<p>Tralee Bay  is located in on the west coast of County Kerry, Ireland. It is situated between Kerry Head on the north side and the Maharees on the west and extends eastwards as far as the bridge at Blennerville. Several small rivers feed into the bay through the town of Tralee. Villages around the bay include; Ballyheigue, Fenit, Kilfinora, Spa, Blennerville, Camp and Castlegregory.</p><br>
<h2>General information</h2><br>
<p>The hinterland of Tralee Bay is rich in historic content covering most major eras in the origins and development of the Island and the Nation, from the mythological history, social and industrial development to relatively recent political evolution. In conjunction with Barrow Harbour, the following list of people, items, places and events are indicative and relevant</p><br>
<p>Scotia&#39;s Grave</p><br>
<p>Cathair Cun Ri</p><br>
<p>Ring Forts or Raths</p><br>
<p>Sou Terrains</p><br>
<p>Blennerville</p><br>
<p>Blennerville Windmill</p><br>
<p>Saint Brendan</p><br>
<p>Tralee Ship Canal</p><br>
<p>Spanish Armada</p><br>
<p>Ardfert Cathedral</p><br>
<p>Roger Casement</p><br>
<p>Jeanie Johnston</p><br>
<p>Civil War</p><br>
<p>Bee Hive Huts</p><br>
<p>Fenit Harbour</p><br>
<p>Irish Lights</p><br>
<p>RNLI</p><br>
<p>Maharee Islands</p><br>
<p>Dingle Peninsula</p><br>
<p>Liebherr Container Cranes</p><br>
<p>Oyster Beds</p><br>
<p>Bird Sanctuary</p><br>
<p>Fenit Viaduct</p><br>
<p>Fenit Railway Station and Branch Line</p><br>
<h2>Maps and charts</h2><br>
<p>Ordnance Survey of Ireland, Discovery Series Map ref No. 71 Kerry. Scale 1:50,000</p><br>
<p>British Admiralty Navigation Chart Ref No. 2739. Scale=1:37,500.</p><br>
<h2>Place names and features</h2><br>
<p>Generally, clockwise from Kerry Head</p><br>
<p>Kerry Head</p><br>
<p>Ballyheigue Pier</p><br>
<p>Ballyheigue</p><br>
<p>Blackrock</p><br>
<p>Banna Strand</p><br>
<p>Illaunnabarnagh (rock)</p><br>
<p>Mucklaghmore rock</p><br>
<p>Illaunnacusha, rock</p><br>
<p>Crow Rock</p><br>
<p>The Rose rock</p><br>
<p>Barrow Golf Links</p><br>
<p>Fenit Island</p><br>
<p>Barrow Harbour</p><br>
<p>Little Samphire Island</p><br>
<p>Samphire Lighthouse</p><br>
<p>Wheel Rock</p><br>
<p>Black Rock</p><br>
<p>Tralee Ship Canal</p><br>
<p>River Lee from Tralee</p><br>
<p>Blennerville Bridge</p><br>
<p>Blennerville Windmill</p><br>
<p>Blennerville</p><br>
<p>Bealathaleen Creek</p><br>
<p>Derrymore Island</p><br>
<p>Derrymore Strand</p><br>
<p>Carrigagharor Point</p><br>
<p>Aughacasla Strand</p><br>
<p>Castlegregory</p><br>
<p>Lough Gill</p><br>
<p>The Trench River</p><br>
<p>Kilshshannig point</p><br>
<p>Illaunlea rock</p><br>
<p>Callahangrin headland</p><br>
<p>Rough Point</p><br>
<p>Mucklaghbeg rock</p><br>
<p>Minnaun Point</p><br>
<p>Illaunturlogh island</p><br>
<p>Illauntannig island</p><br>
<p>Reennafardarrig island</p><br>
<p>Illaunboe island</p><br>
<p>Illaunimmil island</p><br>
<p>Inishtooskert island</p><br>
<p>Magharee Islands or The Seven Hogs</p><br>
<p>The Maharees</p><br>
<p>Scraggane Bay</p><br>
<p>Minnaun</p><br>
<p>Illaunnanoon</p><br>
<p>Doonagaun Island</p><br>
<h2>Items of interest</h2><br>
<p>A bird sanctuary is located on the south side of the bay on the low-lying land of Derrymore Island.</p><br>
<p>Little Samphire is a low-lying rock in the Bay on which a lighthouse stands. The lighthouse, operated and maintained by the Commissioners of Irish Lights also marks the limit of the harbour area under the control of Tralee and Fenit Harbour Board.</p><br>
<p>Great Samphire Island is a small rock in the Bay around which is built the harbour and port of Fenit. The name comes from the rather rare yellow samphire plant that grows there. A monument to Saint Brendan the Navigator is located at the apex.</p><br>
<p>Shore based angling is a popular pastime practised from the viaduct leading out to the harbour.</p><br>
<p>Several angling boats are licensed to take recreational anglers out on the bay.</p><br>
<h2>Vessels sunk and wrecked</h2><br>
<p>Integrity 13/3/1837. Lost off Brandon Head, en route from Tarbert to the Clyde.</p><br>
<p>Audrey Anne 5/12/1998. 65 foot trawler lost off Brandon Head</p><br>
<p>Brothers 4/5/1841. A Dingle hooker carrying potatoes for the Protestant colony at Dingle</p><br>
<p>Saint Lawrence 7/2/1840. A barque went ashore at Ballyheigue Bay.</p><br>
<p>Port Yarrock 29/1/1894. Sank in Brandon Bay, en route from Santa Rosilia, California. All 22 crew lost.</p><br>
<p>See also " for much more detailed information.</p><br>
<h2>Adjacent bays</h2><br>
<p>Brandon Bay is the next bay to the south west and the Shannon Estuary is located to the north. Barrow Harbour is a bay located in the bay, east of Fenit Island.</p><br>
<p>Col du Lautaret  is a high mountain pass in the department of Hautes-Alpes in France.</p><br>
<p>It marks the boundary between the valleys of the Romanche and the Guisane, a tributary of the Durance which has its source at the col. The valleys are linked by national route 91 (Grenoble – Le Bourg-dOisans – Briançon). The Lautaret is one of the lowest points on the ridge line which separates the "north" (mainly in the Rhône-Alpes région) and "south" (mainly in the Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur région) geographic areas of the French Alps.</p><br>
<p>The Col has long been used as a communication route between Grenoble and Briançon, and indeed for reaching Italy across the Alps.</p><br>
<p>The Col is open all year round and provides good views of La Meije to the south-west and the Grand Galibier to the north. It is also well known for its botanical garden. The route to the south side of the Col du Galibier leaves from the Lautaret.</p><br>
<h2>Cycle racing</h2><br>
<h3>Details of the climbs</h3><br>
<p>From the west, the climb starts at Les Clapier, near Le Bourg-d&#39;Oisans, from where the climb is 34.2 km long, gaining 1,312 m in altitude, at an average gradient of 3.8%, with the steepest section being at 7.5% in the first kilometre.</p><br>
<p>The eastern approach commences at Briançon, from where there is 27.7 km to the summit, gaining 853 m in altitude, at an average gradient of 3.1%, with a maximum of 5.2%.</p><br>
<h3>Tour de France</h3><br>
<p>The Tour de France first crossed over the Col du Lautaret in 1911, when the leader over the summit was Émile Georget. Since 1947, the Lautaret pass has been crossed over 40 times by the Tour de France, although most of these have not been classified for the "King of the Mountains" competition, usually when the pass is crossed on the descent from the Col du Galibier.</p><br>
<h3>Appearances in Tour de France</h3><br>
<p>Since 1947, the passages which have been categorized have been:</p><br>
<p>Xelha  is an archaeological site of the Maya civilization from pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, located on the eastern coastline of the Yucatán Peninsula, in the present-day state of Quintana Roo, Mexico. The etymology of the site&#39;s name comes from Yukatek Maya, combining the roots xel  and ha .</p><br>
<p>The lagoon and inlet at Xelha has been turned into a commercial water theme park known as Xel-Ha Park.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The site of Xelha is located south of the modern township of Playa del Carmen, in the state of Quintana Roo, Mexico.</p><br>
<p>The evidence is inconclusive concerning a founding date for Xel-Ha, but it was occupied by the 1st Century and active during Classic and Postclassic times, with most of the buildings being rebuilt in the Late Postclassic. It was probably not fully abandoned until the 19th Century. A stela with an Early Classic date of 9.6.10.0.0 (AD 564) from Xel-Ha was discovered in 1841 by Stephens and Catherwood.</p><br>
<p>Xelha was one of several key ports of the Maya city of Coba; others included Tancah and Tulum. It was likely used as a point of intercultural exchange between the Maya and other sea-navigating peoples between the 7th and 12th centuries, and eventually was a beacon to which European colonial navigators were drawn.</p><br>
<p>The location of Xelha was used as a base by Spanish forces, during the ultimately unsuccessful first expedition (1527–28) led by the conquistador Francisco de Montejo (the Elder). Montejo, who had obtained a charter from the Spanish Crown in 1526 to pacify the Yucatán Peninsula, crossed over from the island of Cozumel to make landfall at Xelha&#39;s lagoons, a short distance from a local Maya village. He set about establishing what was intended to be the first Spanish settlement on the peninsula, which he named "Salamanca de Xelha" after his birthplace in western Spain, Salamanca. However, the supplies he had brought soon proved inadequate to the task of sustaining the venture. Despite attempts to commandeer and raid neighboring Maya settlements for food, his fledgling settlement lost some fifty men within the first two months to disease and privation. In an action reminiscent of Hernán Cortés, Montejo ordered the scuttling of his ships in the face of growing discontent, forcing them to remain.</p><br>
<p>Eventually Montejo&#39;s forces stabilised sufficiently for him to mount explorations from his temporary encampment, heading out with some 125 men north towards Ecab near Cape Catoche. The sortie returned several months later after losing half of his men in a battle against the Maya near Ake, and to disease. The 65 conquistadores who had been left behind at Salamanca de Xelha fared no better with many being massacred in Maya raids, leaving Montejo with only about a third of his original complement.</p><br>
<p>The fortuitous arrival at that point of another of his ships from Santo Domingo with provisions and reinforcements prevented further disaster, and an expedition was sent out to the south towards the Maya township of Chetumal. This also failed to gain any foothold, and within eighteen months of Montejo&#39;s first landfall in Yucatán, the encampment at Salamanca de Xelha and the eastern coast were abandoned.</p><br>
<p>The Daily News Building, also known as The News Building, is a 476 ft skyscraper located at 220 East 42nd Street between Second and Third Avenues in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Midtown Manhattan, New York City. The building has 36 floors.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1929–1930, it was headquarters for the New York Daily News newspaper until 1995. It was also the headquarters of United Press International until the news service moved to Washington, DC in 1982. Its design by architects Raymond Hood and John Mead Howells, in the Art Deco style, has been called "one of the citys major Art Deco presences" by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission, as well as "the first fully modernistic free-standing skyscraper of architect Raymond Hood." It was among the first skyscrapers to be built without an ornamental crown, and can be seen as a precursor to Hoods design of Rockefeller Center. A 1957–60 addition to the building which expanded the lobby on the southwest corner of Second Avenue was designed by Harrison & Abramovitz, echoing the vertical stripes of the original design, except with a wider stripe. The building, including the newspaper&#39;s new printing presses, cost $10,700,000 &ndash; about $135 million in 2010 dollars.</p><br>
<p>The lobby of the building includes a black glass domed ceiling, under which was the world&#39;s largest indoor globe (which was previously kept up to date; however, it has now not been updated for some time). This was conceived by the Daily News as a permanent educational science exhibit.</p><br>
<h2>Landmark status</h2><br>
<p>The Daily News Building was designated a New York City Landmark in 1981 and its interior in 1998. It became a National Historic Landmark in 1989 and is now owned by SL Green Realty Corp.</p><br>
<h2>Tenants</h2><br>
<p>The building is the home for the former Daily News TV broadcast subsidiary WPIX, channel 11, an affiliate of The CW network. The station is still owned by the Tribune Company, the former parent of the Daily News. It was also home to WQCD, the smooth jazz station The News had operated as WPIX-FM. Some time after former News parent Tribune Company took over WQCD directly, the station was sold to Emmis Communications. Other tenants include the United Nations Development Programme and the New York office of public relations firm FleishmanHillard.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>The News Building was the model for the headquarters of the fictional newspaper Daily Planet, the building where Superman works as journalist Clark Kent. The building itself was used for filming exterior scenes at the Daily Planet in the 1978 film Superman: The Movie.</p><br>
<p>Jenny Lake is located in Grand Teton National Park in the USA state of Wyoming. The lake was formed approximately 12,000 years ago by glaciers pushing rock debris which carved Cascade Canyon during the last glacial maximum, forming a terminal moraine which now impounds the lake. The lake is estimated to be 423 ft deep and encompasses 1,191 acre. Jenny Lake is considered to be a major focal point in Grand Teton National Park, with many hiking trails, scenic boat rides, and quick access to the major climbing routes onto the tallest peaks of the Teton Range.</p><br>
<p>Jenny and Jackson Lakes are the only lakes in Grand Teton National Park where motorboats are permitted; both lakes have scenic tours available. A 2005 study of the water quality of the lakes in Grand Teton National Park indicated that all the lakes in the park were still considered pristine and that they had not been impacted by air or water pollution.</p><br>
<p>Jenny Lake is a starting point for many day and overnight hiking trips. The 7.1 mi Jenny Lake Trail loops around the lake and is considered to be relatively easy due to the small altitude gain of 700 ft. However, the altitude increases rapidly once Cascade Canyon is entered.</p><br>
<p>Jenny Lake is named after a Shoshone Indian woman who married an Englishman, Richard "Beaver Dick" Leigh. Jenny, and their 6 children, died of Smallpox in 1876.</p><br>
