<p>The Byrdcliffe Colony, also called the Byrdliffe Arts Colony or Byrdcliffe Historic District, was founded in 1902 near Woodstock, New York by Jane Byrd McCall and Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead and colleagues, Bolton Brown  and Hervey White . It is the oldest operating Arts and Crafts Colony in America. The Arts and Crafts Movement arose in the late nineteenth century in reaction to the dehumanizing monotony and standardization of industrial production. Byrdcliffe was created as an experiment in utopian living inspired by the arts and crafts movement.</p><br>
<p>The colony is still in operation today and is located on 300 acre with 35 original buildings, all designed in the Arts and Crafts style. There is a self-guided walking tour through the compound as well as a hiking path that leads to the mountain top which gives way to scenic Catskill views.</p><br>
<p>The colony continues to foster the development of artistic vision. Along with ongoing music, theater and art performances held in the Byrdcliffe Theater, Barn and on property lawns, The Byrdcliffe Colony hosts an Artist-In-Residence program that houses over 70 artists each summer who practice in a wide variety of field and medium. The program accepts writers, composers, and visual artists. Byrdcliffe maintains an exhibition and performance space in the heart of Woodstock, the Kleinert/James Center for the Arts, which hosts 6 or 7 exhibitions of primarily contemporary art annually.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Woodstock is surrounded by the Catskill Mountains of New York State. The entire Byrdcliffe estate lay on 1,500 acres (6 km²) on the south-facing side of Mount Guardian, just above Woodstock. This location provides the rustic landscape meant to inspire and elevate the art community. Additionally, Woodstock offers close proximity to the art and culture of New York City and was home to well-known painters like Milton Avery and Philip Guston.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>For many years, Whitehead held the idea of creating an Arts and Crafts community where all the arts would come together, including painting, sculpture, music, metalwork and furniture making. After a failed attempt to establish a community near Arcadia, California and Albany, Oregon, he scouted the East Coast for a suitable site, eventually landing in Woodstock, NY. The Byrdcliffe Arts Colony received its name as a combination of Ralph Radcliffe Whitehead’s middle name and his wife’s, Jane Byrd McCall Whitehead, middle name.</p><br>
<p>Artists, writers, musicians, social reformers, and intellectuals came from across the country to stay at Byrdcliffe and gain inspiration from the setting and people with shared artistic goals. Facilities included studios for painting, weaving, pottery, metalwork, woodworking; cottages with bathrooms and sleeping porches; a library, and a rambling villa for Whitehead and his family. He built "White Pines" as his residence with a skylit cathedral ceilinged weaving room overlooking a picturesque view across the Woodstock Valley.</p><br>
<p>The artist colony of Byrdcliffe failed to fulfill its goals as a self-sufficient arts community. It became too expensive and Ralph Whitehead’s dominating personality became a confining force. Byrdcliffe survived for almost 30 years under Whitehead’s vision until his death in 1929.</p><br>
<p>After Ralph Whiteheads death in 1929, his widow, Jane, and son Peter struggled to keep the colony alive. After Janes death in 1955, Peter sold much of the land to pay taxes and maintenance on the heart of the colony which he kept intact. The Whiteheads intended to preserve Byrdcliffe "for the purpose of promoting among the residents of Woodstock...the study, practice and development of skill in the fine arts and crafts, as well as a true appreciation thereof..."</p><br>
<p>Although the arts and crafts utopian experiment soon ran out of steam, the continuing magic of Byrdcliffe enthralled many notable people including the educator John Dewey, author Thomas Mann and naturalist John Burroughs. Isadora Duncan danced at White Pines; Bob Dylan lived in a house at Byrdcliffe in the 60s and early 70s; Joanne Woodward was involved in the River Arts Repertory at the Byrdcliffe Theatre.</p><br>
<h2>Artist In Residence Program</h2><br>
<p>The Artist in Residence program has operated at Byrdcliffe for approximately 20 years and now hosts over 75 artists throughout four summer sessions. Artists live together in two large communal buildings, fostering a creative community, as originally intended by the founders. There are numerous large work spaces and studios in multiple buildings on the property. The program sees an especially large influx of practicing visual artists, as well as published writers, college professors and professional composers, looking for retreat time to concentrate on their work. Facilities open for use by Byrdcliffe artists are a ceramics studio, jewelry making studio, woodworking studio and large performance spaces such at the Byrdcliffe Theater and the Barn.</p><br>
<h2>Merger with Woodstock Guild of Craftsmen</h2><br>
<p>Upon Peter Whiteheads death in 1975, Byrdcliffe was left to the Woodstock Guild of Craftsmen who have continued to maintain and administer programs at the colony. In 1979, the Byrdcliffe Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in recognition of its historical and architectural significance. Byrdcliffes cottages have been rented since 1984 only to working artists, maintaining sympathy with the founder&#39;s creative vision.</p><br>
<h2>Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild</h2><br>
<p>Now owned by the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild (WBG), a non-profit multi-arts organization with over 600 members, Byrdcliffe is the second-oldest continuing arts colony in America. WBG&#39;s Kleinert/James Center for the Arts hosts local and national performing, visual, and literary artists. The WBG offers a variety of classes in the arts.</p><br>
<p>Byrdcliffe is an important regional example of the movement to create utopian enclaves in America and continues as a place for artists to gain inspiration, live, and work.</p><br>
<p>Mount Shari is a quaternary stratovolcano and one of Japans 100 famous mountains. Its summit is 1,547 m. The summit consists of Mount Shari, Southern Mount Shari and the western ridge. It is located on the Hokkaidōs Shiretoko Peninsula on the border of Shari and Kiyosato in Shari District, Abashiri and Shibetsu in Shibetsu District, Nemuro.</p><br>
<h2>Naming</h2><br>
<p>Its former name in the Ainu language was Onnenupuri. The name Shari in Ainu means marshes where reeds are growing. It is also known by the names Okhotsk Fuji or Shari Fuji.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The mountain is made mainly of andesite, dacite, and basalt.</p><br>
<h2>Climbing routes</h2><br>
<p>The most popular ascent route starts from the Kiyosato side. A public bus (Sharibus) runs three times a day (first at 6:30) from Shiretokoshari Station to the start of the trail.</p><br>
<p>Mamshit  is the Nabataean city of Mampsis or Memphis . In the Nabataean period, Mamshit was an important station on Incense Road, running from the Idumean Mountains, through the Arabah and Ma&#39;ale Akrabim, and on to Beer-Sheva or to Hebron and Jerusalem. The city covers 10 acre and is the smallest but best restored city in the Negev Desert. The once-luxurious houses feature unusual architecture not found in any other Nabataean city.</p><br>
<p>The reconstructed city gives the visitor a sense of how Mamshit once looked. Entire streets have survived intact, and there are also large groups of Nabataean buildings with open rooms, courtyards, and terraces. The stones are carefully chiseled and the arches that support the ceiling are remarkably well constructed.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Mamshit was built in 1st century BC as trade post on the way from Petra to Gaza. with time the city was developed and based also on agriculture.</p><br>
<p>When trade in Mamshit waned with the Roman occupation, the occupants found another way to make a living: raising horses. The residents of Mamshit bred the renowned Arabian horse, which brought great wealth to their city. During the Byzantine period Mamshit also received support from the authorities for being a frontier city. When this funding dried up, at the time of Justinian, the city died a natural death.</p><br>
<p>Before the founding of the State of Israel, Prime Minister to-be David Ben-Gurion saw Mamshit as the capital of the future country, which dovetailed with his dream of settling the Negev Desert.</p><br>
<p>Two churches were discovered in Mamshit. The western St. Nilus Church has a mosaic floor with colorful geometric patterns, birds, a fruit basket, and five dedications in Greek. The eastern church has a lectern on small marble pillars, the remnants of which can be seen at the site.</p><br>
<p>The biggest hoard ever found in Israel was uncovered in Mamshit - 10500 silver coins, a lead ingot weighing 158 pounds with foundry signs, a papyrus cluster with ancient Greek texts, and other objects indicative of wealthy people.</p><br>
<p>Mamshit was declared a world heritage site by UNESCO in June 2005.</p><br>
<p>Totesee  is a small natural lake  at the Grimsel Pass in Switzerland. The lake lies immediately to the south of the natural watershed and cantonal boundary at the pass. It is therefore in the canton of Valais, and it would naturally drain into the river Rhône in the valley below. However a dam has been constructed to enable its use as a reservoir, increasing its size and raising its level by 16 m. As part of this work, an aqueduct supplies water to the Grimselsee, which drains into the river Aare and thus forms part of the Rhine catchment.</p><br>
<p>In November 2006, the lake&#39;s entire trout population died, possibly due to algae.</p><br>
<p>The name Totensee (also: Lake Toten, literally "Lake of the Dead") is said to be derived from soldiers of Duke Berchtold V of Zähringen driven into the lake by the people of Valais after the Battle of Ulrichen in 1211.</p><br>
<p>Carbon Glacier is located on the north slope of Mount Rainier in the USA state of Washington and is the source of the Carbon River. The snout at the glacier terminal moraine is at about 3,500 ft above sea level, making it the lowest-elevation glacier in the contiguous United States. The glacier also has the greatest length , thickness  and volume  of any USA glacier outside of Alaska.</p><br>
<p>Carbon Glacier is accessible from the northwest Carbon River entrance of Mount Rainier National Park, just outside the town of Carbonado, Washington. The glacier is accessible on foot via an 8 mi hike from the Carbon River entrance of Mt. Rainier National Park. The road and trail is currently washed out in several areas due to flooding of the Carbon River in 2006.</p><br>
<p>Guthrie&#39;s Memorial  is a S-bend corner between the 26 and 27 mile road-side markers on the primary A18 Snaefell mountain road, part of the Snaefell Mountain Course known mainly for motorcycle racing, situated in the Isle of Man parish of Lezayre.</p><br>
<h2>A18 Snaefell Mountain Road</h2><br>
<p>The A18 Snaefell mountain road was developed in the mid-nineteenth century from a number of pre-existing roads, carting-tracks and bridle paths. This included installation of a number of sheep-gates, milestones, the building of a series of embankments, revetments, purpose built graded sections which reflected nineteenth century highway and railway building practices. This included the distinctive road embankments which gave the S-bend corner the previous name of The Cutting. This section of the A18 Snaefell Mountain Road from the Keppel Gate to Park Mooar / Park Llewellyn (North Barrule) was built on common grazing land that were transferred to the UK Crown following the sale of the Islands feudal rights by the Duke of Atholl after the Disafforesting Commission of 1860. The nearby revetment and embankment at the 27th Milestone is sometimes informally referred to as the Guthrie&#39;s Bridge.</p><br>
