anadolu University, based at Eskisehir. Amorium Excavations Project retains its character of international collaboration with foreign institutions, like the Institute of Mediterranean Studies of Foundation for Research & Technology – Hellas.</p><br>
<h2>Notable people</h2><br>
<p>Aesop (620-560 BC), Greek fable writer, legendarily from Amorion</p><br>
<p>Michael II "the Amorian" (770–829), Byzantine emperor and founder of the Amorian dynasty</p><br>
<p>Saint Blaise of Amorion (died 908), Christian monk and saint</p><br>
<p>Worlebury Hill is the name given to an upland area lying between the flatlands of Weston-super-Mare and the Kewstoke area of North Somerset, England. Worlebury Hill&#39;s rises from sea level to its highest point of 109 m, and the western end of the hill forms a peninsula, jutting out into the Bristol Channel, between Weston Bay and Sand Bay. A toll road follows the coast around the hill from Sand Bay in the north to the now derelict Birnbeck Pier in the west, although tolls are not currently collected on the road. Worlebury Golf Club is situated on the Hill and the area is known for being one of the wealthiest areas in the county of Somerset.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The hill is the site of the Iron Age hillfort Worlebury Camp.</p><br>
<p>Many of Weston-super-Mare&#39;s large Victorian residences are built on the lower slopes of the southern side of the hill, but the rest of the hill is heavily wooded. There are ancient fortifications at the top of the hill. Quarrying took place at various places on the hill from the late 18th century until the town quarry was abandoned in 1953. Before the flatlands were adequately drained, the main route to Bristol ran eastwards along the hillside.</p><br>
<h2>Weston Woods</h2><br>
<p>Weston Woods, which cover a large part of the hill top, were awarded a Planting Places Award in a scheme run by Sustainability South West to celebrate "brilliant examples of urban greenspaces" on 6 March 2008. The woods are a 129.56 hectare local nature reserve. The woodland provides a habitat for mammals including deer, badgers, foxes and bats. Birds include woodpeckers, buzzards and treecreepers.</p><br>
<p>Weston Bay is an inlet of the Bristol Channel in North Somerset, England.</p><br>
<p>It lies between Brean Down, which is now owned by the National Trust, is rich in wildlife, history and archaeology, and has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest to the south, and Worlebury Hill to the north. Quarrying took place at various places on Worlebury Hill from the late 18th century until the town quarry was abandoned in 1953. Weston Woods, which cover a large part of the hill top, were awarded a Planting Places Award in a scheme run by Sustainability South West to celebrate "brilliant examples of urban greenspaces" on 6 March 2008.</p><br>
<p>Much of the bay forms the seafront for Weston-super-Mare. Two piers stick out into the bay. The grade II* listed Birnbeck Pier was designed by Eugenius Birch and opened in 1867. The early 20th century Grand Pier, is supported by 600 iron piles, and is 400 m long. It has been damaged by fire on two occasions, once in 1930 and again in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Owing to the large rise and fall of the tides in the Bristol Channel, the low tide mark is about a mile from the seafront. Although the beach itself is sandy, further seawards the shore is thick mud, which is very dangerous to walk in and is crossed by the mouth of the River Axe. From the bay, views of the islands of Flat Holm and Steep Holm are visible.</p><br>
<p>The Serra de Collserola, or simply Collserola, is a mountain range between the rivers Besòs and Llobregat. It is part of the Catalan Coastal Range.</p><br>
<p>These mountains separate Barcelona from the Vallès plain and their tallest peak is the Tibidabo, at 512 m. Other main summits are: Turó del Puig, Puig dOlorda, Turó de Valldaura, Turó de la Magarola, Puig dOssa, and Puig Madrona. The valleys of the Llobregat and Besós Rivers, the plain of Barcelona, and the Vallès basin, mark the geographical boundaries of the Collserola massif.</p><br>
<h2>Collserola Park</h2><br>
<p>To preserve the area, in 1987 the Parc de Collserola (Collserola Park), which has an area of 84.65 km², was established. It is the largest metropolitan park in the world - 8 times larger than the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, and 22 times larger than Central Park in New York.</p><br>
<p>In the park, over a thousand major plants and around thirty plant communities have been catalogued; including forests of Aleppo pines and nut pines, evergreen oaklands, riverside copses, maquis and scrublands, brush, and savannah grasslands. This diversity allows for the existence of a rich, varied wildlife; including wild boar, genets, stone marten, badger, rabbit, and squirrel; blue tits, whitethroats, treecreepers, woodpeckers, bee eaters, doves, goshawks, sparrow hawks, and rat-catching eagles; salamanders, newts, green tree frogs, the small southern frog, toads, the small spotted toad, the Mediterranean turtle, the giant turtle, the ocellated lizard, snakes, and so on.</p><br>
<p>On the Vilana hill, of 445 m, stands the Torre de Collserola (Collserola Tower), a telecommunications tower built in 1992 for the use of Olympic games. It is 288.4 m and was built by the British architect Sir Norman Foster.</p><br>
<p>The Collserola Park is used extensively by the inhabitants of Barcelona and the other towns that border it. It is popular for walking, cycling and birdwatching. There are numerous restaurants where families go during the weekends. A path that follows the ridge of the Serra, known as the "Carretera de les Aigües" (Water Road), has been extensively improved for cyclists. The Barcelona city plan intends to include it in a cycle track that completely circles the city.</p><br>
<p>Barrancas National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located at Naval Air Station Pensacola, in the city of Pensacola, Florida. It encompasses 94.9 acre, and as of the end of 2005, had 32,643 interments.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The area has been used as a burial ground since the construction of Fort Barrancas. In 1838 it was established as a United States Navy cemetery. During the Civil War, Pensacola was hotly contested, as it was considered to be the best port for access to the Gulf of Mexico. Numerous soldiers on both sides were interred in the cemetery after falling in combat, or dying in nearby hospitals. After the war, in 1868, Barrancas was officially made a National Cemetery and many other nearby makeshift burial grounds were disinterred and relocated to Barrancas. In each year, 1944, 1950, 1986, and 1990, more area was transferred from NAS Pensacola to expand the facilities for the cemetery.</p><br>
<h2>Notable monuments</h2><br>
<p>Barrancas National Cemetery has a monument honoring those soldiers who died from yellow fever. It was erected in 1884 by the Marine Guard of the Pensacola Navy Yard.</p><br>
<h2>Notable interments</h2><br>
<p>Colonel George E. "Bud" Day, Former POW and Medal of Honor recipient for action in the Vietnam War.</p><br>
<p>Commander Clyde Everett Lassen, Medal of Honor recipient for action in the Vietnam War.</p><br>
<p>Major Stephen W. Pless, Medal of Honor recipient for action in the Vietnam War.</p><br>
<p>Staff Sergeant Clifford Chester Sims, Medal of Honor recipient for action in the Vietnam War.</p><br>
<p>Colonel Arthur D. Simons, Special Forces commander and leader of the Son Tay raid</p><br>
<p>Major general William L. McKittrick, Marine Aviator during World War II.</p><br>
<p>General Joe W. Kelly, former commander of Military Air Transport Service from 1960 to 1964.</p><br>
<p>Admiral Maurice F. Weisner, former commander of US Pacific Command from 1976 to 1979.</p><br>
<p>"Ga-Ah", one of the many wives of the Apache Indian Geronimo, who died of Bright&#39;s disease while being held captive.</p><br>
<p>17 casualties of the 2nd Seminole War.</p><br>
<p>10 British aviators (6 Royal Navy, 4 Royal Air Force) killed during training at the Naval Air Station during World War II.</p><br>
<p>Mount Deborah is a mountain in the USA state of Alaska. It is one of the major peaks of the eastern Alaska Range. Despite its low absolute elevation , it is a particularly large and steep peak in terms of its quick rise over local terrain. For example, the Northeast Face rises 7000 feet  in approximately 1.5 miles . This steepness, combined with difficult access, harsh weather, and classic Alaskan ice and snow features, make this a challenging peak to climb.</p><br>
<p>Mount Deborah was named in 1907 by James Wickersham for his first wife, Deborah Susan (Bell) Wickersham.</p><br>
<h2>First ascent</h2><br>
<p>Mount Deborah was first climbed in 1954 by Fred Beckey, Henry Meybohm, Heinrich Harrer, via the South Ridge.</p><br>
<h2>Notable attempts and ascents</h2><br>
<p>1953 South Ridge (attempt) by Al Paige, Howard Bowman, Brooke Marston, Doctor McFarland.</p><br>
<p>1964 East Ridge (attempt) by David Roberts and Don Jensen.</p><br>
<p>1975 West Buttress and South Ridge FA of route, 2nd of summit by Pat Condran, Mark Hottman, Brian Okonek, Dave Pettigrew, Pat Stuart and Toby Wheeler. Summit reached May 8 after 36 days of effort.</p><br>
<p>1976 Northwest Ridge FA of route, 3rd of summit by Rick Nolting, Barry Nash, John Cady, and Ray Watts, summit reached July 26.</p><br>
<p>1977 North Face FA of route by Dakers Gowans and Charles Macquarrie, summit reached May 8.</p><br>
<p>Today&#39;s standard route is the West Face; the Northwest Ridge is also a recommended route.</p><br>
<p>Mount Deborah is the subject of one of the classics of mountaineering literature, Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative, by David Roberts, which describes a failed attempt on the peak in 1964.</p><br>
<p>Deborah Avenue in College, Alaska is named for the mountain. Parallel to the street in the same subdivision is Hayes Avenue.</p><br>
<p>"Deborah&#39;s mountains" (Greek: Τα βουνά της Δεβώρας), is a poem by the Greek author Menelaos Lountemis. It was written between 1932-1940 and is included in his poetry collection "Κραυγή στα πέρατα".</p><br>
<p>The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception is a Catholic Cathedral located in Camden, Camden County, New Jersey, United States. It is the seat of the Diocese of Camden, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003 as the Church of the Immaculate Conception. Built in 1864, it was officially designated as a cathedral in 1937.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Parish</h3><br>
<p>The first Catholic priests to visit the area that is now Camden were Jesuit priests from Old St. Joseph&#39;s Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They started to minister to Catholics in southern New Jersey in the 1740s where Catholicism was officially banned from being practiced. Masses and other services were celebrated in private homes. In 1796 the Augustinian priests from St. Augustine Church started ministering to Catholics in the region. They were followed sometime later by priests from the St. Mary’s Cathedral in Philadelphia who served Camden until the Diocese of Newark was established in 1853. Camden became a mission of the Catholic parish in Gloucester, which had received its first resident pastor in 1851. Mass was celebrated a couple times a months in Camden in private homes and in public halls. In 1852 the hall that was regularly used for Mass was destroyed in a fire set by Nativists.</p><br>
<p>The first resident priest assigned to Camden was the Rev. James Moran who established the Church of the Immaculate Conception in 1855. Starr’s Hall continued to be used for a church. Property was purchased in 1857 at Fifth Street and Taylor Avenue for a new church. Ground was broken for the new structure on June 9, 1859. The first Mass was celebrated on October 9 and dedicated on November 5 of the same year. A rectory was added in 1861.</p><br>
<p>A private Catholic school was started by Sarah Fields in her home in 1859. It moved to the new church building after it was completed and became a parochial school. Initially the students were taught by lay teachers. A new school building was begun in 1871, but construction was halted during the financial panic of 1872-1873. Construction then resumed and the school building and convent were completed in 1874. That year the Sisters of St. Joseph from Chestnut Hill started teaching in the school. The Brothers of the Holy Cross taught the boys from 1881-1892. A house was built for them and was completed in 1882. The Sisters of St. Joseph were replaced by the Sisters of Mercy from Bordentown, New Jersey in 1885. The school has subsequently been closed.</p><br>
<p>As Irish immigration accelerated the church building became too small. Property for the present church was bought in 1864 for $7,500. Jeremiah ORourke from Newark was chosen as the architect. The cornerstone was laid by the Rev. Bernard McQuaid, then Vicar General of the Newark Diocese, on October 23, 1864. The church was built of stone and measured 60 by 165 feet. Though unfinished, the first Mass was celebrated in the church in July 1866. The old church was sold on August 20, 1868 and it housed a factory unit it was sold again and became a meeting hall for the Grand Army of the Republic. The church was not completed until 1888 when the tower and spire were completed. The interior was also extensively renovated in 1890 when the marble altars were added. The church was consecrated on May 27, 1893 by Bishop Michael J. OFarrell.</p><br>
<p>In 1867 the German Catholics who immigrated to Camden formed their own parish from Immaculate Conception, Saints Peter and Paul. Camden became part of the Diocese of Trenton when it was established in 1881. The rectory, which had been built in 1861, was expanded in 1882. Sacred Heart Parish was established in 1885 from Immaculate Conception at a chapel that had been built in 1872.</p><br>
<h3>Cathedral</h3><br>
<p>As the number of Catholics continued to increase in South Jersey, Pope Pius XI established the Diocese of Camden on December 9, 1937. The Church of the Immaculate Conception became the cathedral church for the new diocese at this time. The diocese’s first bishop, Bartholomew J. Eustace, was installed on May 4, 1938. The number of Catholics continued to increase in the diocese and Immaculate Conception’s rather modest size necessitated St. Joseph’s Church being named a pro-cathedral in the 1950s.</p><br>
<p>Demographic changes in the late 20th and early 21st century necessitated changes to the parishes in Camden. On April 4, 2008 Bishop Joseph Galante announced that the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception would merge with Holy Name and Our Lady of Mount Carmel & Fatima parishes in Camden. The Cathedral was designated as the primary worship site with a secondary worship site at Our Lady of Mount Carmel & Fatima.</p><br>
<p>Fort Rock is a volcanic landmark called a tuff ring, located on an ice age lake bed in north Lake County, Oregon, United States.</p><br>
<p>The ring is about 4,460 ft in diameter and stands about 200 ft high above the surrounding plain. Its name is derived from the tall, straight sides that resemble the palisades of a fort. The region of Fort Rock Basin contains about 40 such tuff rings and maars and is located in the Brothers Fault Zone of central Oregon&#39;s Great Basin. William Sullivan, an early settler in the area, named Fort Rock in 1873 while searching for lost cattle.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Fort Rock was created when basalt magma rose to the surface and encountered the wet muds of a lake bottom. Powered by a jet of steam, molten basalt was blown into the air, creating a fountain of hot lava particles and frothy ash. The pieces and blobs of hot lava and ash rained down around the vent and formed a saucer-shaped ring of lapilli tuff and volcanic ash sitting like an island in the lake waters. Steam explosions also loosened angular chunks of black and red lava rock comprising the valley floor. These blocky inclusions are incorporated into the fine-grained tuff layers at Fort Rock. Waves from the lake waters eroded the outside of the ring, cutting the steep cliffs into terraces 66 ft above the floor of Fort Rock Valley.</p><br>
<p>The wave-cut terraces on the south side of the ring mark former lake levels of this now-dry lakebed. Southerly winds, which are still predominant in this region, apparently drove waves against the south side of the ring, eroding the soft ash layers, breaching it, and creating a large opening on the south side.</p><br>