<p>The Isaac Lewis House is a historic house at 50 Paradise Green Places in Stratford, Connecticut. It is a large two story wood frame structure, five bays wide, with a porch extending across its front and a lantern section raised above its shallow-pitch hip roof. The porch is supported by columns with Corinthian capitals, and has a low balustrade with turned balusters. The eave of the main roof is deep and studded with jigsawn brackets. A 20th century addition extends to the rear. Built c. 1858-59, it is a fine local example of Italianate architecture. It was built by Isaac Lewis, who made his fortune doing construction work for John Jacob Astor III and other wealthy New York City elites.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. It is currently used as a funeral home.</p><br>
<p>The Ephraim Wheeler House is a historic house at 470 Whippoorwill Lane in Stratford, Connecticut. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, five bays wide, with twin chimneys, clapboard siding, and a side gable roof. Small additions added in the 19th and 20th centuries expand the building to three sides. The main entrance is flanked by sidelight windows and sheltered by a small gable-roofed portico with round columns. The house was probably built in 1743, the year of Ephraim Wheeler&#39;s marriage, and remained in the Wheeler family in the early 20th century. The house is particularly distinctive for its period because it was built with twin chimneys rather than the more typical large central chimney.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Captain David Judson House is a historic house at 967 Academy Hill in Stratford, Connecticut. It was built by David Judson, a resident of Stratford, in 1723. The new house was built on the stone foundation and incorporates the chimney of the original house built on the site in 1639 by Judsons great grandfather William. William left the house to his son Joseph Judson in November 1660 when he removed to New Haven. Nine generations of Judsons lived in the house until 1888.</p><br>
<p>The first floor, now the cellar, is above ground level and contains a massive central stone chimney which was built with lug poles. It is believed that the cellar was used as slave quarters during the early 18th century. The new house, built circa 1723, is designed in the style of early Georgian architecture, or colonial Georgian, found throughout the American colonies during this time. The furnishings are entirely period pieces of Stratford origin, dating from the 18th century and includes a piano which belonged to William Samuel Johnson, framer of the United States Constitution, and also the second president of Columbia University. The piano has been on display at George Washingtons plantation Mount Vernon. The house also has various other works of historical and artistic significance, displayed for the public. The Judson House broken scroll pediment entry is one of the finest in Connecticut. An architectural drawing was used on the cover of J. Frederick Kellys Early Domestic Architecture of Connecticut published in 1924.</p><br>
<p>Captain David Judson House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 20, 1973. It is also included in the Stratford Center Historic District, which was listed on the NRHP in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The house is open to the public and is operated as a historic house museum and research library by the Stratford Historical Society, and is located at 967 Academy Hill in Stratford.</p><br>
<p>The Omni Homestead Resort is a luxury resort in Hot Springs, Virginia, in the middle of the Allegheny Mountains. The area has the largest hot springs in the state, and the resort is also known for its championship golf courses, which have hosted several national tournaments. The resort also includes an alpine ski resort; founded in 1959, it is the oldest in Virginia. The resort has been designated a National Historic Landmark; it has a history extending of more than two and a half centuries. The Omni Homestead Resort is a member of Historic Hotel of America the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1766, Thomas Bullitt built a lodge on the site, which is considered the founding of The Homestead. In 1832, Dr. Thomas Goode (physician) purchased the land from the Bullitt family and expanded the medical therapies, establishing a European style of spa treatment and hydrotherapy. It has hosted vacationers ever since, including twenty-three USA presidents.</p><br>
<p>The modern resort dates from 1888-1892, when a group of investors headed by J. P. Morgan bought the business and started rebuilding it from the ground up. The original hotel buildings burned down in 1901 caused by a fire in the bakery. The main Homestead hotel was constructed afterwards, one wing a year, with the main lobby reconstructed in 1902.</p><br>
<p>Many American Presidents and influential people were Homestead guests. William Howard Taft spent July and August, 1908 at the Homestead, working and relaxing before the final campaign push, as briefly did outgoing President Theodore Roosevelt. Other notable guests included cartoonist Carl E. Schultze of Foxy Grandpa fame.</p><br>
<p>From December 1941 until June 1942, following the United States&#39; entry into World War II, the Homestead served as a high-end internment camp for 785 Japanese diplomats and their families until they could be exchanged through neutral channels for their American counterparts. The diplomats were later transferred to the Greenbrier Hotel in West Virginia.</p><br>
<p>In 1993, The Homestead was purchased by Club Resorts, the same company which owned the Pinehurst Resort. In 2006 Club Resorts and its parent company ClubCorp, Inc. were acquired by a private-equity group led by KSL Capital Partners, LLC. KSL Resorts assumed management of The Homestead at this time. KSL sold the resort to Omni Hotels in 2013 and it was renamed The Omni Homestead Resort.</p><br>
<p>It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1991. Associated with The Homestead are the Homestead Dairy Barns, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>Golf</h2><br>
<p>The Homestead features two golf courses. The club is sometimes referred to as Virginia Hot Springs Golf & Tennis Club.</p><br>
<p>The Old Course started as a six-hole layout in 1892, and the first tee is the oldest in continuous use in the United States. It was expanded to 18 holes by 1901, and Donald Ross redesigned it in 1913. The course has been modified at various times since, and the current course has six par 5s and six par 3s, a somewhat unusual layout.</p><br>
<p>The Cascades Course is the most famous of the two, and is usually ranked among the top 100 USA courses by both Golf Digest and GOLF Magazine. The Cascades is the course used when hosting national tournaments, including seven United States Golf Association championships. It was designed by William S. Flynn (who was also a main architect for Shinnecock Hills), and opened in 1923.</p><br>
<p>There was formerly a third course, the Lower Cascades, which was designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr. in 1963. It hosted qualifying rounds for the USA Amateur tournament. It was closed following the 2012 season.</p><br>
<p>Famed PGA Tour champion Sam Snead lived in or near Hot Springs all of his life, and served for decades as the Homestead&#39;s golf pro.</p><br>
<h3>Tournaments</h3><br>
<p>1928 USA Women&#39;s Amateur, won by Glenna Collett</p><br>
<p>1932 National Intercollegiate Championship, won by Yale (team) and John Fischer (individual)</p><br>
<p>1966 Curtis Cup, won by the United States over Great Britain & Ireland 13-5</p><br>
<p>1967 USA Women&#39;s Open, won by Catherine Lacoste</p><br>
<p>1980 USA Senior Amateur, won by William C. Campbell</p><br>
<p>1988 USA Amateur, won by Eric Meeks</p><br>
<p>1994 USA Women&#39;s Amateur, won by Wendy Ward</p><br>
<p>1995 Merrill Lynch Shoot-Out Championship (Senior PGA Tour)</p><br>
<p>1996 Merrill Lynch Shoot-Out Championship (Senior PGA Tour)</p><br>
<p>2000 USA Mid-Amateur, won by Greg Puga</p><br>
<p>2004 NCAA Division I Men&#39;s Championship, won by California (team) and Ryan Moore (UNLV)(individual)</p><br>
<p>2009 USGA Senior Women&#39;s Amateur Championship</p><br>
<h2>The Spa at The Omni Homestead</h2><br>
<p>at The Omni Homestead Resort stretches 60,000-square-feet with striking décor throughout. Guests enjoy a wide array of opportunities to explore the rewards of living a long, healthier and more vibrant life, with a rich sampling of services.</p><br>
<p>The Aqua Thermal Suite is a European-inspired oasis that aligns harmoniously with The Omni Homestead’s historic healing tradition of “taking the waters” which has drawn travelers since the mid 1700s, including Thomas Jefferson. The aqua thermal experiences feature spa cabins that expose the body to a contrast of hot and cold temperatures enhanced by light, sound and smell.</p><br>
<p>The Spa offers 28 treatment rooms, one of which is the Spa Ritual Suite with a pipeless couple’s tub and relaxation area. The Spa also offers an exclusive, adults-only Serenity Garden with unique features such as the historic hot springs, private poolside cabanas and a naturally pressurized geothermal deluge shower. An expansive fitness area includes resistance equipment, cardiovascular machines and three movement studios for, yoga, cycling and other classes.</p><br>
<p>The Spa also offers family spa services, with special treatments and activities for children ages five to 13. Spa services and activities for guests aged 14 – 17 are geared to fitness level and interests.</p><br>
<h2>Dining</h2><br>
<p>The Omni Homestead Resort offers a range of fine and informal dining options. Dining outlets include the formal Dining Room, renowned for traditional dinner and dancing each evening (jacket required) and sumptuous breakfast buffet while Jefferson’s Restaurant & Bar, opened in 2013, serves regional farm to plate dishes. Seasonal dining choices at The Omni Homestead Resort include Rubino’s at the Cascades, Casino Restaurant, Allegheny Springs Grill and Mountain Lodge. The Lobby Bar is located in the Great Hall featuring a great selection of signature and classic cocktails, wines by the glass and regional craft beers.</p><br>
<p>The popular family game area, DownTime, opened in the former Player&#39;s Pub in 2013, with mini bowling, billiards, shuffleboard, air hockey, foosball, and arcade games.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>The resort’s Allegheny Mountain setting is rich in recreational possibilities, with activities for all seasons, interests and ages:</p><br>
<p>Two championship golf courses including the Cascades Course, one of the finest mountain courses in the country, designed by William Flynn; and the Old Course, a Donald Ross design boasting the nation’s oldest first tee in continuous use.</p><br>
<p>Two-acre Allegheny Springs water attraction with two 100-foot water slides and 400-foot lazy river, water play zone, year-round family pool and whirlpool.</p><br>
<p>New Ridge Runner Zip Tour & Red Tail Racer zip line course</p><br>
<p>18-hole Mini Cascades miniature golf course, inspired by the legendary Cascades Course.</p><br>
<p>Five-stand, skeet, trap and sporting clays at the renowned Shooting Club</p><br>
<p>Horseback riding through the resort’s expansive Equestrian Center</p><br>
<p>Archery</p><br>
<p>Skiing, snowboarding and tubing with instruction available</p><br>
<p>Four clay tennis courts</p><br>
<p>Orvis-endorsed fly fishing</p><br>
<p>Segway tours</p><br>
<p>Mountain biking</p><br>
<p>Cascades Gorge Hike</p><br>
<p>Ice Skating</p><br>
<p>Homestead History Tours</p><br>
<p>Paintball</p><br>
<p>Falconry</p><br>
<p>Carriage rides</p><br>
<p>270-seat historic theater with nightly movies</p><br>
<p>Canoeing</p><br>
<p>Kayaking</p><br>
<p>Indoor swimming pool</p><br>
<p>Hayrides</p><br>
<p>Lawn Games - volleyball, badminton, croquet, etc.</p><br>
<h2>Ski resort</h2><br>
<p>The ski area at The Homestead was opened in 1959; it is the oldest ski resort in Virginia, and the second-oldest continuously operating alpine ski resort in the Southern United States (after Wisp Resort).</p><br>
<p>The resort&#39;s main and only northwest-facing slope is serviced by three lifts, including a double chairlift which accesses the intermediate and advanced terrain at the top of the hill, and two surface lifts which serve the beginner terrain at the bottom and at the tubing hill. The chairlift has a mid-mountain drop-off station which accesses intermediate terrain. The resort offers a variety of other winter activities including snow tubing.</p><br>
<h3>Statistics:</h3><br>
<h4>Elevation</h4><br>
<p>Summit Elevation: 3,200 ft</p><br>
<p>Base Elevation: 2,500 ft</p><br>
<p>Vertical Rise: 700 ft</p><br>
<h4>Terrain</h4><br>
<p>Skiable area: 40 acre</p><br>
<p>Runs: 10 total</p><br>
<p>35% beginner</p><br>
<p>55% intermediate</p><br>
<p>10% advanced</p><br>
<p>Longest run: 4,200 ft</p><br>
<p>Annual snowfall: 50 in</p><br>
<h4>Resort capacity</h4><br>
<p>Lift system: 3 lifts total</p><br>
<p>1 double chairlift</p><br>
<p>1 rope tows</p><br>
<p>I conveyor</p><br>
<p>Uphill lift capacity: 1,143 skiers/hour</p><br>
<p>Snowmaking: 100% of trails</p><br>
<h2>Ice skating rink</h2><br>
<p>The resort originally featured an Olympic sized skating rink that closed when the Zamboni became unusable. In 2008, the Homestead built a new 30 X 20 foot ice skating rink in time for the 2008-2009 winter season. In 2013, the ice rink was relocated to Allegheny Springs, adjacent to the outdoor pool.</p><br>
<p>Tellico Reservoir, also known as Tellico Lake, is a reservoir in Tennessee, created by the Tennessee Valley Authority  in 1979 upon the completion of Tellico Dam. The dam impounds the Little Tennessee River and the lower Tellico River. While TVA is careful to refer to its artificial lakes as reservoirs , common usage tends to refer to the reservoir as "Tellico Lake". The lake is approximately 16,000 acres in surface area and provides 357 miles of shoreline.</p><br>
<p>Tellico Reservoir was the last major reservoir created by the TVA, in part due to the snail darter controversy. The completion of Tellico Dam was nearly halted by a landmark decision by the Supreme Court regarding the Endangered Species Act. After Congress specifically exempted Tellico Dam from the Endangered Species Act, the work was finished and Tellico Reservoir created.</p><br>