<p>The western side embankment at Guthrie&#39;s Memorial was removed during the winter of 2004/2005 by the Department of Transport as a road traffic improvement, followed by a small section of the north-eastern embankment in April 2009.</p><br>
<p>During the winter of 2012/2013 the stone TT Marshalls shelter at Guthries Memorial was demolished.</p><br>
<h2>Motor-Sport Heritage</h2><br>
<p>During the 1937 TT races, Jimmie Guthrie won the Junior race, but retired on lap five of the Senior race, at The Cutting section of the course. After crashing fatally during the 1937 German Grand Prix a memorial to Jimmie Guthrie was built in 1939 at The Cutting. Funded by public subscription, the memorial was built at the place where he retired in his last TT race.</p><br>
<p>The inscription on the memorial reads:</p><br>
<p>A further memorial called the "Guthrie Stone" was established in 1949 at the site of the fatal accident on the Sachsenring road course, near the German village of Hohenstein-Ernstthal.</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
<p>Grønsund is a strait in Denmark separating the island Falster from the islands Møn and Bogø. Grønsund&#39;s maximum depth is at approx. 20 metres and the width is between 1 - 4 km. Storstrømmen channel is situated to the west and Stege Bugt lies to the north between Zealand and Møn. A ferry crosses the channel in the summertime from Stubbekøbing to Bogø island. Grønsund has several shallow areas, i.e. near Bogø, and has a strong and alternating current. Both submersed and riparian vegetation is rich, and the sound is an important breeding area for wildlife and fish. Many shore birds, including cormorants, mute swans, greylag geese, pintails, shovelers, eiders, avocets, several species of waders, as well as gulls and terns are breeding in the area. The porpoise lives in the area.</p><br>
<p>On October 2, 1943, the old ferry harbor in Gronsund was also a location used by the Danish resistance to transport fleeing Danish jews on fisherman boats to Sweden to escape the German attempt to round up the Danish jews, as detailed in Bo Lidegaard&#39;s book Countrymen.</p><br>
<h2>Oil spill</h2><br>
<p>On March 29, 2001, the oil tanker Baltic Carrier collided with the bulk carrier Tern in the western Baltic Sea, near the naval border between Germany and Denmark. 2700 tons of bunker oil leaked from the cargo tanks into the sea, affecting the Danish shoreline, especially Grønsund.</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
<p>* https://web.archive.org/web/20060626020809/http://ec.europa.eu/environment/civil/marin/reports_publications/uk140.pdf Environment report, The “Baltic Carrier” Oil Spill.</p><br>
<p>*https://web.archive.org/web/20070721011942/http://www.dof-storstroem.dk/Status%20og%20forvaltning.pdf Status and management of important areas for breeding birds at the coasts of Storstrøms County, Denmark.</p><br>
<p>*Countrymen by Bo Lidegaard</p><br>
<p>The Jose Maria Alviso Adobe, located in Milpitas, California, United States, was the home of José María Alviso, an early alcalde  of neighboring Pueblo de San Jose. It was built in 1837 and enlarged in the early 1850s, and stands as an excellent example of the Monterey Colonial style of architecture popularized throughout California in the 1830s and 1840s. It is the only remaining example of this style in the Santa Clara Valley and San Francisco Bay Area. The adobe is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The building is the result of a major remodeling completed by 1853 by the Alviso family. They added a wood-frame second floor to the family&#39;s one-story adobe house. Before the remodeling in 1853, the earlier building, built around 1837, most likely as a one-story adobe, provided the thick adobe walls of the first floor. The Alviso Adobe is a two-story residence with a hipped roof and a balcony carried on three sides. The plan of the rectangular residence is symmetrical, comprising three rooms downstairs with three upstairs rooms. The Alviso Adobe contains a remarkable amount of historic fabric—adobe walls from the 1830s, examples of framing and doors, windows, hardware from 1853 and an almost intact 1920s kitchen. It is unusual to find a building as little altered over a period of 150 years.</p><br>
<p>The Alviso Adobe exhibits the character-defining features of the Monterey style: wood-shingled hipped roof, wood balconies on three sides, paired French doors opening to the outside, multi-paned windows, interior fireplaces, and a symmetrical layout.</p><br>
<p>The property is under renovation. The project work comprises the upgrading of the existing historic farm to reflect the theme of a working ranch and orchard as it would have appeared in the 1920s. A number of mature trees are present on the site. A barn containing timbers dating to the 1840s was recently demolished. Both historic and prehistoric subsurface cultural remains have been documented in the vicinity of the residence.</p><br>
<h2>Footnotes</h2><br>
<p>Gampriner Seele is the only lake in Liechtenstein. It was created by a flood of the Rhine River with enormous erosion in 1927. The lake lies on 435 metres above Sea Level in the village of Bendern–Gamprin.</p><br>
<p>Gampriner Seele is surrounded by a dense deciduous forest which consists of plants such as reeds, hedges and trees. The treasure was put under nature conservation by the government in 1961. After elimination of the trash the water quality stabilized at B grade. A pipeline to a near inland canal provides the lake with fresh water and sufficient oxygen.</p><br>
<h2>Rare species in and around the lake</h2><br>
<p>Mare&#39;s tail (Hippuris vulgaris)</p><br>
<p>Three-furrow duckweed (Lemna trisulca)</p><br>
<p>Roach, rudd, crayfish</p><br>
<p>Bleak, bream, pike</p><br>
<p>Little grebe, moorhen, mallard, coot, swan</p><br>
<p>The Konwakiton Glacier is a glacier situated on the southern flank of Mount Shasta, in the USA state of California. It occupies the head of a large cirque on the south side of Shastas Misery Hill cone, just northeast of the prominent outcrop of Thumb Rock at about 11,500 ft. It is the fifth largest glacier on Mount Shasta, although less than one-third the size of any of the four larger ones . The Konwakiton is the most frequently visited of Shastas glaciers, since the standard climbing route up Avalanche Gulch skirts along its western edge above Thumb Rock saddle, with the boot track often only a few feet  from the bergschrund at the glacier&#39;s head.</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 Watkins Glacier is a glacier situated on the southeastern flank of Mount Shasta, in the USA state of California. It occupies a small cirque in the Clear Creek drainage. It is the smallest officially-named glacier on Mount Shasta, and it was not accorded that status until 1976, following a decades-long campaign by local resident R. Harry Watkins, Jr., to bring recognition to the previously-ignored glacier.</p><br>
<p>The Watkins is one of three small cirque glaciers on the southern side of Shasta, along with the Konwakiton and Mud Creek Glaciers located about 1 mi west. It has the lowest average elevation of any of Shasta&#39;s glaciers, extending only between 10,400 and.</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 (including the Watkins) 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>Lake Cadagno  is a meromictic lake in the Piora valley , Switzerland. As one of a few meromictic lakes in Europe, it is the object of numerous scientific studies. The Piora valley - located in the Gotthard massif  in the Southern part of Switzerland near Airolo at an altitude of 2000 m above sea level - is a landlocked alpine valley whose scientific value has been recognized for more than two centuries. In the past, the lake was used as a reservoir.</p><br>
<p>Lake Cadagno is a rare example of crenogenic meromixis. Its waters show a permanent stratification due to a natural geological phenomenon. The lower abounds with dissolved mineral salts (sulphate, magnesium, calcium, carbonate) originating from sublacustrine springs, whereas the separate upper layer is permanently oxygenated. Anaerobic phototrophic bacteria – among them Chromatium okenii—thrive between the two layers where they find the ideal conditions for their development. Such an ecosystem provides a good opportunity to study the metabolisms connected with eutrophication on a stable model, as it is well known that one of the advanced stages of eutrophication is biogenic meromixis.</p><br>
<h2>Research</h2><br>
<p>For the last 25 years the area has been increasingly used for scientific purposes, both for teaching and researching various environmental subjects. In view of stimulating educational and scientific activities at a university level, the Alpine Biology Center (ABC) has been set up by the Canton of Ticino, in cooperation with the universities of Geneva and Zurich. For this purpose, two 16th century buildings of the Alpe Piora have been turned into a laboratory and lodgings. The Microbiology Institute of the canton of Ticino is responsible both for managing the center and coordinating its activities.</p><br>
<p>Cyclobotryococcatriene, a botryococcene-related hydrocarbon, was isolated from and identified in organic-rich sediments in Lake Cadagno in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Kalo Nero or Kalonero  is a village and a community of the Trifylia municipality, Messenia, southern Greece. The population of the entire community is 686 , the main village alone 543, the remaining 143 living in the smaller settlements Ano Kalo Nero, Kakavas, Stasi Sidirokastro , Marmaro and Vounaki.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Kalo Nero is situated on the Gulf of Kyparissia, a bay of the Ionian Sea. It is 6 km northeast of Kyparissia, 21 km south of Zacharo and 47 km northwest of Kalamata. The Greek National Road 9 (Patras - Pyrgos - Pylos), and the main road to Kalamata pass through the town. Kalo Nero is a railway junction where the line from Patras and Pyrgos in the north branches to the terminus station of Kyparissia to the south and towards Kalamata via Zevgolatio in the east. Kalo Nero has a relatively large railway yard, located alongside the central square of the village, with the station building at the southern end of the square. Kalo Nero used to have several daily passenger train services but during recent years these have been reduced until 21-Jan-2011 the last remaining services were closed down.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism and the environment</h2><br>
<p>Kalo Nero has a 20 kilometre sandy beach which attracts a moderate amount bathers in the summer months, both Greeks and foreign tourists. On the seafront there are a number hotels, tavernas and bars. Loggerhead sea turtles, Caretta caretta, nest every summer on the beach from many centuries ago, from May to July - with the nests hatching between July and October. Kalo Nero is famous for its marvelous, unique sunsets in the Kyparissian Bay. Nearby are the Mycenian Tombs in Peristeria and the Neda River Waterfalls with Stomio, the entrance to Hades, the underworld, according to Greek Mythology.</p><br>
<p>Bhirrana or Birhana is a small village located in Fatehabad District, in the Indian state of Haryana.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The site is situated about 220 km to the northwest of New Delhi on the New Delhi-Fazilka national highway and about 14 km northeast of the district headquarters on the Bhuna road in the Fatehabad district. The site is one of the many sites seen along the channels of the ancient Saraswati riverine systems, now represented by the seasonal Ghaggar River which flows in modern Haryana from Nahan to Sirsa.</p><br>
