<p>Mount Juneau is a 3,576 ft massif in Southeast Alaska just one and a half miles east of downtown Juneau, Alaska, in the Boundary Ranges.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Mount Juneau is steeped in mining history. Originally named Gold Mountain in 1881 by miners, it was also named Bald Mountain in roughly 1896. The name "Juneau Mountain" was first used in the mining records by Pierre "French Pete" Erussard when he located mining claims on the mountain in 1888.</p><br>
<p>In 1976, it was proposed by Chuck Keen of Alaska Trams (later to become Mount Juneau Enterprises) that a jigback aerial tramway be built to the top of the mountain. The venture never reached fruition although Goldbelt Inc. did end up building Mount Roberts Tramway to the neighboring Mount Roberts.</p><br>
<h2>Weather</h2><br>
<p>Mount Juneau receives an estimated 300% more rain than downtown Juneau (which receives 91 inches per year on average).</p><br>
<p>During winter, Mount Juneau is one of the preeminent avalanche threats to a major population center.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>The trail to Mount Juneau&#39;s summit can be accessed via the Perseverance Trail about one mile in from the trailhead. The trail features an assortment of alpine views as well although it traverses many steep slopes and caution is prudent in wet or snowy weather.</p><br>
<p>Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens  is a notable country estate, with gardens, located at 714 North Portage Path in Akron, Ohio. It is one of the largest homes in the United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Conception & Creation</h3><br>
<p>The estate was built between 1912 and 1915 for F. A. Seiberling, founder of the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and his wife, Gertrude Penfield Seiberling. They gave it the name Stan Hywet, loosely translated from Old English meaning "stone quarry" or "stone hewn," to reflect the site&#39;s earlier use and the abandoned stone quarry located on the grounds of the estate.</p><br>
<p>F.A. and Gertrude hired three professionals to shape the outcome of this home building project: Boston landscape designer Warren Manning, New York City interior designer Hugo Huber and Cleveland architect, Charles Schneider. Schneider originally pitched his design as an employee of George Post & Sons, a New York City architectural firm. Schneider left the company in 1913, but retained creative control and oversight of the building project.</p><br>
<p>In April 1912, the Seiberlings, with oldest daughter Irene and architect Charles Schneider, traveled to England to tour approximately 20 manor homes to gather inspiration for the homes design. Three English country homes served as the inspiration for Stan Hywets: Compton Wynyates, Ockwells Manor, and Haddon Hall.</p><br>
<p>The long, sprawling Manor House is 64,500 square feet and includes six floors at various points in the house’s design. In conceiving their dream home, the Seiberlings asked each family member what he or she desired. Gertrude requested a large music room, an indoor swimming pool for the boys and a private office for F.A. The house included a formal dining room that would seat up to 40 people, five guest bedrooms with adjoining full bathrooms and walk-in closets, and eight live-in servants’ bedrooms.</p><br>
<h3>Interior Design</h3><br>
<p>Interior designer Hugo Huber worked with Gertrude Seiberling to furnish the home&#39;s interior. The pair made frequent shopping trips to New York City and Huber traveled with F.A. and Gertrude Seiberling January 1915 to England to look at antique pieces for the home. Gertrude initially wanted to furnish the entire home in period appropriate Tudor antiques but F.A. argued the large family would need comfortable furnishings. Huber compromised by integrating a selection of Tudor antiques in with contemporary 1915 furnishings that were made to look antique and fit the overall décor of the home.</p><br>
<h3>Landscape Design</h3><br>
<p>The estate grounds, originally about 1,500 acres (6.1 square kilometers) in extent, were designed between 1911–1915 by Boston landscape architect Warren H. Manning, and remain today one of the finest examples of his work. Manning sited the house at the edge of the quarry wall overlooking a valley nearby and rolling hills in the distance.</p><br>
<p>Around the home, he created a series of vistas which related the home to the environment around it, intertwining the two in a unified design. The entrance to the property (through an existing apple orchard) and the two allées on the north and south sides of the house provide examples of vistas created by Manning using arranged plant materials. Along the back of the house, Manning manipulated existing forest plantings, and removed growth to create outlooks over miles of undisturbed countryside to capture the endless expanse of the Seiberlings’ property.</p><br>
<p>Around the Manor House, Manning designed a sequence of contrasting garden spaces which situated formal garden rooms – such as the English Garden, Breakfast Room Garden, Perennial Garden, Japanese Garden and West Terrace – within the existing natural landscape. Manning used a technique of plant massing where he used predominately native plant materials, grouping deciduous trees with small ornamental trees and swaths of perennial plantings, to carve vistas and gardens giving definition and movement to his design. The garden spaces were tailored to the needs of the Seiberling family and envisioned as outdoor rooms for the family to use for relaxation and entertaining.</p><br>
<p>The English garden was redesigned in 1929 by noted landscape architect Ellen Biddle Shipman. The landscape has undergone two significant restorations. The first in 1984 when a master plan was created to return the property to Warren Manning&#39;s original landscape plan. The second occurred between 2000 and 2010 and rebuilt all of the gardens and landscaping around the Manor House.</p><br>
<p>The estate also includes a conservatory and greenhouses constructed by King Construction Company of North Tonawanda, New York, and specified the construction of a rectangular Palm House with 24’ wide greenhouse on the back with a wing on each side for a cost of $18,330. The greenhouse space behind the Palm House was initially divided into “general plant house,” “orchid house” and “vegetable house.” The original 1915 building was damaged in a wind storm in 1947. In 2000, Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens constructed a new conservatory and greenhouses based on the original historic designs.</p><br>
<h3>Recreational Spaces</h3><br>
<p>The estate grounds also include two tennis courts, croquet and roque courts, horse trails, four hole golf course, lagoons for swimming and boating, an indoor swimming pool and gymnasium were some of the recreational outlets available to the Seiberlings and their house guests.</p><br>
<h3>Preservation</h3><br>
<p>In 1957, the six Seiberling children donated Stan Hywet to the newly formed Stan Hywet Hall Foundation, a non-profit organization formed for the preservation of the estate. It is now a historic house museum and country estate, open seasonally to the public, in keeping with the stone inscription above the Manor House front door, "Non nobis solum", meaning "Not for us alone".</p><br>
<p>Stan Hywet Hall and Gardens is open Tuesday through Sunday, April 1 through December 30. It is closed to the public on Mondays, except Memorial Day and Labor Day. An admission fee is charged.</p><br>
<p>The Chigmit Mountains are a subrange of the Aleutian Range in the Kenai Peninsula and Lake and Peninsula Boroughs of the USA state of Alaska.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>They are located at the northeastern end of the Aleutian range, on the west side of Cook Inlet, roughly 120 miles (200 km) southwest of Anchorage. The closest major towns to the range are Kenai and Homer, across Cook Inlet on the west side of the Kenai Peninsula.</p><br>
<p>To the north, the Chigmits are bordered by the Tordrillo Mountains, and on the northwest, by the Neacola Mountains. Cook Inlet marks the eastern boundary of the range, while on the west, the mountains fade out into the hills and lowlands of Lake Clark National Park and Preserve. On the south and southwest, the Chigmits abut the continuation of the Aleutian Range into the Alaska Peninsula.</p><br>
<h2>Geological composition</h2><br>
<p>The Chigmits, along with most of the Aleutian Range, are volcanic, and include two prominent stratovolcanoes, Redoubt Volcano (10,197 feet/3,108 m), the high point of the Aleutian Range; and Iliamna Volcano (10,016 feet/3,052 m).</p><br>
<p>Airth Castle is a castle overlooking the village of Airth and the River Forth, in the Falkirk area of Scotland. The castle is currently operating as a hotel and spa.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>According to an account attributed to Blind Harry, in 1298 William Wallace attacked a previous wooden fortification on this site to rescue his imprisoned uncle, a priest from Dunipace. A later castle was destroyed after the defeat of King James III at Sauchieburn in 1488. The southwest tower is the earliest part, dating to the period immediately thereafter. An extension was added on the east side in the mid 16th century. Airth Castle was owned by the Bruces, Jacobite sympathizers who were forced to sell after the failure of the 1715 rebellion.</p><br>
<p>The castle is a major historic building that retains much medieval fabric. As such, Historic Scotland has designated it a Category A listed building by.</p><br>
<p>Within the castle grounds stand the ruins of the former parish church of Airth.</p><br>
<h2>Ghosts</h2><br>
<p>The castle is said to be haunted and reported phenomena include:</p><br>
<p>Sightings of a nanny with two young children who are said to have died in a fire at the castle.</p><br>
<p>The sound of children playing being heard in rooms 3, 4, 9 and 23.</p><br>
<p>Heavy footsteps can be heard outside room 14 before suddenly stopping and disappearing.</p><br>
<p>People have also reported hearing cries and screams believed to</p><br>
<p>be from a maid who was attacked by her master and left to die.</p><br>
<p>Additionally, a ghost dog, with a predilection for biting ankles, is believed to roam the hallways.</p><br>
<p>A groundsman reportedly haunts the lower floor of the castle.</p><br>
<p>The Tordrillo Mountains are a small mountain range in the Matanuska-Susitna and Kenai Peninsula Boroughs in the southcentral region of the USA state of Alaska. They lie approximately 75 miles  west-northwest of Anchorage. The range extends approximately 60 miles  north-south and 35 miles  east-west.</p><br>
<p>The highest point is Mount Torbert (11,413 feet/3,479 m). On a clear day, they are easily visible from Anchorage.</p><br>
<p>The Tordrillos are bordered on the south by the Chigmit Mountains, the northernmost extension of the Aleutian Range. (The Tordrillos are sometimes counted as part of the Aleutian Range, but this is not official usage.) On the west and north they meet the southern tip of the Revelation Mountains, part of the Alaska Range, while on the east they fade into the hills and lowlands of southcentral Alaska. The north side of the range feeds the Skwentna River, and the south drains into Chakachamna Lake and the Chakachatna River.</p><br>
<p>The Tordrillos are primarily a volcanic range, like most of the neighboring Aleutian Range; however some of the peaks (for example, Mount Torbert) are not volcanoes. Mount Spurr, the southernmost peak in the range, had its most recent eruption in June 1992. They are heavily glaciated, partly due to their location near Cook Inlet. Major glaciers include the Capps Glacier, Triumvirate Glacier, Hayes Glacier, and Trimble Glacier.</p><br>
<p>Despite their proximity to Anchorage, the Tordrillos see little recreational or climbing activity. However Mount Spurr and nearby Crater Peak are regularly visited and monitored by the Alaska Volcano Observatory.</p><br>
<p>A pinner couloir in the "Meat Curtain" zone was shredded by Cody Townsend, earning him a Powder Award for Line of the Year 2014.</p><br>
<h2>Named peaks of the Tordrillo Mountains</h2><br>
<p>Mount Torbert (11,413 feet/3,479 m)</p><br>
<p>Mount Gerdine (11,258 feet/3,431 m)</p><br>
<p>Mount Spurr (11,070 feet/3,374 m)</p><br>
<p>Hayes Volcano (9,147 feet/2,788 m)</p><br>
<p>Crater Peak (7,575 feet/2,309 m) (A subsidiary peak of Mount Spurr)</p><br>
<p>Ennadai Lake is a lake in Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is 52 mi long, and 3 to 14 mi wide. It is drained to the north by the Kazan River. A 615 km section of the Kazan River from the outlet of Ennadai Lake to Baker Lake, was designated as a part of the Canadian Heritage Rivers System in 1990. It is in northern Canada&#39;s Keewatin Region of the Northwest Territories, now the Kivalliq Region  of present-day Nunavut.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The lake is within the Hearne Domain.</p><br>
<h2>Flora</h2><br>
<p>At Ennadai Lake&#39;s Kazan River outflow, the forest includes sparse black spruce and tamarack that grow approximately 1 - high, stunted because of harsh winds and dry summers.</p><br>
<h2>Fauna</h2><br>
<p>Ennadai Lake is part of the "annual migration route of the almost 500,000 strong Qamanirjuaq herd, and the occasional route of the 275,000 member Beverly herd." Beverly Lake is the area where the Beverly herd regularly bears its young. The Qamanirjuaq herd regularly bears its young near Qamanirjuaq Lake. Both herds historically migrate into Saskatchewan, Manitoba and the Northwest Territories. According to Arviat elders from Arviat, for the first time since the late 1960s, Qamanirjuaq caribou began their spring migration where the Seal River flows into the Hudson Bay." Since the 1960s, Qamanirjuaq caribou have been moving out of their winter range in northwestern Manitoba, northeastern Saskatchewan, southeastern NWT, and southwestern Nunavut into staging areas near Cullaton Lake, Seal Hole Lake and Ennadai Lake." In late March/early April when tens of thousands of caribou occupy these areas just before their spring migration "east as far as the Hudson Bay coast, then north to their calving grounds." In April large groups of yearlings and cows begin their traditional migration corridors back to the calving areas and in May the bulls leave their winter range and begin their migration.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Until 1957, Ennadai Lake was home to Ihalmiutᐃᐦᐊᓪᒥᐅᑦ, Caribou Inuit people. Inland Inuit were also "known as the ("People from Beyond") or Ahiarmiut ("the Out-of-the-Way Dwellers"). The Ahialmiut "subsisted almost entirely on caribou year-round, unlike other Inuit groups that depended at least partially on harvest of animals from the sea."</p><br>
<p>The ancestors of present-day Inuit in the area along with ancestors of the Dene, who later left the area "used the Kazan River during summer for more than 5,000 years, retreating to the treeline or the coast for the rest of the year."</p><br>
<p>"The ancestors of the Ahialmiut had moved inland from coastal areas in what is now the Kivalliq region of Nunavut. When the Dene joined the fur trade, and stopped following caribou onto the tundra each summer, the Ahialmiut moved farther inland, pushing south to the treeline by about 1850. They spent spring and summer inland, where they intercepted caribou travelling north in the spring, and camped in summer on the calving grounds."</p><br>
<p>These inland Inuit also lived along the banks of the Kazan River, Little Dubawnt Lake (renamed Kamilikuak), and north of Thlewiaza("Big River")</p><br>
<p>The Ihalmiut were successful inland hunters. However, they experienced years of famine "when caribou wintered primarily in the southern forest, rather than on the tundra, or when they were unable to cache sufficient food supplies in the fall."</p><br>
<p>In the early 1890s the Caribou Inuit began trading with Canadians of European descent. They maintained trap lines for white fox along their caribou hunting trails. They continued to depend on the Qamanirjuaq caribou. "But after years of hardship in the late 1940s and 1950s, many people started moving into communities. Government encouraged them to do so to allow their children to attend school, and to have access to medical care at nursing stations."</p><br>