<p>The Tellico Reservoir inundated several Native American sites, including the historically significant sites of Chota and Tanasi. The controversial Bat Creek inscription was also discovered adjacent to this lake.</p><br>
<p>Caerleon Urban District is a defunct district council. It was established under the provisions of the Local Government Act 1894 and comprised the parishes of Caerleon and Christchurch in the administrative county of Monmouthshire.</p><br>
<p>The Urban District Council comprised a number of councillors and a chairman and initially took over the powers of the Local Board of Health, formed in 1872. The Council&#39;s responsibilities included sanitary services, sewerage, refuse collection, housing, streets, cemeteries, libraries, parks, controls on buildings such as petrol stations, and licensing of public entertainments. The council was administered by a number of committees and by appointed officers including a Clerk, Treasurer, Medical Officer of Health, Surveyor and Sanitary Inspector. The area of the urban district was greatly increased in area by the County of Monmouth Review Order 1935, from 571 to 3,256 acre by annexing parts of the abolished Magor Rural District and Llantarnam Urban District. Caerleon Urban District was incorporated into the Newport district in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The Ōpārara River is a river in the West Coast region of New Zealand&#39;s South Island. It is best known for the limestone arches it carved in the Oparara Basin.</p><br>
<p>The river and most of its tributaries originate in the Fenian Ranges in the Kahurangi National Park, where the river flows through a section of the Honeycomb Hill Cave. Further downstream it continues through the Ōpārara Arch and the Moria Gate Arch, both of which are popular walking destinations. These sections of the Ōpārara River, while still in dense native forest, can be reached by a forestry road. For the majority of its length it continues to meander south through the Ōpārara Basin before turning west to flow into the Tasman Sea near the small settlement of Ōpārara north of the township of Karamea.</p><br>
<p>The river&#39;s color varies from tea-like shades of golden brown to red from the natural organic tannins released into the water by several of the plant species in the area. Leaves and other plant matter on the forest floor releases these tannins as they decompose - this eventually leeches into and stains the water, with the shade and intensity varying depending on rainfall and season.</p><br>
<p>The river and contributing streams in the area are a habitat for the endangered South Island whio; the area used to sustain a large population of whio and is now a location for a recovery programme run by the New Zealand Department of Conservation.</p><br>
<p>The rare and protected Ōpārara giant land snail (Powelliphanta annectens) has only been found in areas around 700 m from the Ōpārara River.</p><br>
<p>Brown trout can be fished year-round in the river&#39;s estuary.</p><br>
<p>Don Juan Pond, also called Don Juan, is a small and very shallow hypersaline lake in the west end of Wright Valley , Victoria Land, Antarctica, 9 km west from Lake Vanda. It is wedged between the Asgard Range to the south and the Dais Range to the north. On the west end is a small tributary and a rock glacier. With a salinity level of over 40%, Don Juan Pond is the saltiest of the Antarctic lakes. This salinity allows the pond to remain liquid even at temperatures as low as -50 &deg;C due to the interference of salts with the bonding of water molecules.</p><br>
<p>Don Juan Pond was discovered in 1961 by George H. Meyer. It was named for two helicopter pilots, Lt. Don Roe and Lt. John Hickey, who piloted the helicopter involved with the first field party investigating the pond.</p><br>
<h2>Salinity</h2><br>
<p>Don Juan Pond is a shallow, flat-bottom, hyper-saline pond. It has greater salinity than the Dead Sea or even Lake Assal (Djibouti) (the same is true for Lake Vanda and perhaps other lakes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys). It is claimed that Don Juan Pond is over 18 times the oceans salinity and 1.3 times that of the Dead Sea. The fact that it is the only one of the Antarctic hypersaline lakes that almost never freezes is an indication of its top rank in salinity among the worlds lakes. It has been described as a groundwater discharge zone. The dominant ions in solution are calcium and chloride. The area around Don Juan Pond is covered with sodium chloride and calcium chloride salts that have been precipitated as the water evaporated. Area and volume of Don Juan Pond vary over time. According to the USGS topographical map published in 1977, the area was approximately 0.25 km&sup2;. However, in recent years the pond has shrunk considerably. The maximum depth in 1993–1994 was described as "a foot deep" (1 ft). In January 1997, it was approximately 10 cm deep; in December 1998 the pond was almost dry everywhere except for an area of a few tens of square meters. Most of the remaining water was in depressions around large boulders in the pond.</p><br>
<p>The calculated composition for its water is CaCl2 3.72 mol/kg and NaCl 0.50 mol/kg, at the temperature of -51.8 °C.</p><br>
<p>That would be equivalent to 413 g of CaCl2 and 29 g of NaCl per kg of water (i.e. 44.2 percent salinity by weight).</p><br>
<h2>Life</h2><br>
<p>Studies of lifeforms in the hypersaline (and/or brine) water of Don Juan Pond have been controversial.</p><br>
<h2>Literature</h2><br>
<p>Long Wharf  is a historic pier in Boston, Massachusetts which once extended from State Street nearly a half-mile into Boston Harbor. Today, the much-shortened wharf  functions as a dock for passenger ferries and sightseeing boats.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>18th century</h3><br>
<p>Construction of the wharf began around 1710. As originally built the wharf extended from the shoreline adjacent to Faneuil Hall and was one-third of a mile long, thrusting considerably farther than other wharves into deep water and thus allowing larger ships to tie up and unload directly to new warehouses and stores. "Constructed by Captain Oliver Noyes, it was lined with warehouses and served as the focus of Boston&#39;s great harbor." Over time the water areas surrounding the landward end of the wharf were reclaimed, including the areas now occupied by Quincy Market and the Customs House.</p><br>
<p>"At the wharfs head in the 18th century was the Bunch-of-Grapes Tavern. The painter John Singleton Copley spent his childhood on the wharf, where his mother had a tobacco shop." The 1760s Gardiner Building, once home to John Hancocks counting house and now a restaurant, is the wharf&#39;s oldest surviving structure.</p><br>
<h3>19th century</h3><br>
<p>Among several similar structures, a grand granite warehouse known as the Custom House Block was built in 1848 atop the wharf; it has survived into the 21st century. The mid-19th century was the height of Boston&#39;s importance as a shipping center, lasting roughly until the American Civil War. Long Wharf was the central focus of much of this economic activity.</p><br>
<p>In the late 1860s, as the city&#39;s port began to decline in importance as an international shipping destination, Atlantic Avenue was cut through this and other wharves, changing the face of the waterfront.</p><br>
<h3>20th century</h3><br>
<p>The construction of the elevated Central Artery along Atlantic Avenue in the 1950s separated Long Wharf from Boston&#39;s business district.</p><br>
<p>The wharf and the 19th-century Custom House Block were recognized as a National Historic Landmark in recognition for the role they played in the history of Boston and its importance as a major 19th-century shipping center.</p><br>
<h3>21st century</h3><br>
<p>The Big Dig put the Central Artery below ground level, which partially restored the original close relationship between Long Wharf and downtown. Since ca.1990, Long Wharf has been transformed from a failing commercial waterfront area into a recreational and cultural center.</p><br>
<p>Today, Long Wharf is adjacent to the New England Aquarium, and is served by the Aquarium station on MBTA&#39;s Blue Line subway. MBTA boat services link the wharf to the Boston Navy Yard in Charlestown, Logan International Airport, Hull, and Quincy. Other passenger ferry services operate to the islands of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, and to the cities of Salem and Provincetown. Cruise boats operate various cruises around the harbour. The wharf itself is occupied by a hotel, several restaurants and shops. At the seaward end, there is a large plaza with extensive views of the harbor. Now much shortened by land reclamation at its landward end, today it serves as the principal terminus for cruise boats and harbor ferries operating on Boston Harbor.</p><br>
<h2>Services</h2><br>
<p>The following marine services operate from the Long Wharf:</p><br>
<p>MBTA Boat (north side)</p><br>
<p>Ferries to the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area (north side)</p><br>
<p>Ferry to Salem, Massachusetts(north side)</p><br>
<p>Ferry to Provincetown, Massachusetts</p><br>
<p>Water taxi</p><br>
<p>New England Aquarium harbor tours (south side) – Aquarium itself is on Central Wharf to the immediate south</p><br>
<p>Various harbor cruises</p><br>
<p>Docks for private vessels</p><br>
<p>Star Lake is a lake located in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Star Lake Township, Minnesota is named after the lake because the township consists of nearly the entire lake. Public access to the lake is available on Minnesota State Highway 108.</p><br>
<h2>Size and Shape</h2><br>
<p>Star Lake is named so because it consists of a main circular lake with three arms stretching out to resemble points of a star. The lake covers an area of 4,721 acre, and is known to be very deep just off the eastern shores of the lake, reaching a maximum depth of 94 ft.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Star lake is located at 46&deg;31&prime;N latitude, 95&deg;48&prime;W longitude. The lake drains through a small channel into the slightly larger Dead Lake directly to its southeast.</p><br>
<p>The Philippi Covered Bridge, on the Tygart Valley River, is the main local landmark and historical icon of Philippi, West Virginia, USA.</p><br>
<p>The celebrated bridge was commissioned by the General Assembly of Virginia and constructed in 1852 by Lemuel Chenoweth, a well-known Appalachian bridge builder, to provide a link on an important segment of the vital Beverly-Fairmont Turnpike between Beverly (Chenoweth&#39;s hometown) and Fairmont. The bridge has strong associations with the American Civil War, especially the Battle of Philippi (1861).</p><br>
<p>The Philippi Covered Bridge is the oldest and longest covered bridge in West Virginia and one of only two remaining in Barbour County. It is also the only covered bridge serving the US Federal Highway system (USA Route 250). It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Bidding, design and construction</h3><br>
<p>The circumstances of the bidding on the contract for the bridges in western Virginia are given by Hu Maxwell:</p><br>
<p>Bidders were present in large numbers from the East and the North, with all sorts of models and plans, including iron structures, wire cables, cantilevers, stone arches, and wooden bridges of many kinds. Mr. Chenoweth was there with his model made of hickory wood, as strong as it could possibly be made, not to exceed the required size. So far as appearances went, some of the New England Yankees had models of perfect form and beauty, painted and enameled in the highest art. On the appointed day, the bidders all assembled before the Board of Public Works, and each showed his model, and set forth his claims of what weight his bridge would sustain. Mr. Chenoweth was one of the last called forward to show what he had. His plain wooden model did not attract much attention; but he created consternation among the other bidders when he placed his model on two chairs, one end resting on each, and then stood on his little bridge, and called on the other architects to put theirs to the test by doing the same. Not one would do it, for they knew their models would be crushed. If the Philippi bridge were as strong in proportion to its size as Mr. Chenoweth&#39;s model, it would sustain the weight of a man six hundred feet high. The test decided the contest, and Mr Chenoweth was given the contract for the bridges.</p><br>
<p>The structure is 285½ feet (originally 312 feet) long and 26 ft wide and was originally supported by three massive sandstone piers constructed by Emmett J. O&#39;Brien. The bridge design incorporates the "Long" Burr Arch Truss and was built for $12,180.68. It is one of few surviving "double-barreled" (two lane) covered bridges in the United States.</p><br>
<h3>Civil War</h3><br>
<p>The bridge was used on 3 June 1861 by both Union and Confederate troops after the Battle of Philippi Races, by some reckonings the first land battle of the American Civil War. The bridge was the first to be captured in the war by either side and was used for a time as a barracks by the victorious Union troops.</p><br>
<p>The bridge narrowly escaped burning in April and May 1863 at the time of the Confederate raids on the B&O Railroad west of Cumberland, Maryland. Orders were issued by General William E. Jones for the burning of it and of the covered bridge at Rowlesburg, but the intercession of several locals of Southern sympathies (especially Elder Joshua S. Corder) saved both.</p><br>
<h3>Structural modifications</h3><br>
<p>The bridge has undergone a number of renovations after being severely damaged at least seven times over the years.</p><br>
