<p>Chew Reservoir is a reservoir at the head of the Chew Valley in the South Pennines part of the Peak District in Greater Manchester, England.</p><br>
<p>The reservoir scheme in the Greenfield and Chew Valleys by the Ashton Stalybridge and Dukinfield Waterworks Joint Committee commenced in 1870. Chew Reservoir was built to hold 200 million gallons of water. Intended to be a compensation reservoir, it also had a filtration plant so that it could be used for drinking water in times of drought.</p><br>
<p>Completed in 1912, the reservoir was the highest constructed in England, at 1,600 ft above sea level, until the Cow Green Reservoir in the North Pennines in Teesside was completed in 1971. The reservoir is connected to the larger Dovestone Reservoir further down the Chew Valley by the Chew Brook.</p><br>
<p>The Stonewall Jackson House, located at 8 East Washington Street in the Historic District of Lexington, Virginia, was the residence of Confederate general Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson from 1858 to 1861.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The house is a two-story, four bay, brick dwelling with a large, stone rear addition. It has a side-gable roof and interior end chimneys.</p><br>
<p>The house was constructed in 1800, by Cornelius Dorman. Dr. Archibald Graham purchased the house and significantly expanded it in 1845 by adding a stone addition on the rear and remodeling the front and interior to accommodate his medical practice. Dr. Graham sold the house to then-Major Thomas Jackson, a professor at the nearby Virginia Military Institute, on November 4, 1858, for $3000. It is the only house Jackson ever owned. He lived in the brick and stone house with his second wife, Mary Anna Morrison Jackson, until the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861.</p><br>
<p>It housed Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital from 1907 until 1954; when it was converted to a museum. In 1979 the house was carefully restored to its appearance at the time of the Jacksons&#39; occupancy. The house and garden are owned and operated as a museum by the Virginia Military Institute from April through December. Guided tours are given daily, every half hour, from 9:00 a.m. until 4:30 P.M.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Moulin Rouge Hotel was a hotel and casino located in the West Las Vegas neighborhood of Las Vegas, Nevada, that is listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places. The first desegregated hotel casino, it was popular with many of the black entertainers of the time, who would entertain at the other hotels and casinos and stay at the Moulin Rouge.</p><br>
<p>The Hotel was named after the Paris nightclub, the Moulin Rouge.</p><br>
<h2>Early history</h2><br>
<p>The Moulin Rouge opened on May 24, 1955, built at a cost of $3.5 million. It was the first integrated hotel casino in the United States. Until that time almost all of the casinos on the Strip were totally segregated—off limits to blacks unless they were the entertainment or labor force.</p><br>
<h3>Characteristic</h3><br>
<p>The hotel was located in West Las Vegas, where the black population lived. West Las Vegas was bounded by Washington Avenue on the north, Bonanza Road on the south, H Street on the west, and A Street on the east.</p><br>
<p>The establishment was a model of eye-catching, 110 rooms, a gorgeous showroom, swimming pool, restaurant/coffee shop, dress-shop, and bar which was constructed of highly polished and expensive hardwoods.</p><br>
<p>References to Paris are numerous:</p><br>
<p>The Eiffel Tower appears vertically on the sign of the establishment, and also on the casino chips,</p><br>
<p>A French Chef is at the head of the largest gastronomic restaurant of the establishments</p><br>
<p>From the entrance, security personnel are dressed in the uniform of the French Foreign Legion (allusion to France and Edith Piaf, who made a comeback after the war with Yves Montand at the Moulin Rouge), which, according to the press, adds a touch of glamour in Las Vegas.</p><br>
<h3>Founding</h3><br>
<p>It was during this era that Will Max Schwartz saw the need for an integrated hotel. Will, along with other white investors—Louis Rubin, owner of Chandler&#39;s Restaurant in New York City, and Alexander Bisno, who worked in real estate in California—and black boxing great Joe Louis, built and opened the Moulin Rouge at This location placed it in a prime location between the predominantly white area of the Strip and the largely black west side.</p><br>
<h3>Design</h3><br>
<p>The complex itself consisted of two "Googie-populuxe" Modernist style stuccoed buildings that housed the hotel, the casino, and a theater. The exterior had the hotel&#39;s name in stylized cursive writing and murals depicting dancing and fancy cars. The sign was designed by Betty Willis, creator of the "Welcome to Las Vegas" sign on the south end of the Strip.</p><br>
<p>The Moulin Rouge in Paris was a source of inspiration. When the casino opened the revue "Tropi Cancan," was inspired by the French Cancan, created in the 19th century to the Moulin Rouge Paris: «The Moulin Rouge Hotel and Casino opened on May 24, 1955 to fanfare, long lines of well-dressed visitors, and Las Vegas&#39; newest showroom revue, the Tropi-Can-Can Revue» This inspiration comes from the first Afro-American star in France, Josephine Baker.</p><br>
<p>The wall painted of the Moulin Rouge Las Vegas, included many references to Paris and Toulouse-Lautrec. "Black showgirls performed on a stage amid a backdrop of walls featuring mahogany wood trim and Toulouse-Lautrec-style murals of black French cancan dancers. The showroom featured "Tropi-Can-Can" under the tutelage of veteran producer Clarence Robinson."</p><br>
<h2>Operating and direction</h2><br>
<p>When it opened, the Moulin Rouge was fully integrated top to bottom, from employees to patrons to entertainers.</p><br>
<p>The hotel made the, cover of Life magazine, with a photo of two showgirls. A veritable "A" list of performers regularly showed to party until dawn. Great black singers and musicians such as Lena Horne, Sammy Davis Jr., Louis Armstrong, Sarah Vaughan, Nat King Cole, Duke Ellington, Dorothy Dandridge, Harry Belafonte, Pearl Bailey, and Count Basie would perform often. Many of these artists were banned from gambling or staying at the hotels on the Strip. In addition, white performers, including George Burns, Jeanette MacDonald, Tallulah Bankhead, Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich, Frankie Laine, Maurice Chevalier, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Jack Benny, Sophie Tucker and Frank Sinatra, would drop in after their shows to gamble and perform. Eventually management added a 2:30am "Third Show" to accommodate the crowds.</p><br>
<h2>Closure and landmarking</h2><br>
<p>In November 1955 the Moulin Rouge was closed by Sheriff&#39;s deputies. By December 1955, the casino had declared bankruptcy. Nevertheless, to maintain its gaming license, the Moulin Rouge (like many closed properties) operates on a temporary basis for a state-mandated minimum of eight hours every two years, most recently on June 19, 2012 and on June 11, 2014.</p><br>
<h3>Civil-rights heritage</h3><br>
<p>The short but vibrant life of the Moulin Rouge helped the Civil Rights Movement in Las Vegas. For a while the hotel was owned by the first African American woman to hold a Nevada Gaming License, Sarann Knight-Preddy. Many of those who enjoyed and were employed by the hotel became activists and supporters. The hotel was also the spark needed to bring an end to segregation on the Strip.</p><br>
<p>In 1960, under threat of a protest march down the Las Vegas Strip against racial discrimination by Las Vegas casinos, a meeting was hurriedly arranged by then-Governor Grant Sawyer between hotel owners, city and state officials, local black leaders, and then-NAACP president Dr. James McMillan. The meeting was held on March 26 at the closed Moulin Rouge. This resulted in an agreement to desegregate all Strip casinos. Hank Greenspun, who would become an important media figure in the town, mediated the agreement.</p><br>
<p>In 1992 the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and became a symbol of the expanding of black civil rights, and a monument of Las Vegas’s past.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation and fires</h2><br>
<p>Although the Moulin Rouge complex remained shuttered for decades, many plans had been hatched to rebuild and reopen the cultural landmark. But on May 29, 2003, a fire ripped through the buildings, almost entirely gutting the complex. The facade with its signature stylized name was spared destruction. In 2004, a man arrested near the property was sentenced to four years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of arson in connection with the fire.</p><br>
<p>January 2004 saw the Moulin Rouge sold again for $12.1 million to the Moulin Rouge Development Corporation. The stylized "Moulin Rouge" neon sign was turned back on. A $200 million renovation of the site was announced but was never completed.</p><br>
<p>Following a February decision to tear down the structures as a public nuisance, the third fire in four years on May 6, 2009, caused significant damage to the original hotel lobby building, but did not touch the remaining original exterior wall that held the signage. The signage had just been removed for storage at the Neon Museum boneyard. The property, which was in foreclosure at the time of the fire, had failed to sell at a foreclosure auction the day before.</p><br>
<p>In June, 2010, the Las Vegas Historic Preservation Commission approved permits for demolition of the remains of the buildings, citing numerous concerns by the city about the safety of the structures. Instead of demolishing what was left of the hotel wings, which had seemed to catch fire every few years, the city instead demolished the stone exterior wall, pillar, and facade that held the sign. Also destroyed was the landmark tower that stood over the West side and was a symbol to the residents. The tower, which the city claimed was unstable, took nearly half a day of weakening to finally pull down. As of February 2011, the red mosaic pillars still lie in the empty lot, and the unstable, fire hazard hotel wings still stand.</p><br>
<p>Gambling occurs on site every two years (via video poker machines which are trucked in for a day) to maintain the gaming license, which remains active although the casino has otherwise been out of business for 60 years.</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
<p>The Piva  is a river in Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, shorter headwater of the Drina river, which it forms with the Tara river on the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina.</p><br>
<h2>Course</h2><br>
<p>The Piva springs from the Sinjac (Сињац) spring on Golija mountain, near the Piva Monastery (also called Vrelo Pive; Cyrillic: Врело Пиве; Well of Piva). Before the artificial Lake Piva was formed, the water from the well rushed into the river Komarnica (Cyrillic: Комарница) thus creating the Piva river for the next 34 km. However, Komarnica is part of an 86 km long river system (Tušina–Bukovica–Bijela–Komarnica), so measured from the source of the Tušina river (Cyrillic: Тушина), the Piva, nicknamed the river with five names, is 120 km long.</p><br>
<p>The Tušina originates from the mountain Sinjajevina in the Uskoci region of central Montenegro, just few kilometers away from the source of another important Montenegrin river, Morača. The river flows to the west, between the Sinjajevina and Lola mountains, next to the villages of Krnja Jela, Bare, Boan and Tušina. It receives from the north the Bukovica river (Cyrillic: Буковица), and continues further under this name. After the river passes the regional center of Šavnik and the villages of Gradac and Pridvorica in the region of Drobnjaci, the stream receives from the north the Komarnica and takes its name.</p><br>
<p>The Komarnica continues between the mountains of Vojnik and Treskavac, in an almost uninhabited area (village of Duži) and enters the high Piva Pleateau, where it turns north (almost all of the Komarnica&#39;s course is flooded by the reservoir of the Lake Piva), receives from the right outflow of the Piva well and enters the deep Piva canyon.</p><br>
<p>The canyon is cut between the mountains of Bioč, Volujak, Maglić and Pivska planina, its 33 km long, deep up to 1.200 m and river generates immense power used for the power station of Mratinje (342 MW) which dammed the canyon in 1975. The dam is 220 m high, one of the highest in Europe and creates Lake Piva, third largest in Serbia and Montenegro (12,5 km², altitude 675 m, 188 m deep), which flooded the old location of the monastery of Piva from the 16th century, so the monastery was moved to the new one. The Vrbnica river flows from the left into the lake.</p><br>
<p>After the dam, the Piva continues straight to the north, meets the Tara at Šćepan Polje on the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina and creates the Drina.</p><br>
<p>The Piva belongs to the Black Sea drainage basin with its own drainage area of 1.270 km² and is not navigable.</p><br>
<h2>Piva Plateau</h2><br>
<p>Pivska površ (Cyrillic: Пивска површ), is a high limestone plateau in the drainage area of Piva, between the mountains of Durmitor, Maglić, Lebršnik, Golija and Vojnik. The plateau is 55 km long, 30 km wide with an average altitude of 1.200 m, the highest 2.159 m. The flow of Komarnica-Piva divides it in two regions: western one, Pivska Župa (Cyrillic: Пивска Жупа) and eastern one, Pivska planina (Cyrillic: Пивска планина). Area is characterized by many limestone features, like cavities (called vrtača, вртача) deep pits and excavations, and extremely sparsely populated (some 20 smaller settlements in Pivska Župa and 15 in Pivska planina).</p><br>
<p>Stock breeding is developed though, especially sheep.</p><br>
<p>The Uvac  is an international trans-boundary river, rising under Golija mountain and Pešter plateau, then flowing through southwestern Serbia and cross into eastern Bosnia and Herzegovina where, after 119 km, finally meets the Lim river from the right, however, before it empties into the Lim, for a 10 kilometers Uvac forms the border between two countries. Also, while meandering through Serbia, Uvac loosely makes the northern border of the Raška region too.</p><br>
<h2>Upper course</h2><br>
<p>The Uvac originates in the Pešter plateau from the Ninaja mountain, as Rasanska reka (Cyrillic: Расанска река). The stream curves around the Ninaja and Pometenik mountains, next to the villages of Tuzinje, Rasno, Dragojloviće and Gradac, where it meets Brnjička reka (Cyrillic: Брњичка река), enters the Sjenica depression and continues on depression eastern border as the Vapa (Cyrillic: Вапа), which is 25 kilometers long and drains an area of 496 km².</p><br>
<p>The river passes next to the villages of Gornja Vapa, Donja Vapa, Čedovo and Krstac, where the Vapa receives from the left the short river Uvac, which originates on the Ozren mountain, and gives name to the downstream course of the river.</p><br>
<h2>Lower course</h2><br>
<p>The Uvac continues to the northwest, enters the Stari Vlah region where it flows in a deep, canyon-like valley, where it receives the Kladnica river from the right and generates lots of power, which is used for three powerful hydroelectric power stations, each one with big artificial lake: Bistrica with Lake Radoinja, Kokin Brod with Zlatar Lake (7,3 km², altitude 400 m, depth 40 m) and Sjenica with Lake Sjenica.</p><br>
<p>In the lowest part of its course, The Uvac flows between the Zlatar and Zlatibor mountains, next to the villages of Kokin Brod and Radoinja until it reaches the Bosnian border and Varda mountain, makes a sharp, elbow turn to the south and after a short flow next to the villages of Bjelušine and Uvac (both on Bosnian side), the Uvac empties into the Lim, north of the city of Priboj.</p><br>
<p>The Uvac drains an area of 1,310 km², belongs to the Black Sea drainage basin, and it is not navigable. Its average discharge at the mouth is 18 m³/s.</p><br>
<p>Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, Massachusetts, is a museum about multiple visions of America on the site of the short-lived utopian community, Fruitlands. The museum includes the Fruitlands farmhouse , a museum about Shaker life, an art gallery with 19th-century landscape paintings, vernacular American portraits, and other changing exhibitions, and a museum of Native American history.</p><br>
<p>Visitors can tour the farmhouse, which has been restored to appear as it did during the 1840s, and exhibits about Transcendentalism and the Alcott family. Fruitlands offers a diverse schedule of contemporary exhibits, lectures, outdoor concerts and easy walking trails. There is also a museum store and restaurant. Today, the properties are overseen by the Trustees of Reservations.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Fruitlands, inspired by Transcendentalism and Amos Bronson Alcott&#39;s ideas of societal reform, was established on 90 acre purchased by Charles Lane in May 1843. People interested in joining the community began moving in the next month and the site was optimistically named "Fruitlands" despite having only a small cluster of apple trees. The community was based on self-sufficiency, using no hired labor and growing all the food they needed themselves. The community ultimately failed because of the difficulty in growing crops. Community members began moving away as early as October 1843; Lane and Alcott abandoned it in January 1844.</p><br>