<h2>Age estimates</h2><br>
<p>Previous age estimates of Fort Rock ranged upwards to 1.8 million years. Recently, the age of Fort Rock has been estimated at 50,000 to 100,000 years. This coincides with a period of time when large pluvial lakes filled the valleys of central Oregon and much of the Great Basin of the western United States. At its maximum, the water in Fort Rock Lake was estimated to cover nearly 900 square miles and was about 150 ft deep where the Fort Rock tuff ring formed.</p><br>
<p>The extensive terrace on the side of Fort Rock marks one lakeshore about 14,000 years ago. Even higher water levels are recorded on the tuff cliffs and at one point only the tops of the tuff ring were exposed as rocky islands in this inland sea. An age of about 21,000 years ago has been found for this highest lake level.</p><br>
<h2>Fort Rock State Natural Area</h2><br>
<p>Fort Rock is designated as Fort Rock State Natural Area</p><br>
<p>(formerly Fort Rock State Park).</p><br>
<h2>Other geological features</h2><br>
<p>A nearby tuff ring has a water-formed cave, called Fort Rock Cave, where in 1938 Luther Cressman from the University of Oregon discovered sagebrush sandals and human artifacts dated approximately 9,000 to 10,000 years ago.</p><br>
<p>Hole-in-the-Ground and Big Hole are two nearby maars nearly one mile in diameter formed by steam explosion. They resemble impact craters formed by meteorites, but lack the heavy metal signature residues of space objects.</p><br>
<p>Crack in the Ground</p><br>
<p>and Fossil Lake</p><br>
<p>are two more nearby Ice Age geological features.</p><br>
<p>South Ice Cave is a lava tube. Derrick Cave is estimated to be 1,200 ft long, perhaps Oregons third-longest lava tube cave. Devils Garden Lava Field and East Lava Field are other geological oddities northeast of Fort Rock a few miles. Inflated lava, kīpuka, and lava ponds are found here, plus both ʻaʻā and pāhoehoe flows.</p><br>
<p>Fort Rock Valley Historical Homestead Museum</p><br>
<p>and the small community of Fort Rock are one mile south of Fort Rock State Natural Area.</p><br>
<p>The Kandalaksha Gulf , Kantalahti) is located in the Republic of Karelia, and Murmansk Oblast in northwestern Russia. Forming the north-western corner of the White Sea, it is one of four large bays and gulfs of this sea, the others being the Onega Bay , the Dvina Bay , and the Mezen Bay .</p><br>
<p>The Kola Peninsula lies north of the Kandalaksha Gulf. The city of Kandalaksha is located at the northern tip of the gulf; the new oil port Vitino, some 10 km to the south. There are hundreds of skerries in the gulf. The gulf is shallow, reaching 300 meters on its western side. In 1976, the upper reaches of the Gulf were designated a RAMSAR wetland of international importance, notably as a breeding ground for migratory waterfowl such as the sea duck.</p><br>
<p>Kandalaksha Nature Reserve (Кандалакшский заповедник) includes parts of the coastline and many of the islands in the Gulf. It is one of Russia&#39;s oldest nature reserves, established in 1932.</p><br>
<p>The Carey Island  is an island in Selangor, Malaysia. Carey Island is located to the south of Port Klang and north of Banting town. It is a huge island separated from the Selangor coast by the Langat River, connected by two bridges from Chodoi and Teluk Panglima Garang near Banting and a bridge from Pulau Indah and Pulau Carey.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was named after Edward Valentine John Carey, an Englishman planter in Malaya has acquired an island from the Sultan Sir Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah of Selangor to start rubber plantations and since then until now the island is known as Carey Island or Pulau Carey. Carey began a plantation industry under Jugra Land and Carey Ltd. Rubber was introduced to the Carey Island in 1905 and a permanent work force was established in 1907. Despite its name, many locals from Klang do not consider it a real island compared to Crab Island due to its proximity to the mainland and the river that separates it from the mainland is practically a stream.</p><br>
<h2>Features</h2><br>
<p>It is famous for its seafood such as crabs, prawns, and various fishes. The island has palm oil plantations owned by Sime Darby Plantations. It is an initial settlement area for the Mah-Meri, one of the aborigine Orang Asli tribes of Malaysia. They have assimilated into modern life, with jobs in the nearby plantations and farms, but they retain their unique culture and way of life. Apart from exhibitions of their traditional dances and music, the Mah Meri are particularly known for their votive sculptures, fashioned from a kind of swamp hardwood known as "Nyireh Batu".</p><br>
<p>The Illinois Executive Mansion is the official residence of the Governor of Illinois. It is located at 410 E. Jackson Street in Springfield, Illinois and is open to tours on Wednesdays and Saturday mornings, free of charge. The Georgian style Mansion was designed by Chicago architect John M. Van Osdel. The Mansion was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The 16-room manor was completed in 1855 and was first occupied by governor Joel Matteson, who held the official grand opening on January 10, 1856. It is one of the oldest historic residences in the state of Illinois and one of the three oldest continuously occupied governors mansions in the United States. The governors mansion is constructed in an "H" shaped configuration.</p><br>
<p>During the Christmas season the mansion is decorated lavishly with Christmas decorations, including over a dozen Christmas trees.</p><br>
<p>Although sometimes used for state functions such as state dinners and the like, the mansion proper is, for the most part, a historic site. The libraries, bedrooms, parlors, sitting rooms, etc. are maintained as they may have looked in the 19th century. The governor and his family are not expected to actually reside in the main mansion itself. Rather, a 7-room private apartment on the second floor of the mansion is provided for the governor and his family.</p><br>
<p>Former Illinois Governor George Ryan and First Lady Lura Lynn Ryan refurbished much of the mansion&#39;s furniture during their tenure using private donations. In 2011, a multimillion-dollar renovation was planned because the last repairs to the mansion were in 1971.</p><br>
<p>In 2009, newly elevated Governor Pat Quinn announced that he was looking forward to living in the mansion, calling it "the peoples house." His predecessor Rod Blagojevich had continued to live in his Ravenswood Manor home while commuting via state plane to Springfield and preferred to execute his gubernatorial duties from within his home and, less commonly, the Governors office in Chicago&#39;s Thompson Center.</p><br>
<p>The 2014 polar vortex led to significant water damage to the mansion, and Governor Quinn, who chose to live in the mansion part-time, allocated about $40,000 in emergency repairs. Shortly after his election as governor, Bruce Rauner announced that he and his wife would invest some of their money into repairing the mansion so they could live in it during his term. The work is planned to be completed by the Illinois bicentennial in 2018.</p><br>
<p>The Sergeant Floyd Monument is a monument on the Missouri River at Floyd&#39;s Bluff in Sioux City, Iowa, USA. The monument honors Charles Floyd, a member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, who died on the upstream voyage in 1804 and was buried here.</p><br>
<p>The monument is the first designated National Historic Landmark of the United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Charles Floyd (1782 &ndash; 1804) was a United States explorer, a non-commissioned officer and quartermaster in the Lewis and Clark Expedition. A native of Kentucky, he was a relative of William Clark. He was one of the first men to join the expedition.</p><br>
<p>While exploring the Louisiana Purchase with Lewis and Clark, Floyd took ill at the end of July 1804. On July 31, Floyd wrote in his diary, "I am very sick and has been for sometime but have recovered my health again." However, this apparent recovery was soon followed by a severe turn for the worse. William Clark described his colleagues death as one "with a great deal of composure", and said that before Floyd died, he told Clark: "I am going away. I want you to write me a letter." The sergeant died on August 20. The expedition held a funeral and buried Floyd on a bluff overlooking the Missouri River; they named it Floyds Bluff in his honor.</p><br>
<p>Clark diagnosed Floyds illness as bilious colic, though modern doctors and historians agree Floyds death was more likely to have been caused by a ruptured appendix. The brief "recovery" Floyd described may have represented the temporary relief afforded by the bursting of the organ, which would have been followed by a fatal peritonitis. Because there was no known cure for appendicitis at that time, he could not have been saved by even the best physicians of the day.</p><br>
<p>By 1857, erosion had caused much of Floyds grave—even the original cedar post marker left by the crew of the expedition—to slide into the river and wash away. Concerned citizens rescued most of his skeleton, including his skull, and re-buried it 200 meters east of the original burial site. A forensic reconstruction of Sgt. Floyds probable facial appearance based on a plaster cast of his skull is on display at the Sergeant Floyd Riverboat Museum in Sioux City.</p><br>
<p>After Floyds expedition journal was published in 1894, new interest was taken in him. His gravemarker was stolen by thieves. Floyds remains were reinterred once more on August 20, 1895 with a monument. A marble cornerstone three feet wide and seven feet long was placed in 1900. When the obelisk of white sandstone standing 100 ft high was completed on May 30, 1901, Floyd&#39;s grave was moved for the fourth time to rest nearby, where it remains to this day. In 1960, the monument was recognized by the USA Department of Interior as the first National Historic Landmark. It was designated a National Historic Landmark on June 30, 1960.</p><br>
<p>The Floyd Monument is now within a 23 acre park that offers visitors a splendid view of the Missouri River valley. Floyd&#39;s final resting place is located on old USA Highway 75, in the southern part of Sioux City, Iowa.</p><br>
<p>Dyrham Park is a baroque country house in an ancient deer park near the village of Dyrham in South Gloucestershire, England. The house, attached orangery, stable block and accompanying parish church are Grade I listed buildings, while the park is Grade II* listed on the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.</p><br>
<p>The current house was built for William Blathwayt in stages during the 17th and early 18th centuries on the site of a previous manor house, with the final facade being designed by William Talman. It contains art works and furniture from around the world, particularly Holland, and includes a collection of Dutch Masters. The house is linked to the 13th-century church of St Peter, where many of the Blathwayt family are buried. The house is surrounded by 274 acre of formal gardens, and parkland which supports a herd of fallow deer. The grounds, which were originally laid out by George London and later developed by Charles Harcourt Masters, include water features and statuary.</p><br>
<p>The house and estate are now owned by the National Trust and underwent extensive renovation in 2014 and 2015. They are open to the public on some days and host events and attractions, including open-air concerts. They have also been used as a location for film and television productions.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Manor of Dyrham has been recorded since the Domesday Book of 1086, when there were 34 households. The first lord of the manor to be resident may have been William Denys, who was an Esquire of the Body to Henry VIII and later High Sheriff of Gloucestershire. He was granted the licence to empark 500 acre of Dyrham in 1511, although not all of this area was enclosed. This meant that he could enclose the land with a wall or hedgebank and maintain a captive herd of deer within the park, over which he had exclusive hunting rights; The west front of 1692 was commissioned from the Huguenot architect, Samuel Hauduroy, The construction of the east wing included demolition of the remains of the original Tudor house and the addition of a statue of an eagle on the roof.</p><br>
<p>Owing to Blathwayt’s royal connections, and his influential uncle, Thomas Povey, Dyrham became a showcase of Dutch decorative arts. The collection includes delftware, paintings and furniture. Eighteenth-century additions include furniture by Gillow and Linnell. The interiors have remained little altered since decorated by Blathwayt. The gardens were designed by George London in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.</p><br>
<p>The Blathwayt family owned the house until 1956, when the government acquired it, but during the Second World War it was used for child evacuees while rented by Lady Anne Islington, the wife of John Dickson-Poynder, 1st Baron Islington, who redecorated many of the rooms. The National Trust acquired it in 1961. While the repairs were in progress, visitors could view the house from a rooftop walkway.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<h3>House</h3><br>
<p>The limestone building has slate and lead roofs above the attics. The two-storey west front, which was built in the 1690s, has three bays of each side of the central doorway, which has Doric columns, with smaller pavilions at the ends of the wings. One of the wings creates a covered passageway to the church of St Peter. The east front, which was added around 1704, has shallow projecting wings and a central door under a balustrade with an Italianate double staircase leading down to the lawns. A central pedestal is inscribed "virtute et veritate". Above it is an eagle statue, carved by John Harvey of Bath, representing the family crest of the Blathwayt family.</p><br>
<p>The interior is sumptuously decorated with wood panelling and tiles of Delftware. The collection of artworks and artifacts includes furniture, china and pictures with a strong Dutch influence. The china includes a pair of tulip vases made in the 1680s. The state bed, with crimson and yellow velvet hangings, was made in Anglo-Dutch style around 1704. The entrance hall is hung with bird paintings by Melchior dHondecoeter and throughout the house are landscape and still lifes by Abraham Storck, Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten, David Teniers the Younger, Melchior dHondecoeter, and other Dutch Masters. Hoogstratens "View of a Corridor" has been hung in a doorway as the artist originally intended. Blathwayts travels are also represented by paintings by Spanish artists such as Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and a staircase made of walnut from his estates as auditor general of the Colony of Virginia. Many of these were brought to Dyrham by George William Blathwayt after he inherited the house in 1844. There are also artifacts from Blathwayts journeys to other parts of the world, particularly Jamaica.</p><br>
<h3>Orangery and stable block</h3><br>
<p>On the south eastern side of the house is an orangery, which was built as a greenhouse in 1701 and has a glazed roof which was added around 1800 by Humphrey Repton. The orangery hides the view of the servants&#39; quarters from the main house. It is now used as a tea-room for visitors.</p><br>
<h3>Church</h3><br>
<p>The Anglican parish church of St Peter was originally built in the mid 13th century and had a three-stage tower added in the 15th, however it was extensively restored when the main house was built in the late 17th century. The church consists of a north and south aisle, chancel and south west porch with the tower to the west. In the south aisle are encaustic tiles dating from the 13th century. The font is Norman while the pulpit is Jacobean. There is also a 16th-century Flemish altar triptych.</p><br>
<p>The church is not owned by the National Trust but is closely associated with the rest of the estate and has the tombs and memorials for many owners of the house. The parish is part of the benefice of Wick with Doynton and Dyrham, within the Diocese of Bristol.</p><br>
<h2>Grounds</h2><br>
<p>The house is set in 274 acre of gardens and parkland, which is home to a herd of 200 fallow deer. Many of the walls and gatepiers were added in the late 18th century. There is statuary in the grounds, including a statue of Neptune by Claude David, about 320 m east of the house. Artificial lakes and cascades of water are also a feature.</p><br>