<p>Ihalmiut were Caribou Inuit, inland-dwelling people in the Barren Lands region whose subsistence centred on hunting caribou.Caribou meat was dried for the winter months.</p><br>
<p>On 17 March 2000, two pilots perished in an aviation accident while landing a Douglas DC-3 at Ennadai Lake. The plane departed Points North Landing, Saskatchewan with 6600 pounds of cargo on board for building materials for the construction of a lodge.</p><br>
<h2>Relocations</h2><br>
<p>The Ihalmiut were relocated by the Government of Canada in May 1957 to Henik Lake. The caribou were scarce in the Henik Lake area and starvation soon set in. They were later relocated again to Whale Cove, Nunavut.</p><br>
<p>1949, Ihalmiut were relocated from Ennadai Lake to Nueltin Lake, but the relocation did not last as hunting was poor, precipitating the band&#39;s return to Ennadai Lake. The Canadian Army Signal Corps built the radio station at Ennadai Lake in 1949.</p><br>
<p>May 1957, Ihalmiut were airlifted from Ennadai Lake to Henik Lake, 45 miles from the Padlei trading post, a distance considered reasonable by the Government of Canada. Many Ihalmiut starved.</p><br>
<p>Later in 1957, Ihalmiut were moved to Whale Cove where some began carving figurines for income.</p><br>
<p>In 1958, 29 Ihalmiut went to Padlei because of its trading post, 39 were at Yathkyed Lake, and the majority were brought to Eskimo Point by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.</p><br>
<p>In 1959, the Padlei trading post closed, and the remaining Ihalmiut was relocated. Mowat&#39;s 1959 revisit to the Ihalmiut inspired the follow-up book "Walking on the Land", a depiction of the effects of the federal government, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Catholic missionaries, and big business upon the people.</p><br>
<p>The relocations to Nueltin Lake and Henik Lake were complete failures. "The Ahiarmiut themselves maintain that Ennadai Lake was an excellent hunting area and failed to understand why they were relocated."</p><br>
<p>On 7 September 1985 36 elders returned to Ennadai Lake from where they had been relocated in the 1950s.</p><br>
<p>In an article in Inuktituk magazine David Serkoak, who was a child at the time of the relocation, attempted to understand the reasoning behind decision to move the Ahiarmiut.</p><br>
<p>A workshop was held in Arviat in 2003 with Ahiarmiut elders on Survival and Angakkuuniq in which "Ahiarmiut elders Job and Eva Muqyunnik, Luke and Mary Anautalik often reflected on the events that almost fifty years ago had disrupted their lives and still affected them." This was followed by a second workshop in 2006 held at Ennadai Lake with Ahiarmiut originally from Ennadai Lake, including Eva Muqyunnik, Job Muqyunnik, Mary Anautalik, John Aulatjut, Silas Ilungiyajuk, Geena Aulatjut then living in Arviat, Andrew Alikashuak living in Whale Cove, and Mary Whitmore from Churchill. Annie Seewoe and Luke Anautalik from Arviat and David Serkoak from Iqaluit were unable to attend.</p><br>
<p>A weather station was located in the area at Ennadai.</p><br>
<h2>Notable people from Ennadai Lake</h2><br>
<p>Luke Anowtalik (1932-2006), an Ihalmiut, was a first-generation Inuit artist with work in major galleries including the National Gallery of Canada, the Marion Scott Gallery and Spirit Wrestler gallery in Vancouver, Inuit Galerie in Mannheim. He was born in the Ennadai Lake area where he began carving his small swivel figures in caribou antler and sold his first carvings to Ministry of Transport employees working there. The federal government relocated him first to Whale Cove, then to Arviat where he continued carving often using the hard stone that was available there. His wife Mary Ayaq Anowtalik is also a well-known carver.</p><br>
<p>Elisapee Karetak, an Ihalmiut, was an infant when her father Hallauk, her mother Kikkik and Elisapee&#39;s three young siblings were relocated from Ennadai Lake to Henik Lake in 1957. In 2000 Karetak with Montreal-based filmmaker Ole Gjerstad, produced a one-hour documentary entitled Kikkik about her mother. After her husband was murdered by a man delusional from hunger, Kikkik stabbed the man and began a long journey from Henik Lake to get help. Kikkik trekked for days across the Barrens carrying one-and-a-half-year-old Elisapee in her amauti and with three other children in tow.</p><br>
<p>Sapientza or Sapienza  is a Greek island off the southern coast of the Peloponnese, near the city of Methóni. It is administratively part of the municipality of Pylos-Nestor, in Messenia. The 2011 census reported a population of two inhabitants. Sapientza is the second largest island of the Messenian Oinousses, a small group island which consists of three small islands . Its name is of Italian origin and means wisdom. The Calypso Deep, the deepest point of the Mediterranean Sea at 5,267 m, is located south-west of Sapientza.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The island has seen many shipwrecks because it is located over the main sea route between Italy and the Middle East. Some of the wrecks carried important cargo, such as a Toman wreck that carried granite columns from the peristyle of Herod&#39;s temple in Caesarea Maritima. In the south of the island there is an important lighthouse built in 1885. Its height is 8 meters. Sapientza has lush vegetation with dense shrubland and perennial hollies, arbutus and other Mediterranean plants. For this reason, Sapientza and the other Messenian Oinousses have been included in the Natura 2000 Network, with code GR2550003.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Sapientza is known for the Treaty of Sapienza in 1209, between the Republic of Venice and the Principality of Achaea. With this treaty Methoni and Corone remained under Venetian rule and the remainder of the Peloponnese was ceded to Villehardouin. In 1354, the Venetian and Genoese fleets fought the Battle of Sapienza.</p><br>
<p>After the Greek War of Independence, Sapienza became a part of the Greek state. Nevertheless, the British claimed Sapienza during the Pacifico case, as part of the United States of the Ionian Islands.</p><br>
<p>Meganisi  is a Greek island and municipality immediately to the east-southeast of the island of Lefkada. The municipality includes the offshore islands of Skorpios  and Sparti. The municipality has an area of 22.356 km. Its total population was 1,041 at the 2011 census.</p><br>
<p>The island has three villages: the central village of Katomeri (pop. 492) and the ports of Vathy (145) and Spartochori (453 inhabitants). There is also a harbour at Atheni Bay used mainly by fishing boats. Meganisi is connected with Lefkada by a car ferry service from Vathy and Spartochori. Meganisi has a school, a lyceum (middle school), an ATM, churches and a few squares (plateies). The island has no secondary school, so pupils attend the nearby school in Nydri, on Lefkada.</p><br>
<p>Some researchers, including Wilhelm Dörpfeld estimate that Meganisi was the Homeric island of Krocylea, which was part of Odysseus&#39; kingdom.</p><br>
<h2>Municipality</h2><br>
<h3>Municipal districts</h3><br>
<p>Katomeri</p><br>
<p>Spartochori</p><br>
<p>Vathy</p><br>
<h3>Islands</h3><br>
<p>Skorpios - private island</p><br>
<p>Sparti</p><br>
<h2>Historical population</h2><br>
<p>Kastos  is a Greek island and a former community east of the island of Lefkada, Ionian Islands, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Lefkada, of which it is a municipal unit. Until 1974, when it became part of the Lefkada Prefecture, the island was administered under the Cephalonia Prefecture . The nearest island is Kalamos, with a deep channel between them; the mainland is approximately 5 km to the northeast in Aetolia-Acarnania.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The island has only one village, the homonymous Kastos, located on its east coast. It has a population of about 80, involved mainly in fishing and tourism services. During the summer Kastioti of the diaspora return for holidays and, together with the fluctuating visitors arriving on yachts, form its seasonal character. The island is 7 km long from north to south, and 800 m wide. The area is 5.901 km² and its highest point is 142 m over the Mediterranean Sea level.</p><br>
<p>Kastos has two churches, Agios Ioannis Prodromos, which is located in the centre of the village, and Agios Emilianos, located about 4 km northeastern of the village. Agios Ioannis church is decorated with wall paintings from the notable Eptanesian painter Spyridon Gazis.</p><br>
<p>Also, the island has two windmills and three olive presses, none of them functioning anymore.</p><br>
<h2>Population</h2><br>
<h2>Facilities</h2><br>
<p>The island has a range of facilities such as three bars, four restaurants and a small gift shop.</p><br>
<p>All facilities are open during the summer, however most close during the winter months of the island. The island has two harbours for boat mooring, one located on the front of the island, the other located at the back.</p><br>
<p>Atokos , is a small Greek island in the Ionian Sea off the coast of Acarnania and is one of the most westerly and perhaps remotest of the Echinades islands., it had no resident population. It is situated 9 km northeast of Ithaca and 8 km southwest of Kastos and lies just to the north east of the main shipping and ferry Channel between Brindisi in Italy and Patras on the Peloponnese. From such large vessels you can get a reasonable view of the southwestern end  of the island and its step cliffs.</p><br>
<p>To approach it and land requires a private boat, and safe anchorage is advisable only in calm weather at one of its two key anchorages; One House Bay on the east coast and Cliff Bay on the south coast. The former being the preferred option as it shelters boats from the prevailing NW winds and has better access to the island via a pebbled beach and small flat hinterland.</p><br>
<p>It is administered by the municipality of Ithaca but is a private island owned by the shipping magnate Panayiotis Tsakos. For most of the time the island remains uninhabited except for a few goats that roam freely around the island. These animals appear to be tended by a shepherd who visits and tends to the flock every 4th day as part of an agreement with the current owner.</p><br>
<p>Visitors are currently allowed to land on the island.</p><br>
<p>In addition a small chapel has an open door to visitors and appears to be cleaned and well maintained by someone. The chapel can be found by following a short path from the beach at One House Bay, and past the island&#39;s well and supply of brackish water. Confusingly, this small holy building is not the "one house" that gives the main bay its name. To locate the simple two story house that gives the bay its name, follow another short path at the north end of the beach and through the noisy cicada-filled woods towards the foot of the main hill on the island. The house is locked but is habitable, presumably for use by the family owners who sometimes visit during September.</p><br>
<p>The island was on the market in 2015 for €44M with potential for hotel development, but as the island is inside a NATURA 2000 area and is close to the island of Oxia, which was cheaply sold in 2013 to Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the emir of Qatar, for €4.9M, this price may not be reached easily.</p><br>
<p>Ereikoussa  is an island and a former community of the Ionian Islands, Greece. It is one of the Diapontia Islands, an island complex to the northwest of Corfu. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality of Corfu, of which it is a municipal unit. It is located off the northwestern coast of the island of Corfu, and is almost equidistant from Corfu to the southeast, Mathraki to the southwest, and Othonoi to the west. There is only one town on the island, also named Ereikoússa. Its population was 496 at the 2011 census and its land area is 3.65 km². The municipal unit has an area of 4.449 km. The island is rich in green forests, filled with cypress, and olive trees. It has two beaches, Porto  and Braghini ; the names are of Italian origin, and date back to the period of Venetian rule. Braghini is rarely visited because it is further away from the main part of the island.</p><br>
<p>The two primary ways to get to Ereikoussa are through a boat called Sea Away that leaves from Sidari, a city in northern Corfu, or the Alexandros, a boat that leaves from Corfu Town. The Sea Away takes about 40 min. while the Alexandros takes about 2 hours 45 min.</p><br>
<p>Mathraki  is an island and a former community of the Ionian Islands, Greece. It is one of the Diapontia Islands. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality of Corfu, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 3.532 km. Population 29 . Mathraki is a 45-minute boat ride off the coast of Corfu . It has three restaurants that double as general stores, villas and "rooms to let". Mathraki is a quiet island that manages to stay clear of tourists except for the occasional hikers that brave the rocky coastline. The municipal unit includes the three nearby islets Diakopo, Diaplo and Tracheia.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Mathraki was inhabited during the last centuries by settlers from the nearby island of Othonoi. The origin of its name is unknown, but according to a popular tradition, derives from anthrakia, because in the past the island had been burnt. It became part of Greece in 1864, when the Ionian islands were ceded to Greece by the British. Today is a serene and tranquil place for holidays.</p><br>
<h2>Historical population</h2><br>
<p>Othonoi or Othoni  is a small Greek island in the Ionian Sea, located northwest of Corfu, and is the westernmost point of Greece. Othonoi is the largest of the Diapontia Islands. It is a former community of the Ionian Islands. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality of Corfu, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 10.078 km and population of 392 .</p><br>
<p>In the 19th century the island was the capital of the Diapontia Islands municipality, which also included nearby islands of Ereikoussa, Mathraki, islets and rocks of Diakopo, Diaplo, Karavi, Kastrino, Leipso, Ostrako, Plaka, Plateia and Tracheia. Othoni is about 47 nautical miles from Santa Maria di Leuca cape, Italy.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>The first name according to ancient texts (Hesychius, 3rd cent. BC) was "Othronos" (Οθρονός), "Othronoi" (Οθρωνοί) and by Procopius seams to be "Othoni" (Οθωνή) (6th c.). According to Pliny (1st cent.) was "Thoronos" (Θόρονος). Other names were "Fidonisi" (Snake island) because of the many snakes that are said to have invaded the island, and "Fano" (Lamp) which is used in international charters and by the Italians because of the lighthouse that it is on the island. There are also views that came from the word "screen" (Greek:Οθόνη) as "Othones" seems that the local seamen call the sails of their sailing boats.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>At the beginning of the second millennium, the island was conquered alternatively by the Franks (the 11th century) and the Venetians (12th century), and often attacked by pirates of Barbary and Algeria. From the end of 1383 until 1386 the domination of Corfu brought by Charles III of Naples. In his letter he stated that on April 19, 1383 granted the usufruct of Othoni Ereikoussa, Mathraki, Diapolo and Vido, the knight Theodore Skaliti as fief.</p><br>
<p>In 1537, the Turkish fleet under the command of Greek origin pirate and admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa massacred the inhabitants of Othoni island after a long battle. In Stavros district at an altitude of 217 m. a white stone cross exists until today to commemorate that event.</p><br>
<p>The last settlers of Othoni apparently came from Paxos and Ioannina, Parga and the region of Epirus. Dated after the Battle of Nafpaktos in 1571, when the Turkish fleet was destroyed and the islanders began to move more safely. After the last movement, the residents of Othoni island colonized the two other small islands, Ereikoussa and Mathraki.</p><br>
<p>In 1815, the English conquered Othonoi and as is said, sent to the island sick soldiers to recover because of the good climate that prevailed. The Treaty signed on March 29, 1864 between the three powers (England, France, Russia) and the Kingdom of Greece, the Ionian Islands -and Diapontia islands- passed definitively to Greek sovereignty on 21 May. On October 5, 1864, the Ionian Parliament realized the purpose of the convocation solemnly acting union with Greece one and indivisible state under the king, George I of Greece. From 1869 until 1912 Othoni, Ereikousa and Mathraki formed the municipality of Dimos Diapontion with Othoni as capital.</p><br>
