<p>The Rochers de Naye  are a mountain of the Swiss Alps, overlooking Lake Geneva near Montreux and Villeneuve, in the canton of Vaud. They lie on the range separating the basin of Lake Geneva from the valley of the Sarine, on the watershed between the Rhone and the Rhine. The mountain is partially located in the canton of Fribourg, the border between the two cantons culminating on a lower summit named Grande Chaux de Naye .</p><br>
<p>The Rochers de Naye are easily accessible from Montreux, where the highest railway in the canton, the Montreux–Glion–Rochers-de-Naye, starts. From the summit station (1,968 m), only a short walk is necessary to reach the summit. In addition, it is also possible to access the summit by driving to Col de Jaman and then making the 2-3 hr hike to the peak.</p><br>
<p>The Rochers de Naye are also known for the Rochers de Naye Via Ferrata considered to be extremely difficult (ED), the Grottes de Naye (caves which are accessible via the trail between Col de Jaman and Rochers de Naye), and a few enclosures hosting marmots from around the world.</p><br>
<p>The  is a lake in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, northern Germany. Its area is 117 km², which makes it the second largest lake in Germany  and the largest lake located entirely within German territory.</p><br>
<p>Its maximum depth is 31 m. It is fed and drained by the river Elde. Part of the Müritz and adjacent forests and wetlands are protected by the Müritz National Park. The former Müritz district was named after the lake. The biggest towns bordering the lake are Waren (Müritz) and Röbel, both major centres of tourism in the Mecklenburg Lake District.</p><br>
<p>Lake Müritz is part of the Müritz-Elde Waterway, a Class I federal waterway. It is managed by the Lauenburg Waterway and Shipping Authority (Wasser- und Schifffahrtsamt Lauenburg).</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<h3>Divisions</h3><br>
<p>The Müritz Basin is divided into several large bays. Unlike the shallow eastern part of the lake, the western side is divided into several channel-like inlets like the Bays of Röbel and Sietow (Röbeler Bucht and Sietower Bucht). By the town of Waren on the northern shore of the lake is the Binnenmüritz, which contains the deepest point of the lake (−31 metres), and only has a narrow strait connecting it to the main basin of Lake Müritz. At the southern shore is the Little Müritz (Kleine Müritz) from which the Müritzarm and the Müritzsee branch off further to the south. Lake Müritz measures about 29 km from north to south and about 13 km from east to west; and has a catchment area of about 663 km&sup2;. The Müritz is crossed by the River Elde from south to north and has a link to the Kölpinsee in the west from the Binnenmüritz via the Reeck Canal (also Eldenburg Canal) which is a good two kilometres long. Because it also feeds the River Havel to the east via the Mirow Canal, which is part of the Müritz-Havel Waterway, and the Bolter Canal as well as via the chains of adjoining lakes, it has artificially been turned into a bifurcated waterway.</p><br>
<h3>Creation</h3><br>
<p>Lake Müritz was formed during the Weichselian glaciation between the Pomeranian and the Frankfurt Stages. Originally the entire Mecklenburg Lake District was a huge lake, that split into several smaller lakes, linked to one another, as a result of a fall in sea level.</p><br>
<h3>Water level</h3><br>
<p>The water level of Lake Müritz has changed several times in the preceding centuries, primarily as a result of human influences. In the 12th century the surface of the lake was still 60.5 m above sea level. By 1737 the lake surface had risen to 64.35 m as a result of the waterway being impounded in several positive and negative stages in order, for example, to drive mills along the River Elde downstream. But by 1739 the mill reservoir had been lowered by around 1.51 m. In the wake of two adjustments to the Elde and two further changes to the mill impoundment the water level reached its present level of in 1836.</p><br>
<h3>Settlements</h3><br>
<p>The largest town on Lake Müritz is Waren (Müritz). Other settlements are (clockwise) Rechlin, Priborn, Vipperow, Ludorf, Röbel/Müritz, Gotthun, Sietow and Klink.</p><br>
<p>The Clearwater Mountains are part of the Rocky Mountains, located in the panhandle of Idaho in the Western United States. The mountains lie between the Salmon River and the Bitterroot Range and encompass an area of 8,499 square miles.</p><br>
<h2>Subranges</h2><br>
<h3>North Clearwater Mountains</h3><br>
<p>The North Clearwater Mountains is the northernmost and shortest subrange. The subrange is 4,321 square miles in area. Only two of its peaks &mdash; the 7,139 ft Pot Mountain and the 7,077 ft Black Mountain &mdash; rise above 7,000 ft.</p><br>
<h3>Selway Crags</h3><br>
<p>The Selway Crags lie between the North and South Clearwaters both in latitude and mean elevation. The Selway Crags encompass 885 square miles and its two highest peaks are the 8,282 ft Grave Peak and the 7,424 ft McConnell Mountain.</p><br>
<h3>South Clearwater Mountains</h3><br>
<p>The South Clearwater Mountains is the southernmost and tallest subrange, with 6 peaks above 8,000 ft. The South Clearwaters encompass 3,292 square miles and its two highest peaks are the 9,001 ft Stripe Mountain and the 8,943 ft Salmon Mountain.</p><br>
<p>Zaleski State Forest is the second-largest state forest in the U.S. state of Ohio, located primarily in Vinton County, with areas in Athens County as well. The 28,000 acre  forest surrounds Lake Hope State Park in Vinton County, and extensively borders the Waterloo Wildlife Research Station in Athens County. It is also located close to the Wayne National Forest. In addition, the older and much smaller Waterloo State Forest in Athens County is administered as part of the Zaleski. The forest is named after the Vinton County village of Zaleski, where the forest headquarters are located, and is centered on State Route 278.</p><br>
<p>The forest has active logging programs, and is one of the few in Ohio to have a working sawmill. The forest also features a 23.5-mile backpacking trail, a network of bridle trails, a horse camp, a large lake (Lake Hope), and the Hope School, an old but renovated one-room schoolhouse. Part of the Zaleski Mound Group, a group of Native American mounds built by the prehistoric Adena culture, is located within the forest.</p><br>
<p>Recently, the state of Ohio acquired a conservation easement to 10,000 acres (40 km²) of the Raccoon Creek Ecological Management Area (REMA), located south of the forest and formerly owned by Mead Paper Company (now part of MeadWestvaco). This area will be administered in conjunction with the state forest.</p><br>
<p>The forest is located in the rugged hills of the unglaciated Allegheny Plateau in Southern Ohio, with elevations ranging up to about 1100 feet above sea level. The area has an extensive history of coal mining, coke production, and steel production. The historic Hope Furnace can be seen at Lake Hope State Park, just across the road from the forest.</p><br>
<p>The Štiavnica Mountains  are a volcanic mountain range southern central Slovakia. They are part of Inner Western Carpathians and the Slovenské stredohorie Mountains. The area is protected by Štiavnica Mountains Protected Landscape Area.</p><br>
<p>They are bordered by the Kremnica Mountains (Kremnické vrchy) in the north, Pliešovce and Krupina basins (Krupinská kotlina) in the east, Danubian Hills (Podunajská pahorkatina) in the south and Pohronský Inovec, Vtáčnik and Žiar Basin (Žiarska kotlina) in the west. The highest point is Sitno (1,009 m).</p><br>
<p>Štiavnica Mountains are an immense caldera created by the collapse of an ancient volcano. Due to their volcanic origin, they are mineral-rich, with around 140 kinds of minerals. In the past, silver mining flourished in the area around the town of Banská Štiavnica.</p><br>
<p>From originally over 60 lakes called tajchy in Štiavnica Mountains, there are over 30 still existing today. Although they are now integrated in their natural environment, they were originally built as water reservoirs serving the mining industry, most of them in the 18th century.</p><br>
<p>Anthochori  was a settlement in Arcadia, Greece. Anthochori was demolished during 2006-8 in order to provide the Megalopoli Power Plant with lignite .</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Anthochori was located about 3 km south of the town of Megalopoli, in the valley of the Alfeios river. Prior to the large scale exploitation of lignite in open-pit mines, the area consisted mostly of farmlands. Neighbouring villages were Vrysoules to the east, Gefyra to the southeast and Tripotamo to the southwest. The Greek National Road 7 (Kalamata - Megalopoli - Tripoli) ran east of Anthochori. Anthochori had a station on the short branch railway line from Lefktro, on the Tripoli-Kalamata railway line, to Megalopoli.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>According to the History of Leontarion Province by Theodoros Katrivanos the village occupied the area that was the Karum Ali Estate (Καρούμ Αλή τσιφλίκι), itself part of the Leontario vilayet (Ottoman administrative division, in Greek: Βιλαέτι Λεονταρίου) in the 18th century. Hence the old name of the village was Karoumpali. The village was re-named Anthochori in 1927 (FEK 179/1927).</p><br>
<p>In terms of its administration, Karoumpali/Anthochori was established as an independent community (Greek: κοινότητα) in 1912. The legal basis for this comprised Law No 4057 of 10-2-1912 that enacted the institution of administratively independent communities in Greece and the Royal Decree of 18-9-1912 that clarified specific arrangements for the Laws implementation in the prefecture of Arcadia. Anthochori continued to function as an independent community until the end of 1997 when the Kapodistrias&#39; programme of reforms began to be implemented. Following the fate of the vast majority of other communities in Greece, Anthochori was abolished as an administratively independent community and since 1 January 1999 became an administrative district of the Municipality of Megalopolis.</p><br>
<p>By 2006, after prolonged legal battles and court cases the vast majority of property owners of Anthochori were financially compensated by the Public Power Corporation. Financial compensation for the public property and amenities that belonged to the community was transferred to the Municipality of Megalopolis. This was because, as mentioned above, Anthochori became an administrative district of the Municipality of Megalopolis following the Kapodistrias reforms. What happened to the financial compensation for Anthochori&#39;s public property is still a matter of dispute and allegations for the mismanagement of compensation funds (at least 280.000 €) were still being made as late as November 2008.</p><br>
<h3>Loss of a settlement</h3><br>
<p>The lignite mining activity has been slowly extending towards Anthochori since the late-1970s. By 2002 mining machinery stood at 1 km to the northwest of Anthochori and the mine finally reached the first houses of the settlement in 2006. Village houses became a target for looters and the settlement was finally abandoned in 2007. Subsequently, starting from its northwestern part, the old village homes were demolished and their remains were dumped to the south while the roads, already closed for some years, were eventually removed. Most of the farmlands and forests also disappeared.</p><br>
<p>Until late 2008 the only remaining building of Anthochori left standing was its main church dedicated to The Presentation of the Virgin to the Temple (Greek: Τα Εισόδια της Θεοτόκου). None of the demolition workers was willing to take responsibility for its destruction and, thus, the church remained standing upon a tall column of soil while the surrounding earth was being excavated. The last church standing became internationally famous when its photograph by Stuart Franklin appeared in the Time magazine on 17 September 2008</p><br>
<p>On 29 November 2008 the church collapsed upon itself and, with it, all visible evidence of Anthochori&#39;s material existence. By the mid 2009 all that once was the village of Anthochori was gone, its buildings leveled, and its earth scraped out to extract lignite. It is claimed that the demolition of Anthochori marks the final expansion of the lignite mine which, in turn, signals the beginning of the end for the Megalopolis thermo-electric power plant.</p><br>
<h3>An internet ghost</h3><br>
<p>At least until the end of 2009 Anthochori was still mentioned in some maps, including Mapquest, while satellite images have yet to show the expansion of the lignite mine over the area that used to be Anthochori. For example, when accessed on 15 November 2009, GoogleEarth still used a detailed satellite photo taken on 26 August 2003, where Anthochori&#39;s buildings and original geo-topography are clearly visible. This satellite picture can be found.</p><br>
<h3>Anthochori's demolition in the media</h3><br>
<p>Megalopolis&#39; mine expansion was featured on a TV documentary on April 7, 2006. This documentary was produced by the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT).</p><br>
<p>In 2008, Time magazine published a short article under the title Europes changing places which used a dramatic photo of Anthochoris main church - The Presentation of the Virgin to the Temple (Greek: Τα Εισόδια της Θεοτόκου) - taken by world famous British photographer in 2007. In this picture the church stands alone on a tall column of soil, as the sole survivor of the demolished village at the time. This picture is included in Stuart Franklins book.</p><br>
<p>The same picture was included in a presentation of Stuart Franklin&#39;s work in the Guardian newspaper, accompanied by the following note by the photographer:</p><br>
<p>To the ancient Greeks, Arcadia was a rural idyll. Instead of a lush, bucolic landscape, I found one devastated by the hunt for fossil fuels. Sixty per cent of Greece’s electricity is derived from lignite (brown coal). This involves bulldozing whole landscapes to feed the nearby power station. In Megalopolis I found Greece’s second largest lignite mine. The village of Anthohori in Arcadia was wiped off the map - the church of Santa Maria was all that remained.</p><br>
<h2>Photos of Anthochori and its surroundings</h2><br>
<p>Satellite Views of Anthochori</p><br>
<p>Views of Anthochori during its demolition</p><br>
<p>Views of Anthochori prior to its demolition</p><br>
<p>Churches, lanes, fields</p><br>
<p>Houses</p><br>
<p>Views of Anthochori railway station</p><br>
<p>Views of Lefktron/Bilali railway station</p><br>
<h2>Population</h2><br>
<p>Māhukona is a submerged shield volcano on the northwestern flank of the Island of Hawaii. A drowned coral reef at about 3,770 feet  below sea level and a major break in slope at about 4,400 feet  below sea level represent old shorelines. The summit of the shield volcano was once 800 feet  above sea level. It has now subsided below sea level. A roughly circular caldera marks the summit of Māhukona. A prominent rift zone extends to the west. A second rift zone probably extended to the east but has been buried by younger volcanoes. The main shield-building stage of volcanism ended about 470,000 years ago. The summit of the shield volcano subsided below sea level between 435,000 and 365,000 years ago.</p><br>
<p>This makes Māhukona the oldest volcano to build Hawaii island, compared to Kohala to the east and Hualālai to the southeast. The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute investigated the area with a remotely controlled submarine in 2001.</p><br>
<p>It was named for the area known as Māhukona on the shore to the northeast.</p><br>
<p>The McFaddin–Ward House is a historic home in Beaumont, Texas, United States built in 1905 - 1906 in the Beaux-Arts Colonial Revival style. The 12,800 ft&sup2; house and furnishings reflect the lifestyle of the prominent family who lived in the house for seventy-five years. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<p>Di Vernon Averill commissioned architect Henry Conrad Mauer to build the house, which was sold the next year to Di&#39;s brother, William P.H. McFaddin. McFaddin and his wife Ida Caldwell McFaddin, from Huntington, West Virginia, moved into the house in 1907 with their three children: Mamie, age 11, Perry, Jr., age 9, and James Caldwell, age 6.</p><br>
<p>A substantial carriage house was added in the same year. The carriage house had a stable, hayloft, garage, gymnasium and servants quarters. When the McFaddins daughter Mamie married Carroll Ward in 1919, the newlyweds moved in with the McFaddins and lived their entire married lives there.</p><br>
<p>Before Mamie McFaddin Ward died in 1982, she created a foundation to preserve the house as a museum which opened to the public in 1986. Guests ages 8 and older are welcome for tours of the home led by volunteer docents Tuesday through Saturday. The museum strongly encourages reservations as tours run approximately one to one and a half hours long. Self guided tours of the first floor are available on Sundays. The carriage house and grounds are open to all ages during museum hours. Outside the three-floor home are spacious lawns, flower beds and rose gardens. Inside, a substantial permanent collection of antique furniture and household items are in view. The McFaddin-Ward House is one of the few house museums in which the home’s original furnishings are intact and on display. It is also one of the few Beaux-Arts Colonial homes still open to the public.</p><br>