<p>The gardens were designed by George London in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. The park is listed Grade II* on the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.</p><br>
<h2>Public access</h2><br>
<p>The house and gardens are open to the public on certain days, and the grounds are open all year long. A bus takes visitors from the car park down to the house, gardens, tea room and shop. The bus road can be walked down for access to the house or there is an easy walk to the house down grassy slopes. There is no car parking at the house itself. Dogs are not permitted in the park, but there is an exercise area for dogs near the car park. Events within the park include music concerts, open-air theatre productions, guided tours of the house, park and garden, and other attractions.</p><br>
<h2>Film and television</h2><br>
<p>Dyrham Park was one of the houses used as a filming location for the 1993 Merchant Ivory film The Remains of the Day (others included Badminton House and Powderham Castle). The house was used for outdoor and garden scenes in the 1999 BBC mini-series Wives and Daughters. In 2003, it was the filming location for the BBC One series Servants. An aerial view of Dyrham Park was featured in the opening title sequence of the 2008 film Australia.</p><br>
<p>In September 2010, the BBC filmed scenes for the Doctor Who sixth series episode "Night Terrors" at Dyrham Park.</p><br>
<p>Dyrham Park was also used for scenes in The Crimson Field by the BBC in 2014.</p><br>
<p>Garden Island is an uninhabited 4,990 acre  island located in the Beaver Island archipelago in northern Lake Michigan. It is almost wholly owned by the USA state of Michigan and is overseen by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources  as part of the Beaver Island State Wildlife Research Area. It is accessible by private boat. The Native American  name for the island is Minis Gitigaan, which has become Garden Island by direct translation. The Island&#39;s Native American cemetery was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in March 1978.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Garden Island&#39;s maximum length, from northwest to southeast, is approximately five miles (8 km). Currently, the island is not inhabited on a year-round basis; historically, this island was the home of many Anishinaabe. Some of these native Islanders lived on the island year-round, and others lived there during the warmer months. An increasing number of Anishinaabe from the mainland and Beaver Island owned farms on the Garden Island after the treaties of 1836 and 1847, planting corn and squash. Other Anishinaabe worked as fishermen. This Native settlement shrank during the early 1900s as most of its members moved away. Much of the land reverted to the state of Michigan as a result of the nonpayment of property taxes. The state never properly explained property tax law to the islanders. Other patches of land were abandoned. The last Garden Island resident, Peter Monatou, died in the 1940s.</p><br>
<p>Most of the old-growth timber on Garden Island was cut and sawn by a short-lived sawmill that operated on the island in 1912-1913. A small town, now a true ghost town, was built near the mill and named Success, Michigan.</p><br>
<p>In 1978, Garden Island was the location for the climax of a Girl Scout Wider Opportunity called Scouts on Survival&#39;78. 48 Senior Girl Scouts ages 15 –18 were brought to Michigan State University to study survival techniques. After two weeks of classes, the girls spent a week at Rose Lake Park practicing their new skills, and then a week on Garden Island. On Garden Island, they were placed in groups of 8. Each girl had only a knife, flint and steel, and a space blanket. The girls survived by building lean-tos, setting snares, fishing with handmade fishing hooks and twine, and foraging for wild plants.</p><br>
<h2>Terrain</h2><br>
<p>Garden Island is surrounded by relatively cool, shallow water, making the area ideal for sport and commercial fishing. The island itself is relatively low and spotted with many ponds and wetlands. The island is well known as a place of endangered and rare herbs and wetland plants.</p><br>
<h2>Religion</h2><br>
<p>Although the island is currently uninhabited year-round, a Native cemetery on the island, the Garden Island Indian Cemetery, continues in active use and contains more than 3,500 burials, most of them unmarked. The cemetery is notable for a number of "spirit houses" marking burial sites. The cemetery land is owned by a nonprofit group that keeps the site protected and open to all native peoples.</p><br>
<h2>Notable residents</h2><br>
<p>Keewaydinoquay Peschel</p><br>
<h2>View</h2><br>
<p>Garth Hill  is a mountain located near the village of Pentyrch in Cardiff. It was the inspiration for "Ffynnon Garw", the fictional mountain  featured in the book, and later, film, The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain by Christopher Monger.</p><br>
<h2>The Garth</h2><br>
<p>The Garth can be seen from nearly the whole of the city of Cardiff, and on a sunny, clear day as far as Weston-super-Mare across the Bristol Channel in the South West of England. It lies adjacent to the Taff Vale with the village of Pentyrch on one side and looks down onto the small villages of Gwaelod-y-Garth and Taff&#39;s Well. The Garth has a number of tumuli on its top. These are burial sites dating from the early to middle Bronze Age, around 2000 BC. There are also World War II practice works (sources unreliable).</p><br>
<p>Fine views of Cardiff and the Taff valley are obtained from the prominent crag.</p><br>
<p>The Garth has a sister hill, the Lesser Garth. The Lesser Garth is of limestone, which is extensively quarried, with much of the hill now removed; it was also formerly mined for iron ore. The valley between the two is eroded in softer Coal Measures, shales in the main, while the Garth itself is formed of the resistant Pennant Sandstone formation. Until the 19th century, the valley and the lower slopes of the Garth facing Taffs Well were full of small coal mines which fed the ironworks below in the River Taff valley, opposite Taffs Well. There is now little trace of these although one, Y Lan Colliery, has recently had its portal partly restored as a memorial to an explosion in 1875. A cleared path now leads to this, near the primary school.</p><br>
<p>The access road to Pentyrch village, Heol Goch, runs between the main and lesser Garth.</p><br>
<h2>In media</h2><br>
<p>Christopher Monger, a native of nearby Taffs Well, wrote the novel The Englishman Who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain which was made into a film in 1995. The location of the fictional "Ffynnon Garw" above the authors home village, suggests that it is the Garth, however, the story is fictional and the mound on which the trigonometrical point stands is a Bronze Age burial mound. The popular film has resulted in a stream of visitors climbing to the summit of Garth Mountain to view the location.</p><br>
<p>The Tome School is a private school in North East in Cecil County in the USA state of Maryland. It is one of the oldest schools in Maryland. It enrolls grades K - 12.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Port Deposit</h3><br>
<p>The Tome School for Boys, originally located on Main Street in Port Deposit, Maryland, in Cecil County, on the east bank of the Susquehanna River was founded by Jacob Tome (1810-1898), as a nonsectarian college preparatory school for boys. It opened for boarders and received its first students in 1894. It was part of a system of schools collectively known as the Jacob Tome Institute that began with kindergarten and extended through high school. Situated in the northeast corner of the state, the Tome School was immediately popular, attracting almost all the students from the town of Port Deposit and many from outside, throughout Maryland, Pennsylvania and neighboring states.</p><br>
<p>Following a design competition in 1900, supervised by Peabody, the Board of Trustees selected designs by partner architects William Boring (1859-1937), and Edward Lippincott Tilton (1861-1933), co-designers of the USA immigration station at Ellis Island in New York harbor and other significant structures, in the then popular beaux arts architectural style. Olmsted selected well-known landscape architect Charles Wellford Leavitt (1871-1928), to design the school&#39;s gardens.</p><br>
<p>In the early 1900s, Tome played football annually against The Baltimore City College, the third oldest public high school in America, founded 1839, and with an interscholastic football team program dating back to the 1880s and had several other schools and colleges on its schedule. The rivalry was fairly even. The Citys Collegians beat Tome 5-0 in 1903 and 11-8 in 1904, but Tome won 32-0 in 1912 and 37-0 in 1915. Other rivalries also were versus the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, the mathematics/science/technology public high school, established 1883 that was also City Colleges arch-rival. These were the few other public secondary schools, in addition to several other private or religious schools, institutes and academies in the region offering worthy sports and academic competition.</p><br>
<p>In 1906, school director Abram W. Harris, along with Phi Beta Kappa members on the Tome School faculty, organized Alpha Delta Tau fraternity, which later became the Cum Laude Society.</p><br>
<p>The school enjoyed a prestigious reputation for a number of years. Its students included R. J. Reynolds, Jr. (son of R. J. Reynolds) as well as children of the famous financial / business Mellon and Carnegie families.</p><br>
<p>The school property and buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district in 1984.</p><br>
<h3>USNTC Bainbridge</h3><br>
<p>After thriving for several decades, the Jacob Tome Institute fell into difficult financial straits during the Great Depression of the 1930s and was finally closed in 1941. The following year at the beginning of World War II, the property, along with the additional land from 70 surrounding farms, was acquired by condemnation by the United States government for the use of the United States Navy for development as a USA Naval Training Center. The institute&#39;s former buildings were converted to use by the Naval Academy Preparatory School to prepare future midshipmen for the USA Naval Academy further south at Annapolis, Maryland. USNTC Bainbridge was activated on October 1, 1942, and operated throughout World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War, and the Cold War era. It closed as a military facility on March 31, 1976. During 34 years of operation, USNTC Bainbridge, (named for early 19th century naval hero William Bainbridge) graduated over 500,000 recruits.</p><br>
<p>For over a decade, from 1979-1991, the Susquehanna Job Corps Center occupied the campus. In 2000, the site was transferred to the State of Maryland, which subsequently turned it over to the Bainbridge Development Corporation.</p><br>
<p>Meanwhile, the Tome School moved back to its original site on Main Street in Port Deposit. In 1971, the Tome School moved to a new, hundred-acre campus in North East, Maryland.</p><br>
<h2>Academics</h2><br>
<p>The co-educational school enrolls students from kindergarten through twelfth grade. The curriculum provides a broad liberal arts education in an environment emphasizing academic success, high standards of personal behavior, and full participation in school life. The student body is divided among three schools:</p><br>
<p>Lower School (K-4). Students begin French and Spanish language study in first grade.</p><br>
<p>Middle School (5-8). Students are required to take Latin study in the seventh grade through eighth grade.</p><br>
<p>Upper School (9-12). Students concentrate on a traditional college prep academic program.</p><br>
<p>The current Head of School is Christine Szymanski.</p><br>
<h2>Extracurricular activities</h2><br>
<p>Varsity Sports: Basketball, Soccer, Cross Country, Tennis, Baseball, Softball, Cheerleading and Volleyball.</p><br>
<p>Junior Varsity Sports: Basketball, Soccer, Cross Country, Field Hockey, Volleyball, and Tennis.</p><br>
<p>Organizations and Clubs: National Honor Society, Junior National Honor Society, Key Club, Builders Club, Middle School Chorus, Orchestra, Student Government, Chess Club, Environmental Club, Envirothon Team, and Student Literary Magazine.</p><br>
<h2>Notable alumni</h2><br>
<p>Lansdale Sasscer, USA Representative from Maryland</p><br>
<p>Great Central Lake is one of the premier recreational lakes on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. Great Central Lake is 35 kilometers long, with an area of 49 square kilometers, and 333 meters deep. The lake is long and narrow, with the exception of Trestle Bay located on the east end of the lake. The lake is nestled beneath low mountains, with second-growth forest surrounding most of the lake. The relatively steep shoreline has kept Great Central Lake relatively undeveloped. The water level is controlled by a dam on the east side of the lake.</p><br>
<p>Fishing, boating, skiing, wakeboarding, swimming, hiking, camping, and ATVing are common activities carried out on and around the lake. Notable features of Great Central Lake and the immediately surroundings include the natural waterslides at Dorothy Creek and Della Falls, as well as the city of Port Alberni. Great Central Lake is the headwaters of the Stamp River, a popular location for steelhead salmon fishing.</p><br>
<h2>Residents</h2><br>
<p>Population: approximately 70. The Trestle RV Park on Trestle Bay is includes 40 large, fully serviced, recreational lots. The development is over 60% sold out. There are also a number of float houses along the shoreline of Great Central Lake. Finally, Great Central Lake RV Resort & Marina is a private campsite offering seasonal rentals, based on a four month minimum.</p><br>
<h2>Della Falls Trail</h2><br>
<p>Della Falls is one of the highest waterfall in all of Canada at 440 meters high and a sight to behold. Della falls trail is a 7 hour hike to the base of Della Falls in the Strathcona Provincial Park. There are various campsites along the trail. A local fellow offers water taxi services to the trail head.</p><br>
<h2>Nearby Urban Centres</h2><br>
<p>Port Alberni is Great Central Lake&#39;s closest urban center, approximately 16 kilometers away from the Great Central Lake RV Resort campsite. Port Alberni offers various services including kayak rentals, paddle board rentals, grocery stores, and fishing charters and equipment suppliers.</p><br>
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<p>Ayr Mount is a Federal style plantation house located east of Hillsborough, in Orange County, North Carolina, the United States of America.</p><br>
<p>In 1799, William Kirkland (born in Ayr, Scotland) bought 500 acre east of Hillsborough. Circa 1815, he had a home built for himself, his wife, Margaret, and their children. The brick dwelling consists of a two-story, three bay main block flanked by one-story, two bay wings. It features a one-story, full width front porch added about 1894.</p><br>
<p>The Kirkland family lived at Ayr Mount for four generations, with the last Kirkland, Mrs. Samuel (Emily) Kirkland, residing at Ayr Mount until 1985.</p><br>
<p>The property had gone through several owners prior to Kirkland&#39;s purchase of the property, the most well-known being William Few, Jr., whose father, William Few, Sr., had a house built on the property c. 1764.</p><br>
<p>Today, Ayr Mount is a publicly accessible historic site located on 265 acre. It is owned and operated by Classical American Homes Preservation Trust. The home has been furnished with Federal period antiques and decorative art, including some original Kirkland furnishings. Ayr Mount features guided house tours and the one-mile (1.6 km) hiking trail the "Poet&#39;s Walk."</p><br>
<p>St. Helena Island is an uninhabited 240 acre island in the Lake Michigan approach to the Straits of Mackinac. The island is located offshore from Gros Cap, Michigan, 10 mi west of Mackinac Island in Mackinac County in the U.S. state of Michigan.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>From the standpoint of the Great Lakes, the most important fact about St. Helena Island are the shoal waters that extend outward from the small islands southeasternmost point. A hazard to navigation, the shoal inspired the 1873 construction of a 63 ft lighthouse and tower. The St. Helena Island Light not only warned boaters away from the shoal, but also guided eastbound vessels toward the narrow Straits of Mackinac. The light station, which now constitutes the islands only remaining constructed buildings, remains as an active aid to navigation as of 2014.</p><br>