<h3>Naval history</h3><br>
<p>Othoni have achieved big naval and maritime history as men crowd the island and the surrounding islands were involved in shipping (1880-1990). It is significant that there is no family without a sailor. Also, many Othoniotes were senior crews in war ships. Main maritime occupations was sailor, boatswain, master or engineer of any class etc. A lot of Othoniotes were ship owners as they had a large number of yachts and commercial steamships traveling to many Mediterranean ports.</p><br>
<p>Unfortunately, within these decades of history that wrote Othoniotes at sea, there were some victims because of several wrecks due to sloppiness and carelessness of those responsible in the last century.</p><br>
<h4>Sinking of submarine Protefs</h4><br>
<p>On 29 December 1940, the Greek submarine Protefs sank in the sea area of Othonoi. The submarine had attacked an Italian convoy carrying ammunition to Vlorë. After sinking the steamer Sardegna, the submarine was rammed by the Italian torpedo boat Antares. The loss of the submarine was the first loss of the Greek Navy in World War II. A monument to honor the memory of the crew, was inaugurated in Othonoi on June 15, 2015.</p><br>
<h2>Mythology</h2><br>
<p>According to a legend, in the ancient times it was the island of nymph Calypso, who lived in a large cave. Odysseus fell in love and remained like a prisoner there for seven years. Homer called thιs island Ogygia. Due to his scriptures there was a strong scent of cypress on Ogygia island. Othonoi is a place with many of these trees. Odysseus left the island by a raft and he sank on Scheria the island of Corfu. This is an extra element that justifies the legend of Othonoi being Ogygia, because of the short distance that separates the two islands.</p><br>
<p>According to Hesychius, after the Trojan War, Elephenor, king of Avantes from Euboea fled to the island after the fall of Troy, to atone as he had killed his grandfather, Abas.</p><br>
<h2>Economy</h2><br>
<p>Most Othoniotes (local dialect: Thoniotes) have migrated to Corfu, Athens and abroad (especially to the USA) because of the unemployment and few exploitable resources (1900-1960).The main work was the olive and oil production. Most men of that time were involved in nautical professions (sailor, bosun, carpenter, captain, skipper etc.) and worked on commercial and war ships which were operating in every part of earth. Main occupation of current residents is tourism, fishing and olive production. Previously there has been significant cultivation of vines, the beekeeping and livestock.</p><br>
<h2>Settlements</h2><br>
<p>Othoni is divided into two regions which are Ano Panta (Άνω πάντα) and Kato Panta (Κάτω πάντα). There are more than 20 settlements.</p><br>
<h2>Main sights</h2><br>
<h3>Churches</h3><br>
<p>Holy Trinity church (Εκκλησία Αγίας Τριάδος) (1892) at Ammos.</p><br>
<p>Virgin Mary church (Εκκλησία Παναγίας θεοτόκου) near Stavros district.</p><br>
<p>Saint George church(Εκκλησία Αγίου Γεωργίου) (about 1864) at Chorio.</p><br>
<p>Agia Paraskevi church (Εκκλησία Αγίας Παρασκευής) (and the old stone mill) at Damaskatika.</p><br>
<h3>Other buildings</h3><br>
<p>School of Othonoi (Σχολείο Οθωνών) (1912) at Ammos.</p><br>
<p>Ruins of the Venetian fortress at the northeast end of Kastri cape hilltop at an altitude of 100 m.</p><br>
<p>Lighthouse of Othoni (Φάρος Οθωνών) (built in 1872).</p><br>
<h3>Monuments</h3><br>
<p>Cross monument at Stavros, for the massacre of the inhabitants of Othoni by the Ottoman fleet under Hayreddin Barbarossa in 1537.</p><br>
<p>Monument to seafares of Othoni island, at Ammos.</p><br>
<p>Monument to submarine PROTEUS, at Ammos.</p><br>
<h3>Nature</h3><br>
<p>Aspri ammos beach (Παραλία Άσπρη άμμος) which is accessible only by boat to the west of the island.</p><br>
<p>Cave of Calypso (Σπήλαιο Καλυψώς), near of Aspri ammos beach.</p><br>
<p>Mount Imerovigli (Όρος Ημεροβίγκλι) and the highest peak of the island with height of 395 m</p><br>
<p>Kamara (Καμάρα) near Ammos.</p><br>
<p>Iliovasilema (sunset) at Chorio.</p><br>
<h3>Beaches</h3><br>
<p>Most beaches on the island are accessible by boat, including Ammos, Molos, Kamini, Kanoula, Kontoskes, Rogi, Fyki, Xilosermi, and Aspri Ammos. It is a well known island for underwater photography because of the peculiar geomorphology of the seabed and the many caves. Other points of interest are the Moshopontikas, Xylosermi, Fyki bay (where there is the sunken wreck of Sarah ship). Othoni was frequently visited by the French naturalist Jacques Cousteau and his exploratory vessel Calypso.</p><br>
<h3>Trails</h3><br>
<p>The traditional trail was created and used by the first inhabitants, and was subsequently reopened by the municipality and private initiatives. Locals and visitors can use the trail to reach almost every neighborhood and part of the island on foot, as well as Mount Imerovigli (Merovigli), and the highest peak of the island, with a height of over 390 m, with views of the other Diapontia Islands, Ionian sea and Adriatic sea.</p><br>
<h3>Others</h3><br>
<p>Port of Ammos (Λιμένας Άμμου) is the most populous district with small guesthouses, restaurants, rent-a-bike store, cafes, police station, community clinic with ambulance and port authority.</p><br>
<h2>Nature</h2><br>
<h3>Flora</h3><br>
<p>The island is almost completely covered by trees which produce a small species of olive, the "Elea the cherry" (Olea microcarpa), commonly Lianolia or ladoelia, with a high content of high quality oil, which is common in all the Ionian Islands. It was densely planted during Venetian rule, so most are aged 300–400 years exceeding a height of 7 m.</p><br>
<p>There are cypresses and fruit trees on almost all mountain slopes. The tall mulberry (or Skamnia) and fig (or Skeria) are found in nearly all districts and gardens that host many species of fruit and vegetables, and features large cabbage called by Othoniotes cramps, as in Cyprus. Most houses have, instead of tents or sheds, pergolas with vines or pergoulies. Oregano, sage and many other herbs.</p><br>
<h3>Fauna</h3><br>
<p>Othoni is the first migratory bird station in southeastern Europe from Libya, especially for turtle doves. There are also grouse and snipe (xilokotes) during the winter months, and Petritis falcons, the European bee-eater birds, martins, ravens and several species of eagles.</p><br>
<p>There are several hares and rabbits. The most common species of reptile is the viper (Vipera ammodytes or astritis).</p><br>
<p>Marine mammals have been observed off the island&#39;s coast, including the bottlenose dolphin, at least three species of sharks (including white shark), while sporadically near the cave of Calypso there have been monk seals. also found almost all varieties of marine fauna, such as the white sea bream, red mullet, the snapper, the grouper, the bumpkin (weighing up to 30 pounds), octopus, moray, the stingray, lobster. Remarkable is the presence of barnacles and sea urchins.</p><br>
<p>Zooplankton is in small coves of the island and especially in seaweed is abundant at night, and when the sea is calm, the plankton illuminates the sea bed.</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<p>The climate of Othoni is mild, and generally warm and temperate. The winters are rainier than the summers in Othoni. The Köppen-Geiger climate classification is Csa. The average temperature in Othoni is 16.7 °C. About 1026 mm of precipitation falls annually.</p><br>
<h2>Dialect</h2><br>
<p>A dialect is spoken resembling that of Corfu and having a similar prosody. It is heavily influenced by Italian.</p><br>
<h2>Transport</h2><br>
<p>The island is accessible by boat with regular services from Corfu port and Agios Stefanos Avliotes. There is a port in Avlakia district (with fishing port), for several small private yachts and boats.The island has a heliport for emergencies. Asphalt roads are available on many parts of the island, about 12 km of which are extended to settlements. There is complete electrification and a telephone network with Internet access.</p><br>
<h2>Sports</h2><br>
<p>A. O. Othoni (Αθλητικός όμιλος Οθωνών) is an amateur football team based on the island. During the 1970s and the 1980s the team used to play against other football teams form the other Diapontia islands, Ereikousa and Mathraki.</p><br>
<h2>Othoni in literature</h2><br>
<p>Ionion akron. Greece in the narrow of Otranto (Ιόνιον άκρων. Η Ελλάδα στοστενό του Ότραντο)</p><br>
<p>Folklore mission to Diapontia islands, by Dimitrios Loukatos, 2012 (Λαογραφική αποστολή στα Διαπόντια νησιά)</p><br>
<p>Ereikoussa, the extra garden and the continental shelf of Diapontia islands by greek journalist, Georgios Lekakis, 2014 (Ερείκουσσα, ο επιπλέον ανθόκηπος και η υφαλοκρηπίδα των Διαποντίων νήσων)</p><br>
<p>The Fiddler&#39;s daughter (Στο καλύβι του Αριά) by Dimitra Kapelouzou, 2004</p><br>
<p>Makri  is a Greek island, one of the Echinades, in the Ionian Islands group. It is located on the far southeast side of the Gulf of Makri close to the mouth of the Acheloos river. It is administered by the municipality of Ithaca and is 24 km east of the island., it had no resident population. Strabo, and most modern writers, identify Dulichium, from which Homer reports that Meges, son of Phyleus, led 40 ships to Troy, with the island of Makri.</p><br>
<p>The island is roughly 2.5 km long and 0.5 km at its widest. It has an area of roughly 993,000 acres and an estimate coastline of 7,280 m in length. Made up of 2 hills linked by an isthmus, there is also a small islet at its southeastern corner. Recently it was put on the market, with the possibility for resort development and consideration for a 5* hotel and luxurious private villas to be built. Its value is unknown but it is hoped that it will reach a similar value to the close by island of Oxia which was recently sold to Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the emir of Qatar, for €4.9M</p><br>
<p>Middle Triple Peak is the second highest peak in the Kichatna Mountains, a subrange of the Alaska Range in Alaska, United States. It is a striking rock tower, with immense, sheer walls on the east and west sides.</p><br>
<p>Its East Buttress route (roughly 3,600 feet/1,100 m high) is a classic hard rock climbing route. Due to the remoteness of the range and the usually terrible weather, this peak has seen only a few ascents. The first ascent of the peak was in 1976 by Russell McLean and Charlie Porter (fresh from the first solo of the Cassin Ridge on Denali).</p><br>
<h2>Notable ascents and routes</h2><br>
<p>1976 West Face. Charlie Porter and Russell McLean, June 21 to July 1, 1976.</p><br>
<p>1976 Illusory Ridge (north ridge) (NCCS V, F8 A3). David Black, Andrew Embick, Michael Graber, Alan Long. Summit reached July 10, 1976.</p><br>
<p>1997 Ride the Lightning, VI 5.10 A4 WI3. Dan Osman, Kitty Calhoun, Steve Gerberding and Jay Smith</p><br>
<h2>Further reading</h2><br>
<p>Michael Wood and Colby Coombs, Alaska: a climbing guide, The Mountaineers, 2001.</p><br>
<p>Kyra Panagia  is a Greek island in the Sporades. It is administratively part of the municipality of Alonnisos in the Sporades regional unit. The island is also known by the name of Pelagos and rarely Pelagonisi. A bay in the south west of the island is named Agios Petros. Kyra Panagia has belonged to the Athonite monastery of Megisti Lavra since it was granted the island by the Byzantine emperor Nikephoros II Phokas in 963. There is a monastery renovated in 2017 after 8 years of work and inhabited by a single monk, on the east coast of the island., the resident population of the island was 2. Kyra Panagia is in Zone B of the Alonnisos Marine Park.</p><br>
<h2>Nearest islands and islets</h2><br>
<p>Its nearest islands and islets are Gioura to the northeast and the main island of Alonnisos to the southwest.</p><br>
<p>Piperi  is a Greek island in the Northern Sporades. It is administratively part of the municipality of Alonnisos and, after Skyros, is the Sporades&#39; easternmost island., the resident population of the island was 6.</p><br>
<h2>Nearest islands and islets</h2><br>
<p>Its nearest islands and islets are Gioura to the west and Psathoura to the northwest. The island of Piperi is in Zone A of the Alonnisos Marine Park, the core of the Park, and is strictly protected. Its approach by any vessel without special permission is forbidden. The restrictions protect important habitats of the monk seal and of the birds of prey which live and reproduce on the inaccessible rocks of the island, which are also home to some rare plant species. Piperi has precipitous, rocky shores and its vegetation is dominated by pine forests, although there are also some holly, frygana, and chasmophytes to be found on the cliffs. There are 33 species of birds and it is estimated that the island is home to about 350–400 pairs of Eleonora&#39;s falcon (Falco eleonorae).</p><br>
<p>Schoinoussa or Schinoussa  is an island and a former community in the Cyclades, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Naxos and Lesser Cyclades, of which it is a municipal unit. It lies south of the island of Naxos, in the Lesser Cyclades group, between the island communities of Irakleia and Koufonisia. The population was 256 inhabitants at the 2011 census. Its land area is 8.512 km².</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Schoinoussa is located in the south of Naxos, in the middle about of the Lesser Cyclades island group. It is the fourth largest island of the Lesser Cyclades and the second most populated, after Ano Koufonisi. The island has three settlements, Chora the capital of the island, Mesaria and Mersini where is the port of the island. The derivation of the name Schinoussa is not precisely known. It is believed that the name either derives from the corruption of the ancient name Echinousa or from a Venetian nobleman named Schinoza. Schoinoussa has been inhabited since antiquity. On the island there are sites of archaeological interest including ancient Greek and Roman ruins, ruins of a Byzantine church and a small medieval castle. From the 11th century the island was the property of the Hozoviotissa Monastery on the nearby island of Amorgos.</p><br>
<h3>Historical population</h3><br>
<p>Keros  is an uninhabited Greek island in the Cyclades about 10 km southeast of Naxos. Administratively it is part of the community of Koufonisia. It has an area of 15 km&sup2; and its highest point is 432 m. It was an important site to the Cycladic civilization that flourished around 2500 BC. It is now forbidden to land in Keros.</p><br>
<p>Keros is especially noted for the flat-faced Cycladic marble statues which later inspired the work of Pablo Picasso and Henry Moore.</p><br>
<h2>Keros hoard</h2><br>
<p>The "Keros Hoard" is a very large deposit of Cycladic figurines that was found on the island of Keros.</p><br>
<p>In 2006-2008, the Cambridge Keros Project, co-directed by Colin Renfrew with others, conducted excavations at Kavos on the west coast of the island. This general area is believed to be the source of the so-called "Keros Hoard" of fragmentary Cycladic figurines. The material excavated in 2006-2008 includes Cycladic figurines, vessels and other objects made of marble, all broken prior to deposition and most likely broken elsewhere and brought to Kavos for deposition. The lack of joining fragments shows that only a part of the broken material was deposited here, while ongoing studies of the pottery and other material show that material was brought from multiple sources for deposition here.</p><br>
<p>In 2007-2008, the same project identified and excavated a substantial Cycladic period settlement on the nearby island of Dhaskalio. A large area has been excavated, revealing a substantial building 16 metres long and 4 metres wide — the largest from this period in the Cyclades — within which was discovered the ‘Dhaskalio hoard’ comprising a chisel, an axe-adze and a shaft-hole axe of copper or bronze. In addition to excavation, survey of the islet showed that most of its surface — a total of 7000 m2 — was occupied during the Early Bronze Age, making this the largest site in the Cyclades. Specialist studies for the geomorphology, geology, petrology, ceramic petrology, metallurgy and environmental aspects (botanical and faunal remains, phytoliths) are in progress. No more fieldwork is planned prior to final publication of the 2006 to 2008 seasons. Publication of this important work is underway and expected in four volumes to appear in 2012 and 2013.</p><br>