<p>The mound measures 190 m north-south and 240 m east-west and rises to a height of 5.50 m from the surrounding area of flat alluvial sottar plain.</p><br>
<h2>Excavations</h2><br>
<p>The Excavation Branch-I, Nagpur of the Archaeological Survey of India excavated this site for three field seasons during 2003-04, 2004–05 and 2005-06. Several publications have been written on it by Rao et al.</p><br>
<h2>Dating</h2><br>
<p>According to Rao, Hakra Ware has been found at Bhirrana, and is pre-Harappan, dating to the 8th-7th millennium BCE. Hakra Ware culture is a material culture which is contemporaneous with the early Harappan Ravi phase culture (3300-2800 BCE) of the Indus Valley.</p><br>
<p>According to Dikshit and Rami, the estimation for the aniquity of Bhirrana is based on two calculations of charcoal samples, giving two dates of respectively 7570-7180 BCE, and 6689-6201 BCE.</p><br>
<h2>Cultures</h2><br>
<p>According to Rao, the excavation has revealed these cultural periods; Period IA: Hakra Wares Culture, Period IB: Early Harappan Culture, Period IIA: Early Mature Harappan and Period IIB: Mature Harappan Culture.</p><br>
<p>Period IA: Hakra Wares Culture:</p><br>
<p>The excavation has revealed the remains of the Harappan culture right from its nascent stage, i.e., Hakra Wares Culture (antedating the Known Early Harappan Culture in the subcontinent, also known as Kalibangan-I.) to a full-fledged Mature Harappan city. Prior to the excavation of Bhirrana, no Hakra Wares culture, predating the Early Harappan had been exposed in any Indian site. For the first time, the remains of this culture have been exposed at Bhirrana. This culture is characterised by structures in the form of subterranean dwelling pits, cut into the natural soil. The walls and floor of these pits were plastered with the yellowish alluvium of the Saraswati valley. The artefacts of this period comprised a copper bangle, a copper arrowhead, bangles of terracotta, beads of carnelian, lapis lazuli and steatite, bone point, stone saddle and quern. The pottery repertoire is very rich and the diagnostic wares of this period included Mud Applique Wares, Incised (Deep and Light), Tan/Chocolate Slipped Wares, Brown-on-Buff Wares, Bichrome Wares (Paintings on the exterior with black and white pigments), Black-on-Red Ware and plain red wares.</p><br>
<p>Period IB: Early Harappan Culture:</p><br>
<p>The entire site was occupied during this period. The settlement was an open air one with no fortification. The houses were built of mud bricks of buff colour in the ratio of 3:2:1. The pottery of this period shows all the six fabrics of Kalibangan - I along with many of the Hakra Wares of the earlier period. The artifacts of this period include a seal of quarter-foil shape made of shell, arrowheads, bangles and rings of copper, beads of carnelian, jasper, lapis lazuli, steatite, shell and terracotta, pendents, bull figurines, rattles, wheels, gamesmen, and marbles of terracotta, bangles of terracotta and faience, bone objects, sling balls, marbles and pounders of sandstone.</p><br>
<p>Period IIA: Early Mature Harappan Culture:</p><br>
<p>This period is marked by transformation in the city lay-out. The entire settlement was encompassed within a fortification wall. The twin units of the town planning; Citadel and Lower Town came into vogue. The mud brick structures were aligned with a slight deviation from the true north. The streets, lanes and by-lanes were oriented in similar fashion. The pottery assemblage shows a mixed bag of Early Harappan and Mature Harappan forms. The artifacts of the period included beads of semi-precious stones (including two caches of beads kept in two miniature pots), bangles of copper, shell, terracotta and faience; fishhook, chisel, arrowhead of copper; terracotta animal figurines and a host of miscellaneous artifacts.</p><br>
<p>Period IIB: Mature Harappan Culture:</p><br>
<p>The last period of occupation at the site belongs to the Mature Harappan period with all the characteristic features of a well-developed Harappan city. The important artifacts of the period consisted of Seals of steatite, bangles of copper, terracotta, faience and shell, inscribed celts of copper, bone objects, terracotta spoked wheels, animal figurines of terracotta, beads of lapis lazuli, carnelian, agate, faience, steatite, terracotta and stone objects.</p><br>
<p>The massive fortification wall of the town was made of mud bricks. The houses were made of mud bricks (sun-baked bricks). Wide linear roads can be seen separating the houses. A circular structure of baked earth is probably a "tandoor"- a community kitchen still seen in rural India. Presence of the baked bricks is seen used in the main drain provided on the width of the northern arm of the fortification wall to flush out the waste water from the houses.</p><br>
<h2>Dancing girl graffiti</h2><br>
<p>Pottery graffiti at Bhirrana show "mermaid" type deities and dancing girls; the latter have a posture so similar to Mohenjo-daro&#39;s bronze "dancing girls" that the archaeologist L.S. Rao stated that "it appears that the craftsman of Bhirrana had first-hand knowledge of the former." These deities or dancing girls may represent apsaras, or water nymphs, associated with water rites once widespread in the Indus Valley civilisation.</p><br>
<h2>Other findings</h2><br>
<p>Other significant findings included terracotta wheels with painted spokes. People used to live in shallow mud plastered pit dwellings and pits were also used for industrial activity or sacrifices. Multi-roomed houses were exposed at this site, one house with ten rooms and another with three rooms. Another house had a kitchen, court yards, chullah in the kitchen; beside the chullah, charred grains were also found.</p><br>
<p>According to Rao, all phases of Indus Valley Civilisation are represented in this site.</p><br>
<p>The Burlington Train Station, located at 1001 South 10th Street in downtown Omaha, Nebraska is a historically and culturally significant landmark, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, which is currently used as the studio facility for Omaha&#39;s ABC affiliate, television station KETV . When it was opened in 1898, this Italianate style building, designed by Thomas Rogers Kimball, was hailed by newspapers around the world for its grand architecture and accommodations. The Burlington Station is a contributing property to the Omaha Rail and Commerce Historic District, and sits southeast of the Old Market, and immediately north of Little Italy.</p><br>
<h2>Beginning</h2><br>
<p>The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, serving the Midwest since its founding in 1850, first entered downtown Omaha in 1870. In addition to transporting Nebraska&#39;s farm produce to other areas of the country, The Burlington Railroad also handled mail through the area from 1884 to 1972.</p><br>
<p>The railroad was influential in the growth of Omaha and Nebraska, and the Omaha Burlington Station served the needs of both passengers and freight longer than any depot in Omaha history. A temporary building was first erected on the present site in 1890 in anticipation of the construction of a new and grander edifice to be completed by the Union Depot Company, a partnership between the Union Pacific and Burlington Railroads. Later that year, construction was halted due to Union Pacific&#39;s financial difficulties, and in 1897 the Burlington announced plans to build a new station. Famed Omaha architect Thomas Rogers Kimball designed the building.</p><br>
<h2>1898-1928</h2><br>
<p>This new Burlington station opened on July 4, 1898, in time for the Trans-Mississippi International Exposition, a glittering inter-national showcase that attracted visitors to Omaha from around the world. The main lobby featured a grand circular staircase that led passengers downstairs to track level and the trains. A large canopy, a first for an Omaha train station, covered two tracks and kept passengers from the elements. The spacious lobby included new amenities, such as separate mens and womens waiting rooms, a gentleman&#39;s smoking room, and a sit-down lunch counter. The interior featured Sienna marble columns, and mosaic floors with the staircase accented with bronze castings of Rocky Mountain Sheep heads. The total cost of the station was $408,000.00, a very impressive amount for the day.</p><br>
<p>The building attracted considerable attention for its pristine beauty. The accolades were universal. A German commission judged the Burlington Station to be Americas finest railroad station, and in 1908, the Chicago Record wrote, The handsomest railway station ever seen is the Burlington Station at Omaha. It is an artistic gem and looks like a Grecian Temple.&#39;</p><br>
<p>Although great attention was lavished on the classic proportions and styling of the station, functional considerations were also important to the design. Since the two-story depot was built next to the 10th Street viaduct, the main entrance to the station was from the viaduct to the second floor. This portico featured twenty-eight massive Colorado granite columns. The walls of the depot were built of light gray brick and buff Indiana limestone; the roof was covered in red glazed tile. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, in discussing the Omaha station in 1889 said, Through an inspiration worthy of general imitation, it (The Burlington Railroad) has erected at Omaha a most imposing, most original, and most architectural of passenger stations.</p><br>
<h2>1929-1953</h2><br>
<p>The Burlington Station was extensively remodeled from 1929 to 1930 to compete with a new Union Station (now the Durham Museum), that was to open in 1931. The remodeling was completed on September 4, 1930, and a grand public ceremony was held. Among the changes celebrated that day was a new restaurant that was to stay open for the next thirty years.</p><br>
<p>The remodeling in 1930 changed the building to conform to the elements of the Neo-Classical Revival, which simplified the exterior, removing the granite columns, and much of the external detail. Twenty-four of the original columns were moved intact to Lincoln, where today they stand between Memorial Stadium and the Coliseum. The remodeling also included raising the roof-line over the main waiting room. The walls were decorated in a new motif including a border of gold medallions. Four large lanterns were installed, each weighing more than a ton. The central spiral staircase was totally removed</p><br>
<h2>1954-2013</h2><br>
<p>Remodeled again in 1954, the station saw a major parking plaza erected with lights and canopy, and a circular drive that enabled people to drop passengers at the station. During the late 1960s train travel was greatly reduced and several areas of the station fell into disrepair. Finally, in 1971, passenger service was turned over to Amtrak, which operated the Burlington Station until February 1, 1974, moving to a more spartan station about 220 ft directly to the east in 1983 after a period of time with a temporary station. Also in 1974 the Burlington Train Station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Since its closing, the station saw futile attempts at reopening as business offices, and as a warehouse. In 1985, the interior was gutted by an architectural salvager who removed and sold every interior fitting. The four enormous chandeliers were taken down, one of which was broken and was sold in pieces. In 2004, two investors purchased the building. Renovations were planned to transform the building through adaptive re-use into private residences called "The Burlington". When the economy fell and a real estate crisis began in 2008, low pre-sales of condos stopped the project and since then the building continued to languish with an uncertain future.</p><br>