<p>By contrast, the Islands north shore has a natural (albeit shallow) harbor on its north shore. Historically, this embayment provided shelter for both Native Americans and voyageurs, who sought shelter from fierce, foreseeable and notorious southwesterly storms, which would drive waves that gained strength running with the lakes length.</p><br>
<h2>Fishing station</h2><br>
<p>The cold but shallow waters around St. Helena Island create fertile grounds for schools of lake trout and whitefish. During the 1800s, a fishing station operated adjacent to the island harbor. A fishing station, a self-contained community vernacular to the culture of the Upper Great Lakes, was a logistical depot for professional fishermen during the century prior to the development of motorboats and refrigeration. Freshly caught fish from the waters of northeastern Lake Michigan adjacent to St. Helena Island would be rushed by oar or sail back to the fishing station for preservation in salt. Salt fish could be stored and transported in barrels as an exportable commodity.</p><br>
<p>Fisherfolk from St. Helena are identified as part of the mob that carried out an ethnic cleansing operation on nearby Beaver Island in 1856. The operation was part of a network of events intended to establish overall Mackinac Island control over the fishing grounds of northern Lake Michigan. Long successful, this control failed during the early decades of the 20th century. The invention of electrical refrigeration and powered fishing boats made widely distributed fishing stations unnecessary. Local fish could be carried to larger nearby port towns such as Mackinaw City, Michigan or St. Ignace, Michigan. The St. Helena Island fishing station became a ghost town, and the former light station was extensively vandalized.</p><br>
<h2>Natural area</h2><br>
<p>The island currently serves as a refuge and breeding ground for fish-eating birds, such as the osprey and great blue heron.</p><br>
<p>Healy Hall is a National Historic Landmark located on the main campus of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Constructed between 1877–1879, the hall was designed by Paul J. Pelz and John L. Smithmeyer, prominent architects who also built the Library of Congress. The structure was named after Patrick Francis Healy, who was the President of Georgetown University at the time.</p><br>
<p>Healy Hall serves as the main administrative and reception venue of Georgetown, with some portions still being used as classrooms. The building includes the Riggs Library, one of the few extant cast iron libraries in the nation, as well as the elaborate Gaston Hall.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was built during the presidency of Patrick Francis Healy after whom it is named.</p><br>
<p>The construction of the building, from 1877 to 1879, dramatically increased the amount of classroom and living space—at the time, it was also used as a dormitory—of what was then a small liberal arts college. The construction also left the university deeply in debt and in possession for years of an enormous pile of dirt as a result of the excavation, with no funds to remove it. As a result of the debts, the Gaston Hall auditorium could not be completed until 1909.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on DC Inventory of Historic Sites in 1964, on the National Register of Historic Places on May 25, 1971, and as a National Historic Landmark on December 23, 1987.</p><br>
<p>The building was brought to national attention in 1973 when it acted as a prominent background for the film The Exorcist. In 1990 the interior hall and also the second story of the building featured in The Exorcist III.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Built in a Neo-Medieval style that combines elements of Romanesque, Early Gothic, Late Gothic and Early Renaissance, the building contains the Office of the President; Georgetown&#39;s Department of Classics; the Kennedy Institute of Ethics; and the.</p><br>
<p>Notable rooms in Healy include Riggs Library, one of the few extant cast iron libraries in the nation; the Philodemic Room, the meeting room for the Philodemic Society, one of the oldest collegiate debating clubs in the nation; the grand Hall of Cardinals; the historic Constitution Room; and the Carroll Parlor, which houses several notable pieces from the university&#39;s art collection.</p><br>
<p>Perhaps the grandest space in the building is Gaston Hall, Georgetowns "Jewel in the Crown", the 750-seat auditorium which has played host to multitudes of world leaders. Gaston Hall, located on the third and fourth floors and named for Georgetowns first student, William Gaston, is decorated with the coats of arms of the Jesuit colleges and universities and rich allegorical scenes painted by notable Jesuit artist Brother Francis C. Schroen. Schroen also created the intricate paintings found in the Carroll Parlor and on the ceiling of the Bioethics Reference Center&#39;s Hirst Reading Room.</p><br>
<p>Healy Hall rises to a height of 200 ft, making it the tied with 700 Eleventh Street as the sixth tallest building in Washington, D.C.</p><br>
<h2>Clock hands</h2><br>
<p>The hands of the Healy Clock Tower have been subjected to many thefts, as per the university tradition. Historically, students would steal the hands and mail them to the person they wished to visit the campus, most notably sent to the Vatican, where they were blessed by Pope John Paul II and then returned to the university. One such incident caused significant damage to the clock mechanism, however, and security has been increased as a result in recent years, decreasing the incidence of the theft. These measures have not prevented students from successfully obtaining the hands however, as they are captured every five to six years, such as in the fall of 2005 by Drew Hamblen (SFS ’07) and Wyatt Gjullin (COL ’09). The hands were stolen once again during the evening between April 29 and April 30, 2012, and supposedly sent to Barack Obama but the hands ended up lost in the mail. More recently, the clock hands were stolen during the evening between December 9th and December 10th, 2014, and again sometime during the night of April 30, 2017.</p><br>
<p>Dean M. Carignan (SFS &#39;91) has written of his stealing the clock hands during his freshman year. On April 1, 1988, Carignan and a fellow student accessed the clock through "a metal plate set into the roof at the base of the clocktower." Eventually tracked down by campus security, Carignan and his Georgetown accomplice were sentenced by a university discipline panel to "an $800 fine, a 40-hour work sanction, a year of probation."</p><br>
<p>The writer Joseph Bottum has also published an account of stealing the clock hands. In the Fall of 1977, Bottum joined Stan DeTurris, Dave Barry, and Pat Conway (all freshmen in the class of ’81) to climb through a trap door on the north peak of Healy, above Gaston Hall, and steal the hands from the east face of the clock, returning them at the end of the school year to the university president, Fr. Timothy Healy, S.J. The next year, Bottum writes, he and DeTurris found another way into the attics of Healy Hall, crawling through the ducts above Riggs Library to steal the minute hands from both the east and west clock faces.</p><br>
<h2>Image gallery</h2><br>
<p>Annacis Island is an island located in the south arm of the Fraser River, in Delta, British Columbia. The island is now mostly industrial, and it contains one of Metro Vancouver&#39;s secondary wastewater treatment plants.</p><br>
<p>The southern part of the island is connected to Delta via the Alex Fraser Bridge, which is part of Highway 91. Connections northward to Richmond and New Westminster are via smaller bridges on Highway 91. At the eastern end of the island there is also the Derwent Way Bridge which connects the island to the Queensborough neighborhood of New Westminster. The island is served by a public bus that connects to 22nd Street Station in New Westminster.</p><br>
<p>The wider part of the Fraser River south of the island is known as Annieville Channel (upstream) and City Reach (downstream), while the more narrow channel north of the island is Annacis Channel. The eastern (upstream) tip of the island is known as Shoal Point, and the western (downstream) tip as Purfleet Point.</p><br>
<h2>Origin of the name</h2><br>
<p>The island&#39;s name is derived from "Annance&#39;s Island," named for François Annance, a Hudson&#39;s Bay Company clerk, who travelled with Chief Factor James McMillan to found Fort Langley in 1827.</p><br>
<p>Wildcat Creek is a tributary of the Wabash River in north-central Indiana. The stream is 84 mi long and drains an area of 804.2 square miles. Wildcat Creek consists of three main forks-North, South, and Middle. All forks flow in a general east-west direction through varied topography and land uses, including cropland, pasture, forest and developed areas.</p><br>
<p>The major tributaries of the Wildcat are the Little Wildcat Creek and the Kokomo Creek. This creek would be known as a river in most areas of the United States due to its width.</p><br>
<p>In November 1812, an American military force was defeated in the Battle of Wild Cat Creek, sometimes known as "Spur&#39;s Defeat".</p><br>
<p>The Wildcat travels through Greentown, Kokomo and Burlington before joining the Wabash River near Lafayette. Just west of Greentown, the creek becomes the Kokomo Reservoir. The, a private environmental/recreational organization, works to keep the creek free of litter and debris.</p><br>
<p>Wildcat Creek is also a Group 5 waterway below dams in Kokomo, and due to high mercury and PCB content, fish are not to be consumed west of the dam.</p><br>
<p>In February 2014, the Wildcat Creek was featured on CBS Evening News for its ice dam jams, because of the frigid winter season.</p><br>
<p>In mid 2015, the I-65 bridge over Wildcat Creek was closed because structural problems with a support pier leaning in riverbank.</p><br>
<p>The Bacho Kiro cave  is situated 5 km west of the town Dryanovo, Bulgaria, only 300 m away from the Dryanovo Monastery. It is embedded in the canyons of the Andaka and Dryanovo River. It was opened in 1890 and the first recreational visitors entered the cave in 1938, two years before it was renamed in honor of Bulgarian National Revival leader, teacher and revolutionary Bacho Kiro. The cave is a four-storey labyrinth of galleries and corridors with a total length of 3,600 m, 700 m of which are maintained for public access and equipped with electrical lights since 1964. An underground river has over time carved out the many galleries that contain countless stalactone, stalactite, and stalagmite speleothem formations of great beauty. Galleries and caverns of a 1,200 m long section have been musingly named as a popular description of this fairy-tale underground world. The formations succession: Bacho Kiro’s Throne, The Dwarfs, The Sleeping Princess, The Throne Hall, The Reception Hall, The Haidouti Meeting-Ground, The Fountain and the Sacrificial Altar.</p><br>
<p>The site has yielded the oldest human remains ever to be found in Bulgaria. Among one of the earliest known Aurignacian burials (layer 11), two pierced animal teeth were found and ordered into the distinct Bachokiran artifact assemblage. Radiocarbon dated to over 43,000 years ago, they currently represent the oldest known ornaments in Europe. With an approximate age of 46,000 years, human fossils consist of a pair of fragmented mandibles. Whether these early humans were in fact Homo sapiens or Neanderthals is still disputed.</p><br>
<p>The Michigan Theatre at 124 North Mechanic Street in Jackson, Michigan opened in 1930 and was designed by Maurice Herman Finkel. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 8, 1980, and is undergoing renovations as of 2005.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Michigan Theatre was built in 1930. It was built for the mainstream popular entertainment of the day, vaudeville and movies. The theatre, unlike others of its time, avoided alterations of style as the movie business changed throughout the 20th century. For just a few pennies, the public of the 1930s entered the building and were treated as royalty. As guests entered the exotic Spanish-styled building, they found lavish interior plasterwork of the 1930s, polychrome terra cotta facade, walnut furniture, wool carpets, oil paintings, heavy demask draperies, and exotic stained glass light fixtures.</p><br>
<p>It still stands as an engineering marvel in its ability to circulate the air in the building in ten minutes. It was the first air conditioned building of downtown Jackson (and still works efficiently today using ground water and tunnels and negative pressure to move the air via physical properties), and many guests entered the lobby just to escape the summer heat. Early in its history, the Michigan Theatre was painted a darker color scheme (to create a darker auditorium), carpet was changed, and the marquee was updated to match a more modern-like streamline. A candy counter also was added. The original owner of the theatre, Butterfield Theatres, maintained the theatre until business ceased in 1978. Since 1978, the building has deteriorated into its current state. The Michigan Theatre of Jackson, Incorporated acquired the theatre from the city of Jackson on August 24, 1993. The non-profit corporation continues to restore the building, receiving a Michigan Historic Preservation Award in 2012 for its restoration efforts. Today the theatre brings in classic films, art films, live theatre productions, concerts, meetings, and other community events. When the restoration is finished, the theatre will attract tourists to downtown Jackson and help the local economy. In 2012 The Michigan Theatre hosted over 300 events and continues to thrive via generous donations from many and excellence in programming.</p><br>
<p>Jomfruland is a small elongated Norwegian island located off the coast of mainland Kragerø in the county of Telemark, about 2 km south of the island of Stråholmen. It measures about 7.5 km by 1 km. Jomfruland provides shelter to the many islands of the Kragerø archipelago from the Skagerrak seas.</p><br>
<p>Approximately on the island&#39;s center there are two white lighthouses &ndash; one old and one new. Only the newer is in use today. The lighthouses are most characteristic and can be seen from all sides. These towers are often referred to as the characterizing feature of Kragerø and the archipelago.</p><br>
<p>Access to Jomfruland is by water taxi, car ferry, or by private vessel. The island has several guest harbours. The island has several attractions, among which are splendid beaches, developed docks with restaurant and kiosk facilities, rolling stone beaches on the island&#39;s north side, as well as good hiking possibilities for tourists and residents alike.</p><br>
<h2>Name etymology</h2><br>
<p>The meaning of the name is the (is)land of the virgin (probably The Blessed/Holy Virgin Mary, but also possibly because the island dives, like the virgins, in high sea.) - but this is a poetic name first mentioned in 1520. The name of the island in Norse time was Aur (from Norse aurr gravel, shingle - the whole island is a moraine that was made during the ice age).</p><br>
<h2>Plant and animal life</h2><br>
<p>Jomfruland is famous for it abundance of European thimbleweed, a feature which made it a location for the 1995 Norwegian movie production of Sigrid Undset&#39;s Kristin Lavransdatter. Every spring, in the beginning of May, the white thimbleweed spreads out like a blanket across the island.</p><br>
<p>The island is also known for its rich bird life, with more than 300 species having been spotted. Jomfruland Bird Station (Jomfruland Fuglestasjon) is a facility run by the Telemark chapter of the Norwegian Ornithological Society. The station which was established in 1969 is located at Øitangen on the northern peak of the island. Much of the bird migration each spring and autumn follows the coastline and passes by the island&#39;s northern peak. From March through November the stations is manned continuously. Many civilian servicemen have been deployed here since the 1990s, and these together with other persons in short-term employment have provided the backbone of the service which however also benefits from many volunteer workers.</p><br>