<p>Educational programs focus on history and are geared toward children and adults. The museum hosts lectures, special celebrations, summer camps, and open houses. New exhibits and displays are changed often, giving fresh interpretations of the home. Christmas time is especially celebrated with special events and an open house when the public is invited to enjoy eggnog and McFaddin family recipes before touring the first floor of the house.</p><br>
<p>In addition, it was named a Texas State Historic Landmark in 1976. The home has been featured various TVs Arts & Entertainments America&#39;s Castles as a Lone Star Estate (only 3 Texas homes were featured), and the house has been included in several important architectural books.</p><br>
<p>Cerro de las Mitras , named for its distinctive mitre-shaped structures at the very top viewed from the northern side, is a symbol of the landscape of the state of Nuevo León, Mexico. Located in the cities of Monterrey, Santa Catarina and García.</p><br>
<p>Being part of the Cumbres national park, the mountain is often climbed by hikers. The ascent is considered fairly difficult. A panoramic view of the city of Monterrey can be seen from the top.</p><br>
<p>The south/southeast face of the mountain was a source of raw material for the local concrete manufacturers; the resulting pits are noticeable in the photos for their lighter gray colors.</p><br>
<p>Some other known mountains or elevations of the zone are: the Cerro de la Silla, the Sierra Madre Oriental and Cerro de Chipinque (with its famous M-shaped figure), the Cerro del Topo Chico, Cerro del Obispado, Cerro de la Loma Larga and La Huasteca.</p><br>
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<p>Canjuers is a calcareous plateau and a military camp in Provence in southeastern France.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Situated in the département of the Var in the Prealps of Castellane, on the south of the Verdon Gorge and to the north of Draguignan.</p><br>
<p>With a median altitude of 800 m, the Plan of Canjuers is a desertic and arid plateau.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Its name comes from Campus Julii: the "Julius Camp". Julius Caesar installed a campment in the area before the conquest of Gaul.</p><br>
<p>The region surrounding the plateau has been occupied by the Army since 1970. The Canjuers Camp is the largest military camp in Europe, covering 350 km². Many farms and hamlets have been evacuated and abandoned.</p><br>
<p>* look at the French page</p><br>
<p>The William Sidney Porter House or O. Henry House is a historic structure in Downtown Austin, Texas. William Sidney Porter, better known as the author O. Henry, lived there between 1893 and 1895. The Porter house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 18, 1973. The house is known today as the O. Henry Museum.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The cottage is a simplified version of the Eastlake Style of architecture. The house was built in 1886 and rented between 1893 and 1895 by William Sidney Porter, better known as the author O. Henry. Porter lived in the house with his wife, Athol, and daughter, Margaret, before they moved to Houston, where Porter began writing full-time for the Houston Post. Though primarily associated with his home state of North Carolina, O. Henry set 42 of his stories in Texas.</p><br>
<p>The residence remained a rental property until 1930 when it was to be demolished to construct a warehouse. In January 1934, a committee representing the Colonial Dames, the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Daughters of 1812, the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, and the Daughters of the Confederacy submitted a proposal to the Austin City Council, that if the city would accept the house as a donation from the Austin Rotary Club and relocate the house, the womens organizations would work to restore the house and open it as a "shrine." The City of Austin had the house moved from its original location at 308 East 4th Street to its current location at Brush Square, 409 East 5th Street. The house was restored and opened as a museum in 1934. The many period pieces on display include some of the Porters furniture and personal belongings. The structure underwent further restoration in 1994–95 with a renewed roof and the replacement of four brick chimneys lost in 1934.</p><br>
<p>It is the site of the annual O. Henry Pun-Off, a spoken pun competition. The event is traditionally held the first weekend in May every year.</p><br>
<p>Lizard Head is a mountain summit in the San Miguel Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 13,119 ft thirteener is located in the Lizard Head Wilderness, 11.0 km west by south  of the Town of Ophir, Colorado, United States, on the drainage divide separating San Juan National Forest and Dolores County from Uncompahgre National Forest and San Miguel County.</p><br>
<h2>Mountain</h2><br>
<p>Lizard Head lies just southeast of a group of three Colorado fourteeners, Mount Wilson, Wilson Peak, and El Diente Peak. Lizard Head is only the 556th highest peak in Colorado by most standard definitions,</p><br>
<p>but its towering spire-like form makes it one of the most spectacular.</p><br>
<p>Lizard Head lies 2.84 mi northwest of Colorado State Highway 145 at Lizard Head Pass. Lizards Head Trail climbs west from Trout Lake along Black Face Mountain ridge and past the south face of Lizard Head toward Wilson Peak.</p><br>
<p>The peak was used in a logo by the Rio Grande Southern Railroad.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The rock spire of Lizard Head looks like an old eroded volcanic plug but it is actually composed of extrusive volcanic ash flows of Oligocene age resting on older sedimentary rocks of Eocene age.</p><br>
<h2>Climbing</h2><br>
<p>Lizard Head is one of the most difficult summits in Colorado to climb.</p><br>
<p>The story of the first ascent makes a memorable and harrowing tale. In the words of Albert Ellingwood,</p><br>
<p>Despite the serious and daunting objective hazards, the first ascent team completed the climb and descent safely in a feat of mountaineering skill.</p><br>
<h2>Appearance</h2><br>
<p>The appearance of the peak is reported to have changed significantly due to a landslide in 1911. From the Dec 29 edition of the Mancos Times-Tribune of that year:</p><br>
<p>There are several photographs of the peak from before the landslide. Before-and-after photographs taken from the north and shown in The RGS Story indicate substantial change. The earlier photograph shows a taller squared-off peak that would be more suggestive of a lizard&#39;s head.</p><br>
<p>Before-and-after photos shown in Jackson and Fielder&#39;s Colorado 1870-2000 taken from the south do not show as much change in appearance, indicating that the area of collapse was on the northern side.</p><br>
<h2>Historical names</h2><br>
<p>Lizard Head</p><br>
<p>Lizard Head Peak</p><br>
<p>Lizards Head</p><br>
<p>The Theodore Wirth House is a house in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, that was home to Theodore Wirth, an influential architect of the Minneapolis park system. Wirth was superintendent of the Minneapolis park system from 1906 through 1935, when he retired, and he continued to serve as superintendent emeritus until his death in 1949. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. The house was recognized for Wirth&#39;s status as an international figure in the field of park design, for its role in bringing Wirth to Minneapolis, and for the work he did in the offices where he designed or redesigned the Minneapolis parks.</p><br>
<p>When Charles Loring originally approached Theodore Wirth to come to Minneapolis in 1905, Wirth was reluctant to accept the offer. His employer at the time, the city of Hartford, Connecticut, provided Wirth and his family a mansion in Elizabeth Park. Minneapolis did not have a home to provide, and as a civil servant, Wirth was unable to replace that benefit. During the process of negotiations, Loring agreed that the park board would build a home for Wirth. The home was to be located in Lyndale Farmstead Park, where Wirth could be inspired by watching park users. Wirth agreed to these terms and moved to Minneapolis in 1906. The house was designed by local architect Lowell Lamoreaux.</p><br>
<p>The Colombian Massif , also known colloquially as Nudo de Almaguer, refers to a group of mountains within the Andes of south central Colombia. The massif is mainly within the area of the Cauca, Huila, and Nariño Departments. To the south is the Pasto Massif  and to the north begins the Central and Eastern Andes.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The total area is 32,682 km&sup2, which is distributed as follows: 13,716 km&sup2; of forests, 15,423 km&sup2; of agroecosystems, 2,567 km&sup2; of páramos, 43 km&sup2; of snow zone, 924 km&sup2; have xerophytic vegetation and 9 km&sup2; of urban settlements. The altitude varies between 2,600 m and 4,646 m.</p><br>
<p>This is area is identified as the source of 70% of the Colombian safe water for human consumption and irrigation. The headwaters of the Magdalena and Cauca Rivers (Caribbean slope), Caquetá and Putumayo Rivers (Amazon Basin) and the Patía River (Pacific slope).</p><br>
<p>The massif contains 362 high mountain bodies of water, 13 páramos and other ecosystems rich in flora and fauna. From south to north are the páramos of Cutanga, Letero, Las Papas (Potatoes), Apio (Celery) and Buey (Ox). Sotará and Puracé are the prominent volcanoes of the area, the latter being within the Puracé National Natural Park.</p><br>
<p>Very few people have traversed the mountains of this region because it is covered by rugged terrain and an impenetrable and cold páramo environment, both of which are natural guardians which preserve the water sources that provide water for half of Colombia before emptying into the sea.</p><br>
<p>Mount Kita is a mountain of the Akaishi Mountains−"Southern Alps" , in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan.</p><br>
<p>It is the second tallest mountain in Japan, after Mount Fuji, and is known as "the Leader of the Southern Alps". It is included in the 100 Famous Japanese Mountains. It is located in Minami Alps National Park, near the city of Minami-Alps.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Kitadake Buttress is a 600 m tall rock face on the eastern side of the mountain.</p><br>
<p>Alpine plants grow abundantly, especially on the mountains southeastern slope along the route to Mount Nakashirane and along the Kusasuberi and Migimata courses along Shiraneo Pond on the mountains northern side. Large clusters of plants can be seen from huts near the top. The species Callianthemum hondoense is endemic to this mountain.</p><br>
<h2>Origin of the name</h2><br>
<p>The main mountains of the Akaishi Mountains are Mount Kita, Mount Aino and Mount Nōtori. The three mountains together are called "Shirane-sanzan", which means "Three White Summits". The name Mount Kita literally means "northern mountain," referring to its being the northernmost of the three mountains.</p><br>
<h2>Climbing</h2><br>
<p>The mountain area around Mount Kita is one of the most popular in Japan, reputedly second only to the Mount Yari and Mount Hotaka area. Access points for climbing are at Hirogawara to the east and Ryōmata to the west; however, most people choose to climb from Hirogawara, where facilities are better. Two mountain huts near the top provide accommodation for up to 150 people and there are campground facilities nearby.</p><br>
<p>There are three main access routes to the summit of Mount Kita. The first starts out in Hirogawara and follows the Ōkanbazawa River up through the Daisekkei Valley. Another route leaves the river valley earlier and emerges from the forest at Shiraneoike-Kusasuberi. A third trail runs from Ryōmata at the trail head near Nakashiranezawa to the summit of the mountain.</p><br>
<p>From the summit, a trail runs along the ridge via Nakashiranesan to Mount Aino, Mount Nishinōtori, Mount Nōtori, and continues further south. An alternate route, (Ikeyama-tsurione), has been built, which connects the viewing platform at Washinosumiyama to the summit, via the head at Bōkonzawa. This approach is not very popular, except in winter, when the path gets greater use. Kitadake Buttress is a classic route for free climbing in Japan.</p><br>
<p>The main mountain huts in the vicinity of Mount Kita are the Kitadakekatano Hut, the Kitadake Mountain Cottage, the Shiraneoike Hut and the Ryōmata Hut.</p><br>
<h2>Images</h2><br>
<p>The Hole of Horcum is a section of the valley of the Levisham Beck, upstream of Levisham and Lockton, in the Tabular Hills of the North York Moors National Park in northern England. The hollow is 400 ft deep and approximately 3/4 mile across. A "Devil&#39;s Punchbowl" type feature, local legend has it that the amphitheatre was formed when Wade the Giant scooped up a handful of earth to throw at his wife during an argument.</p><br>
<p>The Hole was actually created by a process called spring-sapping, where water welling up from the hillside gradually undermined the slopes above, eating the rocks away grain by grain. Over thousands of years, a once narrow valley widened and deepened into an enormous cauldron – and the process still continues today.</p><br>
<h2>Panoramic view</h2><br>
<p>The Falls Church is an historic Episcopal church, from which the city of Falls Church, Virginia, near Washington, D. C., takes its name. The parish was established in 1732 and the brick meeting house preserved on site dates to 1769.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Colonial beginnings</h3><br>
<p>The forerunner to The Falls Church appears to have been founded by landowner William Gunnell, who had moved from Westmoreland County, Virginia, in 1729. In the spring of 1730, he secured a minister and convened a congregation, which met in his home until 1733, when the first building was constructed. Until that time, this area was served by a clergyman who lived near present-day Quantico, and the nearest church was Pohick Church near Lorton.</p><br>
<p>Known as "William Gunnells Church", the new wooden structure was designed and built by Colonel Richard Blackburn, who was directed to construct a weatherboarded building forty feet by twenty-two feet, with a 13:12 pitch roof, and with interior work modeled on that of Pohick Church; the cost was 33,500 pounds of tobacco. Like Pohick Church, the new church served Truro Parish, which had been established by the colonial Virginia Assembly in May 1732 for the land north of the Occoquan River; Truros first vestry met in November 1732. Michael Reagan allowed the church to be built on his land, but failed to grant the deed. John Trammell later bought the land and, in 1746, sold the two acre lot, including the church, the churchyard, and a spring, to the vestry of Truro Parish. By this point, it was known as the Upper Church.</p><br>
<p>The Vestry Book first referred to it as the "Falls Church" on 28 November 1757, owing to its location at the intersection of the road to the Little Falls of the Potomac River (upstream of the Chain Bridge) and the Middle Turnpike (leading from Alexandria to Leesburg, now Virginia Route 7 or Leesburg Pike, called West Broad Street in downtown Falls Church City).</p><br>
<p>George Mason was elected vestryman in 1748, as was George Washington in 1762.</p><br>
<h3>The new brick church</h3><br>
<p>By 1762, the wood building had fallen into decay and the vestry ordered a new brick building to be constructed on the same site. The next year, George Washington and George William Fairfax, as church wardens, assumed responsibility to contract for the new building. After 1765, this church became the seat of the new Fairfax Parish.</p><br>
<p>The new church was designed by Colonel James Wren, a member of the vestry. Work commenced in 1767 and completed in late fall 1769. The Wren building remains on the site, between S. Washington, E. Broad, and E. Fairfax Streets. The 1769 structure is the oldest remaining church building north of Quantico in Virginia and is one of the oldest church structures in the United States.</p><br>
<h3>Revolutionary War and aftermath</h3><br>
<p>The Fairfax militia recruited from the church during the Revolutionary War, and it is said that at the war&#39;s end, the Declaration of Independence was read to citizens from the steps of the south doors. In 1784, the Commonwealth of Virginia revoked the status of the Anglican Church as state church. In 1789, The Falls Church was abandoned and remained unoccupied for almost 50 years; in 1836, it was reoccupied by an Episcopal congregation. Francis Scott Key was a lay reader of this congregation, as was Henry Fairfax, who used his own funds to restore the building during 1838 and 1839.</p><br>
<h3>Civil War disruption and damage</h3><br>
<p>During the American Civil War the church was used by Union troops as a hospital and later as a stable. Use of the building for worship services resumed after the war; the sanctuary has now been in continuous since about 1873. The interior was repaired after the war, with the Federal government paying for damage caused by Union forces. Some of these repairs can be discerned in brickwork below the windows and in the lower part of the brick doorway at the west end of the church.</p><br>
<p>The church was remodeled in 1908 and extensively renovated in 1959. Galleries in Wren&#39;s original design but never constructed were installed, and a new chancel was added. Other than repairs of war damage and the chancel addition, the structure reflects the original 1769 construction.</p><br>
<h2>Disaffiliation and church ownership issues</h2><br>
<p>Between 2006 and 2014 the congregation became divided on religious issues, and the buildings and property of the congregation became the subject of protracted litigation.</p><br>