<p>The property was purchased in 1910 by Clara Endicott Sears, who opened the farmhouse to the public in 1914 as a museum. In addition to the Fruitlands building, the site now includes a transplanted Shaker house from the nearby Harvard Shaker Village, Native American artifacts and Hudson River School paintings. The museum is primarily the result of the efforts of Sears, a preservationist.</p><br>
<p>Since 2015, the Fruitlands Museum has held an amateur cyclocross race on its grounds. Notorious for the rough surface of the course as well as the often muddy off-cambers utilized, it has quickly become a favorite amongst the New England cyclocross community. The elite mens race winners have been Curtis White and Jeremy Durrin (in 2015 and 2016, respectively) while the elite womens race winners have been Rebecca Wellons and Kathleen Wanat.</p><br>
<p>The Knickerbocker Hotel  is a hotel in the Yankee Hill neighborhood of downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was built in 1929 as an eight-story residential apartment hotel. In 1988 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Knickerbockers neighborhood was called Yankee Hill because many of Milwaukees early leaders living there in the 1800s were Yankees from New England. They liked the neighborhood because it was close to the downtown and had nice views along Lake Michigan. It was also part of Milwaukee&#39;s "Gold Coast". By 1900 many of the prominent Yankees living there had been replaced by prominent German and Irish.</p><br>
<p>After 1900 many of the big old single-family homes were divided into rooming houses, and some were razed to make space for apartment buildings and residential hotels. These allowed more middle and upper-class people to live at a prestigious address close to downtown without the cost or trouble of maintaining their own free-standing home. The Astor Hotel was one like this, built in 1916 and expanded in 1925. Very similar, the Knickerbocker was built just up Juneau Avenue in 1929.</p><br>
<p>The Knickerbocker was designed by architects Rossman & Wierdsma of Milwaukee in late Neo-Classical Revival style, somewhat simplified as fashion shifted toward Art Deco and more modern styles. The building was generally U-shaped, eight stories tall. The exterior is reddish brick decorated with terra cotta. The first two floors are covered with terra cotta panels. The eighth floor is set off with a terra cotta cornice. The windows on that floor are surrounded by pilasters and window hoods decorated with wreaths and foliage. Inside, the first floor housed an elegant lobby and retail space. Above that each floor held about 30 apartments.</p><br>
<p>As of 2017 the Knickerbocker bills itself a boutique hotel, with suites decorated in styles varying from Victorian to French Country. The majority of the rooms are now owner-occupied.</p><br>
<p>Dikti or Dicte   is a mountain range on the east of the island of Crete in the regional unit of Lasithi. On the west it extends to the regional unit of Heraklion.</p><br>
<p>According to some Greek mythology, Zeus was reared on this mountain in a cave called Dictaeon Antron (Psychro Cave).</p><br>
<p>On the north of the main massif, the Lasithi Plateau is located. The topology of the mountain range is rich with plateaus (Lasithi, Katharo, Omalos Viannou, Limnakaro), valleys and secondary peaks. Some important peaks are Spathi 2148m (the highest point), Afentis Christos/Psari Madara 2141m, Lazaros 2085m, Madara 1783m, Skafidaras 1673m, Katharo Tsivi 1665m, Sarakino 1588m, Afentis 1571m, Selena 1559m, Varsami 1545m, Toumpa Moutsounas 1538m, Platia Korfi 1489m, Mahairas 1487m, Virgiomeno Oros 1414m. The main massif forms a horseshoe around the valley of Selakano. Large parts of the mountain area, including the Selakano valley, are forested with pines (Pinus brutia), Kermes oaks (Quercus coccifera), cypresses (Cupressus sempervirens), Holm Oaks (Quercus ilex) and Cretan Maples (Acer sempervirens).</p><br>
<p>The fertile valleys and plateaus of Dikti/Dicte are of significant importance in the local economy.</p><br>
<p>The dominant feature of Dikti is the Lasithi Plateau, the largest plateau in Crete. It is a place with a long history. Diktaion Antron, is located here, a cave where -according to one legend- Zeus was born.</p><br>
<p>El Diente Peak is a high summit in the San Miguel Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,165 ft peak is located in the Lizard Head Wilderness of San Juan National Forest, 16.9 km north by east  of the Town of Rico in Dolores County, Colorado, United States. "El Diente" is Spanish for "The Tooth", a reference to the shape of the peak.</p><br>
<h2>Climbing</h2><br>
<p>The topographic prominence of El Diente Peak is only 239 ft, so by a strict 300 ft cutoff rule it would not be counted as a separate peak from its higher neighbor Mount Wilson. However the 3/4 mile (1.2 km) connecting ridge is a significant climbing challenge (Class 4/5), making El Diente more independent than its prominence would indicate.</p><br>
<p>Hence it is often regarded as a full-fledged fourteener.</p><br>
<p>El Diente is one of the more dramatic peaks in Colorado in terms of local relief and steepness. As a result, it is one of the most challenging climbs among Colorado&#39;s fourteeners. All routes involve at least class 3 scrambling on loose talus, and poor route-finding can expose the climber to more difficult and dangerous terrain.</p><br>
<h2>Historical names</h2><br>
<p>El Diente</p><br>
<p>El Diente Peak</p><br>
<p>Mount Wilson is the highest summit of the San Miguel Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The prominent 14,252 ft fourteener is located in the Lizard Head Wilderness of San Juan National Forest, 17.1 km north by east  of the Town of Rico in Dolores County, Colorado, United States. Mount Wilson should not to be confused with the lower Wilson Peak nearby.</p><br>
<p>The peak was named for A.D. Wilson, a topographer with the Hayden Survey. He was in the first ascent party, which climbed the peak on September 13, 1874, via the south ridge (a difficult route, not often climbed today).</p><br>
<h2>Climbing</h2><br>
<p>Mount Wilson is ranked among the top ten hardest of the Colorado fourteeners to climb. The standard climbing route ascends the North Face from Navajo Basin. Some permanent snowfields exist high in the basin (sometimes termed "Navajo Glacier") and the climb usually involves snow travel, with ice axe and crampons recommended. Scrambling on rock then leads to the summit.</p><br>
<p>A popular, though long, outing for expert climbers is the mile-long ridge connecting Mount Wilson to El Diente Peak. The ridge is sharp and rocky, and requires difficult scrambling and often a small amount of rappelling.</p><br>
<h2>Geology and history</h2><br>
<p>Mount Wilson, and the rest of the San Miguel Mountains, are made up of a large, irregular tertiary igneous intrusion.</p><br>
<p>The Mount Wilson region became the site of intense mining activity, particularly for silver, in the early 1880s. The most famous of these mines was the Silver Pick Mine, which gave its name to Silver Pick Basin, just north of Navajo Basin.</p><br>
<h3>Glaciers and permafrost</h3><br>
<p>Mount Wilson contains four small glaciers on its summit, these being the southernmost modern glaciers in the Rocky Mountains and indeed the most southerly in the contiguous US outside the Sierra Nevada in California. These descend to 3,887 m. None of the glaciers have ever been named, and it has never been investigated whether they are presently active. At least nine rock glaciers, composed of alpine permafrost, exist on the northern slope of the mountain, extending down to around 10,000 ft, although the lower limit of permafrost is more typically around 11,500 ft.</p><br>
<p>During the Pleistocene glaciers were much more extensive than today, covering the whole summit plateau In glaciations previous to the Wisconsinian, it is generally thought that summit ice caps were even more extensive and joined to form the “San Miguel Glacier” with icecaps in the San Juan Mountains.</p><br>
<h2>Historical names</h2><br>
<p>Glacier Mountain</p><br>
<p>Mount Wilson – 1906</p><br>
<p>Mount Eolus is a high mountain summit of the Needle Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,090 ft fourteener is located in the Weminuche Wilderness of San Juan National Forest, 44.1 km northeast by north  of the City of Durango in La Plata County, Colorado, United States.</p><br>
<p>Named after the Greek god of the wind, the mountain was originally referred to as "Aeolus" in the 1874 Hayden Survey. The current spelling of "Eolus" was first used in the Wheeler Survey of 1878.</p><br>
<h2>Climbing</h2><br>
<p>Mount Eolus is one of three fourteeners in the Needle Mountains; the others are Sunlight Peak and Windom Peak. All three peaks are located around the cirque known as Upper Chicago Basin. Eolus lies to the west of the upper basin, while the other peaks lie on the east side. These mountains are among the most remote of Colorado&#39;s fourteeners and have a strong wilderness character.</p><br>
<p>North Eolus, elevation 14,045 ft, is a northern subpeak of Mount Eolus, though it is not usually counted as a separate peak or as an official fourteener, since it has a topographic prominence of only 179 ft. It is sometimes climbed in conjunction with Eolus.</p><br>
<h2>Elevation</h2><br>
<p>Mount Eolus&#39; elevation is very close to, and may even be higher than, that of nearby Windom Peak. If this is the case, Mount Eolus would be the highest summit of the Needle Mountains, La Plata County, and the entire San Juan River drainage basin.</p><br>
<p>Recent surveying with a Trimble GPS unit determined the following elevations, confirming that Windom is truly the monarch of the basin.</p><br>
<p>Eolus: 14085.4 ft +/- 2.1’</p><br>
<p>Windom: 14089.9 ft +/- 1.4’</p><br>
<p>Windom Peak is the highest summit of the Needle Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The prominent 14,093 ft fourteener is located in the Weminuche Wilderness of San Juan National Forest, 45.4 km northeast by north  of the City of Durango in La Plata County, Colorado, United States. The summit of Windom Peak is the highest point in La Plata County and the entire San Juan River drainage basin. The mountain was named in honor of Minnesota senator William Windom.</p><br>
<h2>Climbing</h2><br>
<p>Windom Peak is one of three fourteeners in the Needle Mountains; the other two are Mount Eolus and Sunlight Peak. Windom and Sunlight lie on the east side of Twin Lakes, in upper Chicago Basin, while Eolus lies on the west side. All three peaks are relatively remote by Colorado standards, and have a strong wilderness character; however they can be popular in summer.</p><br>
<h2>Elevation</h2><br>
<p>Mount Eolus may be higher than Windom Peak. If this is the case, Mount Eolus would be the highest summit of the Needle Mountains, La Plata County, and the entire San Juan River drainage basin.</p><br>
<p>Recent surveying by Arthur Harris on a Trimble-sponsored trip determined the following elevations, confirming that Windom is the monarch of the basin:</p><br>
<p>Eolus: 14085.4 ft +/- 2.1’</p><br>
<p>Windom: 14089.9 ft +/- 1.4’</p><br>
<h2>Historical names</h2><br>
<p>Windom Mountain</p><br>
<p>Windom Peak – 1974</p><br>
<p>Sunlight Peak is a high mountain summit of the Needle Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,065 ft fourteener is located in the Weminuche Wilderness of San Juan National Forest, 45.8 km northeast by north  of the City of Durango in La Plata County, Colorado, United States.</p><br>
<p>Sunlight Peak was so named in 1902; the name is likely descriptive.</p><br>
<h2>Climbing</h2><br>
<p>Sunlight Peak is one of three fourteeners in the Needle Mountains; the other two are Mount Eolus and Windom Peak. Windom and Sunlight lie on the east side of Twin Lakes, in upper Chicago Basin, while Eolus lies on the west side. All three peaks are relatively remote by Colorado standards, and have a strong wilderness character; however they can be popular in summer.</p><br>
<p>The standard route up Sunlight Peak is from the south, known as the "Red Couloir". It is a non-technical scramble, but achieving the top of the summit block does require an exposed rock climbing move.</p><br>
<p>Two Ocean Pass is a mountain pass on North Americas Continental Divide, in the Teton Wilderness, which is part of Wyomings Bridger-Teton National Forest. The pass is notable for Parting of the Waters, where one stream, North Two Ocean Creek, splits into two distributaries, Pacific Creek and Atlantic Creek, at Parting of the Waters National Natural Landmark. These two creeks ultimately flow into their respective oceans. Atlantic Creek water eventually flows into the Yellowstone River and empties into the Gulf of Mexico via the Missouri River and Mississippi River. Pacific Creek water eventually flows into the Snake River and empties into the Pacific via the Columbia River.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>The Continental Divide Trail reaches this location in northern Wyoming. It is accessible by foot or horseback from the south via Brooks Lake Trail head off of Highway 287 or from the north via an extensive hike from Fox Park near Yellowstone National Park&#39;s southern border.</p><br>
<p>Sunshine Peak is a fourteen thousand foot mountain peak in the USA state of Colorado. It is located in the San Juan Mountains in Hinsdale County approximately 9 mi south west of Lake City, and about 1 mi south of Redcloud Peak. It rises on the north side of the Lake Fork of the Gunnison River.</p><br>
<p>Sunshine Peak has the dubious distinction of being the lowest of Colorado&#39;s 53 fourteeners. It is also not particularly independent from its higher neighbor Redcloud Peak, with a topographic prominence of 481 ft (the minimum standard for an independent fourteener is 300 ft). However it has more and steeper local relief than many of the other fourteeners. For example, it rises 4,450 ft above the townsite of Sherman to the south in only 1.2 mi.</p><br>
<p>St. Annes Episcopal Church is a historic parish in Middletown, Delaware, that was created in 1704 as a mission of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts The present parish church is located at 15 East Green Street, while Old St. Annes Church and its graveyard are located at 105 St Annes Church Road, about a mile south of Middletown. On March 7, 1973, Old St. Anne&#39;s was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Clergy</h2><br>
<p>Rector: The Rev. Russ Bohner, TSSF</p><br>
<p>Rector Emeritus: The Rev. Carl N. Kunz, Jr.</p><br>
<h2>Christian Education</h2><br>
<p>Catechesis of the Good Shepherd (Preschool- 4th grade)- Our Sunday school program provides a nurturing and loving environment for our children to experience and be engaged while developing a personal relationship with Jesus, The Good Shepherd.</p><br>
<p>The Level 1 Atrium is for Preschool and Kindergarten and Level 2 Atrium is for those in grades 1 to 4.</p><br>
<p>Journey to Adulthood - This program develops the spiritual journeys of our middle school and high school students and is divided into 4 age specific groups:</p><br>
<p>Club 56 - After completing our Sunday school program, our youth, grades 5 and 6, participate in a two-year program using curriculum created for preteens called FLYTE, from LifeWay Christian Resources. This curriculum teaches our preteens about church as a community through service and inquiry and prepares them for life in and out of their faith.</p><br>
<p>Rite 13 - This is a program for grades 6-7 or 7-8. The first 2 years celebrate the individuality of each young teen and their creative potential, while exploring Biblical stories of God and God’s people. The Rite 13 liturgy, celebration of manhood and womanhood, is the community expression of this and serves as a rite of passage from childhood towards adulthood.</p><br>
<p>J2A - This is a program for grades 8-9 or 9-10. The youth meet each Sunday morning for developmentally based lessons that focus on self, community, sexuality and spirituality. Activities include: lock-ins, an urban adventure, hunger simulation, outreach ministries and fundraising - ultimately leading to their pilgrimage and following in the footsteps of Christians before them.</p><br>
<p>Young Episcopalians in Service (YES) - YES is a mentor-based program that helps older teens, grades 11 and 12, discern and carry out a ministry within their church or in the larger community. Vocation and development of a personal credo are also</p><br>
<p>emphasized. They become ambassadors of Christ.</p><br>
<p>Adult Education - Adult Christian Education immediately follows the 9:30 Sunday service and is clergy organized and both clergy and lay-led. The education committee oversees all Christian education activities, responds to varying needs</p><br>
<p>and explores new possibilities so that fulfilling, educational opportunities are available for all ages.</p><br>
<h2>Old St. Anne's Church</h2><br>
<p>Old St. Anne&#39;s Church was built in 1768 on the site of an earlier wooden church built about 1705. Queen Anne presented the church with a "covering for the communion table." The old church is currently used as a chapel for weddings, funerals, and occasional services.</p><br>