<p>Due to the island&#39;s diverse plant life, a relatively large number of nesting bird species have been documented. As of March 2006, 92 species were breeding, and of these, approximately 40-50 every year. The barred warbler is one of the regular species with Jomfruland perhaps being the only location in Norway where this bird breeds. Also thrush nightingale, common rosefinch and red-backed shrike are regular breeding species, whereas more irregular finds are of greenish warbler (1992 &ndash; only breeding observation in Norway), stock pigeon, northern shoveler and barnacle goose (the latter two on nearby islands). A vast number of birds breed on islets and skerries around Jomfruland, one of these being the black guillemot.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Geologically, Jomfruland is part of a large residual moraine from the Ice Age called the Ra step. Jomfruland is the product of the back parts of the moraine (Ra) sticking out of the water. Eastward, the moraine remains underwater from Jomfruland to Mølen in Brunlanes, before it reappears after crossing Tromøy. Where the Ra is connected to the mainland it forms pebble beaches. Between Jomfruland and Tromøy there are shallow waters in places where the moraine almost reaches the water surface.</p><br>
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<p>Mount Uhud is a mountain north of Medina, Saudi Arabia. It is 1,077 m high. It was the site of the second battle between Muslim and Meccan forces. The Battle of Uhud was fought on 19 March, 625 AD, between a force from the small Muslim community of Medina, in what is now north-western Arabia, and a force from Mecca.</p><br>
<h2>Battle of Uhud</h2><br>
<p>The Battle of Uhud (غزوة أحد ) was fought on March 19, 625 AD (3 Shawwal 3 AH in the Islamic calendar) at the valley located in front of Mount Uhud, in what is now northwestern Arabia. It occurred between a force from the Muslim community of Medina led by the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and a force led by Abu Sufyan ibn Harb from Mecca, the town from which many of the Muslims had previously emigrated. The Battle of ‘Uḥud was the second military encounter between the Meccans and the Muslims, preceded by the Battle of Badr in 624 AD, where a small Muslim army had defeated the much larger Meccan army.</p><br>
<p>Marching out from Mecca towards Medina on March 11, 625 AD, the Meccans desired to avenge their losses at Badr and strike back at Muhammad and his followers. The Muslims readied for war soon afterwards and the two armies fought on the slopes and plains of Mount ‘Uḥud.</p><br>
<p>Whilst heavily outnumbered, the Muslims gained the early initiative and forced the Meccan lines back, thus leaving much of the Meccan camp unprotected. When the battle looked to be only one step far from a decisive Muslim victory, a serious mistake was committed by a part of the Muslim army, which shifted the outcome of the battle. A breach of Muhammad&#39;s orders by the Muslim archers, who left their assigned posts to despoil the Meccan camp, allowed a surprise attack from the Meccan cavalry, led by Meccan war veteran Khalid ibn al-Walid, which brought chaos to the Muslim ranks. Many Muslims were killed including Hamza ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib, Muhammad&#39;s uncle and foster brother. Muhammad himself was almost killed and came out badly injured. The Muslims had to withdraw up the slopes of ‘Uḥud. The Meccans did not pursue the Muslims further, but marched back to Mecca declaring victory.</p><br>
<p>For the Muslims, the battle was a significant setback: although they had been close to routing the Meccans a second time, their breach of Muhammad&#39;s orders in favor of collecting Meccan spoils reaped severe consequences. The two armies would meet again in 627 AD at the Battle of the Trench.</p><br>
<p>Jostedøla  is a river which runs through the Jostedalen valley in the municipality of Luster in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. The Jostedøla river begins near the Fåbergstølen mountain farm where the runoff from the great Jostedalsbreen glacier and the lakes Austdalsvatnet and Styggevatnet comes together in the Jostedalen valley. It then flows south for about 50 km, past the village of Jostedal, and finally empties into the Gaupnefjorden  at the village of Gaupne. The river is the main collector of water for a 804 km&sup2; watershed area. The river is great for fishing trout and some salmon.</p><br>
<p>The river has historically brought significant flooding. In August 1979, the river had a 100-year flood due to local rain and strong snow and glacial melting. The flood was higher than the previous one-hundred year flood in 1898. The Leirdøla power plant was built in 1978, which has helped reduce the flood risk along the waterway.</p><br>
<p>Washoe Lake  is a lake located near Carson City in the Washoe Valley of Washoe County, Nevada. It is a very shallow lake with a surface area that can vary greatly from year to year. Washoe Lake State Park sits on the lakes southeastern shore.</p><br>
<p>Washoe Lake is a eutrophic, shallow lake between Reno and Carson City and just east of the much larger Lake Tahoe. It is actually made up of two lakes that are connected by a marsh. The lake reaches a maximum depth of just 12 ft. The shallowness and the high winds make the lake very turbid. Extensive droughts in the past have caused the lake to dry up entirely, most recently in 1992, 1994, and 2004.</p><br>
<p>Washoe Lake is a warm water fishery and provides a habitat for Sacramento perch, white bass, channel catfish, brown bullhead and carp. The lake has been stocked by the Nevada Division of Wildlife since 2004 when Washoe Lake last dried up. Two boat launches are on the eastern shore of the lake within Washoe Lake State Park.</p><br>
<p>The lake provided habitat for a variety of birds. There are hundreds of migratory and resident species in Washoe Lake State Park. Pelicans, night and great blue herons can be found on the waters of the lake.</p><br>
<h2>Watershed</h2><br>
<p>Washoe Lake is fed by several small streams which issue from the Carson Range to the west as well as ephemeral streams which flow from the Virginia Range to the east. At its northern end, Washoe Lake narrows and connects to Little Washoe Lake, at whose northernmost end issues Steamboat Creek, which runs north to the Truckee River.</p><br>
<p>From the Carson Range, Washoe Lake receives (from south to north) Franktown Creek, Ophir Creek, Davis Creek and Winters Creek. Steamboat Creek receives Browns and Galena Creeks in Pleasant Valley, Nevada, and then runs north to meet the Truckee River on the eastern outskirts of Reno, Nevada. Much of the water from the Steamboat Creek/Washoe Lake Watershed is diverted for irrigation use.</p><br>
<h2>Mark Twain</h2><br>
<p>Like the rest of the region in the lee of the Sierra Nevada, the area around Washoe Lake is subject to the Washoe Zephyr, a sometimes daily gusty wind that generally occurs during the summer.</p><br>
<p>The same high wind speeds have remained to this day and are capable of overturning commercial vehicles traveling along Interstate 580/USA Highway 395, which runs along the eastern base of the Sierra Nevada, and traverses the western shore of Washoe Lake.</p><br>
<h2>Activities</h2><br>
<p>Washoe Lake is popular with windsurfers, kiteboarders and (lake level permitting) small boat sailors.</p><br>
<p>Lake Hartwell is a man-made reservoir bordering Georgia and South Carolina on the Savannah, Tugaloo, and Seneca Rivers. Lake Hartwell is one of the southeast&#39;s largest and most popular recreation lakes. The lake is created by Hartwell Dam located on the Savannah River seven miles  below the point at which the Tugaloo and Seneca Rivers join to form the Savannah. Extending 49 mi up the Tugaloo and 45 mi up the Seneca at normal pool elevation, the lake comprises nearly 56,000 acres  of water with a shoreline of 962 mi. The entire Hartwell "Project" contains 76,450 acres  of land and water. I-85 bisects Hartwell Lake and makes the area easily accessible to visitors.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>The Flood Control Act of 17 May 1950 authorized the Hartwell Dam and Reservoir as the second unit in the comprehensive development of the Savannah River Basin. The estimated cost was $68.4 million based on 1948 price levels and preliminary designs. The original project provided for a gravity-type concrete dam 2,415 feet long with earth embankments at either end, which would be 6,050 feet long on the Georgia side and 3,935 feet long on the South Carolina side. The 12,400 foot long dam was to be topped with a roadway 24 feet wide. The main dam was to consist of two non-overflow concrete sections on the right and left banks 887 feet and 940 feet long, respectively; a gravity-type concrete spillway 588 feet long equipped with 12 tainter gates 26 feet by 40 feet in the channel; and a powerhouse on the South Carolina side of the river. Full power pool was designed to be 660 feet above mean sea level. At this elevation, the reservoir would extend 7.1 miles up the Savannah River to the confluence of the Tugaloo and Seneca Rivers; 41 miles up the Tugaloo to within approximately 2 miles of the existing Yonah Dam; 27 miles up the Seneca to the mouth of the Little River, South Carolina; 2 miles up the Little River to the Newry site; and 7 miles up the Keowee to the Old Pickens site. The reservoir would cover 56,500 acres and would involve the relocation of 3 sections of railroad totaling 2 miles, the raising of 2 railroad bridges, construction of 6 sections of new state high- ways totaling 19.6 miles and 9 sections of county roads totaling 12.7 miles, the construction of 9 new bridges and the raising of 4 existing bridges, and the relocation of 2 power transmission lines. Construction of the Hartwell project took place from 1955 and was completed in 1963. And construction of the dam started in 1955 and was finished in 1959.</p><br>
<p>Lake Hartwell is named for the American Revolutionary War figure Nancy Hart. Nancy Hart lived in the Georgia frontier, and it was her devotion to freedom that has helped make her name commonplace in the Georgia upcountry. A county, city, lake, state park and highway among others, bear her name.</p><br>
<p>The Droughts and water levels of Lake Hartwell 1989 was the first year the lake hit a level 3 dropping to its lowest level during the drought that year. 2008 was the second time the lake hit a level 3. In the year of 2008, due to severe drought in the southeastern United States, the lake dropped to over 22 ft below its normal water level in December 2008. This revealed old highways that were typically underwater, exposed islands that are usually topped with buoys to warn boaters, and left some boat shells sitting on dry land.</p><br>
<p>The Lake reached it lowest level, 637.49 ft, on December 9, 2008. The highest lake elevation was 665.4 ft, reached on April 8, 1964. Overall the average lake elevation is 657.5 ft. As of the first of October 2010, the lake was back up to just over 654 ft. This rebound in lake level is due to releases from the lake being suspended for a month ending April 10, 2009 in an effort to return Lake Hartwell to normal elevations.</p><br>
<h3>Early lake history</h3><br>
<p>The area around Lake Hartwell has a rich history, much of the land inherited from the Cherokee Indians (Native Americans) and from early settlers. Many streams, rivers and recreation areas have been named after these early settlers. Issaqueena, a young Indian maiden who rode to Fort Ninety-Six to warn settlers of an attack, allegedly named some streams. Along her journey, she marked her travel by naming streams that she encountered for the number of miles she had covered. Issaqueena named Six-Mile, Twelve-Mile, Three-and-Twenty Mile and Six-and-Twenty Mile creeks, which are still a part of the lake today. Other historic figures that lived around this area were Andrew Pickens and John C. Calhoun, both statesmen from South Carolina. William Bartram traveled the area recording vegetation types and plant species.</p><br>
<h3>Challenges to construction</h3><br>
<p>The first challenge was in August 1956 when Mrs. Eliza Brock and her daughter refused to allow workmen to come on their property to begin clearing for the reservoir area. This involved 103 acres of land that the government gained ownership of in June 1956. Apparently Mrs. Brock never received the offer for her land therefore refusing to allow them on her property. After delaying construction, Mrs. Brock eventually settled on $6,850 for her property.</p><br>
<p>The next challenge took place in late 1956 when Clemson College objected to the damage that would be done to its property as a result of the impounded water in the reservoir, including plans that would flood Memorial Stadium. After countless meetings Clemson finally settled on an agreement where two diversion dams would be built in the vicinity of Clemson College and rechannel the Seneca River.</p><br>
<h2>Fishing</h2><br>
<p>Since its construction, Hartwell Reservoir has provided good fishing habitat for many species. Bream, catfish, smallmouth bass, walleye, and largemouth bass are naturally occurring species in the lake, with quality fishing available for those species. The most popular fishing on Lake Hartwell, however, has become pursuing striped bass. Striped Bass, also known as rock fish, were discovered to be able to survive in freshwater after the construction of a dam on the Santee-Cooper system in lower South Carolina trapped many striped bass in fresh water. Striped bass were eventually introduced to the three lower Savannah River System lakes: Hartwell, Russel, and Thurmond. Fish heavier than 60 lb have been caught on Lake Hartwell, with 20 lb fish being common. The majority of striped bass caught on the lake will range from 5 to 12 lb.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>Camping. The USA Army Corps of Engineers manages 9 campgrounds at Lake Hartwell with a total of 524 campsites. Many of the campgrounds include restrooms, showers, boat ramps, playgrounds, electric and water hook ups, courtesy docks, group camping, and designated swimming areas.</p><br>
<p>Biking trail. The Corps of Engineers Lake Hartwell office partnered with the Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association (SORBA) to build a 7.6 mile multi-purpose trail at the Paynes Creek Campground area.</p><br>
<p>Fishing. Hartwell is home to many different types of fish including largemouth bass, bream, hybrid and striped bass, crappie, white bass, trout, and walleye.</p><br>
<p>Swimming. The lake is suitable for swimming but there have been over 200 deaths on the lake through the years.</p><br>
<p>Water sports. The Lake is a venue for a variety of sports such as tubing, water skiing, and wake boarding.</p><br>
<p>Boating. Boating is a huge part of the recreation side of Lake Hartwell. There are five marinas along the lake, including Clemson Marina, Big Water Marina, Harbor Light Marina, Hartwell Marina, and Portman Marina as well as many public boat ramps. The lake also features the private Western Carolina Sailing Club that hosts an annual regatta in October to benefit Hospice of the Upstate.</p><br>
<p>Wildlife. There are more than 250 species of birds and 40 different mammals around Lake Hartwell.</p><br>
<h2>Places to visit</h2><br>
<p>Issaqueena Dam. To find the Dam head north on the Keowee River, past Clemson, and you will take a right turn into this "magical cove" that contains a waterfall. It is about 25 feet tall and 150 feet wide overflow out of Lake Issaqueena into Lake Hartwell. Many people will drive or park their boats and hike around this area on a pretty day. Regardless of all the danger signs, people insist on sliding down the waterfall into the lake. Wear a lifejacket though because some tragedies have happened here before.</p><br>
<p>Eighteen Mile Creek. Eighteen Mile Creek is not quite eighteen miles long, but it is a nice curvy and narrow waterway. It is off of the Seneca River at buoy marker S-42. It is well known for among fishermen and birds. The curvy waterway goes for about five miles and ends in a big shallow area and an old bridge with lots of birds and wildlife.</p><br>
<p>Rock Quarry. There are several overhanging rocks to leap from. The heights of the rocks vary with the changing lake levels. Some areas within this cove are shallower than others so be careful when jumping off the rocks.</p><br>