<p>In December 2006, a substantial majority of the congregation voted to disaffiliate from the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (ECUSA) (a member of the Anglican Communion), and join the Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA), which is not part of the Anglican Communion. The minority group remaining loyal to the Episcopal Church reorganized as The Falls Church (Episcopal), and began holding services across the street at Falls Church Presbyterian Church. The disaffiliating majority renamed itself The Falls Church (Anglican) and continued to worship at The Falls Church property, and later petitioned a local court to transfer ownership of the property to CANA. The Diocese of Virginia and the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America (ECUSA) intervened in the case and resisted the transfer. Following a series of trial court rulings and appeals, the Virginia Supreme Court affirmed a trial court decision leaving the church property in the hands of The Episcopal Church. The Episcopal parish thus returned to worshiping at the historic property, and the Anglican parish moved to a different location. In March 2014, The USA Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal by the Falls Church Anglican, ending the matter.</p><br>
<p>The Oblong Friends Meeting House is a late 18th-century Friends Meeting House of the Religious Society of Friends in the hamlet of Quaker Hill, in the town of Pawling, Dutchess County, New York, United States listed in the National Register of Historic Places since 1973.</p><br>
<p>Members of the Religious Society of Friends settled on Quaker Hill in the 1730s and sought permission to establish a meeting and build a meeting house in 1740. The first meeting house was constructed across from the present building in 1742, but as membership grew, this building became too small and in 1763, the Yearly Meeting decided to erect "a framed house of timber, the dimensions to be 45 ft long, 40 ft wide and 15 ft stud to admit of galleries." This new house was built in 1764 and is the structure that has remained on the site since.</p><br>
<p>In 1767, the question was raised in the meeting house whether it was "consistent with the Christian spirit to hold a person in</p><br>
<p>slavery". After years of discussion, the question was answered in 1776 by the resolution that meetings were not to accept financial contributions or services from members owning slaves.</p><br>
<p>During the American Revolutionary War a portion of the Continental Army camped in the nearby hills, both during the fall</p><br>
<p>of 1778 and the winter of 1779. The meeting house was commandeered by General Washington&#39;s officers to be used as a military hospital.</p><br>
<p>In 1828, the New York Meeting of the Society of Friends split into the Orthodox and Hicksite Societies of Friends. From then on, the</p><br>
<p>Hicksites used the Meeting House, and the Orthodox Society, which had fewer members, built its own meeting house in 1831, just 200 ft to the northwest. The latter building was later converted into a private residence.</p><br>
<p>Membership in the area&#39;s Society of Friends declined in the course of the 19th century and the meetings were "laid down" in 1885. The property was acquired by the Historical Society of Quaker Hill and Pawling in 1936 which has preserved the building since then.</p><br>
<p>The building is a two-story building, five bays wide and two bays deep. Inside the shingled structure, there are sliding panels which divide the mens and womens portions of the building. As with most meeting houses, there are two front doors, one for each gender.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Meeting House is located on the north side of Meeting House Road, about 100 meters from where it branches off from Quaker Hill Road, in the Hamlet of Quaker Hill, Town of Pawling, NY 12564.</p><br>
<p>The Akin Free Library on Quaker Hill is a historic eclectic late Victorian stone building in the hamlet of Quaker Hill, town of Pawling, Dutchess County, New York, USA, listed in the National Register of Historic Places as a historic place of local significance since 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Akin Free Library was a gift from the Quaker (1803–1903), founder of the Bank of Pawling and the Mizzentop Hotel on Quaker Hill. The building was designed by the architect John A. Wood and constructed between 1898 and 1908. It is a 2 1/2-story, "T"-plan, stone building on a raised basement with an engaged three-story central clock tower and rear annex. The building features an entrance portico, bracketed sheet copper cornice, and standing seam copper roof. Its design is Victorian eclectic.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The library itself is located on the first floor of the building. Among others, its holdings of several thousand books contain books of local interest and by local authors, a children&#39;s section, and newspaper collections.</p><br>
<h2>Museums</h2><br>
<p>The Historical Society Museum occupies the second floor of the building. Its collections include objects pertaining to the local history such as period and Quaker clothing, tools and artwork, bowling pins from the Mizzentop Hotel, and the service window from the old Quaker Hill Post Office.</p><br>
<p>The lower floor of the building houses the Olive Gunnison Natural History Museum, which displays about 200 mounted birds, rocks and minerals, as well as a shrunken human head.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The address of the library is 378 Old Quaker Hill Road, Pawling, NY 12564.</p><br>
<p>Madge Lake is located in eastern Saskatchewan, 18 km east of the town of Kamsack and just a few kilometres west of the province&#39;s eastern boundary. It is centered near coordinates 51°40′ N, 101°38′ W. Road access to the lake is via Highway 57, which passes by the south shore of Madge Lake as it connects Highway 5 to Manitoba Highway 83.</p><br>
<p>Madge Lake is the largest body of water in Saskatchewan&#39;s Duck Mountain Provincial Park. The lake measures approximately 5 km by 5 km for a total surface area of 21 square kilometres.</p><br>
<h2>Recreational opportunities</h2><br>
<p>Madge Lake serves as Duck Mountain Provincial Park&#39;s central tourist attraction. Seasonal recreational activities in and around the lake include: fishing, hunting, hiking, bicycling, swimming, boating, water skiing, alpine skiing, cross country skiing, snowmobile riding, horseback riding, tobagganing, miniature golf, and 18-hole golf. The area also provides abundant wildlife viewing opportunities, especially in the immensely large local breeding flock of ducks and other waterfowl. Duck Mountain Lodge operates as a year-round resort hotel near the lake, and a large (summer) seasonal campground and rental cabins are also near its shores. Over 300 private vacation residences (cottages) can also be found around the lake. There are two public swimming beaches (Ministik Beach and Pickerel Point Beach) constructed with artificially supplied sand.</p><br>
<p>There are four species of game fish in the lake; walleye (locally known as pickerel), northern pike (locally known as jackfish), yellow perch and burbot. The lake also has a large population of white suckers and many smaller fish species. Fish catches are augmented with the stocking of walleye. However fishing pressure is high and catches remain moderate by local standards. The lake produces very few trophy fish. Few of the other smaller lakes and ponds that surround Madge Lake support fish populations because of winter dieoff, but Jackfish Lake, 500m south of Highway 57, has been stocked with rainbow trout and tiger trout and is aerated in winter to support the oxygen levels under the ice.</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<p>The climate of eastern Saskatchewan features extreme seasonal variation, with winter temperatures below −30 °C and summer temperatures above +30 °C not uncommon. The lake therefore has very distinct seasons. It is ice covered in winter, usually from mid-November to mid-April. And the ice is thick enough to walk on, snowmobile on, and even drive vehicles on, from mid-December to early March. During this winter season, snowmobile riding and ice fishing are primary recreations on the lake, while the surrounding park has facilities for both downhill and cross country skiing. Approximately 80 cm of snow accumulates in the area through the winter, slowly building depth until it begins to actively melt in spring, usually from early March through to early April. The lake itself is however usually not completely clear of ice until early May. The "summer season" traditionally starts on Victoria Day weekend (late May), and ends on Canadian Labour Day weekend (early September). The lake is warm enough for comfortable swimming from early July to late August, although hardy souls may extend this season by several weeks. The spring and fall seasons (March and April, and October and November, respectively) are the quietest times on the lake, as neither summer (water) or winter (snow) recreational activities are practical in those seasons.</p><br>
<h2>Environmental concerns</h2><br>
<p>The large amount of tourism development around the lake is the cause of growing environmental concern. Winter-time use of the park has especially increased with the development of the year-round lodge. The lake simply isn&#39;t as quiet as it used to be. The lake is now regarded as having reached its development potential and there exists considerable opposition to further development. Some proposed development projects - such as the increase in the number of cottages in Benito subdivision - have been shelved, and probably abandoned.</p><br>
<p>Also of concern is the lakes fluctuating water level, which had dropped by more than a metre between the early 1960s and the late 1970s. The lake, being located on a rise of land, has a very small cachement area and so its level is very susceptible to variations in annual rainfall. The lake is also relatively shallow with a largely flat bottom, making even a small change in water level noticeable at the lakeshore. The shoreline had become disagreeably mucky as a result of the decline in water level. And an outlet stream draining the lake to the north ceased flowing in the early 1970s, increasing concerns of eutrophication and stagnation of the lake water. However, the lake had by the late 1990s risen again by some 60 cm from its lowest levels of the late 1970s. While welcome, this rise drowned many young trees along the water edge, particularly on the north shore which became clothed in dead saplings. Emergent marsh plants (notably Scirpus, Typha, and Phragmites) had also overtaken much shore line with the resubmergence of formerly dry lake bottom. The water level dropped again during the very dry year of 2000, but has since risen again, and had reached very high levels following the very wet summer of 2010 and snowy winter of 2010/2011 (about 200 cm above its lowest level in 1975). Some recreational facilities, such as the boat launch facility on the lakes north-east corner, have been rendered inaccessible by the high water levels, and very little visible beach sand remains at the Pickerel Point or Ministik swimming areas.</p><br>
<p>The variable water level has also caused other recent changes to the lake. At the time of lowest water level in the late 1970s, the lakes largest island, Spruce Island, was connected by dry land to the mainland, and a large gravel bar in the lakes north basin was exposed. Now, however, the land corridor to Spruce Island is bisected by a stretch of marsh. The gravel bar has similarly been resubmerged, becoming a hazard to boating and unfortunately extirpating the colony of common terns and herring gulls that bred there. These two species are no longer commonly seen on the lake now that their breeding site has drowned, but the recent rise in water level is to the apparent benefit of the lake&#39;s common loon, red-necked grebe, and beaver populations. Ducks are also thriving in the stretches of now-flooded shoreline. And fish catches have improved markedly since the low water days of the late 1970s.</p><br>
<h2>Hydrology</h2><br>
<p>Madge Lakes hydrology remains fairly isolated even at its current water level. However, a heavily beaver-dammed creek allows the slow drainage of its waters to the north. Water level control structures at the creek outlet provides some control over the lakes water level. Lake water eventually enters Bear Head Lake at the north-eastern corner of Duck Mountain Provincial Park. Bear Head Lake is then in turn drained by Bear Head Creek, which continues north-east, crossing the Manitoba boundary, to join the Swan River on its journey to Swan Lake. Madge Lake is therefore part of the Swan River drainage basin, rather than the watershed of the nearby Assiniboine River.</p><br>
<p>The lake water is only very slightly eutrophic (and so can be described as mesotrophic), and is also moderately hard and alkaline, with a limestone-buffered pH of about 8.2. The water clarity in summer is limited by phytoplankton growth and wave-agitation of the calcareous clay bottom. A Secchi disk depth of as little as 1 metre is not uncommon after windy days. Water quality, however, is still considered to be good, and in fact, among the best in Saskatchewan&#39;s parks.</p><br>
<h2>Surrounding forest</h2><br>
<p>The forest immediately surrounding the lake was last burned over in the mid 1800s, and so is now well over 100 years old and approaching climax. White spruce and balsam fir are now the dominant tree species on the shores of the lake. The lakeshore population of paper birch and trembling aspen is in decline, and deciduous trees are now fairly inconspicuous except in isolated pockets. This is a fairly recent development, as the deciduous trees that sprouted after the fires only started dying off in numbers in the 1980s. Before this time, the lake shore forest was dominated by deciduous trees. Therefore, for much of the 20th century, Spruce Island (which had escaped the fires) had a conspicuous evergreen forest in contrast to the younger deciduous forest of the surrounding shore, and thus the island received its name. However, the aging of the lakeshore forest means Spruce Island&#39;s forest is no longer visually distinctive.</p><br>
<h2>Fish species</h2><br>
<p>Fish species include walleye, yellow perch, northern pike, burbot and white sucker.</p><br>
<p>Hirsholmene is a group of ten small Danish islands in the Kattegat; Hirsholm, Græsholm, Lilleholm, Tyvholm, Kølpen and Deget, located approximately 7 km to the northeast of Frederikshavn. Noted for their impressive bird populations, the islands have been a Danish nature reserve since 1938.http://naturstyrelsen.dk/naturoplevelser/naturguider/hirsholmene/</p><br>
<p>Only Hirsholm is inhabited, with a small settlement dating from the 16th century, and a lighthouse from 1886.</p><br>
<p>The island was the summer retreat for the noted Danish author Dines Skafte Jespersen who wrote the children&#39;s book series called Troldepus in addition to other works. He also wrote three autobiographical works, including one about his year living and working on the island, called Himmel, hav og en ø (Sky, Sea and an Island).</p><br>
<h2>Protections</h2><br>
<p>Hirsholmene has been an international Ramsar area since 2 September 1977. Today it has number 147 and encompass 3,714 ha.</p><br>
<p>The Sawtooth Range is a mountain range of the Rocky Mountains in central Idaho, United States, reaching a maximum elevation of 10,751 ft at the summit of Thompson Peak. It encompass an area of 678 square miles spanning parts of Custer, Boise, Blaine, and Elmore counties, and is bordered to the east by the Sawtooth Valley. Much of the mountain range is within the Sawtooth Wilderness, part of the Sawtooth National Recreation Area and Sawtooth National Forest.</p><br>
<h2>Peaks</h2><br>
<p>There are 57 peaks with an elevation over 10,000 ft in the Sawtooth Range, all falling between 10000 to 10751 ft on Thompson Peak, the highest point in the range. Another 77 peaks fall between 9,000 and.</p><br>
<p>Climbs range in difficulty between the 9,150 ft Observation Peak, a Class 1 hike, and 8,980 ft King Spire, a rock route rated Class 5.10 on the Yosemite Decimal System.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The northern Sawtooth Range formed from the Eocene Sawtooth batholith, while south of Alturas Lake the mountains formed from the Cretaceous granodiorite of the Idaho Batholith. The Sawtooth Range has a history of alpine glaciation, but while no surface glaciers exist today, perennial snow fields and rock glaciers remain, usually on north or east facing slopes. There have been 202 perennial snow fields mapped in the Sawtooth Range. The Sawtooth Range was last extensively glaciated in the Pleistocene, but glaciers probably existed during the Little Ice Age, which ended around 1850 AD. Evidence of past glaciation given remnants of the glaciers such as glacial lakes, moraines, horns, hanging valleys, cirques, and arêtes.</p><br>
<h3>Seismology</h3><br>
<p>In 2010, scientists from Idaho State University discovered the Sawtooth Fault near the base of the mountains, running for 40 mi near Stanley and Redfish Lake. The most recent large quakes along it occurred around 4,000 and 7,000 years ago. It is estimated the fault could produce a 7.5 magnitude earthquake, potentially felt as far as Boise.</p><br>
<h2>Waterways</h2><br>
<p>The Sawtooth Range is home to hundreds of lakes created by vanished alpine glaciers, with nearly 400 lakes in the Sawtooth Wilderness. Five of the six largest lakes in the range are located outside the wilderness (Redfish, Alturas, Pettit, Yellow Belly, and Stanley lakes), while Sawtooth Lake is within the wilderness.</p><br>