<h2>As KETV's studio facility (Present)</h2><br>
<p>On June 5, 2013, Hearst Television announced the purchase of Burlington Station, which will become the new broadcast facility for Omahas ABC affiliate, KETV (Channel 7) and was remodeled as a state-of-the-art broadcast and web media facility. The building was renovated over two years, with the station moving from their current building at 27th and Douglas in late October 2015. The buildings renovation was designed by Leo A Daly Company. KETV aired their first broadcast from 7 Burlington Station at 5PM on Wednesday, October 28, 2015.</p><br>
<p>Andarab is the name of a large stream in Afghanistan and of the valley it empties into.</p><br>
<p>The stream which originates in the Hindu Kush, near Khawak Pass, and flows to the west for about 75 miles before merging into the Surkhab.</p><br>
<h2>Andarab valley</h2><br>
<p>Together, the two streams form a long, narrow valley. The upper part of that valley is also called Andarab, the lower part alternately as Khinjan or Doshi. Both parts of the valley had been united governmentally under a single leader, or hakim, who resided at Bannu.</p><br>
<p>The climate in the two parts of the valley varies considerably. Khinjan and Doshi have comparatively mild winters, while Andarab&#39;s winter is rather severe. However, Andarab stays comparatively cooler during the summer, though it gets quite hot in Khinjan and Doshi.</p><br>
<p>At the turn of the 20th century, it was estimated that there were about 2,600 families residing in the Andarab valley and the latest population statistics are not available.</p><br>
<p>At that time, it was estimated that the Andarab valley could produce 1200 maunds of ata and rice, and that up to 2,000 maunds of barley could be collected there.</p><br>
<p>The Charles Allis Art Museum is a museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Charles Allis House.</p><br>
<h2>Allis Mansion history</h2><br>
<p>The Charles Allis Art Museum was originally the home of Milwaukee native Charles Allis and his wife, Sarah. Charles, the son of Edward P. Allis, was the first president of the Allis-Chalmers Corporation. Charles and Sarah Ball were married in 1877. Both were very active in the Milwaukee community. He was one of the organizers of the Milwaukee Arts Society, a trustee at the Layton Art Gallery and was on the boards of many other arts and business institutions.</p><br>
<p>The year he died, 1918, Charles was serving as chairman of the Milwaukee County Council of Defense. Both he and his wife were patrons of the arts and were responsible for many acts of charity beyond the world of art.</p><br>
<p>As a result of their keen collecting instincts, the couple amassed a unique art collection with the intention of bequeathing their mansion and its contents to the public in order to delight, inspire and educate. The 1911 Tudor-style mansion is done in a Tudor Rose theme that continues throughout the exterior and interior of the house.</p><br>
<p>The Museum began its life as an Art Library and was a part of the Milwaukee County Public Library System from 1957-1978.</p><br>
<p>In 1979, the Allis Mansion was turned over to Milwaukee County, and was designated an Art Museum from that time forward. Treasures can be found throughout the Charles Allis Art Museum. It contains a collection of paintings, prints, sculptures, ceramics and more. It is largely intact with original furnishings and a rich and diverse art collection spanning nearly 2,000 years beginning with ancient glass objects blown in 1 B.C. and ending with the painters of Charles Allis&#39; day.</p><br>
<p>To complement this collection, the Allis holds several changing exhibitions each year, which feature works by Wisconsin artists.</p><br>
<h2>Allis architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Charles Allis Mansion is an early work of Boston-born architect Alexander Eschweiler.</p><br>
<p>Work began on the house in 1909 and was completed in 1911. It was one of the first private homes in Milwaukee to have electricity. The walls are largely made of concrete to keep Charles and Sarah&#39;s art collection safe from the ever present threat of fire.</p><br>
<p>The exterior of the house is largely mauve Ohio brick and is trimmed with Lake Superior sandstone. The interiors are tastefully done in lavish materials, as was the style at the time. There is Circassian walnut paneling in the French Parlor room, and embossed and polychromed Lincrusta Walton wallpaper in many rooms on the first floor.</p><br>
<p>In addition to the hand-carved marble fireplaces that grace nearly every room, there are many types of fine marble used throughout the house, such as Florido Creme, Tavernelle Clair and Haueville Fleuri for the Marble Hall.</p><br>
<h2>Local arts</h2><br>
<p>The Charles Allis Art Museum is a center for Wisconsin artists and sponsors changing exhibitions featuring Wisconsin artists. The Allis emphasizes fine art, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture.</p><br>
<p>In addition to the visual arts the Allis displays, it holds a free seasonal music series, Allis After Hours. The third Thursday of the month throughout the spring, summer and fall, the Allis holds a jazz concert in the English Garden or Margaret Rahill Great Hall. The musicians featured are Milwaukee artists, in accordance with the Allis&#39;s mission to showcase Wisconsin talent.</p><br>
<p>The Charles Allis Art Museum, along with the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum, is part of the Milwaukee County War Memorial Corporation.</p><br>
<p>Eagle Peak is a 6,955 ft mountain in the USA state of Alaska, located in Chugach State Park in Anchorage Municipality. The peak is named after the Eagle River. On clear days, the peak is visible from Anchorage.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The peak is situated at the head of South Fork Eagle River Valley, east of downtown Anchorage, and stands out as the highest summit along a long ridgeline that includes Flute Peak (6610 ft.) and Hurdygurdy Mountain (5965 ft.) Towering above Eagle Lake, Flute Glacier, and Eagle River Valley, Eagle Peak is one of several imposing peaks in the immediate area over 6000 feet.</p><br>
<h2>Topography</h2><br>
<p>Starting from a base elevation on the Eastern side of approximately 700 ft., Eagle Peak climbs to its 6955 ft. summit in little more than a mile and a half. Aerially it resembles a three-sided pyramid, with ridges connecting from the Northwest and South. All sides feature extensive cliff banding, with a prominent series of cliffs on the Northern face that climb nearly 3000 vertical feet.</p><br>
<h2>Terrain</h2><br>
<p>Beginning at approximately 1000 ft., Eagle Peak becomes a predominantly alpine zone, characterized by extremely scant vegetation, a variety of lichens, snow pack (including year-round snowfields), and a large amount of bare, and often loose, rock.</p><br>
<h2>Wildlife</h2><br>
<p>Like many Alaskan mountains, Eagle Peak may be frequented by ptarmigan, Dahl sheep, mountain goats, and other alpine animals. Despite the lack of vegetation, a variety of insects thrive at high elevations throughout Alaska. Overhead, one may spot a hawk or eagle.</p><br>
<p>Villa Terrace was built in 1924 for the Lloyd R. Smith family - an Italian Renaissance-style home on a bluff above Lake Michigan. Since 1966 the house and grounds have housed the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Lloyd Smith (1883-1944) was the president of A.O. Smith Corporation. After returning from a trip to Italy, the Smiths commissioned architect David Adler to design their new home. The architecture and water stairs were inspired by Villa Cicogna Mozzoni (built in the 1560s) in Lombardy, Italy. Smith called the house Sopra Mare, which is Italian for "above the sea." The ironwork in the home is from the Milwaukee studio of Cyril Colnik, an Austrian-born blacksmith.</p><br>
<p>The surrounding bluff is landscaped with terraces and formal gardens, a "water stairway," fishponds, and two secret gardens. Rose Standish Nichols is credited with the original landscape design. No record of her plan for the Smith residence has been found.</p><br>
<p>Lloyd died in 1944. In 1966 the Smith family donated their home to Milwaukee County to serve as a Decorative Arts Museum. Some rooms were converted to offices, but the house and grounds changed little with the transition from home to museum. In 1976, a formal planting of sugar maple bosques with privet hedges and white gravel was installed. During the 1990s, The Parks Department suffered severe budget cuts, which resulted in reduced maintenance and decline.</p><br>
<p>Villa Terrace&#39;s art collection features fine and decorative arts dating from the 15th through the 19th centuries, wrought iron masterpieces by Cyril Colnik and changing exhibitions highlighting the decorative arts. It is also the host of a Garden Lecture series, in which attendees are able to learn more about planning and maintenance for their home gardens.</p><br>
<h2>Renaissance Garden</h2><br>
<p>In 1997, The Friends of Villa Terrace Board committed themselves to restore the gardens at Villa Terrace. Based on the master plan created by Buettner & Associates, volunteers with the Renaissance Garden Club began two years of site clearing in the spring of 1998. Construction of the gardens began in 2000 and continued for two more years. After four years of work, the gardens officially opened to the public in July 2002.</p><br>
<h2>Weddings</h2><br>
<p>Villa Terrace is a popular site for weddings in Milwaukee. For brides in Milwaukee&#39;s changing climate, the views offer something that would otherwise only be attainable by travelling to Europe. Its Italian Villa structure, picturesque garden, unique stairways and breath-taking views of Lake Michigan provide Wisconsin brides with scenery they would otherwise not be able to use.</p><br>
<p>The Villa Terrace, along with the Charles Allis Art Museum, is part of the Milwaukee County War Memorial Corporation.</p><br>
<p>Gola  is a small island off the coast of Gweedore, County Donegal, Ireland.</p><br>
<p>The island was unpopulated as recently as 1996 but in recent years people have started to return. A ferry service operates during the holiday season and on request for the remainder of the year</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Gola Island is 1 km off the coast of Gweedore. Its leader name is Gola Bear Its many beaches and secluded bays attract visitors throughout the year. The island was populated up until the mid-1960s. Today most of the buildings on the island are derelict, but some have been renovated as holiday homes and the island is now inhabited for most of the year.</p><br>
<p>The island terrain is mildly hilly with many bog road and sheep paths. At present, during the winter the only inhabitants on Gola are animals. Sheep and some shy goats tend to reside along the cliffs. To the back of the island, seabirds abound, cormorants, shags, razorbills, guillemots as well as the odd passing gannet and skua. At the southern end of the near Port na Crin and the old school house, many shore species of bird can be admired such as the eider duck, oystercatcher, diver as well as various terns.</p><br>
<p>Gola is the birthplace of renowned Irish writer, Seán ac Fhionnlaoich. The island has also been immortalised in the traditional childrens song Báidín Fhéilimí ("Féilimí&#39;s Little Boat").</p><br>
<p>There is no mains electricity available on the island, all dwellings are therefore off-the-grid, relying on generators, oil lamps and renewable power sources such as solar and wind.</p><br>
<h2>Demographics</h2><br>