<p>Ghost Island. This is the largest island, heading toward Portman Marina from Oconee Point. When looking at the island search for the highest point, you can simply look for the tallest trees on the center of the island. Start hiking to this point and you may find as many as fifty grave headstones. Many of the stones are very small and cannot be read due to age and years of weather. There are several tomb-like, above ground concrete vaults with markers identifying the graves from the War of 1812. There are also graves from the 1700s. The area in which it is located looks like it could have been an old home place or church but the only thing left was the graves. Many people camp on this island unaware of their "company".</p><br>
<p>Andersonville Island. Andersonville, SC was once a well-known port and resort town with a barge system that traveled daily to Savannah, Ga. For many years this town flourished and had many businesses, factories, and tourists that would come from all around. Andersonville was said to be as large as Anderson, SC or Pendleton, SC, but all that is left is a large island nearly 400 acres in size. It is by far the largest island on the lake, between two and three miles long. It has a paved road that stretches from one side to the other but is grown over now. On the island one can find anything from building ruins, to artifacts, to rare plants and wildlife.</p><br>
<p>Clemson Football. Clemson football games have always been a draw for boaters on Lake Hartwell. The University and stadium tower over the lake. During football season, boats from all over the lake travel up the Seneca River to come watch the games. You can park your boat on the left side of the long earth dike and walk up the hill to the famous Esso Club or to the game. Traveling by boat to Clemson from the Hartwell Dam area will take 30-40 minutes.</p><br>
<p>Bengtskär is a skerry 25 km southwest of Hanko, and part of the municipality of Dragsfjärd. This rocky skerry is the southernmost inhabited place in Finland, and is reached by ferry from the village of Kasnäs. The island has an area of about two hectares, and only a small part of it is covered with vegetation, the rest is a naked granite.</p><br>
<p>The Bengtskär lighthouse on the skerry is the highest one in the Nordic countries, with a tower height of (46 m). The lighthouse is owned by the Foundation of the University of Turku. Annually the island attracts over 13 000 tourists.</p><br>
<p>On July 26, 1941, during the Continuation War Soviet troops attempted to capture and blow up the lighthouse, but the Finnish garrison managed to repel the attack. The lighthouse was not destroyed but damaged.</p><br>
<p>The Phoenicia Railroad Station is located on High Street just south of Phoenicia, New York, United States. It is a frame building dating to the end of the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>It was built by the Ulster and Delaware Railroad to replace an earlier station, serving primarily the patrons of hotels in the surrounding Catskill Mountains. It remained in use throughout the 20th century, as the Ulster and Delaware eventually was absorbed into the New York Central Railroad. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995, and today is home to the Empire State Railway Museum and a stop on the Catskill Mountain Railroad.</p><br>
<h2>Property</h2><br>
<p>The station is located just south of High Street, a road that leads into Phoenicia from the NY 28 state highway. It is situated in an open area on the flood plain of nearby Esopus Creek across from the southwestern foot of Mount Tremper. There is a parking lot to the south, and a kiosk to the north, but no other buildings in the area save a small sandwich shop. The track currently used by the CMRR is on the east side of the station. It is included in the Register listing as a contributing resource.</p><br>
<p>The building itself is a one-story rectangular frame structure on a stone foundation sided in wood shingles. Its peaked roof, shingled in asphalt, is pierced by a stone chimney on the west side.</p><br>
<p>Continuous wooden molding runs around the building where the foundation, of bluestone in an ashlar pattern, gives way to the shingles. The wall flares outward slightly between it and another molded course below the windows. The roof has a deep overhang, with exposed eaves and decorative brackets. It shelters a wooden platform, raised so that boarding stools would not be needed, at trackside.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the station retains its original layout except for one closet that was built for electrical control equipment. Both the waiting room and the baggage room are now given over to museum displays. They are sided in narrow beadboard yellow pine, laid both horizontally and vertically, up to the vaulted ceiling. The floors have three-inch (7.5 cm) tongue and groove planking.</p><br>
<p>Between the two rooms on the track side is the ticket agent&#39;s office, which retains its brass window bars and milk glass windows. The original benches, water fountain and sink are still in the waiting room along with an original heating grate. A cast iron air distribution pedestal was moved slightly from its original location to make room for a new electrical outlet.</p><br>
<p>The track next to the station is standard gauge. It is the only one of five that were once here.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Thomas Cornell started the Ulster and Delaware&#39;s predecessor, the Rondout and Oswego, in 1866 to get goods from Central New York to what is now Kingston, already the terminus of the Delaware and Hudson Canal, which had already established itself as the main route carrying coal from Northeast Pennsylvania to New York City via the Hudson River. Phoenicia would be for a long time the western terminus of its narrow gauge lines, with a branch, the Stony Clove and Catskill Mountain Railroad, going up Stony Clove Notch to Hunter in 1882.</p><br>
<p>The first Phoenicia station was an 1870 masonry building located near the present intersection of Plank Road and Lower High Street in Phoenicia. The station&#39;s business increased when the branch was built in 1882; this led to two porticos being added, one on each side. Eventually the Ulster and Delaware would reach Oneonta. In 1899 the line was converted to standard gauge due to steady growth in its passenger service to mountain resorts.</p><br>
<p>This new pre-fabricated structure (a near duplicate of the still-extant Oneonta Station, now a local bar) was the now the busiest station on the line, serving both the main line and the branch. In 1913, its busiest year, 675,000 passengers passed through.</p><br>
<p>It also had a freight house, which served both the main line, and the branches, just like the station. In 1906 it was used as a location by Biograph for Holdup of the Rocky Mountain Express, an early nickelodeon film shot on paper, since transferred to film by the Library of Congress. Even after the Ulster and Delaware collapsed and was sold to the New York Central Railroad in 1932, the station remained busy. After passenger service was ended in 1954, the station was left to deteriorate. In 1976 Conrail ended freight service.</p><br>
<p>But before it could be destroyed, John Ham, a local railroad buff, purchased the station from the New York Central, and it is currently the home of the Empire State Railway Museum, which opened there in 1985. It is also a station on the Catskill Mountain Railroad, a local tourist line that goes from Phoenicia to Cold Brook Station. The railroad is planned to go all the way to Kingston in the future, where it is currently restoring a 2-8-0 steam locomotive. There are even plans for the CMRR to go to the site of the old Grand Hotel Station.</p><br>
<p>After the Esopus flooded following Hurricane Irene in 2011, the museum building suffered damage and closed indefinitely. The museum&#39;s staff intend to repair it and reopen. It has been open for self-guided tours weekends and holidays Memorial Day through Columbus Day.</p><br>
<p>Lake Hamilton and Lake Catherine are a pair of man-made lakes around Hot Springs, Arkansas. The two lakes have greatly improved the tourism in Hot Springs. Both Lakes were created by Arkansas Power & Light .</p><br>
<h2>Lake Hamilton</h2><br>
<p>Lake Hamilton is a 7,200 acre reservoir near Lake Hamilton, Arkansas and Hot Springs, Arkansas. It is located on the Ouachita River, one of Arkansas&#39;s most popular rivers. It is formed from Carpenter Dam which was named after Flavius Josephus Carpenter. The dam is over 1,000 ft long and 100 ft high, and has a hydroelectric power generation facility and completed in 1931. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Along with Lake Catherine and Lake Ouachita, Lake Hamilton is one of the lakes that helps make Hot Springs a boon for tourism. The lake was created in 1932, mainly to generate hydroelectricity, but now it also serves as a recreational getaway. Much of the lake is surrounded with resorts, restaurants, and motels. Parasailing, boating, fishing, and waterskiing are popular on Lake Hamilton, and the rest of the lakes around Hot Springs. A 400 passenger riverboat called the Belle of Hot Springs offers cruises on Lake Hamilton. Garvan Woodland Gardens, a 210 acre botanical park is also accessible by boat.</p><br>
<p>Lake Hamilton was named after Hamilton Moses who later became President and Chairman of the Board for Arkansas Power and Light.</p><br>
<p>On May 1, 1999, an accident involving the tourist boats on Lake Hamilton resulted in the deaths of thirteen persons. Former State Senator Jim Keet, the 2010 Republican gubernatorial nominee, was boating with his family at the time of the tragedy. Ironically, four years earlier, Senator Keet had co-sponsored a bill that added several new water safety rules to the Arkansas code, including the requirement that children wear life preservers on most boats. However, the provision did not apply to DUKW ("duck") boats, the kind involved in the tragedy, which sank with barely thirty seconds of warning.</p><br>
<h2>Lake Catherine</h2><br>
<p>Lake Catherine is a small 1,940 acre lake near Hot Springs. Lake Catherine State Park is located on the lakes shore. The state park contains 18 cabins. Lake Catherine was created in the 1920s with the building of Remmel Dam, a concrete-and-steel Ambursen-type buttressed dam. Remmel Dam was created to provide hydroelectricity, but recreation came as a result of lakes location next to Hot Springs. Remmel Dam is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Pardee Home is a house in Oakland, California, that was home to three generations of the Pardee family. It is now a non-profit museum, showing over 100 years of the life of a prominent California family. The house, a well-preserved example of Italianate architecture, is a city landmark, a California Historical Landmark, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The house was constructed in 1868 by California State Senator Enoch H. Pardee. His son, George Pardee, a Governor of California, also inhabited the house, inheriting it after his fathers death. After Georges death in 1941, it passed on to his two daughters, Madeline and Helen (the same name as her mother), who lived in the house until their deaths in 1980 and 1981 respectively.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the house is the main attraction of the museum. George&#39;s wife Helen collected knick-knacks from all over the world, including scrimshaw from Alaska, tobacco pipes from the Philippines, and a giant elk head. She was fond of giving house tours to show off her collection. All of the furnishings are original and the house looks as it did in 1981.</p><br>
<p>The original carriage house and stable are still standing and the entire complex is part of Oakland&#39;s Preservation Park Historic District. The house was to be demolished for the construction of Interstate 980, but conservationists were able to save the building. It opened as a public museum in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Piedmont Avenue is a street in the city of Berkeley, California. It is the major street through the University of California, Berkeley&#39;s fraternity and sorority area. The street was originally named Piedmont Way.</p><br>
<p>Piedmont Way was conceived in 1865 by Frederick Law Olmsted, Americas foremost landscape architect. As the centerpiece of a gracious residential community close beside the College of California, Olmsted envisioned a roadway that would follow the natural contours of the land and be sheltered from sun and wind by "an overarching bowery of foliage." This curvilinear, tree-lined parkway was Olmsteds first residential street design. It has served as the model for similar parkways across the US. This original portion, now located between Gayley Road and Dwight Way, is designated a California Historical Landmark.</p><br>
<p>Hog Island, an uninhabited 2,075-acre  island in Lake Michigan, is the fourth largest island in the Beaver Island archipelago. It is owned by the USA state of Michigan as part of the Beaver Islands State Wildlife Research Area and is administered by the Michigan Department of Natural Resources.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Hog Island is part of the Beaver Island archipelago, a cluster of island in the northern portion of Lake Michigan. These islands are composed of erosion-resistant rock that protruded above the water after retreating glaciers had carved out the basin that holds Lake Michigan. Hog Island is approximately 4 miles (6.5 km) long in a north-south direction. Its low, swampy terrain is of significant interest to naturalists because it is one of the least-disturbed islands in Lake Michigan.</p><br>
<h2>Flora and fauna</h2><br>
<p>The island&#39;s wetlands are important spawning grounds for yellow perch and smallmouth bass, as well as lake birds that feed on fish, such as the common tern, listed as threatened within Michigan.</p><br>
<p>Three endemic riparian plant species, Houghtons goldenrod, the Lake Huron tansy, and Pitchers thistle, have been identified on Hog Island. All three plants are listed as threatened within Michigan. Old-growth northern hardwood and boreal softwood groves also exist on the island.</p><br>
<h2>View</h2><br>
<p>Hooker Oak was an extremely large valley oak tree  in Chico, California. Amateur botanist and local socialite Annie Bidwell, whose husband had founded Chico, named the tree in 1887 after English botanist and Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker. It was featured in the 1938 film The Adventures of Robin Hood starring Errol Flynn. The tree fell in 1977 and portions of the wood was later milled for use by local artisans.</p><br>
<h2>Discovery</h2><br>
<p>Upon first seeing the tree in 1872, Hooker declared the tree to be the largest of its species in the known world. Since then other valley oaks have been found of similar size. On January 7, 1958, the Sacramento Bee reported that in 1921 the Hooker Oak was over 110 ft tall and estimated that 7,885 people could stand under its canopy assuming 2 ft&sup2; per person.</p><br>
<h2>Death</h2><br>
<p>When it fell on May 1, 1977, it was nearly a hundred feet tall (30 m) and at 8 ft from the ground, 29 ft in circumference. The largest branch measured 111 ft from trunk to tip and the circumference of outside branches was nearly 500 ft. Its age had been estimated at a thousand years, but on its demise it was found to be two trees, of 325 years each which had long ago grown into one.</p><br>
<h3>Disposition</h3><br>
<p>For three years after falling, the tree lay on the ground while city leaders struggled to finally determine its fate. In the spring of 1980, the City of Chico commissioned Cal Oak Lumber Company to remove and reclaim sound portions of the tree at Cal Oaks Oroville hardwood plant. They were allowed to retain some of the wood as compensation. After milling the oak, Cal Oak arranged for the lumber to be dried at the University of Californias Forest Products Laboratory.</p><br>
<p>Cal Oak set up a program using local artisans as well as the work training centers for the handicapped to produce a limited number of artistically designed items from its share of the tree. Many of these were given to various institutions, which included the Royal Botanical Gardens in London, the Butte County Historical Society, Bidwell Mansion, Sacramento Valley Museum, Butte College, California State University, Chico, and the University of California at Berkeley. The Royal Botanical Gardens also received acorns from the original tree in 1981 and planted them in their gardens.</p><br>
<h3>Characteristics</h3><br>