<p>Most of the east side of the Sawtooth Range is drained by the main stem of the Salmon River and the west side by the South Fork Payette River. Small portions of the northern and southern ends of the range are in the watersheds of the Middle Fork Salmon River and Boise River, respectively.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>There are 40 trails totaling nearly 350 mi in the Sawtooth Wilderness that can be used for day hiking, backpacking, and horseback riding and accessed from 23 trailheads. Additional trails traverse the foothills of the mountains outside the designated wilderness. Camping is permitted anywhere in the wilderness. There are several developed campgrounds on the western side of range, outside the Sawtooth Wilderness, including at Redfish, Little Redfish, Alturas, Pettit, and Stanley lakes, as well as at Iron Creek. Restrictions on fires and animals apply in some areas.</p><br>
<p>The Ochsenkopf Transmitter  is a 163-metre radio and TV tower of reinforced concrete, which was built in 1958 on the summit of the 1024-metre Ochsenkopf mountain, the second-highest mountain in the Fichtelgebirge mountain chain in Northern Bavaria, Germany. The tower replaced a 50-metre guyed steel tube TV mast that collapsed in January 1958 as result of icing. The tower, which is not accessible to the public, has a hyperbolic-shaped basement with five floors for technical equipment. Above it, there are platforms for directional antennas. The antennas for FM-transmission are on the upper part of the concrete tower, those for TV transmission on a steel tube mast on the top.</p><br>
<h2>Transmitting to the former GDR</h2><br>
<p>Ochsenkopf TV Tower played an important role in transmitting to the former GDR many West German FM and TV programs, notably ARD, West Germany&#39;s first – and between 1952 and 1963 only – television channel. Its signal could penetrate deep into the southern territory of East Germany due to its closeness to the border, its use of a low frequency (VHF Band I channel 4), and of vertical polarization. Under good conditions, its signal could be received as far away as Görlitz on the East German-Polish border, even though most aerials there were pointed at the West Berlin transmitters.</p><br>
<p>The transmitter required large and specifically mounted aerials nicknamed Ochsenkopf-Antenne, or Ochsenkopf for short, thus making the homes of viewers of western television easily recognizable. A campaign in the early 1960s by East Germany&#39;s state youth organisation FDJ aimed at turning away or removing such aerials exploited this fact.</p><br>
<h2>Similar towers</h2><br>
<p>Many other TV towers of similar design were built after 1958 in Germany and other European countries, including:</p><br>
<p>Święty Krzyż TV Tower in Poland</p><br>
<p>Brotjacklriegl TV Tower in Germany</p><br>
<p>Donnersberg TV Tower in Germany</p><br>
<p>Ještěd Tower in Czech</p><br>
<p>Schladming TV Tower, Austria</p><br>
<p>Kitzbühl Horn transmitter. Austria</p><br>
<p>Mugel TV Tower, Austria</p><br>
<p>Slanchev Bryag TV Tower, Bulgaria</p><br>
<p>Stramni Rid TV Tower, Bulgaria</p><br>
<p>Ostankino Tower in Moscow, Russia</p><br>
<h2>Transmitted Programmes</h2><br>
<h3>FM Radio</h3><br>
<h3>Television (analogue, PAL standard)</h3><br>
<p>shut down on 30 Nov 2008</p><br>
<p>The public channels ZDF and Bayerisches Fernsehen for the region used to be transmitted from the nearby mountain Großer Waldstein.</p><br>
<h3>Television (digital, DVB-T standard)</h3><br>
<p>launched on 25 Nov 2008</p><br>
<p>Kettle Creek Reservoir is a reservoir at Kettle Creek State Park in Leidy Township, Clinton County, Pennsylvania in the United States. It is open to some recreational boating, fishing and ice fishing. It was constructed by the USA Army Corps of Engineers in 1961. Gas powered motors are prohibited on the reservoir. Motorized boats must be powered by electric motors only. Sailboats, rowboats, canoes, kayaks, and paddleboats are permitted on the waters of the lake. All boats must be properly registered with any state. The swimming area at the lake is on the northern end of the reservoir. Swim at your own risk. Lifeguards are not provided.</p><br>
<p>Alvin R. Bush Dam on Kettle Creek is an earth and rockfill, flood control dam. It stands at a maximum height of 165 feet (50 m) above the stream bed and is 1,350 feet (410 m) across. The reservoir has a capacity of 75,000 acre feet (93,000,000 m³) at the spillway crest. It covers 160 acres (0.6 km²) and is 2.2 miles (4 km) long. Alvin R. Bush Dam controls about 226 square miles of the Kettle Creek drainage area. This is 92% of the total Kettle Creek drainage area.</p><br>
<p>The Old City is a neighborhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, located at the northeast corner of the city&#39;s downtown area. Originally part of a raucous and vice-ridden section of town known as "The Bowery," the Old City has since been revitalized through extensive redevelopment efforts carried out during the 1980s through the present. Currently, the Old City is an offbeat urban neighborhood, home to several unique restaurants, bars, clubs, and shops.</p><br>
<p>In spite of its name, the Old City is not the oldest section of Knoxville. The railroad brought an influx of Irish immigrants, who established the Old Citys first saloons and shops. After the Civil War, Knoxville developed into one of the southeasts largest wholesaling centers. Wholesalers built large warehouses, such as the ones along Jackson Avenue, where rural East Tennessee merchants came to buy the goods with which they stocked their general stores.</p><br>
<p>By the early 1900s, Central Street was lined with saloons and brothels. Violent crime and prostitution continued to be a problem into the 1960s, causing many of the neighborhoods businesses to flee the area. Beginning in the 1970s, successful redevelopment efforts led by Kristopher Kendrick (who coined the name "Old City") and Peter Calandruccio revitalized the neighborhood. In 1985, most of the neighborhoods historic buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Southern Terminal and Warehouse Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Old City is concentrated around the intersection of Central Street and Jackson Avenue, adjacent to the Southern Terminal tracks and railyard (now part of the Norfolk Southern system). The neighborhood is roughly bounded by Magnolia Avenue on the north, Gay Street on the west, Summit Hill Drive on the south, and the interstate overpasses on the east. Interstate 40 passes just north of the Old City, and is accessible via the Downtown Loop from Summit Hill Drive.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>19th century</h3><br>
<p>During the first half of the 19th century, Knoxvilles northward expansion was slow. By 1852, Vine Avenue marked the citys northern limits.</p><br>
<p>The arrival of the railroad had a major impact on the citys cultural makeup, as hundreds of Irish immigrants arrived in town to help construct the railroad tracks and facilities. Many of these immigrants settled in what is now the Old City, so much so that at one point the area was known as "Irish Town." After the Civil War, Irish businessmen began building saloons and shops along Central (originally Crozier) Street that served the citys railroad traffic. Among these businesses was a saloon built by Patrick Sullivan (1840&mdash;1925), which initially operated out of a wooden structure before Sullivan erected the elaborate brick building that still stands at the corner of Central and Jackson.</p><br>
<p>In 1869, Knoxvilles two main rail lines merged to form the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad, which in subsequent years constructed or acquired over 2,500 mi of track across the southeast, leading to a wholesaling and industrial boom in the city. The four-story City Mills (later White Lily) plant and the Beachs Marble Works finishing mill stood along Depot, and the Elridge Carriage Factory operated near the modern corner of Central and Summit Hill.</p><br>
<h3>Early 1900s</h3><br>
<p>By the early 1900s, Central Street had developed into a raucous area known as "The Bowery," presumably after the New York neighborhood of similar repute. A 1900 article described the Bowery as being "congregated by nine-tenths of the criminal element" of Knoxville, Florida Street, which ran adjacent to Central prior to expressway construction, developed into a red-light district known as "Friendly Town."</p><br>
<p>Bar fights and shootouts were not uncommon at the Bowerys saloons. The most well-known of the Bowerys gunfights occurred at Ike Jones bar on Central on December 13, 1901, when outlaw Kid Curry (a member of Butch Cassidys Wild Bunch) shot two Knoxville police officers. Curry was eventually captured and jailed, but managed to escape. The shooting became a rallying cry for the citys prohibitionists, who shouted down Knoxville mayor Samuel Heiskell with chants of "Harvey Logan" (Currys real name) during a rally on Market Square in 1907.</p><br>
<p>Peace Corps "progenitor" James Herman Robinson (1907&ndash;1972) grew up in a polluted and disease-ridden slum known as "The Bottoms," which lay adjacent to the Bowery on the banks of First Creek. In his autobiography, Road Without Turning, Robinson describes the Bottoms as the "lowest" part of Knoxville, "geographically, morally, and economically." He later joined a gang which hung out at the corner of Central and Vine, where they witnessed "every lewd act and heard every vile phrase descriptive of it."</p><br>
<p>While the Bowery was one of the most crime-ridden sections of Knoxville, it was also one of the most diverse, and was one of the few parts of town where black-owned businesses functioned next to white-owned businesses. Black-owned businesses in the neighborhood included the Gem Theater, the Dogan-Gaither Motel, Gleaner Printing Company, and Easleys Grocery. In the early 1900s, Greek immigrant Constantine Stergiokis opened one of Knoxvilles first Greek restaurants along Central. After citywide prohibition shut down Knoxville&#39;s saloons, the Italian-American Armetta family opened an ice cream parlor in the Sullivan building.</p><br>
<p>Part of the Knoxville Riot of 1919, one of the city&#39;s worst racial episodes, took place in the Bowery on August 30, 1919. Early that morning, a white woman was murdered, and police arrested Maurice Mays, a prominent local mulatto, for the crime. That afternoon, a lynch mob broke into the jail, and failing to find Mays, freed several inmates and looted the liquor storage room. As the riot spread into the streets, the rioters made their way to the Bowery, where they attacked and exchanged gunfire with black residents along Vine Avenue. The National Guard finally restored order the following morning.</p><br>
<h3>Revitalization</h3><br>
<p>As crime persisted in the Bowery, businesses began moving away. In the 1940s, JFG Coffee, which had opened its processing plant on West Jackson in 1921, threatened to move to a new location, complaining that the companys truck drivers were consistently mobbed by prostitutes. Walter McGinnis, who operated the Tri-City Barber College at the corner of Jackson and Central from 1952 until 1992, recalled that, "Saturday at noon, the sawmills would close, and the people who worked in the forest would come to South Central. By 5 oclock that night they were all pretty drunk and fightin.&#39;"</p><br>
<p>Several scenes in Cormac McCarthys 1979 novel, Suttree, take place in the Old City. In one scene, the title character passes along Central, where "loud and shoddy commerce erupted out of the dim shops into the streets and packs of scarred dogs wandered," en route to sell his fish to a Central Street butcher. In another scene, a friend of Suttrees tells a story about a murderer showing off his victim&#39;s severed head at a bar on Central. The book also mentions the "Corner Grill" (later the Corner Lounge), which operated on North Central from the 1930s until 2008.</p><br>
<p>During the 1970s, developer Kristopher Kendrick began buying up properties in the Old City. In a 1994 interview, Kendrick mentioned a conversation he had had with Coca-Cola bottler Patrick Roddy that would inspire the new name for the neighborhood. "I told him that we had bought property down there," Kendrick recalled, "and he said, Kris, thats the old city, and I said, Pat, thats the perfect name." By the late 1980s, several new businesses had opened in the Old City, including Annies (whose proprietor, Annie Delisle, was novelist Cormac McCarthys ex-wife), Old City Mercantile, Kerbys Antiques, and Hewgleys Music. Sullivans Saloon "reopened" as Patrick Sullivans Steakhouse and Saloon on St. Patrick&#39;s Day in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Economy</h2><br>
<p>Now considered the "club district" of Knoxville (currently no strip clubs), the Old City is generally made up of warehouses, buildings of light industrial use, and a small historically commercial strip along South Central Street. The White Lily Foods plant, which had operated since 1885, shut down in 2008. JFG Coffee was for decades located in several buildings in the Old City, but has recently moved. The former JFG roasting facility at 200 West Jackson Avenue was redeveloped into the JFG Flats residential lofts in 2009, and the White Lily Foods building was purchased in 2012 by the same company that developed the roasting facility (Dewhirst Properties). It reopened as residential rental apartments in 2015. John H. Daniel Company, a custom tailoring company, operated on West Jackson from 1928 to 2016 when they moved north of downtown on Central St. The building was sold to developers and reconfigured as rental loft apartments with retail storefronts on the first floor. It is called "The Daniel", and opened to tenants late in 2016.</p><br>
<p>There are several loft apartments in the older buildings of the Old City, many located behind and above offices and stores. The Jackson Ateliers Building and Hewgley Park lofts have been residential locations for many years. The Jacksonian Condos, JFG Flats, and Fire Street Lofts, have been redeveloped more recently as upscale condominiums, some listing in excess of $600,000.</p><br>
<p>The area tends to attract young single adults, who are sometimes affiliated with the University of Tennessee, which is less than two miles away. The Old City&#39;s proximity to entertainment and nightlife make it an attractive place to live for many young adults.</p><br>
<p>The &#39;Ría de Arousa&#39; is a ria, a saline estuary, that forms a firth situated on Galicia, Spain. It is one of the five Rías Baixas. The Ría de Arousa estuary is the largest of the estuaries of Galicia. It is part of the Rias Baixas and is located between the estuary of Muros and Noia to the north and the Pontevedra estuary to the south. The peninsulas of Barbanza, in the province of A Coruña, and O Salnés, in the province of Pontevedra, are those who define their coasts on the north and south, respectively. Ría de Muros and Noya  is located in north.</p><br>
<p>It is the largest estuary, although not reaching the higher levels bathymetric, at 69 m maximum depth at the mouth. It has numerous islands and islets among which the island of Arousa, A Toxa, Sálvora in the mouth and Cortegada at the entrance. The main rivers that flow to it are the Ulla river at its headwaters and the river Umia in the cove that forms the peninsula of O Grove with the coast of Cambados.</p><br>
<p>The most important river towns are Ribeira, Pobra do Caramiñal, Rianxo and Boiro to the north, and Vilagarcía de Arousa, Vilanova de Arousa, Cambados and O Grove to the south, and Arousa in the homonymous island.</p><br>
<h2>Zones</h2><br>
<p>The northern zone, corresponding to the province of A Coruña, is relatively steep, with the Serra da Barbanza near the coast. The beaches take a few metres depth from the shore, forming sand banks in the interior bays.</p><br>
<p>The southern zone, corresponding to the province of Pontevedra, is a flood zone, where the river Umia ends. The characteristic of the coast is shallow, with extensive formation of sand banks, where many arenicolous bivalves are grown like cockles or clams. The most well-known banks of Sarrido belong to the delta of Umia river and Os Lombos do Ulla belonging to the homonymous river delta. This southern area is relatively flat up to the highlands of Mount Castrove, which separates it from the Ría de Pontevedra, and is characterized by small farm plots usually cultivated with vegetables (Padrón peppers, tomato, lettuce and legumes) or grapevines. The graphevines in the O Salnés area is mostly white grape Salnés (varieties Albariño wine). There are also cultivated dark grapes for the production of red wine also known Barrantes. There are also pink grape cultivated with which Catalan wine is made.</p><br>
<h2>Fauna</h2><br>
<p>Its physical configuration allows a high production of phytoplankton, with a characteristic ocean flow that makes this river famous for its rich marine life. It is the area of greatest mussel production in all the world. They are grown in nurseries, cultivated in floating rafts. Whales are starting to reappear along the coasts where once were known for whaling industries.</p><br>
<p>Fountaingrove Lake is a reservoir in the city of Santa Rosa, California, United States. Formed by the Fountaingrove Dam, the lake is fed from the east by Piner Creek, which is also the lake&#39;s sole outlet.</p><br>
<p>Fountaingrove Dam is an earthen dam built in 1953. It is 38 ft high, 500 ft long, and 15 ft wide.</p><br>
<p>In 1985, a private country club known as the built a championship 18-hole golf course centered on Fountaingrove Lake. The golf course was designed by Ted Robinson Sr.</p><br>
<h2>Ecology</h2><br>
<p>Fountaingrove has significant aquatic as well as upland biota, and is noted for being a habitat of the Western pond turtle, Actinemys marmorata, a "Species of Special Concern".</p><br>
