<p>The Wainuiomata River runs southwest through the Wainuiomata Valley located in the southern Rimutaka Range in the North Island, New Zealand.</p><br>
<h2>Origin of Name</h2><br>
<p>The word Wainui-o-mata is a Māori name made up of the words Wai=water, Nui=big, O=of, and Mata – which could refer to a womans name. The origins of the word are disputed, but one commonly accepted translation refers to the women who came over the Wainuiomata Hill to evade marauding tribes from the north, and who sat wailing by the stream after the slaughter of their menfolk. From this we have faces streaming with water or tears&#39; although it could equally refer to the large pools of water which lay over the swampy surface (face) of the northern end of the Valley, or the river itself which is known to flood the Wainui (Coast Road) valley.</p><br>
<p>Today it is commonly called the "Wainui River" as the town of Wainuiomata is informally named "Wainui".</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The earliest settlements were based around the river where the timber mills supplied the Wellington region where the demand was great in the 1850s and 1860s. Today this area is known as "The Village" or as "Homedale".</p><br>
<p>In 1879 the Wellington ratepayers voted to extend their water supply, and by 1884 a dam was built in Sinclair Valley (Waterworks Valley) and a pipeline ran across the Wainuiomata Valley floor, through a tunnel under the hill, and on to Wellington. This dam was replaced in 1910 with the Morton Dam, since decommissioned, while the Orongorongo tunnel and pipelines were implemented by 1926. The establishment of the waterworks meant the coming of the telephone although, by 1921, there were still only two subscribers.</p><br>
<p>the Wainuiomata/Orongorongo Catchment Area is a restricted area as it supplies much of the Wellington region with water.</p><br>
<p>Glenn Cunningham Lake is located in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. The park is located along 96th Street with entrances at State Highway 36, State Street, 96th Street and Rainwood Road. The lake is a part of Little Papillion Creek, which is part of the Papillion Creek watershed.</p><br>
<p>Glenn Cunningham Lake, named for former Omaha mayor and USA Congressman Glenn C. Cunningham, is located in north central Omaha. The lake project opened to the public in 1977. The lake has a 390 acre surface area and a maximum depth of approximately 23 ft (7 m). More than 1,050 acre of parkland surround the lake, including 450 acre, north of Nebraska Highway 36, designated as wildlife area.</p><br>
<p>In 2006 the lake was drained and underwent an extensive ecosystem reconstruction which was completed in 2009. As of 2010 the lake itself has been fully restored and reopened for sailing and other public use.</p><br>
<p>Lake Rabun is a twisty 835 acre reservoir with 25 mi of shoreline located in the Northeastern corner of the USA state of Georgia in Rabun County. It is the third lake in a six-lake series that follows the original course of the Tallulah River. The series begins with Lake Burton as the northernmost lake, followed by Lake Seed, Lake Rabun, Lake Tallulah Falls, Lake Tugalo, and Lake Yonah. Lake Rabun was built in a deep valley located along a 10 mi section of the Tallulah River.</p><br>
<p>The lakes are owned and operated by the Georgia Power Company to generate hydroelectric energy for Georgia&#39;s largest city, Atlanta. At one time these lakes were the largest producers of electricity in the state of Georgia. Now, they only provide peak power supply.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Lake Rabun began filling in May 1915 with the completion of the Mathis Dam to form a reservoir of over ten million gallons covering 834 acre with a normal water level of 1,690 ft above mean sea level. The property was purchased by the Georgia Railway and Power Company (later renamed Georgia Power Company). The Mathis Dam is an ambursen-type concrete dam with a height of 108 ft and a span of 660 ft. The Terrora Hydroelectric Plant at Mathis Dam has a generation capacity of 16,000 kilowatts. The reservoir elevation is listed as 1,683 feet on topographic maps, but Georgia Power considers the lake full at an elevation of 1,689.6 ft.</p><br>
<h2>4th of July Traditions</h2><br>
<p>Lake Rabun has a rich and unique Fourth of July celebration that is sponsored and coordinated by the Lake Rabun Association (LRA). Each year there is a wooden boat parade that follows the shore lines of the lake. Prizes are given to the most decorated boat and boat house. Another tradition is the Rabun Ramble Road Race, a 5K & 10K, that winds along the shores of the north side of the lake. The race is a marathon qualifier attracting both serious runners and families alike with over 800 participants each year. The race is a fundraiser event providing funds for the Lake Rabun Foundation that gives back to the local community. In the evening a spectacular fireworks display is given directly on the lake. Spectators watch the display from hundreds of boats crowded along the lower basin of the lake.</p><br>
<h2>Tour of Homes</h2><br>
<p>Every other year, the LRA conducts a tour of homes which is open to the public. The tour is designed to raise money for local scholarships and other worthy area causes. The LRA sells up to 600 tickets with the tour starting at the historic Hall&#39;s Boathouse Marina.</p><br>
<h2>Lake Homes</h2><br>
<p>Due to the large growth of Atlanta in recent years, Lake Rabun has become a second home to some of the most wealthy and politically connected individuals in the state of Georgia. Although Lake Rabun has experienced a huge housing boom due to leased lots by the Georgia Power Company, most home owners are summer weekend residents. Due to the small size of the lake and strong home owners association, and powerful board members, the lake has resisted many attempts to further commercialize and potentially damage its quaint appeal.</p><br>
<p>Happy Retreat  is a historic property in Charles Town, West Virginia, which was originally owned and developed by Charles Washington, the youngest brother of George Washington and the founder of Charles Town.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Charles inherited land in the Shenandoah Valley upon the death of his older brother Lawrence in 1752. Charles was 14 years of age at the time, and living at Ferry Farm, near Fredericksburg, Virginia. In 1780, Charles and his wife Mildred moved to his land from Fredericksburg. By that time, he had constructed two one-story structures on the property, separated by a breezeway or portico, and had named the property "Happy Retreat." In October 1786, by act of the Virginia General Assembly, Charles Town was established on 80 acre of Charles&#39;s land adjacent to Happy Retreat, and Charles played an important role in planning the streets and construction activities of the new town.</p><br>
<p>Although Happy Retreat is usually considered to have been established in 1780, there is reason to believe that Charles&#39;s land may have been farmed as early as 1768. This date appears on the cornerstone of the old kitchen at Happy Retreat, but has never been fully authenticated. The structure of, and materials used in, the kitchen and old brick smoke-house would indicate them to be pre-Revolutionary, and a clay-chinked limestone quarters which stood until recent years behind the kitchen and smoke-house possibly predated the kitchen. An octagonal wooden powder-house similar to the one at Mount Vernon exists today and is supposed to have held powder stores during the Revolution. Later it was used as a school house for Charles and Mildred’s children.</p><br>
<p>On his visits from his home in Fredericksburg to his property prior to 1780, Charles Washington is said to have lived in a small house, since disintegrated, on Evitts Run, a small stream that flows along the base of the hill at Happy Retreat. From this temporary dwelling he could well have directed the work of brick-making for the residence he had planned, as there are claybeds along the Run. Stone and timber cutting could also have been supervised nearby, as the surrounding meadows are laced with limestone outcroppings, and the property included ample woodland.</p><br>
<p>General George Washington visited his brother at Happy Retreat several times. On June 1, 1788, while he was interested in the building of a canal up the Potomac River, he inspected the work at Great Falls and Seneca Falls, dined at Leesburg, proceeded the following day to what is now Harpers Ferry, and on the 3rd arrived at Happy Retreat, where he dined and spent the night. Other visits to Charles are recorded in the Generals diaries for this period.</p><br>
<p>During the few months before his death in April, 1799, Charles transferred all his property to his son Samuel Washington and his heirs, which explains why there remained no property to be transferred in Charles&#39; will. On February 23, 1800, Samuel Washington sold Happy Retreat, including the mansion and 100 acre of land, to Thomas Hammond. The property stayed in the Hammond family until 1837 when George Washington Hammond sold it to the Hon. Isaac R. Douglass, a circuit court judge and real estate investor. After his purchase of Happy Retreat, Judge Douglass completed the plans for the central section of the house and built a three story brick structure, connecting the two old Washington wings. He renamed the completed mansion "Mordington," after his ancestral estate in Scotland. The house passed through the hands of a number of different owners, reverting to its original name of Happy Retreat, before its purchase by Mr. and Mrs. William Gavin in the 1960s.</p><br>
<p>A recent historical engineering analysis of Happy Retreat indicates that the home’s development proceeded in three phases. Phase 1 construction consisted of the old stone kitchen and a portion of the west wing. Phase 2 consisted of the brick portion of the kitchen and the one-story east wing. Phase 3, which was undertaken in 1837 after the purchase of Happy Retreat by Judge Douglass, resulted in the addition of the 2nd stories to the two wings and completion of a large 2½ story central portion connecting the two wings.</p><br>
<p>Mr. and Mrs. William Gavin, the current owners of Happy Retreat, have decided to sell the historic estate, which consists of 12 acre, the large manor house, a colonial-era stone and brick kitchen/storehouse, and the old school house. Being within the Charles Town city limits, the property is ripe for development, although the Gavins would prefer that the property be preserved in its entirety for the enjoyment of future generations. Recognizing the threat to this historic property, a group of preservation-minded individuals has formed the Friends of Happy Retreat, Inc. (FOHR), a non-profit corporation dedicated to acquiring, preserving, and utilizing the property for public benefit.</p><br>
<p>In September 2014, the city of Charles Town began working toward purchasing the house to include it in its parks system.</p><br>
<p>Hermitage Road Historic District  is a Northside neighborhood in the independent city of Richmond, Virginia. The district is a Richmond Old and Historic District, as well as being listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The historic district consists of properties built in different architectural styles (Victorian, Tudor, Arts and Crafts, Georgian, Colonial Revival, etc.) located in the 3800 to 4300 blocks of Hermitage Road, this portion of which is designated as State Route 161, which crosses over Interstate 95 at the north end of the 4300 block.</p><br>
<h2>Boundaries</h2><br>
<p>The south end of the district is marked by the A.P. Hill Monument located in the center of the intersection of Laburnum Avenue and Hermitage Road. This monument is the only one of its type in Richmond (The City of Monuments) under which the subject individual is actually interred.</p><br>
<p>Also at the south end of the district is the 13 Acres house, which was donated by the Blair family with the intention of providing a permanent green space in the city. The house is currently used by the Richmond Public School system.</p><br>
<p>The north end of the district is at the intersection of Hermitage Road and Westbrook Avenue near the Freeman Marker No. 34, which marks the outer defense line for the City of Richmond during the Civil War.</p><br>
<h2>Origins of the neighborhood</h2><br>
<p>The area was originally developed as one of Richmond&#39;s Northside streetcar suburbs. Most of the original concrete poles used for the overhead trolley wiring are still located in the median of the street and are still in service after over 100 years. The streetcar line extended to Lakeside Park in Henrico County, terminating at the present site of Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden.</p><br>
<h2>Creation of the Historic District</h2><br>
<p>In 1988, the historic district was formed in response to a move by a local organization to tear down two historic houses (one, an excellent example of the Romanesque Revival style, was built in the 1890s). The people of the neighborhood "blocked the wrecking ball" and quickly formed a City Old and Historic District. The goal of the district is the protection and preservation of historic resources through zoning enforcement along Hermitage Road.</p><br>