<p>In 1934, increased motorized traffic mandated the addition of two concrete piers to the bridge&#39;s substructure (for a total of five) along with a new steel reinforced concrete deck (to replace the old wooden one) and an external walkway to better accommodate pedestrian traffic.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was damaged by a severe flood on 4–5 November 1985 and was virtually destroyed by fire on 2 February 1989. A gasoline tanker truck refilling underground tanks at a nearby filling station overfilled a tank, spilling gasoline which ran down into the bridge. A car passing through the bridge then sparked a fire when its exhaust system backfired. The bridge was then closed to traffic until a $1.4 million reconstruction was completed and the bridge reopened on 16 September 1991. The reconstruction, under the direction of the bridge historian and West Virginia University professor Emory Kemp, included replacing the damaged yellow poplar supports. Care was taken to restore the exterior to its original appearance: the rounded double arch entrances were restored, red-painted shingles (also of poplar) were affixed to the roof and new external wooden siding was replaced in a horizontal orientation.</p><br>
<p>Today, the original, burnt wooden trusses and supports can still be seen when driving through the bridge.</p><br>
<h2>Folklore</h2><br>
<p>A local legend once asserted that US President Abraham Lincoln and Confederate President Jefferson Davis were witnessed by a small boy meeting secretly in the bridge late in the course of the American Civil War to discuss peace terms.</p><br>
<p>Green Lake — also known as Big Green Lake — is a lake in Green Lake County, Wisconsin, United States.</p><br>
<p>The lake has a maximum depth of 237 ft, making it the deepest natural inland lake in Wisconsin. The lake covers 7,346 acre, has 29.3 mi of shoreline and has an average depth of 100 ft.</p><br>
<p>Many large, wooden hotels and one short-lived casino populated the north shore during the late 19th century in the city of Green Lake, but most have burned down. There are three golf courses near Green Lake - Tuscumbia, Mascoutin (near Berlin), and Lawsonia.</p><br>
<p>Big Green Lake is known for its fishing. Fish found in Big Green Lake include northern pike, largemouth bass, muskellunge, crappie, walleye, smallmouth bass, channel catfish, white bass, perch, rock bass and cisco and lake trout. The Wisconsin inland lake record lake trout was caught on Big Green Lake by Joseph Gotz on June 1, 1957 and weighed 35 lb The Wisconsin record cisco was caught on Big Green on June 12, 1969 by Joe Miller and weighed 4 lb</p><br>
<p>The sources of Green Lakes water, in approximate percentages, are: direct precipitation, 51%; surface water, 41%; ground water, 8%. It is spring-fed and empties into the Fox River through the Puchyan River. The lakes Native American name is Day Cho Lah.</p><br>
<p>Fort Chadbourne was a fort established by the United States Army on October 28, 1852, in what is now Coke County, Texas, to protect the western frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail route. It was named after Lt. T.L. Chadbourne, who was killed in the Battle of Resaca de la Palma. It was manned by Companies A and K of the 8th USA Infantry. During the early days of the American Civil War, the fort surrendered to the Confederates on February 28, 1861, even before the Confederate shelling of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, but was reoccupied by federal troops from 1865 to 1867.</p><br>
<p>Other forts in the frontier fort system were Forts Griffin, Concho, Belknap, Richardson, Stockton, Davis, Bliss, Mason, McKavett, Clark, McIntosh, Inge, and Phantom Hill in Texas, and Fort Sill in Oklahoma. "Sub posts or intermediate stations" also were used, including Bothwick&#39;s Station on Salt Creek between Fort Richardson and Fort Belknap, Camp Wichita near Buffalo Springs between Fort Richardson and Red River Station, and Mountain Pass between Fort Concho and Fort Griffin.</p><br>
<h2>Major Neighbors</h2><br>
<p>Robert Neighbors met with the southern band of Comanches and their chiefs Sanaco, Buffalo Hump, Ketsume, and Yellow Wolf near the fort over 10 days starting on 24 August 1853. "All topics of interest to the Comanches were discussed".</p><br>
<p>Neighbors communicated with Seth Eastman, while Seth was a captain at the fort in 1856, and was responsible for the Brazos Indian Reservation, about Comanche depradations in the area.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>Fort Chadbourne, a Texas state historical site, was also added in 1973 to the National Register of Historic Places (#73001962).</p><br>
<p>The small community of Fort Chadbourne, Texas, is located a few miles to the southwest of the original fort.</p><br>
<p>Fort Chadborne has received $1 million to build a visitor&#39;s center in memory of Roberta Cole Johnson of Brenham, Texas, by the executors of her estate, Charles and Joy Blake. The Blakes are members of the Concho Valley Archeological Society in San Angelo. They also matched another $125,000-allocation to restore the Butterfield stage stop.</p><br>
<p>On September 20, 2009, Garland H. Richards, current owner of the Chadbourne Ranch, which covers parts of Coke, Runnels, Taylor, and Nolan Counties, was presented with the prestigious Harry Holt Award because of Richards&#39; assistance to the West Texas Rehabilitation Center in Abilene. Richards presided over the annual "Round-Up for Rehab Supper" fund-raiser held at Fort Chadbourne. The award was presented by Woody Gilliland, chief executive officer of the rehab center. It honors those in the agricultural community who support the mission of the center, which serves adults and children regardless of financial circumstance.</p><br>
<p>Texas State Senator Grady Hazlewood, father of the farm-to-market road program, was born at Old Fort Chadbourne in 1902.</p><br>
<p>The Augusta Military Academy was a secondary education military academy in Fort Defiance, Virginia, United States. The school was established in 1865 by Confederate veteran Charles Summerville Roller as the Augusta Male Academy and formally became a military academy in 1880. It combined classical studies with a military curriculum and was officially named Augusta Military Academy in 1890. At the time, it was one of the first military preparatory schools in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It was among one of the first such schools in the United States to adopt the Junior Reserve Officers&#39; Training Corps program in 1919.</p><br>
<p>Until its closure in 1984, the Academy had attracted over 7,000 students from the United States and abroad. Today it is owned and operated as a campground for the Virginia District of the United Pentecostal Church International. It is located on USA Route 11, also known as the Lee Highway.</p><br>
<p>The Main Barracks was built in 1915, and is a three-story, rectangular structure constructed of rough stuccoed walls above a limestone-faced first story in the tower. It features an off-center, four-story entrance tower. The Mess Hall/Library/Deanes Castle Dormitory was built in 1879 as the residence for founder Charles Summerville Roller. It is the two-story, double-pile, frame building sheathed in German siding and covered by a hipped, slate shingle roof. The neo-Gothic style Gymnasium/Academic Hall consists of three sections: the original gymnasium built in 1910 and the present Gymnasium built in 1929, connected by a swimming pool.</p><br>
<p>Each year, the Augusta Military Academy Museum hosts an alumni gathering. Among its notable alumni are William H. Armstrong, the author of Sounder, and the Louisiana educator C.E. Byrd.</p><br>
<p>An episode of MTV&#39;s Fear was shot at the Augusta Military Academy. It was featured on Season 1, Episode 4 and was renamed "Hopkins Military Academy." This was mainly to protect the academy from local teenagers, ghost hunters and urban explorers.</p><br>
<p>Truchas Peak  is the second highest peak in the USA State of New Mexico behind Wheeler Peak. It is in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains 26 mi northeast of Santa Fe. It lies within the Pecos Wilderness, part of the Santa Fe National Forest.  The name of the peak is Spanish for "trout" . It is the highest point in both Rio Arriba and Mora counties.</p><br>
<p>The entire mountain is a small north-south trending massif with four identifiable summits, North Truchas Peak, Middle Truchas Peak, "Medio Truchas Peak" (unofficial name), and South Truchas Peak, the highest. Of the three subsidiary summits, only North Truchas Peak (13,029 ft) has enough topographic prominence (about 624 ft) to be considered an independent peak.</p><br>
<p>The Truchas Peaks lie on the divide between the Rio Grande and the Pecos River. They are drained on the west by the Rio Medio, the Rio Quemado, and the Rio de las Trampas; on the northeast by the Rio Santa Barbara; and on the southeast by small creeks that quickly run into the upper reaches of the Pecos River. The massif also connects to numerous other high peaks in the region, many via the Santa Barbara Divide, a major east-west high ridge which separates the Pecos watershed on the south from the Santa Barbara watershed to the north.</p><br>
<p>The Truchas group has a true wilderness character, as it is difficult to access the peaks within a single day. Many trails access the slopes of the peaks, most notably the Skyline Trail (Trail number 251), which traverses the eastern slopes at elevation around 12,000 feet (3,660 m) and accesses the Truchas Lakes, a set of small lakes in a cirque below the south side of North Truchas Peak.</p><br>
<p>The Dunlawton Plantation and Sugar Mill, a 19th-century cane sugar plantation in north-central Florida, was destroyed by the Seminoles at the beginning of the Second Seminole War. The ruins are located at 950 Old Sugar Mill Road, Port Orange, Florida. On August 28, 1973, the site was added to the United States National Register of Historic Places under the title of Dunlawton Plantation-Sugar Mill Ruins.</p><br>
<p>The ruins are now part of the Dunlawton Sugar Mill Gardens. The botanical gardens include interpretive signs about the enclosed ruins, large concrete sculptures of dinosaurs and a giant ground sloth, a gazebo, and plantings of grasses, flowers, bushes and native plants under a canopy of oak trees.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Plantation early years</h3><br>
<p>The Dunlawton Plantation and its sugar mill date to the latter years of the Second Spanish period in Florida. In August 1804, Patrick Dean, a merchant from the Bahamas, and his uncle John Bunch, a planter from Nassau, were granted by the Spanish Crown land in Florida that had been part of the British Turnbull grant of 1777. Dean established a 995-acre indigo and sugarcane plantation in what is now the Port Orange area, using the labor of enslaved Africans to cultivate and process the crops. Dean apparently was killed by a renegade Indian or slave during the First Seminole War in 1818, and left the plantation to his aunt Cecily, the wife of his uncle John Bunch, who had set up his own plantation on the grant to the north of Dean&#39;s property. Cecily died soon after Dean, and the plantation passed to John Bunch, who operated the two properties until 1830 as a single plantation.</p><br>
<p>John B. Bunch McHardy, an officer in the British Navy and grandson of John and Cecily Bunch, eventually inherited the former Dean property. He had no interest in running a plantation, and sold the land to land dealers Charles and Joseph Lawton for $3,000 dollars. In 1832, the brokers sold it to Sarah Anderson and her two sons, George and James, for $4,500. The name Dunlawton was formed by combining her maiden name, Dunn, with the land dealers&#39; name, Lawton. The brothers operated the mill with slave labor—processing sugar, molasses and rum on the property until December 1835, when the Second Seminole Indian War began.</p><br>
<h3>Second Seminole War</h3><br>
<p>By late November, 1835, white settlers in the Territory of Florida were becoming alarmed by the activities of the Seminole Indians, some of whose leaders vehemently protested the official Indian removal policy of the United States, and Osceola&#39;s killing of Charley Emathla threatened to provoke an armed confrontation. On December 17, 1835, Gen. Joseph Hernández ordered troops to protect the plantations in the vicinity of the Matanzas, Tomoka, and Mosquito Rivers. Major Benjamin A. Putnam, a St. Augustine lawyer, led a detachment of the local militia, Company A of the St. Augustine Guards, to Dunlawton, where "the Anderson brothers were endeavoring to place the estate in a condition for defense by erecting a stockade. These efforts were terminated by the impressment of the brothers into service with the detachment."</p><br>
<p>On the night of December 24, 1835, the Seminoles began their depredations against the plantations south of St. Augustine,) and during the next several weeks, the marauding Indians burned or ransacked sixteen plantations, including Dunlawton. Many of the refugees who fled from the destroyed plantations gathered at Charles Wilhelm Bulows estate. On January 17, 1836, Putnam led the troops down Bulow Creek to the Halifax River and southward to Dunlawton. As they approached, they saw that a large war party of Seminoles still occupied the place. According to M. M. Cohens journal of the campaign against the Seminoles in 1836, Notices of Florida and the Campaigns, the Andersons&#39; dwelling house and several slave houses were burning when the command arrived. Heavy fire was exchanged in the skirmish, but the militiamen were unable to drive away the Indians. Dunlawton plantation was only partly destroyed by the Seminoles, who burned some of its buildings when they attacked the string of plantations stretching between St. Augustine and New Smyrna. By early February, the Seminoles had succeeded in forcing the white settlers to abandon most of the territory south of St. Augustine.</p><br>
<h3>Rebuilding of the sugar mill</h3><br>
<p>In 1846, Sarah Anderson sold Dunlawton to John J. Marshall, a master builder from Charleston, South Carolina, for $8,000. Marshall rebuilt the mill and expanded it in an effort to make the sugar plantation productive again. He installed processing machinery bought from the destroyed Cruger and DePeyster mill in New Smyrna, and with the labor of 25 slaves produced nearly 200 tons of sugar in 1851. The eventual collapse of the sugar market caused Marshall to quit the enterprise and sell the property. His failure marked the effective demise of Dunlawton Plantation, and its role in the political history of East Florida ended. The property changed hands several times in the following years, being used for various purposes.</p><br>