<p>Within the lake at its verges are significant densities of wetland plants; moreover, at upland locations there are many native trees, particularly Coast live oak, Quercus agrifolia and Garry oak, Quercus garryana. Fishing has historically been conducted within the lake, although golf course and other urban development around the perimeter has reduced these practices.</p><br>
<h2>Environmental factors</h2><br>
<p>The microclimate at Fountaingrove Lake is a mild Mediterranean climate typical of southern and central Sonoma County. Approximately 29.2 inches (74.2 cm) of precipitation occur at Fountaingrove Lake annually, almost entirely in the form of rainfall. The record high and low temperatures for this locale are 110 °F (43 °C) and 16 °F (-9 °C) respectively. Air quality is generally good since prevailing winds are from the northwest and intercept little industry as the winds travel from the Pacific Ocean. Sound levels have increased steadily with the growth of Santa Rosa, with the principal local sound source being Fountaingrove Parkway; sound levels from vehicles ascending the steep grades of that arterial can attain levels of 55 to 58 dBA at the environs of Fountaingrove Lake.</p><br>
<h2>Current issues</h2><br>
<p>A 500,000 USgal water storage tank was proposed near the southern end of Fountaingrove Lake; the city of Santa Rosa has approved this project to add to the municipal drinking water supply, subject to erosion control measures to protect Fountaingrove Lake from excessive siltation. A substantial retirement community known as Varenna is under development as of 2007 on the ridgetop at the southeastern perimeter of Fountaingrove Lake. The Varenna project had not made wetlands mitigation environmental filings in a timely manner with the California Regional Water Quality Control Board regarding certain filling of perimeter wetlands of Fountaingrove Lake associated with its development project; therefore, additionally off-site mitigation was required of the project to compensate the people of California for the wetlands destruction at Fountaingrove Lake. On site mitigation measures include extensive erosion protection for cut slopes and installation of bioswales.</p><br>
<p>Public School 9, originally known as Grammar School 9, then later the John Jasper School and currently the Mickey Mantle School, is a historic school building at 466 West End Avenue at West 82nd Street in the Upper West Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was built in 1894-96, and was designed by C. B. J. Snyder, the Superintendent of School Buildings.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1987, It is located in the Riverside-West End Historic District Extension I.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The school that became P.S. 9 was originally organized by the vestry of Saint Michael&#39;s Church (Episcopal) in the early 19th century. The vestry continued to operate the school in the Bloomingdale area until a law was enacted November 19, 1824 which barred church schools from receiving public school funding. On May 22, 1826, the Public School Society of New York acquired it; and, in July 1827, the Society paid $250 for a 100x100 foot tract at 82nd Street between 10th (Amsterdam) and 11th (West End) Avenues. On July 19, 1830, the Society completed the construction of a one-story clapboard school at 466 West End Avenue for $1,500, accommodating about 50 children. The Society transferred jurisdiction of the school to the Board of Education in July 1853.</p><br>
<p>In 1889, the New York Times published a letter to Mayor Hugh J. Grant citing the grim condition of the P.S. 9 building:</p><br>
<p>There was no visible plaster in the entire building. The wooden staircases and wood-lined stairways were only 29 inches wide. Large stoves and stovepipes beneath the stairs and elsewhere, used for warming the building, were dangerously close to the woodwork. The so-called passages were 30 inches wide. The building was devoid of any means of escape from the rear and devoid of a fire escape. Means of egress from the front was insufficient.</p><br>
<p>The next year (1890), the Board of Education demolished the building. From 1894-96, the Board erected a modern school building on the same site equipped with electricity and ventilation, and designed by C. B. J. Snyder. Designed to blend with the neighborhood, the ecclesiastical English gothic structure was a style prevalent in schools built by Trinity Church.</p><br>
<p>On January 26, 1916, during a graduation ceremony, P.S. 9 was named after the late John Jasper. Jasper was an educator who had served at P.S. 9 as a teacher in 1857 and as its principal from 1867 to 1897. He went on to become Assistant Superintendent of Schools then, in 1898, Borough Associate Superintendent of Schools for Manhattan and the Bronx.</p><br>
<p>In 1961, David H. Moskowitz, the Deputy Superintendent for Research and Evaluation for New York City Schools, reported a high transient rate at several elementary schools, including P.S. 9, which ranged from 90 to 99% during the 1959&ndash;1960 school year.</p><br>
<p>The former P.S. 9 building is now the home of the Mickey Mantle School P.S. 811M, serving children with disabilities.</p><br>
<h2>Notable people</h2><br>
<p>A. J. Liebling, student</p><br>
<p>Dick Morris, student in the 1950s</p><br>
<p>The Gunnison Tunnel is an irrigation tunnel constructed between 1905 and 1909 by the USA Bureau of Reclamation in Montrose County, Colorado. The 5.8 mile long tunnel diverts water from the Gunnison River to the arid Uncompahgre Valley around Montrose, Colorado. At the time of its completion, it was the longest irrigation tunnel in the world and quickly made the area around Montrose into profitable agricultural lands. In 1972, the tunnel was designated a National Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers .</p><br>
<p>The idea for a tunnel is credited to Frank Lauzon, a miner and prospector. By the early 1890s he was farming in Montrose. Popular lore is that idea came to him in a dream that the waters of the Gunnison River should be brought to the valley.</p><br>
<p>As construction was undertaken, two advances in technology made work safer and easier. Jackhammers fed by a compressor replaced hand-turned drill bits to set holes for blasting charges. Dynamite replaced black powder for blasting. By 1906 shifts of workers up to 30 at a time worked in the tunnel.</p><br>
<p>The tunnel opened in 1909 to much fanfare with a dedication ceremony attended by President William Howard Taft.</p><br>
<p>The Bassac River  is a distributary of the Tonlé Sap and Mekong River. The river starts in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and flows southerly, crossing the border into Vietnam near Châu Đốc.</p><br>
<p>In Vietnam it is known as the Hậu River (Sông Hậu or Hậu Giang in Vietnamese).</p><br>
<p>The Bassac River is an important transportation corridor between Cambodia and Vietnam, with barges and other crafts plying the waters. A city of the same name was once the west-bank capital of the kingdom of Champasak. USS Satyr (ARL-23), a recommissioned repair ship originally built for the United States Navy during World War II, served on the Bassac River during the Second Indochina War.</p><br>
<p>Two bridges span the Bassac: the Monivong Bridge in Phnom Penh, Cambodia and the Cần Thơ Bridge in Cần Thơ in Vietnam.</p><br>
<p>Stok Kangri  is the highest mountain in the Stok Range of the Himalayas in the Ladakh region of north-west India. The peak is located in Hemis National Park</p><br>
<p>Despite its high altitude, Stok Kangri is a popular trekking peak and is often climbed as an initial non-technical foray into high altitude mountaineering. However, the difficulty of Stok Kangri is often underestimated and the need to acclimatise before and during the ascent makes Stok Kangri an enduring challenge.</p><br>
<p>In late July and August, all but the top of the peak may be snow-free. The elevation data was verified by GPS readings from 11 satellites at the Summit during a late July 2007 joint Nepalese-US expedition which encountered snow cover for 85% of the final four-hour, four km, 900 metre climb.</p><br>
<p>The shortest route to the peak is along the Stok valley, following the Stok Chu to Stok village.</p><br>
<p>This valley&#39;s grazing landscape, especially near the village, was devastated by the 2010 Ladakh floods, the most severe in decades.</p><br>
<h2>Ascent</h2><br>
<p>Over the last few years, Stok Kangri has become tremendously popular amongst trekkers and novice mountaineers due to its non-technical nature. The peak is considered non-technical from July–August, but becomes quite technical during the height of winter. Even in summer, novices should be well prepared, with appropriate physical fitness and equipment. The climb is exhausting and requires a good amount of stamina, both physically and mentally.</p><br>
<p>Despite its relative ease, the 6,153 m peak presents the usual challenges of a mountaineering expedition. Acclimatisation in Leh, particularly for those who fly in from Delhi, before attempting the trek/climb and altitude acclimatization during the ascent, is essential. The biggest hurdle at such altitudes is rarefied air, which can cause acute headaches, nausea and other symptoms of altitude sickness even in fit climbers.</p><br>
<p>It can take anything from two to five days to reach base camp (4,980 m) from the village of Stok, depending on acclimatisation schedules and fitness levels. The summit day lasts 8–14 hours, ascending over 1,000 m from Stok Kangri&#39;s base camp to its summit.</p><br>
<p>Mount Aino, or Ainodake, is a peak of the Akaishi Mountains−Southern Alps, in Minami Alps National Park, Japan.</p><br>
<p>At 3,189 m, it is the fourth tallest peak in Japan and the second highest in the Akaishi Mountains. its peak lies on the border of Aoi-ku and Shizuoka in Shizuoka Prefecture, and of Minami-Alps in Yamanashi Prefecture.</p><br>
<p>Mount Aino is one of the landmark 100 Famous Japanese Mountains.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Within the Akaishi Mountains, Mount Aino is situated roughly 3 km south of Mount Kita, the ranges&#39; tallest peak. Together with Mount Nōtori to the south the three mountains may be referred to as Shiranesanzan.</p><br>
<p>East of the summit lies the cirque Hosozawa Kar.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Mount Aino, like most of the Shiranesanzan, abounds with alpine plants. The neighborhood of the summit is dominated by rocks where few plants can survive. It is conceivable that landslides around the summit have led to the growth of linear hollows. Taking into account such landslides, Mount Aino might have been dozens of metres higher in the past compared to its present altitude. It may have been Japan&#39;s tallest mountain during the Last Glacial Maximum. At that time, Mount Fuji had not reached its present height, and the second and third mountains (Mount Kita and Mount Hotaka) are presently only 4 and 1 metre taller, respectively.</p><br>
<p>Even though Mount Aino does not reach the height of Mount Kita, in its shape and dimension, it bears an equally great mass.</p><br>
<h2>Mountain trails</h2><br>
<p>Mount Aino lies on the traversal route between Mount Kita and Mount Nōtori. On the summit a trail forks towards Mount Mibu in the west,</p><br>
<p>where it connects to the Senshio Ridge traversal route.</p><br>
<p>The nearest alpine hut is Nōtori hut, which lies on a saddle to the south below Mount Nishinōtori. Another</p><br>
<p>Kitadake mountain cottage is situated to the north on a saddle between Mount Aino and Mount Kita.</p><br>
<p>Drosopigi  is a village in Macedonia, Greece. It lies in the central part of Florina regional unit, as part of the Perasma municipal unit. The village&#39;s year round population is estimated at 225 people, but in the summer it grows to nearly 400. In the surrounding area many other villages can be found, including Flambouro, Skopia, Kato Idroussa, and Ano Idroussa. The Village of Drosopigi lies on eastward slope of Mount Bitsi at an elevation of 1050 meters approximately 13 km from Florina.</p><br>
<h2>The old village</h2><br>
<p>The original village, known as Belkamen or Belkameni, was beautiful with walkways paved in cobblestone, archways made from granite and beautiful gardens decorated with flowers and water fountains. A French soldier, who came to the village during World War I, would call the village "Petit Paris", translated "Little Paris". The original village was established in 1843 by villagers (mostly masons and other tradesmen) who came from Plikati and other villages from Mastorochoria (a region around Mt. Gramos) in Epirus. To the outside world, the villagers were known as Albanians, as most of them spoke Albanian until present as Drosopigi. Upon the purchase of the plot of land the people started to build enormous houses made from the materials in the surrounding area. The village was inhabited by many families. The total population at 1900 had reached 1,500.</p><br>
<h2>Life in the old village</h2><br>
<p>Life for the villagers of Drosopigi was very difficult at times. The village was built on the side of the mountain so it could be hidden from the Ottoman Turks. Many of these villagers had massive gardens on which they grew their crops. These included potatoes, carrots, lettuce and other varieties of crops. The sun only hit the village a certain time of day, which made the production of prosperous crops a tremendous challenge. During the late 19th century, many men from the village went to the Kingdom of Romania to work, make money, and bring it back with them. As many other men did, Nikolaos Manou and Vasilios Dedes worked in Romania, were very prosperous, and sent great amounts of money back to the village for their families.</p><br>
<p>With the establishment of the Socialist Republic of Romania these men lost everything they had in the Romanian banks. One man said "I had so much money that even you great grandchildren did not have to work." Many families suffered from that loss.</p><br>
<p>The village itself was a mini city. Holidays like Easter, Christmas were great events for the villagers as was Agia Triada (Holy Trinity), a special celebration to honor the village church. Agia Triada was celebrated forty days after Easter, over the span of three days, and is an event that is celebrated to this day in modern Drosopigi.</p><br>
<h2>Historical significance of Belkameni</h2><br>
<p>The Village of Belkameni was one of the very first villages in its area to have underground tunnels for the Greek Revolutionaries during the Greek Struggle for Macedonia (Μακεδονικὸς Ἀγών). Many great revolutionaries stopped at Belkameni as place to heal, rest, or hide. The Hellenic Army leader who most symbolized the Macedonian Struggle, Pavlos Melas, other army leaders, and their troops, used these underground tunnels for a quick escape from their enemies. Moreover, many locals of Drosopigi joined the Greek Struggle as fighters or agents. Spiro Bellkameni, native of the village was a guerrilla leader who initially fought alongside Greek revolutionaries and later shifted to the Albanian national cause. Bellkameni in 1912 entered Korçë leading his band.</p><br>
<h2>Burning of the old village</h2><br>
<p>When the World War II hit Europe, Greece suffered a lot, as did Drosopigi. In the Battle of Greece (6–30 April 1941), the country faced three Axis powers: Nazi Germany, the Kingdom of Italy and the Kingdom of Bulgaria. Their alliance won the conflict and established an Axis occupation of Greece. They divided Greece into occupation zones. Drosopigi was included in the German occupation zone. On April 3, 1944 the Germans sent a routine Wehrmacht patrol to the surrounding area of Drosopigi, outside the village itself. Local members of the Greek Resistance captured five soldiers and executed them - three of them were outside the village, one in the cemetery and one on the road (Kangeli) leading to the village. The women of the village went to where the Nazi soldiers were shot and cleaned up the blood. The people from the village took the dead bodies and hid them in fertilizer. The Germans quickly concluded that Drosopigi was the place where their soldiers went missing. They demanded an explanation from the villagers and they refused to say anything. Many, fearing reprisals, fled Drosopigi. The men went hiding in the forest and most of the women and children went to Elatia, a small village near Drosopigi. When the Germans arrived seeking retribution they found mostly old people. They killed one elderly lady and one male. On April 4, 1944 the village of Drosopigi was burned by the Germans in reprisal.</p><br>
<p>Following the German devastation of Drosopigi, the people of the village set out to rebuild it to its original glory. From April 1944 until April 1947 the villagers would be rebuilding. The end of World War II was followed in Greece by the Greek Civil War between the Democratic Army of Greece and the Hellenic Army. In the first stages of the civil war many communist-led guerrillas stopped at the village as a hiding place. On April 7, 1947, the Greek government under Dimitrios Maximos adopted a policy of forced relocation for certain villages that were strategic for the guerrillas, and ordered the inhabitants of Drosopigi to gather their belongings and to vacate the village. It was decided to move most of the inhabitants to the village of Skopia, Florina.</p><br>
<h2>The Great Move</h2><br>