<p>Castaic Lake is a reservoir formed by Castaic Dam on Castaic Creek, in the Sierra Pelona Mountains of northwestern Los Angeles County, California, near the town of Castaic.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The 320,000 acre.ft lake with a surface elevation of approximately 1,500 ft above sea level is the terminus of the West Branch California Aqueduct, though some comes from the 154 square miles Castaic Creek watershed above the dam. Castaic Lake is bisected by the Elderberry Forebay Dam, which creates the adjacent Elderberry Forebay. The aqueduct water comes from Pyramid Lake through the Angeles Tunnel and is used to power Castaic Power Plant, a pumped-storage hydroelectric facility on the northern end of the forebay. Water is mostly powering the turbines, rather than being pumped by them.</p><br>
<p>Castaic Lake is part of the Castaic Lake State Recreation Area. Primary access is via Interstate 5 at exits 176A and 176B at the town of Castaic.</p><br>
<h3>Distribution</h3><br>
<p>Water from the lake is distributed throughout the northern portion of the Greater Los Angeles Area. Some water is released into Castaic Lagoon below the dam, which drains into Castaic Creek. The creek flows south until it meets the Santa Clara River, a few miles west of Santa Clarita.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>Castaic Lake was one of the main filming locations for the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers series. Many of the action scenes were recorded here.</p><br>
<p>Castaic Lake was the starting point for The Amazing Race 26 on November 12, 2014. NBC&#39;s Fear Factor was shot there, too.</p><br>
<p>Castaic also has a lower lagoon with a swim beach that is open from Memorial Day weekend to Labor day weekend annually. This lake also offers bass fishing in the upper and lower lake year-round and float tube fishing in lower lake.</p><br>
<p>St. James Episcopal Church, Mill Creek, also known as St. James Church or St. James Church, Stanton, is an historic Episcopal church located at 2106 St. James Church Road, in Stanton, Mill Creek Hundred, New Castle County near Wilmington, Delaware.</p><br>
<p>As Europeans settled in Delaware, a log structure was erected near this location circa 1703. Mill Creek Hundred was split off from Christiana Hundred (as were nearby White Clay Hundred and Pencader Hundred) in 1710, and four years later James Robinson bought 110 acres, of which he donated 10 to build a church for the community. The building was finished two years later, and the first minister was George Ross, who later became father-in-law of the flagmaker Betsy Ross. After the American Revolution, although few Anglican clergy remained in Delaware, a layman from this church attended the first General Convention that founded the Episcopal Church, along with Rev. Charles Henry Wharton (a converted Catholic and rector of nearby Immanuel Church, New Castle) and two other layman from that parish. In 1820, the wood frame church burned, and was rebuilt in stone during the next three years.</p><br>
<p>Bishop William White consecrated the current church in 1821, and it was added to the National Register of Historic Places as St. James Church in 1973. A rounded apsidal chancel projects from the north wall, and the interior still has white box pews and a balcony on three sides. The oldest burial in the surrounding cemetery is of John Armstrong, who died in 1726. The cemetery also contains the graves of several identified veterans of the American Revolution (and a memorial concerning lost veterans&#39; graves).</p><br>
<p>The Astor on the Lake  is a low-rise building located in the Yankee Hill  neighborhood of downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Designed by architect Herbert Tullgren in Classical Revival style, the Astor Hotel was built in 1920 by developer Oscar Brachman for hotel tycoon Walter Schroeder. The building was originally U-shaped in plan, but an L-shaped addition in 1925 made the building into the E-shape seen today. The building has eight floors</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>When the Astor on the Lake opened it was considered one of the finest Midwest hotels of the time. The façade is covered with gray limestone and has French Classical details and was constructed using steeling reinforced concrete. A stained glass skylight hangs above the reception area while many of the rooms, which are now owner occupied, were of simpler design.</p><br>
<h2>Fire</h2><br>
<p>At dawn on February 18, 1935, The Astor Hotel caught fire. The fired was caused by electrical wires in the basement and a dense, oily smoke filed the building. Oscar Teweles, 59, and his nurse, Elsie Saxinger, 40, were killed due to suffocation in his apartment on the fifth floor. Over 300 people had to be evacuated due to the fire and were sent into the city streets. The damage caused by the fire was estimated at $75,000.</p><br>
<p>Rhobell Fawr is an extinct volcano in the Arenig range within the Snowdonia National Park.</p><br>
<p>Despite its modest height of 734 m (2,408 feet), it is a mountain with views of higher peaks all around, including the north face of Cadair Idris and distant Snowdon.</p><br>
<p>The paths are not well trodden, but there is a distinct path up from Bwlch Goriwared, a couple of miles north-north-east of the small village of Llanfachreth. From the pass a ladder-stile crosses a wall beside some sheep-folds on the eastern side of the track. A path follows a wall eastwards for a little more than 2 miles to the summit. The walk can easily be done, there and back from Llanfachreth, in 4 hours, given good weather, and provided you are used to the British mountains and reasonably fit.</p><br>
<p>A more arduous ascent is a circuit starting at Cwm yr Allt-lwyd. A good path crosses the infant Afon Mawddach, a switchback rises high above the river and then drops to ford it, from where a fence is followed to the neighbouring summit of Dduallt. From there, descend to the forest, which is entered at a corner. The forest is extremely dense, but soon a firebreak is reached and this is followed until a forestry track is seen at the edge of the forest. Follow this track south-west to a wall, turn right and stay by the wall all the way to the summit. The descent is arduous and involves much struggling through heather and bog until finally a path is picked up. The whole walk should take about six hours.</p><br>
<p>Goodwood Plantation  was a medium sized cotton plantation of about 1,675 acres  in central Leon County, Florida, established by Hardy Bryan Croom. It is located at 1600 Miccosukee Road. The plantation was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places on June 30, 1972.</p><br>
<h2>Goodwood Museum & Gardens</h2><br>
<p>The plantation home is now a historic house museum known as Goodwood Museum & Gardens that features original family furniture, porcelain, textiles, glassware, art and personal effects. The rooms have been decorated to appear in the years surrounding World War I. The house is visited by guided tour.</p><br>
<p>The grounds cover 16 acre, and the gardens also feature an early 20th-century design. Admission to the gardens is free.</p><br>
<h2>Plantation specifics</h2><br>
<p>The Leon County Florida 1860 Agricultural Census shows that Goodwood Plantation had the following:</p><br>
<p>Improved Land: 1050 acres (4 km²)</p><br>
<p>Unimproved Land: 625 acres (2½ km²)</p><br>
<p>Cash value of plantation: $33,640</p><br>
<p>Cash value of farm implements/machinery: $600</p><br>
<p>Cash value of farm animals: $3000</p><br>
<p>Number of slaves: unknown</p><br>
<p>Bushels of corn: 2500</p><br>
<p>Bales of cotton: 150</p><br>
<h2>The owners</h2><br>
<p>The Croom family of Lenoir County, North Carolina began purchasing land in North Florida in the 1820s, including plantations in Mariana, Quincy and Tallahassee. Hardy Bryan Croom, a planter and recognized naturalist, discovered the rare Torreya tree. He began amassing the land for Goodwood, purchasing about 640 acre of the Lafayette Land Grant in 1833.</p><br>
<p>On Saturday, October 7, 1837, Hardy Bryan Croom and his immediate family boarded the steam packet liner S.S. Home in New York City bound for Charleston when it sank during the 1837 Racer&#39;s Storm. Hardy Bryan Croom and family were killed in the wreck. His brother, Bryan Croom, inherited the property.</p><br>
<p>Bryan Croom began as owner of Goodwood completed construction of Goodwood in the 1840s. By 1845, Bryan owned 2,500 acres (10 km²) of land in Leon County alone, making him one of the wealthiest men in the territory.</p><br>
<p>Relatives of Hardy, the Smiths, and his wife Frances fought what became a landmark case all the way to the USA Supreme Court. The Smith family was awarded the estate in 1857. It was decided that in all cases where an entire family is destroyed, that the last member of the family assumed alive would inherit, and his heirs would receive the estate. It was assumed that Hardy Croom would have survived the longest and his brother Bryan inherited the majority of the estate including Goodwood, which he finished about 1840. Bryan Croom took some of the furnishings to his new plantation in Montgomery, Alabama, which later served as the Little White House during the Civil War.</p><br>
<p>Arvah Hopkins purchased Goodwood in 1858. Hopkins was a prominent local merchant who had married Susan Branch, the youngest daughter of former North Carolina Governor John Branch.</p><br>
<p>In 1885 an Englishman by the name of Dr. William L. Arrowsmith, surgeon-general to the Italian Giuseppe Garibaldi, purchased Goodwood and 160 acre surrounding it and brought with him some of the paintings and furnishings still in the house.</p><br>
<p>In 1911, Mrs. Arrowsmith sold Goodwood to another wealthy widow, Mrs. Alexander Tiers. Fanny Tiers, whose principal estate, Farmlands, was in Morris County, New Jersey, was related by marriage to the Fleischmann family, owners of Waverly Plantation, which was adjacent to Goodwood. Although she spent only limited time at Goodwood, Mrs. Tiers instituted an expansive renovation of the estate and remodeled the house to a Mt Vernon style and replaced the wrought iron with Georgian columns. The Goodwood of today is largely the result of her efforts. Mrs. Tiers then sold the home to Senator William C. Hodges in 1925. Sen. Hodges died in 1940.</p><br>
<p>In 1948, Margaret Hodges married Thomas M. Hood, an army officer she had met through the rental of the guest cottages at Goodwood. After his wife&#39;s death in 1978, Tom Hood began planning for the restoration of Goodwood as a house museum and public park. He established the Margaret E. Wilson Foundation in her memory. Upon his death in 1990, the Wilson Foundation and its operating agent Goodwod Museum and Gardens, Inc. assumed stewardship for Goodwood.</p><br>
<p>The New Richmond Swing Bridge, also known as the Fifty-Seventh Street Bridge, is a one lane swing bridge in Michigan. Located in Allegan Countys Manlius Township, it connected 57th Street with Old Allegan Road over the Kalamazoo River until its closure to vehicular traffic. The name New Richmond comes from a former mining town in the area of the same name. The bridge is one of the oldest - if not the oldest - swing bridges extant in the United States, and is one of the oldest metal truss bridges in the state of Michigan and the states longest pony truss bridge.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first bridge to cross the Kalamazoo River at this location was constructed in 1842, as part of a local highway connecting Allegan with the now-defunct village of Singapore. The 1842 wooden drawbridge was replaced in 1856 with a similar structure. In 1877, part of this bridge collapsed into the river, and by late 1878, preparations were being made to tear down the wooden bridge and replace it with an iron one.</p><br>
<p>The Milwaukee Bridge & Iron Company was contracted to build the superstructure of the present bridge, made of iron and with a swinging section to allow passage of vessels through the river below, as that section of the river was considered navigable to smaller commercial craft at the time. The first shipment of iron arrived in February 1879, and the bridge was completed later that year.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was repaired in 1899, replacing one of the spans. River traffic declined to a trickle in the late 1800s and early 1900s, and the need to open the bridge to allow for river traffic evaporated. The manually operated swing span was last used at some point around 1920. In 1975, a new river crossing was constructed on 58th Street, only 1/2 mile from the 57th Street bridge. In 1976, the 57th Street bridge was closed due to its deterioration, but over the next few years it was rehabilitated and reconstructed, and was reopened to vehicular traffic in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was again closed to vehicular traffic in 1997 for safety reasons. In 2004, the bridge was again restored, and is now used for pedestrians at the New Richmond Park to access parkland on both sides of the river.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The New Richmond Swing Bridge has four main spans, plus eight short approach spans, totaling 422 ft in length. The four main spans include an 89 ft long pinned Warren pony truss swing span, two 70 ft long pinned Warren pony truss spans on either side, and an additional 51 ft long rivetted Warren pony truss span (repaired in 1899). On the south side, two 24 ft long approach spans slope upward to meet the bridge, which sits on a concrete abutment. On the north side, six short-span steel stringer structures, each 12 ft to 16 ft long, approach the bridge, again on concrete abutments.</p><br>
<p>The island&#39;s name, Marchena Island, comes from the Spanish monk, Frey Antonio de Marchena. It has an area of 130 km² and a maximum altitude of 343 meters. The island is not set up for visitors, although the surrounding water is used by aquatic divers on organised tours.</p><br>
<p>People generally see the island as they sail around the northern part of Isabela on the way to Tower Island, its nearest neighbor about 45 miles due west.</p><br>
<p>Like many of the Galápagos volcanos, Marchena has a caldera. Marchenas caldera is roughly elliptical and measures 7 by, within the range of caldera sizes of the large western volcanoes. Marchenas caldera is unusual, however, in that it has been almost completely filled with young lavas, some of which has spilled over and down the sides. The oldest lavas are 500,000 years old.</p><br>
<p>Another reason why Isla Marchena is so famous is that, although it is uninhabited, it was embroiled in the ‘Floreana Mystery’. Here the dead bodies of Rudolf Lorenz and the captain of the ship he was on, washed up mysteriously on the shore of the island and were mummified naturally as there were no natural predators found here.</p><br>
<p>Pinta Island, also known as Abingdon Island, after the Earl of Abingdon, is an island located in the Galápagos Islands group, Ecuador. It has an area of 60 km&sup2; and a maximum altitude of 777 m.</p><br>
<p>Pinta was the original home to Lonesome George, perhaps the most famous tortoise in the Galápagos Islands. He was the last known representative of the subspecies Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii.</p><br>
<p>Pinta Island is also home to swallow-tailed gulls, marine iguanas, Galapagos hawks, Galapagos fur seals and a number of other birds and mammals. The most northern major island in the Galápagos, at one time Isla Pinta had a thriving tortoise population. The island&#39;s vegetation was devastated over several decades by introduced feral goats, thus diminishing food supplies for the native tortoises. A prolonged effort to exterminate goats introduced to Pinta was completed in 1990, and the vegetation of the island is starting to return to its former state.</p><br>
<p>The elongated island of Pinta is the northernmost of the active Galápagos volcanoes. Pinta is a shield volcano with an extensive underwater footprint originating from NNW-trending fissures.</p><br>
<p>On January 28, 2008, Galápagos National Park official Victor Carrion announced the killing of 53 sea lions (13 pups, 25 youngsters, 9 males and 6 females) at Pinta, Galápagos Islands nature reserve with their heads caved in. In 2001 poachers killed 35 male sea lions.</p><br>
<p>Lake Bafa or Lake Bafa Nature Park  is a lake and a nature reserve situated in southwestern Turkey, part of it within the boundaries of Milas district of Muğla Province and the northern part within Aydın Province&#39;s Söke district. The lake used to be a gulf of the Aegean Sea until the Classical period, when the sea passage was gradually closed by the alluvial mass brought by Büyük Menderes River . The gulf, and later the lake, was named Latmus in antiquity.</p><br>
<p>The southern shore of the lake is traced by the highway connecting İzmir-Kuşadası-Söke to towns such as Milas and Bodrum that are situated in the south. The northern shore of the lake, where steep slopes are covered by wild or semi-domesticated olive trees, is virtually untouched to this day.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>At the innermost north-east tip of the lake is the village of Kapıkırı, as well as the ruins of Heraclea by Latmus (sometimes called Heraclea in Ionia), to distinguish from other ancient Greek sites named Heraclea. The mountain chain of Beşparmak (Dağları) -also named (Latmus) in antiquity- rises on the back, sheltering the non-restored ruins of a dozen monasteries dating from the Byzantine era on its slopes. Yet another monastery is situated on an islet on the lake just across the village. The village of Kapıkırı has recently developed important facitilies catering to visiting tourists, although agriculture and fishing still occupies an important part in its economy.</p><br>