<p>The table below reports data on Gola&#39;s population taken from Discover the Islands of Ireland (Alex Ritsema, Collins Press, 1999) and the Census of Ireland.</p><br>
<p>Note: "nan" in the table below means that Wikipedia can&#39;t explain numbers.</p><br>
<h2>Media depictions</h2><br>
<p>RTÉ offended viewers by depicting a dog having its legs tied together and being tossed overboard into the sea off the coast of Gola Island as part of its TV50 celebrations in a broadcast on 3 January 2012.</p><br>
<p>The Minneapolis Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery is the oldest extant cemetery in Minneapolis, Minnesota, located at the intersections of Lake Street and Cedar Avenue. Since the first burial in 1853 the cemetery has been the final resting place of those who helped shape the history of early Minneapolis. Several prominent territorial pioneers, including Charles Christmas, Edwin Hedderly, and Philander Prescott are buried there. Approximately 200 military veterans who fought in wars ranging from the War of 1812 to World War I are buried in the cemetery. It is the burial site for many of the city’s early African-American residents and for many people who had ties to the abolitionist movement in Minnesota. Several thousand immigrants, primarily from Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, are buried there, as are many of their children. Over half of the cemetery’s 20,000 residents are children. Nearly 200 veterans are buried there.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. It was listed for architectural features such as the caretaker&#39;s cottage and monuments to territorial women and veterans, as well as the contributions that the residents made to the early history of Minneapolis.</p><br>
<h2>People</h2><br>
<p>Harry T. Hayward (c.1865–1895), convicted murderer and candidate for first documented American serial killer.</p><br>
<p>Atna Peaks is an eroded stratovolcano or shield volcano in the Wrangell Mountains of eastern Alaska. It is located in Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park about east of Mount Blackburn, the second highest volcano in the United States, and just south of the massive Nabesna Glacier. Because the mountain is almost entirely covered in glaciers, no geological studies have been done, but published references state and the geological map shows that the mountain is an old eroded volcanic edifice.</p><br>
<p>The mountain&#39;s main summit is 13,860 ft, making it the second highest thirteener (a peak between 13,000 and 13,999 feet in elevation) in Alaska. The second summit is located about to the east, reaching over 13,600 ft (4,150 m), and another named summit, 13,280 ft Parka Peak, is about further east across a glacier-covered saddle. The steep rocky south faces of these three peaks form part of the cirque of the Kennicott Glacier, which flows southeast over 20 mi to just above the town of McCarthy.</p><br>
<p>Atna Peaks was named in 1965 by the first ascent party from the Mountaineering Club of Alaska, because the "peaks are at the edge of the Copper River drainage and the old Indian name for that river was Atna."</p><br>
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<p>The Astor House is a historic stone hotel from the earliest years of Golden, Colorado. Associated with prominent area pioneers, it was also a pioneering effort in historic preservation in the region. Today it is a museum open to the public, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Astor House was originally built in 1867 by Seth Lake, a pioneer hotelkeeper who came to the area in the early 1860s. An upgrade from his original Lake House hotel on the site, it was carved of sandstone quarried by Charles R. Foreman & Co. at the far west end of 12th Street which the hotel stands on. The premier hostelry of Golden, it served patrons from miners to Territorial legislators who met nearby. It was Golden&#39;s only known hotel not to have served alcohol, as the devout Baptist owner was a temperance man who would not allow it on his premises. Later the hotel was owned by German immigrant Ida Goetze. It gradually faded from hotel to boarding house, and was altered by four fires and repaired to its present appearance.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>In 1971 the property was acquired by the Golden Downtown Improvement District to be destroyed for a parking lot, a fate befalling a number of Goldens landmarks including the church Lake had faithfully served. City Councilor Ruben Hartmeister raised concern about whether a place of its history should be preserved. Standing alone he was not initially listened to, but Goldens modern historic preservation movement was born. Citizens rallied to the aid of the Astor House and formed the Golden Landmarks Association to try to save it. On June 13, 1972 Golden&#39;s people voted to save it, with 69% voting in favor. Afterward it became the Astor House Hotel Museum, which is open to the general public today as a historic house museum. The museum depicts life in the hotel in the early 20th century.</p><br>
<p>Isla Cerralvo, as is commonly named, whose official name is Isla Jacques Cousteau, is an island located off the Cerralvo Canal coast near La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico.</p><br>
<p>It is 18 mi long with a land area of 136.498 km&sup2, and is the ninth-largest island in Mexico. It is part of Municipality of La Paz. The island peak comes to 2,100 ft and the ridge line runs north-south with many small streams draining east to Gulf of California and west to Cupalo Canal. There are many steep bluffs on the eastern sides and many sandy beaches and points on the west side.</p><br>
<p>There is abundant marine life surrounding this island due to underwater topography and ocean currents. Virtually all local marine life must migrate past the island and water visibility goes up to 30 meters making it a prime location for big game fishing. There are abundant golden grouper, marlin, sailfish, swordfish or broadbill, and other game fish in Cerralvo Canal waters. Views from island at dawn and sunset are very lively and filled with color.</p><br>
<h2>Recent official name change</h2><br>
<p>In November 17, 2009, Mexican government changed the island name from historical name "Isla Cerralvo" to "Isla Jacques Cousteau" in honor of French oceanographer Jacques Cousteau (1910–1997)</p><br>
<p>who had led many expeditions in this area.</p><br>
<p>This name change has generated annoyance and a growing resistance amongst citizens of nearby shores, in Baja California Sur state, who were not consulted; they insist on keeping the name "Isla Cerralvo". This resistance is also supported by many people in other Mexican regions.</p><br>
<p>Mexican senators Luis Alberto Coppola Joffroy, Sebastian Calderón Centeno and Humberto Andrade Quezada, from Partido Acción Nacional (PAN) initiated a resolution to request different Mexican authorities to inform the decree where change of name was adopted.</p><br>
<p>Also senator Francisco Javier Obregón Espinoza has introduced a resolution in the Mexican Congress requesting the name change be reversed. Leading Mexican intellectuals such as Miguel León-Portilla (a former UNESCO director) have also voiced opposition to the name change.</p><br>
<p>The Hanna–Honeycomb House, also known as simply the Hanna House, located on the Stanford University campus in Stanford, California, United States, was Frank Lloyd Wright&#39;s first work in the Bay Area and his first work with non-rectangular structures. The house is recognized as a National Historic Landmark.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>Begun in 1937 and expanded over 25 years, this is the first and best example of Wrights innovative hexagonal design. Patterned after the honeycomb of a bee, the house incorporates six-sided figures with 120-degree angles in its plan, in its numerous tiled terraces, and even in built-in furnishings. In American National Bibliography Frederick Ivor-Campbell wrote "(the) Honeycomb House showed how Wrights system of Polygonal modules could provide the openness that he associated with freedom of movement while gracefully integrating the house with its sloping topography. The hexagonal modules of the floor plan gave the appearance of a honeycomb; hence the name of the house." There are no right angles on the floor plan.</p><br>
<p>The Hanna-Honeycomb house was designed for Paul R. Hanna and his wife Jean, both well-known educators and for many years associated with Stanford University. The project was begun while they were a young married couple and the house was expanded and adapted over time, with Wright&#39;s assistance, as their professional and personal needs changed.</p><br>
<h2>Construction and restoration</h2><br>
<p>The construction process was not without difficulty. Wright&#39;s initial plans called for flat terrain, but the lot the Hannas purchased was hilly. Cost overruns meant that the original $15,000 price tag ballooned to over $37,000 ($ adjusted for inflation). Additionally, Hanna discovered that his lot encompassed a portion of the San Andreas Fault. Wright, whose Imperial Hotel had survived the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake, was undaunted. Unfortunately, the home was severely damaged by the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Although that branch of the fault was inactive during the quake, the foundation and chimney were essentially unreinforced and likely would have collapsed if the earthquake had lasted longer. A major 10-year restoration was completed in April 1999, this time with seismic reinforcement.</p><br>
<h2>Features</h2><br>
<p>The house is one-story high with a central clerestory (an outside wall of a room or building that rises above an adjoining roof and contains windows) and is constructed of native redwood board and batten, San Jose brick, concrete and plate glass. The house clings to and completes the hillside on which it was built as the floor and courtyard levels conform to the slope of this one and one-half acre site. The entire site includes the main house, a guesthouse, hobby shop, storage building, double carport, breezeway, and garden house with pools and water cascade. After living in the house for 38 years, the Hannas gave the property to Stanford University in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>Current use</h2><br>
<p>It is now owned by Stanford, and is open for tours by reservation only. It is occasionally used for university functions such as seminars and receptions.</p><br>
<h2>Picture Gallery</h2><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>Lake Kamnarok was a lake in Kenya, at the base of the Kerio Valley, unfortunately as of 2015 the lake dried up. The name originated from the word narok, which is a species of water plant that was widely found in the lake in the early stages of the lake formation.</p><br>
<p>The lake was 1 km² in size. It was in existence before 1961 but the flood rains of that year led to its enlargement. The flooding disaster saw people living in the area being evacuated in order to save lives. Helicopters were used during the evacuation exercise to airlift people to the higher ground of Maab Konga- a hill near Muchukwo trading centre.</p><br>
<p>The lake was gazetted in 1984, when Lake Kamnarok Game Reserve was created. This is the home of 500 elephants.</p><br>
<p>Like other Great Rift Valley lakes, its existence is being threatened, mainly because of farming activities in the area. There are deep gullies that are likely to lead to spilling of the water, thus joining it with the Kerio River. A few measures have been taken to save the lake, including the building of gabions. The tributaries that feed Lake Kamnarok include the rivers Ketipborok, Cheplogoi, Oiwo and Lelabei.</p><br>