<h3>Civil War and following years</h3><br>
<p>During the American Civil War, the kettles for boiling cane juice were used by the Confederates for salt-making. A Confederate reconnaissance patrol called the St. John Rangers made their headquarters at the Dunlawton millhouse, hitching their horses and camping under a large live oak now called the "Confederate Oak".</p><br>
<p>John Marshall sold the plantation in 1871 to William Dougherty, whose son Charles inherited the property when his father died. A successful lawyer, Charles was elected Florida&#39;s first United States Congressman. He showed no interest in agriculture, however, and the mill was never operated again.</p><br>
<p>The mill sugar boiling kettles were no longer used to process sugar after the Civil War, but when two whales beached themselves below the newly-built wooden Port Orange bridge in 1906, their carcasses were dragged to Dunlawton plantation where the furnaces were fired up and the oil from the whales&#39; blubber rendered in the old kettles.</p><br>
<p>The remains of the sugar mill include the ruins of coquina block and brick structures, and an assortment of sugar processing equipment including the gear mechanisms of the rolling sugar cane press, the iron boiling kettles, and the steam furnace and piston mechanisms used in operating the cane press. This assembly is one of the earliest extant examples in the United States of the machinery required to produce sugar, molasses, and rum.</p><br>
<h3>Bongoland</h3><br>
<p>In 1948, Dr. Perry Sperber, a dermatologist practicing in Daytona Beach, leased the Dunlawton plantation property from J. Saxon Lloyd, and opened one of the first theme-parks in Florida, Bongoland, named after Bongo, a trained baboon kept in captivity there. The new attraction was advertised to tourists traveling south on USA Highway 1, but it proved to be short-lived, operating only from 1948 to 1952.</p><br>
<p>A miniature train carried visitors past life-sized statues of so-called "prehistoric monsters"—dinosaurs fashioned by M.D. “Manny” Lawrence out of chicken wire and concrete. Among the five statues still existing are a triceratops, a stegosaurus, a tyrannosaurus rex, a dimetrodon and a giant ground sloth added later. According to a 1991 article in the Orlando Sentinel, a Seminole family lived on the grounds for two years in a chickee, or outdoor shelter with a thatched roof and open sides. In 1963, Lloyd landscaped the site, retaining the dinosaurs, and donated it to the county.</p><br>
<p>The Sainte-Baume  is a mountain ridge spreading between the départements of Bouches-du-Rhône and Var in southern France. Its summit is 1147 metres high.</p><br>
<h2>Mary Magdalene tradition</h2><br>
<p>The French tradition of Saint Lazare of Bethany is that Mary Magdalene, her brother Lazarus, and Maximinus, one of the Seventy Disciples and some companions, expelled by persecutions from the Holy Land, traversed the Mediterranean in a frail boat with neither rudder nor mast and landed at the place called Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer near Arles. Lazarus came to Marseille and converted the whole of Provence. Magdalene is said to have retired to a cave on a hill by Marseille, La Sainte-Baume ("Holy Cave", baumo in Provençal), where she gave herself up to a life of penance for thirty years. The cave is now a Christian pilgrimage site.</p><br>
<p>The Greenville Public Library is located in the Bond County, Illinois city of Greenville. The Greenville Public Library was built in 1905 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In January 1856, the Ladies Social Circle of Greenville met to form a group to promote the intellectual and moral elevation of society. For nearly fifty years this group raised funds to support a library. In late 1800s, the Ladies Library Association raised $1,000.00 from the community and collected 4,000 books. The first book purchased for the librarys holdings was the Holy Bible. At first the library was housed in the librarians home, then in rented rooms, and eventually in the courthouse.</p><br>
<p>In 1903, Andrew Carnegie was contacted for possible funds. His donation of $10,000 was used to construct a public library to be built on city-owned land and which was to be tax supported. Architect Paul O. Moratz of Bloomington, Illinois designed the Classical Revival style structure. The library opened in August 1905 after much community support and work.</p><br>
<h2>Collection</h2><br>
<p>The library houses 25,000 volumes plus video tapes and audio books. The holdings of the Bond County Genealogical Society are housed on the lower level of the library. The collection also includes every issue of the Greenville Advocate, the local newspaper, from the 1858 to present, on microfilm.</p><br>
<p>The Greenville Public Library is a member of the Lewis and Clark Library System and features many services. One notably unique service is that patrons may check out fishing poles provided by Illinois Department of Natural Resources (3 day loan).</p><br>
<p>The Grand Army of the Republic  Building is a historic building in downtown Detroit, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The GAR Building was designed by architect Julius Hess, and constructed at 1942 West Grand River and Cass as an appropriate structure for meetings and other GAR related activities. The cost was split between the Grand Army of the Republic (who paid $6000 of the cost) and the city of Detroit (who paid the remainder of the $44,000 total cost). Construction commenced in 1897 on the five-story building.</p><br>
<p>This Richardsonian Romanesque-designed building lies on a small, triangular lot on the northwest side of downtown Detroit. Originally built for the Grand Army of the Republic members in Detroit, the building included 13 shops and a bank of the ground floor, office space on the second and third floors, and a small auditorium on the fourth floor. As GAR membership dwindled through the beginning part of the 20th century, they were unable to maintain the structure and, by 1934, vacated the building and gave ownership to the city. The GAR Memorial Association, a women&#39;s group, used it until 1973. The GAR building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 13, 1986. More recently the city attempted to sell the building, but a coalition including the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War and the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War brought suit against the city of Detroit to block sale of the building, claiming that a clause in the 1898 deed stated that city must preserve the building as a memorial to Civil War veterans.</p><br>
<h2>Redevelopment</h2><br>
<p>The Detroit Free Press reported on April 7, 2007, that the GAR Building had been sold to Olympia Development, an arm of Ilitch Holdings, Inc. for a price of $220,500. The Ilitch family also owns the Detroit Red Wings and the Detroit Tigers, as well as the United Artists Theatre Building.</p><br>
<p>Olympia Development expected to renovate the building at a cost of $2 million, and use it to house staff, though the purchase of the GAR by the Ilitch family was later rescinded. The property was then sold to, a Detroit-based media company in November 2011 for $220,000, who planned to renovate the building for its headquarters.</p><br>
<p>The firm began a $2 million to $3 million renovation immediately after purchase, with opening slated for 2014. The plan was to occupy the top two floors of the structure, lease the ground floor for retail and a restaurant and dedicate a memorial to Civil War Veterans with renovation progress documented on a blog page.</p><br>
<p>The opened in February 2015 and was named on OpenTables Top 100 Best Restaurants For Foodies In America in September 2015 and listed on OpenTables 100 Hottest Restaurants in America in March 2016. Later, the Parks and Rec Diner in an adjacent space.</p><br>
<p>High Spy is a fell in the English Lake District it is situated on the ridge that separates the Newlands Valley from Borrowdale, eight kilometres  south of Keswick.</p><br>
<h2>Topography</h2><br>
<p>The fell reaches a height of 653 metres (2142 feet) and is defended by crags to the east and west as it falls away steeply to the valleys. It is a distinctive fell that has 148 metres (486 feet) of topographic prominence from the higher adjoining fell of Dale Head and so misses being a Marilyn by only two metres. Geologically the fell is made up of Borrowdale Volcanics. The meaning of the fell&#39;s name is obscure but may mean a “lookout post”, referring to some lost fort in the area. In the past it has been known as Scawdel Fell and Lobstone Band and these names are still used on maps to label other parts of the fell.</p><br>
<p>The summit has an impressive cairn which has been known to be vandalised on occasions but always seems to gets rebuilt by other walkers. The top of the fell is relatively flat for a distance of about 2.5 kilometres (1.6 miles) in a north-to-south direction and the impressive Eel Crags fall away vertically on the Newlands side of the fell, these crags are popular with rock climbers with the quality of the rock being very good. High Spy North Top stands almost a kilometre north of the main top it has a height of 634 metres (2080 feet) and is also classed as a Nuttall, it gives a fine view of Derwent Water. 600 metres (650 yards) north of the main summit is a small unnamed tarn.</p><br>
<h2>Ascents</h2><br>
<p>High Spy is often climbed as part of the Newlands Horseshoe ridge walk but can be ascended directly despite being defended by crags on both its Newlands and Borrowdale sides. From Borrowdale a path goes from Rosthwaite and climbs through the disused Rigg Head Quarries to reach the col linking High Spy to Dale Head and then up the south ridge to the summit passing a small unnamed tarn just before the top. From this side it is also possible to start from Grange and use an old drove road to get through the barrier of Blea Crag and then approach the summit. A scrambling route also starts from Grange, going via Hollows Farm it tackles the rocky rake of Nitting Haws directly. From Little Town in the Newlands valley an old mine road zig zags up to the col between the fell and Dale Head to then reach the top by the south ridge.</p><br>
<h2>Mining</h2><br>
<p>The latter route passes the Castlenook lead mine at the foot of the fell on the Newlands side, this mine, formerly owned by the Company of Mines Royal, started production in the 1860s and continued until 1918 when cheaper imports led to its closure. There are also signs of trial levels higher up the steep slope.</p><br>
<p>Pusley&#39;s Station was a stage stand on the old Butterfield Overland Mail route in Indian Territory. It was located in what is now Latimer County, Oklahoma, on the south side of Gains Creek. The station was named for Silas Pusley, a trader and member of a prominent Choctaw family. In 1859, the Choctaw Council granted Pusley the right to build a bridge and tollbooth across Gains Creek near his station.</p><br>
<p>Pusley&#39;s Station was added to the National Register of Historic Places (#72001068) in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
<p>Shirk, George H. Oklahoma Place Names. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987:.</p><br>
<p>Wright, Murial H. George H. Shirk; Kenny A. Franks. Mark of Heritage. Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Historical Society, 1976.</p><br>
<p>Wright, Muriel H., Chronicles of Oklahoma 35:1 (January 1957) 55-71 (accessed August 22, 2006).</p><br>
<p>Crab Orchard Lake is a 6,965-acre  reservoir in Williamson County, Illinois. It is the centerpiece of the Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge. It is fed by Devils Kitchen Lake and Little Grassy Lake, which are also within the National Wildlife Refuge.</p><br>
<p>Crab Orchard Lake was created when Crab Orchard Creek, a tributary of the Big Muddy River in southern Illinois, was dammed in the 1930s for purposes of recreation and flood control. The Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge was established August 5, 1947 following the transfer of all land previously held by the Crab Orchard Creek Project and the Illinois Ordnance Plant to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.</p><br>
<p>The lake offers opportunities for boating, camping, fishing, and swimming. Two campgrounds, Blue Heron and Crab Orchard, operate on the northern side of the lake. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) has stocked the lake with largemouth bass, and starting in 2006 has also installed artificial spawning beds in the lakes Grassy Bay (the lakebeds eroded clay and soft muck surfaces are not suited to bass spawning).</p><br>
<p>Many users of the lake live in the large nearby communities of Carbondale and Marion.</p><br>
<h2>Controversy</h2><br>
<p>Crab Orchard Lake is located in an area of Illinois known for high-sulphur coal and former coal-fired heavy industry, including the smelting and refining of heavy metals. During World War II, munitions such as TNT were produced at the Illinois Ordnance Plant north of the lake. A postwar factory, Sangamo-Weston, used PCBs extensively. Chemists have found that much of the lake and the watershed that drains into it is contaminated with lead and other toxic substances.</p><br>
<p>Under a mandate from the USA Congress, the Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge is charged with the dual duties of maintaining recreational facilities and leasing lakeside land to factories.</p><br>
<p>Lake Shafer is one of two reservoirs located in the Twin Lakes area of Monticello, Indiana. It was created along with Lake Freeman in the 1920s when two dams were built outside of Monticello on the Tippecanoe River. It remains a popular recreational area and helps generate an estimated $70 million in tourism revenue for White County.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Creation of Lake Shafer began in 1922 with the construction of the Norway Dam at river mile 30.2 above the confluence of the Wabash River. Construction of the dam finished in June, 1923, and it remains standing approximately one mile north of Monticello.</p><br>