<p>The activities at this site have now been dated 2750 to 2300 BC, which precedes any identified worship of gods in the Aegean.</p><br>
<p>Colin Renfrew, Michael Boyd and Christopher Bronk Ramsey, Antiquity, Vol 86:331, 2012 pp 144-160</p><br>
<h2>Keros-Syros culture</h2><br>
<p>Keros-Syros culture is named after the two islands in the Cyclades—Keros and Syros. This culture flourished during the Early Cycladic II period (ca 2700-2300 BC). Some of the best preserved sites of this culture are at Kea and Ios, located not far from Keros.</p><br>
<p>Some of the important artifacts of this culture are the so-called frying pans – shallow circular vessels or bowls with a decorated base. The use of metal became widespread during this period.</p><br>
<p>Anafi  is a Greek island community in the Cyclades. In 2011, it had a population of 271. Its land area is 40.370 km². It lies east of the island of Thíra . Anafi is part of the Thira regional unit.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>According to mythology, the island was given the name Anafi because Apollo made it appear to the Argonauts as a shelter from a bad storm, using his bow to shed light upon it (i.e. the island name Ἀνάφη is derived from ἀνέφηνεν, "he made appear"). If the name of the island derives from this word, and means "revelation", then Anafi is linked to Delos, an island whose name also derives from an ancient Greek word meaning "to reveal". Others say that the name is due to the non-existence of snakes on the island: "an Ophis" ("without snakes"). Despite its small size, Anafi offers archaeological as well as mythological interest. At the monastery of Panagia Kalamiotisa there are ruins of a temple built as an offering to the god Apollo Aegletus. Some of the inscriptions from the island (Inscriptiones Graecae XII, 248 line 8) refer to the god Apollo as "asgelatos" ασγελατος, a unique usage, said by some scholars to be a variant of Aigletes, radiant. However, one scholar (Burkert 1992) links this epithet to a Sumerian goddess of healing and to Apollo&#39;s son Asclepius. Ruins can also be found at Kasteli, and most of the findings, such as the statues, are now located at the "Archaeological Museum" at the Chora, in an extremely small room. In Roman times the island was used as a place of exile.</p><br>
<p>After the Fourth Crusade in 1204, when the Cyclades were taken over by Venetians, Anafi was granted by Marco I Sanudo to Leonardo Foscolo. In the late 1270s, the island was recovered for the Byzantine Empire by Licario and another Italian renegade and native of Anafi, John de lo Cavo, who succeeded Licario as imperial admiral in the Aegean. In 1307 the island was captured by Januli Gozzadini, of Bolognese origin, who established himself as its independent lord. Much later the ruler of Anafi, William Crispo (1390-1463), became regent of the Duchy of the Archipelago, leaving Anafi under the control of his daughter Florence. William is said to have built the fortifications (kastro) above the present village. He is also claimed to have built a fortress, sometimes referred to as "Gibitroli", on Mount Kalamos.</p><br>
<p>In 1481, the island passed to the Pisani family as part of a dowry. The Pisani ruled it until 1537, when the Ottoman admiral Hayreddin Barbarossa raided it and carried off all its inhabitants as slaves. The island was eventually resettled, and acquired a set of privileges from the Ottoman court in 1700 in exchange for 500 crowns. Thereafter it was left largely to fend for itself, except for the annual visit of the Ottoman fleet to collect tribute. The island was visited in 1700 by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, botanist to the French court. He describes Mount Kalamos as "une des plus effroyables roches qui soit au monde". Some of the ancient remains from the island were acquired by French and British antiquaries; one Hellenistic statue from Kastelli (of a woman holding an incense cup) can be found in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg.</p><br>
<p>During the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774, it was held and used as a base by the Russian fleet under Alexey Orlov from 1770 until the war&#39;s end. During the Greek War of Independence the Anafiots sent "two Caïques of men" to join the struggle. Many men left the island to help in the building of Athens as capital city of Greece, and from then on there was both seasonal and permanent migration, and a migrant community grew up in the city. They built houses for themselves on the slopes of the Acropolis rock, in an area still known as Anafiotika (see Caftanzoglou 2000). James Theodore Bent visited the island with his wife in the winter of 1880-81 and gives a vivid description of the island.</p><br>
<p>The island was used as a place of internal exile for criminals and political dissidents from the 1920s onward. Tourism developed in the 1970s, particularly after an electricity generator was built in 1974, and harbour works were undertaken. The building of paved roads from the late 1980s onwards not only increased tourism but revived the island&#39;s agricultural economy. There are numerous publications relating to the island from the mid-1960s (see books and articles by Margaret Kenna) and her photographs of the island and migrant communities over the decades since 1966 have been deposited in the Benaki Museum Photographic Archive (located in Kolonaki Square - Filikis Etaireias 15).</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Along with its larger neighbour Santorini, Anafi was not originally counted among the Cyclades by ancient geographers, but among the Sporades. This only changed during the period of Latin rule in the late Middle Ages.</p><br>
<p>Anafi is very much an island for walking. Antonis Kaloyerou has published a walkers guide to the island, in Greek, profusely illustrated, with detailed instructions, timings, and distances (Αντωνης Καλογηρου, Τα Μονοπατια της Αναφης, ROAD 2010, see www.road.gr). There is also a 1:15.000 "hiking map" in Greek and English published by Terrain, no: 318. (See www.terrainmaps.gr) Through the old paths and around the steep hills, you can walk to the other side of the island. The most popular beaches are Klisidi and Roukounas. A peninsula at the eastern end of the island is dominated by a monolithic peak, Mt. Kalamos, among the largest in the Mediterranean at 420 m. Perched atop this massif is the Kalamiotissa church, rebuilt in large part after an earthquake in the 1950s. The icon from this church (called locally "the Upper Monastery") was taken, after a storm in 1887, to the church at the foot of Mount Kalamos, built inside the walls of Apollos temple (called locally "the Lower Monastery"). The festival associated with this icon is celebrated on 8 September, the Birth of the Virgin. On the island, the epithet (unique in Greece) applied to the Virgin is Kalamiotissa, as the icon is said to have been found on a reed (kalami) on the peak of Mount Kalamos. The journey to and from Anafi can only be done by boat, and since they have added more destinations on the way, it takes almost 19 hours from Athens. However, the boat schedule changes in the summer, and in the winter, so it is important to check carefully before travelling. It is also possible to reach the island from Santorini.</p><br>
<p>A geological survey of the island published in 1870 mentions deposits of calamine (used in galvanising), and there are deposits of clay in the area of Vayia used by the island&#39;s potter in the 1950s. More recently geologists took advantage of the extensive excavations associated with road-building in the 1980s and 1990s to examine the rock strata and other geological features affected by the volcanic eruptions of Santorini and the deposits of volcanic ash which fell on Anafi A hydrographic chart of the island ("Anaphi, Pasha and Makrea") from 1859, under the direction of Captain Thomas Spratt (1811-1888) of HMS Medina, can be found in the archives of the UK Hydrographic Office, accessioned 4 June 1860 and ref D4737.</p><br>
<h2>Flora and fauna</h2><br>
<p>Anafi is claimed to have 181 species of rare flora It is also one of the islands where Eleonora&#39;s Falcon can be seen, a falcon ("hobby") which preys on migrating birds and breeds in the late summer/ autumn. An area along the south coast of the island (Roukounas and Kalamos) is protected under the EU Natura 2000 conservation scheme.</p><br>
<h2>Arts and Crafts</h2><br>
<p>Embroideries from Anafi can be found in the Benaki Museum, and in the Museum of Folk Crafts, Athens. There are also examples in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (UK), and in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (UK). Many of these were collected and later donated by AJB Wace.</p><br>
<p>Polýaigos  is an uninhabited Greek island in the Cyclades near Milos and Kimolos. It is part of the community of Kimolos . Its name means "many goats", since it is inhabited only by goats.</p><br>
<p>Along its longest axis, it is 6 km and among its shortest 4.3 km wide. It has a surface area of approx. 18 km&sup2; and a coastal length of 22 to 27 km. It is very close to the island of Kimolos (2 km north west from Polyaigos) and to the island of Milos (6.2 km west from Polyaigos). There are two mounts, Stroggylo which rises to 330 m and Psilo Vouno (370 m).</p><br>
<p>The island is to a great extent privately owned by the Greek Orthodox church, which sublets parts of it to local herdsmen from the nearby islands of Milos and Kimolos.</p><br>
<p>Its goat population maintains Polyaigos as a barren island. It has, however, some magnificent beaches, mainly on the southern part of the island, as well as many sea-surface caves, which serve as a refuge to a dwindling population of Mediterranean monk seals (Monachus monachus).</p><br>
<p>Sikinos  is a Greek island and municipality in the Cyclades. It is located midway between the islands of Ios and Folegandros. Sikinos is part of the Thira regional unit.</p><br>
<p>It was known as Oinoe (Island of Wine) in Ancient Greece. It contrasts with nearby islands, such as Ios, in being quiet and relatively less developed. There are two villages, "Allopronia" on the south sea side, being the port, and another higher up in the hills being the chora. The chora up on the hills is composed of two settlements adjacent to each other, "Castro" to the west and "Chorio" to the east. There are a handful of tavernas in the harbor. The beach at the harbor is one of two large sandy beaches on the island. Several ancient ruins rest on the island, although some are remote. There are two paved roads, although a third is being built to connect the nascent heliport and eventually a new resort on the other sandy beach, and there are several well-maintained dirt roads. Much of the island is very difficult to access due to the terrain. Nearly all of the island&#39;s area is covered by terraces once used for extensive agriculture. Now only a handful are used across the island, most operating on government subsidies. The municipality had 273 inhabitants at the 2011 census. It includes the uninhabited island of Kardiotissa and other uninhabited islets. Its total land area is 42.507 km².</p><br>
<p>Fort Scott National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in Fort Scott, in Bourbon County, Kansas. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 21.8 acre, and as of 2014, had more than 7,000 interments. It is one of three national cemeteries in Kansas .</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Fort Scott was established in 1842, on what was known as Military Road, between Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and Fort Gibson, Oklahoma. It was named for Lieutenant General Winfield Scott. During the initial years, a small plot on the west side of the fort was used as a cemetery. In 1861, a new plot was purchased, and named Presbyterian Graveyard as it was maintained by the Presbyterian Church. During the American Civil War, it was used to inter soldiers who died in battles near in the area. The plot and an adjacent tract of land became Fort Scott National Cemetery on November 15, 1862. One of the twelve original United States National Cemeteries designated by Abraham Lincoln, it has the distinction of being listed as USA National Cemetery #1.</p><br>
<p>At the end of the Civil War, the original fort cemetery interments were moved into the National Cemetery, as well, at the close of the Indian Wars, many frontier posts, such as Fort Lincoln, were abandoned and had their cemeteries transferred to Fort Scott.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery also contains the Commonwealth war graves of two Royal Canadian Air Force officers of World War II.</p><br>
<p>Fort Scott National Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>Commemorative monuments</h2><br>
<p>A large sandstone boulder marks the grave of Eugene Fitch Ware, and his wife Jeannette Huntington Ware. Ware served in the Union Army during the Civil War, eventually reaching the rank of captain. He was subsequently admitted to the bar, and served two terms in the Kansas state legislature. He was noted in his time as an author and poet, writing under the pseudonym "Ironquill". Shortly before his death in 1911, he asked that the boulder, whose natural beauty appealed to him, be used as his grave marker.</p><br>
<p>A gray granite monument commemorates the First Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry, which was based at Fort Scott during the Civil War. The regiment was recruited as a Kansas state unit in August 1862, and mustered into federal service in January 1863, following the Emancipation Proclamation. The monument lists the names of soldiers killed in a May 18, 1863 fight near Sherwood, Missouri.</p><br>
<p>Gyali  is a volcanic Greek island in the Dodecanese, located halfway between the south coast of Kos  and Nisyros. It consists of rhyolitic obsidian lava domes and pumice deposits . The island has two distinct segments, with the northeastern part almost entirely made of obsidian and the southwestern part of pumice. These are connected by a narrow isthmus and beach made of modern reef sediments.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The island is 6 km long and between 4 km and 500 m across. It has a 180 m cave. Parts of the island undergoing pumice strip mining are barren of vegetation. The 2001 census reported a resident population of 10 people. Administratively, it is part of the municipality of Nisyros. Its also popular for Perli, a thermo powder added in construction.</p><br>
<p>Fort Smith National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located at Garland Avenue and Sixth Street in Fort Smith, Sebastian County, Arkansas. It encompasses 22.3 acre, and as of the end of 2005, had 13,127 interments.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Fort Smith was a frontier fort first established in 1817, by Maj. William Bradford as a post to prevent hostilities between the Cherokees and the Osage. Despite the strategic importance of the post, the army closed it after a severe outbreak of disease which had taken the lives of several of the men stationed there by 1824. The initial interments were made in the area during this time.</p><br>
<p>In 1838, a new fort was constructed on the site, including an officer&#39;s quarters where General Zachary Taylor lived from 1841 until 1845. At this time, the original post cemetery was repaired, expanded, and improved.</p><br>
<p>On April 23, 1861, the start of the American Civil War, the post was abandoned by the forces that were there, and it was occupied by a Confederate garrison. During their occupation of the fort, nearly 400 Confederate soldiers were buried in the cemetery. The fort was retaken by Union forces on September 1, 1863. In 1867 the post cemetery officially became a National Cemetery and many of the nearby battlefield cemeteries had their remains re-interred there. The cemetery includes more than 1,400 unmarked graves, many of them of Union and Confederate soldiers.</p><br>
<h2>Noteworthy monuments</h2><br>
<p>A memorial to Unknown Confederate Dead, made of marble. It also commemorates Brigadier General James M. McIntosh, who died at the Battle of Pea Ridge and Brigadier General Alexander E. Steen, who was killed at the Battle of Prairie Grove.</p><br>