<p>According to the legend, it was here that the goddess Selene fell in love with the shepherd Endymion and she asked Zeus to keep the young shepherd in perpetual sleep and bore up to fifty children from her nightly encounters with the sleeping young man.</p><br>
<p>Askrova is an island in the municipality of Flora in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It is located along the Brufjorden, near the mouth of the Førdefjorden, about 4 km northwest of the island of Svanøya. Askrova sits about 7 km southwest of the town of Florø and about the same distance southeast of the island of Reksta. The population of the 7.8 km&sup2; island  was 143, with most residents living on the south and west shores of the island. The 219 m tall mountain Skara is the highest point on the island. Askrova Chapel is located on the island.</p><br>
<p>The main industry for the island is fishing. In 1936, there was a record catch of herring at Askrova. Official figures put it at between 100000 to 120000 hl of herring. It was the biggest catch to date in Sogn og Fjordane county.</p><br>
<p>North Seymour  is a small island near Baltra Island in the Galápagos Islands. It was formed by uplift of a submarine lava formation. The whole island is covered with low, bushy vegetation.</p><br>
<p>The island is named after an English nobleman, Lord Hugh Seymour. North Seymour Island has an area of 1.9 km&sup2; and a maximum altitude of 28 m. This island is home to a large population of blue-footed boobies and swallow-tailed gulls. It hosts one of the largest populations of magnificent frigatebirds (Fregata magnificens) and a slow growing population of the Galápagos land iguanas (Conolophus subcristatus).</p><br>
<p>North Seymour has a visitor trail approximately 2 km in length crossing the inland of the island and exploring the rocky coast.</p><br>
<p>The stock for the captive breeding program of the Galápagos land iguana is descended from iguanas which Captain G. Allan Hancock translocated from nearby Baltra Island to North Seymour Island in the 1930s. This was very important because Baltra Island had a U.S airbase on it during World War II, while North Seymour, which has no people who live on it, and is only viewable today with an official guide who works for the Galápagos National Park.</p><br>
<p>North Seymour was created by seismic uplift, rather than being of volcanic origin. The island has a flat profile with cliffs only a few meters from the shoreline, where swallowtail gulls and tropicbirds sit perched in ledges. A tiny forest of silver-grey Palo Santo trees stand just above the landing, usually without leaves, waiting for rain to bring them into bloom. The island is teeming with life. While visiting the island, one may have to give way to a passing sea lion or marine iguana. Flocks of pelicans and swallow-tailed gulls feed off shore, and seasonally, Nazca boobies can also be seen.</p><br>
<p>North Seymour is an extraordinary place for breeding birds, and is home to one of the largest populations of nesting blue-footed boobies and magnificent frigate birds. Pairs of blue-footed boobies can be seen conducting their mating ritual as they offer each other gifts, whistle and honk, stretch their necks towards the sky, spread their wings, and dance—showing off their bright blue feet. Magnificent frigatebirds perch in low bushes, near the boobies, while watching over their large chicks. The frigates are huge, dark aerobats with a 90 in wingspan. Male frigates can puff up their scarlet throat sacks to resemble giant red balloons. Boobies and frigates have an interesting relationship. Boobies are excellent hunters and fish in flocks. The frigates by comparison are pirates, they dive bomb the boobies to force them to drop their prey. Then, the aerobatic frigate swoops down and picks up the food before it hits the water.</p><br>
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<p>Camp Ford was a prisoner of war camp near Tyler, Texas, during the American Civil War. It was the largest Confederate-run prison west of the Mississippi River.</p><br>
<p>Established in the spring of 1862 as a training camp for new Confederate recruits, the camp was named for Col. John Salmon Ford, a Texas Ranger and the Superintendent of Conscripts for the State of Texas. The first Union prisoners to arrive at camp Ford in August 1863 included officers captured in Brashear City Louisiana in June, and included naval personnel captured when the Queen Of The West and the Diana were seized by the Confederate Navy. The captives were initially held in the open, but a panic ensued in November 1863 when 800 new prisoners threatened a mass breakout. A military stockade enclosing 4 acre was soon erected.</p><br>
<p>With over 2,000 new prisoners taken in Louisiana on April 8 and 9 1864, at the battles of Mansfield, and Pleasant Hill, the stockade was quadrupled in size. Among those imprisoned there following these battles were 17 members of the 47th Pennsylvania Infantry, the only regiment from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to fight in the Union&#39;s 1864 Red River Campaign across Louisiana and the only regiment from the Keystone State to have men imprisoned at Camp Ford.</p><br>
<p>With more prisoners captured in Arkansas, the prison&#39;s population peaked at about 5,000 in July 1864. The population was reduced by exchanges in July and October 1864, and again in February 1865. The last 1,761 prisoners were exchanged on May 22, 1865.</p><br>
<p>Summary Executions of Local Citizens, Recounted by 49th Ohio prisoners at Camp Ford: From "Twenty Months in the Dept of the Gulf", A.G.H. DuGanne "Among the last-mentioned local events, however, was the "Match Plot," which deserves a paragraph".</p><br>
<p>"The breaking out of fires in several stores, at Tyler and other places, awakened a suspicion that two merchants from the Northern States, (who had purchased patent matches, which ignited almost spontaneously,) were incendiaries". "The usual senseless hue and cry followed; the traders were thrown into prison; and hundreds of hapless blacks were arrested and tortured -- in order to get evidence of the "Yankee Conspiracy." "Free negros and poor white settlers from the North fell under the ban at once. Scores of the latter were hanged by the mob". "More than a hundred negros, free and bond, were executed, as I have been informed, on suspicion alone". "Several were burned at the stake". "Thirty white and free men were lynched, in and about Tyler and Palestine; one of the unfortunate merchants who had introduced the matches undergoing this fate -- the other escaping by timely flight". "Blood flowed in all quarters, till the enlightened "Regulators," finding no more poor whites to kill or banish, decided that "order reigned" again".</p><br>
<p>"Burning men and women at the stake is a relic of aboriginal amusement". "A negro was thus executed at Tyler, while our prisoners tarried at Camp Ford". "The occasion furnished a gala-day for all the good people of Smith County, our guards included".</p><br>
<p>"I heard one day a story of lynch-law executed in our camp neighborhood; my informant being a friendly guard, who, like many others, was Union at heart, although conforming outwardly to rebel service, as a volunteer".</p><br>
<p>"During the winter, an old lady, living in Van Zandt County, was plundered by a gang of soldiers in Confederate grey, who beat her shamefully, and (as she told the story,) tied her up by her thumbs till she disclosed the place where was concealed her specie (some three hundred dollars) and about two thousand dollars in Confederate currency". "It was asserted that Jayhawkers had done this deed, though sober people shook their heads; well knowing that squads of Sibleys men, with some of Richardsons guerillas, and the scattered miscreants of Quantrell&#39;s gang, were ranging through these upper counties". "But "black flag" rebels charged the crime, as they would any crime, on Union men—of whom hundreds, former citizens, were fugitives in swamps and timber, hiding from conscript hunters". "It was easy to accuse such outlawed wanderers; so the chase became set after "Union men." Four individuals were speedily run down: one Reed, a former sheriff of Collin County; an aged citizen, McReynolds, or McRunnells, who bad been chief-justice of that district; and two young men, Holcombe and Davis". "They were arrested at their homes and dragged to Tyler".</p><br>
<p>"This was in May, when our prison-numbers, at Camp Ford, had been increased some thousands, after the battle of Mansfield. The rebels were exultant everywhere, but with characteristic cowardice the people of these counties feared an outbreak from so large a body of incarcerated Yankees, and affected to discover insurrectionary plots continually". "Three noble-hearted Texans, who refused to bow the knee to Davis, were imprisoned in our guardhouse at Camp Ford -- two brothers, Whitmore, one of whom had been a prominent member of the Legislature, and Rosenbaum, a former attorney-general of the state". "It was the policy of rank Secessionists to fix as many new crimes on the Union men as could be believed, in order that some pretext might be found for general massacre or the enacting of terror laws".</p><br>
<p>"Hence, when Sheriff Reed and Judge McReynolds were thrown into prison at Tyler, it was decided that they should never go at large again". "So, one May morning, fifty mounted "Regulators" clattered into Tyler, halted at the tavern door, and "liquored round;" held confab with the provost-marshal, galloped up and down the town awhile, and finally drew rein before the prison, with a yell":</p><br>
<p>"Bring out them Jayhawkers!"</p><br>
<p>"The doors were opened, and the men delivered up". "A rope being slung about them, they were dragged behind the Lynchers to a piece of timber, scarce half a mile out of Tyler". "There, almost within gun-shot of camps, where fifteen hundred cavalry and infantry were guarding Federal prisoners, these Lynchers began their mockery of a trial". "The first victim pleaded "not guilty."</p><br>
<p>"You lie, Jim Reed! You&#39;re a heap wuss Jayhawker than Gineral Banks!"</p><br>
<p>"Silence in the coort!" cries Justice Lynch, a bullheaded whiskey-still proprietor". "Keep still, you all, while I fix his flint". "Prisoner, Jim Reed, what have you got to say why you oughtn&#39;t to be black-jacked?"</p><br>
<p>REED. -- "I am not guilty. Ive been hunted and persecuted for my sentiments ever since the State seceded. I never fought against the State. My house was burned over the heads of my family in the town where I lived, an honest man, and served the country". "I had to fly, by night, with my wife and seven children, to Van Zandt, and they hounded me out of that". "I declare before Heaven that"—LYNCH, C. J. -- Shet up! You know yer an old scoundrel, and yer was three yers in Missouri Penitentiary—REED—I never was in the State of Missouri.</p><br>
<p>LYNCH, C. J. -- Blast yer, then, yer an old deserter from General McCullochs army. The papers was found on ye, and yer cant swar &#39;em down.</p><br>
<p>REED. -- I deny it. I was regularly commissioned by General McCulloch, as an officer. He gave me a position because I preferred to go back to the army rather than be hunted down. I was preparing to join my command when arrested.</p><br>
<p>LYNCH, C. J. -- Yer a skulkin liar and a thief, Jim Reed, and weve jest had palaver enough out o&#39; yer. I pronounce judgment of the coort. Yer to be hanged at once, till yer dead, dead, dead! and Lord have marcy on yer soul!</p><br>
<p>"Five minutes after, Sheriff Reed was dangling from an oak-limb above his murderers".</p><br>
<p>"Judge McReynolds was then dragged forward and reviled by the "coort" in like manner". "The old mans son, who was one of the rebel soldiers guarding us at Camp Ford, heard about the Lynchers visiting Tyler jail, and, mounting a horse, galloped from his quarters to the town". "He there learned that the ruffians bad taken their prisoners to the woods". "He followed their trail with all the speed he could command, but arrived in time only to find his father swinging on the tree, from which Reeds dead body had been just cut down". "This wretched son was forced to beg the remains of his parent from the assassins; and so great was the terror inspired by the boldness and cruelty of these "Regulators," that young McReynolds was unable to hire a wagon to convey the corpse to Kaufman county, where his family lived".</p><br>
<p>"Young Holcombe -- like each of the others -- stoutly maintained his innocence, and was hanged with the same noose that had strangled his predecessors; for the ruffians had provided only rope enough to hang a single man; and were obliged to wait until one was dead before proceeding to execute another".</p><br>
<p>During the course of the war, the total number of prisoners who passed through the camp was slightly more than 5,500. About 327 prisoners died in captivity, giving the camp a mortality rate of 5.9%, one of the lowest of any Civil War prison. The deceased prisoners were reinterred to the Pineville, Louisiana, National Cemetery in 1867.</p><br>
<h2>Historic Park</h2><br>
<p>The original site of the Camp stockade is now a public historic park, owned by Smith County, Texas, and managed by the Smith County Historical Society, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 1959 by individuals and business firms dedicated to discovering, collecting and preserving data, records and other items relating to the history of Smith County. The park contains a kiosk, paved trail, interpretive signage, a cabin reconstruction, and a picnic area.</p><br>
<p>The park is located on US Highway 271.7 miles north of Loop 323 in Tyler, Texas. The geographical coordinates are: 32°2344.13"N - 95°167.28"W</p><br>
<p>The San Rafael Reef is a geologic feature located in Emery County in central Utah, part of the Colorado Plateau. Approximately 75 miles  long, it is the name given to the distinctive eastern edge of the San Rafael Swell. Composed primarily of steeply tilted layers of Navajo and Wingate Sandstone, it has been eroded into tall fins, domes, cliffs, and deep canyons.</p><br>
<p>The San Rafael River, Interstate 70, and Muddy Creek all cut through the San Rafael Reef. There are also numerous slot canyons that twist their way through the flanks of the San Rafael Reef, among them Crack Canyon, Chute Canyon and Straight Wash. These spectacularly beautiful canyons are often just a few feet wide and can be hundreds of feet deep. Much of the San Rafael Reef has been determined to possess wilderness characteristics and the Crack Canyon and Mexican Mountain Wilderness Study Areas, or WSAs, currently protect several thousand acres of the most worthy areas of the San Rafael Reef, and are awaiting designation as BLM Wilderness by the Congress.</p><br>
<p>Overton Park is a large, 342 acre public park in Midtown Memphis, Tennessee. The park grounds contain the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis Zoo, a 9-hole golf course, Memphis College of Art, Rainbow Lake, Veterans Plaza, Greensward, and other features. The Old Forest Arboretum of Overton Park, one of the few remaining old growth forests in Tennessee, is a natural arboretum with labeled trees along trails.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The property, once known locally as Lea’s Woods, was purchased by Memphis on November 14, 1901 for $110,000; it was located along the city&#39;s eastern boundary at that time. Overton Park was designed by landscape architect George Kessler as part of a comprehensive plan that also included M.L. King Riverside Park and the Memphis Parkway System. The planning began in 1901, and Overton Park was established in 1906. The park is named in honor of John Overton, a co-founder of Memphis. Overton’s name was selected in a competition to name the new park conducted by the Evening Scimitar, a local newspaper; the three choices in the voting were Memphis founding fathers Andrew Jackson, Overton, and James Winchester. The official naming occurred on July 25, 1902.</p><br>
<p>In the 1960s and 1970s Overton Park was the subject of controversy when 26 of its 342 acre were slated by highway planners to be demolished to build Interstate Highway 40 through the park to make it easier for suburban commuters to get to downtown. However, a small number of residents of midtown formed a group known as Citizens to Preserve Overton Park and challenged the plan in court. Ultimately, the United States Supreme Court ruled in their favor in the landmark case Citizens to Preserve Overton Park v. Volpe.</p><br>
<p>Nevertheless, the City of Memphis and Tennessee Department of Transportation continued to propose a number of alternatives for routing Interstate 40 through Overton Park, including building the highway in a tunnel, or in a deep trench. In 1978, Citizens to Preserve Overton Park successfully nominated the park to the National Register of Historic Places, thus guaranteeing that without approval by the USA Department of the Interior, Federal funding could not be used for projects that damaged the park&#39;s historic integrity. The Memphis Commercial Appeal called listing on the National Register the "final nail in the coffin" of efforts to route Interstate 40 through Overton Park.</p><br>
<p>Beginning in June 1974, the road system within the interior of Overton Park was closed to motorized vehicles on weekends and holidays, which were called “People&#39;s Days". Although initially there were some objections, the new policy gained popularity, and the closures were eventually made permanent on April 13, 1987 except for official vehicles.</p><br>