<p>Lake Shafer remains the more commercial of the Twin Lakes, largely due to the presence of the Indiana Beach Amusement Park and Camp Resort. There are also a vast number of rental cottages and homes as well as boat rental marinas. Many of Lake Shafer&#39;s residents are part-timers, spending the majority of their time at the lake on weekends, traditionally April through October. The lake is often busy with boat traffic on summer weekends due to the increase in tourists.</p><br>
<h2>Ecology</h2><br>
<p>Because it is located in the Tippecanoe River drainage basin, it is a natural sediment trap. These feeding sediments have caused some parts of the northern part of the lake to be shallowed to as low as 4 feet. Since 2004, there have been active efforts on the lake to dredge many parts of the shallow areas on the lake to remove debris from the bottom of the lake, remove sandbars, and increase the lake&#39;s depth.</p><br>
<p>Since formed, Lake Shafer has been drained in 1965, 1975, 1985, and 1995, so repair work could be made to the Norway Dam.</p><br>
<p>It was announced that in late April 2008, Lake Shafer will be drained once again for repairs to the Norway Dam. It will be drained 3 feet the weekend of April 26–27, and six feet by May 3–4. Only the main riverbed will remain during the draining of it.</p><br>
<p>Little Bear Peak is a high mountain summit in the Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 14,043 ft fourteener is located on the Sierra Blanca Massif, 14.2 km north by east  of the Town of Blanca, Colorado, United States, on the drainage divide separating Rio Grande National Forest and Alamosa County from the Sangre de Cristo Land Grant and Costilla County. Little Bear lies 1.54 km southwest of Blanca Peak, the ultra prominent fourteener that is the highest point of the massif.</p><br>
<h2>Mountain</h2><br>
<p>Like the rest of the Sierra Blanca Massif, Little Bear is composed of pre-Cambrian granite estimated to be approximately 1.8 billion years old. Along with nearby Blanca Peak and Ellingwood Point Little Bear rises nearly 7,000 feet above the San Luis Valley to the west and south. The peak sits atop a long ridge separating two glacier-carved valleys.</p><br>
<p>While Little Bear itself has little more than the minimum 300 feet of prominence to qualify as a separate peak, it is notable for being one of the most technically difficult and dangerous of the fourteeners to climb. The upper part of the standard route leads through a 300&#39; section known as the Hourglass: a water-polished granite slab famous for the amount of rockfall. There is another technical route that climbs the northwest face of Little Bear from above the Blue Lakes and gains over 6,200 ft in elevation. The easiest climbing routes on the mountain are on the eastern side, rising out of the private property in Blanca Basin.</p><br>
<p>The connecting ridge to Blanca Peak is one of the most challenging outings of its type in the state. Experts say the traverse is easier going from Little Bear to Blanca but once a climber commits to the traverse, he&#39;s committed to the end. There are only a couple places down off the rock that are reasonably safe and they drop into Blanca Basin.</p><br>
<p>Little Bear is bisected by the boundary between the Rio Grande National Forest to the west and private property to the east, and is on the border between Alamosa County and Costilla County.</p><br>
<h2>Historical names</h2><br>
<p>Little Bear</p><br>
<p>Little Bear Peak</p><br>
<p>West Peak</p><br>
<p>The Stow House is a USA historical landmark in Goleta, California. Formerly the headquarters of Rancho La Patera, the Stow House, in the Carpenter Gothic style, is now the headquarters of Goleta Historical Society which preserves and interprets the history of the Goleta Valley.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Stow House was once the headquarters of Rancho La Patera, on the original Rancho La Goleta. In 1871, William Whitney Stow, a legal counsel for Southern Pacific Railroad in San Francisco, purchased 1,043 acre costing $28,677 for his son, Sherman P. Stow. Sherman Stow built a Carpenter Gothic Victorian home on the site and moved into the house with his bride, Ida G. Hollister, in 1873. The family expanded the house in two major renovations in the 1880s and 1910s. The house was occupied by three generations of Stow descendants.</p><br>
<h3>Lemon orchard</h3><br>
<p>In 1875, 3,000 lemon trees were planted in the first commercial lemon orchard planting in California. Goletas earliest commercial irrigation also took place on the ranch, and you can still visit Lake Los Carneros, the pond created by the Stows. Sherman Stows son, state senator Edgar Whitney Stow, set up a research laboratory at the ranch and developed disease resistant lemon rootstock of great value to local growers.</p><br>
<h2>Visiting Stow House</h2><br>
<p>The house museum displays family photographs and furniture, with stories of Sherman and Ida Stow and their descendants.</p><br>
<h3>Schedule</h3><br>
<p>Stow House is open for public viewing on Saturdays and Sundays, 1:00-4:00 pm. Tours can also be made by appointment.</p><br>
<h3>Location</h3><br>
<p>The Stow House is located on Los Carneros in Goleta. From the 101 exit on Los Carneros, which is about 10 mi west of Santa Barbara. At the top of the ramp, turn towards the mountains. If you continue past Calle Real, you will find the parking lot to your right.</p><br>
<h4>Nearby attractions</h4><br>
<p>The Stow House is located next to Lake Los Carneros with walking trails and bird watching, Goleta Depot at the South Coast Railroad Museum, and other points of interest in Goleta.</p><br>
<p>Jet Geyser is a geyser in the Lower Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park in the United States. Jet Geyser is in the Fountain Group that includes Fountain Geyser, Morning Geyser, Red Spouter and Silex Spring.</p><br>
<p>Jet Geyser is a very accessible and intimate geyser, being close to a park road and alongside a boardwalk.</p><br>
<p>Jet&#39;s eruptions are generally frequent but unpredictable. Its behavior is closely linked to nearby (and much bigger) Fountain Geyser. Eruptions can be expected every 7 to 30 minutes with the frequency increasing as the time for an eruption of Fountain Geyser approaches. Jet is a cone-type geyser and erupts from at least five vents. The vents produce varying quantities of water and steam for about a minute. The central vent will usually erupt to about 20 ft.</p><br>
<p>St. Joseph Plantation is a historic plantation located on the west bank of the Mississippi River in the town of Vacherie, St. James Parish, Louisiana, United States of America. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>St. Joseph Plantation is located at 3535 Hwy 18 Vacherie, LA 70090, adjacent to Oak Alley Plantation and up-river from Laura Plantation. The plantation was first owned by Josephine Aime Ferry in 1830, but the Ferry family sold it to Joseph Waguespack (1802-1892) in 1877 (Waguespack&#39;s son, Aubert Florian, owned Laura Plantation). In 1890 Saturnine Waguespack merged St. Joseph Plantation with Felicity Plantation to form the St. Joseph Plantation and Manufacturing Company. It is today maintained by descendants of the Waguespack and Simon families.</p><br>
<p>Mount Taupiri is a hill at the southern end of the Taupiri Range in the Waikato. The highest peak in the range, it rises to 288 metres above sea level and overlooks Taupiri township immediately to its south. It is separated from the Hākarimata Range to the south by the Taupiri Gorge, through which the Waikato River flows from the Waikato Basin to the Lower Waikato. The Mangawara Stream joins the Waikato River at the base of the hill.</p><br>
<p>Mount Taupiri is a sacred mountain and burial ground for the Waikato tribe of the Māori people. Until sometime in the 19th century a large Māori village or town, Kaitotehe, stood on the flat land on the other side of the river, below the Hākarimata Range. In early years it was the home of Paoa, brother of Mahuta, before Paoa moved to Hauraki. Brothers Whare and Tapuae, grandsons of Mahuta and the leaders of Ngāti Mahuta, lived there. After the two brothers were killed, Tapuae&#39;s son Te Putu built Taupiri pā on the summit of a spur of Taupiri mountain, in the 1600s. When Te Putu was an old man in the 1700s, he was treacherously killed by Ngātokowaru of Ngāti Raukawa at Te Mata-o-tutonga, his home outside the pā by the banks of the Waikato River. He was buried at the pā, which thus became tapu (sacred) and was abandoned. Early European travellers in the area were obliged by Māori to cross to the other side of the Waikato River to avoid the sacred area.</p><br>
<p>In the early 19th century Kaitotehe was the home of Pōtatau Te Wherowhero, the paramount chief of Ngāti Mahuta who became the first Māori King. English explorer and artist George French Angas visited Kaitotehe in 1844 and painted a scene depicting a hui (meeting) taking place in the village. Taupiri mountain is seen in the background on the other side of the Waikato River (which is not visible below the far palisade). The lower peak on the far right shows signs of the terraces of Te Putus abandoned pā. To its left, in about the middle of the painting, is a still-lower bush-clad hill, which was the burial ground in Te Putus time and below which his home of Te Mata-o-tutonga stood.</p><br>
<p>The present-day burial ground is directly above State Highway 1 and the North Island Main Trunk railway line on a steep slope. Parking and access is difficult, because the road and railway lie largely on land at the foot of the slope that has been reclaimed from the river. The deceased Māori kings and queen are buried in the highest part of the cemetery, on the summit where Te Putu&#39;s pā stood.</p><br>
<h2>Notable people buried there</h2><br>
<p>Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikaahu (1931–2006), Māori Queen</p><br>
<p>Whatumoana Paki (died 2011), husband of Te Atairangikaahu</p><br>
<p>Billy T. James (1948–1991), comedian</p><br>
<p>Korokī Mahuta (1906–1966), Māori King</p><br>
<p>Tāwhiao (1822–1894), Māori King</p><br>
<p>Fewston Reservoir is located in the Washburn valley north of Otley and west of Harrogate in Yorkshire, England. It was built in 1879. The capacity is about 3.5 million cubic metres. It can be found from the A59 road.</p><br>
<p>The overflow from the reservoir feeds directly into the adjoining Swinsty Reservoir. Formerly, this overflow was encircled by a metal walkway from which floodboards could be lowered, but this has since been removed.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>The reservoir was built by the Leeds Waterworks Company under the management of Robert Brooks. Consultants were Thomas Hawksley of Westminster and Edward Filliter of Leeds. Work began in 1874 and was completed in 1879.</p><br>
<p>Early in the work, Fewston Mill was demolished, as was West House Mill at Blubberhouses, with the stone going to build a wall around the reservoir. Much of the machinery, including the locomotives for the narrow gauge railway, came from the construction of neighbouring Swinsty Reservoir.</p><br>
<p>Vrontados  is a small coastal town located at the eastern part of the island of Chios in Greece. With a population of about 5,300 the town hosts the seat of the municipality of Omiroupoli.</p><br>
<h2>Other</h2><br>
<p>The town has a strong tradition in merchant seafaring and is currently the home of various important Greek ship owners. Also Vrontados is well known for its unique Easter celebration known as rouketopolemos (rocket war). Due to its proximity to the city of Chios (the island&#39;s capital), modern Vrontados is considered a sort of a suburb of the capital. Vrontados purportedly gets its name from the loud noise thunder (Vrontes - Βροντές) makes as it echoes from the nearby mountain, Aepos.</p><br>
<h2>Rocket Wars</h2><br>
<p>Every Easter, the Eastern Orthodox churches, Agios Marcos and Erithiani, fire rockets at each other (Rouketopolemos). Whoever hits the other church&#39;s bell tower first wins the war. The Rocket Wars have been cancelled.</p><br>
<h2>Historical References</h2><br>
<p>The legendary Poet Homer was supposedly born or at least lived for a long time in Chios, on the north side of the Vrontados coast is the so-called "Homer&#39;s stone", a rather uncomfortable natural rock throne where according to the legend the poet sang and taught.</p><br>
<p>According to tradition, Christopher Columbus, visited Vrontados in order to study nautical charts and get information of experienced Vrondadian seamen who would help him to his great voyage for the discovery of America.</p><br>
<h2>Notable natives and inhabitants</h2><br>
<p>Stamatios Krimigis (1938) space scientist</p><br>
<p>Mount Lefroy is a mountain on the Continental Divide, at the border of Alberta and British Columbia in western Canada. The mountain is located on the eastern side of Abbot Pass which separates Lake Louise in Banff National Park from Lake O&#39;Hara in Yoho National Park. Mount Victoria lies immediately on the western side of the pass.</p><br>
<p>The mountain was named by George M. Dawson in 1894 for Sir John Henry Lefroy (1817–1890), an astronomer who had traveled over 8,800 km in Canada&#39;s north between 1842-44 making meteorological and magnetic observations.</p><br>
<p>The mountain is the site of the first fatal climbing accident in Canada. In 1896 during a failed summit bid, Phillip S. Abbot slipped on rocks after just coming off an icy section and plummeted down the rock face to his death.</p><br>
<p>A prominent painting by Canadian Group of 7 artist Lawren Harris, was painted at this site.</p><br>
<p>Whalley Abbey is a former Cistercian abbey in Whalley, Lancashire, England. After the dissolution of the monasteries, the abbey was largely demolished and a country house was built on the site. In the 20th century the house was modified and it is now the Retreat and Conference House of the Diocese of Blackburn. The ruins of the abbey are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and are a Scheduled Ancient Monument.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Monastery</h3><br>