<p>A Vietnam Veterans memorial, constructed of granite and bronze, erected in 1998.</p><br>
<h2>Notable interments</h2><br>
<p>Brigadier General William Orlando Darby, World War II veteran, leader of Darby&#39;s Rangers</p><br>
<p>Jack Fleck, World War II Navy veteran and professional golfer</p><br>
<p>Richard C. Gatlin, Civil War Confederate general</p><br>
<p>James M. McIntosh, Civil War Confederate brigader general</p><br>
<p>Isaac C. Parker, USA representative, frontier judge known as "The Hanging Judge"</p><br>
<p>Hal Smith, United States Air Force veteran and MLB catcher</p><br>
<p>Alexander E. Steen, Confederate general</p><br>
<p>Mount Miller is an isolated peak of the Saint Elias Mountains in Alaska, United States. It is notable for its position among spectacular icefields, its distance from any inhabited place, and its large rise above local terrain. It is over 65 miles  from McCarthy, the nearest habitation, and over 105 miles  away from Yakutat, the nearest significant town. Exemplifying the size of the mountain, the south flank rises 9000 feet  above the Duktoth River valley to the south in approximately 9 horizontal miles .</p><br>
<p>Mount Miller is the high point of the east-west trending Barkley Ridge, located on the south side of the Bagley Icefield, one of the largest icefields in North America. The Bering Glacier flows from the Bagley Icefield at the western end of the ridge, while the southeast slopes of the ridge head the Yahtse Glacier. The only side of the ridge that is not completely glaciated is the south side, where the Robinson Mountains lie between Barkley Ridge and the Gulf of Alaska.</p><br>
<p>Since Mount Miller is so isolated, and is not of extraordinary absolute elevation by Alaskan standards, it was not climbed until very recently. The first ascent of the peak was made in 1996 by Charlie Sassara, Ruedi Homberger, Reto Ruesh, Paul Claus, and Carlos Buhler, via the West Ridge.</p><br>
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<p>Salisbury National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Salisbury, in Rowan County, North Carolina. Its first interments were Union soldiers who died at a Confederate prisoner of war camp at the site during the American Civil War. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 65 acre, 15 acre in the original location and 50 acre at the annex. As of 2012 it had 6500 interments , plus an estimated 3,800 in 18 mass graves, at the original location and 5000, in 4500 graves, in the new location.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Salisbury Prison</h3><br>
<p>In May 1861, North Carolina seceded from the Union and the Confederacy sought a site in Rowan County for a military prison. A twenty-year-old abandoned cotton mill near the railroad line was selected as the location. It was brick and three stories tall with an attic. Cottages and a stockade were later added. The number of prisoners increased from 120 in December 1861 to 1400 in May 1862. In the early part of the war, prisoners were well cared for and even indulged in baseball; recorded in a drawing by Maj. Otto Boetticher.</p><br>
<p>By October 1864 the prison held 5000, and 10,000 soon after that. The town of Salisbury had only 2000 residents, making it the fourth largest town in the state, and there was concern about the safety of those on the outside. Later when the prison became overcrowded and the death rate rose from 2% to 28%, mass graves were used to accommodate the dead.</p><br>
<p>In February 1865 men were moved to other locations. 3729 who could do so marched to Greensboro to be taken by train to Wilmington, North Carolina. 1420 others were transferred to Richmond, Virginia. By the time Union Gen. George Stoneman reached Salisbury, the prison was a supply depot. Stoneman ordered the prison burned and a wood fence built around the graves. Of the buildings that constituted the prison, one house on Bank Street still stands.</p><br>
<p>On August 29, 2017, archaeologist Ari D. Lukas announced that ground-penetrating radar had located a former barracks on a vacant lot on Bank Street that used to be part of the cotton mill site. Excavation of the site is likely.</p><br>
<h3>Cemetery</h3><br>
<p>Salisbury National Cemetery began as simply a place for the Confederacy to inter Union prisoners of war who died while held at Salisbury Prison. The conditions at the prison were poor, and many of those incarcerated there succumbed to disease or starvation.</p><br>
<p>The fence Stoneman had ordered be built around the trenches was later replaced with a stone wall. After the American Civil War, the cemetery officially became a National Cemetery and had remains from other cemeteries around the area transferred to it.</p><br>
<p>Salisbury National Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>By 1994 the cemetery was expected to fill up by 1997, with no more burials other than spouses of those already there. Despite additions in 1976, 1985 and 1995 that gave the cemetery a total of 12.5 acres, and 5800 buried at the cemetery already, it was later predicted that by the end of 1999, the cemetery would have no more room. Representatives of the cemetery, veterans, and Rowan County traveled to Washington, D.C. asking for help, and on Memorial Day 1999, the Veterans Administration announced the donation of about 40 acre, at the W.G. (Bill) Hefner VA Medical Center in Salisbury. The land included the Brookdale Golf Course, donated by Samuel C. Hart American Legion Post to be used by the hospital when it opened in 1953, and used until the late 1980s. The expansion gave the cemetery enough room to last for 50 to 75 years, with room for 20,000 more veterans and family members. A groundbreaking ceremony was held at the cemetery annex on Pearl Harbor Day 1999. The first burial in the new location took place in March 2000.</p><br>
<p>In April 2000, 4.7 acre became part of the Salisbury National Cemetery. Two years later, a $2.8 million expansion began on 31 acre of the former golf course, with space to bury 12,000 more people.</p><br>
<p>On November 14, 2011, work began on a new columbarium with a capacity of 1000, which was expected to last ten years. The existing columbarium was nearly filled. Also, the cemetery was adding 2400 "pre-placed in-ground crypts&quot these allowed 1500 burials per acre compared to 700 with normal graves.</p><br>
<p>As of Memorial Day 2012, the original cemetery, with about 7000 markers, was closed to new burials, except for spouses of those already buried. The annex had 4000 markers and was the state&#39;s only open national cemetery.</p><br>
<h2>Number buried in trenches</h2><br>
<p>In 1869, Brevet Gen. L. Thomas estimated the number buried at 11,700 after opening two of the trenches. and that number is used on the monument to unknown soldiers; research by Louis A. Brown shows the number to be close to 3800. Mark Hughes of Kings Mountain, North Carolina has campaigned not only to get the number corrected, but to add grave markers for the 3500 whose identities can be determined from sources such as an 1868 Roll of Honor. He cites federal law requiring a marker for anyone buried in a national cemetery. As of 2014, the United States Department of Veterans Affairs does not plan to change the monument or add individual markers. The problem is that certain people "may" be buried but there is no way to be sure. In 2009, an interpretive panel was added to show what research has determined, and in 2014, the Roll of Honor was being added to a web site.</p><br>
<h2>Notable interments</h2><br>
<p>Red Prysock, R&B tenor saxophonist</p><br>
<p>Earl B. Ruth, USA Representative and Governor of American Samoa</p><br>
<h2>Notable monuments</h2><br>
<p>A 25 ft granite monument topped by a statue of a soldier, erected in 1908 by the state of Maine</p><br>
<p>The Federal Monument to the Unknown Dead, a 38 ft granite obelisk erected in 1875 at a cost of $10,000.</p><br>
<p>The Pennsylvania Monument, a 40 ft monument on a granite base, erected in 1909</p><br>
<p>Mount Steller is a peak at the far eastern end of the Chugach Mountains of Alaska, United States. It is notable for its isolated location among extensive icefields, and for its large rise above local terrain. For example, it rises 8000 feet  above the Bering Glacier to the south in about 4 horizontal miles .</p><br>
<p>Mount Steller is the high point of Waxell Ridge, an east-west trending ridge on the south side of the Bagley Icefield, one of the largest icefields in North America. The large Bering Glacier flows past the east and south slopes of the ridge, while the Steller Glacier flows from its west side.</p><br>
<p>The mountain was named for the naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller.</p><br>
<p>Due to its isolated location, poor weather, and comparatively low absolute elevation by Alaskan standards, Mount Steller was not climbed until recently. The first ascent was in 1992.</p><br>
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<p>Fitzroy Island  is a continental island out from Djujbirri , 29 km south-east of Cairns, Queensland, Australia. It is a locality in the Cairns Region.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Fitzroy Island is a large tropical island, with a rainforest covering and its own fringe coral reef system. The island has a total area of 339 hectares (838 acres). The highest point of the island is 375 metres above sea level.</p><br>
<p>Fitzroy Island is a 45-minute ferry ride (about 30 km) from Cairns and is surrounded by a reef system that forms part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. Nearly all of the continental island is protected within the Fitzroy Island National Park. It is covered in tropical rainforest. Four walking tracks have been established.</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<p>Fitzroy enjoys a typical North Queensland tropical climate but with the added advantage of the cooling effects of the prevailing southeasterly ocean breezes for the majority of the year. Temperatures range from 24 - 31 C (75 - 88 F) in summer and 19 - 25 C (66 - 77 F) in winter.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The island separated from the mainland about 8000 years ago, at the end of the last ice age. There were Aboriginal visits, mainly for visiting hunting trips and recreation. Lieutenant James Cook named the island in 1770. The island was used for a considerable time as a significant Chinese quarantine station for the Queensland goldfields. Subsequently it was used as a mission school and during World War Two, as a coast watch station.</p><br>
<p>The island has also been important as a significant lighthouse base, with the last permanent lighthouse structures on the main island still being an important community attraction. Since its closure the marine community has been serviced with an automatic lighthouse based on the adjacent Little Fitzroy Island. There has been both a giant clam farm at Welcome Bay and now a tourist resort and day visitor centre.</p><br>
<h2>Resort</h2><br>
<p>The island is home to a 100-room resort. Property developer Doug Gamble bought and renovated the resort in 2010. The resort manages the camping area.</p><br>
<p>The Harry S Truman Little White House in Key West, Florida was the winter White House for President Harry S Truman for 175 days during 11 visits. The house is located in the Truman Annex neighborhood of Old Town, Key West.</p><br>
<p>The house was originally waterfront when it was built in 1890 as the first officer&#39;s quarters on the submarine base naval station. The house was designed in 1889 by Scott, McDermott & Higgs, a local architectural firm. The wooden duplex contained Quarters A for the base commandant and Quarters B for the paymaster.</p><br>
<p>In 1911 the home was converted into a single-family dwelling to house the base commandant and additional land was filled in front of the house. The waterfront view was eventually blocked by a new building at the station.</p><br>
<p>The first President to visit the site was William Howard Taft in December 1912. He arrived by Flagler&#39;s Overseas Railroad and sailed to Panama to inspect the canal then under construction. During World War I, Thomas Edison resided in the house while donating his service to the war effort. He perfected 41 underwater weapons during his six month stay. The house remained command headquarters through World War II.</p><br>
<p>In November 1946, President Harry S Truman had finished 19 months in office, but was physically exhausted. His doctor, Wallace Graham, ordered a warm vacation. Truman arrived in November 1946. As he was leaving, he promised to return whenever he felt the need for rest. His second vacation came in March 1947. This set the pattern for additional visits every November–December and every February–March. Changing technology allowed the President to communicate with multiple political or world leaders at one time and he could summon staff to Key West for a meeting in three hours flight from Washington. Most importantly, Truman realized that where the President was, the White House was. Documents issued from the Little White House read "The White House, US Naval Station, Key West, Florida." Truman spent 175 days of his presidency at the Little White House.</p><br>
<p>In 1948, James Forrestal met with the Joint Chiefs of Staff to hammer out the creation of the Department of Defense. This was called the Key West Agreement, named after the place where the basic outline for the document was agreed to at a meeting that took place from March 11 to March 14 on the base at Key West.</p><br>
<p>During the Truman visits, Cabinet members and foreign officials were regular visitors for fishing trips and poker games. Truman visited Key West shortly after his 1948 re-election and Division Street was renamed Truman Avenue in his honor.</p><br>
<p>After Truman left office he returned to Key West several times and stayed at various other places.</p><br>
<p>In 1948-49 General Dwight D. Eisenhower held a series of meetings that resulted in the creation of the Department of Defense. He returned in December 1955 and January 1956 as President to recuperate from a heart attack.</p><br>
<p>John Kennedy and British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan held a one-day summit here in March 1961. President Kennedy made a second visit in 1962 immediately following the Cuban Missile Crisis.</p><br>
<p>The house served as the Naval Station commandants house until March 1974, when the submarine base was closed due to the Navys conversion from diesel to nuclear submarines. On February 12 of that year, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>On January 1, 1987, it was deeded to the State of Florida and is held in trust as a public museum. In 1990 almost a million dollars was spent restoring the house to its 1949 appearance. A 501(c)(3) organization is attempting to further the restoration and hold education conferences each Spring on Trumans impact upon todays society.</p><br>
<p>In 1991, the house opened as a state historic site & museum. Today regular guided tours take visitors through the site, and one can enter the rooms where the Trumans lived, worked and relaxed. Items such as President Trumans briefcase, books, telephone, and his famous "The Buck Stops Here" sign are still at his desk. (The reverse of the sign says, "Im From Missouri.")</p><br>
<p>Former President Jimmy Carter and family had a reunion here in 1996. In April 2001, Secretary of State Colin Powell opened a week of OSCE peace talks, led by Minsk Group Co-Chairman Carey Cavanaugh between President Robert Kocharyan of Armenia and Heydar Aliyev of Azerbaijan.</p><br>
<p>In January 2005, former President Bill Clinton and his wife, then Senator Hillary Clinton, spent a weekend relaxing at the house.</p><br>
<p>Dozmary Pool is a small lake, in the civil parish of Altarnun on Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, UK. It is situated 16.9 km from the sea and lies about 15 km north-east of Bodmin and 2 km south of Bolventor. It originated in the post-glacial period. The outflow from the pool is into Colliford Lake and is therefore one of the sources of the River Fowey. In the past the name has been spelt as Dozmaré and as Dosmery Pool. At the end of the 19th century it was described by Sabine Baring-Gould as abounding in fish and surrounded by numerous remains of the working of flint in the Stone Age.</p><br>