<p>The HRHD Association continues to have active participation from homeowners and cooperates with other nearby neighborhood associations, such as Bellevue and Rosedale.</p><br>
<p>The Trenton Bath House is a pivotal, influential design by the architect Louis Kahn, with the help of his associate, renowned architect Anne Tyng, at 999 Lower Ferry Road, Ewing Township, Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>It is neither in Trenton, New Jersey, nor is it a bath house, but the so-called "Trenton Bath House" commands attention from architectural historians around the world. Designed as part of a larger plan (never executed) for the Jewish Community Center of the Delaware Valley, the "bath house" opened in 1955 and served as the entrance and changing area for patrons of an outdoor swimming pool.</p><br>
<p>From a design perspective, the bath house actually appears as a simple cruciform—four square concrete block rooms or areas, surrounding an open atrium. Each of the rooms is topped by a simple, wooden rectangular pyramid. At the corner of each room there is a large, open rectangular column that supports the roof. However, closer inspection reveals that in addition to the pure design elegance, Kahn also clarified his thinking about the utilitarian purposes of the various spaces, and it was in this building that he first articulated his notion of spaces serving and spaces served.</p><br>
<p>Kahn often spoke of this project as a turning point in his design philosophy, "From this came a generative force which is recognizable in every building which I have done since."</p><br>
<p>On August 10, 2006, Mercer County and Ewing Township purchased the bath house from the Jewish Community Center for $8.1 million, using funds from the Open Space Preservation Trust Fund. This action ensures that the historic integrity of the bath house will be protected. Ewing plans to use the main J.C.C. building as a senior citizens center. The J.C.C. had planned to move to a new 80 acre site located on Clarksville Road in West Windsor Township, but funding ran out.</p><br>
<h2>Model</h2><br>
<p>The Laguna Melincué is an endorheic lake located in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, in the General López Department, next to the town of Melincué, at approximately 33&deg;42&prime;24&Prime;S latitude, 61&deg;29&prime;4&Prime;W longitude. It covers a surface area of about 120 km², and its top water level lies at around 86 m above mean sea level .</p><br>
<p>The lake forms part of a wetland ecosystem, noted for its large population of waterfowl and other birds, which is protected as a nature reserve. In times of drought the lake&#39;s waters became saline. In 2008 an area of 920 km² has been listed as a Wetland of International Importance under the Ramsar convention.</p><br>
<p>For decades the water level of the Melincué Lake have varied considerably, often flooding parts of its basin, and over time this has seriously affected the prosperity of the nearby towns and the maintenance of roads around it. According to a study by the Faculty of Engineering of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario, in 1968 the top water level stood at 82.5 m AMSL, more than 3 m below its current height. In 1998–2000 the provincial government passed legislation creating a Strategic Environmental Planning Area covering the surrounding districts (Melincué, Carreras, Hughes, Elortondo and Labordeboy) with the goal of promoting its sustainable development, but major concrete actions have failed to materialize.</p><br>
<p>Fort Benjamin Harrison was a USA Army post located in suburban Lawrence Township, Marion County, Indiana, northeast of Indianapolis. It is named for the 23rd United States President, Benjamin Harrison.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Land was purchased in 1903, with the post being officially named for President Harrison in honor of Indianapolis being his hometown. In 1901, former President Benjamin Harrison&#39;s son Russell through lobbying efforts sold a nearby USA Arsenal where the USA Army used the money to buy land where the fort is located today.</p><br>
<p>Fort Benjamin Harrison saw its highest level of activity during World War I and World War II. The Fort Benjamin Harrison Reception Center opened in 1941 and was the largest reception center in the United States by 1943.</p><br>
<p>Within Fort Harrison was Camp Glenn, named in honor of Major General Edwin Forbes Glenn, who had served as Fort Harrison&#39;s commandant from 1912–1913, and who commanded the officer training that began at his camps in 1916. Camp Glenn was a Citizens Military Training Camp (CMTC) that was also used to house Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) workers. When the United States reestablished the Military Police Corps in 1941, an MP school was established at Camp Glenn and was operation by early 1942. The area was also used to detain Italian and German prisoners of war in 1944 and 1945.</p><br>
<p>In 1947, the Army declared Fort Harrison to be surplus property, but declined to completely close the fort due to a lack of adequate training space for the Indiana National Guard. From 1948 to 1950, the post functioned as Benjamin Harrison Air Force Base. The Tenth Air Force was moved from Omaha, Nebraska and headquartered at Schoen Field on Fort Harrison, as well as Stout Army Air Field in Indianapolis. Overcrowding and inadequate facilities soon forced the 10th Air Force to move to Selfridge Air National Guard Base in Michigan, and the Army reacquired control of Fort Benjamin Harrison.</p><br>
<p>The USA Army Finance School was located at Fort Benjamin Harrison during the 1960s and &#39;70s.</p><br>
<p>The Interservice Postal School was located at Fort Benjamin Harrison in the 1970s under the US Army Institute of Administration (USAIA), and was staffed by instructors from all four services. It moved to Fort Jackson in South Carolina in 1995.</p><br>
<p>Beginning in 1965, it was also home of the Defense Information School (DINFOS). This was staffed by enlisted personnel and officers from all branches of the US military along with members of allied military personnel. DINFOS trained service members and Department of Defense employees to become journalists in print, radio, television, and photography, as well as training them in advanced supervisory roles in editing, public affairs, and media and community relations. In 1995, DINFOS moved to Fort Meade, Maryland.</p><br>
<p>With the movement and creation of a number of training classes in financial, clerical and information technology (most notably the Programmer/Analyst Course and the Computer Machine Operator Course) the fort was given the derisive moniker "Uncle Ben&#39;s Rest Home" implying that no real military training took place there.</p><br>
<p>The Fort was the site of the Athletes&#39; Villages for the 1987 Pan American Games. New barracks were built to house the athletes during the games. After the games, these barracks were used to house military students attending courses at Fort Harrison. The barracks were torn down a few years after the post was closed.</p><br>
<h3>Remaining Military Presence</h3><br>
<p>Fort Benjamin Harrison was closed as part of the 1991 Base Realignment and Closure Commission. The site of the base has since been redeveloped, and includes residential neighborhoods, a golf course, and is the site of Fort Harrison State Park.</p><br>
<p>Although the base has officially been inactivated, there is still a very significant military presence in the area. The Defense Finance and Accounting Service—Indianapolis, several USA Army Reserve, Indiana National Guard units, the United States Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS) a post exchange and commissary are still located at the former post.</p><br>
<p>Since 1999, the American Legion has had its John H. Geiger Operations Center located at Fort Harrison. The center houses the Membership Services staff to maintain the organization&#39;s membership database, and provide direct-marketing services for membership renewal and new-member acquisition. It also houses the Emblem Sales Division which provides Legion merchandise, and the Fundraising Division which draws support for both national and department-level programs.</p><br>
<p>On May 29, 2009, the Indiana National Guard held a ground-breaking ceremony for a new facility to be erected at Fort Benjamin Harrison, the Lawrence Readiness Training Center, which opened in 2011. The facility will house four units, including the 76th Brigade Combat Team headquarters.</p><br>
<p>The Veterans of Foreign Wars maintains its headquarters for the Department of Indiana on the site at 9555 E. 59th Street.</p><br>
<h3>Fort Benjamin Harrison Historic District</h3><br>
<p>Fort Benjamin Harrison Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. The district encompasses 100 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site (Parade Grounds), and 3 contributing structures (Water Tower, Kent Ave. Bridge, Bandstand). It includes one and two-story, Colonial Revival style brick buildings that were part of the original fort complex. They include residential and administrative buildings, service / utility buildings, and the hospital unit.</p><br>
<p>The Tannehill Ironworks is the central feature of Tannehill Ironworks Historical State Park near the unincorporated town of McCalla in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Tannehill Furnace, it was a major supplier of iron for Confederate ordnance. Remains of the old furnaces are located 12 mi south of Bessemer off Interstate 59/Interstate 20 near the southern end of the Appalachian Mountains. The 2,063 acre park includes the John Wesley Hall Grist Mill, May Plantation Cotton Gin House, and the Iron & Steel Museum of Alabama.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Ironmaking at the site began with construction of a bloomery forge by Daniel Hillman Sr. in 1830. Built by noted southern ironmaster Moses Stroup from 1859 to 1862, the three charcoal blast furnaces at Tannehill could produce 22 tons of pig iron a day, most of which was shipped to the Naval Gun Works and Arsenal at Selma. Furnaces Nos. 2 and 3 were equipped with hot blast stoves and a steam engine. Brown iron ore mines were present two miles (3 km) distant.</p><br>
<p>The Tannehill furnaces and its adjacent foundry, where kettles and hollow-ware were cast for southern troops, were attacked and burnt by three companies of the USA 8th Iowa Cavalry on March 31, 1865 during Wilson&#39;s Raid. The ruins remain today as one of the best preserved 19th-century iron furnace sites in the South.</p><br>
<p>Also known as the Roupes Valley Iron Company, these works had significant influence on the later development of the Birmingham iron and steel industry. An experiment conducted at Tannehill in 1862 proved red iron ore could successfully be used in Alabama blast furnaces. The test, promoted by South & North Railroad developers, led to the location of government-financed ironworks in the immediate Birmingham area (Jefferson County).</p><br>
<p>The furnace remains and its reconstructed portions were named an American Society for Metals historical landmark in 1994. The park is a designated Civil War Discovery Trail site, a stop on the Alabama Appalachian Highlands Birding Trail, and was listed among the top 10 Alabama parks and nature areas visited in 2016.</p><br>
<p>Deer Lake is located in Itasca County, Minnesota about 12 mi north of Grand Rapids and about 8 mi NE of Deer River. The lake covers 4,156 acre and is roughly 5 mi long and 1.5 mi wide.</p><br>
<p>Deer Lake is fed by three sources: rainfall, underwater springs, and one inlet from Little Deer Lake. It belongs to a chain of pristine lakes, feeding Bay Lake - headwaters of the mighty Deer River (namesake of the town) which feeds White Oak Lake (part of the Mississippi River). Otter, Moose, Little Moose, Fawn, and Cottonwood Lakes also feed Bay Lake.</p><br>
<p>Often called the "Lake of the Changing Colors", Deer Lakes crystal-clear water displays a wide-range of magnificent colors on sunny days - divulging the locations of its perilous rockbars to unfamiliar boaters. While Deer Lake ranks among the clearest lakes of Minnesota, what distinguishes it from its peers is its many interesting islands. In 1998, the DNR and Deer Lake Association jointly acquired Bear Island to preserve its undeveloped charm. Although bears are rarely (if ever) seen on the island, the presence of an inactive eagles nest in a large white pine makes the island a popular destination for observing wildlife. Other notable islands include Battleship Island, Star (also known as Picnic) Island, and many others lacking agreed-upon names.</p><br>
<p>A plethora of wildlife make Deer Lake their abode. The lake&#39;s healthy fish population includes several species of muskie, northern pike, walleye, perch, bluegills, sunfish, rock bass, crappie, and largemouth and smallmouth bass. On its surface swim several happy loon families, a variety of ducks, and the infamous Canada goose.</p><br>
<p>This is ranked as one of the clearest lakes located in Minnesota with a water clarity level of 16&#39;.</p><br>
<p>(Info found at for Deer Lake)</p><br>
<p>Deer Lake is an English translation of the native Ojibwe-language name.</p><br>