<p>In 1296 the Cistercian monks from Stanlow Abbey moved to Whalley. Stanlow Abbey had been founded on the banks of the River Mersey in the 1170s by John FitzRichard, the sixth Baron of Halton and Constable of Chester. This abbey had suffered a series of misfortunes, including flooding in 1279, the destruction of the church tower in a gale in 1287 and a fire in 1289. In 1283 Henry de Lacy, tenth Baron of Halton agreed to the move from Stanlow to Whalley but this was not achieved until 1296. The first stone was laid by Henry de Lacy in June 1296 and at least part of the site was consecrated by the Bishop of Whithern in 1306. Building proceeded slowly and the foundation stone was laid in 1330. Stone for building the abbey was obtained from quarries at Read and Simonstone. A royal licence to build a crenellated wall around the site was obtained in 1339. The church was completed in 1380 but the remainder of the abbey was not finished until the 1440s. In 1480 the North East Gatehouse, which provided a new entrance to the abbey, was completed. In the 16th century, John Paslew, the last Abbot of Whalley, reconstructed his own lodgings and added a Lady Chapel. The abbey closed in 1537 as part of the dissolution of the monasteries. Also that year Abbot Paslew was executed for high treason for his part in events connected with the Pilgrimage of Grace the previous year.</p><br>
<h3>Private house</h3><br>
<p>In 1553 the abbey lands and the manor of Whalley were sold for just over £2,151 to John Braddyll of Brockhall and Richard Assheton of Lever near Bolton. The properties were divided and Assheton took the monastic site and buildings. The abbot&#39;s house and the infirmary buildings were demolished and a large house was built on the site. In the 17th century most of the remaining church and monastic buildings were pulled down. The house passed through a succession of owners and further alterations were made to it in the 19th century. Around 1900 the house and grounds were bought by Sir John Travis Cragg.</p><br>
<h3>Modern Religious Centre</h3><br>
<p>In 1923 the house and grounds were purchased by the Anglican Diocese of Manchester when the bishop was William Temple. When the diocese was divided in 1926, the property passed to the new Diocese of Blackburn. In 1930 Canon J. R. Lumb was appointed as the first warden of the centre and it has since become a centre of religious education with residential accommodation for guests. Two of the ground floor rooms have been converted into chapels. In the 1930s the site of the abbey church was excavated and the foundations discovered were exposed and consolidated.</p><br>
<h2>Present day</h2><br>
<h3>Retreat and conference house</h3><br>
<p>The former private house, which is now a retreat and conference house, was reopened in September 2005 following refurbishment. It contains conference rooms, a dining room and en suite rooms for residents. The north range contains a visitor centre, with a coffee shop, exhibition centre and a bookshop. A spirituality programme is available for resident and non-resident guests. Guided tours of the abbey ruins can be arranged in the summer months.</p><br>
<h3>Abbey ruins and grounds</h3><br>
<p>Only the foundations of the church remain. The remains of the former monastic buildings are more extensive. The west range, which was the lay brothers dormitory, consists of two stories, and is roofed. This is currently used as a Roman Catholic church hall. To the south of the cloister, part of the walls of the former kitchen and refectory remain. The east range is more complete and includes parts of the walls of the former monks day room, parlour and vestry.</p><br>
<h3>Other related buildings</h3><br>
<p>The North West Gateway is separately listed Grade I. It is built in sandstone rubble, is in two storeys and is roofless. It is also a Scheduled Ancient Monument. The lodge at the entrance to the abbey grounds is listed Grade II. It dates probably from the late 18th century, and is built in ashlar sandstone with a stone slate roof. Also listed Grade II are a pair of gatepiers at the entrance to the grounds.</p><br>
<p>Douglas Castle was a stronghold of the Douglas family from medieval times to the 20th century. The first castle, erected in the 13th century, was destroyed and replaced several times until the 18th century when a large mansion house was built in its place. This too was demolished in 1938, and today only a single corner tower of the 17th-century castle remains. The castle was the former family seat of the Prime Minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home. The castle was located around 1 km north-east of the village of Douglas, South Lanarkshire, in south-west Scotland. The remains are protected as a category C listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Douglas family built the first Douglas Castle, which was constructed of either wood or stone, sometime before 1288. In 1307, during the Wars of Scottish Independence the castle was captured and garrisoned by the English under Lord Clifford. Sir James Douglas, companion of Robert the Bruce successfully recaptured his family seat by storming the castle on Palm Sunday, while the garrison were at chapel. He had the garrison killed and thrown into a cellar, before the structure was burned. The event has become known as "Douglas&#39; larder".</p><br>
<p>Robert the Bruce rewarded the loyalty of the Douglases, and Sir James heirs were created Earls of Douglas. Douglas Castle was rebuilt as one of their strongholds, but by the 15th century, the power of the "Black" Douglases had come to threaten the Stewart monarchy. In 1455 James II led an expedition against the rebellious 9th Earl, defeating his forces at the battle of Arkinholm. Douglas Castle was sacked and the familys lands and titles forfeited.</p><br>
<p>The "Red" Douglases, Earls of Angus, had sided with the king against the senior branch of their family, and it was they who gained the Douglas lands in Lanarkshire. It is likely that the castle was rebuilt soon after 1455. Regent Morton came to Douglasdale in June 1574 to survey the house of the Earl of Angus with a view to repairing it and living there.</p><br>
<p>In 1703, Archibald Douglas, 3rd Marquess of Douglas was created Duke of Douglas, with his principal seat at Douglas Castle. The castle was again rebuilt around this time, as a tower house and an enclosed courtyard with a corner tower. This castle was destroyed by fire in 1755, with the exception of the corner tower.</p><br>
<p>From 1757, the Duke began construction of an enormous castellated mansion at Douglas. The architects of this, the final Douglas Castle, were the Adam Brothers (James Adam, John Adam, and Robert Adam). Had it been completed the castle would have been the largest in Scotland. As it was the Duke of Douglas died in 1761, and only around half of the original design was ever completed. The five storey building had round towers to the front and square towers to the rear facade, and stood in a very extensive park spanning the valley of the Douglas Water. The Dukes estate became the subject of a famous and bitter legal dispute, known as the Douglas Cause&#39;, between his nephew Archibald James Edward Douglas and the Duke of Hamilton. Douglas was eventually victorious and ennobled as Baron Douglas in 1790, and the castle descended through his daughter, and granddaughter, to the Earls of Home. In the 1930s Charles Douglas-Home, 13th Earl of Home allowed the mining of coal in the park adjacent to the castle, in an attempt to relieve desperate levels of local unemployment. Sadly, the mining caused dangerous subsidence to the castle and it had to be demolished in 1938.</p><br>
<h2>The castle today</h2><br>
<p>Today, only a ruined corner tower of the penultimate castle remains, built in the late 17th century. Three storeys and 9m in height, the tower once stood at the corner of an enclosure, estimated at around 40m across. The tower stands on a prominent rise in the valley, to the south of the river, and was retained as a garden folly when the later mansion was built. Below is a small cellar block with glazed tiles on the interior walls. Nothing visible remains of the mansion.</p><br>
<p>Sir Walter Scott used the location and early history of Castle Douglas as the inspiration for his novel Castle Dangerous. The castle is still sometimes referred to by this alternative name.</p><br>
<p>The Gap of Dunloe  is a narrow mountain pass in Ireland.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The pass is located between MacGillycuddys Reeks (west) and Purple Mountain (east) in County Kerry, Ireland. The road through The Gap, from Kate Kearneys Cottage down to Lord Brandons Cottage, is about 11 km long, climbing and descending about 200 m altogether. Within it are five lakes: Coosaun Lough, Black Lake, Cushnavally Lake, Auger Lake, and Black Lough (north to south). These lakes are connected by the River Loe. Between the first two lakes is an old arch bridge called the Wishing Bridge&#39; so named because it is said that wishes made while upon it are destined to come true.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>The Gap has long been a popular tourist attraction. The road through it is narrow, winding and is difficult for motor vehicles. A popular form of transport for tourists is the jaunting car, a horse-drawn trap where up to four occupants sit facing each other. There are also riding ponies for hire. The trap and ponies are guided by men from families that live in and around the Gap. These ponymen use a rotation system called the Turn which determines who takes the next customers. The Turn has been in existence since the 1920s and is passed down in the families to the next generation. Many people hike or bike the route through the Gap, with bikes being available for hire from the nearby town of Killarney.</p><br>
<p>This place was used as a filming location in the Irish film The Crying Game.</p><br>
<h2>Rock climbing</h2><br>
<p>The old red sandstone cliffs of the Gap of Dunloe are a popular location for rock climbing, the main climbing being on the western slopes, mainly of horizontal has cracks, and so depend on cams for protection.</p><br>
<p>Inhaca Island  is a subtropical island of Mozambique off the East African coast.</p><br>
<p>The 52 km&sup2; island separates Maputo Bay (Baía de Maputo) to the west from the Indian Ocean off its eastern shores. The island&#39;s irregular coastline approaches mainland Machangulo Peninsula at Ponta Torres where a 500 m tidal race separates the two headlands. In administrative terms Inhaca is a municipal district of the municipality of Maputo, while the Machangulo peninsula is included under the Lubombo Transfrontier Conservation Area and is part of the district of Matutuíne, Maputo Province.</p><br>
<h2>Geographical features</h2><br>
<p>The island&#39;s dimensions are approximately 12 km (n-s) by 7 km (e-w). The highest point above sea level is the 104 m Mount Inhaca on the north-eastern shoreline. The south-western peninsula is known as Ponta Punduine while Ponta Torres to the south-east approaches the mainland. Two inland swamps occur at the northerly airstrip and southern Nhaquene respectively. Besides Inhaca settlement on the western shore there are five smaller villages including Inguane, Nhaquene, Ridjeni and Tobia.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Despite being a part of the Portuguese Colony of Mozambique until 1975, the island of Inhaca, so close to the harbour of Maputo, was occupied by the British from 1823 until the Mac Mahon Treaty of 24 July 1875. The British used the island (amongst many others all around Africa) to patrol and control the slave traffic in the region.</p><br>
<h2>Ecology</h2><br>
<h3>Flora</h3><br>
<p>The island is regular destination for ecotourists and ecological researchers. The central land area consists of cultivated fields, while grassy plains are found to the north, flanked by protected usnea-covered dune forests along the eastern and western shores. Extensive exposed mudflats fringe the western and southern shores at low tide. Mangroves cover large sections of the northern shores and southern Saco Bay.</p><br>
<p>The sub-tropical evergreen forest on the island includes the following tree species: Sideroxylon inerme, Apodytes dimidiata, Euclea schimperi, Manilkara discolor, Dovyalis rhamnoides, Dovyalis tristis, Diospyros natalensis, Clausena anisata, Cassine papillosa, Olea africana, Ficus burtt-davyi, Ficus sansibarica, Ficus capensis, Commiphora neglecta, Commiphora schlechteri, Allophylus melanocarpus, Erythroxylon emarginatum, Vepris undulata, Deinbollia oblongifolia, Scolopia ecklonii, Thespesia populnea and Galpinia transvaalica.</p><br>
<h3>Fauna</h3><br>
<p>Among 160 coral species are staghorn and plate corals. There are two badly damaged pure coral reefs flanking the island&#39;s western perimeters, in very shallow water, which are supposed to be protected but in reality there is no actual control of the marine reserves. Conspicuous fish are King Mackerel - called Serra, potato bass, barracuda and giant trevally. Others present are Brindle Bass /Goliath Grouper, scorpionfish, butterflyfish, pufferfish, parrotfish moray eel and seahorses. Whale sharks and manta rays visit in summer.</p><br>
<p>Whale watching Although humpback whales migrate seasonally past these shores whale watching has never become a popular attraction here as the ocean is generally too rough and too far for Mr and Mrs Average and hiring boats is very expensive. Southern right whales have become rare today though whales were historically abundant before they were wiped out by commercial and illegal hunts including mass illegal hunts by the Soviet Union and Japan in the 1960s and 1970s. Resident populations of the Indo-Pacific humpbacked dolphin and the Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphin occur in the waters around the island. The bottlenose dolphin&#39;s abundance fluctuates seasonally, increasing during the austral winter. The humpback dolphin is more resident, living in extremely shallow inshore areas of the western and southern coasts, and form larger groups (11-14 dolphins) than recorded elsewhere in southern Africa. Bottlenose dolphins frequent the waters of the northwestern coast, and their group size varies largely from individuals and pairs to hundreds of dolphins. A very small, remaining population of dugong also occur here. Two species of sea turtles (loggerheads and critically endangered leatherbacks) visit the eastern shores in summer to breed.</p><br>