<p>The Hotel De Anza is a historic hotel in San Jose, California. At ten stories, it once was the tallest hotel in the San Jose central business district, prior to the construction of Hilton, Fairmont, and Marriott hotels. Significant for its architectural style, it is one of San Jose&#39;s few Zig Zag Moderne  buildings. The hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 21, 1982.</p><br>
<p>The De Anza Hotel was funded by the local business community, united in an organization called the San Jose Community Hotel Corporation. The hotel took three years of planning by this group and stock subscriptions were obtained from more than 200 local citizens. Noted architect W. H. Weeks was the buildings designer and Carl Swenson was the contractor. Local business leaders emphasized that the hotel would benefit San Jose and that the modern accommodations would help attract conventions to the area. Groundbreaking occurred on February 27, 1931, and was presided over by the corporation president, Alexander Hart, and many of San Joses most prominent citizens and businessmen. It was originally planned to be called "The San Jose Hotel", but instead it was changed to be named after explorer Juan Bautista de Anza.</p><br>
<p>The facade features a 10-story central section flanked by a 9-story section on either side. These massings along with the buildings zigzag parapet give it a stepped appearance. The first and second stories of the building house its lobby and mezzanine. Fenestration consists mostly of simple sash, double-hung windows except for the second level of the facade, which is highlighted by a band of 12 arched windows. The relief patterns include a string course separating the first and second levels, rosettes on the second level, and an elaborate art deco design through to the final two stories. Some Mayan influences can be seen in the design details of the stepped parapet. On the west elevation is painted "Hotel De Anza" with a diver used to indicate a swimming pool which is at the rear of the building within a small courtyard area. The hotels west wall also features a mural by Jim Miner, "Life Abundant in the Face of Death Imminent", which was completed on August 12, 2016, and is easily visible to motorists along West Santa Clara Street.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the De Anza is distinguished by a main lobby where Art Deco elements are integrated into a predominantly Spanish Colonial Revival decorative scheme. The lobby reaches two stories in height and contains large wooden beams with stenciled colored floral patterns. Major factors of the interior design are the highly detailed wrought iron balconies, the huge wrought iron chandelier and double arch doorways. To one side is a fireplace with a huge canopy that reaches to the ceiling. Interior doors are all distinguished by their colored stenciled floral designs.</p><br>
<p>By the 1970s, the hotel had become run down and was nearly demolished. Instead, the San Jose Redevelopment Agency was able to save the building and arranged for its reconstruction, which cost twenty times its initial construction price.</p><br>
<p>Besseggen, or Besseggi, is a mountain ridge in Vågå kommune in Oppland county, Norway. Besseggen lies east in Jotunheimen, between the lakes Gjende and Bessvatnet.</p><br>
<p>The walk over Besseggen is one of the most popular mountain hikes in Norway. About 30,000 people walk this trip each year. The route over Besseggen starts at Gjendesheim, up to the trails highest point, Veslfjellet (1,743 m), down Besseggen, further over the relatively flat area Bandet (at the foot of Besshø), and ends at Memurubu, where one may take the regularly scheduled ferry route back to Gjendesheim. Many choose to do the hike in the other direction by starting at Memurubu after first taking the ferry there from Gjendesheim. The trip is estimated to take about 5–7 hours to walk without rest stops.</p><br>
<p>From Besseggen there is a great view over Gjende and Bessvatnet. One of the unique aspects of the view is that Gjende lies almost 400&thinsp;m lower than Bessvatnet, and while Bessvatnet has a blue color typical of other lakes, Gjende has a distinct green color. The green color is the result from glacier runoff containing clay (rock flour). Looking down towards Memurubu one can see the nearby river Muru coloring the water with a light colored runoff.</p><br>
<h2>Impact of tourism</h2><br>
<p>The large number of hikers has led to serious erosion on the trails leading to Besseggen, both from Gjendesheim and Memurubu. In 2005 the Norwegian government authorized spending of 1.2 million Norwegian kroner towards the restoration of the trails. The project involves placing stone plates on the trail to limit additional damage and prevent further erosion. The stone plates were flown in by helicopter from Vågå since mass harvesting of stone from Jotunheimen is illegal. The technique used to pave the trail is modeled on the methods developed for the Snowdonia National Park in Wales.</p><br>
<h2>Competitions</h2><br>
<p>In 1961, 1962 and 1963 a race across Besseggen called «Besseggløpet» was held during the summer. The race was organized by Norges Orienteringsforbund in cooperation with Den Norske Turistforening. The record time from 1963 is held by Reidar Andreassen who was almost four and a half minutes ahead of the next finisher. The record time of 1 hour 16 minutes and 48 seconds still holds today. The women&#39;s record, set in 1963, is held by Valborg Østberg from Gjøvik with a time of 1 hour 39 minutes and 47 seconds. «32 year old housewife with (and mother of) two kids ran like a goat over Besseggen» the newspaper Dagbladet reported.</p><br>
<h2>Besseggen in the literature</h2><br>
<p>Besseggen is known from Henrik Ibsens play Peer Gynt. Peer tries to convince his mother, Åse, that he has ridden over Gjendineggen, now known as Besseggen, on a reindeer bull. From Act 1, Scene 1</p><br>
<p>Have you ever</p><br>
<p>chanced to see the Gendin-Edge?</p><br>
<p>Nigh on four miles long it stretches</p><br>
<p>sharp before you like a scythe.</p><br>
<p>Down o&#39;er glaciers, landslips, scaurs,</p><br>
<p>down the toppling grey moraines,</p><br>
<p>you can see, both right and left,</p><br>
<p>straight into the tarns that slumber,</p><br>
<p>black and sluggish, more than seven</p><br>
<p>hundred fathoms deep below you.</p><br>
<p>Right along the Edge we two</p><br>
<p>clove our passage through the air.</p><br>
<p>Never rode I such a colt!</p><br>
<p>Straight before us as we rushed</p><br>
<p>&#39;twas as though there glittered suns.</p><br>
<p>Brown-backed eagles that were sailing</p><br>
<p>in the wide and dizzy void</p><br>
<p>half-way &#39;twixt us and the tarns,</p><br>
<p>dropped behind, like motes in air.</p><br>
<p>Ice-floes on the shores broke crashing,</p><br>
<p>but no murmur reached my ears.</p><br>
<p>Only sprites of dizziness sprang,</p><br>
<p>dancing, round;-they sang, they swung,</p><br>
<p>circle-wise, past sight and hearing!</p><br>
<p>Besseggen is also described in the poem «Besseggen» by Ragnvald Skrede.</p><br>
<h2>The name</h2><br>
<p>The mountain ridge is named after Bessvatnet, the last element is the finite form off egg &#39;edge&#39;. In the dialect of the area the form is Besseggje - Besseggen is the form in Bokmål, and Besseggi is the form in Nynorsk.</p><br>
<p>Mount Myōkō is an active stratovolcano in Honshu, Japan. It is situated at the southwest of Myōkō city, Niigata Prefecture, and a part of Joshinetsu Kogen National Park. Mount Myōkō is listed as one of 100 Famous Japanese Mountains, and together with Mount Yahiko, it is well known as the "famous mountain" of Niigata Prefecture.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>Echigofuji is another name given to this mountain. Being close to the border with Nagano Prefecture, it is linked to those on the Nagano side as one of the Five Peaks in Hokushin. The mountain was originally named Mount Koshinonaka but was later changed to Mount Myōkō. This can be also written as 妙高山, in order to make use of two "lucky" characters.</p><br>
<h2>Geology and geography</h2><br>
<p>Mount Myōkō was formed beginning about 300,000 years ago, in a series of eruptions producing a broad spectrum of lava types including basalt, andesite, and dacite. Its maximum height is estimated to have been between 2,800 m and 2,900 m, but it presently reaches only 2,454 m. Around 19,000 years ago, the top was blown off in a major eruption, forming a 3 km wide caldera. About 6,000 years ago, the central crater developed and assumed its present shape. A lava dome forms the volcano&#39;s present summit. The most recent eruptions about 4,300 years ago produced pyroclastic flows down the eastern flanks. Present activity is solfataric from fumaroles near the lava dome, where sulfur was once mined.</p><br>
<p>There are onsen and ski resorts at the foot of the mountain, including Akakura, Suginohara and Ikenotaira.</p><br>
<h2>Related facts</h2><br>
<p>The heavy cruiser Myōkō of the Imperial Japanese Navy and an Aegis destroyer of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force are named after this mountain. The JR East train service Myōkō is also named after the mountain.</p><br>
<p>The mountain appears invariably in school songs of elementary and middle schools in the Jōetsu Region.</p><br>
<p>In 1990 the Nippon Jamboree, a camping festival, was held on the Myōkō plateau during which the participants climbed the mountain.</p><br>
<p>The Strážov Mountains  are a mountain range in northwestern Slovakia, being part of Inner Western Carpathians, and of the Fatra-Tatra Area. They are situated between the towns of Trenčín, Považská Bystrica, Rajec, Prievidza and Bánovce nad Bebravou, bordering White Carpathians and the Váh river in the northwest and west, Javorníky in the north, Malá Fatra in the east, Vtáčnik and Nitra river in the south and Považský Inovec in the southwest. The highest mountain is Strážov </p><br>
<p>The Strážov Mountains and Súľov Mountains are protected by the Strážov Mountains Protected Landscape Area since 1989. The Súľov Rocks in the northwest have been designated as a nature reserve.</p><br>
<p>Many thermal springs can be found here, inspiring the establishment of many spa centres in the region, for example Trenčianske Teplice or Rajecké Teplice.</p><br>
<h2>Geomorphology</h2><br>
<p>According to geomorphological division, the mountain range is divided into:</p><br>
<p>Zliechovská hornatina</p><br>
<p>Nitrické vrchy</p><br>
<p>Trenčianska vrchovina</p><br>
<p>Malá Magura</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The Strážovské vrchy Mts. are one of the largest mountain ranges in the Fatra-Tatra Area of Slovakia. Whole mountain range is a Miocene horst that modifies older Mesozoic nappe structure. Oldest rock form the crystalline core which is eccentrically situated at the southern periphery of the mountain range in two messifs denoted the Suchý and the Malá Magura massifs. Massifs are composed of migmatites, gneisses, amphibolites and granitoid rocks. Crystalline core is overlapped by the Triassic to Lower Cretaceous (Albian) deposits. Two largescale nappe units are overlying the basement and its sedimentary cover. The lower Fatric Unit composed of Lower Triassic to Cenomanian sediments of two types, the Zliechov succession, distinguished by deep marine Jurassic facies and the Belá succession with the shallow marine facies deposited in the same time. Uppermost nappe unit of the nappe structure is called the Hronic unit, with the Carboniferous-Permian extensive volcanosedimentary succession (Ipoltica Group) and Triassic, less often Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous limestones and dolostones (the Čierny Váh, Biely Váh and Bebrava successions). In the NW portion of the mountain range the boundary with the Pieniny Klippen Belt consists of the Manin unit that is probably a frontal element of Fatric unit incorporated into Klippen Belt strike-slip zone.</p><br>