<p>When the entirely white Hein Park community walled off access to Overton Park through West Drive, predominately black neighbors from across Jackson Avenue sued under the Civil Rights Act of 1866. In 1981 a narrowly divided USA Supreme Court found the barrier was legal, although dissenting Justice Thurgood Marshall admonished that “a group of white citizens has decided to act to keep Negro citizens from traveling through their urban "utopia" and the city has placed its seal of approval on the scheme."</p><br>
<p>Overton Park was selected for inclusion in the 2009 Landslide Program sponsored by The Cultural Landscape Foundation. This program "spotlights great places designed by seminal and regionally influential landscape figures, which are threatened with change."</p><br>
<p>By vote of the Memphis City Council on December 6, 2011, the nonprofit Overton Park Conservancy assumed management of 184 acre of Overton Park. The 10-year agreement covers the East Picnic Area, Greensward, Formal Gardens, Old Forest State Natural Area, and Veteran’s Plaza. The Levitt Shell, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis College of Art, Memphis Zoo, and the Overton Park Golf Course are managed independently.</p><br>
<h2>Brooks Museum of Art</h2><br>
<p>The Brooks Museum is a privately funded, nonprofit art museum located in Overton Park. Founded in 1916, the Brooks Museum is the oldest and largest art museum in the state of Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>The facility consists of 29 galleries, art classrooms, a print study room with over 4,500 works of art on paper, a research library with over 5,000 volumes, and an auditorium. The collection has over 7,000 works of art, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, and examples of the decorative arts.</p><br>
<h2>Levitt Shell</h2><br>
<p>Overton Park also includes the famous Shell Theatre, where Elvis Presley gave his first paid concert on July 30, 1954.</p><br>
<p>The Overton Park Shell was built in 1936 by the City of Memphis and the Works Progress Administration for $11,935, as part of the New Deal. Designed by architect Max Furbringer, it was modeled after similar shells in Chicago, New York, and St. Louis. The WPA built 27 band shells, the Overton Park Shell is one of only a few that still remain. After various changes in ownership, the Shell was renamed in 2007 as the Levitt Shell at Overton Park and a large-scale renovation funded by the Levitt Foundation was begun. The renovation was conducted by Memphis firm Askew Nixon Ferguson Architects with state-of-the-art audio and visual design. With the completion of the renovations on September 8, 2008, free concerts are now once again held in the Shell.</p><br>
<h2>Memphis College of Art</h2><br>
<p>Memphis College of Art is a small, private college of art and design located in Overton Park. It offers Bachelor of Fine Arts, Master of Fine Arts, Master of Arts in Art Education and Master of Arts in Teaching degrees. Some of the majors include graphic design, drawing, painting, printmaking, book arts, computer arts, photography, animation, and illustration. Founded in 1936, it moved into the Overton Park facilities in February 1959. There are around 450 students each year, with 350 being undergraduate and 100 being graduate students. It is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and National Association of Schools of Art and Design. Memphis College of Art provides a rigorous curriculum in an intimate, diverse community. It has enabled generations of leading artists, designers and educators to flourish professionally and contribute valuable ideas to society.</p><br>
<h2>Memphis Zoo</h2><br>
<p>Overton Park Zoo (now named the Memphis Zoo) began in 1906, when a resident of Memphis couldn&#39;t keep his pet black bear in his backyard. He had it put in a pen in the park, which attracted many people, inspiring the idea to place more animals on display. The Memphis Zoo is now one of the largest in the United States, attracting 1 million visitors per year. The zoo houses two pandas, who are local celebrities, as well as three polar bears, brought in to the Northwest Passage exhibition which opened in March 2006.</p><br>
<p>The Memphis Zoo is home to more than 3,500 animals representing over 500 different species. The Zoo has been a major tenant of Overton Park for more than 100 years. The city-owned land currently designated to the Zoo was defined by the Overton Park master plan in 1988. The Zoo is set on 76 acre, of which approximately 55 acre are developed.</p><br>
<p>In 2008, the Memphis Zoo was ranked "#1 Zoo in the USA" by TripAdvisor.com.</p><br>
<p>In independent surveys commissioned by TripAdvisor, the Memphis Zoo scored a 90 percent overall satisfaction score, almost 25 percent higher than the national zoo average.</p><br>
<p>The Zoo has completed over $77 million for renovation and expansion since the early 1990s. The Zoo&#39;s animal inhabitants reside in one-of-a-kind exhibitry, such as Northwest Passage and CHINA - home to giant pandas Ya Ya and Le Le. The Memphis Zoo is an accredited member of the Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA).</p><br>
<p>In February, 2008, the Memphis Zoo cleared 4 acre of old growth forest in the Old Forest Arboretum at Overton Park in order to begin construction of the Zoo&#39;s new Teton Trek exhibit. The Teton Trek exhibit will feature animals native to the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem such as grizzly bears, elk, gray wolves, trumpeter swans and sandhill crane.</p><br>
<p>The Zoo&#39;s decision to clear old growth forest to build the Teton Trek exhibit has been criticized by Citizens to Preserve Overton Park and Park Friends Inc, who subsequently pursued a successful, 16-month campaign to have the Arboretum designated as a State Natural Area by the Tennessee General Assembly.</p><br>
<p>The Zoo’s conservation department’s mission statement is “To use science and technology for greater understanding of the natural world&#39;s ecosystems, to preserve the biodiversity of our plants and animals and to educate the public on conservation priorities.”</p><br>
<h2>Overton Golf Course</h2><br>
<p>The 9-hole Overton Park Golf Course is located in the southwestern part of Overton Park. It is a 2,222-yard, par 34 course with 3 sets of teeboxes for different levels of golfing experience. Built in 1926, the Abe Goodman Golf Clubhouse is a Tudor-styled, brick building with a patio.</p><br>
<h2>Outdoor recreational areas</h2><br>
<p>Over one half of the area of Overton Park is dedicated to general outdoor recreation and/or environmental preservation. Activities include picnicking, jogging, hiking, nature study and some team sports. An off-leash area is open for dogs. These areas are under management by the Overton Park Conservancy.</p><br>
<h3>Dog park</h3><br>
<p>Overton Bark, a fenced-in, 1.3 acre dog park, is located to the southeast of the Greensward; it opened in June 2012. Separate areas are provided for large and small dogs, and water is available.</p><br>
<h3>Formal Gardens</h3><br>
<p>The walkways, benches, and garden beds of the Formal Gardens extend from Morrie Moss Lane, on the western boundary of Overton Park, to Veterans Plaza; they were established in 1904-05. The gardens present a colorful array of seasonal flowers within a background of scattered evergreen and deciduous trees; the central portion of the gardens is surrounded by Crepe myrtles. Although the composition of the beds has varied over time, the layout has remained basically the same. The Clara Conway Memorial Pergola was built in conjunction with the Formal Gradens to honor Clara Conway, a distinguished Memphis educator. Regrettably, the Memorial was destroyed in a 1936 storm, but residents still associate Conway&#39;s name with the Formal Gardens.</p><br>
<h3>Greensward</h3><br>
<p>Located in Overton Park and bounded by Veterans Plaza, Rainbow Lake, the Memphis Zoo, and the Golf Course, the Greensward is one of the largest open areas (21 acre) in Memphis with no designated purpose other than outdoor recreation. It provides a safe place to play frisbee and soccer, jog, picnic, make music, ride bikes, romp with dogs, fly kites, and just hang out. There are no predetermined locations for activities; users just stake a temporary claim to unoccupied areas and have fun. People of all ages use the Greensward. A portion of the Greensward is used for overflow parking for the Memphis Zoo on busy days.</p><br>
<p>In March 2009, the public became aware of a plan by the City of Memphis, Tennessee Engineering Division, under the name "Lick Creek Reroute," to reduce flooding in the Lick Creek watershed by diverting floodwater from the main channel of that stream—which flows through Overton Park—into a multi-acre detention basin in the Greensward. The detention basin would slope downward to a maximum depth of approximately 18 ft, and is estimated by the City Government to be likely to be inundated by floodwater some five to seven times each year. The City estimated the cost of this project at some $4 million. Citizens to Preserve Overton Park opposes the proposed plan on the grounds that it would irreparably damage the park&#39;s value to the residents of Memphis, Tennessee. The City Government asserts that the public will continue to be able to enjoy the park, and that the slope of the basin will barely be noticeable to park users.</p><br>
<p>On June 9, 2009, the City of Memphis, Tennessee decided it would not proceed with the plan for a detention basin in the Greensward. An engineer with the City was quoted as saying, "We think it was an appropriate plan, but weve shelved it." Instead, the City will explore two other options, one involving part of the parks golf course, the other involving construction of a berm on another part of the park grounds.</p><br>
<h3>Old Forest Arboretum</h3><br>
<p>The Old Forest Arboretum (172 acre) is a forest tract and natural arboretum located on the east side of Overton Park. It is open to the public daily without charge. The Old Forest is on the National Register of Historic Places and includes over 300 plant varieties. Walking trails are maintained within the area, and markers identify 32 tree species.</p><br>
<h4>Tennessee State Natural Area</h4><br>
<p>On June 8, 2011, 126 acre of the Aboretum were designated as the "Old Forest State Natural Area" by an act of the Tennessee General Assembly. The Natural Areas Program is run by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, while the 82 natural areas themselves are often not TDEC property and are generally managed through cooperative agreements with other agencies and organizations. The bill creating the State Natural Area originally designated 142 acre for protection. To ease opposition from former Memphis Mayor A C Wharton and zoo officials, 14 acre of forest adjacent to the zoo were removed from the protective area.</p><br>
<h3>Picnic areas</h3><br>
<p>A East Picnic Area (about 15 acre) is located along the eastern boundary of Overton Park. Numerous picnic tables are located beneath a nearly continuous canopy of mature oaks. The "Picnic Pavilion" is centrally located within this area; it was designed by George Kessler and built in 1904. It is the oldest surviving facility in Overton Park. The Picnic Pavilion is wood framed with an elevated floor; it is about 60 feet (18.3 m) in diameter and has a hexagonal shape.</p><br>
<p>Scattered picnic tables are located along the borders of the Greensward and Veterans Plaza.</p><br>
<h3>Playgrounds</h3><br>
<p>There are two publicly accessible playgrounds in Overton Park; one in the East Picnic Area and another to the southeast of the Greensward. The first playground in Overton Park was built in 1911; it was the first publicly accessible playground in Memphis.</p><br>
<h3>Rainbow Lake</h3><br>
<p>Rainbow Lake is a concrete-lined lake forming the eastern boundary of the Greensward. This 2 acre lake has a curvilinear shape and has a water cascade on its east side. A sidewalk completely goes around the lake. Its name comes from the rainbow effect created by a series of spray-type fountains (no longer present) installed in the lake in 1929. It is the only remaining water feature from George Kessler&#39;s original plan.</p><br>
<h3>Veterans Plaza</h3><br>
<p>Veterans Plaza contains memorials to the veterans of Memphis and Shelby County who were killed defending the freedom of the United States. It is located in Overton Park just to the south of the Memphis Zoo and to the west of the Greensward. The 2 acre area is home to a collection of memorials: World War I (established 1926 and 1932), World War II (2001), Korean War (2003), Vietnam War (2003), and Desert Storm (2003). A plaque providing the history of Veterans Plaza states that "... through these memorials we pay honor to 1,525 Shelby County veterans who were killed in the 20th and 21st century wars." An adjoining plaque provides commendation for Pete Dugan, a World War II veteran, "... honoring his steadfast commitment to the cause of Veterans Plaza in Overton Park."</p><br>
<p>The Doughboy statue, which is the hallmark of the area, is one of the World War I memorials; it was made in 1926 of copper from pennies that were collected by local school children. The statue was designed and constructed by sculptor Nancy Hahn at a cost of $15,000; it was sponsored by Daughters of the American Revolution. The "Memory Grove" Memorial was created in 1932 by the American War Mothers (Memphis Chapter No. 1) to honor their sons killed in World War I. The bronze plaque has 27 names, which also appear in the Shelby County list on the pedestal of the nearby Doughboy statue. The Memory Grove Memorial was initially located on the south boundary of Overton Park within view of Poplar Avenue; it was later moved to Veterans Plaza. A statue of Margaret Polk, the namesake of the Memphis Belle, honors the B-17 bomber and its crew; the memorial was unveiled in October 2011 and was sponsored by The Memphis Belle Memorial Association.</p><br>
<p>Memorials for World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, and Desert Storm consist of two white limestone walls with bronze panels bearing the names of the Shelby County war dead. In addition, a series of five bronze panels provide detailed information on the Korean War. Flags displayed in Veterans Plaza include the American Flag, the Tennessee State Flag, and the POW/MIA Flag.</p><br>
<p>Memorial services are often held in Veterans Plaza in observance of notable dates, such as Memorial Day, Veterans Day, and Pearl Harbor Day.</p><br>
<h2>Memorials</h2><br>
<p>A number of memorials honoring Memphians for their meritorious service to the community are located within Overton Park.</p><br>
<p>Higbee Memorial (located just west of Veterans Plaza): It honors Jenny M. Higbee as a distinguished Memphis educator. Built in 1908, it is the oldest memorial in Overton Park. It was moved to its current location around 1956 to make way for the new Memphis College of Arts building.</p><br>
<p>J.T. Willingham Fountain (south of Brooks Museum; built 1917) honors a long-term Memphis Park Commission member, who served at least one term as chairman. It consists of six columns in a hexagonal pattern, concrete benches, and a drinking fountain.</p><br>
<p>Bell Tower (located just south of Memphis College of Arts): a 1930 memorial to Judge L. B. McFarland, one of the original members of the Memphis Park Commission.</p><br>
<p>E.H. Crump Statue (located at southeastern park entrance; built 1957): Crump was Memphis Mayor from 1910 through 1915 and USA Representative in 1930.</p><br>
<h2>Notable bygone features</h2><br>
<p>The Main Pavilion was the principal gathering place in Overton Park from its construction in 1902 until it was damaged beyond repair by a storm in 1936. It was the first building built in Overton Park. The Formal Garden and Conway Memorial were later built in association with the Main Pavilion, which was located at the east entrance to the Formal Garden. Frequent public dances, concerts, and civic events were held at the Pavilion. One of the best attended presentations was when Charles Lindbergh spoke on the future of aviation on October 5, 1927 as part of the "Lindbergh Tour". The Pavilion had an observation tower providing scenic views of the surrounding landscape. After its demise, visitor use shifted to the recently constructed Overton Park Shell.</p><br>
<p>In 1914, the Japanese Garden was built around an existing pond in Overton Park, where the Memphis College of Arts is currently located. It was a gift from former Memphis Park Commissioner Robert Galloway. George Kessler, who designed Overton Park, also designed the Japanese Garden, which included pagodas, an arched bridge to a central island, and many decorative sculptures. This area was a popular and highly photographed feature of Overton Park. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Garden was severely damaged by vandalism. Park officials decided that rather than making repairs the structures would be removed, which began on January 2, 1942. A fountain was installed in the redesigned pond, which was retained until construction began on the Memphis College of Arts campus.</p><br>
<p>Donated by Duke C. Bower, the Bower Wading Pool complemented the summer activities at Overton Park from 1913 until the 1970s. It was filled in during an expansion of the playground in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Holy Trinity Church, also known as Old Swedes is a church in Wilmington, Delaware, that is a National Historic Landmark. It was consecrated on Trinity Sunday, June 4, 1699.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The church was built in 1698–99 in the ex Swedish colony of New Sweden from local blue granite and Swedish bricks that had been used as ships ballast. The church was situated on the site of the Fort Christinas burial ground, which dates to 1638. It is claimed that it is "the nation&#39;s oldest church building still used for worship as originally built". There are reportedly over 15,000 burials in the churchyard. Lutheran Church services were held in the Swedish language well into the 18th century.</p><br>