<p>Puukoholā Heiau National Historic Site is a United States National Historic Site located on the northwestern coast of the island of Hawaii. The site preserves the National Historic Landmark ruins of the last major Ancient Hawaiian temple, and other historic sites.</p><br>
<h2>The time of unification</h2><br>
<p>Kamehameha I took control of western and northern Hawaii island (the Kona and Kohala districts) in 1782, but for the eight years following, fought in a number of inconclusive battles. After returning from Maui in 1790, he was attacked by his cousin Keōua Kuahuula who still controlled the East side of the island. He returned to the village of Kawaihae, where he had spent some time earlier. A respected kahuna (priest) named Kapoukahi suggested building a luakini heiau (sacrificial temple) to gain the favor of the war god Kūkailimoku.</p><br>
<p>Puukoholā Heiau meaning "Temple on the Hill of the Whale" was the result, probably on the site of an older temple from about 1580. It was built entirely by hand with no mortar, in less than a year. The red stones were transported by a human chain about 14 miles long, from Pololū Valley to the East.</p><br>
<p>Construction was supervised by Kamehameha&#39;s brother Keliimaikai, involving thousands of people.</p><br>
<p>The ship Fair American had been captured in 1790, along with one surviving crew member Isaac Davis, after the incident at Olowalu.</p><br>
<p>Davis and a stranded British sailor named John Young became important military advisors to King Kamehameha.</p><br>
<p>John Young built a house and ranch nearby, and that site is also within the park.</p><br>
<p>News of Kamehameha&#39;s large following had spread to the other islands, who joined forces and attempted to invade from the Northeast.</p><br>
<p>The two Europeans had instructed Kamehameha&#39;s army in the use of muskets and had mounted cannon onto double-hulled canoes. The invaders were no match for the artillery and were repelled in what was known as the Battle of Kepuwahaulaula (red mouthed gun), just North of Waipio Valley.</p><br>
<h2>The battle</h2><br>
<p>In the summer of 1791, the massive temple was finished, measuring about 224 by 100 feet.</p><br>
<p>Kamehameha summoned his cousin Keōua Kuahuula with the ruse of a peace treaty.</p><br>
<p>It is not clear why Keōua accepted the invitation. Perhaps he was surrendering to fate, discouraged by losing many of his warriors in the Battle of Hilo and subsequent volcanic eruption of 1790.</p><br>
<p>One story told is that Keōua secretly mutilated himself in order to defile the sacrifice.</p><br>
<p>As he stepped ashore, he and his party were captured and killed.</p><br>
<p>With the offering of the bodies the new temple was officially dedicated.</p><br>
<p>The campaign to unite all the islands continued with Maui in 1794, and Oahu in 1795 at the battle of Nuuanu. The unification was completed when the king of the island of Kauai became a vassal to Kamehameha I in 1810 making him the first king of a unified Hawaii.</p><br>
<p>The one-sided nature of this battle has given it the name "Slaughter at Kawaihae". On the 200th anniversary in 1991, a healing ceremony was held here by descendants of some of those who took part in the assassination.</p><br>
<h2>More visitors</h2><br>
<p>John Young was to act as interpreter and negotiator for several more important visitors.</p><br>
<p>The British explorer George Vancouver arrived here in 1793 during his Vancouver Expedition, and left cattle to start the ranching industry.</p><br>
<h2>Today</h2><br>
<p>A visitor center operated by the National Park Service is located at the site. An interpretive trail begins at the visitor center and leads to Puukoholā.</p><br>
<p>Entry to the public is not allowed, since there are believed to still be bones buried in the site.</p><br>
<p>About 170 feet west of Puukoholā is the ruin of the earlier Mailekini Heiau. John Young later converted it into a fort to protect the harbor.</p><br>
<p>Just offshore is Hale o Kapuni, an underwater structure dedicated to sharks. A pōhaku (stone post) marks a spot where the feeding of the sharks could be viewed.</p><br>
<p>Across the bay is the modern Kawaihae harbor.</p><br>
<p>On December 29, 1962, the site was made a National Historic Landmark, and on October 15, 1966, listed in the National Register of Historic Places as site 66000105. In 2000 the name was changed by the Hawaiian National Park Language Correction Act of 2000 observing the Hawaiian spelling.</p><br>
<p>To visit the park, turn makai (toward the sea) from Akoni Pule Highway, just north of the intersection of Kawaihae Road (route 19) and Queen Kaahumanu Highway, part of the Hawaii Belt Road.</p><br>
<p>Laguna del Diamante  is a lake located in the province of Mendoza, Argentina, in the San Carlos Department, some 198 km from Mendoza. It covers a surface area of about 14.1 km² and is one of the largest freshwater resources in the Province. Nearby is Maipo volcano. The volcano and its reflection in the lake forms diamond-shape image, which gives the lake its name.</p><br>
<p>It is known for its stunning beauty. However, few get the chance to see it because it is passable only in February and only via an off-road vehicle.</p><br>
<p>The lake was described by Antoine de Saint Exupéry in his book Wind, Sand and Stars as quoted, "...he caught sight of a dark horizontal blot which he recognized as a lake Laguna Diamante".</p><br>
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<p>Volcán San Cristóbal is the highest volcano in Nicaragua at 1,745 m. Located near to the northwest corner of the country, it forms a backdrop to the city of Chichigalpa, Chinandega. It is also among the most active volcanos in Nicaragua.</p><br>
<p>San Cristóbal is part of a 5-member volcanic complex that bears the same name. Chonco lies 4 km to the west, and Moyotepe 4 km to the north east. Joined to the volcano&#39;s eastern flank is Volcán Casitas, which buried a village with a catastrophic landslide in 1998. The scars from said landslide are still visible today. Finally, La Pelona is located on the eastern end of the complex.</p><br>
<h2>Physical features</h2><br>
<p>San Cristóbal is the youngest volcano in its complex. It is a nearly symmetrical stratovolcano, rising in a distinctive cone shape. The SW slope is the longest, and the crater rim on that side rises 140 m above the NE end due to prevailing trade winds that distribute tephra to the SW.</p><br>
<p>The crater is 500 × 600 m in size. While the volcano was at one point covered in tropical forests, the large quantities of gas and smoke that it emits constantly have killed off much of the vegetation.</p><br>
<h2>Eruptive history</h2><br>
<p>1685: Erupted strongly enough to merit preservation in historical accounts.</p><br>
<p>August 1919: Produced loud noises and light tremors that were felt in surrounding areas.</p><br>
<p>May 1971: Produced bangs and explosions.</p><br>
<p>March 1976: Produced a high, continuous column of smoke, several light tremors, and explosions that occurred every three minutes.</p><br>
<p>c. December 1986: Marked expulsion of gases</p><br>
<p>c. January 1987: Expelled large quantities of gas.</p><br>
<p>May 1997: Entered into a new eruptive period, expelling gases, ash, and sand, and also producing light tremors.</p><br>
<p>December 1999: Expelled gas, ash, and sand.</p><br>
<p>May, August 2001: Reactivated.</p><br>
<p>April 2006: Moderate phreatic eruption.</p><br>
<p>July 2008: Rumbled with a series of small explosions, and expelled gas.</p><br>
<p>September 2009: Explosion and moderate ash expulsion.</p><br>
<p>September 2012: Three big explosions, expelled gas, ash and sand to 5,000 metres, following the 2012 Costa Rica earthquake.</p><br>
<p>December 25, 2012 and continuing into 2013: elevated seismic activity and multiple eruptions over the next few days.</p><br>
<p>April 11, 2014: Gas plume that may contain ash drifted West about 20 km.</p><br>
<p>July 20, 2014: Two explosions that occurred at 1:30 P.M. and 2:13 P.M. local time produced small plumes of ash that rose 100 meters.</p><br>
<h2>Current activity</h2><br>
<p>San Cristóbal remains quite active, continuously expelling copious amounts of gas and smoke. As recent as September 2009, it was reported that ash was falling in nearby towns. In September 2012 it erupted again, spewing ash up to four kilometres (2.5 miles) into the atmosphere, resulting in the evacuation of around 3000 people in the surrounding area.</p><br>
<p>A further eruption took place, starting on the 25th of December 2012 and continuing into 2013, causing the evacuation of hundreds of locals.</p><br>
<p>The Little Lehigh Creek is approximately 24.0 mi long, in eastern Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is also sometimes referred to as the Little Lehigh River. It is called the Little Lehigh because it is the largest tributary of the Lehigh River.</p><br>
<p>The river flows in a winding course through the Lehigh Valley. It originates in Longswamp Township in Berks County and flows through Lower Macungie Township and Salisbury Township. In the city of Allentown it receives Jordan Creek, which then flows into the Lehigh River.</p><br>
<p>It has 88.8 square miles of drainage area in Lehigh County and 18.7 square miles of drainage area in Berks County.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>The Little Lehigh forms a linear park in Allentown and Emmaus. This park has a covered bridge and walking trails along the creek. In spite of a trout hatchery in the park, the stream is well known for its population of wild brown trout. Sections of the stream are designated for catch and release fly fishing only. There are extensive equestrian trails running along the stream through the park which are used by riders, runners and walkers.</p><br>
<h2>Tributaries</h2><br>
<p>*Cedar Creek</p><br>
<p>*Jordan Creek</p><br>
<p>**Switzer Creek</p><br>
<p>**Mill Creek (Jordan Creek)</p><br>
<p>**Hegel&#39;s Run</p><br>
<p>***Schantz Valley Creek</p><br>
<p>**Elk Ridge Run</p><br>
<p>**Macintosh Run</p><br>
<p>**Thicket Run</p><br>
<p>**Haasadahl Creek</p><br>
<p>*Leibert Creek</p><br>
<p>*Spring Creek</p><br>
<p>*Swabia Creek (also called Swope Creek)</p><br>
<p>Ulugh Muztagh or Ulugh Muztag  and Muztag Feng, is an extremely remote mountain group on the northern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. Located on the border between the Tibetan Autonomous Region and Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, it is part of the main range of the Kunlun Mountains of East-Central Asia.</p><br>
<p>For a long time its elevation was thought to be as high as 7,723 metres, but it was measured by a 1985 Sino-American first ascent expedition, who established its true elevation of 6,973 m, which has since been confirmed by SRTM data and modern high resolution Chinese topographic mapping. The subsidiary West Peak was climbed by a Finnish expedition in 2003 and a height of 6925 metres was confirmed for Ulugh Muztagh II.</p><br>
<p>There have been only a few attempts to climb Ulugh Muztagh and several of them have not been even able to reach the foot of the mountain. Getting near the mountain requires a difficult drive across terrain at the elevation of 4300–5000 metres. Expeditions who have climbed the mountain spent 2 to 3 weeks on the approach alone using 4 or 6 wheel drive vehicles.</p><br>
<p>The 7,723 metre elevation claim was made by the English country gentleman and explorer St George Littledale in 1895. Despite the fact that earlier explorers had put forward elevations several hundred metres lower, and the scientific 6,973 metre measurement made in 1985, the Littledale elevation has been so resilient that even into the 21st century it still remains the most widely quoted; it is found in generally reliable publications, including the Times Atlas and fact books.</p><br>
<p>Other remote Tibetan-related mountains whose elevations have been established by SRTM and modern Chinese mapping include:</p><br>
<p>Nganglong (Aling) Kangri, 32&deg;48&prime;30&Prime;N latitude, 81&deg;00&prime;03&Prime;E longitude, 6,720 m, but still often quoted at 7,315 m</p><br>
<p>Amne Machin (Maqen Gangri), 34&deg;47&prime;54&Prime;N latitude, 99&deg;27&prime;45&Prime;E longitude, 6,282 m, but still often quoted at 7,160 m</p><br>
<p>Bukadaban Feng, 36&deg;01&prime;27&Prime;N latitude, 90&deg;51&prime;57&Prime;E longitude, 6,860 m, but still quoted much higher</p><br>
<p>Zangser Kangri, 34&deg;23&prime;39&Prime;N latitude, 85&deg;51&prime;00&Prime;E longitude, 6,540 m, but still sometimes quoted at 6,940 m.</p><br>
<p>Northeast of Ulugh Muztagh an endorheic basin with several important lakes (Aqqikol, Ayakkum, Jingyu, etc.) is located. The basin is bounded by the main range of the Kunlun in the south, and by the more or less parallel range, the Altyn-Tagh, in the north. Much of the basin is officially protected as the Altun Shan Nature Reserve.</p><br>
<p>Llyn Fawr is a lake in the Cynon Valley , South Wales, that is best known as the site of an important hoard of weapons and tools from the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age. It lies within Craig-y-Llyn an area that is designated as a Site of Special Scientific Interest.</p><br>