<p>After the Greek Government adopted a policy of forced relocation of certain villages, the National Army of Greece, in April 1947, moved the villagers from Drosopigi to the village of Skopia were they would stay till late 1950/1951. By 1951, most villagers moved yet again to another village known as Kato Idroussa (Kotori). It was at this time that a final decision was made to build a new village at the current location of Drosopigi. Life at Skopia was very hard for everyone from Drosopigi. In Skopia, an entire family, often as many as 8 people, was assigned to one room to live in. Also constant conflict was going on in the mountains around Skopia between the two factions of the civil war. With Greece at this all-time low, there was very little hope.</p><br>
<p>In Skopia many families received aid from the United States that originated from the Truman Doctrine, which would allow 100 million dollars in aid to go to Greece and Turkey. Families all across Greece received some sort of aid. In Skopia families received aid through food rations, clothing, and other important items. During the Greek Civil War, many Greeks would lose their lives and many people from the village of Drosopigi fought on both sides. A total of eleven Drosopigites died in the Greek Civil War. On the National Army side 4 died including Evangelos Harisis (Εύαγγελος Χαρισης), Anastasios Harisis (Αναστάσιος Χαρισης), and Konstantinos Stathopoulos (Κωνσταντινος Σταθοπουλος) and Dimitios Theodorou (Δἠμἠτριος Θεοδῶρου). On the partisan side 7 died including Anastasios Styliades (Αναστάσιος Στυλιαδης), Antonis Zikos (Αντώνης Ζηκος), two brothers of the Nastou family (Δύο άδελφοί Νάστου), and Sotirs Theodorou ( Σωτηριος Θεοδώρου).</p><br>
<p>After a course of two years the people from the old village wanted to move on. From 1951 until 1952 many families started to build their new homes so they could have some sort of shelter to live in. As the new home construction finished, people began to move into the new village, and shortly thereafter it came to be known as the new Drosopigi. Many of the original families from the old village established themselves in the new village.</p><br>
<h2>Present</h2><br>
<p>From the time the new Drosopigi was built(1951/1952) the people worked hard to make it beautiful but would not reach the beauty of the old village.</p><br>
<p>In the 1950s and 1960s a new era was coming about in Greece, it was the time of moving. Many families, because of economic conditions, from all around Greece started to emigrate, becoming part of the Greek diaspora. Individuals and families who emigrated from Drosopigi mostly went to the United States, Canada, West Germany, and Australia in search of a new life. Some went with the intention to make money and return, but many did not return to Greece and left their villages in their past.</p><br>
<p>At present, the city of Rochester, New York has the largest concentration of immigrants and families that trace their roots to Drosopigi. Many people still visit Drosopigi to this day and always keep it their hearts as many Drosopigiotes (people from Drosopigi) say. There are still people who live there but not as many as there were in 1900. The old village lies in ruins never to be touched. Family members long buried there have not been touched. The village that was once a mini city now lies in ruins and oversees the new village were the people of Drosopigi now live.</p><br>
<p>While Greek has been the primary language of Drosopigiotes for decades, Albanian and Aromanian are still spoken proudly by many of the older village residents. A study conducted in 1993, indicates that most villagers over 30 could speak Albanian and most villagers over 60 could speak Aromanian.</p><br>
<h2>Society</h2><br>
<p>The Society was organized in the year 1951 by immigrants who came over from Drosopigi. These were among the first to settle in the Rochester area. The initial goal of the membership was to assist in the rebuilding of the town of Drosopigi that was completely destroyed during the War between the Germans and Civil War. Among the projects that were supported were the reconstruction of the public school and of the Church of the Αγια Τριας or in English the Holy Trinity. Another projects were to supply the village with water supply and electrical power. In addition, the members supported relatives and friends back home in Drosopigi through financial help and other types of aid. In Rochester, the Drosopigi Society has been and still is one of the most active community organizations within the Greek Community in Rochester. One strong quote from the Drosopigi people is as follows, "What we inherited from our forefathers, we have given to our children and they are ready to hand it to their children so that they, in turn, will continue our customs and traditions into the future with zeal and enthusiasm."</p><br>
<p>Till this day the society is very strong and hosts many special occasions such as Αγια Τριας one of the most important tradition held by the drospigiotes till this day. They also host Christmas Parties and Picnics to help bring together all the families of Drosopigi. They have assisted in successfully rebuilding the town of Drosopigi in Greece and still sends aid to help the village in the many projects which help make the village beautiful. The society also helps in many projects here in America such as contributing to the addition of new Mosaics in the Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation in Rochester New York. Today the Society is led by Δημητρη Καρρα (Dimitri Karras) and many other elected officials. The society also operates the Museum of Folklore and History (Drosopigi).</p><br>
<h2>Demographics</h2><br>
<h2>Notable people</h2><br>
<p>Spiro Bellkameni, activist of the Albanian National Awakening</p><br>
<p>Nikolaos Manos, Greek guerilla, veteran of Macedonian Struggle and Balkan Wars.</p><br>
<p>Pigeon Island is a 44 acre islet located in Gros Islet in the northern region of Saint Lucia. Once isolated from the country in the Caribbean Sea, the island was artificially joined to the western coast of mainland in 1972 by a man-made causeway built from dirt excavated to form the Rodney Bay Marina. Composed of two peaks the island is a historic site with numerous forts such as an 18th-century British fort and Fort Rodney both used by the British to spy on French Ships from neighbouring Martinique. In 1979 it was named a national park and again in 1992 it became a national landmark under the control of the Saint Lucia National Trust . Today, Pigeon Island is the home and major venue of the Saint Lucia Jazz Festival.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Arawak people, the original inhabitants of Pigeon island, were driven out by the Caribs around 1000 A.D. The Caribs lived in caves along the shore of the island, and hunted for fish, shellfish, small animals and birds. They also foraged for plant food. In the 16th century, a French pirate, François le Clerc, used Pigeon Island as his base. He forged an agreement with the Caribs, so that they would not attack his ship.</p><br>
<p>Between 1779 and 1782, Admiral George Rodney took over Pigeon island, and built Fort Rodney. To establish clear viewpoints, Rodney ordered all trees on Pigeon Island to be cut down. From the higher peak, Signal Hill, Rodney was able to observe the French naval base of Fort Royal on Martinique. In 1782, Admiral Rodney sailed from Pigeon Island to confront the French fleet, which he defeated in the Battle of Saints.</p><br>
<p>Over the next several years, the British built several other structures on Pigeon Island, including two barracks, a mess hall, and a lime kiln.</p><br>
<p>The back and forward lakes Stubensee  are located 2,423 m above sea level in the back part of the Pflersch valley, which is a left side valley of the Eisacktal. Similar to the Grünsee, one has to go by car until Ochsenalm  and then travel northwards high up route 6 until the lakes are reached after about four kilometers. At the forward lake, there is a snack station called Magdeburger Hütte , which is named after the city in Germany.</p><br>
<p>Both lakes have a very good water quality (A grade). As typical mountain lakes, the water remains refreshingly chilly even on hot summer days at max. 12° Celsius. While the back lake is only supplied by rain or melting snow, the forward one is supplied and drained by the Hochtalbach (A grade quality / rapid). The creek has a length of about 1.65 kilometers and belongs to the source rivers of the Fernerbach. Both merge near the Ochsenalm. Both lakes give also a protected, untouched living space to trouts and carps.</p><br>
<p>South Wraxall Manor is a Grade I listed country house which dates from the early 15th century, located at South Wraxall in the English county of Wiltshire, near Bradford on Avon. According to popular legend, South Wraxall was the house where the first tobacco was smoked in England, by Sir Walter Long and his friend Sir Walter Raleigh .</p><br>
<h2>The Long family</h2><br>
<p>The first known member of the Long family to own land in South Wraxall was Robert Long, a lawyer who was on the Commission of the Peace in 1426 and represented Old Sarum in Parliament in 1414, and Wiltshire between 1421 and 1442. He had a house there in 1429 and a few years later he exchanged lands in Wraxall with the Abbess of Shaftesbury. He died in 1447. His great-great grandson Sir Robert Long altered the doorway to the Long chapel in 1566, having his initials and badges carved into the stone above it.</p><br>
<p>Over the generations, the Long family acquired more and more land, until eventually they owned all the property within South Wraxall that had once belonged to the Priory of Monkton Farleigh. The manor was passed down through the Longs of Wraxall until it reached Walter Long who died unmarried in 1807, and his unmarried sister Katherine continued to live in it till her death aged 97, in 1814. By his will it then passed to his cousins, Richard Godolphin Long of Rood Ashton, and his brother John. It was over 150 years before another member of the Long family lived at the manor for any length of time.</p><br>
<p>The house was first let from 1820 to 1826 to a Dr Knight who kept a school there for about forty boys. He disfigured the house by plastering over the carved ceilings and painting the oak panelled wainscots, but this was later reinstated in its original style by the 1st Viscount Long. Lord Long&#39;s initials, WHL, can be seen on many properties in the village but he never lived there. Throughout the rest of the 19th century the house was lived in by caretakers.</p><br>
<p>The manor was retained by the family and tenanted after the rest of the South Wraxall estate (including the majority of property in the village) was sold on 20 May 1919. In 1935, after the death of the tenant, the house was taken over by the 2nd Viscount Long who undertook further restoration. By then the principal residence of the family at Rood Ashton had been sold. During Second World War the Manor housed evacuees from Kent, and was used as a convalescent home for children. In the 1950s it was occupied by the 2nd Viscount’s sister-in-law Anne, who was married to Lord Rothermere. (Anne later divorced Rothermere, to marry Ian Fleming).</p><br>
<p>The last member of the Long family to live at the Manor was Sara, the only daughter of the 2nd Viscount Long, and wife of Conservative MP, Charles Morrison. The house was finally sold in 1966, together with 830 acre, after five hundred years of family ownership.</p><br>
<p>John Taylor (bass player with the band Duran Duran) and his wife Gela Nash-Taylor (co-founder of Juicy Couture) purchased the house in 2005 and live there when Taylor&#39;s band is working in England.</p><br>
<h2>Publication</h2><br>
<p>The Country House Revealed, a 2011 BBC TV series, featured the Manor in episode 1. The series was accompanied by an illustrated book with a chapter on the Manor.</p><br>
<p>The Barnum Museum is a museum at 805 Main Street in Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States. It has an extensive collection related to P. T. Barnum and the history of Bridgeport, and is housed in a historic building on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>The building was originally contracted for construction by P. T. Barnum himself. The funds and land for the building and museum were provided by Barnum to house the work of the Bridgeport Scientific Society and the Fairfield County Historical Society. The structure was completed in 1893 and is home to The Barnum Museum today.</p><br>
<p>The three story museum in downtown Bridgeport is constructed of stone and terra cotta with architectural influences ranging from Byzantine to Romanesque architecture. As designed, the building was to house the societies as noted above, with the first floor of the building holding commercial establishments. Relief panels lining the top of the building contain imagery from America&#39;s history including Native American, maritime, Civil War and industrial age reliefs. There are also busts interspersed among the relief panels of a Native American, Christopher Columbus, George Washington, Elias Howe, Civil War General Winfield Scott and Grover Cleveland.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Before his death, P. T. Barnum bequeathed the sum of US$100,000 for the establishment of the structure. Completed in 1893, the building was originally called The Barnum Institute of Science and History and opened on February 18 of that year. As imagined, it originally operated as a resource library and a lecture hall, attracting such luminaries as the Wright brothers and Thomas Edison to speak.</p><br>
<p>Though designed to include them, no commercial properties ever occupied the first floor of the building. This led to financial instability in the original societies that resided in the building, as it was expected that income from those interests would help support the societies. With the onset of the depression, both societies faced fiscal hardship and were forced to cease operation. In 1933, the City of Bridgeport assumed ownership of the building. In 1936, the city opened the Barnum Museum.</p><br>
<p>With the building in the hands of the city, it was closed in 1943 for remodeling. It reopened in 1946 as a city hall annex, with the third floor reserved for displaying selected collections from the now defunct societies. The building functioned in this capacity into the 1960s.</p><br>
<p>In 1965, at the urging of concerned citizens and city officials, plans were set in motion to return the building to its former status as a museum. All city offices housed in the building were removed in 1965. Subsequent to this, the building was repaired and remodeled to support renewed operations as a museum. These efforts included creating spaces to feature exhibits on the history of Bridgeport and exhibits on the life of Barnum. When re-opened as the P. T. Barnum Museum in 1968, it was staffed by employees of the City of Bridgeport.</p><br>
<p>In 1972, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Starting in 1986, the building was managed by The Barnum Museum Foundation. The foundation is a public-private interest group with the goal of maintaining The Barnum Museum. Renovations began in the same year, costing US$7.5 million Subsequent to renovations, the building was re-opened again in June 1989. New galleries were added detailing history related to the local industrial age and the life of P. T. Barnum. As part of the renovation, a 7,000 ft&sup2;. addition was made to the original building to house rotating exhibitions and events.</p><br>
<p>Today, the museum is the only museum dedicated to the life of P. T. Barnum. It contains a 1,000 ft&sup2; miniature replica of his circus hand crafted by William Brinley and including 3000 miniature figures. There is also a miniature replica of his library from his former Iranistan estate and a number of other artifacts and displays of 19th Century life in Bridgeport. Also housed on the property is an exhibit devoted to Tom Thumb, one of P. T. Barnum&#39;s most famous acts. The oldest artifact in the museum is a 2500-year-old Egyptian mummy verified as authentic by Quinnipiac University personnel.</p><br>
<p>The museum was seriously damaged by a tornado that struck Bridgeport on June 24, 2010. The museum is soliciting contributions to replace and repair the portions of the collection that were damaged by the storm.</p><br>
<p>The museum is a member of the North American Reciprocal Museums program.</p><br>
<p>Gefyra  is a settlement in the municipality of Megalopoli, Arcadia, Greece. It is situated near the right bank of the river Alfeios, 4 km south of Megalopoli and 5 km north of Leontari. Gefyra had a population of 30 in 2011. The Greek National Road 7  passes south of the village. There are large open-pit lignite mines to the northwest of the village. There are two beautiful churches: St. George in the village square, and St John at the eastern edge of the village.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>On August 30th 1944, the village was attacked by Nazi troops that were stationed in the nearby village of Anthochori. 12 male inhabitants of the village were massacred on that dreadful day including the village priest. The heroic 12 are remembered by a marble monument in the village square next to the Church of St. George. Gefyra suffered damage from the 2007 Greek forest fires.</p><br>
<h2>Population</h2><br>
<p>Northfield Mountain, 1,206 ft, is a mountain ridge located in Erving and Northfield, Massachusetts. 2.5 mi long by 1.8 mi long, the mountain is composed of several distinct peaks and ledges, most notably Rattlesnake Mountain  1,067 ft, Rose Ledges 330 m, and Hermit Mountain . A pumped-storage hydroelectric plant and reservoir occupies the top of the mountain west of the summit.</p><br>
<p>The 114 mi Metacomet-Monadnock Trail crosses the summit ridge of Northfield Mountain; a series of shorter hiking trails, cross country ski trails, and rock climbing routes are also located on the mountain and its ledges. Northfield Mountain is located at the confluence of the Connecticut River and Millers River. A waterfall, Briggs Brook Falls, plunges from its southeast side.</p><br>