<p>Mount Kephart is a mountain in the central Great Smoky Mountains, located in the Southeastern United States. The Appalachian Trail crosses the mountains south slope, making it a destination for thru-hikers. The Jumpoff, a 1,000 ft cliff on the northeast side of the mountain, has views of the central and eastern Smokies. A stand of Southern Appalachian spruce-fir forest coats the mountains upper elevations.</p><br>
<p>Mount Kephart is the 22nd highest mountain in the eastern USA, and the 7th-highest mountain in the state of Tennessee. Its topographic prominence is drastically</p><br>
<p>reduced, however, due to the mountain&#39;s close proximity to two higher neighbors, Clingmans Dome and Mount Le Conte.</p><br>
<p>Like much of the Smokies crest, Mount Kephart lies on the Tennessee-North Carolina border, in Sevier County, Tennessee and Swain County, North Carolina. The mountain rises nearly 4,000 ft above its northern base at Porters Flat, and approximately 3,400 ft above its southern base along the Oconaluftee headwaters. Newfound Gap, at just over 5,000 ft, divides Mount Kephart from Fork Ridge (Mt. Collins) to the west. The gap is traversed by USA Highway 441, the only paved road crossing the Great Smoky Mountains National Park from north to south.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Mount Kephart is composed of a type of slate and metasiltstone known as Anakeesta Formation, which is common throughout the central Smokies. This type of rock is exposed at Charlies Bunion, just to the northeast of Kephart.</p><br>
<p>The Anakeesta Formation rocks are part of the Ocoee Supergroup, formed from ocean sediments nearly a billion years ago. The mountain itself was formed 200 million years ago when the African and North American plates collided and thrust the rock upward during the Appalachian orogeny.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Mount Kephart is named after Horace Kephart, an author and early proponent of establishing a national park in the Smokies. The mountain was called "Mount Collins" until the USGS gave it its current name in 1931, reshifting the name "Mount Collins" to the peak between Clingmans Dome and Newfound Gap. Before the 1880s, Mount Kephart was known by various local names.</p><br>
<p>Mount Kephart was probably visited and measured by Arnold Guyot during his survey of the Smokies crest in the late 1850s. The name he used for the mountain, however, is uncertain. Guyot listed two mountains between Laurel Top and New (Newfound) Gap as having elevations greater than 6,000 ft — Pecks Peak, which Guyot measured at 6,232 ft, and Mount Ocona, which Guyot measured at 6,135 ft. The former may refer to Pecks Corner, although Pecks Corner isnt between Laurel Top and Newfound Gap, and Guyot would have missed its elevation by a staggering 1,300 ft. Other than Mt. Kephart, the only peak between Laurel Top and Newfound Gap higher than 6,000 ft is Mt. Ambler, a knob on Kephart&#39;s southwest slope.</p><br>
<p>Laura Thornborough, a writer who made many excursions into the Smokies in the 1930s, recalled a stream now known as Icewater Spring, on Kephart&#39;s south slope:</p><br>
<p>Our party reached a good spring on the Carolina side of Mt. Kephart, about three miles (5 km) from our starting point. It had been freshly cleaned out and lined with native rock. The water was clear and icy cold."</p><br>
<p>A CCC Camp operated on the mountain&#39;s southern base in the 1930s, the chimney of which remains near the head of the Kephart Prong Trail. During World War II, this camp was used to house conscientious objectors. Also in</p><br>
<p>this area are the remains of a WPA fish hatchery built in 1936.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>The Appalachian Trail crosses Mt. Kephart&#39;s southern slope en route to The Sawteeth and the eastern Smokies. While the trail misses the summit by just over 200 ft, several clearings between Mt. Ambler and Icewater Spring have views of the south-central Smokies and Clingmans Dome. There is a backcountry shelter at Icewater Spring for Appalachian Trail thru-hikers.</p><br>
<p>The Jumpoff Trail crosses the summit en route to the Jumpoff, a high cliff on the mountain&#39;s northern slope. The view from the Jumpoff is usually greater than 180 degrees, from Mount Le Conte to northwest to the Balsam Mountains to the southeast. The Jumpoff Trail is just a few feet beyond the Appalachian Trail and Boulevard Trail intersection, approximately three miles from Newfound Gap.</p><br>
<p>The Kephart Prong Trail ascends the mountains south slope to the Kephart Backcountry Shelter. Its trailhead is on USA 441 between Newfound Gap and Oconaluftee. After two miles (3 km), the Kephart Prong Trail forks, one way following the Sweat Heifer Trail to Kepharts southwest slope (near Mt. Ambler), the other continuing on to Dry Sluice Gap (near Charlies Bunion).</p><br>
<p>Rogers Pass rises 5,610 ft above sea level and is located on the Continental Divide in the USA state of Montana. The pass is adjacent to Helena National Forest and is traversed by Montana Highway 200. Wide shoulders provide parking for those wishing to hike the Continental Divide Trail. Bicyclists should note that the wide shoulders are limited to the very top and will not be found elsewhere on 200. The pass is the best route between the cities of Great Falls and Missoula, Montana—more than 800 ft lower than Lewis and Clark Pass, 5.3 mi to the northwest, which was used by Meriwether Lewis of the eponymous expedition on July 7, 1806. Rogers Pass is known for being the location of the coldest recorded temperature in the United States outside of Alaska. On January 20, 1954, a temperature of -70 degrees Fahrenheit was recorded.</p><br>
<p>Rogers Pass is more than 100 mi south of Marias Pass, and there are no other roads that cross the Continental Divide between these two passes. The region between the two passes is mostly wilderness, and the majority of it has been set aside and protected from future development. The Great Bear, Scapegoat and Bob Marshall Wildernesses have been consolidated into the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex and permanently protect 1,535,352 acre. The region is noted for its inaccessibility and as one of the last strongholds for the grizzly bear in the lower 48 states. The Scapegoat Wilderness is a 10 mi hike north of Rogers Pass via the Continental Divide Trail.</p><br>
<h2>Origin of name</h2><br>
<p>Rogers Pass in Montana was named by the Great Northern Railway for one of the line&#39;s locating surveyors, A.B. Rogers, who located the pass in 1887. Rogers has the distinction of having two passes named after him, this one in Montana and another Rogers Pass in British Columbia, Canada, c.373 miles to the north-west. In 1881 and 1882 A.B. Rogers was a surveyor for the Canadian Pacific Railway, and he located Rogers Pass in British Columbia, Canada, which was then used by the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) on its transcontinental line across Canada. The CPR named the pass after Rogers. James Jerome Hill, who controlled the Great Northern, then hired Rogers as a locating engineer on the latter, which built into Montana in 1887. Shortly after Rogers had located the pass in Montana that bears his name, his career ended when he was badly injured falling from his horse. Although Hill and the Great Northern eventually chose Marias Pass, 100 miles to the north, as the route over the Continental Divide for their transcontinental railroad, Hill saw to it that Rogers Pass in Montana was named after the surveyor.</p><br>
<h2>Record cold temperature</h2><br>
<p>Rogers Pass is the location of the coldest temperature ever recorded in the United States outside of Alaska. On January 20, 1954, a low temperature of -70 &deg;F was recorded during a severe cold wave.</p><br>
<h2>Golden eagle migration route</h2><br>
<p>The region is a noted location for observation of golden eagles and, to a lesser extent, bald eagles. In March and April, strong westerly winds help migrating flocks of eagles cross the Continental Divide so that they can spend the summer on the Great Plains. During these months, over 800 golden eagles and 129 bald eagles have been observed heading east. From mid-September through October, a similar migration occurs, but in the opposite direction. This is also a migration route used by other raptors such as northern goshawks, red-tailed hawks, and rough-legged hawks. Canada geese, tundra swans, and snow geese also use the pass during migration periods. The golden eagles and other birds can be observed from a distance as close as 100 to 500 ft.</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<p>According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Rogers Pass has a humid continental climate, abbreviated "Dfb" on climate maps.</p><br>
<p>Mount Ikoma is a mountain on the border of Nara Prefecture and Osaka Prefecture in Japan. This mountain is the highest peak in the Ikoma Mountains and the height is 642 meters.</p><br>
<h2>Outline</h2><br>
<p>Mount Ikoma is a part of Kongō-Ikoma-Kisen Quasi-National Park. The mountain is one of the most famous picnic spots in the Kansai region. On the top of the mountain, there are many TV towers for broadcasting to the Kansai region and Ikoma Sanjo Amusement Park.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Mount Ikoma was an important object of worship for ancient Japanese people. On the east foot of the mountain, Ikoma Jinja, literally Shrine for Mount Ikoma, has been extant since the 5th century. The mountain and the Hozan-ji Temple near the summit were traditionally celebrated as national scenery and included in well-known woodblock series such as the "Sixty-eight National Views." After the Second World War, the west foot of the mountain started to host Korean religious institutions serving the spiritual needs of Korean immigrants and residents of Korean descent, mostly women.</p><br>
<p>The city itself was transformed by the Kintetsu train tunnel. Pilgrims and visitors to the temple grew, as well as tourist-related inns and eating establishments. After the Pacific War, the area below the temple developed into an active red-light and entertainment district. The local geisha prospered.</p><br>
<p>Ikoma today retains a bit of the old atmosphere with its winding and narrow streets. Ikoma also nurtured lively traditional Japanese arts such as dance and varieties of Japanese music. The walk down from the mountain temple to the town is a noted area for cherry blossoms, as is the mountain itself with its Ikoma Skyline Drive developed by Kintetsu Corporation.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>Ikoma Sanjo Station of Ikoma Cable Line</p><br>
<p>Mount Kabuto is a mountain in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo, Japan. It is located in the east end of the Rokko Mountains, and the height is 309.2m.</p><br>
<h2>Outline</h2><br>
<p>Mount Kabuto is a famous picnic spot in the Kansai metropolitan area. It is a monadnock of an extinct volcano that was estimated to have last erupted about 12,000,000 years ago. This mountain is in the Kabutoyama Forest Park.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The mountain is shaped like a helmet, kabuto in Japanese. It has a long history as an object of worship by people around the mountain. Kanno-ji in the middle of the mountain is the place of worship of the mountain.</p><br>
<p>According to Japanese myth, it is understood that because Empress Jingū buried her helmet when she went to subjugate Silla, a dynasty in the Korean Peninsula, this mountain was named Kabutoyama, literally "helmet mountain."</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>Nigawa Station of Hankyū Imazu Line</p><br>
<p>Kōyōen Station of Hankyū Kōyō Line</p><br>