<p>Llyn Fawr has an area of 9.8 hectares (24 acres) and lies south of Rhigos in the Town of Aberdare in the unitary authority of Rhondda Cynon Taff. It lies near the source of the river Rhondda Fawr, at an altitude of 368 metres, and is overlooked by the crags of Craig y Llyn. Originally a smaller lake, it was converted into a reservoir in the early 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The Llyn Fawr hoard was discovered between 1909 and 1913 during the construction of the reservoir. It contains many objects from the late Bronze Age, but also a number of iron objects, notably an iron sword of the Hallstatt type. Two other iron implements were found &ndash; a spear and a socketed sickle. Bronze items included two cauldrons and axeheads. The items appear to have been placed in the lake as votive offerings. The date of these items is uncertain because of the context of the finds, but the sword is thought to date from about 650 BC. It is the earliest iron object to have been discovered in Wales.</p><br>
<p>This hoard gave its name to the Llyn Fawr Phase, which is the last phase of the Bronze Age in Britain.</p><br>
<p>The Waianiwaniwa River is a river in the Canterbury region of the South Island of New Zealand.</p><br>
<p>The source is in the foothills of the Southern Alps and it is a tributary of the Selwyn River. The Central Plains Water Trust is seeking approval to dam the river for a contentious irrigation scheme. The Central Plains Water Enhancement Scheme is opposed by environmental groups such as Fish and Game and Forest and Bird, and by the locally based Malvern Hills Protection Society.</p><br>
<p>* It has been said to have been one of the best looking rivers in New Zealand</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Valley originally belonged to the Deans Family. This particular block belonged to one of the Deans sisters and she sold it to the Hawke Family. The Hawkes broke it in turning tussock country into exceptional dairying country. The homes built by William A Hawke and Ernie Hawke still stand. The first farmer to use top dressing aircraft was Ernie Hawke on this property.</p><br>
<p>The Čik or Čiker  is a river in northern Serbia. A 95 km-long right tributary to the Tisa river, it flows entirely within the Bačka region of Vojvodina province.</p><br>
<p>The Čik springs out in the northwestern part of the Subotička Peščara, between the village of Tavankut and the city of Subotica, near the Hungarian border, at an altitude of 128 m. It starts as an unimportant slow stream of water near the Tavankut&#39;s hamlets of Čikerija and Kobino Selo. From its source to the mouth, the river flows in the southeast direction, next to the hamlets of Verušić and Naumovićevo.</p><br>
<p>As the river grows, next to the villages of Višnjevac, Čantavir and Dušanovo, a dams are constructed to regulate the flow, in both upper and lower course. In the lower course there are thick growths of reed on the banks of the river, which is at this point 2–4 m deep. After the villages of Tornjoš, Svetićevo and Obornjača, the river empties into the Tisa at the village of Bačko Petrovo Selo, at an altitude of 74 m.</p><br>
<p>The Čik has been neglected by environmental institutions for some time, but in the 1990s the lower part of the course was cleaned and the once almost-dead river was re-populated with many species of fish (carp, pike, bream, pike-perch, tench), becoming a major fishing resort.</p><br>
<p>The Čik belongs to the Black Sea drainage basin and it is neither channeled nor navigable. Itself, it drains an area of 481 km². The name of the river comes from the Hungarian word csikó, meaning foal.</p><br>
<p>East Branch Reservoir, formed by impounding the eastern branch of the Croton River, is part of New York City&#39;s water supply network. It is located in the Putnam County, New York, United States, town of Southeast, near the village of Brewster, 35 miles  north of the city.</p><br>
<p>It was placed into service in 1891, and holds 5.2 e9USgal at full capacity. It drains a 75-square mile (180 km²) area that includes Bog Brook Reservoir as well, and from the East Branch Reservoir, the water flows into the continuation of the East Branch of the Croton River, then into The Diverting Reservoir, then via the Croton River to the Muscoot Reservoir and the New Croton Reservoir, into the New Croton Aqueduct, and finally to the Jerome Park Reservoir in the Bronx for daily distribution. It has a surface area of 525 acre and reaches a mean depth of 32 feet (10 m).</p><br>
<p>It is one of two double reservoirs in NYCs system; it is connected to the Bog Brook Reservoir via a 1,778-foot (547.07 m) tunnel. When the two were being built, the projects name was "Double Reservoir I". The second double reservoir project ("Double Reservoir II") would create the Croton Falls and Diverting reservoirs.</p><br>
<p>The village of Southeast Center, named for the town of Southeast, was levelled and flooded to create the reservoir. Parts of the village remain, including Sodom Rd, at the foot of the Sodom Dam, which holds the reservoir back.</p><br>
<p>Construction of the reservoir also flooded part of the village of Milltown, in the northeastern corner of Southeast, near present-day Deforest Corners. Many of the villages original buildings were moved to higher ground, onto present-day Milltown Rd, one of Southeasts longest roads running from New Fairfield, Connecticut to Route 22 in Southeast. The village of Milltown&#39;s 1-room schoolhouse still stands today as a private residence. Foundations, rock walls and roadbeds for both villages can still be seen during droughts.</p><br>
<p>Saint Pauls Church National Historic Site is a United States National Historic Site located at 897 South Columbus Avenue in Mount Vernon, New York, just north of the New York City borough of The Bronx. The site was authorized in 1978 to protect Saint Pauls Church from increasing industrialization of the surrounding area. Saint Pauls Church is one of New Yorks oldest parishes and was used as a military hospital after the American Revolutionary War Battle of Pell&#39;s Point in 1776. The 5 acre cemetery surrounding the church is also within the historic site and contains an estimated 9,000 burials dating from 1704.</p><br>
<h2>History of Saint Paul's Church</h2><br>
<p>The parish that founded Saint Pauls Church was established in 1665. The first church at the site was a small, square, wooden structure built in 1695 and was known as the Church of Eastchester. The present day church was built in 1764, but its name was not changed to Saint Pauls Church until 1795.</p><br>
<h2>Election of 1733</h2><br>
<p>The election for an open seat in the New York assembly, held on the Village Green in Eastchester, Westchester County on October 29, 1733, is one of the better known political events in colonial America. Two hundred and seventy five years after the contest, historians continue to cite the election to advance various arguments about colonial life. One recent student used the election to argue for the persistent importance of monarchy in the outlook of colonists, while another scholar treated the voting as an important point in the development of political awareness among New York artisans. Many writers address the election, held at what is today St. Paul’s Church National</p><br>
<p>Historic Site, in Mt. Vernon, as part of the story of the printer John Peter Zenger, whose acquittal in a seditious libel case in 1735 is seen as a foundation of the free press in America. The first issue of Zenger’s New York Weekly Journal carried a lengthy report on the famous election, producing one of the few complete accounts of a colonial election available to historians.</p><br>
<h2>Battle of Pell's Point</h2><br>
<p>On October 18, 1776, the Revolutionary War Battle of Pells Point was fought less than a mile from the church, and the church served as a hospital for the British Army following the battle. The churchs tower contains a bell that was cast in 1758 at the same London foundry as the Liberty Bell. As the fighting began to move closer to the church, George Washington ordered the parishioners to bury the bell to prevent the British from melting it down and using it for ammunition. The bell still hangs in the tower today.</p><br>
<h2>20th century and beyond</h2><br>
<p>During the early part of the 20th century, the parish began to decline, and the last Sunday service held at Saint Paul&#39;s took place in May 1977.</p><br>
<p>The church (along with its carriage house, cemetery, and grounds) was designated as a National Historic Site on July 5, 1943 although not formally authorized until November 10, 1978.</p><br>
<p>Today, visitors can visit the church and the 225-year-old church tower on ranger-guided tours. The carriage house next to the church now serves as a museum and visitor center. The site was opened to the public in 1984 and is now operated by the National Park Service under a cooperative agreement with the Society of the National Shrine of the Bill of Rights at Saint Paul&#39;s Church, Eastchester.</p><br>
<p>Mount Yale is a high and prominent mountain summit of the Collegiate Peaks in the Sawatch Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 4,328.2 m fourteener is located in the Collegiate Peaks Wilderness of San Isabel National Forest, 15.2 km west by north  of the Town of Buena Vista in Chaffee County, Colorado, United States. The mountain was named in honor of Yale University.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The term "Collegiate Peaks" comes from some of its individual peaks, which are named after universities, including Mount Harvard, Mount Princeton, Mount Oxford, Mount Columbia, and Mount Yale itself. Much of the upper part of the mountain is covered in scree and boulder fields.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Mount Yale was first climbed by a research team from Harvard University led by Josiah Whitney. The group named the taller Mount Harvard (14,420 ft) after their own university and the shorter Mount Yale after Whitney&#39;s alma mater.</p><br>
<p>Due to the similarity in heights of Mount Princeton and Mount Yale (Princeton is 1 ft higher), it was once a tradition for the alumni of each school to carry rocks to the top of their respective mountain in order to add to the stone pyramid built at the summit. The graduates used these rock towers to ensure their mountain was the tallest.</p><br>
<h2>Hiking</h2><br>
<p>Mount Yale has achieved great popularity as a non-technical fourteener. The mountain offers fantastic views of the Sawatch Range and Buena Vista, and is a favorite "training" mountain for those wishing to tackle more difficult fourteeners later in the season.</p><br>
<p>The standard route for climbing Mount Yale was once Denny Gulch, but overuse turned the trail into both a safety and environmental issue. The Denny Gulch trailhead was closed by the Forest Service for restoration, and now most hikers use the nearby Denny Creek Trailhead to begin their hike.</p><br>
<p>The climb up Mount Yale is generally considered to be moderately difficult, and can be attempted by any hikers in good physical condition.</p><br>
<p>Newport Civic Centre is the seat of government for the city of Newport, South Wales and is a Grade II* Listed building in the Art Deco style. Newport City Council has its main offices located in the building which also includes a Crown Court complex. The Mayor&#39;s office is located in the Civic Centre.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Newport Civic Centre is the successor to the Victorian Town Hall that was located in Commercial Street.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by architect Thomas Cecil Howitt after winning a national competition. The ceremonial first sod was cut on 14 July 1937 by King George VI, with the building finally open to the public in 1940. However, due to the war, work on the clock tower was suspended until 1963. On 10 September that year the Corporation voted to complete the building of the clock tower at a cost of £126,900. This was despite a poll of 8,734 signatures in which the public voted 40-to-1 against. Conservative Alderman Dolman said that he could use the £126,900 cost to buy gold watches for everyone living within sight of the clock. Newman in The Buildings of Wales describes the Civic Centre as "something of a disappointment" and, while the building "commands the town effectively", its "generally conventional detailing rob it of dignity close at hand".</p><br>
<p>The base of the completed clock tower contains a collection of 12 murals by the German artist Hans Feibusch. The murals were commissioned in the 1960s and completed in 1964. They depict the history of the City from Celtic times to the building of the George Street Bridge over the River Usk. In recent years, conservation work has been necessary with specialist photographers recording the works prior to detailed restoration work being undertaken. There is also a Hans Feibusch mural in the Dolman Theatre painted in 1967 of an early travelling theatre.</p><br>
<p>Lake of Banyoles  is a natural lake located in the comarca "Pla de l&#39;Estany", Province of Girona, in northeastern Catalonia, Spain. It is named after the nearby town of Banyoles, to which it belongs entirely. On the western shore it borders with the town of Porqueres. The lake is approximately 2,100 m by 750 m with an average depth of 15 m that in several points gets down to 46.4 metres. It is located in a natural tectonic depression.</p><br>