<p>Personnel at both Cal Oak and University of California Berkeley Forestry Lab became intrigued with the lumber. The wood turned out to be as remarkable as was the tree. In order to support its immense crown, the tree grew an abnormal portion of support wood on the upper side of its limbs and stems. This type wood is known as "tension wood" and helped provide the tree with an unbelievable high density:.88 specific gravity, roughly 50% heavier than surrounding oaks. This together with other special characteristics, provided the wood with its unique grain and character, and the tree, apparently with its longevity.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>The gavel used at City Council meetings by the mayor of Chico was made from the Hooker Oak. The public benches in the lobby of the Chico City Council Chambers were made out of Hooker Oak wood by local artist Paul Atkins.</p><br>
<p>The Hooker Oak was featured Warner Brothers Studio&#39;s film The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). Errol Flynn as Robin Hood forms his outlaw band beside the tree (called the "Gallows Oak" in the film).</p><br>
<p>The location of the tree is registered as a California Historical Landmark and can be found in Bidwell Park. A booklet, "The History of the Hooker Oak" was written by Debra Moon for the City Of Chico Bidwell Park Centennial Hooker Oak Bench Project and printed in July 2005.</p><br>
<p>Ashby Gap, more commonly known as Ashby&#39;s Gap is a wind gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains on the border of Clarke County, Loudoun County and Fauquier County in Virginia. The gap is traversed by USA Route 50. The Appalachian trail also passes across the gap.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>At 1,027 ft the gap is 500 ft below the adjacent ridge line to the north, and 700 ft above the Shenandoah River, which flows to the north, west of the gap. To the west lies Virginias Shenandoah Valley, which is part of the Great Appalachian Valley and to the east lies Virginias Piedmont region. Just south of this gap is Sky Meadows State Park.</p><br>
<p>The gap serves as the western demarcation point for the border between Fauquier and Loudoun counties, originally marked by a "double-bodied poplar tree standing in or near the middle of the thoroughfare of Ashby&#39;s Gap on the top of the Blue Ridge." The tree has since died and the thoroughfare, modern day USA Route 50, realigned to the south so that Loudoun County is not entered when traveling through the gap.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The earliest known use of the gap was as part of a trail of the Native Americans. Upon European colonization, the gap was first referred to as the "Upper Thoroughfare of the Blue Ridge". It was later named "Ashbys Bent" when Thomas Ashby received lands along Goose Creek, and settled Paris, Virginia at the eastern entrance to the gap. Later it came to be called Ashbys Gap. In the early 19th century the Ashby&#39;s Gap Turnpike was completed from Aldie to the crest of the gap where it met up with the Millwod Pike. Those roads in turn became the modern USA Route 50 in 1922 when the Commonwealth took possession of them.</p><br>
<h3>Importance during American Civil War</h3><br>
<p>During the American Civil War, Ashby&#39;s Gap was often used by the Confederate Army and Union Army in the several Shenandoah Valley campaigns. The nearby ridgetop was used by the Confederate Signal Corps.</p><br>
<p>In July 1861 Brigadier General Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson lead his 1st Virginia Brigade through Ashby&#39;s Gap on his way from Winchester to Piedmont Station (present day Delaplane) where they boarded railcars on the Manassas Gap Railroad and were taken to Manassas Junction where the First Battle of Manassas was underway. This marked the first use of railroads for troop movement in a war.</p><br>
<p>In June 1863, Confederate Major General J.E.B. Stuarts cavalry held this gap to prevent elements from the Union Army under Major General Joseph Hooker from interfering with General Robert E. Lees army as it marched north toward Pennsylvania in the Gettysburg Campaign.</p><br>
<p>On July 19, 1864 a small cavalry battle, sometimes referred to as the Battle of Ashbys Gap, was fought at the gap when Union cavalry attempted to force passage across the gap and Shenandoah River in an attempt to attack the rear of Confederate Lieutenant General Jubal Earlys army and supply trains as he repositioned himself near Berryville as part of the Valley Campaigns of 1864.</p><br>
<p>The Syvash or Sivash , also known as the Putrid Sea or Rotten Sea , consists of a large system of shallow lagoons on the west coast of the Sea of Azov. Separated from the sea by the narrow Arabat Spit, the water of the Syvash covers an area of around 2,560 km&sup2; and the entire area spreads over about 10,000 km&sup2;. Its eastern connection to the Sea of Azov is called the Henichesk Strait. The Syvash borders the northeastern coast of the main Crimean Peninsula; Ukraine and Russia dispute control of the area.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>The Syvash nearly cuts the Crimean Peninsula off from the mainland, serving as a natural border for its autonomous republic. The long (110 km) and narrow (0.27 -) Arabat Spit runs to its east, separating it from the Sea of Azov. The two bodies are connected in the north at the Henichesk Strait beside the port of Henichesk. To its west, the isthmus of Perekop separates it from the Black Sea and connects Crimea to Ukraine.</p><br>
<p>The Syvash is extremely shallow. The deepest place is about 3 m, with most areas between ½ and 1 meter (18 in to 3 ft) deep. The bottom is covered with silt up to 5 m thick. Being very shallow, the waters in the Syvash heat up in the summer and produce a putrid smell. The wide area for evaporation also leaves the water extremely salty. The amount of various salts is estimated at 200 million metric tons. Several plants harvest the mineral resources of Syvash. The Syvash area is a wetland of international importance. The shores are low, slightly sloping, swampy and salty. In summer, the water level of Syvash decreases significantly, revealing barren solonets soils called "syvashes" by locals.</p><br>
<p>The Syvash is sometimes divided into the Western Syvash and Eastern Syvash. These are connected to each other by the Chongar Strait.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>During the Russian Civil War, the Syvash became famous for a surprise crossing by the Red Army during the Perekop-Chongar Operation.</p><br>
<h2>Flora</h2><br>
<p>The Syvash may appear red in color due to the salt-tolerant micro-algae Dunaliella salina.</p><br>
<p>The eastern parts of the Syvash contain less salt and are home to reeds and other wetland vegetation.</p><br>
<p>The large islands in the Central Syvash are mainly covered with steppes consisting of feather grass, tulips, tauric wormwood (Artemisia taurica), sage, crested wheat grass, fescue.</p><br>
<p>The shores of the Syvash contains a large number of salt-tolerant vegetation, including glasswort, Tripolium, plantains, sea lavender (Limonium caspium), saltbush (Atriplex aucheri).</p><br>
<p>The Brooklyn Trust Company was a New York City bank.</p><br>
<p>The company was chartered in 1866. In 1873 it had difficulties resulting in a brief suspension of operations. Between 1913 and 1930 the company acquired five other banks through mergers. The company merged into the Manufacturers Trust Company on October 13, 1950. At the time of the merger the Brooklyn Trust Company had 26 branches.</p><br>
<p>George Vincent McLaughlin was president of the Brooklyn Trust Company starting in 1940.</p><br>
<p>Charles Jeremiah Mason, Jr. (1899–1990) joined the Brooklyn Trust Company in 1939. He was an assistant vice-president at Brooklyn Trust Company when it merged with Manufacturers Hanover in 1950. He became an assistant vice-president at Manufacturers Hanover in 1953 and vice-president in 1955, retiring in 1964.</p><br>
<p>William Boone Nauts (1902–1990) joined the Brooklyn Trust Company in 1925. During the Depression he joined the Manufacturers Trust Company. He retired in 1967 as a vice-president of Manufacturers Hanover Trust.</p><br>
<h2>Headquarters building</h2><br>
<p>The former headquarters of the Brooklyn Trust Company is a historic bank building located at the corner of Montague and Clinton Streets in Brooklyn Heights. The Italian Renaissance-inspired headquarters was built between 1913 and 1916 by the noted architectural firm of York and Sawyer. It was modeled after the Palazzo della Gran Guardia in Verona. Note: This includes</p><br>
<p>The building was built on the same site as the bank&#39;s previous headquarters. Marc Eidlitz & Son Builders N.Y.C. constructed the building in two phases. The first half was begun at the corner of Clinton and Pierrepont Streets in late 1913 and was finished in September 1915. The second phase began in October 1915 and was completed in August 1916. The entire construction process was photographed monthly by Irving Underhill.</p><br>
<p>The main interior space is inspired by ancient Roman and Italian Renaissance architecture. The banking hall has large chandeliers hanging from vaulted, coffered ceilings, arched windows, and a Cosmati-style mosaic marble floor. The building was landmarked in 1996. The interior is also landmarked. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>The building was sold for $9.7 million in 2007 by JPMorgan Chase, the successor to the Brooklyn Trust Company through the Manufacturers Trust Company. It was bought by Brookfield Asset Management who in turn sold it to Stahl Real Estate Company. The building is occupied primarily by a law firm but Chase Bank still leases the ground floor to maintain a retail banking branch.</p><br>
<p>The Neely Mansion, is a Victorian-style residence built in 1894. It located near the eastern edge of Auburn, although it is actually located in unincorporated King County, Washington in the census-designated location Lake Morton-Berrydale, Washington. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and the Washington State Heritage Register.</p><br>
<p>From the 1950s to the 1970s the building deteriorated severely, until local citizens moved to save and restore the building. During the initial restoration period, the mansion was used for a haunted house staffed by the drama department of Auburn High School (the only high school in Auburn at the time). That usage ceased when significant progress was made in restoring the mansion to its original condition. The mansion is now owned by a volunteer historical society.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The Mansion is two-story clapboard with a square plan. The front doorway is centered between two windows with three widows the other three sides. All have an entablature and decorated surrounds. Sawn scrollwork is placed below each lintel.</p><br>
<p>A decorative corbel table separates the first and second floors. There are side porches on the ground level that run the length of the house. The front porch has a second floor balcony covered by a gable. The interior of the boxed, pedimented gable cornice is filled with diamond pattern shingles with a central round window.</p><br>
<h2>Interior</h2><br>
<p>The house has high ceilings and spacious rooms. The first floor is the kitchen, dining room, parlor, and master bedroom. The second floor has more bedrooms. The lower 5 ft of the walls in the house are covered with maple paneling. The upper portion is white plaster. Lighting in the house was supplied by candles and oil chandeliers which were hung from the ceiling and could be raised and lowered by hand.</p><br>
<p>Before World War II electricity was added, and in 1948 it was reshingled, a new foundation provided, and a concrete base added to the front porch.</p><br>
<h2>Neely family</h2><br>
<p>The David Neely family was among the first to arrive in Washingtons Green River Valley. After having made a hazardous overland journey from Tennessee in 1853, they crossed the Naches Pass and arrived at Porters Prairie near Enumclaw in Washington territory. He settled in Kent. He and his family both avoided being killed by Indians who attacked the area in 1855. David Neely&#39;s son Aaron moved to Auburn, married; and a daughter Lenore, born in 1879. Soon after the birth, Aaron moved to the site of the Neely Mansion, which he and a few workmen built in 1894.</p><br>
<p>Many gala parties were held for friends and neighbors who would spend the night in the house during shopping excursions to Auburn. On those occasions, all of the doors on the lower floor would be opened and the dancing partners would swirl from room to room to the music provided by the local fiddlers.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>The Neely Mansion is significant piece of house architecture in that it demonstrates the effect of readily available manufactured wooden decorative components on a very basic plan. It is significant also as an indicator of growing affluence in family areas close to Seattle and as an important social center for the Green River Valley.</p><br>
<p>Llyn Brianne is a man-made lake or reservoir in the headwaters of the River Towy in Wales.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>The reservoir was constructed by Wimpey Construction in the late 1960s and early 1970s in order to regulate the flow in the River Tywi to support large potable water abstraction at Nantgaredig in the lower reaches of the river near Carmarthen, providing water to the Felindre water treatment works; the treated water is piped to a large area of South Wales, including Swansea and Neath and up to the borders of Cardiff.</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>The dam is a crushed and larger rock clay filled dam, all materials being obtained in the area itself. In essence it is a constructed mountain blocking the valley. The clay was harvested higher up the valley near Soar y mynydd chapel closer to Tregaron. Much of the rock was harvested at the site. An on-site stone-crusher was used to reduce larger rocks to the various sizes required. A round-the-clock labouring system enabled its completion almost two years ahead of schedule.</p><br>
<h3>Fish conservation</h3><br>
<p>Because of the importance of the River Towy salmon and trout fisheries, special protective measures were incorporated into the construction of the reservoir including a smolt trap and a restocking programme using artificially raised parr. Releases of water from the dam tend to be very cold and are also blamed by anglers for a reduction in the quality of the fishery.</p><br>
<h2>Hydroelectric scheme</h2><br>
<p>The spillway of the dam is a notable tourist attraction when the reservoir is spilling. The dam is the UK&#39;s tallest, standing at a height of 300 ft (91 m). In 1996 the reservoir spillway was increased by 1 metre in height and a hydro electric generating station was added at the base of the dam. When all three turbines are working, it generates 4.60 megawatts of electricity.</p><br>
<p>Under the reservoir there are a couple of flooded houses. Before the water level was raised, it was possible to walk to Fannog farmhouse; a "For Sale" sign was once erected on it. It is still possible to see the roof when the water level is low.</p><br>
<h2>Kayaking</h2><br>
<p>The spillway has recently been used by kayakers to slide down while the water is in flood. However this specific activity is banned by Welsh Water, and they issued a statement in 2008 calling the practice "dangerous" and stating that such activities were banned at the reservoir. However, non-motorised water craft are permitted on the actual reservoir.</p><br>
<p>Mount Gahinga, is a dormant/extinct volcano in the Virunga Mountains on the border between Rwanda and Uganda. Gahinga lies between Muhabura and Sabyinyo, but is the smallest of these three. Mount Gahinga, also known in the local Kinyarwanda/Rufumbira dialect as "a small pile of stones", has a swampy caldera on its peak. The caldera is believed to be about 180 meters wide. Mgahinga Gorilla National Park also got its name from this volcano. Mount Gahinga, whose elevation is 3,474 meters, is part of a chain of 8 volcanic mountains of the Mufumbiro ranges. The volcano chain spans across Uganda, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.</p><br>
<p>The vegetation across the mountain can be described as afro-montane with bamboo composing the main vegetation. Like Muhabura and Sabyinyo, the bamboo forests on Mount Gahinga are a habitat of the endangered mountain gorillas. There are several other species of animals and birds that form part of the Mount Gahinga ecosystem. The golden monkeys are notable to these.</p><br>