<p>In 1697 the Church of Sweden renewed its commitment to Swedish settlers in the Delaware Valley and sent three missionaries, Jonas Auren, Eric Bjork, and Andreas Rudman, to the area.</p><br>
<p>A total of three churches with similar architecture were built or established by Swedish communities in the area about the same time. All are generally known as "Old Swedes", and later joined the Episcopal Church. Holy Trinity in Wilmington was built in 1699. Gloria Dei (Old Swedes&#39;) Church in Philadelphia, about 30 miles away, was founded in 1677 and the building was completed in 1700. Trinity Church in Swedesboro, New Jersey, about 20 miles away by modern roads, was founded in 1703, with its current building completed in 1784.</p><br>
<p>Five other Swedish churches were founded about this time: St. Mary Annes Episcopal Church in the town of North East, Maryland, Old St. Gabriels Episcopal Church in Douglassville, Pennsylvania, St. George&#39;s Episcopal in Pennsville, New Jersey, St. James Kingsessing in Philadelphia, and Christ Church (Old Swedes) in Upper Merion Township, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>Holy Trinity in Wilmington has housed an Episcopal parish since 1791 and is now part of the Episcopal Diocese of Delaware. An earlier church in New Sweden was built in Swanwyck, near New Castle about 1662 which was replaced by a combined church and fort at Crane Hook in 1667.</p><br>
<p>In 1958 the historic Hendrickson House was moved to the grounds of the church. The church building was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Parish operates two church buildings in Wilmington, both listed on the NRHP: the main building on North Adams, and Old Swedes at East 7th and Church Streets.</p><br>
<h2>Burials in churchyard</h2><br>
<p>Notable burials include:</p><br>
<p>Alexis Irenee du Pont Bayard (1918–1985), Lieutenant Governor of Delaware</p><br>
<p>Elizabeth Bradford du Pont Bayard (1880–1975)</p><br>
<p>James A. Bayard (1799–1880), USA Senator</p><br>
<p>Richard Bayard (1796–1868), first Mayor of Wilmington, USA Senator</p><br>
<p>Thomas F. Bayard, Sr. (1828–1898), Secretary of State under President Cleveland</p><br>
<p>Thomas F. Bayard, Jr. (1868–1942), USA Senator</p><br>
<p>Dr. Joseph Capelle, a Revolutionary War veteran</p><br>
<p>Catharina and Britta Cock (d. 1726)</p><br>
<p>Frank Martine Heal</p><br>
<p>Major Peter Jaquett, a Revolutionary War veteran</p><br>
<p>The Right Reverend Alfred Lee, first Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Delaware</p><br>
<p>Ignatius Grubb (1841–1927), Justice of Delaware state supreme court.</p><br>
<p>Captain Hugh Montgomery, Captain of the brig Nancy, raised the first American flag in a foreign port</p><br>
<p>Elizabeth Montgomery, daughter of Capt. Hugh Montgomery</p><br>
<p>Charles Springer, first Warden</p><br>
<p>William Vandever (d. 1718), grave marked with the oldest legible stone</p><br>
<p>Mary Vining, Belle of the American Revolutionary period</p><br>
<p>Samuel White (1770–1809), USA Senator</p><br>
<p>James Harrison Wilson (1837–1925) Union general in the Civil War</p><br>
<p>Old Swedes Church engraving by John Sartain.jpg"Swede&#39;s Church" by John Sartain (1845)</p><br>
<p>InteriorOldSwedesHabs.jpgInterior of Old Swedes Church. From the Historic American Buildings Survey, Edward M. Rosenfeld, Photographer, April 20, 1934</p><br>
<p>Iron Letters Old Swedes.JPGIron letters on the east wall of the church dating from 1698, spelling in Latin "LUX-L.I. TENEBR ORIENS- EX ALTO" which translates to "Light from on high shines in the darkness"</p><br>
<p>William Brown Street in Liverpool, England, is a road that is remarkable for its concentration of public buildings. It is sometimes referred to as the "Cultural Quarter"</p><br>
<p>Originally known as Shaw&#39;s Brow, a coaching road east from the city, it is named after William Brown, a local MP and philanthropist, who in 1860 donated land in the area for the building of a library and museum. This area gives its name as the William Brown Street conservation area.</p><br>
<p>The conservation area contains:</p><br>
<p>Lime Street Station</p><br>
<p>St George&#39;s Hall</p><br>
<p>William Brown Library and Museum &mdash; housing part of World Museum Liverpool and part of Liverpool Central Library</p><br>
<p>Great North Western Hotel</p><br>
<p>Walker Art Gallery</p><br>
<p>Picton Reading Room and Hornby Library &mdash; part of Liverpool Central Library</p><br>
<p>County Sessions House</p><br>
<p>College of Technology and Museum Extension &mdash; part of World Museum Liverpool</p><br>
<p>The Wellington Memorial</p><br>
<p>The Steble Fountain</p><br>
<p>St John&#39;s Gardens</p><br>
<p>Liverpool Empire Theatre</p><br>
<p>Entrance to Queensway Tunnel</p><br>
<p>Mamula  is an uninhabited islet in the Adriatic Sea, within the southwestern Montenegrin municipality of Herceg Novi.</p><br>
<p>Mamula is located between Prevlaka and Luštica peninsulas at the entrance to the Boka Kotorska bay. This small islet is of circular shape, and has 200m in diameter. It is 3.4 nmi away from Herceg Novi.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>During the period of the Venetian Republic rule, the island was known as Rondina.</p><br>
<p>The island has a fort, built in 1853 by Austro-Hungarian general Lazar Mamula. The fort takes up about 90% of the islands surface area. Along with the fortification on Prevlakas Cape Oštro as well as Arza fortification on Lušticas Cape Mirište, both of which were erected at the same time also on suggestion by general Lazar Mamula, fort Mamula was part of the Austro-Hungarian Armys contingency plans of preventing the enemy entrance into Boka Kotorska.</p><br>
<h3>Concentration camp in World War II</h3><br>
<p>During World War II, from 30 May 1942 onwards, the fascist forces of Benito Mussolinis Kingdom of Italy converted the Mamula fort into a concentration camp. The concentration camp was known for torture and cruelty to prisoners. Most of the camps prisoners came from the neighboring area.</p><br>
<h3>Luxury resort redevelopment</h3><br>
<p>In early January 2016 the government of Montenegro,over the objections of those who were once imprisoned on the island, approved a plan to convert the site of this former concentration camp into a luxury beach resort by Switzerland-based Orascom Development Holding AG under a 49-year lease deal. Former United Nations Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali had previously written the Montenegrin Parliament expressing surprise that the "only solution for preserving and using the fort is a mere business arrangement and privatisation agreement.”</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>The 1959 Yugoslav movie Campo Mamula starring Ljuba Tadić, Pavle Vuisić, and Dragan Laković, produced by Avala Film and directed by Velimir Stojanović depicts and dramatizes the World War II events at the island that got converted into concentration camp during this period.</p><br>
<p>In autumn 2013, a Serbian film Mamula was announced. Later retitled Killer Mermaid for overseas release, it was shot on location and incorporates the island&#39;s history, featuring an ex-German soldier living on the island killing people to feed to a mermaid.</p><br>
<p>Hammond Castle is located on the Atlantic coast in the Magnolia area of Gloucester, Massachusetts. The castle, which was constructed between 1926 and 1929, was the home and laboratory of John Hays Hammond, Jr. He was an inventor who was a pioneer in the study of remote control and held over four hundred patents. The building is composed of modern and 15th-, 16th-, and 18th-century architectural elements and sits on a rocky cliff overlooking Gloucester Harbor.</p><br>
<p>At present, the castle operates as the Hammond Castle Museum, displaying Hammond&#39;s collection of Roman, medieval, and Renaissance artifacts as well as exhibits about his life and inventions. The Great Hall contains a huge pipe organ which has been used for concerts and recordings by many famous organists including Richard Ellsasser and Virgil Fox. Unfortunately, as of 2015, the organ is no longer functional. Tours are self-guided, and visitors may explore eight living areas (including a dining room and bedrooms), an inner courtyard, two towers and the Great Hall.</p><br>
<p>The castle&#39;s lawn overlooking the harbor serves as a location outside of museum hours for weddings and various other private functions. For the past 25 years, the castle has run a special Halloween-themed haunted house tour every October. Volunteers for the production include high school students from Cape Ann (the North Shore region). The Halloween fundraiser attracts thousands of visitors per year.</p><br>
<p>Wright Peak is the 16th highest peak in the High Peaks of the Adirondack Park, and is located in the MacIntyre Range in the town of North Hudson, in Essex County, New York. Named for N.Y. Governor Silas Wright , Wright is the northern-most peak in the MacIntyre Range, and is known to be one of the windiest peaks in the park, as well as one of the best for back-country skiing. There are long slides from the summit that lead to Marcy Dam which are often skied in the winter.</p><br>
<p>The usual approach to Wright Peak is from the Adirondak Loj, heading 1.3 mi up the Van Hovenberg trail, then ascending the steep MacIntyre Range Trail to the junction for Algonquin Peak; a left turn takes the climber.4 miles and up the last few hundred feet of elevation through the alpine zone. Wright is often hiked in conjunction with Algonquin and sometimes Iroquois Peak by peakbaggers, making for one of the toughest hikes in the region.</p><br>
<h2>B-47 crash site</h2><br>
<p>On January 16, 1962, a B-47 bomber on a training mission crashed into Wright Peak, killing all four crewmen. Their training mission involved practicing low bombing runs over Watertown, NY. Due to inclement weather, the bomber veered about 30 miles off course, and into the High Peaks region. The aircraft made its impact just feet below the summit of Wright Peak. Pieces of the wreckage can still be found on the summit, along with a plaque near the impact site. Some of the crash debris is quite large, and hikers making the trip to the summit have been known to take small pieces down with them as souvenirs.</p><br>
<p>The McDaniel-Tichenor House, located in Monroe, Georgia, United States was built in 1887 for retiring Governor Henry McDaniel. Originally designed by Athens, Georgia architect William Winstead Thomas in the then-popular Victorian Italianate Villa style, the house was extensively remodeled in the 1930s by Nashville architect, and son-in-law of Edgar and Gipsy Tichenor, Francis Boddie Warfield. Remade in the Neoclassical style popular with prominent southerners at the time, the Tichenors also added modern indoor plumbing, electricity and heating systems. Though the interior was reconfigured as well, much of the original woodwork, doors and inlaid marbleized mantels are original.</p><br>
<p>The eclectically furnished interior features pieces dating from the late 18th century up until the mid-20th. Many original pieces, such as the Governor’s carved mahogany bed, were rescued from storage in the servants house and restored by Emily Tichenor. The McDaniel-Tichenor House remained occupied by the same family until just under a decade ago.</p><br>
<p>The McDaniel-Tichenor House was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The home presently serves as a special events and educational facility.</p><br>
<p>Malyovitsa  is a peak and ski resort in the northwestern part of the Rila Mountains in southwestern Bulgaria. It is 2,729 m high and is one of the most popular tourist regions in the mountain. The Rila Monastery is situated at its southern foot, and Malyovitsa Ski Centre &mdash; with two downhill tracks and two ski drags &mdash; is to the north. The main starting point for treks in the region is Malyovitsa Hut .</p><br>
<p>The Malyovitsa region is the cradle of Bulgarian rock climbing and mountaineering. The first organized expeditions were made in 1921-22 by tourists from the town of Samokov. The imposant north wall of the summit was first climbed in 1938 by Konstantin Savadzhiev and Georgi Stoimenov (about 200 m, grade UIAA V+). That was the greatest success of Bulgarian climbers for its time and is deemed as the date of birth of Bulgarian mountaineering. Later other walls in the region were climbed too with the most difficult routes being made in the 1970s. In the last 15 years, Malyovitsa region has become very attractive rock-climbing district with the possibilities it gives for mountaineering and sport rock climbing.</p><br>
<p>Other interesting walls and summits are: Zliya Zab (200 m wall with one of the most famous climbing routes in the country &mdash; Vezhdite), Dvuglav (a 450 m high wall, with climbing routes often over 500 m long), Iglata, Dyavolski Igli (several aretes with the hardest climbs in the region), Ushite and others. A wall that is available for not so experienced rock-climbers is "Kuklata". It is situated across Malyovitsa hut, 10 minutes walking, and the main part of its tours is bolted.</p><br>
<h2>Honour</h2><br>
<p>Malyovitsa Crag on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after Malyovitsa.</p><br>
<p>Borgholm Castle  in Borgholm, Sweden, is today only a ruin of the fortress that was first built in the second half of the 13th century and rebuilt many times in later centuries. It is linked to Halltorp estate, to the south. The castle was destroyed in a fire on 14 October 1806.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The construction of the original fortress was probably ordered by King Canute I, although this is not totally certain. He reigned 1167–1195 and had fortresses built on the Swedish east coast as defence against enemies from the other side of the Baltic Sea. During the 13th to 15th centuries, additions and changes were made. For example, new towers were built, and a new and thicker wall was constructed. The fortress was damaged on a number of occasions during these centuries, including in 1361, when King Valdemar IV (Atterdag) of Denmark attacked Borgholm.</p><br>
<p>During the Kalmar Union, many castles and fortresses in Sweden were damaged as a result of the ongoing conflicts between Danes and Swedes. When Gustav Eriksson became Swedish king and the union was dissolved, he, together with the sons that followed him on the throne, invested huge sums of money in repairing these buildings. It was Gustav&#39;s son John III (r. 1568–1592) who ordered the reconstruction of Borgholm into a renaissance castle. During his reign, the Pahr brothers (four engineers and architects from Milan) led a significant rebuilding that took place from 1572. The castle acquired a Gothic character and became exemplary of the Italianate bastion style.</p><br>
<p>Some decades later, Sweden and Denmark fought each other in the Kalmar War. Borgholm Castle first, in 1611, surrendered to the Danish side, but was reconquered by the Swedish side later the same year. The following year, after a siege of two weeks, the commander of the Swedish defence, Peter Michelsen Hammarskiöld, had to surrender. In accordance with the treaty that followed the war, the Treaty of Knäred, Borgholm was handed back to the Swedish.</p><br>
<p>The castle was in a bad shape after the war and it took until 1654 before a restoration and reconstruction would begin. This time, the castle was to be turned into a baroque palace. Charles X Gustav was the king who ordered this, and Nicodemus Tessin the Elder was the architect engaged to fulfill the king&#39;s wishes. When Charles Gustaf died in 1660, the construction stopped, only to be restarted at a slow pace during the reigns of King Charles XI and King Charles XII. In 1709, the construction was finally completed.</p><br>
<p>For a hundred years, the palace was left to fall into decay. On 14 October 1806, the castle was turned into a ruin by a fire that started in the roof of the north wing.</p><br>
<h2>Today</h2><br>
<p>The castle of today is the ruins of the 17th century baroque palace Charles X Gustav had constructed. It is owned and managed by the National Property Board of Sweden (Statens Fastighetsverk). It is open for visitors and houses a museum.</p><br>
<p>The inner courtyard hosts concerts, theater performances, and other events. In the summer of 1989, Swedish pop group Roxette shot material for six music videos during a concert. One of them is "Listen to Your Heart" which became the group&#39;s third number one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 later that year.</p><br>
<p>Bluff Cove  is a sea inlet and settlement on East Falkland, in the Falkland Islands, on its east coast. It was the site of secondary landings of the Falklands War of 1982, which resulted in a successful attack of the Argentine Air Force, which came to be known as the Bluff Cove Disaster.</p><br>
<p>It is near the Mount Pleasant highway overlooking a small harbour.</p><br>