<p>Presently Lake Banyoles is the largest natural lake in Catalonia. Lake Sils, located 33 kn further south, was formerly the largest lake in the area until it was drained in 1851.</p><br>
<h2>Flora and fauna</h2><br>
<p>There are both native and introduced fish species in the lake, like carp, gardí, bavosa de riu, sunfish, tench, black bass and eel. It is known that other fishes like the pike, the peix gat and the goldfish were introduced in the 19th century, but no specimens of those species have been found in recent surveys in the lake.</p><br>
<h2>Sports in the lake</h2><br>
<p>This lake became famous as the rowing location for the Barcelona Olympics 1992 and the World Rowing Championships in 2004. It is also a popular training location for many foreign rowers, particularly English rowers. It was also the site for the 1991 Junior World Rowing Championships.</p><br>
<p>The Jarčina  is a system of rivers and canals in the Srem region of Vojvodina province of Serbia with a total length of 53 km, which empties into the Sava river. The system includes the Međeš river-Jarčina Galovica canal-Progarska Jarčina course.</p><br>
<h2>Međeš</h2><br>
<p>The upper section of the system is the natural flow of the 27 km-long Međeš river. It originates from the Iriški Venac peak on the eastern slopes of the Fruška Gora mountain, at an altitude of 480 m. The Međeš flows to the south, next to the Grgeteg monastery and the villages of Šatrinci, Dobrodol and Žarkovac and receives many smaller streams flowing down from the Fruška Gora. At the village of Putinci, the river makes a small elbow turn and at the village of Donji Petrovci, receives the Šelovrnac river from the right and enters the channeled section of its flow, at an altitude of 90 m.</p><br>
<h2>Jarčina-Galovica</h2><br>
<p>Initially, the canal splits in two direction, the Jarkovačka Jarčina and Jarčina-Galovica canals. The former flows to the west into the Sava river at the village of Jarak, east of the town of Sremska Mitrovica. The latter continues to the south for 4 km, next to the villages of Popinci before it crosses the Galovica canal at the village of Prhovo.</p><br>
<h2>Progarska Jarčina</h2><br>
<p>From that point, the 22 km-long canal is known as the Progarska Jarčina. It receives the Krivaja river from the left and at the village of Ašanja, north of the Obedska bara bog, the canal turns east and leaves Vojvodina and enters the Belgrade City area, where it empties into the Sava at the village of Progar (municipality of Surčin), at an altitude of 70 m. In this section, the canal flows through the Podlužje sub-region of the region of Srem, next to the Živača lake and swamp, used for the Boljevci fish pond. The canal also marks the western border of the Belgrade&#39;s marshy forest of Bojčinska šuma.</p><br>
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<p>Clark Lake is a lake located in Gogebic County in the USA state of Michigan. Clark Lake is one of about two dozen clear, clean lakes located in the Sylvania Wilderness of Ottawa National Forest a few miles  to the west of the town of Watersmeet. The shoreline is undeveloped except for a picnic area and boat launch at the northern end. The lake possesses several islands and numerous bays and coves. Large boulders strewn about the shoreline and lake bed add to the scenic beauty of this lake. It is not uncommon to see nesting loons and eagles around the lake&#39;s islands, and black bear and wolves inhabit the old-growth forest around the lake. The total surface area of the lake is 820 acre, with maximum depths of 74 ft.</p><br>
<p>Like all lakes in Sylvania, Clark Lake has numerous special regulations designed to protect and ensure its wilderness quality for future generations. No motorized watercraft are allowed, and a catch and release policy is in place for bass species.</p><br>
<p>Loon Lake is a lake located in Gogebic County in the USA state of Michigan. Loon Lake is one of about two dozen clear, clean lakes located in a special wilderness area known as the Sylvania Wilderness, which in turn is located within the Ottawa National Forest a few miles to the west of the town of Watersmeet. The shoreline is completely undeveloped, and surrounded by virgin timber consisting mainly of hemlock and pine. This remote, spring-fed lake is noted for its rugged beauty. The total surface area of the lake is 375 acre, with maximum depths of 53 ft.</p><br>
<p>Like all lakes in the Sylvania Tract, Loon lake has numerous special regulations designed to protect and ensure its wilderness quality for future generations. These regulations include no motors on watercraft and catch and release for bass.</p><br>
<p>Torch Lake is an approximately 2,700 acres lake lying mostly within Torch Lake Township with portions within Osceola and Schoolcraft townships in Houghton County in the USA state of Michigan. The lake is fed by the Traprock River.</p><br>
<p>The village of Lake Linden at the north end of the lake was once the site of the largest copper milling operation in North America. About 200 e6ST of copper mill stamp sands were dumped into Torch Lake itself, filling about 20 percent of the lake&#39;s volume. The Environmental Protection Agency believes the contaminated sediments to be 70 ft thick in some areas, and surface sediments contain up to 2,000 parts per million (ppm) of copper.</p><br>
<p>The lake is about 5 mi east-northeast of Houghton and is approximately 6 mi long and 1+1/2 mi wide at 47&deg;09&prime;N latitude, 88&deg;25&prime;W longitude. The lake has a total surface area of 2,659 acre, and a maximum depth of 120 ft. A channel drains from the lake south into Torch Bay, which opens into Portage Lake.</p><br>
<p>The Howard Steamboat Museum, or the Howard National Steamboat Museum, is located in Jeffersonville, Indiana, across from Louisville, Kentucky. Based in the old Howard home, it features items related to steamboat history. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Origin</h2><br>
<p>The home was built in 1890 by Edmonds J. Howard, who inherited the family shipyard from his father James Howard, who founded the Howard Ship Yards, both in what was then Port Fulton, Indiana. It cost $100,000 to build the 22-room, 3-floor Late Victorian style red brick structure. Still within the museum are chandeliers, carvings, arches and a grand staircase that reflect the wealth Edmonds Howard had. As the Howards prided themselves on their hulls, a large collection of the half-breadths is displayed on the property. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 as the Howard Home.</p><br>
<p>The New York firm of Drach and Thomas designed the house, while a local man, Arthur Loomis supervised the project. They chose the bulky Richardson Romanesque style, while including exterior features such as red brick cladding and stained-glass windows. Keeping with the theme of the Howard family business, they installed a stairway fully copied from the stairway of the steamboat J. M. White.</p><br>
<p>Over the course of ownership of the Howard Shipyards, 3,000 ships were launched in what to its day is the largest inland shipyard in the United States. The Howard Shipyard was eventually made into Jeffboat.</p><br>
<h2>Museum</h2><br>
<p>On March 17, 1971, a fire broke out in the museum; the museum reopened the next year.</p><br>
<p>Deer Island Lake is a lake located in Gogebic County in the USA state of Michigan. The Lake is one of about 24 clear, clean lakes located in a special wilderness area known as the Sylvania Wilderness, which in turn is located within the Ottawa National Forest a few miles  to the west of the town of Watersmeet. The shoreline is completely undeveloped, and surrounded by virgin forest consisting mainly of hemlock and pine. This crystal-clear spring-fed lake is one of the most remote in the Sylvania Tract, but is well worth the journey for those intrepid enough to make it. The total surface area of the lake is 346 acre, with maximum depths of 55 ft . The lake is named for the very large island in the center of the lake, which deer inhabit by crossing back and forth on the ice in winter. Several smaller islands and numerous rocky shoals add to the overall beauty of this fine body of water.</p><br>
<p>Like all lakes in the Sylvania Tract, Deer Island lake has numerous special regulations designed to protect and ensure its wilderness quality for future generations. These regulations include no motors on watercraft and catch and release for bass.</p><br>
<p>Snoqualmie Mountain is the tallest peak in the immediate vicinity of Snoqualmie Pass in the North Cascade Range of Washington state, USA Its shape is often described as "amorphous" or "blob-like", although it does display a steep north face dropping down to the Middle Fork of the Snoqualmie River. The boundary of the Alpine Lakes Wilderness crosses the summit of Snoqualmie Mountain.</p><br>
<h2>Routes</h2><br>
<p>The south ridge, ascending from Cave Ridge between Snoqualmie Peak and Guye Peak, is a non-technical hike. To reach Cave Ridge, either ascend from just south of the Snow Lake trailhead near Alpental to the west, or ascend from the Commonwealth Basin to the east. Expect to take 4 hours to reach the summit. The first recorded ascent was by Albert H. Sylvester in 1897 or 1898.</p><br>
<p>Prospect Hall is a historic mansion, built beginning around 1787 on what was known at the time as "Red Hill", the highest elevation in the area of Frederick, Maryland.</p><br>
<p>A major Frederick County landowner and colonial civic leader, Daniel Dulaney, built the original home on the property, which is southwest of the city of Frederick, although the current mansion known as Prospect Hall was probably not completed until 1810. This white, three story structure, designed in a Greek revival style with additional Federal elements, has hosted visitors from Presidents George Washington to Harry Truman. It was originally located on the Jefferson Pike, which led from Jefferson Street southwest out of Frederick to the town of Jefferson, Maryland, but after reconstruction and rerouting of local roads in the 1970s was situated on the adjacent facing Butterfly Lane and Himes Avenue.</p><br>
<p>The mansion was the site of General George G. Meade&#39;s takeover of command of the Army of the Potomac of the Union Army from General Joseph Hooker immediately before the Battle of Gettysburg, under last-minute orders from President Abraham Lincoln. Hooker had been defeated by General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Chancellorsville, in Virginia, a few weeks earlier. A messenger had been sent out from Washington with the new orders but the courier had difficulty finding the command headquarters in the night. A large rectangular carved granite boulder from the Gettysburg battlefield engraved with details of the historical event was placed on the northeast corner of the property near the entrance driveway. The site is listed on the "Maryland Civil War Trails" program with internet website, illustrated site plaque marker and listed on an accompanying printed brochure.</p><br>
<p>During the middle 20th Century, the historic mansion was owned and occupied by USA Representative Himes. It was later the site and campus of Saint Johns Literary Institution (now known as Saint Johns Catholic Prep) from 1958-1959 until January 2013. St. Johns had been founded in 1828-1829 in eastern downtown Frederick, on Second Street, in buildings from 1829 to 1925 and rebuilt in that year until the late 1950s, when the move to Prospect Hall occurred and the Second Street location was turned over to the lower grades of St. Johns Elementary School. The site is currently under development, and thirteen apartment buildings will be built on the property.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Cold Lake is a large lake in Northern Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canada. The lake straddles the Alberta/Saskatchewan border, and has a water area of 373 km&sup2;. It is also one of the deepest lakes in Alberta with a maximum depth of 99.1 m. It has around 24 known species of fish in it and is a major ice fishing lake. It is also major stop for many migrating birds, and is home to one of the largest warbler populations in Alberta. A surface of 248 km&sup2; lies in the province of Alberta.</p><br>
<p>The city of Cold Lake is located on the shore. Excepting the western shore, the lake is surrounded by protected areas such as the Cold Lake Provincial Park in Alberta and the Meadow Lake Provincial Park in Saskatchewan. The Cold Lake 149 A and B indian reserve of the Cold Lake First Nations are established on the western and southern shores respectively. Cold Lake House was a trading post built by the Montreal traders in 1781 near the present Beaver Crossing, Alberta south of Cold Lake.</p><br>
<p>The Martineau River flows from Primrose Lake into Cold Lake, which in turn discharges through the Cold River (Saskatchewan) in Waterhen River (Saskatchewan), a major tributary of Beaver River.</p><br>
<h2>Fish species</h2><br>
<h2>Legend of the Kinosoo</h2><br>