<p>The Cimarron Hotel is a historic hotel located in Cimarron, a small town located in southwest Kansas, United States. Cimarron, settled in 1878, was a notorious branch point on the historic Sante Fe Trail. At Cimarron, the trail divided, one branch heading southwest, the other following the Arkansas River to Bent&#39;s Fort , then south over Raton Pass. Cimarron is the first town west of Dodge City on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad line.</p><br>
<p>The hotel is a three-story Second Empire-style building, about 43x79 ft in plan, with five bays across the front and eight bays deep.</p><br>
<p>The hotel was built by Nicholas B. Klaine in 1886, at an investment of $15,000. With the completion of the first floor of the three-story brick structure, he launched the New West Echo, a Republican newspaper. The newspaper occupied the north half of the first floor of the hotel. The hotel opened as the New West Hotel and operated as one of seven serving pioneers who needed to come to town for supplies or for cowboys and ruffians who literally wanted to "get the heck out of Dodge."</p><br>
<p>Despite several severe economic depressions and droughts in the late 19th Century, Klaine continued to operate the Cimarron Hotel under several managers, until 1902. In that year, the New West Echo ceased publication and Klaine sold the hotel to the Luther family. The name was changed to "The Luther Inn." The Luther family owned the hotel until 1947 when they sold the hotel to Else Bartlow, who had been the secretary at the hotel. She changed the name to the "Cimarron Hotel." In 1977, the hotel was purchased by Kathleen Holt.</p><br>
<p>In the 1980s, the hotel underwent substantial renovations and became a restaurant, bed and breakfast lodging, and private home to the owner and her family. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. As of August 2007, a portion of the building was occupied by a quilt shop that also conducted quilting classes and seminars. The third floor of the building still comprised overnight quarters for guests.</p><br>
<p>Baton Rouge National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in East Baton Rouge Parish, in the city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It encompasses 7.7 acre, and as of the end of 2005, had 5,459 interments.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Burials in the cemetery grounds took place as early as 1830, but the site was predominantly used during the Civil War to bury soldiers who died in Baton Rouge and the surrounding battlefields, including Plaquemine and Camden. It became an official National Cemetery in 1867, and rewards were given to anyone who reported the grave of a Union soldier, so that his remains could be reinterred in the cemetery.</p><br>
<p>In 1878 two men, Michael and Bernard Jodd, were hired to build a brick wall around the cemetery, but before it was completed, both men contracted yellow fever and died. They were interred in the cemetery and the wall was completed by local laborers.</p><br>
<h2>Notable interments</h2><br>
<p>General Philemon Thomas. His remains were reinterred in the national cemetery in 1886. He was a veteran of both the American Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, and he commanded the forces that captured the fort of Baton Rouge in 1810. He also served as a Congressional Representative from the state of Louisiana in the 22nd and 23rd United States Congresses.</p><br>
<p>Lieutenant General Troy Houston Middleton, World War II veteran and president of Louisiana State University.</p><br>
<p>Widemouth Bay  is a bay and beach on the Atlantic coast of Cornwall, England, UK. It is about 3 miles  south of Bude. This stretch of coast is steeped in the smuggling history of times before, and not far south of Widemouth Bay can be found many little inlets and coves.</p><br>
<h2>Village</h2><br>
<p>The village of Widemouth Bay itself is a much more recent development, consisting mainly of bungalows built during the twentieth century. As well as a number of hotels, there are several cafes on and around the beach as well as a pub and shops on the hill above the bay. Widemouth Bay has a small church, Our Lady and St Anne&#39;s, located on the landward side of the village.</p><br>
<h2>Activities</h2><br>
<p>The beach is popular for surfing and swimming and is patrolled in the summer by RNLI lifeguards. Several surfing schools operate on the beach because it has relatively gentle, easy to ride waves but on the other hand there can be big waves.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Widemouth Bay is visually very similar to Southerndown and Ogmore-by-Sea across the Bristol Channel in Wales; it has the same (gently sloping) hill-top location; wide, sandy beach; pounding Atlantic surf; and significantly the same carboniferous sandstone cliffs. Another significant connection is that sloops from Wales would use Widemouth as a port (in the most basic sense), unloading coal and limestone; sloops would take back to Wales Cornish wares such as granite, slate, tin, copper and even Cornish pasties.</p><br>
<h2>Submarine communications cables</h2><br>
<p>The gentle beaches in the bay are also the landing points for many submarine cables that link the UK with other parts of the world. The proximity to GCHQ Bude installation allows data sent on these cables to be intercepted by GCHQ. These cables include:</p><br>
<p>TAT-3 (USA and UK)</p><br>
<p>CANTAT-1 (Canada and UK)</p><br>
<p>Apollo (USA)</p><br>
<p>TAT-8 (USA and France - last used in 2002)</p><br>
<p>TAT-14 (USA and Europe)</p><br>
<p>AC-2 (USA)</p><br>
<p>EIG (Europe India Gateway)</p><br>
<p>GLO-1 (UK and west Africa)</p><br>
<h2>Repeater station</h2><br>
<p>The repeater station is a cable landing station. Construction was begun in 1962 and finished during 1963. The building was specifically constructed to withstand nuclear attack, having numerous specialised features including an air filtration system, five-ton blast doors, and backup power supply systems allowing it to operate as an autonomous building. The majority of the building is constructed below ground, as is common with many blast-resistant bunkers.</p><br>
<p>The Bessesen Building, also called the Rivoli Theater, is located at 224 South Broadway in Albert Lea, Albert Lea, Minnesota, United States. It has had multiple uses and housed many enterprises and organizations.</p><br>
<p>The Bessessen Opera House was built in 1916, designed by St. Paul architects Van Kirk and Cederburg, to showcase the talents of internationally acclaimed opera prima donna Beatrice Bessessen. It has since been adapted for usage as a motion picture theatre, a mini-mall, and most recently the home of the Freeborn County Arts Initiative. The façade is French Renaissance. The upper interiors possess both Arts and Crafts style and Art Nouveau elements. Historical aspects of the first level have been compromised. It is currently in need of major restoration. The "Restore the Building Foundation" has been created for that purpose.</p><br>
<p>The Albert Lea Art Center was formerly located in the Bessessen.</p><br>
<p>El-Ahwat is an archaeological site in the Manasseh region of Israel, located 10 miles east of Caesarea in northwestern Samaria near Katzir. The site was discovered in November 1992 during a survey by archaeologist Adam Zertal. It is considered to be the location of the northwesternmost settlement of the ancient Israelites in the region. The settlement has been dated back to the Bronze and Iron Ages.</p><br>
<p>Zertals hypothesis is that the site, which resembles late Bronze Age sites in Sardinia (Italy), is in fact a Sea Peoples site, namely the Shardana tribe, a seafaring culture from the 12th century, as the architecture of the site is similar to Nuraghe sites in Sardinia. Zertal dates the site to 1160–1150 BCE, which conforms with the alleged date of the Sea Peoples incursion to Israel, and the Biblical conflict between Sisera and Barak ben Avinoam (Judges 4-5). Zertal suggest that the site may have been the city of Harosheth Haggoyim, mentioned in as Sisera&#39;s place of residence. A chariot linchpin found at the site gives further weight to the claim that the site may have been an official residence.</p><br>
<p>Archaeologist Israel Finkelstein says that Zertal erred in his dating of the site by a magnitude of 100 years. By synchronizing ceramic typologies and Radiocarbon dating with other early Iron Age sites in Israel, Finkelstein assesses the dating to be around 100 years later than Zertal</p><br>
<p>Beaufort National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in Beaufort County, in the city of Beaufort, South Carolina. Managed by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 33.1 acre, and as of 2014, had over 19,000 interments.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The original interments in the cemetery were men who died in nearby Union hospitals during the occupation of the area early in the Civil War, mainly in 1861, following the Battle of Port Royal. Battlefield casualties from around the area were also reinterred in the cemetery, including over 100 Confederate soldiers. It became a National Cemetery with the National Cemetery Act by Abraham Lincoln in 1863. The remains of 27 Union prisoners of war were reinterred from Blackshear Prison following the war.</p><br>
<p>Beaufort National Cemetery now has interments from every major American conflict, including the Spanish–American War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the Gulf War.</p><br>
<p>In 1987, the remains of nineteen Union soldiers of the all black Massachusetts 55th Volunteer Infantry were discovered on Folly Island, South Carolina. The Massachusetts 55th had been stationed on Folly Island from late 1863 to early 1864 and was a sister unit to the better-known Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Infantry, featured in the film Glory. On May 29, 1989, these soldiers were reinterred in the Beaufort National Cemetery with full military honors. Cast members from the film served as the honor guard at the ceremony.</p><br>
<p>Beaufort National Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<h2>Notable interments</h2><br>
<p>Colonel Donald Conroy, known as The Great Santini.</p><br>
<p>Private First Class Ralph H. Johnson, Medal of Honor recipient for action in the Vietnam War.</p><br>
<p>Captain John J. McGinty III, Medal of Honor recipient for action in the Vietnam War.</p><br>
<p>John N. McLaughlin - Marine Corps Lieutenant General, served in three wars and spent three years as P.O.W.</p><br>
<p>Master Sergeant Joseph Simmons, Légion d&#39;honneur recipient, Buffalo Soldier, World War I and World War II veteran.</p><br>
<p>Chuck Taliano, United States Marine drill instructor featured in the "We don’t promise you a rose garden" recruitment poster during the 1970s and 1980s.</p><br>
<p>General Edwin Pollock</p><br>
<p>General William G. Thrash</p><br>
<p>Major General Reuben Henry Tucker III Commandant of Cadets, The Citadel 1963 - 1968.</p><br>
<p>Capt. Albert L. Schlegel, Jr., US Army Air Corps, served as a fighter pilot with the Royal Canadian Air Force until the United States entered WW II. After transferring to the Army Air Corps, he qualified as an "ace", with 13.5 confirmed kills and 2.5 probables. On August 28, 1944, he was shot down on a mission over Valmy, France. Although he successfully bailed out, he was reportedly captured by German troops and executed. He was interred in France as an "unknown" until 2016, when his body was identified by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency through medical records. He was reinterred in Beaufort with full military honors on March 30, 2017.</p><br>
<p>Ian Ronald Atherton Adamson, Lieutenant of Royal Navy, only one of Commonwealth war dead in World War II.</p><br>
<p>Philadelphia National Cemetery is a United States national cemetery located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, north of Germantown. It is administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, and managed by the National Cemetery Administration from offices at Washington Crossing National Cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery contains an American Revolutionary War Monument honoring reinterred Continental soldiers from the Battle of Germantown, a Mexican-American War Monument honoring 38 reinterred veterans, and a Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument (1911) honoring 184 prisoners of war who died in Philadelphia area hospitals or camps during the American Civil War.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was established in 1862 for deceased from nearby Civil War hospitals, and as 1 of the original 14 National Cemeteries. The cemetery was increased to 13 acre in 1885 to reinter soldiers from numerous small plots throughout the region. A federal superintendent had been appointed by 1869 for the "number of burials in seven incorporated cemeteries near the city of Philadelphia." As of September 30, 2008, Philadelphia National Cemetery had 13,202 interments. This number is not expected to change significantly as the cemetery is closed for new interments, except for those in reserved plots and in plots opened by disinterments. See p. 233.</p><br>
<h2>Notable interments</h2><br>
<p>Notable interments include:</p><br>
<p>Medal of Honor recipients</p><br>
<p>Major General Galusha Pennypacker</p><br>
<p>Seaman Alphonse Girandy</p><br>
<p>Others</p><br>
<p>184 Confederate prisoners of war</p><br>
<p>Baseball Hall of Fame catcher Louis Santop</p><br>
<p>Actor Joseph Sweeney</p><br>
<p>Anboto  is a limestone mountain of the Western Basque Country, the highest peak of the Urkiola range and not far from the Urkiola mountain pass between Durango and Vitoria-Gasteiz.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>An immense mass of limestone, very compact and of gray color, the mountain contains fossil remnants of massive prehistoric corals and large seashells.</p><br>
<p>The north face has impressive 1,000 m high cliffs, towering over the valley of Atxondo.</p><br>
<p>The south face descends more smoothly toward the pass of Urkiolamendi, with less unevenness and by way of which the most popular routes of ascent to the summit are opened.</p><br>
<p>Its ascent, which can be carried out on any of its faces, requires in all cases certain care when passing next to the cliffs.</p><br>
<p>The Anboto is one of the most known and most characteristic summits of Biscay and of the Basque Country.</p><br>
<p>On its summit there is a geodesic vertex of second order.</p><br>
<h2>Mythology</h2><br>
<p>Anboto has always been related to magic and mythology. In a cave close to its summit, the legend tells us that Mari the Lady of Anboto has her main dwelling. Legend says that it is usual to see her in the mouth of the cave, on days of good weather, combing her pretty blond hair with a comb of gold in the sunshine. It is not rare either to see her spend nights as a great ball of fire in the sky above Anboto or toward other places of the Basque Country where she possesses dwellings like the nearby Oiz or Aizkorri. Depending on where she is found there will be good or bad weather.</p><br>
<h2>Ascents</h2><br>
<p>Anboto can be reached from a great number of places. From the north it is a 1,000 m ascent from the Atxondo valley. From Urkiolamendi the road begins at the famous sanctuary of San Antonio (730 m). From the valley of Atxarte begins the complete ascent of the crests, long but simple along Alluitz (1,034 m) and Anboto (1,331 m). From Otxandio (549 m) or Aramaio (312 m), stopping at the extensive and grassy hillock of Zabalaundi (896 m), where we sample one of Anboto&#39;s more captivating images, being able to climb here directly to the top passing near the caves of the Lady of Amboto and the Eye of Eskilar.</p><br>
<p>The most popular way consists of leaving from Urkiolamendi pass, to flank Mount Urkiolamendi (1,009 m) arriving at Asuntze (870 m), then climbing right under the summit, to the hillock Pagozelai (970 m) ascending its stony slopes (Arrueta) to the hillock of Agindi (1,227 m) just west of the summit.</p><br>
<p>The North face is a rocky 1,000 m climb that requires some rock climbing and can be very dangerous in bad weather conditions or ice.</p><br>
<p>Climbing Times:</p><br>
<p>Urkiolamendi (2h).</p><br>
<p>Atxarte (4h, up to the crest).</p><br>
<p>Atxarte (2h 30 m, by Asuntze).</p><br>
<p>Aramaio (3h).</p><br>
<p>Arrazola(2h 15 m, North face).</p><br>
<p>Arrazola (3h, by Zabalaundi).</p><br>