<p>The pool and surrounding area was designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1951 for its biological interest and is within the Cornwall Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, (originally the Bodmin Moor AONB).</p><br>
<h2>Wildlife and ecology</h2><br>
<p>The oligotrophic pool is important for its palynological record (or history) of the vegetation since the last ice-age. It is also part of a network of sites in south-west England for the reconstruction of vegetation history. In the fine granitic gravel on the bottom of the pool grows spring quillwort (Isoetes echinospora). At the time of designation in 1951 it was the only known site in Cornwall, but since 1988 has been found in three nearby pools. Growing on the margins of the pool is six-stamened waterwort (Elatine hexandra), a nationally scarce plant in the UK.</p><br>
<p>Richard Carew describes the pool as a mile or more in circumference and nowhere more than 9 ft deep. He tells how some gentlemen of the district experimented to see whether the pool contained fish and found only eels. A rare cladoceran, Drepanothrix dentate and a copepod, Diaptomus vierzejskii occur in good numbers.</p><br>
<p>In 1951, at the time of designation of the SSSI, the pool was considered valuable for wintering birds and migrating wildfowl such as Eurasian coot (Fulica atra), Eurasian teal (Anas crecca) and Eurasian wigeon (A penelope). Since the opening of the Siblyback and Colliford reservoirs on Bodmin Moor, its relative importance has declined. Breeding birds around the pool include Eurasian curlew (Numenius arquata), dunlin (Calidris alpina), northern lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), common snipe (Gallinago gallinago) and European stonechat (Saxicola torquate).</p><br>
<h2>Legend and literature</h2><br>
<p>Dozmary Pool is one site that is claimed to be the home of the Lady of the Lake. According to the legend, it is here that King Arthur rowed out to the Lady of the Lake and received the sword Excalibur. The pool is also the place where Bedivere returned Excalibur as Arthur lay dying after the Battle of Camlann. Another tale associated with Dozmary Pool is that of Jan Tregeagle. In search of deviant exploits, Tregeagle makes a Faustian bargain with the Devil and is given money and power. At the conclusion of his life, he is damned to the bottomless Dozmary Pool, where he is tormented to this day; it is said that Tregeagle&#39;s ghost can still be heard howling across the moor. (He was set the task of dipping the water out of Dozmary Pool with a leaking limpet shell, but decided to escape to Roche Rock before being set another task, weaving ropes from the sand of Gwenor Cove.)</p><br>
<p>Sabine Baring-Gould included an extensive article on the witchs ladder in his novel Curgenven published in 1893. In his account the ladder was made of black wool, with white and brown thread, and at every two inches it was tied around cocks feathers. The maker would weave into it aches and pains and other aliments intended for the victim. The ladder was then thrown to the bottom of Dozmary Pool. They believed that as the bubbles rose to the top of the pond, the curse was released.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>For many years Dozmary Pool was the destination for the Sunday School outing from Bolventor Methodist chapel</p><br>
<p>Mount Moffit is a peak in the Alaska Range in central Alaska, United States, about 10 miles  east-southeast of Mount Hayes. It is notable for its steep faces and large relief above local terrain. For example, the north face drops 7,400 feet in approximately 1.2 miles  horizontal distance.</p><br>
<p>William Shand Jr., Benjamin Ferris Jr., and Sterling Hendricks made the first ascent of Mount Moffit on August 12, 1942. All three had been part of the first ascent team for Mount Hayes the year before. Unfortunately, Shand died shortly after the climb in an unrelated car accident. It was proposed that his name be attached to this peak; however the name was mistakenly attached to a slightly lower peak to the south of Mount Moffit.</p><br>
<p>Mount Moffit is not often climbed due to difficult access. The second ascent of the peak was 33 years after the first, in 1975, by M. Sallee and D. Buchanan. The standard route is the Northwest Ridge (or "Western North Ridge"); this is a serious route (Alaska Grade 4) with typical Alaskan features such as highly corniced ridgelines.</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
<p>Michael Wood and Colby Coombs, Alaska: a climbing guide, The Mountaineers, 2001.</p><br>
<p>Notch Peak is a distinctive summit located on Sawtooth Mountain in the House Range, west of Delta, Utah, United States. The peak and the surrounding area are part of the Notch Peak Wilderness Study Area . Bristlecone pines, estimated to be 3,000 to 4,000 years old, are located on the ridges surrounding Notch Peak.</p><br>
<h2>The Cliff</h2><br>
<p>Notch Peak is one of the highest peaks in the House Range, reaching 9,658 ft. The northwest face of the mountain is a massive carbonate rock (limestone and dolomite) cliff with 2,200 ftof vertical rise, making it among the highest cliff faces in North America. Overall, the summit rises about 4,450 ft above Tule Valley.</p><br>
<p>The significance of this cliff is debatable, mainly because of the variation in the definition of the term cliff. It is the highest carbonate rock cliff in North America and/or the second highest pure vertical drop in the United States after El Capitan.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>One of the more popular uses of the area is the hike to Notch Peak so you can look down the notch in person. The summit can be reached by following a trail from the east side of the mountain in Sawtooth Canyon. The hike is about 7.5 miles round trip (12 km), with 2,600 feet (792 m) elevation gain.</p><br>
<h3>Climbing</h3><br>
<p>The north face of Notch Peak is divided by a large shelf into an upper and lower wall. There are several rock climbing routes on the limestone cliffs. "The Swiss Route" (never repeated), "Direct North West Ridge (AKA. Pillars of Faith), and "Book of Saturdays" ascend the upper wall. On the lower wall "Appetite for Destruction" and "Western Hardman" reach 900 feet (275 meters) of vertical. Climbing on all of these routes is adventurous with rockfall hazard and loose flakes of widely varying size. In addition to the face of Notch Peak, the granite found in the canyon below the notch is also used for climbing.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>This part of the House Range is chiefly made up of a passive margin sequence of Cambrian to Ordovician carbonate rocks. The top of the range is the type section for the aptly named Notch Peak Dolomite. At the base of the range is the pink/orange Notch Peak granite and monzonite, which is Jurassic in age (143 to 169 million years old). Around Notch Peak, especially from the west side (Tule Valley side), white Lake Bonneville fossiliferous marls occur.</p><br>
<p>Because of the intrusion, a hike up the canyon below the notch can clearly show a well-developed metamorphic aureole and even inter-fingering textures between the intrusion and the bedrock. Also, small quantities of tungsten and placer gold have been found around the Notch Peak area.</p><br>
<p>Moresby Island is one of the Gulf Islands of British Columbia, located on the west side of Swanson Channel and east of the southern end of Saltspring Island. It is not to be confused with Moresby Island, the second largest of the Queen Charlotte Islands off the north coast of BC. It is currently a privately owned island, and is used by its current owners to raise beef cattle. The island is not open to the general public. Its current population is 3 persons.</p><br>
<p>Moresby Island has an elevation of 148 meters (485 feet 6 inches) above sea level at its highest point, and has a total land area of 3.22 sq. miles. The island is 3.7 km in length, and is 2.2 km across. The island was first settled in 1863. It was named for Rear Admiral Fairfax Moresby R.N., who was the naval commander-in-chief of the Pacific Station of the Royal Navy between 1850 and 1853, as was also Fairfax Point at the island&#39;s southern tip. During the 1880s, land was cleared by Capt. H. J. Robertson, then owner, in order to plant fruit trees. In 1940, the island again changed hands.</p><br>
<p>The island has been logged three times by separate Chinese logging companies. The evidence of this logging is nearly gone, yet there are a few signs of logging still remaining. Traces of the trails built for the machines can still be found. It has a very rich history, including a ghost story, the remains of a long-gone mansion, and evidence of First Nations people using the island as a resting place when traveling.</p><br>
<p>Follins Pond is a brackish lake located on Cape Cod, separating the towns of Dennis, Massachusetts, and Yarmouth, Massachusetts. The lake is connected to Nantucket Sound via the Bass River.</p><br>
<h2>Connection to Vinland</h2><br>
<p>Follins Pond is noteworthy primarily because there has been an attempt to connect it to the semi-legendary lost Norse colony of Vinland.</p><br>
<p>In the 1950s, Frederick J. Pohl investigated Follins Pond and claimed that he had located shore rocks along the pond into which were drilled holes that strongly resembled Norse mooring stones. The Norse were known to drill holes into which iron pins were inserted for the purpose of mooring their knarrer.</p><br>
<p>Additionally, Pohl claimed that he had uncovered the tops of posts about a foot underground, arranged in a pattern that might have been that of either a Norse shipyard or drydock. Further, at about the same time a claimed "Viking horse bone" may have been unearthed at Follins Pond. Pohl was of the opinion that at least a few horses were brought from Greenland by the Norse on their further voyages of exploration. Pohl published a book entitled The lost discovery: Uncovering the track of the Vikings in America (New York: Norton. 1952) which detailed this claim. It is not taken seriously by professional historians, as the evidence presented is rather scant and no archaeological finds of any significance have been made in the area since.</p><br>
<h3>Local notoriety</h3><br>
<p>Interestingly, some of the road names around Follins Pond seem to reflect this theory. A Norsemans Beach Road can be found on the eastern shore of the lake, a Norse Road on the north shore of the lake, and a Valhalla Drive and Erik&#39;s Path close to the south shore.</p><br>
<p>Additionally, along the shore of a smaller body of water known as Kelleys Bay joined to Follins Pond by the Bass River can be found Vinland Drive, Skerry Road, Saga Road, Fiord Drive, Freydis Drive, and Lief Ericson Drive (sic).</p><br>
<p>Further south, along the shores of the Bass River, can be found Lief&#39;s Lane, Legend Drive, Old Saga Drive, Rune Stone Road, Viking Rock Road, Keel Cape Drive, Erickson Way, and Mooring Lane.</p><br>
<p>In addition, articles about the purported past of Follins Pond occasionally turn up in the and other local newspapers.</p><br>
<p>The Michigan Soldiers and Sailors Monument is a Civil War monument located in Downtown Detroit, Michigan. This example of civic sculpture stands in a prominent location on the southeast tip of Campus Martius Park, where five principal thoroughfares—Michigan Avenue, Monroe Street, Cadillac Square, Fort Street, and Woodward Avenue—convene on the reconstructed traffic circle in front of One Campus Martius Building. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1865, the Michigan Soldiers and Sailors Monument Association was established by Governor Austin Blair in order to collect funds for a monument commemorating Michigans sailors and soldiers killed during the Civil War. Voluntary subscriptions from citizens were collected and sculptor Randolph Rogers, who had created similar Civil War commemorative monuments in Ohio and Rhode Island, was chosen as the artist for the monument. The states foremost Civil War monument was unveiled on April 9, 1872. Attending the dedication were Generals George Armstrong Custer, Philip H. Sheridan and Ambrose E. Burnside.</p><br>
<p>In 2005 a re-dedication ceremony was held following the completion of the new Campus Martius plaza in downtown Detroit. The time capsule contained in the monument was opened, and the list of Michigan War Dead was updated to reflect all those killed from the Civil War up to April 2005 in Iraq and Afghanistan. Civil War re-enactors, descendant organizations of the Grand Army of the Republic, representatives from the Detroit City Council, the Michigan National Guard, and the Second Baptist Church men&#39;s choir participated in the ceremony.</p><br>
<p>The Michigan Soldiers and Sailors Monument is situated within the traffic circle of the intersection of Woodward Avenue, Michigan Avenue, Monroe Street, Fort Street, and Cadillac Square. The property is open to the public. The monument was repositioned on Campus Martius Park traffic circle for the restoration of the park.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Rogers&#39; design consists of a series of octagonal sections that rise up from the base of the monument. The lowest sections are topped by eagles with raised wings that guide the eye upward to the next section which is surmounted by four male figures depicting the Navy, Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery branches of the United States Army. Four female allegorical figures, resting on pedestals, are above the male statues and represent Victory, History, Emancipation, and Union were not added to the monument until 1881. Local lore claims Rogers used Sojourner Truth, the famous African-American abolitionist, as his inspiration for the Emancipation statue, but little evidence exists to document this belief. There are also four plaques containing bas-reliefs of the Union leaders Lincoln, Grant, Sherman, and Farragut. Capping the monument, the heroic "Amazon figure" Michigania, or Victory, brandishes a sword in her right hand and in her other she raises a shield, prepared for attack.</p><br>
<p>Nash Stream is a 15.3 mi river in northern New Hampshire in the United States. It is a tributary of the Upper Ammonoosuc River and part of the Connecticut River watershed.</p><br>
<p>Nash Stream rises on the western slopes of Whitcomb Mountain in the township of Odell, New Hampshire, and flows south-southwest through the town of Stratford to join the Upper Ammonoosuc River in the town of Stark. Near its headwaters, it passes through Nash Bog Pond, an extensive marshy area which used to be a large pond closed by a dam. The dam washed out in the 1960s. Nearly the entire stream is within the boundaries of the Nash Stream Forest, owned by the state of New Hampshire.</p><br>
<p>The Nash Stream watershed is surrounded by mountains. The most commonly hiked are North and South Percy Peaks, barren summits offering extensive views reached by a trail, and Sugarloaf, reached by a trail which formerly gave access to a fire tower.</p><br>
<p>Stad or Stadlandet is a peninsula in Selje Municipality in the northwestern part of Sogn og Fjordane county in Norway. The peninsula is considered the dividing point between the Norwegian Sea to the north and the North Sea to the south. The name is sometimes also written as Stadt, Statt, or Statlandet , because the Norwegian pronunciation of the d in this case is as a t. Some of the larger villages on the peninsula include Ervik , Borgundvåg and Leikanger , and the village of Selje .</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The peninsula is a 500 m mountain plateau topped by the 645 m Tarvaldsegga peak. There are several lower valleys on the peninsula, but at the western end, the plateau plunges into the sea in a 497 m cliff at Kjerringa.</p><br>
<p>Stad Peninsula has a very harsh, windy climate. The highest wind speed in the country is often recorded at this promontory. Located between the cities of Bergen (in Hordaland county to the south) and Ålesund (in Møre og Romsdal county to the north), this is the only peninsula on the mainland of Norway that goes out into open sea. Most of the rest of the ship route from Bergen to Ålesund is protected by islands. The Svinøy Lighthouse (Svinøy fyr) is located 13 km north of the peninsula on a small island in the Norwegian Sea.</p><br>