<p>A young brave regularly paddled around the perimeter of Cold Lake (“Luwe Chok Tuwe” in Dene) to visit a beautiful young girl who he hoped would one day be his wife. It is safer to travel around the perimeter of Cold Lake because the wind can rapidly whip up large waves which can swamp a small birch bark canoe. This particular evening was calm and the lake was like glass so the brave decided to take a short cut across the water. As he got farther out, the water around him began to swirl. There was a thundering splash as the Kinosoo ("big fish" in Dene) roared up and bit the canoe in half. The brave desperately tried to beat off the Kinosoo with his paddle but soon disappeared below the waves. The young girl on the other side of Bay witnessed the struggle and waited in vain for her beloved to appear. The next morning a broken paddle and bits of canoe drifted ashore and the brave was never seen again.So from this day forward the Dene have avoided crossing large expanses of open water in their canoes.</p><br>
<p>This is a cautionary story told to children and youths to avoid the dangers of the deeper waters.</p><br>
<p>Maple Bay is a seaside community located in the Cowichan Valley of southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. A narrow inlet and surrounded by smooth, pebbled beaches, Maple Bay is home to marine activity all year round.</p><br>
<p>The sheltered haven of Maple Bay is situated halfway up Sansum Narrows, which separates Vancouver Island from Saltspring Island, the largest and nearest of the southern Gulf Islands.</p><br>
<p>Maple Bay is serviced by floatplane, Salt Spring Air and Harbour Air Seaplanes that fly regular scheduled flights several times a day from Maple Bay Marina, to Ganges (Ganges Water Aerodrome) on Saltspring Island and then on to Vancouver (Vancouver International Water Airport/Vancouver International Airport and Vancouver Harbour Flight Centre).</p><br>
<p>There are three commercial marinas, a public dock, as well as the Maple Bay Yacht Club and the Maple Bay Rowing Club.</p><br>
<p>Maple Bay Marina is replacing many older boat sheds with new style, fire resistant yacht enclosures, creating one the safest and most environmentally responsible marinas in British Columbia. Maple Bay Marina has also been recognised with an Eco-Rating of 4 anchors for their Environmental Best Practices by the Georgia Strait Alliance Clean Marine program.</p><br>
<p>The Pine River is a 19.2 mi river located in eastern New Hampshire in the United States. It is a tributary of Ossipee Lake, part of the Saco River watershed leading to the Atlantic Ocean.</p><br>
<h2>Course</h2><br>
<p>The Pine River begins at the outlet of Pine River Pond in Wakefield, New Hampshire. The river almost immediately enters the town of Ossipee and heads northwest through a sandy, pine-forested valley. The Pine River Esker, now mostly excavated by sand and gravel operations, follows the river for over six miles. The river enters the western corner of Effingham, passing through the Heath Pond Bog Natural Area, then reenters Ossipee two miles before the river&#39;s mouth at Ossipee Lake.</p><br>
<p>The Beech River is a significant tributary, entering just east of the village of Center Ossipee, one mile upstream from Ossipee Lake. New Hampshire Route 16, while not following the river closely, occupies the same broad, sandy valley.</p><br>
<p>Lake Walter E. Long  is a power plant cooling reservoir on Decker Creek in Austin, Texas. The reservoir was officially impounded in 1967 and serves to provide water for turbines used in the production of electricity from petroleum-based fuels. The dam and the lake are managed by the City of Austin. Surrounding Lake Walter E. Long is the city of Austin&#39;s Lake Walter E. Long Metropolitan Park, a popular recreational destination.</p><br>
<h2>Flora and fauna</h2><br>
<p>Lake Walter E. Long has been stocked with species of fish intended to improve the utility of the reservoir for recreational fishing. Fish present in Lake Walter E. Long include catfish, largemouth bass, hybrid striped bass, and sunfish. Plant species present in the lake water include hydrilla, pondweed, bulrush, waterstar grass, American lotus, coontail, and southern naiad.</p><br>
<h2>Recreational uses</h2><br>
<p>Lake Walter E. Long Metropolitan Park is open for daytime recreational use. Boating and fishing are the most popular recreational uses of the lake.</p><br>
<p>The Bearcamp River is a 26.3 mi river at the southern edge of the White Mountains in New Hampshire, the United States. It is the largest tributary of Ossipee Lake, part of the Saco River watershed leading to the Atlantic Ocean.</p><br>
<p>The Bearcamp River rises in Sandwich Notch, at the northeast end of the Squam Mountain Range and the western end of the Sandwich Range, in the town of Sandwich, New Hampshire. It flows to the southeast, dropping over Beede Falls, and quickly reaches the lowlands at the base of the White Mountains. The river flows east through Sandwich, entering Tamworth at the juncture of the Cold River. Passing the villages of South Tamworth and Whittier, the river nears the base of the Ossipee Mountains to the south. It passes the village of West Ossipee and enters Ossipee Lake after flowing through a small delta.</p><br>
<p>New Hampshire Route 25 follows the river through Tamworth to West Ossipee.</p><br>
<p>The Swift River is an 8.3 mi river located in eastern New Hampshire in the United States. It is a tributary of the Bearcamp River, part of the Ossipee Lake / Saco River watershed leading to the Atlantic Ocean. The Swift River is located only four miles south of the larger and longer Swift River which parallels the Kancamagus Highway in the White Mountain National Forest.</p><br>
<p>The Swift River begins at the confluence of Paugus Brook and Durrell Brook in the northern part of Tamworth, New Hampshire, at the base of Mount Chocorua. The river flows south through a narrow valley, quickly being joined by the Wonalancet River from the west. After passing Tamworth village, the valley broadens, and the Swift River slows before joining the Bearcamp River between the villages of Whittier and West Ossipee. Mill Brook joins near the Swift River&#39;s mouth.</p><br>
<p>Lough Dan  is a boomerang-shaped ribbon lake near Roundwood, County Wicklow, Ireland. It is a popular area for hikers and kayakers and lies very close to the Wicklow Way.</p><br>
<p>The Inchavore river flows into Lough Dan from the north-west. An outflow from Lough Tay - the Cloghoge river - feeds it via from the north-east. It is drained to the south by the River Avonmore. Most of the lake is surrounded by private lands, though the north-western corner is part of the Wicklow National Park.</p><br>
<h2>Scouting Jamboree</h2><br>
<p>In 1997, Lough Dan was the site of an Irish Scouting jamboree, Lough Dan &#39;97, hosted by Scouting Ireland S.A.I. on their national campsite based beside the lake, and co-organised by the Federation of Irish Scouts Associations.</p><br>
<p>The Jamboree was abandoned on the Thursday due to inclement weather and flooding.</p><br>
<p>Lake Bastrop is a reservoir on Spicer Creek in the Colorado River basin 3 miles  northeast of the town of Bastrop in central Bastrop County, Texas, United States. The reservoir was formed in 1964 by the construction of a dam by the Lower Colorado River Authority. The lake serves primarily as a power plant cooling pond for the Sim Gideon Power Plant operated by the LCRA and the Lost Pines Power Project 1, owned by GenTex Power Corporation, a wholly owned affiliate of the LCRA. Lake Bastrop also serves as a venue for outdoor recreation, including fishing, boating, swimming, camping and picnicking, and is maintained at a constant level year round.</p><br>
<p>Approximately one quarter of the shoreline of the Lake is privately owned by the Capitol Area Council, Boy Scouts of America. This property is used for the Lost Pines Scout Reservation, consisting of Cub World at Camp Tom Wooten, for Cub Scouts and Lost Pines Boy Scout Camp, for Boy Scouts. The Scouts leased the property from the LCRA starting in 1965, buying the land in the late 1990s.</p><br>
<h2>Fish populations</h2><br>
<p>Lake Bastrop has been stocked with species of fish intended to improve the utility of the reservoir for recreational fishing. Fish present in Lake Bastrop include catfish, crappie, perch, sunfish, carp, and largemouth bass.</p><br>
<h2>Recreational uses</h2><br>
<p>The Lower Colorado River Authority maintains two public parks, North Shore Park and South Shore Park, on the lake, both of which provide camp sites for rent.</p><br>
<p>San Vicente Creek  is a 3.9 mi coastal stream in northern California which flows entirely within San Mateo County and discharges to the Pacific Ocean. Its waters rise on the west facing slopes of the Montara Mountain, block and its mouth is at the unincorporated community of Moss Beach, within the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve. Historically there was a tidal marsh at its mouth, but some of this reach has been degraded by fill, especially in the construction of West Point Drive. This westernmost reach of the creek has been especially ecologically productive, and part of the reason for Fitzgerald Marine Reserve&#39;s designation on August 5, 1969 as a state reserve and was named after James V. Fitzgerald.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The streambanks of San Vicente Creek were inhabited by Native American as early as 3800 BC.</p><br>
<p>The first European land exploration of Alta California, the Spanish Portolá expedition, passed through the area on its way north, camping near the creek on October 30, 1769.</p><br>
<p>In the year 1933, discovery of the rare plant Hickman&#39;s potentilla was made in the lower stream reach, but the species is not known to have existed past the 1970s at this location.</p><br>
<p>Martini Creek is a coastal stream whose watershed lies entirely within San Mateo County, California, United States on the western exposures of the Montara mountain block, discharging to the Pacific Ocean. It flows about 2 mi from its source on Montara Mountain to its mouth in Montara State Beach. This stream has a drainage basin composed of open space and agricultural lands. Some of the basin has moderate to steep slopes and much of the basin habitat is northern coastal scrub, and in places almost of a pygmy forest nature.</p><br>
<p>There are numerous species of flora and fauna which are found in this watershed, including the rare plant Hickman&#39;s potentilla. Yellow Bush Lupine is also seen here in a low growing form</p><br>
<p>The creek name became widely publicized when a highway alternative for the Devil&#39;s Slide bypass became dubbed the "Martini Creek Alignment". The highway proposal caused considerable study during the 1980s and 1990s of biology, geology, air quality and acoustics conditions within this watershed.</p><br>
<h2>Bibliography</h2><br>
<p>* Biological Assessment, Species of Concern, Proposed Route 1 Devil&#39;s Slide Tunnel Bypass Project, San Mateo County, California Prepared by; Caltrans, Office of Environmental Planning, South. July, 1998.</p><br>
<p>* Devil&#39;s Slide Improvement Project, San Mateo County, California, Draft Second Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement, Caltrans District 4 (1999)</p><br>
<p>* Hogan, Michael and Ballard George, Air Quality and Noise Analyses for the Bypass Alternative, Devil&#39;s Slide Improvement Project, Caltrans District 4, prepared by Earth Metrics Inc., Burlingame, CA (1984)</p><br>
<p>* Hovland, John H., Ph.D., P.E., A Study of the Feasibility of Stabilizing the Landslide Area Along Highway One, San Mateo County, California, by Dewatering, April, 1998</p><br>
<p>* Woodward-Clyde Consultants, Devil’s Slide Tunnel Study: Feasibility Report, October, 1996.</p><br>
<p>Somport or Col du Somport, known also as the Aspe Pass or Canfranc Pass,  is a mountain pass in the central Pyrenees on the border of France and Spain. Its name is derived from the Latin Summus portus. It was one of the most popular routes for soldiers, merchants, and pilgrims to the tomb of St. James following the route from Arles to cross the Pyrenees. They travelled from Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France, via Somport to Aragon, Spain.</p><br>
<h2>Military history</h2><br>
<p>There is recorded evidence of both the Vandals and the Visigothic invaders having used the relatively facile entrance to Spain from France in the fifth century. The Roman road constructed here, known as the Via Tolosana, was also used by Muslim invaders in the eighth century in their attempt to conquer France. The pass was fortified in the 16th century by the Habsburgs in fear of French invasion, which however would not occur until the Peninsular War and the arrival of Napoleon&#39;s general Louis Gabriel Suchet in 1808. He was later followed by Colonel Leonard Morin who records in his Memoirs of the 5th Regiment (1812–13) both the danger of the pass and the horrible existence of the population of Canfranc. The French would leave by the same road after their defeat by General Francisco Espoz y Mina in 1814.</p><br>
<p>The Fort du Portalet is a fort in the Aspe valley north of the present Spain-France border which guards access to the Col du Somport. It was built by order of Louis Philippe I to guard the border of the Pyrenees. Installed against a cliff overlooking the Gave d&#39;Aspe, it faces the path of Masts. It was begun in 1842 and finished in 1870, replacing an earlier structure a further north. During WWII Léon Blum, Édouard Daladier, Paul Reynaud, Georges Mandel and Maurice Gamelin were interned under the Vichy regime. After the war Philippe Pétain was imprisoned in the fort from 15 August to 16 November 1945.</p><br>