<h2>Pumped-storage hydroelectricity facility</h2><br>
<p>Engineering studies began in October 1964, with early site preparation starting three years later. In 1972 its 1,080-megawatt hydroelectric plant became operational as the largest such facility in the world.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>FirstLight Power Resources also manages recreational resources on the mountain as part of their agreement with the state of Massachusetts. A cross-country ski area is located on the mountain; it includes groomed trails, warming huts, and ski instruction. The 114 mile (183 km) Metacomet-Monadnock Trail traverses the mountain, as do a number of shorter trails. FirstLight also offers camping at nearby Barton Cove, environmental programs, and boat tours of the Connecticut River.</p><br>
<p>Rose Ledge and Farley Ledges are popular among rock climbers. Farley Ledge has been subject to recent conservation and climbing access initiatives. Hermit Mountain is the site of "Hermit&#39;s Castle," a state historic site where John Smith, a local recluse, made his home from 1857 to 1900.</p><br>
<h2>Geologic history</h2><br>
<p>Northfield Mountains&#39; geologic story can begin in the late pre-Cambrian Period. The ancient pre-Cambrian rocks are more than 600 million years old and are found only in the Western Berkshires of Massachusetts and in the Green Mountains of Vermont.</p><br>
<p>Gore Mountain is a mountain located in the uninhabited Avery&#39;s Gore in Essex County, Vermont, about 6 miles  south of the Canada–US border with Quebec. In Vermont, gores and grants are unincorporated portions of a county which are not part of any town and have limited self-government .</p><br>
<p>Gore Mtn. is flanked to the northeast by Black Mountain, and to the northwest by Middle Mountain.</p><br>
<p>The north and northwest sides of Gore Mountain drain via several short brooks into the Coaticook River, thence into the Massawippi River, Saint-François River, and Saint Lawrence River in Quebec, and thence into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.</p><br>
<p>The southwest side of Gore Mtn. drains into Jim Carroll Brook, thence into the North Branch of the Nulhegan River, the Connecticut River, and into Long Island Sound in Connecticut.</p><br>
<p>The southeast side of Gore Mtn. drains into the Logger Branch, and the east side into the Black Branch, of the Nulhegan River.</p><br>
<p>Big Spencer Mountain is a mountain located in Piscataquis County, Maine. Big Spencer Mtn. is flanked to the west by Little Spencer Mountain.</p><br>
<p>The southwest end of Big Spencer Mountain drains into Kidney Brook, then into Lobster Lake, and into the West Branch of the Penobscot River, and into Penobscot Bay. The northeast end of Big Spencer Mountain drains into spring-fed Blood Pond where the pond&#39;s outlet, Maxfield Brook, then empties into Lobster Lake. Part of the southeast side of Big Spencer Mountain drains into Bear Brook, then into Ragged Lake, Ragged Stream, Caribou Lake, Chesuncook Lake, Ripogenus Lake, and into the West Branch Penobscot River. The southern part of the southeast side of Big Spencer drains into Lazy Tom Stream, thene into the Roach River, and Moosehead Lake, the source of the Kennebec River.</p><br>
<p>Glenmore Homestead is a heritage-listed homestead at Belmont Road, Parkhurst, Rockhampton Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from to. The homestead and associated buildings once belonged to pastoral run on the Fitzroy River, seven kilometres northwest of Rockhampton, Queensland. Originally much larger at 127 square miles the current size of the property is 20 acres. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The grazing property was originally settled in 1858 by leaseholder John Arthur McCartney. In 1860, Macartney opposed a proposal to establish a municipality for Rockhampton with a proposed area of about 225 square kilometres. Glenmore, on the northern side of the river, was as vulnerable as Gracemere Station (the proposed boundaries of the municipality included the head station and Gracemere Homestead). Glenmore, however, did not have the substantial homestead and outbuildings like Gracemere. Eventually, the boundaries for the Municipality of Rockhampton were established as the usual five square miles.</p><br>
<p>In 1861 the Birkbeck family arrived in Rockhampton from Mexico to inspect grazing land after Samuel Bradford Birkbeck had spent half his lifetime as a mining engineer and manager of a silver mine. Birkbeck had worked on his father&#39;s farm in Illinois, USA, during his youth, but had no experience of Australian pastoral life. On 14 January 1864, the land was purchased by Birkbeck and his Spanish-Mexican wife, Damiana de Barre Valdez. The Birkbecks had eight sons and one daughter, Elena.</p><br>
<p>In July 1865, residents expressed anxieties about the presence of natives in the vicinity and a group of native troopers attacked members of the Darumbal tribe and massacred 18 of them, and then burnt their corpses.</p><br>
<p>Sheep were raised on the property but due to a poor climate for that purpose the Birbecks turned to cattle. They imported 1,500 from Texas.</p><br>
<p>He died in 1867. The property has remained in the family and up until the 1980s, members of the family resided in the limestone brick cottage and the slab building.</p><br>
<p>At the time of the arrival of the Birkbeck family, Glenmore Homestead consisted of a four-roomed slab house and two log cabins which were included as part of the station&#39;s improvements. It is believed that Macartney constructed the log cabin in 1859 and is reputed to be the oldest building north of the Fitzroy River. In the last fifty years it has been used for storage. It is not clear what became of the four-roomed slab house and second log cabin. No longer extant, it is possible that these may have been removed as new buildings were constructed.</p><br>
<p>The buildings proved inadequate for the needs of the Birkbeck family. Birkbeck bought a large slab building and re-erected it on his property. Constructed, the slab house was originally used as a hotel at Parkhurst and was moved to Glenmore in 1861. The slab homestead (known also as the Bush Inn) was built as an inn on the northern road to the Canoona goldfield. The limestone brick cottage was constructed by Dennis Cifuentes in 1862. Cifuentes came out from Mexico with the support of the Birkbeck family. The building was to be the beginning of a large, hacienda-style homestead, however, this was never completed. Later, Cifuentes took up a block in partnership with Carlos Birkbeck and, in 1874, took up 100 acres on the Cawarral Run.</p><br>
<p>In a desire to achieve closer settlement, the Queensland Government undertook a program of resuming all or parts of larger estates and then offering the land as a number of smaller lots to selectors. As early as 1862, the Birkbecks were aware of surveys of agricultural land taking place on the town side of their run. Samuel Birkbeck died in 1867 and his sons, Robert, Alfred and Carlos, were left to manage the property. The Birkbecks were the first in the Central District to be directly affected by the Crown Lands Alienation Act 1868. On 1 January 1869, over seven thousand hectares of the Glenmore run (over half of the Glenmore estate) was resumed and opened to selection. Although the Birbecks were offered a pre-emptive selection, in order to keep hold of some of their former land, the Birkbecks each selected blocks on the resumed half.</p><br>
<p>The blacksmith&#39;s shop constructed on the property by, with the sheds being constructed by 1920. Other buildings have been constructed more recently, including a kitchen and dance hall and the owners residence. The "Walter and Eliza Hall Cottage" was moved to the site in 1985. In 1913, Eliza Hall donated £100 towards the provision of small homes for aged couples. It appears that the cottage was one of four constructed within the grounds of the Benevolent Society.</p><br>
<p>Until the 1980s, the Birkbeck family lived in the original homestead. In the early 1980s, the house was opened to the public as a heritage tourism and functions centre, owned and operated by George Louis Birkbeck. A souvenir shop was built in 1985. Other late-19th century and early 20th century farm buildings are also on site.</p><br>
<p>The balance of the land that remains as a portion of the original property is owned by Arthur James Birkbeck (eldest son of Tolstoy Carlos Birkbeck) and managed by Mark Jason Birkbeck, his second son.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The buildings at Glenmore Homestead are interesting, as they show several types of early dwelling in the Central Queensland area. They consist of a log cabin which was built in 1859 by McCartney, a slab cottage which built in 1858 as a hotel in nearby Parkhurst and moved to the site by Samuel Birkbeck in 1861 as well as a brick cottage which was built by a Mexican employee of the Birkbeck family in 1862. This was originally to be part of a larger hacienda-style homestead, which was never completed. The slab homestead was built on a short-lived gold field called Canoona.</p><br>
<p>The property is located on the east bank of the Fitzroy River, seven kilometres northwest of Rockhampton. The place is a homestead complex comprising successive residences of varying construction methods, including log cabin construction; a slab building and a limestone brick cottage with adobe gables.</p><br>
<p>The buildings included in the heritage register boundary include the log cabin (-59); the slab homestead ( and moved to Glenmore in 1861); the rendered limestone brick cottage (1862); a timber blacksmiths shop and timber framed sheds. Other buildings located on the property include a souvenir shop constructed in 1985; a kitchen and dance hall constructed 1984; the owners residence and shed and the former "Walter and Eliza Hall Cottage", relocated to the site in 1985. These buildings are not considered to be of cultural heritage significance.</p><br>
<h3>Log cabin</h3><br>
<p>The log cabin is a one room hut built of horizontal logs checked into each other at the corners and lined with bark. Corrugated iron has been placed over shingled roof. The log cabin is currently used for storage of agricultural and other items associated with Glenmore.</p><br>
<h3>Homestead building</h3><br>
<p>Placed upon a stone foundation when moved to the site in 1861, the vertical slab building is an eight room structure, approximately twelve and a half metres long by five and a half metres wide, with a verandah on the western and eastern sides. French doors open along the entire length of the eastern verandah. The roof is clad with corrugated iron. A two-roomed, timber extension, originally housing a kitchen, is located to the south-western end of the slab building.</p><br>
<p>Internally, the main room is presented as the dining room. Rooms located at either of the main dining room opening onto the verandah as well as to the rear, or south-west section, of the building. The homestead building is no longer used by the Birkbeck family. Visitors to Glenmore can are able to view the inside of the building from the verandah.</p><br>
<h3>Limestone brick cottage</h3><br>
<p>A T-shaped building, the four-roomed, limestone brick cottage has lime-based, rendered walls with adobe gables, with a verandah on the south-western side. The roof is clad with the original gospel oak iron. The external walls are approximately 53 centimetres thick and the interior walls approximately 50 centimetres thick. Ceilings are of milled timber.</p><br>
<p>The largest room in the house is furnished as a sitting room. The sitting room contains many items which were brought from Mexico, including Damiana Birkbeck&#39;s silver crucifix, made in Italy, which sits on a small table with rosary beads in a box made of silky oak; two matching occasional tables; family portraits and musical instruments, including a guitar and mandolin. Two rooms have been set up with display cases. The fourth room is currently used for storage.</p><br>
<p>A toilet, constructed from stone quarried on the property, is located to the north-west of the cottage. A lavatory, comprising a timber beam supported by two timber uprights, with a concave tin plate on the ground, stands nearby. The timber framed shed which was constructed to house the lavatory, is no longer extant.</p><br>
<h2>Heritage listing</h2><br>
<p>Glenmore Homestead was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria.</p><br>
<p>The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland&apos;s history.</p><br>
<p>Glenmore Homestead is important in demonstrating the development of the Rockhampton District, illustrating the pattern of early European exploration and settlement of Queensland. Taken up by the Birkbeck family in 1864, the complex is further significant as it is still in the ownership of the same family.</p><br>
<p>Glenmore Homestead is significant as a complex that provides a record of an evolving pastoral property comprising successive residences of varying construction methods, including a hut of horizontal log construction with extant shingle roof; slab-built homestead and a rendered limestone brick cottage, as well as associated outbuildings and structures, including a limestone toilet and water tank.</p><br>
<p>The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places.</p><br>
<p>The homestead is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of early Queensland homesteads, constructed as the head station of a large run. The various additions, dating from the 1860s, demonstrate the growth of the Birkbeck family.</p><br>
<p>The place is important because of its aesthetic significance.</p><br>
<p>Surrounded by mature vegetation including Ficus sp. and Burdekin plum trees, the complex has aesthetic significance.</p><br>
<p>The place has a strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons.</p><br>
<p>Glenmore Homestead has a special association with the life and work of several generations of the Birkbeck family who contributed to the development of the surrounding area.</p><br>
<p>The Hotlum Glacier is a glacier situated on the northeast flank of Mount Shasta, in the US state of California. It is the largest and most voluminous glacier in California, although not as thick or long as the nearby Whitney Glacier. The Hotlum Glacier flows from a large cirque on the northeast side of Mount Shasta&#39;s main summit below the Hotlum Headwall at roughly 13,600 ft. It flows northeastward down the steep slope, forming three lobes which terminate near 10,400 ft.</p><br>
<p>In 2002, scientists made the first detailed survey of Mount Shasta&#39;s glaciers in 50 years. They found that seven of the glaciers have grown over the period 1951–2002, with the Hotlum and Wintun Glaciers nearly doubling, the Bolam Glacier increasing by half, and the Whitney and Konwakiton Glaciers growing by a third.</p><br>
<p>The Bolam Glacier is a glacier situated on the northern flank of Mount Shasta, in the USA state of California. It is the second longest glacier in California behind the nearby Whitney Glacier, and the fourth largest and most voluminous after the neighboring Hotlum Glacier, Whitney Glacier, and Wintun Glacier. The Bolam Glacier flows from a cirque on the north side of Mount Shasta&#39;s main summit, with the moving ice starting below a large bergschrund which spans the glacier at 12,600 ft. Above that, permanent snow and ice extends towards the summit to about 13,500 ft. The glacier flows north down a steep slope and terminates near 9,800 ft.</p><br>
<p>In 2002, scientists made the first detailed survey of Mount Shasta&#39;s glaciers in 50 years. They found that seven of the glaciers have grown over the period 1951–2002, with the Hotlum and Wintun nearly doubling, the Bolam increasing by half, and the Whitney and Konwakiton Glaciers growing by a third.</p><br>
<p>The Wintun Glacier is a glacier situated on the eastern flank of Mount Shasta, in the USA state of California. It is both the third largest and third most voluminous glacier in California after the neighboring Hotlum Glacier and the Whitney Glacier. The Wintun Glacier starts on the east side of Mount Shasta&#39;s main summit, and it has the highest permanent snow and ice on the mountain, reaching above 14,100 ft to within a few dozen feet  of the true summit. The glacier flows east down a steep slope and terminates in two lobes, the longer of which extends down near 9,800 ft.</p><br>
<p>In 2002, scientists made the first detailed survey of Mount Shasta&#39;s glaciers in 50 years. They found that seven of the glaciers have grown over the period 1951-2002, with the Hotlum and Wintun Glaciers nearly doubling, the Bolam Glacier increasing by half, and the Whitney and Konwakiton Glaciers growing by a third.</p><br>
<p>Mount Hotaka, also known as Mount Hotakadake, is one of the 100 Famous Japanese Mountains, reaching a height of 3,190 m. It is situated in Japan&#39;s Hida Mountains and all its major peaks besides Mount Maehotaka, lie on the border between the cities of Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, and Takayama, Gifu Prefecture. This mountain is located in Chūbu-Sangaku National Park.</p><br>
<p>The peaks of Okuhotaka, Karasawa, Kitahotaka, Maehotaka and Nishihotaka are called the Hotaka Mountains. The highest peak in this range, and also the tallest mountain in both Nagano and Gifu prefectures, is Mount Okuhotaka. Mount Hotaka is also referred to as the "Leader of the Northern Alps".</p><br>
<h2>Peaks</h2><br>