<p>On the 8 June 1982, the 1st Welsh Guards were aboard RFA Sir Galahad also waiting to be landed at Bluff Cove when Sir Galahad and RFA Sir Tristram were attacked by Argentinian Skyhawk fighters who caught them by surprise. Both ships were badly hit. The explosions and subsequent fires resulted in heavy casualties on board Sir Galahad. Forty-eight people, including thirty-two Welsh Guards, were killed or severely wounded, with many suffering terrible burns. The wreck of Sir Galahad was scuttled after the war, torpedoed by the submarine HMS Onyx. The hulk was declared a war grave. The disabled Sir Tristram was transferred to the United Kingdom where she underwent a major overhaul.</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<p>Tundra climates are characterized by sub-freezing mean annual temperatures, large annual temperature ranges, and moderately low precipitation.</p><br>
<p>Rainmaker Mountain  is the name of a mountain located near Pago Pago, American Samoa on Tutuila Island. Rainmaker Mountain traps rain clouds and gives Pago Pago the highest annual rainfall of any harbor in the world. It has a three-pronged summit. Rainmaker Mountain and its base were designated a National Natural Landmark in 1972 due to the slopes’ tropical vegetation.</p><br>
<p>Rainmaker Mountain is one of several giant volcanic mountains that created Tutuila Island. It dominates the scene from nearly every point in Pago Pago Harbor. It compromises three mountain peaks: North Pioa, South Pioa, and Sinapioa. The peaks range in elevation from 1,619-1,718 feet. The 170-acre designated landmark area occurs above the 800-feet contour line. Several endemic species are only present here and on Matafao Peak, the highest point on Tutuila.</p><br>
<p>The mountain is a volcanic feature known as a trachyte plug. This means that it is a volcanic intrusion made of extrusive igneous rocks having alkali feldspar and minor mafic minerals as the main components and a fine-grained, generally porphyritic texture. The average annual rainfall on the mountain is around 200 inches (5 m).</p><br>
<p>One can get a closeup view of the mountain by driving up Rainmaker Pass.</p><br>
<p>Rainmaker Hotel was a hotel at the port entrance under the mountain.</p><br>
<p>The Château de Landskron  is situated in the southern part of Alsace, in the east of France, mere footsteps away from Switzerland, in the commune of Leymen. The village situated at the north of the ruin, Leymen, in the département of Haut-Rhin, lies in France while Flüh, at the south east foot of the ruin, is in Switzerland.</p><br>
<p>The castle was built before 1297. It had a very important strategic position in that it allowed the control of the Eastern Sundgau, the elbow of the Rhine and the city of Basel. Several disputes concerning the ownership have been reported. Like the Château de Ferrette and Château de Morimont, the Château de Landskron was owned by Habsburg for a time. In 1462, the castle was given to the Lord of the Bailiwick of Lupfen, Sébastien de Reichenstein, who later enlarged and transformed the castle to adapt it to firearms in 1516. In 1648, by the Peace of Westphalia which ended the Thirty Years&#39; War, the lands and lordships of the Habsburgs in Alsace, including the Château de Landskron, passed into the hands of the King of France. After 1665, Vauban was responsible for rebuilding the castle into a military garrison, while many other Alsatian castles were abandoned and gradually destroyed. In the 1690s, it was used as a state prison. The few prisoners who were imprisoned there until the French Revolution were predominantly political prisoners and the mentally ill. Bernard Duvergez, a courtier at the French court, was held there from 1769 until 1790 when he was discovered by revolutionaries looking for political prisoners. He died while waiting for them to find him a better place. He is the subject of a local novel, The Prisoner of Landskron</p><br>
<p>The castle survived the Revolution, whereas the houses of the wealthy in Leyman were burned. The castle was destroyed in 1813 by the Austrian and the Bavarian armies fighting Napoléon Bonaparte.</p><br>
<p>After that time it was a ruin. In the 1970s, the former owners installed a colony of monkeys into the ruins. Since 1984, the castle has belonged to the Association pour la Sauvegarde du Château de Landskron (Association for the Protection of Landskron Castle) and was partly restored in 1996. Further restoration work is planned.</p><br>
<p>One of the main characteristics of the castle is its big rectangular tower or keep.</p><br>
<p>The Château de Landskron has been classed as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture since 1923.</p><br>
<p>Despotikó  is a small, uninhabited Greek island in the Cyclades. It is situated west of the island of Antiparos, and east of the smaller island of Strongyli.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The small and dry island is located about 700 m southwest from the shores of Antiparos. Despotiko is situated almost exactly in the center of the Cyclades and during clear days it is possible to view the surrounding islands of Antiparos, Syros, Serifos, Sifnos, Kimolos, Folegandros, Sikinos and Ios (in anticlockwise order). Administratively, the island is part of the community of Antiparos. Currently, the island can only be reached by boats starting from the island of Antiparos. Boats leave either from the main village of Antiparos or from Agios Georgios (southwest Antiparos), just opposite Despotiko. Usually, the final destination for them lies on the southern part of the island where a large sandy beach is located.</p><br>
<p>The strait separating Despotiko from Antiparos only has a minimum depth of about 1m, with the intervening islet of Tsimintiri. This extreme shallowness of the strait suggests the possibility of a link between Antiparos and Despotiko in former times. Indicators of previous sea-levels include archaeological remains on the sea-floor of Despotiko Bay such as Early Bronze Age cist graves off Koimitiri down to 3m water depths; additionally there are walls, a well-head, and an oven of unknown age at a 3m depth off-shore from Agios Georgios on Antiparos. Numerous parallel trenches occur west of the Panagia chapel on Despotiko which have not been excavated or dated so far, but can be compared with the almost identical, partly submerged, probably Hellenistic viticulture trenches from northeast Antiparos. from the sanctuary on Despotiko reading ΕΣΤΙΑΣ ΙΣΘΜΙΑΣ, (Hestias Isthmias, which essentially means "for Hestia of the Isthmus"), suggest that the relative sea-level in this area was at least 3m lower during the Early Bronze Age and still more than 1m lower during the Hellenistic time. This implies that an isthmus may have linked Despotiko, Koimitiri and Antiparos at least until the Hellenistic time.</p><br>
<h2>Archaeology and history</h2><br>
<p>Although presently uninhabited, there are significant indications that in prehistoric and ancient times the island - due to its central position among the Cyclades and the large Despotiko Bay (between the island and Antiparos) providing safe anchorage - played an important role in maritime communication routes. Currently, excavations are taking place in the northwest part of the island and so far the findings are of great importance. The excavations proved the existence of an important late Archaic sanctuary with abundant objects indicating links to mainland Greece, the Eastern Mediterranean and even to Northern Africa, as well as the continued use of this area in the Classical, Hellenistic, Roman and Frankish periods. 2015 excavations at the Archaic (6th C BC) sanctuary site on an Aegean Sea islet revealed new evidence about its size and organization. The sanctuary seems to have been devoted to Apollo. Archaeologists discovered an ornate façade of a structure measuring 35 meters by 15 meters, suggesting that the sanctuary was extended and rebuilt several times during the Classical and Hellenistic periods. A large, four-room building on the site’s west section featured a large stone altar in one of the rooms as well as pottery fragments bearing inscriptions with Apollo’s name. A long wall, stretching from what would have been the islet’s ancient port to the site of the sanctuary, was also revealed. Some of the artefacts from the excavations are exhibited in the archaeological museum in Parikia, the capital of the nearby island of Paros, along with other important antiquities from the region. Some glimpses of the early modern and modern history of Despotiko might be reconstructed from historic topographic maps and descriptions of travellers from that period.</p><br>
<h2>Environment, nature and biodiversity</h2><br>
<p>Due to low and non-permanent human presence, as well as moderate pasture pressure, some natural habitat types, typical of the central Cyclades, are very well preserved. Therefore, Despotiko, Strongyli and the southernmost part of Antiparos as well as surrounding marine areas have been selected for a NATURA 2000 habitat, which is part of an ecological network of protected areas in the European Union. Large areas are covered by phrygana and a garrigue. The seal Monachus monachus is a permanent resident of the shallow marine area. On the sea floor Posidonia seagrass meadows provide habitat for a diverse fauna and flora.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>First comments about the geology of Despotiko originate from Fiedler in 1841, but it took until 1963 for the first geological map to be published. Tectonically, Despotiko, Antiparos, and Paros belong to the Attic-Cycladic Crystalline of the Central Hellenides, a stack of metamorphic tectonic nappes, mainly comprising variable types of gneiss, schist, marble and amphibolite, and tectonic slices of unmetamorphosed sediments on top, separated by low-angle normal faults from the metamorphic units below.</p><br>
<p>Despotiko is dominated by metamorphic rocks with foliation surfaces dipping quite uniformly towards the southwest at shallow angles. The structurally lowest parts in the north and northeast of the island consist of grey, strongly foliated, mylonitic ortho-gneiss with abundant cross-cutting pegmatite dikes that become more and more deformed and rotated parallel to the foliation towards the hanging wall. The ortho-gneiss is followed by up to several metres thick, prominent white, strongly foliated, mylonitic gneiss. Higher up are medium-grained, white calcite marble, followed by greenish-white gneiss and an alternation of chlorite epidote schist and thin marble layers, on top of which are found chlorite epidote gneiss and retrogressed amphibolite as well as some small serpentinite lenses. The structurally highest parts in the south and southwest of the island comprise thick white to yellowish, fine grained dolomite marble with thin layers of dark grey, carbonaceous calcite marble.</p><br>
<p>This metamorphic succession is penetrated by six early Pliocene, rhyolitic volcanic pipes, with rare occurrences of small obsidian. These volcanic pipes are genetically associated with the rhyolitic, pyroclastic rocks that cover the whole southern part of Antiparos. Patches of yellowish, porous sandstone, dominated by well rounded, well sorted fragments of marine organism and minor siliciclastic components is found in many places on top of the metamorphic rocks.</p><br>
<p>Kasos  is a Greek island municipality in the Dodecanese. It is the southernmost island in the Aegean Sea, and is part of the Karpathos regional unit., its population was 1,084. The island has also been known in Italian as Caso, and Turkish as Kaşot.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Kasos lies SW of Karpathos, between this island and Crete. Adjacent to the island is the Strait of Kasos, through which some of the Modified Atlantic Water enters the Sea of Crete. Its shape is elliptic and resembles that of Rhodes. The main island has a surface of 49 km&sup2, and it is 17 km long and 6 km wide. It is very mountainous, its highest mount being Mt. Prionas, which is 550 m high. There is fresh water on the island.</p><br>
<p>The municipality of Kasos includes several uninhabited offshore islands, the largest of which are Armathia and Makronisi. Its total land area is 69.464 km². It has five villages, Fry (pronounced like "free", pop. 357), Agia Marina (444), Panagia (34), Poli (80), and Arvanitochori (169). Fry is the capital and home to the island&#39;s harbor, Agia Marina is most populous village. The airport is located close to Fry and is big enough for an ATR 42 to land.</p><br>
<p>Kasos is notable for its lack of large scale tourism, the quality of its fish, cheeses, and other culinary specialties, and its hospitality toward visitors.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In ancient times, Kasos (then known as Amphie, Astrabe, and, most commonly, Achnis) was used as a safe harbor by the Philistines. The first known settlements are Minoan and Mycenaean in origin. According to Homer (Iliad, 2.676), Kasos contributed ships toward the Trojan War.</p><br>
<p>During Classical Antiquity it closely followed the history of nearby Karpathos. It remained for over a thousand years within the predominately Greek speaking Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, through late antiquity and most of the Middle Ages. Along with Karpathos, it was subjected from 1306 until 1537 to the Venetian Cornaro family. Thereafter Kasos was conquered by the Ottoman Turks.</p><br>
<p>Kasos had been the first island to declare independence during the Greek Revolution and supported the cause with its fleet of ships.</p><br>
<p>In 1824, Mehmet Ali, the Pasha of Egypt, furious with the Kasiots, dispatched his fleet to the island. The Egyptian armada burned the entire island and killed most of the population.</p><br>
<p>The islands population recovered as did its economy, still largely based on shipping. The introduction of steam ships made Kasos shipyard (which produced wooden sailing ships) redundant and its economy suffered accordingly. Beginning in the later half of the 19th century, many emigrated from Kasos, initially to Egypt (about 5,000 people), then to Istanbul, Greece, USA and South Africa. By the 1920s, out of about 2,300 houses on the island, only 400 were permanently inhabited.</p><br>
<p>On 12 May 1912, during the Italo-Turkish War of 1911-12, after the so-called "Battle of Cassos" that took place on 29 January 1912, the island was occupied by the sailors of the Regia Marina ship Regina Elena. With the Treaty of Lausanne of 1923, Kasos joined the other islands of the Dodecanese in the Italian possession of the Italian Aegean Islands, and was ceded by Italy to Greece with the Paris Peace Treaties of 1947. The island formally joined the Kingdom of Greece on 7 March 1948 together with the other Dodecanese islands.</p><br>
<h2>Notable residents</h2><br>
<p>Kassia (revered in the Eastern Orthodox Church as St. Kassiane), a Byzantine abbess, poet, composer, and hymnographer.</p><br>
<p>Peddocks Island is one of the largest islands in Boston Harbor. Since 1996 it has formed part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area. Managed by the Department of Conservation and Recreation, the island is home to the now-defunct Fort Andrews, active in harbor defense from 1904 to the end of World War II, on its eastern end, and a group of privately owned cottages on its western end. Campsites are also on the eastern end. Ferry service between Peddocks Island and Georges Island  is provided on a seasonal basis.</p><br>
<h2>Topography</h2><br>
<p>Peddocks Island lies across Hull Gut from the Pemberton neighborhood of Hull to the north and across West Gut to Nut Island & Houghs Neck to the west. The island is located at 42° 17 32.6" North latitude and 70° 56 21.6" West longitude. The area of the island is 210.4 acre, its total acreage at low tide is 288, and its highest elevation is 80 feet. Boasting the longest island shoreline in Boston Harbor, Peddocks Island comprises four headlands connected by gravel or sand bars known as tombolos.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>One of many Boston Harbor Islands inhabited by Native Americans prior to European settlement in America, Peddocks Island was primarily used for farming since 1634. Its closeness to mainland Boston enabled its use for military purposes as well. During the American Revolutionary War, more than 600 militiamen were stationed on the island to guard against the return of British troops following their evacuation of Boston by the hand of Gen. George Washington on March 17, 1776. A patriot infantrymens raid on a Loyalist (Tory) farm is also believed to have taken place on the island.</p><br>
<p>In 1904, Fort Andrews was built on the island, and it served as an active harbor defense fort until the end of World War II. As of 2008, 26 of the original buildings of Fort Andrews were still standing — guardhouses, prisoner-of-war barracks, stables, a gymnasium, a firehouse, etc. — although most of them were in decrepit shape and were closed to the public for safety reasons.</p><br>
<p>In 2008, Peddocks Island was used for filming scenes in Martin Scorsese&#39;s Shutter Island, starring Leonardo DiCaprio.</p><br>
<p>In 2011, Boston granted $7.8 million to renovate the island. This will fund a program in which 11 buildings will be demolished and a further 11 restored, in an attempt to make the island more visitor-friendly as a historical museum and nature reserve. Additionally, walking and hiking trails will be provided, along with tours of the historical buildings.</p><br>
<h2>Natural resources</h2><br>
<p>There is a freshwater marsh on the southern end of Peddocks Island.</p><br>
<p>Predominant tree and shrub species on the island include maple, birch, oak, pine, poplar, sumac, and apple. The island is also populated with wild roses and poison ivy.</p><br>