<h2>Pilgrimage history</h2><br>
<p>This was arguably the most popular Pyrenaic pass for pilgrims on the Way of St. James until the pacification of Navarran and Basque bandits in the 12th century made the relatively easier Roncesvalles road safer for pilgrims. There is little of interest at the pass, except for the modern Ermita del Pilar (1992) and of course the natural beauty of the mountains. From this point to Santiago de Compostela it is approximately 840 km.</p><br>
<h2>Modern history</h2><br>
<p>The Pau–Canfranc railway linking Canfranc, Spain with Pau, France opened to traffic in 1928, connected via the Somport Railway Tunnel which was completed in 1915, and terminating in Spain at the Canfranc International Railway Station. The railway line was closed due to a freight-train accident 27 March 1970.</p><br>
<p>The 8.6 km long Somport Road Tunnel was opened on 7 February 2003, at a cost of €160 million to Spain and €91.5 million for France. The building of the road tunnel was controversial, particularly in France, with those opposing it claiming that it would effectively destroy the natural beauty of the Aspe Valley (Vallée dAspe), preferring full reopening of the Pau-Canfranc rail line. A group of protesters permanently squatted at the abandoned railway station near Cette-Eygun, at the foot of the pass on the French side. Among them was the charismatic Eric Pététin, who had waged a protracted legal campaign against the authorities, causing delay in the tunnels construction. By 1998 protesters were resorting to non-violent direct action, when construction was well under way. Their mascot was the rare Pyrenean Brown Bear, allegedly still to be found in the valley, but close to extinction, and alleged further threatened by the tunnel project. The last protesters were finally evicted in October 2005, some 20 years after campaigning against the tunnel had begun.</p><br>
<p>On 3 June 2003 French deputy Jean Lassalle interrupted the French National Assembly by singing the "love song" Se Canto, protesting against Minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy&#39;s announcement of the moving of 23 gendarmes guarding the Somport Road Tunnel to the town of Oloron-Sainte-Marie from neighbouring Urdos, where Sarkozy commented that their wives had probably been "bored". Lassalle viewed this as offensive to the residents of Urdos.</p><br>
<h2>Sports</h2><br>
<p>There is a cross-country ski trail that goes 35 km around the pass, shared by Spain and France. Part of the route belongs to the Spanish ski resort of Candanchú.</p><br>
<p>The Huntsville Depot located on the Norfolk Southern Railway line in downtown Huntsville is the oldest surviving railroad depot in Alabama and one of the oldest in the United States. Completed in 1860, the depot served as eastern division headquarters for the Memphis and Charleston Railroad. It is listed on both the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage and National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Huntsville was occupied by Union forces in 1862 during the Civil War as a strategic point on the railroad and the depot was used as a prison for Confederate soldiers. Graffiti left by the soldiers can still be seen on the walls. The Huntsville Depot saw its last regularly scheduled passenger train, Southern Railway&#39;s The Tennessean, on March 30, 1968. Today the Depot serves as a museum, part of the Early Works Museum.</p><br>
<p>Mount Ishizuchi is a 1,982 m mountain on the border of Saijō and Kumakōgen, in Ehime, Japan. This mountain is one of the 100 famous mountains in Japan. It is the highest mountain in Western Japan and the island of Shikoku.</p><br>
<h2>Outline</h2><br>
<p>Mount Ishizuchi is the highest mountain on the island of Shikoku and also the highest mountain west of Mount Haku. It is known as the roof of Shikoku and the sharp, rocky summit resembles a huge stone hammer.</p><br>
<p>Mount Ishizuchi is an important object of worship in this region and one of the major centers of Shugendō, a sect of mixture of Shintoism and Buddhism. At the top of the mountain there is a small shrine called the Ishizuchi Shrine. This mountain is also known as one of Seven Holy Mountains. There are several sets of heavy iron chains leading up to the summit and this is the route many pilgrims opt to take, the longest set being 68m. However, it is possible to hike all the way to the peak along a trail which includes stairs and ramps with handrails.</p><br>
<p>The climbing season opens every year on July 1, and women are forbidden from climbing the mountain on this day. Between mid-October and mid-November, people come from far and wide to view the autumn colours.</p><br>
<p>The area around Mount Ishizuchi is a major part of Ishizuchi Quasi-National Park.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>Sanchōjōju Station of Ishizuchi Ropeway</p><br>
<p>Ishizuchi Tsuchigoya Bus Stop of Iyotetsu Bus</p><br>
<h2>Footnotes</h2><br>
<p>Thagaste  was a Roman-Berber city in present-day Algeria. It is now called Souk Ahras. The town was the birthplace of Saint Augustine.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Thagaste was originally a small Numidian village, inhabited by a Berber tribe into which Augustine of Hippo was born in 354. His mother Saint Monica was a Christian and his father Patricius (with Roman roots) was at first a pagan.</p><br>
<p>The city was located in the north-eastern highlands of Numidia. It lay around 60 mi from Hippo Regius, (modern Annaba), 20 mi southwest of Thubursicum (Khamissa), and about 150 mi from Carthage (on the coast of Tunisia).</p><br>
<p>Thagaste was situated in a region full of dense forest. In antiquity, this area was renowned for its mounts, which were used as a natural citadel against different foreign invaders, including the Romans, the Byzantines, the Vandals, and the Umayyads.</p><br>
<p>During the Roman period, trading increased in the city, that flourished mainly under the rule of Septimius Severus. Thagaste became a Roman municipium in the first century of Roman domination. The city was mentioned by Pliny the Elder. As a municipium, Thagaste was settled by a few Roman Italian immigrants, but was mainly inhabited by romanized native Berbers.</p><br>
<p>Indeed, Roman historian Plinius (V,4,4) wrote that Tagaste was an important Christian center in Roman Africa. It had a basilica and a Roman Catholic diocese, the latter of which was the most important in Byzantine Numidia. There are three bishops of Thagaste historically known: Saint Firminus, Saint Alipius (friend of Saint Augustine) and Saint Gennarus.</p><br>
<p>There is the tradition that Saint Augustine used to meditate under an olive tree in a hill of Thagaste: this tree is still existing and is the place of reunion even now for the followers of the Augustinian spirituality.</p><br>
<p>The Byzantines fortified the city with walls. It fell to the Umayyad Caliphate toward the end of the seventh century. After centuries of neglect, French colonists rebuilt the city, which is now called Souk Ahras.</p><br>
<p>Langsett Reservoir is in Yorkshire, England, near the villages of Langsett and Upper Midhope, on the edge of the Peak District National Park. The reservoir was constructed between 1898 and 1904, and is now managed by Yorkshire Water. Fed by the Little Don or Porter River, it is around a mile long, and supplies water for Sheffield and Barnsley via the Langsett Treatment Works.</p><br>
<h2>Construction and statistics</h2><br>
<p>Construction of the reservoir began in 1898, the logistics of getting the workforce and materials to Langsett caused great difficulty as most of them came up from Sheffield. This involved a journey over four different stretches of railway line, the first leg was from Sheffield Midland Station to Deepcar, this was followed by a journey to Stocksbridge on the Samuel Fox and Company private line. From the Samuel Fox steelworks a new one mile long line was built to reach the Underbank Reservoir to join up with the Water Authority track up to Langsett Reservoir.</p><br>
<p>The reservoir is 125 acres (51 hectares) in area with a depth of 97 feet and has a holding capacity of 1,408 million gallons, making it the largest of the water supply reservoirs in the immediate Sheffield district. The catchment area is the Langsett Moors to the west and this covers an area of 5,203 acres (2105 hectares). The embankment is 1156 feet (352 metres) long with a height of 117 feet (35 metres) from the bottom of the old river bed. The embankment is 720 feet (219 metres) wide at the bottom tapering to 36 feet (11 metres) at the top and contains 900,000 cubic yards of infill in the puddle wall and concrete trench, making it one of the largest earth embankments in Great Britain.</p><br>
<p>The minor road (Midhope Cliff Lane) which runs across the embankment is thought to be the longest single carriageway of any reservoir in Great Britain. The embankment road has a sharp bend in it as it joins the A616 main road, this was a last minute change in construction plans, as keeping it straight would have meant the demolition of the Waggon and Horses public house. The reservoir was completed in 1904 when Alderman T.R. Gainsford closed the valve in the Langsett tower and the reservoir started to fill up, he was then presented with a golden key by the engineer William Watts.</p><br>
<p>Local depopulation was used in the early part of the twentieth century to improve the water purity, and six farms were abandoned these included Brookhouse farm and North America farm, the last farmer left around 1907. The ruins of North America remain to the south-west of the reservoir even though it was used for target practice during World War II. In 1962 conifers were planted around the reservoir as shown on the map, with the aim of providing a habitat for many species of indigenous wildlife. This plantation is called Langsett Woods. In recent years the woods have been restructured with most of the coniferous trees being felled and being replaced by oak and birch trees in an effort to create a new upland oak woodland. In 2007 a pond was created near Brookhouse Bridge at the western end of the reservoir to help dragonflies, frogs, newts and toads establish new colonies. The Pennine peaks of Pike Lowe (478 m) and Hingcliff Common (358 m) lie to the south and south-west of the reservoir, respectively. The area is used for sheep farming and grouse shooting, and it is popular with walkers, mountain bikers and bird watchers with treecreepers, woodpeckers and owls to be seen in the vicinity.</p><br>
<h3>Langsett water treatment works</h3><br>
<p>The present day Langsett water treatment works were built to replace the older works at Midhope and Langsett reservoirs. The older works used sand filter beds to treat the water, although the water was safe to drink, the sand filters had never been able to remove the brown colouration caused by rainwater falling on the surrounding peat moorland. After much complaining from consumers, it was decided in 1980 to build a completely new treatment works. South Yorkshire Water Authority gave permission in December 1981 to build the works in an old quarry adjacent to the reservoir wall. Worked started in 1983 with water from the new works going into the supply system in July 1986. The works clarify the water by the addition of chemicals before the filtration stage to bring it up to the latest EU standards. The works can produce 60,000 cubic metres (60 million litres) of water per day.</p><br>
<p>The Chocorua River is a 15.2 mi river located in eastern New Hampshire in the United States. It is a tributary of the Bearcamp River, part of the Ossipee Lake / Saco River watershed leading to the Atlantic Ocean.</p><br>
<p>The Chocorua River rises on the eastern slopes of Mount Chocorua, a prominent rocky knob at the southeast margin of the White Mountains. The river flows south into lowlands at the base of the mountain and arrives at Chocorua Lake, noted for its outstanding view of Mount Chocorua. Beyond the lake, the river flows south to the village of Chocorua with a picturesque mill dam, then continues into the flat, sandy Ossipee Lake region, reaching the Bearcamp River at West Ossipee.</p><br>
<p>New Hampshire Route 16 parallels the Chocorua River for most of its length.</p><br>
<h2>Local history</h2><br>
<p>In the early 20th century, innkeepers purchased the granite mill dam at the southern end of Moore&#39;s Pond on the river in Chocorua village. In 1912, the owners of the Chocorua Inn converted the mill dam into a hydroelectric operation hoping to supply energy to part of the town. A year or so later the dam was demolished in a flood, never to be reconstructed. As the eastern portion of the dam was breached, the levee broke and released two thirds of the pond in a few hours, causing the water level to drop 15 ft and allowing former marshlands to thrive again.</p><br>