<p>Because of the harsh climate, the peninsula can be an obstacle for ship transport along the coast of Norway. It is one of the main obstacles preventing a fast-boat passenger route from Bergen to Ålesund. Current transportation from Bergen-Ålesund is by air via Oslo, by car (7–8 hours), by bus (9 hours) or by the Hurtigruten coastal ferry (13 hours).</p><br>
<p>As far back as the 1870s there were plans for the construction of a ship tunnel. A pilot project was developed in 1985, and the development company founded the same year. Plans are currently well underway to build the Stad Ship Tunnel at the narrowest point connecting the Moldefjorden to the Kjødspollen (the innermost part of the Vanylvsfjorden) with capacity to take large ships such as the Hurtigruten vessels.</p><br>
<h2>Media gallery</h2><br>
<p>The Rječina , also known as the Fiumara, is a river in Croatia that flows into the Adriatic Sea at the city of Rijeka .</p><br>
<p>It is about 19 km long, with an average width of 9 to 16 km. It springs from a cave at an elevation of 325 m above sea level, below the high cliff of Kičej Hill (elevation 606 m). Until 1870 the river&#39;s spring was below the next hill, Podjavorje, but it collapsed in an earthquake near the village of Klana. The most significant confluents are the Sušica, Lužac, Zala, Zahumčica, Golubinka, Ričinica, and Borovšćica, but they are dry for most of the year. In 1968 a dam was built to facilitate a hydroelectric power plant, creating Lake Valići but destroying the village of the same name. The Rječina flows through a canyon for almost half of its length. In Rijeka, the river branches into two parts: Dead Channel (Mrtvi kanal, the old basin), and the new channel, which was created in the 19th century, when Dead Channel was used as a harbor. The best-known sight is the Gaspar Mill (Gašparov mlin) in Martinovo Selo, which was restored in the 1990s. Notable fauna are trout and river crabs.</p><br>
<h2>Border</h2><br>
<p>This river has often been the border between different states. The first time this happened was from the 13th to 16th centuries, when it formed the border between the Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen and the Habsburgs. A similar thing happened in 1868, when the Rječina became the border between the Croatian and Hungarian parts of Austria-Hungary. After World War I it became for a very short time the border between the Free State of Fiume and the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. After the Free State of Fiume was annexed by Italy, the Rječina became the border river of that country. Since World War II, the Rječina has no longer been a border between states.</p><br>
<p>Jefferson City National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in Jefferson City, in Cole County, Missouri. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 2 acre, and as of the end of 2005, had 1,792 interments. It is administered by Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first interments took place in Jefferson City National Cemetery in 1861, and were American Civil War soldiers who died in the skirmishes that took place in the region. Though, the area did not see any wide-scale combat, it was officially designated a National Cemetery in 1867.</p><br>
<p>Jefferson City National Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 1, 1998.</p><br>
<h2>Noteworthy monuments</h2><br>
<p>The 39th Regiment Monument of Centralia, Missouri, erected circa 1968 to commemorate those members of the Missouri Volunteer Infantry who died at the hands of William T. Anderson&#39;s bushwhacker forces in the Centralia Massacre (Missouri).</p><br>
<p>Knoxville National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee, United States. Established in 1863, the cemetery currently encompasses 9.8 acre, and as of the end of 2007, had 9,006 interments. The 60 ft Union Soldier monument, which stands in the eastern corner of the cemetery, is one of the largest Union monuments in the South. In 1996, the cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of a multiple properties submission for national cemeteries.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Knoxville National Cemetery was established by Major General Ambrose Burnside, whose Union forces had liberated Knoxville in September 1863 at the height of the Civil War. Burnside assigned the task of layout out the cemetery to his assistant quartermaster, Captain E.B. Chamberlain. The cemeterys first burials were Union dead exhumed and moved from Cumberland Gap and other parts of the region. Chamberlains plan was so effective, that the cemetery was one of the few in the nation that required no alterations upon being designated a national cemetery at the end of the war.</p><br>
<h2>Layout</h2><br>
<p>The graves at Knoxville National Cemetery are arranged in a circular pattern, with each burial section separated by walkways. The burial sections each form one quarter of the circle, with the headstones converging toward the middle, where there is a flagpole and cloth canopy. A stone wall surrounds the perimeter, the southeast section of which divides the cemetery from the adjacent Old Gray Cemetery. The northeast section of the wall, which contains the main entrance, is topped by an iron fence, with the entrance secured by an iron double-gate. The administrative office and service building is located just inside the gate. A marker containing several lines from the Theodore O&#39;Hara poem, Bivouac of the Dead, faces the graves in the northeast corner.</p><br>
<p>Most of the grave markers are marble headstones of a standard size and shape, although a few have larger and more elaborate markers. Inscriptions typically give the deceaseds name and years lived, and in some cases, note the deceaseds rank, company, and/or war in which they served. The burials are limited to veterans and spouses of veterans. After the Civil War, the cemetery only accepted Union burials, although the cemetery contains at least one Confederate grave. The cemetery is currently administered by Chattanooga National Cemetery, and contains veterans of every war since the Civil War.</p><br>
<h2>Union Soldier monument</h2><br>
<p>The Union Soldier monument, in the cemeterys eastern corner, was erected in the early 1900s. In 1892, Knoxvilles Confederate veterans installed a 48 ft monument topped by a statue of a Confederate soldier at the Confederate National Cemetery near the Mabry-Hazen House in East Knoxville. Not to be outdone, the local chapter of the Grand Army of the Republic formed a commission, headed by former Union Army officer and Knoxville Journal publisher William Rule (1839 – 1928), to raise money to build a monument of greater size at Knoxville National Cemetery.</p><br>
<p>Completed in 1901, the monument initially stood 50 ft – the height having been calculated to surpass that of the Confederates&#39; monument – and was topped by a bronze eagle with wings spread. On August 22, 1904, however, the eagle was shattered by a bolt of lightning, the sound of which rattled Knoxville and could be heard for miles all around. Undaunted, the GAR commissioners planned immediate reconstruction, using federal funds secured by Congressman Henry R. Gibson. The new monument, designed by the local architectural firm Baumann Brothers, largely followed the original design, the exception being a marble statue of a Union soldier placed atop the monument rather than an eagle. The new monument was completed on October 15, 1906.</p><br>
<p>The monument, built of locally quarried marble, represents a medieval fortress, with stained glass windows and an inner room and staircase. The 8 ft soldier statue stands at post atop the main tower. The monument is sometimes called the "Wilder Monument," as local legend suggests the soldier bears the likeness of Union general and East Tennessee businessman John T. Wilder.</p><br>
<h2>Notable interments</h2><br>
<p>Medal of Honor recipients</p><br>
<p>Sergeant Troy A. McGill (1914–1944), for action in World War II.</p><br>
<p>Private Timothy Spillane (1842–1901), for action at the Battle of Hatcher&#39;s Run during the Civil War.</p><br>
<p>Others</p><br>
<p>Brevet Major General Joseph Alexander Cooper (1823–1910), veteran of the Mexican-American War and USA Civil War.</p><br>
<p>Brigadier General Robert Neyland (1892–1962), veteran of World War I and World War II; aide to Douglas MacArthur, then superintendent of West Point. Neyland was head coach of the Tennessee Volunteers football team and Neyland Stadium is named after him.</p><br>
<p>The Barbar Temple is an archaeological site located in the village of Barbar, Bahrain, and considered to be part of the Dilmun culture. The most recent of the three Barbar temples was rediscovered by a Danish archaeological team in 1954. A further two temples were discovered on the site with the oldest dating back to 3000 BC. The temples were built of limestone blocks, believed to have been carved out from Jidda Island.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The three temples were built atop one another with the second built approximately 500 years later and the third added between 2100 BC and 2000 BC.</p><br>
<p>It is thought that the temples were constructed to worship the god Enki, the god of wisdom and freshwater, and his wife Nankhur Sak (Ninhursag). The temple contains two altars and a natural water spring that is thought to have held spiritual significance for the worshipers. During the excavation of the site many tools, weapons, pottery and small pieces of gold were found which are now on display in the Bahrain National Museum. The most famous find was a bronze bull&#39;s head</p><br>
<p>The site is on the tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage</p><br>
<h2>Archaeology</h2><br>
<p>The site was discovered by P.V. Glob in 1954. Excavations, by a Danish team</p><br>
<p>led by Hellmuth Andersen and Peder Mortensen, began that year and</p><br>
<p>extended until 1962.H. Helmuth Andersen and Flemming Hojlund, The Barbar Temples,</p><br>
<p>Jutland Archaeological Society Publications, Aarhus University Press, 2003,</p><br>
<p>Work at the site resumed in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>Temple I</h2><br>
<p>Temple I, the earliest temple was built on a rectangular platform approximately 25m long and 16 to 18m wide. This was originally constructed on a bed of clean sand, which appears to have been consolidated by a layer of blue clay. The temple was covered by a second layer of clean sand.</p><br>
<p>At the foundation of Temple I offerings were deposited in the clay core of the temple terrace and they consisted of dozens of clay goblets found in separate groups each containing seven beakers which were broken and buried within the foundations of the terrace. Also copper objects were deposited in small heaps or singly. In the south-western corner of this early temple, steps led down to a square-built well. The central terrace was preserved in its full height, 2 metres, with the remains of trapezoid shrine in the center and adjoining rooms. This first one was built from local Bahraini stone. The cult features the subterranean shrine, the temple well and the oval sacrificial court.</p><br>
<h2>Temple II</h2><br>
<p>Temple II is most liveable still with retaining walls and terraces stiffs, first stage the oval terrace was built in local stone, but after an enlargement it was built in limestone which must have been carried by boat from nearby Jidda island where stone was hewn out by hand and carefully dressed into remarkably neat masonry blocks. The skill with which this task was carried out may be clearly seen in the temple walls and especially around the sacred well. A double circular altar and an offering table stood in the center of the shrine. To the south were three cult stones shaped like the anchors of the merchant ships. Although the central one bore a protruding animal head, like the altars depicted on the seals. A temple treasure lay in the stone frame pit in the north-east comer.The central terrace was crowned by a shrine built of cut stone with stone paving. Smaller buildings clustered around it covering the rest of the terrace. There were no buildings on the outer oval terrace but altars and cult symbols were visible. A plinth with recessed stone cylinder lay to the south and a plinth with three pillars was situated near the north-west wall. A double row of plinths for cult objects lined both sides of the stairs from the upper terrace. On each of these plinths were two square holes lined with bitumen and sheet copper nailed to wood.Here may have stood copper mounted poles with the emblems of gods, so often seen on the stamp seals, or, perhaps, wooden statues. From the central terrace a ceremonial stairway led to the subterranean shrine where water cult ceremonies took place. Halfway down the stair was a portal, and from there the stair was roofed. The rich natural spring which filled the pool probably accounts for the siting of the temple at Barbar. Water poured from a perforated stone jar beside a semicircular stone font at the threshold of a dry chamber near the basin. From the comers of the shrine deep stone built channels led the water to the surrounding fields and gardens</p><br>
<p>This remarkable underground shrine is interpreted as a symbolic abzu the abode of Enki, the god of wisdom and of all freshwater. The abzu was believed to be the abyss or freshwater ocean upon which the whole world rests. Such temple abzus are mentioned in cuneiform texts in Mesopotamia. East of the temple lay an oval sacrificial court, connected with a central temple platform by a paved ramp and a staircase. The floor of the court was covered with ashes and the bones of cattle and sheep, presumably sacrificed animals</p><br>
<h2>Temple III</h2><br>
<p>Temple III in use until the early centuries of the second millennium, was larger than its predecessors. Two circular offering tables of finely cut stone with a low altar between them still stand in the middle of the courtyard. Note the three standing stone blocks pierced with a round hold. It is thought that these were tethering points for the sacrificial animals. To give you some idea of size, the third temple&#39;s terrace was probably about 30 m&sup2;.</p><br>
<p>Little Rock National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery, located two miles  south of the city of Little Rock, in Pulaski County, Arkansas. It encompasses 31.7 acre, and as of the end of 2005, had 25,172 interments. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it is currently closed to new interments.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The area around Little Rock National Cemetery was once a Union encampment. The cemetery itself was a plot within the Little Rock City Cemetery, purchased by the federal government in 1866 and was used to inter Union soldiers who died anywhere in Arkansas. It was officially declared a National Cemetery on April 9, 1868 at which time 3 acre were added.</p><br>
<p>In 1884, an 11 acre Confederate cemetery was established immediately adjacent to the National Cemetery. In 1938, the two cemeteries were combined, though the Union and Confederate burials continued to be in separate sections.</p><br>
<p>In 1990, additional land was purchased from the nearby Oakland-Fraternal Cemetery, and in November 1999 the city of Little Rock donated 1 acre, bringing the cemetery to its current size.</p><br>
<p>Little Rock National Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<h2>Noteworthy monuments</h2><br>
<p>The Confederate Memorial, erected in 1884.</p><br>
<p>The Minnesota Monument, a granite and bronze monument erected in 1916.</p><br>
<h2>Notable interments</h2><br>
<p>Lieutenant Maurice Britt, Medal of Honor recipient for action in World War II, Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas</p><br>
<p>First Lieutenant W. W. Carloss of Confederate States Army and member from 1874 to 1878 of the Louisiana House of Representatives</p><br>
<p>Sergeant Simon A. Haley, father of author Alex Haley</p><br>
<p>Earl Sutton Smith major league baseball player</p><br>
<p>Raleigh National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Raleigh in Wake County, North Carolina. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 7 acre, and as of the end of 2005, had 5,983 interments. It is currently closed to new interments and is maintained by New Bern National Cemetery.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The cemetery was established in 1865. The cemetery lodge formerly housed the cemetery superintendents / directors. It was built in 1938, and is a two-story, six-room Colonial Revival frame building with a brick veneer and slate roof. Other contributing resources are the entrance gate, perimeter wall, rostrum, flagpole, and artillery monument. Raleigh National Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<h2>Notable monuments</h2><br>