<p>The Paramount Theatre is a 2,807-seat performing arts venue located at 9th Avenue and Pine Street in Seattle, Washington. The theater originally opened March 1, 1928 as the Seattle Theatre with 3,000 seats, and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 9, 1974. It is also an official City of Seattle landmark. It is owned and operated by the Seattle Theatre Group, a 501 not-for-profit performing arts organization, which also runs the 1,419-seat Moore Theatre in Belltown and the Neptune Theatre in the University District. The Paramount was built expressly for showing film and secondarily, vaudeville. As of 2009, the Paramount is operated as a performing arts venue, serving a diverse patron base that attends Broadway theatre, concerts, dance, comedy, family engagements, silent film and jazz. It is considered to be one of the busiest theatres in the region.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>During the roaring twenties, particularly before the first “talkies” were invented in 1927, vaudeville and silent movies were the dominant form of national and local entertainment. Seattle alone had more than 50 movie palaces, the finest grouped together on 2nd Avenue. To achieve the broadest possible distribution of its films, Hollywood-based Paramount Pictures constructed a grand movie palace in practically every major city in the country, many erected between 1926 and 1928. In late 1926 or early 1927, Paramount Pictures decided to build in Seattle.</p><br>
<p>Led by its president, Hungarian-born movie magnate Adolph Zukor, Paramount Pictures invested the nearly $3 million required for construction. It hired Cornelius W. and George L. Rapp, brothers who owned a Chicago-based architectural firm that built theatres around the country, to design the theatre building. Scottish-born Seattle resident Benjamin Marcus “Uncle Benny” Priteca, America’s most celebrated architect of movie palaces in the 1920s, designed the building’s adjacent apartments and office suites.</p><br>
<p>The Rapp brothers began with a substantial handicap: the land for the new theatre was situated on 9th Avenue, blocks from the center of Seattle’s theatre district, and the land was no more than a ravine with a creek flowing to nearby Lake Union. After filling in the land, Paramount Pictures compensated for its new theatre’s remote location by building the largest, most spectacular, most opulent movie palace Seattle had ever seen. On March 1, 1928, the Seattle Theatre opened. The Seattle Times heralded the occasion with enthusiasm:</p><br>
<p>Eager customers responded on opening night, lining up eight abreast outside The Seattle. After paying the 50 cent admission fee, they entered the grand lobby. There patrons encountered a lavish interior decorated in the Beaux Arts (also called French Renaissance) style of the palace in Versailles. They were awed by the four-tiered lobby, French baroque plaster moldings, gold-leaf encrusted wall medallions, rich paint colors, beaded chandeliers, and lacy ironwork. Their feet sank into hand-loomed French carpeting as they walked past walls adorned with delicate tapestries and original paintings in gilded frames. Heavy, expensive draperies fell at the windows, and hand-carved furniture upholstered in the finest fabrics lined the first-floor lobby.</p><br>
<p>Before entering the auditorium, customers were entertained by the rare gold and ivory Knabe Ampico grand player piano in the lounge area just above the foyer.</p><br>
<p>Patrons were escorted to their places in the nearly 4,000 seat auditorium by what the program booklet praised as an “alert, tactful, well trained” corps of ushers who provided “courteous, unostentatious service.” The program promised “no fuss, no senseless genuflections, but... welcome, quiet, considerate and alert attention on the part of each of these ushers — in other words, a gracious host making you feel that his home is yours, suavely, expeditiously, sincerely and without affectation.”</p><br>
<p>The Paramount Theatre is the first venue in the United States to have a convertible floor system, which converts the theater to a ballroom.</p><br>
<p>The Paramount Theatre has an original installation Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ. The organ is a 4 manual/21 rank Publix 1 style organ and is one of only three remaining original organs of this style. Jim Riggs is the current house organist for the Paramount, accompanying the Trader Joe&#39;s Silent Movie Mondays series. The organ is presently maintained by a group of volunteers from the Puget Sound Theatre Organ Society.</p><br>
<p>It was renamed the Paramount in the 1930s. The Paramount Theatre on 45th Street was renamed the 45th Street Theatre and later the Guild 45th. (Source: Guild 45th, Cinema Treasures)</p><br>
<p>As of 2009, the Paramount has a new sign out front. The 1940s Paramount sign originally used 1,970 incandescent bulbs, which were eventually replaced by 11-watt fluorescents. The new sign is a replica of the original iconic sign, but uses LED lights. The Paramount Theatre was also used to hold auditions for the sixth season of America&#39;s Got Talent.</p><br>
<h2>Notable performances</h2><br>
<p>Pink Floyd performed at the venue as part of the Meddle Tour on October 22, 1971.</p><br>
<p>The Guess Who&#39;s 1972 album Live at the Paramount was recorded at the Paramount on May 2, 1972.</p><br>
<p>The Grateful Dead&#39;s performance, on July 21, 1972, were recorded and later released as a live album, entitled Download Series Volume 10.</p><br>
<p>Queensrÿche performed one of their first ever live performances as the opening band for Zebra on June 30, 1983.</p><br>
<p>Madonna performed her first concerts here, kicking off The Virgin Tour, on April 10, 1985, to three sold-out crowds.</p><br>
<p>Anthrax, Exodus and Helloween kicked off the Headbangers Ball Tour at the theater on April 3, 1989.</p><br>
<p>Nirvana performed here on October 31, 1991. Several of the songs from this performance have been released on various Nirvana releases including the live compilation video Live! Tonight! Sold Out!!, the live album From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah and their rarities box set With the Lights Out. However the show in its entirety was finally released in 2011 on DVD and Blu-ray as Live at the Paramount.</p><br>
<p>Soundgarden&#39;s 1992 home video, Motorvision, was filmed at the Paramount Theatre.</p><br>
<p>Heart filmed their concert DVD Heart: Alive In Seattle August 8, 2002 at the Paramount Theatre. Heart: Alive In Seattle went certifiable platinum by the RIAA.</p><br>
<p>Tenacious D filmed their back-to-back shows at the venue in 2007 for their 2008 concert DVD The Complete Master Works 2.</p><br>
<p>Mount Boucherie is a mountain located in West Kelowna on the west shore of Okanagan Lake, British Columbia, Canada, opposite the city of Kelowna. It is the remnants of a former stratovolcano created nearly 60 million years ago. Between four and six different glacial periods over the past 50 million years have eroded the volcano to produce Mount Boucherie. Though it now only rises 417 metres above the nearby lake level, it is estimated to once have had an elevation of 2,000 m or more.</p><br>
<h2>Origin of the name</h2><br>
<p>Mount Boucherie is named after Isadore Boucherie, a farmer, stock-raiser, and an early settler to both Rutland and the west side of the lake. In the late 1880s, Isadore purchased the land which is still known today as Boucherie Ranch, and the mountain behind the ranch still carries his name.</p><br>
<p>Other names for the mountain are also documented in various historical documents:</p><br>
<p>Mount Edgar, named after Edgar Dewdney, a former Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia. It is uncertain how common this name may have been, or when it ceased to be used.</p><br>
<p>Mount Bouchier, or Bouchier Mountain, named after Isadore Bouchier</p><br>
<p>Mount Boucherie, named after E. Boucherie, not Isadore Boucherie.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Mount Boucherie is composed primarily of rhyolite and andesite, which gives the mountain its yellow, tan and pinkish colours on the north and south flanks. The more prominent black and dark gray east and north-east face is dacite. The columns, or pipes, were formed in the later stages of Mount Boucherie&#39;s volcanic period, as evidenced by the fact that the dacite columns intersect older rhyolite and andesite volcanic rock. Above the valley floor, the east cliff face is composed of folded volcanic flows of dacite.</p><br>
<p>The early Cenozoic was a tectonically active time in southern British Columbia, and the landscape of the time probably reflected the volcanism and faulting that was occurring.</p><br>
<h2>Park access</h2><br>
<h3>Mount Boucherie Regional Park</h3><br>
<p>Mount Boucherie Regional Park covers 36.4 hectares (90 acres), but is generally accessible only through Eain Lamont Community Park.</p><br>
<h3>Eain Lamont Community Park</h3><br>
<p>Eain Lamont Community Park is 2.54 hectares (6.28 acres) in size, located on Lakeview Cove Place at 49&deg;51&prime;10&Prime;N latitude, 119&deg;34&prime;04&Prime;W longitude. This park serves as the starting location for the various summit trails and perimeter trails around the base of Mount Boucherie.</p><br>
<h2>Forest fire of 1992</h2><br>
<p>In the early evening of May 7, 1992, a forest fire was accidentally started by two 11-year-old boys playing with matches behind Mount Boucherie Secondary School. This led to the evacuation of about 100 people while the blaze consumed 60 hectares of forest on the steep north and east slopes of Mount Boucherie. No houses were destroyed, and the fire eventually cost $170,000 to extinguish.</p><br>
<p>Rogla is a peak on Zreče Pohorje  in the Municipality of Zreče in northeastern Slovenia. The area was traditionally part of Lower Styria. It is now included in the Savinja Statistical Region.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>Rogla was attested in written sources in 1763–87 as Vitenska Planina and Wittenska Planina. The Slovene name Rogla is derived from the Slovene common noun rogla forked tree-covered mountain ridge, referring to the local topography.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>Tourism at Zreče Pohorje first appeared before the Second World War. The first wooden observation tower on Rogla was built in 1934. Most tourist buildings were burnt down during the war. The Koča Lodge on Rogla was rebuilt in 1956. It was managed by the Zreče hiking club until 1972, when it was taken over and renovated by the Unior company. In 1974, Unior&#39;s management commissioned studies for the development of Rogla as a ski resort. The road leading to the peak was also widened. The first ski lifts were built and could handle up to 900 skiers per hour.</p><br>
<p>The idea was to develop Rogla together with other tourist centres on Pohorje to offer a complete package with skiing, the spa resort at Zreče, and agrotourism in the area. Thus in 1978 construction began on Hotel Dobrava in Zreče and Hotel Planja on Rogla. Hotel Planja opened in 1980 together with new ski lifts. In 1981, Hotel Dobrava with 70 beds, a swimming pool, and a new athletics-football stadium was completed.</p><br>
<p>By the 1990s Rogla had a capacity of over 1,200 beds and ski lifts handling 12,200 skiers per hour. A new Hotel Dobrava with 160 new beds was opened in 2000 and between 2002 and 2004 four new chairlifts were constructed and artificial snow systems extended, making Rogla one of the ski centres in Slovenia with the best snow conditions and the longest ski season.</p><br>
<p>Today there are 13 slopes available for all levels of skiers.</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
<p>Brečko, Andraž. Thesis: Turizem in informacijska tehnologija, primer Unior d.d. program turizem. Ljubljana 2004 (in Slovene)</p><br>
<p>The Daniel Boone Hotel was a hotel and dining facility located in downtown Boone, Watauga County, North Carolina.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>The building, constructed in 1925, was of a joisted masonry construction consisting of two stories with Colonial Revival detailing. The main entrance included a long terraced walkway beginning from the West King Street sidewalk leading to an entrance veranda. The building itself sat upon 10 acre.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A group of Boone business leaders realized a need for a hotel to accommodate tourists, traveling salesmen, visiting court officials, and new faculty at Appalachian State Normal School. The group of leaders included G.P. Hagaman, R.C. Rivers, F.A. Linney, and W.H. Gragg. They incorporated the Daniel Boone Hotel Company and issued 500 shares at a par value of $100 per share in order to begin construction.</p><br>
<p>Crossing the front porch, hotel guests entered into a spacious lobby with a grand staircase and two large fireplaces on both sides. The dining room was situated on the left side, and on the right side of the basement ground level there was a covered pull through for cars- a horseshoe shaped drive looped around back the hotel from the street. Employees attending Appalachian State roomed on the third floor, and the hotel manager had an apartment behind the front desk.</p><br>
<p>Construction completed in 1925, the Great Depression caused the hotel to become bankrupt, and in 1935 the hotel was auctioned.</p><br>
<p>The new owners were Joe B. McCoy and Rich Finley. As a partnership they managed the hotel for over forty years. Once the depression was over and the war-time economy guaranteed growth, the hotel became for many years the place to stay in town. Sunday dinner open to the public was a legendary feast, as some residents recall, at $2.00 per person in 1946.</p><br>
<p>The decline of the hotel began as roadside motels popped up around the Boone area. The hotel closed its doors in the late 1970s. When the remaining proprietor Joe B. McCoy died, his heir sold the property to the Daniel Boone Condominium Company.</p><br>
<p>Before being demolished it was submitted and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Remnants</h2><br>
<p>The sign that was displayed on the lawn of the hotel is now located inside Boone Drug on West King Street.</p><br>
<p>The ornamental columns that supported the veranda entrance were used in the construction of a chapel at the Watauga Medical Center in Boone.</p><br>
<p>Woman Hollering Creek is a creek located in Central Texas. At one point, it crosses Interstate 10, between Seguin, Texas and San Antonio, Texas.</p><br>
<p>Alternatively known as Womans Hollow Creek, the creeks name is probably a loose translation of the Spanish La Llorona, or "The weeping woman". According to legend, a woman who has recently given birth drowns her newborn in the river because the father of the child either does not want it, or leaves with a different woman. The woman then screams in anguish from drowning her child. After her death, her spirit then haunts the location of the drowning and wails in misery. The legend has many different variations and there have even been occasional sightings of the restless womans spirit. The legend also states that if you get too close to the water, the hollering woman will drag you in, hoping you are her child.</p><br>
<p>Author and poet Sandra Cisneros wrote a collection of short stories entitled Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The creek is the subject of the song "River Called Woman Hollering" by the Electric Boy Rangers.</p><br>
<p>Rimo I is the main summit of the Rimo massif with an elevation of 7,385 m. It lies in the northern part of the remote Rimo Muztagh, a subrange of the Karakoram range. It is located about 20 km northeast of the snout of the Siachen Glacier and is the world&#39;s 71st highest mountain. Rimo means "striped mountain". The Rimo Glacier, originating here, drains to the Shyok river.</p><br>
<p>Due to its remote location in the heart of the eastern Karakoram, Rimo was little-known and almost entirely unvisited until the twentieth century. Explorers Filippo de Filippi and Philip and Jenny Visser visited the area in 1914 and 1929 respectively. Adding to its isolation is the unsettled political and military situation between India and Pakistan in the region, especially on the nearby Siachen Glacier. This means that India controls access to the massif.</p><br>
<h2>Rimo massif</h2><br>
<p>The Rimo massif consists of six peaks sharing the Rimo name. In addition to Rimo I, they are:</p><br>
<p>Rimo II is a minor subpeak located about 150 m northeast of Rimo I, on its north ridge. The others are more independent peaks further north. Rimo III is the 98th highest mountain in the world (Rimo II is unranked, lacking sufficient prominence).</p><br>
<p>The massif heads the large Central Rimo Glacier (on the north side) and South Rimo Glacier (on the east side), as well as the smaller North Terong Glacier (on the west side).</p><br>
<h2>Climbing history</h2><br>
<p>The first attempts on the Rimo massif were in 1978, by a Japanese expedition which had little success, in 1984 (first ascent of Rimo IV, by an Indian army expedition) and in 1985, by a well-organized Indian/British expedition led by famed Himalayan expert Harish Kapadia. That expedition climbed Rimo III (Dave Wilkinson and Jim Fotheringham were the summit party) but did not succeed on Rimo I.</p><br>
<p>The first, and so far only, ascent of Rimo I was made in 1988 by an Indian/Japanese team led by Hukam Singh and Yoshio Ogata. They climbed the south face to the southwest ridge, starting from a significant pass called Ibex Col on the south side of the mountain. The ascent involved 1500m of significant technical climbing.</p><br>