<p>Slesse Mountain, usually referred to as Mount Slesse, is a mountain just north of the US-Canada border, in the Cascade Mountains of British Columbia, near the town of Chilliwack. It is notable for its large, steep local relief. For example, its west face drops over 1,950 m to Slesse Creek in less than 3 km. It is also famous for its huge Northeast Buttress; see the climbing notes below. The name means "fang" in the Halkomelem language. Notable nearby mountains include Mount Rexford and Canadian Border Peak in British Columbia, and American Border Peak, Mount Shuksan, and Mount Baker, all in the US state of Washington.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Most of Mount Slesse is made up of granitic rocks related to the Chilliwack batholith, which intruded the region 26 to 29 million years ago after the major orogenic episodes in the region. This is part of the Pemberton Volcanic Belt, an eroded volcanic belt that formed as a result of subduction of the Farallon Plate starting 29 million years ago. The primary rock comprising Slesse is grey diorite from the Batholith. However the summit ridge and the west face are composed of Darrington Phyllite, a metamorphic rock, produced by contact metamorphism with the rock of the Batholith and with an intrusion of granodiorite.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Mount Slesse was first climbed on August 10, 1927, by Stan Henderson, Mills Winram, and Fred Parkes, via a route starting from Slesse Creek. The standard route today is the Southwest Route, which involves approximately 1,650 m of ascent, a good deal of scrambling and some sections of technical rock climbing up to class 5.6. However Slesse is most famous for the Northeast Buttress, first climbed on August 28, 1963 by Fred Beckey, Steve Marts, and Eric Bjornstad. It is a serious multi-day rock climb (Grade V) with technical difficulty of class 5.8 or 5.9. This climb is featured in Roper and Steck&#39;s Fifty Classic Climbs of North America. In July 1966 Hans Baer and Jack Bryan did the second ascent of this route, with one bivouac and a straightline exit at the top of the buttress.</p><br>
<p>Lüderitz Bay or Lüderitzbaai , also known as Angra Pequena , is a bay in the coast of Namibia, Africa. The city of Lüderitz is located at the edge of the bay.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The bay is indented and complex in structure. It opens to the Atlantic Ocean in the west. Lüderitz town is located in the southern shore of the inner eastern bay, which is known as Angra Pequena in Portuguese and opens towards the north. Further west Griffith Bay, a deep inlet, stretches southwards in the southern part.</p><br>
<p>The bay west of Angra Point is known as Shearwater Bay, the location of a proposed port for the export of amongst other things, coal from Botswana. This requires the construction of the 1600 km Trans Kalahari Railway.</p><br>
<p>There are two islands facing Agate Beach in the northeastern part of the bay, Penguin Island and Seal Island.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The easternmost bay was named Angra Pequena when first mapped in 1487 by Portuguese explorer Bartolomeu Dias, although in some maps it appeared as Angra de São Christóvão. In 1883 the bay area was made into a trading station by German trader Adolf Lüderitz. He renamed it Lüderitz and concluded treaties with the neighbouring chiefs, who ceded large tracts of country to the newcomers. Under the belief that Britain was about to claim the area as a protectorate, Lüderitz transferred his rights over the bay on 24 April 1884 to the German Imperial Government, and on the following 7 August Chancellor Otto von Bismarck proclaimed a German protectorate over the station and the surrounding area.</p><br>
<p>Renamed Lüderitzbucht (Lüderitz Bay) by the Germans, the location then became a naval base for German South West Africa, modern day Namibia.</p><br>
<p>The two islands off Agate Beach, rich in guano deposits, were annexed by Great Britain in 1867 and added to Cape Colony in 1874 as part of the offshore territory known as Penguin Islands.</p><br>
<p>Whitley Heights  is a residential neighborhood and historic preservation overlay zone in the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Central Los Angeles, California. Known as a residential area for actors and other people in the motion-picture industry, it is divided between a hillside single-family district and an apartment area. It is notable for an attempt by its homeowners&#39; group and the city to close off public streets to outside traffic, an effort that was ruled illegal by the courts</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The preservation zone is split into two parts by the Hollywood Freeway (USA Highway 101) running through the Cahuenga Pass. Streets within the zone&#39;s northern part are a one-block portion of Cahuenga Boulevard, Iris Drive and some of Whitley Avenue; it consists almost exclusively of single-family homes. The southern zone, about 80% of the original plot, embraces Fairfield Avenue, Wedgewood Place, Whitley Avenue, Cerritos Place, Hollyhill Terrace, Grace Avenue, Emmet Terrace, Las Palmas Avenue and Milner Road and is almost exclusively zoned for apartments.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Early days</h3><br>
<p>Hobart Johnstone Whitley bought the hillside area in 1901-03 and hired architect Arthur Barnes to build houses in a Mediterranean style which he thought would suit Southern California&#39;s climate. Five years later, Whitley Heights was seen as a "magnificent hill of forty acres situated in the very center of Hollywood and overlooking the entire city." On June 30, 1907, a fire kindled by a resident at the foot of the hill swept over the land, which was covered by a heavy growth of wild mustard and barley, and destroyed "many rare and valuable trees and shrubs" that Whitley had planted. It threatened a large reservoir owned by the United Hollywood Water Company atop the rise and burned several tons of hay. The fire was quenched the same day by the volunteer Hollywood fire department headed by E. Fossler. A contemporary account noted that "This hill has been one of the show places of Hollywood for some time. Here Mr. Whitley intends erecting a handsome home at some future date, and toward this end he has cultivated and beautified the grounds, laying them out in winding roads and planting a great variety of rare trees and shrubs, some of which were imported from the Hawaiian Islands and Mexico."</p><br>
<p>Whitley had sold some of his land for one dollar to the water company for the reservoir about 1904 and bought it back sixteen years later at a cost of $30,000.</p><br>
<p>In 1918, Whitley commissioned architect A.S. Barnes to design Whitley Heights as a Mediterranean village on the steep hillsides above Hollywood Boulevard. Whitley sent Barnes to tour the Mediterranean area to study its architecture and landscaping of Italy&#39;s historic hill towns before returning to the Southland, where he designed most of the Whitley Heights houses between 1918 and 1928.The development grew during the 1920s, and it became the first Hollywood celebrity community. The streets in the development were dedicated to public use in 1920 and 1921, and they were improved by the city between 1924 and 1927. Most of them had no sidewalks, with stairways built from level to level to encourage walking.</p><br>
<p>On the evening of June 23, 1920, the residential subdivision of Whitley Heights was opened with a festive barbecue that gathered an assemblage of businessmen and politicians. The Times noted that "The occasion was attended with a special significance as it was the scene of a reunion of many men who were connected with Mr. Whitley in his first efforts to make the vegetable gardens into a wealthy city more than twenty years ago, men who had gathered at a similar affair in 1902 to watch the turning on of the first electric lights in Hollywood." The subdivision already had several homes on the terraces that divided the hill into foiur grades.</p><br>
<p>Three years later, in 1923, the Whitley Heights Civic Association was founded.</p><br>
<h3>Preservation zone</h3><br>
<p>In 1982 Whitley Heights was made a state historic district by the California Historical Resources Commission after research done by actor Brian Moore, president of Whitley Heights Homeowners. Moore traced property titles in the area, gathered old photographs and articles and read through the papers of Hobard J. Whitley, which were housed in the special collections library at the University of California, Los Angeles. He was impelled to begin his researchi n 1981 after a bungalow was demolished by a developer who wanted to build tract homes. To qualify for the designation, an area had to be at least fifty years old and retain many of its original characteristics. At the time almost all of the homes, with their red tile roofs, balconies and arched windows and doorways, were original. Later the district was also made a national historic place, the first such in Hollywood.</p><br>
<p>In 2004 the area was made into a Los Angeles city historic preservation overlay zone.</p><br>
<h3>Street closure</h3><br>
<p>Over time, the placid nature of Whitley Heights and its 168 homes changed. In April 1983 the Whitley Heights Civic Association was incensed at a developers plans to build an apartment complex on Las Palmas Avenue, which stirred up a community surge on behalf of fencing off streets around the neighborhood as protection against what one resident called "animal people" who walked up the hill to burglarize homes. By 1985, there were burglaries, assaults, vandalism and car thefts. Prostitutes came up from nearby Hollywood Boulevard to work in parked cars, and the area extending north from Hollywood Boulevard into Whitley Heights had the highest crime rate in Hollywood. For four years, residents had been beseeching the city of Los Angeles to approve the installation of 10 gates across the public streets leading into the community, and in May 1985 the Public Works Committee of the City Council agreed with the areas City Council representative, Peggy Stevenson, and recommended that streets to the enclave be closed to non-residents.</p><br>
<p>In 1991, the City of Los Angeles issued a permit to the Whitley Heights Civic Association to allow the installation of gates that would turn the community into a private enclave. Construction, funded by Whitley Heights homeowners, began in January 1991 and was substantially completed by April 1992, at a cost of more than $350,000. Construction was permanently halted in 1992 when a group called "Citizens Against Gated Enclaves" successfully sued to prevent the closure of public roadways in Whitley Heights. The trial court held that state law prohibited the city from withdrawing a street from public use in that fashion. An appellate court agreed, and the end result was that the gates were removed at the expense of the Whitley Heights homeowners and the streets put back in good repair at the expense of the city, with all court costs paid by the defendants.</p><br>
<h2>Notable houses</h2><br>
<p>Construction of the Hollywood Freeway through the district resulted in the destruction of forty-nine houses, including those where actors Rudolph Valentino and Charlie Chaplin had lived. A home belonging to actress Bette Davis was destroyed in the early 1960s for a proposed Hollywood museum that was never built.</p><br>
<p>Villa Vallambrosia is a three-story residence built in 1929 by Eleanor DeWitt, described by Los Angeles Times columnist Jack Smith as a "wealthy and fastidious widow." Smith wrote: "Like most of the houses in Whitley Heights, it is... a collection of rooms and courtyards of various shapes and levels, fitted to the steep hillside." The architect was Nathaniel Coleman, who had been sent abroad to study Italian architecture and who modeled the house after a villa on the Grand Canal in Venice. In its three stories it had a "concave facade, a five-sided filigreed balcony and an interior courtyard with a fireplace and fountain.</p><br>
<p>The home of actors Patrick Bauchau and Mijanou Bardot was featured in a 2003 book,Secret Gardens of Hollywood and Private Oases in Los Angeles (Universal Publishing), in which author Erica Lennard wrote: "their yard, abundant with fruit trees — olive, lemon, pomegranate, guava, fig — and bamboo, jasmine, lavender, passionflowers, was too seductive to leave." In 1999, Bauchau had run afoul of the wishes of a local Historical Preservation Zone review board which ordered him to cut back the overgrown foliage at the front of his property because it was shrouding the view of his house and the look was not in keeping with the original atmosphere of Whitley Heights from the 1920s.</p><br>
<h2>Notable residents</h2><br>
<p>Actors and entertainers</p><br>
<p>Mijanou Bardot</p><br>
<p>Richard Barthelmess</p><br>
<p>Patrick Bauchau</p><br>
<p>Francis X. Bushman</p><br>
<p>Beulah Bondi</p><br>
<p>Bette Davis</p><br>
<p>Marlene Dietrich</p><br>
<p>Marie Dressler</p><br>
<p>Dick Foran,</p><br>
<p>W.C. Fields</p><br>
<p>Judy Garland</p><br>
<p>Lillian Gish</p><br>
<p>Jean Harlow</p><br>
<p>Paul Kelly</p><br>
<p>Barbara LaMarr</p><br>
<p>Carole Lombard</p><br>
<p>Chester Morris</p><br>
<p>Donald O&#39;Connor</p><br>
<p>Ellen Pompeo</p><br>
<p>William Powell</p><br>
<p>Tyrone Power</p><br>
<p>Rosalind Russell</p><br>
<p>Barbara Stanwyck</p><br>
<p>Gloria Swanson</p><br>
<p>Rudolph Valentino</p><br>
<p>Robert G. Vignola</p><br>
<p>Others</p><br>
<p>Dorothy MacKaye, writer</p><br>
<p>Robert G. Vignola, screenwriter and director</p><br>