<p>The Artillery Monument, a black iron wrought cannon mounted on a cement pedestal, erected circa 1890.</p><br>
<h2>Notable interments</h2><br>
<p>Sergeant First Class William Maud Bryant, Medal of Honor recipient for action in the Vietnam War.</p><br>
<p>New Bern National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of New Bern, in Craven County, North Carolina. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 7.7 acre, and as of the end of 2005, had 7,517 interments. It is currently closed to new interments.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>First established on February 1, 1867, New Bern National Cemetery was initially used to reinter remains from the numerous battlefield cemeteries around the area, including nearly 1,000 unknown soldiers and the remains of Union soldiers who died at the Battle of New Bern.</p><br>
<p>New Bern National Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<h2>Notable monuments</h2><br>
<p>The 9th New Jersey Infantry Monument, a granite monument erected in 1905</p><br>
<p>The Massachusetts Civil War Monument, a granite monument erected in 1908</p><br>
<p>The 15th Connecticut Infantry Monument, erected in 1908</p><br>
<p>The Rhode Island Civil War Monument, a granite monument with a bronze statue on it, dedicated in 1908</p><br>
<h2>Notable interments</h2><br>
<p>David Heaton (1823–1870), attorney, politician, and US Representative</p><br>
<p>Quincy National Cemetery is a small United States National Cemetery located in the city of Quincy, in Adams County, Illinois. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses slightly less than a half an acre, and as 2014, had 690 interments. It is currently closed to new interments, and is maintained by Rock Island National Cemetery.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Originally a plot within Woodland Cemetery, the first burials took place in 1861. It was designated a National Cemetery on July 24, 1882.</p><br>
<p>In 1899, without explanation, a lot within Graceland Cemetery, in Adams County, Ill., was purchased and all the interments were transferred there from the plot in Woodland Cemetery. More modern changes to the cemetery have divided it from Graceland so as to be its own cemetery.</p><br>
<p>Sometime between 1936 and 1949, a fence dividing Graceland and the National Cemetery was improperly placed. An act of Congress was passed in 1953 (Public Law 116), to rectify the resulting property dispute.</p><br>
<h2>Notable monuments</h2><br>
<p>Three gun monuments the New York Arsenal.</p><br>
<p>Forest Home Cemetery located in the Lincoln Village neighborhood of Milwaukee, Wisconsin is the final resting place of many of the city&#39;s famed beer barons, politicians and social elite. Both the cemetery and its Landmark Chapel are listed on the National Register of Historic Places and were declared a Milwaukee Landmark in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery is run by a non-profit organization held in public trust. Profits from each sale are reinvested to insure continual care of the buildings and land. Its Victorian landscape contains over 300 species of trees, along with many ornate statues, crypts and monuments.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A committee appointed by members of St. Pauls Episcopal Church in 1847 established Forest Home Cemetery on what would later become Milwaukees south side. When the land was selected it was located nearly two miles outside of the city limits along the newly built Janesville Plank Road (now Forest Home Avenue), in an area believed to be far enough from urban development to remain rural. The 72 acre that were purchased in 1850 quickly grew to nearly 200 acre by the start of the 20th century. Orville Cadwell was the first burial on August 5, 1850 but was soon joined by others due to an outbreak of cholera in the city.</p><br>
<p>This location was dotted by Paleo Indian burial mounds and intersected a large collection of effigy mounds known to settlers as the Indian Fields. It contained over sixty earthworks which were catalogued by pioneer scientist Increase A. Lapham, including a rare intaglio of a panther, none of which remains today. An Indian village populated the corner near what is now Lincoln Avenue that grew corn on the hills. They most likely chose this location due to its proximity to the Kinnickinnic River.</p><br>
<p>Construction of the Gothic style Landmark Chapel started in 1890 and took two years to complete. It was designed by architects George Ferry & Alfred Clas and built using Lake Superior Sandstone, a dark red sandstone found near the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior. A leaded glass conservatory containing decades-old tropical plants extends from the north and south sides of the nave.</p><br>
<p>Modern improvements within Forest Home Cemetery include two large mausoleums. The Halls of History is an indoor temperature controlled mausoleum and community center. Along with the columbarium and crypts it houses, the center contains a number of permanent and changing exhibits that educate visitors about the history of Milwaukee and over 100 of its people. It is open for walk-ins during office hours. Adjacent to this is a large terraced outdoor mausoleum called Chapel Gardens. It contains above ground burials in porticos set by ornate colonnades, statues, and rose gardens.</p><br>
<h2>Notable interments</h2><br>
<p>Forest Home Cemetery is home to 28 Milwaukee mayors, seven Wisconsin governors, noted industrialists and over 110,000 burials. The Newhall House Monument is a mass grave for 64 people of the Newhall House fire of 1883, in which 71 individuals (43 unidentified) died.</p><br>
<p>Gerhard Bading, mayor and USA Minister to Ecuador</p><br>
<p>Sherburn Becker, known as the "boy mayor" of Milwaukee</p><br>
<p>Meta Schlichting Berger, female socialist organizer and advocate for improved public schooling systems</p><br>
<p>Victor Berger, newspaper editor and founding member of the Socialist Party of America</p><br>
<p>Jacob Best, founder of what became the Pabst Brewing Company</p><br>
<p>Valentin Blatz, founder of the Valentin Blatz Brewing Company</p><br>
<p>Sherman Booth, newspaper editor and abolitionist</p><br>
<p>Lynde Bradley, co-founder of the Allen-Bradley corporation</p><br>
<p>James Brown, politician and first attorney general of Wisconsin</p><br>
<p>Thomas H. Brown, twice named Mayor of Milwaukee</p><br>
<p>George Brumder, newspaper publisher (largest circulation of German language papers in the USA)</p><br>
<p>Ammi R. Butler, Mayor of Milwaukee</p><br>
<p>Horace Chase, politician who served as mayor of Milwaukee</p><br>
<p>Hans Crocker, editor of Milwaukee&#39;s first newspaper and politician</p><br>
<p>Lysander Cutler, politician and Union Army general during the American Civil War</p><br>
<p>Arthur Davidson, One of the four original founders of the Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Company</p><br>
<p>William Davidson, One of the four original founders of the Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Company</p><br>
<p>Walter Davidson, President and co-founder of the Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Company</p><br>
<p>William Disch, member of the Wisconsin Legislature</p><br>
<p>Barney Augustus Eaton, member of the Wisconsin Legislature</p><br>
<p>Susan Stuart Frackelton, painter, specializing in painting ceramics</p><br>
<p>Ezekiel Gillespie, a Wisconsin agitator for equal rights for African Americans</p><br>
<p>William T. Green, Milwaukee&#39;s first black lawyer and civil rights activist</p><br>
<p>Charles Hammersley, 1930 candidate for governor</p><br>
<p>Harrison Carroll Hobart, Union Army general</p><br>
<p>Louise Phelps Kellogg, historian, writer, and educator</p><br>
<p>Byron Kilbourn, American surveyor, railroad executive and co-founder of the City of Milwaukee</p><br>
<p>Charles King, USA General and distinguished writer</p><br>
<p>Abner Kirby, businessman and mayor of Milwaukee</p><br>
<p>August Krug, founder of what became the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company</p><br>
<p>Increase A. Lapham, author, scientist, and early American naturalist</p><br>
<p>John "Babbacombe" Lee, famous for surviving three execution attempts.</p><br>
<p>William Lynde, lawyer and Wisconsin politician, Mayor of Milwaukee</p><br>
<p>Harrison Ludington, Milwaukee mayor and governor of Wisconsin</p><br>
<p>Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne, famous award-winning husband and wife Broadway acting team</p><br>
<p>Henry E. McDaniel, USA Hall of Fame racehorse trainer</p><br>
<p>Francis McGovern, American politician and Wisconsin governor</p><br>
<p>Kate Hamilton Pier McIntosh, one of the first women to become a lawyer in Wisconsin</p><br>
<p>Edmund T. Melms, American politician</p><br>
<p>Andrew Miller, justice of the territorial Wisconsin Supreme Court</p><br>
<p>Alexander Mitchell, wealthy banking magnate and Mitchell family patriarch</p><br>
<p>Billy Mitchell, USA Army general regarded as the father of the USA Air Force</p><br>
<p>John Mitchell, Senator and father of General Billy Mitchell</p><br>
<p>Frederick Pabst, brewing magnate of Pabst Brewing Company fame</p><br>
<p>Henry Payne, USA Postmaster General</p><br>
<p>Emanuel Philipp, governor of Wisconsin</p><br>
<p>William Smith, politician and co-founder of Roundy&#39;s supermarket chain</p><br>
<p>George Peck, newspaper publisher, mayor of Milwaukee and governor of Wisconsin</p><br>
<p>Ole Petersen, founder of Methodism in Norway</p><br>
<p>John Rugee, Wisconsin politician</p><br>
<p>Joseph Schlitz (cenotaph), brewing magnate of the now defunct Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company</p><br>
<p>Christopher Sholes, inventor of the first practical typewriter with its QWERTY key layout</p><br>
<p>Fred W. Springer, Wisconsin politician</p><br>
<p>John M. Stowell, Mayor of Milwaukee</p><br>
<p>Adonis Terry, 19th century Major League Baseball player.</p><br>
<p>Don Upham, United States Attorney and two-term Milwaukee mayor</p><br>
<p>George Walker, early settler and co-founder of the City of Milwaukee</p><br>
<p>Isaac Walker, USA Senator and younger brother of George Walker</p><br>
<p>Emil Wallber, Mayor during the Bay View Tragedy</p><br>
<p>Oscar Werwath, founder of the Milwaukee School of Engineering</p><br>
<p>Frederick Charles Winkler, Union Army general</p><br>
<p>Carl Zeidler (cenotaph), brother to Frank Zeidler and Milwaukee&#39;s "singing mayor"</p><br>
<p>Frank Zeidler, three term socialist mayor of Milwaukee and 1976 United States Presidential Candidate</p><br>
<p>Two British Commonwealth war graves of World War I, a Canadian Army soldier and a Royal Air Force Flight Cadet.</p><br>
<p>Loudon Park National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Baltimore, Maryland. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 5.2 acre, and as of the end of 2005, had 7,138 interments. It is currently closed to new interments, and is maintained by the Baltimore National Cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery&#39;s civil war interments include about 2,300 union soldiers and 650 confederate soldiers.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Loudon Park National Cemetery was originally established as a plot within the Loudon Park Cemetery. It was one of the 14 original National Cemeteries established under the National Cemetery Act on July 17, 1862. Most of the original interments were from area veteran hospitals. During the American Civil War, Fort McHenry was a prisoner of war camp, and the prisoners who died while incarcerated there were interred at Loudon Park National Cemetery.</p><br>
<p>Land acquisitions in 1874, 1875, 1882, 1883 and lastly in 1903, brought the cemetery to its current size.</p><br>
<p>Loudon Park National Cemetery was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<h2>Notable monuments</h2><br>
<p>The Maryland Sons Monument, a three-foot-tall terra cotta frieze with a bas relief sculpture. Dedicated in 1885.</p><br>
<p>Rigby Monument, a marble monument erected in 1891 dedicated to Captain James H. Rigby and the 1st Maryland Light Artillery.</p><br>
<p>The Unknown Dead Monument, a marble sculpture, dedicated in 1895.</p><br>
<p>The Maryland Naval Monument, dedicated in 1896.</p><br>
<p>The Confederate Monument, erected in 1912, marking the burial place of Confederate prisoners of war.</p><br>
<h2>Notable interments</h2><br>
<p>Medal of Honor recipients</p><br>
<p>Private Henry G. Costin, for action during World War I</p><br>
<p>Private James T. Jennings, for action during the American Civil War</p><br>
<p>First Sergeant Henry Newman, for action in Arizona Territory during the Indian Wars</p><br>
<p>First Sergeant Wilhelm O. Philipsen, for action in Colorado Territory during the Indian Wars</p><br>
<p>Sergeant William Taylor, two time recipient for action during the Civil War</p><br>
<p>Mound City National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located near Mound City, in Pulaski County, Illinois. It encompasses 10.5 acre, and as of the end of 2005, had 8,098 interments. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it is managed by the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery. This cemetery is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>During the American Civil War, Mound City was the site of the Mound City Civil War Naval Hospital. The cemetery was used to inter both Union and Confederate soldiers who died while under care at the hospital. After it was officially declared a National Cemetery in 1864, several nearby battlefield cemeteries arranged to have their remains reinterred there.</p><br>
<p>Mound City National Cemetery was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<h2>Notable monuments</h2><br>
<p>The Illinois State Soldiers and Sailors Monument, a marble monument erected in 1874.</p><br>
<h2>Notable burials</h2><br>
<p>John Basil Turchin (1821–1901), Russian-born, United States Civil War Union Army brigadier general.</p><br>
<p>The Battle of Hjörungavágr  is a semi-legendary naval battle that took place in the late 10th century between the Jarls of Lade and a Danish invasion fleet led by the fabled Jomsvikings. This battle played an important role in the struggle by Haakon Sigurdsson to unite his rule over Norway.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Haakon Sigurdsson ruled Norway as a vassal of King Harald Bluetooth of Denmark, but he was in reality an independent ruler. Haakon was a strong believer in the old Norse gods. When Harald Bluetooth attempted to force Christianity upon him around 975, Haakon broke his allegiance to Denmark.</p><br>
<p>Harald Bluetooth had suffered defeat from Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor. Haakon took advantage of the weakened position of the Danish king to make Norway independent of Denmark.</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
<p>The battle is described in the Norse kings sagas&mdash;such as Heimskringla&mdash;as well as in Jómsvíkinga saga and Saxo Grammaticus Gesta Danorum. Saxo Grammaticus estimated that the battle took place while Harald Bluetooth was still alive. Tradition has set the battle in 986. Those late literary accounts are fanciful but historians believe that they contain a kernel of truth.</p><br>
<p>Some contemporary skaldic poetry alludes to the battle, including verses by Þórðr Kolbeinsson and Tindr Hallkelsson. The battle was also the subject of later poems and sagas. Jómsvíkingadrápa by Bjarni Kolbeinsson honors the fallen Jomsvikings at the Battle of Hjörungavágr. Vellekla, composed by the Icelandic skald Einarr Helgason, speaks of the Battle of Hjörungavágr. Fagrskinna, contains a history of Norway with a heavy emphasis on battles, including the Battle of Hjörungavágr.</p><br>
<p>Jómsvíkinga saga offers two mutually contradictory descriptions of the bay in which the battle took place. According to the first one, Hjorungavágr lies on the landward side of the island Hoð (now Hareidlandet, an island in Møre og Romsdal). According to the other, the bay is situated south of an island called Primsigð/Primsignd and north of an island called Horund. Both of these names are unknown today.</p><br>