<p>Inhaca is home to about 300 bird species, both resident and migratory. Species of conservation concern are the pink-backed pelican, lesser crested tern, crab plover, greater sand plover, Mongolian plover, Terek sandpiper, southern banded snake eagle, mangrove kingfisher, grey-rumped swallow and spotted ground-thrush. The southerly Nhaquene Swamp and Saco Bay are strongholds for the sooty falcon, while terns roost on northerly Portuguese Island. Bird species of limited distribution are Rudds apalis, Neergaards sunbird and pink-throated twinspot. House crows are present since the 1970s.</p><br>
<h2>Gazetteer of villages</h2><br>
<p>Inhaca</p><br>
<p>Inguane</p><br>
<p>Nhaquene</p><br>
<p>Ridjeni</p><br>
<p>The Jungle Prada Site  is an archaeological Tocobaga mounds and historical Narváez expedition site, and a city bayside park, in St. Petersburg of Pinellas County, western coastal Florida, in the Southern United States.</p><br>
<p>The Jungle Prada Site was added, on February 4, 2003, to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Jungle Prada—Mound Site is reputedly the 1528 landing site of the Spanish explorer Pánfilo de Narváez&#39;s Florida expedition to explore and expand colonial New Spain into North America. The remaining site of buildings set upon earthen mounds by the Tocobaga indigenous peoples of Florida predates the Spanish passing.</p><br>
<p>In September 2012 a few miles north in Largo, St. Jerome Catholic Church unveiled three historically accurate murals depicting the Narváez landing, the first Mass celebrated in Florida, and early interaction between the Spanish and the Tocobaga.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The historical site and surrounding recreational city park are protected and maintained by the City of St. Petersburg. They are located near the eastern shore of Boca Ciega Bay, at Park Street North and Elbow Lane (17th Avenue) in the city.</p><br>
<p>The Safety Harbor Site is an archaeological site in Safety Harbor, Florida, United States, located in Philippe Park at 2525 Philippe Parkway. It is the largest remaining mound in the Tampa Bay area, and is believed to have been the "capital city" of the Tocobaga. It is the type site for the Safety Harbor culture. In 1964 it was declared a National Historic Landmark. After the USA National Register of Historic Places program was created in 1966, the site was added to it the same year. It is sometimes referred to as the "Indian Mound."</p><br>
<p>The site consists of the large 20 ft-high temple mound, one smaller burial mound and two shell middens. The site is open to visitors during the daylight hours. In addition to the mounds, the site holds walking paths, picnic areas, a boat ramp, fishing, and scenic views.</p><br>
<p>Moose Mountain  is a mountain located 19 km west of Bragg Creek, Alberta in Kananaskis Country.</p><br>
<p>The peak is a popular hiking destination for many (especially Calgary locals) since there is a well maintained trail that makes its way to the summit. During summer month weekends, it is common for a dozen or more people to reach the summit.</p><br>
<p>Resembling a resting moose on the horizon, the peak was named Moose Mountain in 1949. A Forestry Service fire lookout exists upon the summit, the third building to have occupied the site for this purpose since the first was built in 1929.</p><br>
<p>Some scenes in the movie Brokeback Mountain were shot on and around Moose Mountain.</p><br>
<p>Members of the public who summit are requested to respect the privacy of the fire lookout staff. As many as 8000 visitors, local and international, are recorded each season. The lookout staff are responsible for over 5000 square kilometres of forest. The lookout staff detects, maps and reports forest fires to a central location, initiating fire suppression. In consideration of the quantity of visitors and the importance of attentiveness of the staff, it is critical that they not be distracted from their duties.</p><br>
<p>Members of the public are requested to be conscious of inclement weather, and act accordingly. It is NOT recommended to be above the tree line during pending or active lightning storms. Precaution must be taken in view of the active helicopter landing pad, located on the west side of the summit. (Submitted by a former Moose Mountain Lookout Employee)</p><br>
<p>There are two annual trail running events that go up Moose Mountain: (16 km, 29 km, and 42 km distances), and (60 km, 50 miles, and 100 km distances).</p><br>
<p>Holloway&#39;s Station was a stage stand on the old Butterfield Overland Mail route in Indian Territory. It was located near "The Narrows" at upper Brazil Creek in what is now Latimer County, Oklahoma. The station was named for William Holloway, the stage agent. In 1858, the Choctaw Council granted Holloway the right to construct a turnpike and tollbooth at "The Narrows".</p><br>
<p>Holloway&#39;s Station was added to the National Register of Historic Places (#72001070) in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
<p>Shirk, George H. Oklahoma Place Names. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987:.</p><br>
<p>Wright, Murial H. George H. Shirk; Kenny A. Franks. Mark of Heritage. Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Historical Society, 1976.</p><br>
<p>Wright, Muriel H., Chronicles of Oklahoma 35:1 (January 1957) 55-71 (accessed August 23, 2006).</p><br>
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<p>Senachwine Lake is a 3,324-acre  riparian lake that forms part of the valley of the Illinois River. It is located in Putnam and Marshall Counties, Illinois. Its elevation is 439 feet  above sea level. Senachwine Lake is connected by a shallow channel to adjacent Goose Lake, also a backwater lake of the Illinois River.</p><br>
<h2>Glacial relic</h2><br>
<p>The drainage, by sudden flood, of a sizable lake of glacial meltwater upon the conclusion of the Wisconsin glacial period left the lower Illinois River valley, including the Senachwine Lake area, as a broad ribbon of relatively impermiable clay and silt bordered by low bluffs.</p><br>
<p>During the post-glacial springtimes, as the climate of Illinois grew warmer, floods caused by snowmelt tended to fill sections of the valley faster than it could be drained during the rest of the year. Eventually the Illinois River became a braided, slow-moving alluvial river bordered by a string of riverside lakes and wetlands. Senachwine Lake is one of these backwater lakes.</p><br>
<h2>Backwater lake and fish</h2><br>
<p>During prehistoric and early historic times, backwater lakes bordering the Illinois such as Senachwine Lake became highly productive areas for fishing. Native American sites such as Dickson Mounds pay tribute to the civilizations founded on fishing, waterfowling, and the gathering of wetland plants and animals.</p><br>
<p>During early American frontier years, wetland zones were key areas in the fur trade. Commercial fishing in Lake Senachwine continued until 1900-1910, when toxic waste was injected into the Illinois River through the newly dug Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal.</p><br>
<h2>Remediation</h2><br>
<p>Efforts to remediate Senachwine Lake have concentrated on mandates to clean up sewage discharges into the Illinois River drainage, and efforts to cut the erosion of Illinois topsoil into the lake and river. Adjacent areas of Putnam County are vulnerable to erosion, as they are heavily cultivated for corn and soybeans.</p><br>
<p>Senachwine Lake is a local favorite for recreation, with a boat ramp located near Putnam, Illinois off Illinois Route 29. Fish-eating waterfowl, including egrets, great blue herons, and bald eagles, have returned to the lake.</p><br>
<p>The Mark Pardo Shellworks Site is an archaeological site west of Bokeelia, Florida. It is located along the eastern edge of Cayo Costa Island in Cayo Costa State Park. On May 21, 1996, it was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The site has shell works, consisting of lines of shell deposits along the shore, and black dirt middens inland from the shells. There may also be features underwater in the adjacent black mangrove forest, dating to when the sea level was lower. The shell works are dominated by lightning whelk, with some horse conchs. Oyster, clam, conch and lightning whelk shells are also found in the middens. The shell works and middens are attributed to the Caloosahatchee culture IIA-IV period, about 500-1500. In 1992, the NRHP Registration Sheet described the Mark Pardo Shellworks as "one of the best preserved archaeological sites in the region." Since then, however, feral hogs have seriously damaged the site.</p><br>
<p>Ribblesdale is one of the Yorkshire Dales in England. It is the dale or upper valley of the River Ribble in North Yorkshire. Towns and villages in Ribblesdale  include Selside, Horton-in-Ribblesdale, Stainforth, Langcliffe, Giggleswick, Settle, Long Preston and Hellifield. Below Hellifield  the valley of the river is generally known as the Ribble Valley.</p><br>
<p>Above Settle the dale is within the Yorkshire Dales National Park. It is a popular tourist area, particularly for walking. The Yorkshire Three Peaks rise to the east and west of the dale. The Ribble Way runs the length of the dale. At the head of the dale is the Ribblehead Viaduct, crossed by the Settle to Carlisle railway which runs through the dale.</p><br>
<p>The dale was historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire. In 1974 it became part of the Craven district in the new county of North Yorkshire.</p><br>
<p>The Adams-Higgins House is a historic home in Spencer, Iowa, United States. It is located at 1215 Grand Avenue. The home is also referred to as the Higgins House or Higgins Mansion. The house is architecturally unusual because it was built as a late Victorian style house in 1884, then substantially renovated in 1912 with addition of neo-classical porches and roofline.</p><br>
<p>In 1984, it was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Recent</h3><br>
<p>The Adams-Higgins house, known locally as the Higgins Mansion or simply The Mansion, was built in 1884 by J.Q. Adams, a local farmer, banker, and sometime Mayor. The property was sold in 1900 to Amanda Bender, who soon sold it to Mr. and Mrs. William Higgins, newlyweds who had moved to Spencer from Chicago. They contracted architect J. G. Ralston of Waterloo, Iowa to make the home an architectural landmark, beginning in 1910, by adding massive Neo-classical columns, adding a third floor, iron fence surround, and a kidney-shaped fish pond. The building next to the house was originally built as the children&#39;s playhouse for the two children adopted off the Orphan Train when it passed through Spencer. For a short period, the playhouse was used as a classroom for children attending a nearby elementary school undergoing repairs. Mrs. Higgins died in 1961, and the property was sold at auction in 1962 to Mathilda Delaney. Mrs. Delaney occupied the home until 1983, when the property was sold to Paul and Paula Brenner, who successfully placed the home on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The Brenners completed restoration projects on the exterior and interior over the near-15 years of their ownership. The playhouse was renovated in 1993 by the Brenners, and used as their antique shop. The home passed to Drs. Jon and Debora Hade. The kitchen was remodeled and the cabinets used by Mr Higgins were brought up into the kitchen, his handwritiing can be seen on one of the shelves. The dining room boasts a mahogany sideboard that runs from floor to ceiling. The painted scenes in the dining room are assumed to be from a Chicago artist. The Playhouse which at one time served as a school was moved to its current location and the current carriage house was built. The current owners Neal and Kitty Conover, completed the renovation work in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Pelican Lake is a lake located about seven miles north of Pelican Rapids, in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States. Pelican Lake is now a highly developed lake with its major uses being predominantly recreation, but its fishing is also excellent. The lake was recently discovered to be infested with zebra mussels, which threatens not only Pelican Lake, but all lakes connected by the Pelican River.</p><br>
<h2>Size and shape</h2><br>
<p>The lake covers an area of 3,986 acre, and reaches a maximum depth of 64 ft in the northern portion of the lake. The lake got its name because of its unique and very intricate resemblance to the shape of a pelican.</p><br>
<h2>Neighboring lakes</h2><br>
<p>The Pelican River runs through the lake and forces water southeastward into Lake Lizzie. Little Pelican Lake is located to the northeast and is navigable by going upstream on the Pelican River.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>A popular family resort by the name of Fair Hills Resort is located on the lake.</p><br>
<p>Mount Serbal  is a mountain located in Wadi Feiran in southern Sinai. At 2,070 m high, it is the fifth highest mountain in Egypt. It is part of the St. Catherine National Park. It is thought by some to be the Biblical Mount Sinai. Among others this was claimed by Ludwig Schneller, because it fits best with the biblical tradition taking into account the route and speed of the Israelites and the surroundings of the mountain, as Rephidim is identified with Wadi Feiran.</p><br>
<p>There were many granite dwellings on Mount Serbal which were inhabited by anchorites in early Christian times, and there are traces of a fourth-century monastery close to its base. It is likely that the many inscriptions (some in Greek) found on rocks at the foot of Mount Serbal and the path up to its peak date from these times. One spot on the path is called Mokatteb, or the valley of writing.</p><br>