<p>Mount Okuhotaka is the highest peak in the Hotaka Mountain Range and the third highest in Japan after Mount Fuji and Mount Kita. Its peak at 3,190 m is the highest in Nagano and Gifu prefectures.</p><br>
<p>Mount Karasawa is situated on a ridge between Mount Kitahotaka and the Shirade Col, the location of the Hotakadake mountain cottage. The triangulation point on the top is at 3,103 m while the peak reaches 3,110 m.</p><br>
<p>Mount Kitahotaka, at 3,106 m, is the second highest of the Hotaka peaks, lying at the northern end of the range. Takidani, on the mountain&#39;s west face, is a well-known, prominent, rocky area of Japan. Near the summit lies the Kitahotaka Hut.</p><br>
<p>Mount Maehotaka is 3,090 m high and is connected to Mount Okuhotaka via the Tsuri Ridge. To the north stretches the Kita Ridge. To the west are rocks in direction of Okumatashiro. The tip of the Kita Ridge is called "Byōbu no Atama". On the northeastern face lies a sheer cliff of 1,000 m.</p><br>
<p>Mount Myōjin, with a peak of 2,931 m, lies on a mountain ridge stretching south from Mount Maehotaka. There are many climbing routes in this area.</p><br>
<p>Mount Nishihotaka, at 2,909 m, lies on a mountain ridge running southwest from Mount Okuhotaka, near the end of the ridge. It is surrounded by many similarly rocky peaks which makes it difficult to discriminate visually.</p><br>
<p>Mount Aino, with a peak at 2,907 m, lies on a ridge between Mount Okuhotaka and Mount Nishihotaka.</p><br>
<p>Gamadafuji is the western peak of Karasawadake, rising 2,742 m. The winter ascend route to Mount Okuhotaka passes here.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>1880 - William Gowland climbed Mount Myōjin.</p><br>
<p>1893 - Kiyohiko Tate climbed Mount Maehotaka, then Walter Weston climbed Mount Maehotaka. Walter Weston published Mountaineering and Exploring in the Japanese Alps (1896) and introduced Japanese mountains to the world.</p><br>
<p>1906 - Gunji Abe climbed Mount Okuhotaka at first.</p><br>
<p>1912 - Walter Weston climbed Mount Okuhotaka.</p><br>
<p>December 4, 1934 - The region in this mountain was specified for the Chūbu-Sangaku National Park.</p><br>
<h2>Hiking routes</h2><br>
<p>Even though the Hotaka Mountains are often climbed during times of lingering snow, like Golden Week, the following routes are strictly for snow-free periods. When snow has fallen, the area becomes extremely dangerous. Routes may become impassable, so special care is required.</p><br>
<p>The mountain climbing base at Karasawa lies in a U-shaped cirque dominated by Mount Okuhotaka, Mount Maehotaka and the Tsuri Ridge connecting the two. Because it lies on the northern side of the mountains, snow remains throughout the year.</p><br>
<p>To the north, beyond a steep descent and ascent at the Daikiretto, the ridge continues across Mount Minami, Mount Ōbami, ending at Mount Yari. In the south, a ridge stretches from Mount Okuhotaka via Mount Nishihotaka to Mount Yake. The Tsuri Ridge runs from Mount Okuhotaka to Mount Maehotaka, from where a path leads down through a cirque to the bridge Kappabashi in Kamikōchi. Climbing down on the Gifu side, either from the Hotaka Mountain Cottage through Shiradezawa or taking the Shinhotaka Ropeway from next to Nishihotaka-dake, the road and Shinhodaka Onsen can be reached in the valley below.</p><br>
<h3>Beginner</h3><br>
<p>Mount Okuhotaka</p><br>
<p>(Note that in both cases the part from Karasawa to Mount Okuhotaka is actually more at the intermediate level)</p><br>
<p>Mount Kitahotaka</p><br>
<p>Nishihodoku</p><br>
<h3>Intermediate</h3><br>
<p>Mount Maehotaka - Mount Okuhotaka</p><br>
<p>The ascent from the Dakesawa Hut to Kimikodaira, (Jūtarō New Road) is the steepest in the Japanese Alps. There is no water on this ascent, and if climbing both mountains, the route to Mount Okuhotaka and Mount Maehotaka via Karasawa is more popular.</p><br>
<h3>Advanced</h3><br>
<p>Yarihotaka traverse route</p><br>
<h2>Mountain huts</h2><br>
<p>There are various alpine huts in the Mount Hotaka area:</p><br>
<p>Hotaka Mountain Cottage</p><br>
<p>Kitahotaka Hut</p><br>
<p>Karasawa Hut</p><br>
<p>Karasawa Mountain Hut</p><br>
<p>Nishiho Mountain Cottage</p><br>
<p>Hotakatairahinan Hut</p><br>
<p>The Portland Brownstone Quarries are a set of historic quarries in Portland, Connecticut. The brownstone mined from these quarries was an important source for construction in the latter half of the 19th century. The stone from these quarries was used in a number of landmark buildings in Chicago, Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., New Haven, Connecticut, and Hartford. The site was listed as a National Historic Landmark, which also placed it on the National Register of Historic Places, on May 16, 2000.</p><br>
<h2>Early history of the quarry</h2><br>
<p>Quarrying on this site began in 1690 by James Stanclift, who contracted with the town of Middletown to build stonework in exchange for a deed of land. Commercial quarrying started in 1783 when the Brainerd Quarry Company began operations. During the peak of the brownstone era, more than 1500 workers were employed by the quarries, which shipped stone on their own ships for eight months out of the year. All efforts to drain the flooded quarries have been unsuccessful; one theory is that the floods opened some underground springs, making it impossible to effectively drain the quarries.</p><br>
<h2>Current use of the quarry site</h2><br>
<p>In 1994, a new operator, Connecticut Brownstone Quarries, began a small-scale quarrying operation to provide stone for restoration of brownstone buildings.</p><br>
<p>The town purchased the historic quarries and 42 acre of adjacent land in 1999 and 2000.</p><br>
<p>The quarries have been leased for development as a recreation center and is currently being operated by Brownstone Exploration & Discovery Park, with the hope that awareness of the historic landmark will strengthen the local economy.</p><br>
<p>Over the years the park has gradually expanded its attractions to include scuba diving, climbing and rappelling, swimming, snorkeling, canoeing and kayaking, hiking, mountain biking, wake boarding, cliff jumping, giant inflatable toys, and challenge courses for group team building. All activities are currently available except for the campground - which is currently under construction.</p><br>
<p>There are also plans to offer educational programs at the site. Scuba diving is becoming a popular recreational use within the park, with divers coming from all over Connecticut and even some from out of state.</p><br>
<p>Zip Lines</p><br>
<p>Brownstone Park installed two zip lines that cut across the quarry in July 2007. The first line goes from the west side of the park to the peninsula at the center of the park. The second line travels south along the west side of the quarry. The lines are 750 and 780 ft long respectively. For the 2010 season, the Park added another two zip lines, one of which is only accessible by climbing up an 65-foot rock wall.</p><br>
<p>Water Slide</p><br>
<p>Brownstone Park installed a 100 ft water slide in July 2007.</p><br>
<p>Water Toys</p><br>
<p>A variety of water toys including kayaks, canoes, launchers, trampolines and windsurfers are available.</p><br>
<p>Wake Boarding</p><br>
<p>Several wake boarding lines are available, along with expert jumps and rails. Complimentary beginning lessons are included in the day pass.</p><br>
<p>Ishibutai Kofun is a stone kofun tumulus of the Asuka period in the east of Shimanoshō, Asuka, Nara Prefecture, Japan. The kofun is believed to be the tomb of Soga no Umako. It occupies a space of 54 m, and is the largest known megalithic structure in Japan. The kofun is also known as the Ishibutoya Kofun.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>The name of the kofun in Japanese is a combination of two words, the first, ishi, meaning "stone", and the second, butai, meaning "stage". The name of the kofun therefore originates in its resemblance to a large stone stage. The Ishibutai Kofun has been known by this name at least as early as the Tokugawa period, as evidenced by its entry in the Saigoku sanjūsansho meisho zue, a large guide to Buddhist pilgrimage sites written by Kanenari Akatsuki in 1853.</p><br>
<h2>Association with Soga no Umako</h2><br>
<p>The Ishibutai Kofun is inferred to be the tomb of Soga no Umako (551? - 626), and his death during the reign of Empress Suiko is recorded in the "Nihon shoki".</p><br>
<p>The historian and archeologist Sadakichi Kita (1871 - 1939) proposed that the Ishibutai Kofun is the above-mentioned "Momohana" tomb in the Nihon shoki. Kita also proposed that the earthen mound of the Ishibutai Kofun was removed after Soga no Umakos death as a punishment of the Soga clan by the imperial government.</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>The Ishibutai Kofun was built on a spur of a mountain that falls northeast to a small plateau. It consists of a platform, a gallery entryway, stone walls that form a tomb, two large stones that form a ceiling for the tomb, and embankments on either side of the tomb. In total 30 stones were used to construct the Ishibutai Kofun. The large granite megaliths come from Mount Tōnomine, which is approximately 3 km from the site.</p><br>
<h3>Platform and moat</h3><br>
<p>The Ishibutai Kofun originally occupied a much larger area than is evidenced by the existing stone tumulus. It was built on a square platform, which measured 50 m on each side at the time of construction. Archeological excavations have revealed that the kofun was surrounded by a moat, a feature typical of other kofun of the period. This moat is estimated to be 12 m wide. In total the kofun, platform, and moat probably covered an area 85 m long.</p><br>
<h3>Approach</h3><br>
<p>Kofun typically had a stone approach to the entrance path of the tomb. The Ishibutai has a particularly long entrance path, which measures 38 m. A shallow drainage channel 11.5 m long and 2.55 m wide runs the length of the entrance path. This entrance was originally covered like the tomb, but its stone ceiling no longer exists.</p><br>
<h3>Tomb</h3><br>
<p>The Ishibutai Kofun is a yokoana corridor-type tomb. The inner chamber is 7.5 m long, 3.4 m wide, and 4.8 m high. It consists of 30 stones, 4.7 m by 3.5 m and 7.7 m. Small drainage channels run along the east, north, and west of the tomb. These were constructed to drain water collects on the north side of the tomb to feed south into the shallow drainage channel in the kofun entry.</p><br>
<h3>Ceiling</h3><br>
<p>The Ishibutai Kofun is especially noted for the megaliths that form the ceiling of the tomb. The ceiling of the tomb is formed by two megaliths, one to the north and one to the south. The megalith at the north of the tomb weighs approximately 60 t, and the larger stone to the south weighs approximately 77 t.</p><br>
<h3>Mound</h3><br>
<p>The Ishibutai Kofun was originally a large, flat hōfun type kofun; the existing stone structure was covered at the time of construction by a broad, flat earthen mound. This mound eroded slowly after the construction of the kofun, thus exposing the large megaliths of the tomb roof.</p><br>
<h2>Excavation</h2><br>
<p>The Ishibutai Kofun was first excavated by the archaeologist and academic Kōsaku Hamada (1881－1938). Imperial kofun have not been readily excavated in Japan. Due to its association with Soga no Umako, the Ishibutai tumulus does not have an imperial designation, and has thus seen extensive excavation. The kofun was first excavated in 1933, work on the base and moat began in 1935, and excavation of the tomb continued until 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Ishibutai Kofun excavation yielded no significant finds. Funerary objects were probably lost to grave robbery quite soon after its construction. Stone shards to the southeast of the tomb are the remains of a tuff sarcophagus. Numerous examples of gilt and bronze implements, as well as earthenware shards were found in the banks of the tomb approach. The excavation also revealed that other similar flat stone kofun were built to the north and south of the existing structure.</p><br>
<p>The Ishibutai Kofun was designated a historical remain in 1935. In 1954 the kofun was fully designated as a Special Historic Sites, one of only 75 sites in Japan with this designation. As excavation of the Ishibutai Kofun continued after World War II, significant reconstruction of areas around the kofun were carried out. The kofun and its surrounding area is part of the Asuka Historical National Government Park.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>The Ishibutai Kofun is accessible from Asuka Station, which is served by the Kintetsu Yoshino Line. The "Kame Bus" (Tortoise Bus), also called the Asuka Tour Bus/Asuka Circle Route Bus, serves all locations within the Asuka Historical National Government Park, and leaves hourly from Asuka Station. Bicycle rentals are also available at numerous points around the station, and cost approximately 1000 yen a day.</p><br>
<p>Dewberry may refer to one of the following:</p><br>
<h2>Plants</h2><br>
<p>* Dewberry a group of plant species closely related to blackberries, and capable of being cross-bred to create the boysenberry and the youngberry</p><br>
<p>** One of several species in Dewberry#Species, including:</p><br>
<p>** Swamp dewberry (Rubus hispidus) &mdash; also known as a bristly dewberry</p><br>
<p>** Rubus ursinus &mdash; a possible dewberry more commonly called the California or Pacific blackberry</p><br>
<h2>Places</h2><br>
<p>* Dewberry, Alberta</p><br>
<p>* Dewberry, Indiana, an unincorporated community</p><br>
<p>* Dewberry Heliport (TX18) &mdash; a heliport between Fulshear and Katy in Fort Bend County, Texas ()</p><br>
<p>* Dewberry Island &mdash; an island in Espiritu Santo Bay in Calhoun County, Texas ()</p><br>
<h2>People</h2><br>
<p>* Charley Dewberry &mdash; a U.S. Forest Service field worker</p><br>
<p>* Donna Dewberry (b. 1953) &mdash; an American painter and author known for the "one stroke" painting technique</p><br>
<p>* Frederick L. Dewberry &mdash; former Maryland Secretary of Licensing & Regulation</p><br>
<p>* Jeff Dewberry &mdash; a pastry chef and contestant on Hell&#39;s Kitchen (U.S. season 1)</p><br>
<p>* John Dewberry &mdash; a Georgia Tech American football quarterback who later became an Atlanta real estate developer</p><br>
<p>* Michelle Dewberry (b. 1979) &mdash; an English businesswoman and contestant on the TV show The Apprentice</p><br>
<h2>Other</h2><br>
<p>* Dewberry &mdash; a brand of cookie made by Universal Robina in the Philippines</p><br>
<p>* Dewberry (architecture firm) &mdash; an American architecture and engineering firm</p><br>
<p>** PSA/Dewberry &mdash; a subsidiary formerly known as Phillip Swagart Associates</p><br>
<p>* Dewberry (Beaverdam, Virginia) &mdash; a building on the National Register of Historic Places</p><br>
<p>Mount Qasioun  is a mountain overlooking the city of Damascus, Syria. It has a range of restaurants, from which the whole city can be viewed. As the city has expanded over the years, some districts have been established on the foot of the mountain. Its highest point is 1,151 m.</p><br>
<p>The mountain has been heavily entrenched with Syrian government forces since the start of the Syrian Civil War, as it is a strategic site in the battle for the outskirts of Damascus.</p><br>
<p>The mountain is also host to an endemic species of iris, Iris damascena, which can be found on the steep eastern slopes, at an altitude of 1,200 m above sea level. The Syrian government has not given the species any protected status. Its only benefiting factor was that part of the habitat of the species lies within a military area near the Qassioun Republican Guards Military Base and other military facilities, which prevents civilians from accessing the area. The base and steepness of the habitat also prevents construction or development, but it is still classified as Critically endangered.</p><br>
<h2>Religious significance</h2><br>
<p>On the slopes of Jabal Qasiun is a cave steeped in legend. It is said to have been inhabited at one point by the first human-being, Adam; and there are various stories told about Ibrāhīm (Abraham), and &#39;Īsā (Jesus) also having prayed in it. It is mentioned however in Medieval Arab history books as having been the place where Qābīl (Cain) killed Hābīl (Abel). It was known for hundreds of years as a place where prayers were immediately accepted, and especially in times of drought rulers of Damascus would climb to the cave and pray for rain. Because of the murder that took place there, claimed to be the first committed, it is called Maghārat al-Dam (the Cave of Blood). According to Sunni Muslims, Mount Qasioun is the site of the miḥrābs (prayer niches) of the 40 arch-saints, known as the Abdāl, who are said to pray the night vigil prayers every night. A small mosque has been built over the Cave of Blood containing these miḥrābs.</p><br>
<p>Further down the mountain from the Cave of Blood, there was another cave known as Maghārat al-Jūˁ (the Cave of Hunger). Stories about this cave are somewhat confused. Some say that forty saints died there of hunger; al-Harawī, however, who lived in the 13th century, writes that it is said that forty prophets died there of hunger. At present, the cave has been concealed by surrounding houses, but that spot is called al-Juyūˁīyah (Roughly the Place of the Hungry).</p><br>
<p>On another flank of the same mountain is yet another cave, which has come down in local legend as being the cave of the Seven Sleepers, mentioned in early Christian sources, as well as in the Quran, where they are known as the Aṣḥāb al-Kahf (Companions of the Cave). This is rather dubious, however, and it is only one of many caves in this part of the world that share the claim. A madrassah has been built over the cave, but pilgrims are still granted access.</p><br>