<p>The Andrew J. Landrum House in Santa Clara, California, was built by Andrew J. Landrum, a prominent Santa Clara pioneer. Constructed in 1875, the house is an example of eclecticism in architectural styles. Landrum combined the then-popular Italianate and Carpenter Gothic styles he found in pattern books, as seen in the corner quoins, the Italianate porch with scroll brackets, gables with cross-bracing and the cruciform interior plan. The two-story wooden residence was built on a "T" shaped plan which exhibits crossed, steeply gabled rooflines which are punctuated by a brick chimney and sheathed in wooden shingles.</p><br>
<p>It is said locally that the Landrum House was one of the few buildings in Santa Clara whose chimney did not crumble in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. No major alterations have changed the building over the last 125 years and it remains one of Santa Clara&#39;s oldest and best preserved houses.</p><br>
<p>The Landrum house is located at 1217 Santa Clara St. This is a private residence and is not open to the public.</p><br>
<p>Rodgers Forge is a national historic district located southwest of the unincorporated Towson area and county seat of Baltimore County, Maryland, just north of the Baltimore City/County line. It is mostly a residential area, with rowhouses, apartments, single-family dwellings, and a new complex of luxury garaged townhomes. The area also has a small amount of commercial development. It is located just south of Towson University. 21212 is the postal code for Rodgers Forge.</p><br>
<p>In 2004, Rodgers Forge gained international attention as the home of Olympic swimming champion Michael Phelps. In 2013, Rodgers Forge was ranked by Baltimore Magazine as one of the top neighborhoods in Baltimore County. The magazine also named Rodgers Forge as one of the 10 "best-kept secret neighborhoods" in Baltimore metropolitan area for its "strong public schools, thriving community organizations, and easy access to shopping and entertainment in Baltimore and Towson." Rodgers Forge has also been consistently ranked as one of the safest Baltimore neighborhoods, according to the website and online database NeighborhoodScout.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Rodgers Forge was built on what was known as the Dumbarton Farm, which, in the 19th century, was owned by Johns Hopkins, founder of Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital.</p><br>
<p>Rodgers Forge takes its name from the blacksmith shop of George Rodgers, built in 1800, that was once located near the northwest corner of (the original "old") York Road and Stevenson Lane situated halfway to the junction of Osler Drive and Auburn Drive on the campus of Towson University. (Construction of Osler Drive - and St. Joseph&#39;s Hospital (now University of Maryland) - in the 1960s obliterated the last vestiges of the original site of the forge, and the remainder of formal gardens, laid out to the north.)</p><br>
<p>The assertion that the forge was located to the southeast, near the southeast corner of the current survey of York Road and Stevenson Lane, is contraindicated by the following:</p><br>
<p>The existence of forge ruins as described above.</p><br>
<p>In 1800s America, "roads" - more accurately, wagon paths - often followed flood plain parallel to water courses, as these sites were both flat and more easily cleared. The current survey of York Road is located "high and dry", away from wetlands. Common practice was to relocate wagon paths as necessary to accommodate heavier traffic and the need for more stable road foundation. However, it is likely that a forge for travelers&#39; horses, wagons, and carriages, would have been situated at an early crossroads, down in the area of the floodplain.</p><br>
<p>Smithing and casting operations required access to a freely available source of water, both for cooling red hot metal and fire suppression. Now filled in, up until the early 1960s, a steeply eroded but significant water course traversed the flood plain to the right of the current survey of Osler Drive, past a farm pond located on the present site of the main entrance and parking lot of St. Josephs Hospital. The pond was "natural", located to the west of the Fitzgerald (F. Scott and Zelda) residence on La Paix Lane. It is unlikely that the original forge would have been located away from water at the top of a hill. In the 1950s, the water course "disappeared" under Stevenson Lane, through a conduit, located just under the northeast corner of Osler and Stevenson. Construction here destroyed - no doubt, what would now be considered one of Americas "legacy" trees - a gigantic sycamore with girth over 20 feet, standing sentinel to the water course.</p><br>
<p>In 1934, builder James Keelty (Sr.) began work on the Rodgers Forge neighborhood, and constructed over 600 red brick rowhouses until World War II stopped development. After the war, work resumed under the direction of Keeltys two sons James Keelty Jr. and Joseph Keelty. 1,777 homes were completed by 1956. In 1939, the price of a new interior row home was five thousand dollars, with end-of-group homes selling for considerably more. The latter phase of construction saw the removal of a large hill just to the north of Dunkirk Road (through Murdock and Regester), flattening out to the north much of the original Dumbarton Farm down to subsoil, to accommodate the new row homes and apartments. The lack of topsoil - a frequent complaint of would-be gardeners in the neighborhood - is accounted for by the removal of the hill. During World War II, the neighborhood&#39;s "Victory Gardens" had occupied much of what now comprises Murdock Road, to the north of Dunkirk.</p><br>
<p>Despite the population density of Rodgers Forge, until the early 1960s, just to the west, a small working farm of a few acres with livestock remained at the junction of Stevenson Lane and Bellona Avenue. Just to the north in the same time period, the then operating Maryland and Pennsylvania Railroad, affectionately known as the "Ma & Pa" (handling commuters in its last years on the Maryland section), crossed under Bellona at Armagh Village, the track bordering Stanmore Road to the north, as the line wended eastwards toward Towson, continuing across the future Osler Drive, approximately where the Shepherd Flag Station would have been located. From just south of the old Baltimore County Jail, the Ma & Pa made its way toward York, PA, crossing York Road by trestle, serving both the headquarters of Black & Decker and Bendix Radio on Joppa Road, the latter of which up to the 1960s had as many as 5,000 employees, a surprising number of whom lived in Rodgers Forge, as the development of Dulaney Valley to the north was yet to occur. North of Joppa - north of the Immaculate Conception Catholic Church - there was virtually no development save farmland in the Loch Raven watershed, all the way to the Mason and Dixon Line, until Interstate 83 was officially completed in 1960. Also in the 1950s, from Bellona Avenue to Charles Street, a large tract of meadow had extended still, evolving to a retirement facility for a religious order of the Catholic Church in the 1960s, later sold for development.</p><br>
<p>It is difficult to comprehend, given Rodgers Forges current surrounding environs, how spectacularly unusual the neighborhood was in its earliest iteration - and in many respects, removed from the experiences of most Baltimoreans who had grown up in city row homes. In the 1940s people thought they were moving to "the country." On a clear October day, looking northward from The Immaculate Conception, across the expanse of slightly rolling, green and brown fields, accentuated by the occasional scurrying of rabbits, York Roads concrete 2-lane meandered north into the nothingness of Pennsylvania and - if you were lucky - one could catch a sapphire glimmer of Loch Raven through the yellow, gold, and browning autumn leaves.</p><br>
<p>Since shopping centers were nonexistent on the East Coast before 1960, residents of Rodgers Forge were limited to patronizing small retailers on York Road into Towson, Gittings Avenue at Bellona, Charles Street at Bellona, Belvedere Avenue at York Road, and the large "flagship" stores in downtown Baltimore - Hutzlers, Hochschild Kohn, and The Hecht Company - in short, the traditional opportunities afforded by urban development to the south. Shoppers could ride the York Road "#8 Streetcar" (an electrified trolley on tracks) north into Towson and south all the way into Baltimore; or they could board the #11 Baltimore Transit Co. Bus (Dunkirk, Pinehurst, et al., to Stevenson and Bellona, across from the farmette) for stops to downtown, primarily via Charles Street. There was a brief period when, incredibly, the #11 Bus traversed Dunkirk with parking on both sides of the street. This was possible because many households lacked an automobile, and since the bus didnt run at night, those households with a car had vacant parking spaces during the day, as breadwinners increasingly used autos to get to work - in the era well before the introduction of the SUV. Blue collar workers, as well, were out-the-door by 5:00 a.m. and the Sealtest or Cloverland Farms milk delivery trucks arrived as early as 4:00, long before the first buses started running. Every now and then, the peace and quiet of the night might be interrupted by cursing and the crash of glass, as the milkman dropped a bottle: prompting an obligatory retaliatory phone call to the business office by one of the furious neighbor ladies in the morning, so afflicted.</p><br>
<p>On the other hand, if you didn&#39;t drive, staples could be obtained on your doorstep. The "egg man" came on Fridays from Pennsylvania. The potato chip man (Charles Chips) also from PA at least once a month; "A-rabbers", out of the city, with their horse-drawn carts of Eastern Shore produce, appeared during the summers. The Fuller Brush man came, then Avon started calling; vacuum cleaner salesmen, encyclopedia salesmen, and other vendors might show up at any time. The insurance man appeared when premiums were due and one walked to the bank to transact business with a teller - in times, when indeed, life was far simpler. And when the kids had the flu, mumps, and the chicken pox, Mom waited up until the doctor arrived at the door as late as 9:00 at night.</p><br>
<p>During the 50s, kids were everywhere on bikes; summer nights of sweaty sleep were unbearable in baking-brick-oven row homes, since nobody had air conditioning in either car or home. In the stillness of the days waning heat, an occasional Evening Bat, from the barn at the meadow on Charles Street, might flitter overhead. Chasing lightning bugs filled the evenings with delightful pastime and mosquitoes; during the days, yards filled with fragrant and colorful blooms were inundated with butterflies that had spent their caterpillar-lives gorging in nearby meadows, and there were abundant populations of bees and baby birds to watch and grasshoppers to catch. In 1953, if you were lucky enough to be a kid then, you witnessed with wonderment the unfolding of one of Nature&#39;s extraordinary and mysterious spectaculars - the emergence of Brood X cicadas: "The Great Eastern Brood" - true to its 17-year cyclical mandate. Some parents had been suspicious of the insects as possible vectors of poliomyelitis, finally conquered by the Salk vaccine, announced in March of that year. Admittedly, not everyone (certainly not most adults) enjoys millions of large flying insects clinging to everything in sight - only those with childhood memories of that certain place, at that certain point in time.</p><br>
<p>The postwar expansion of Rodgers Forge owed its genesis, demographics, and character in large part to the residency of a young, upwardly mobile, middle-class mix of blue collar and technical professionals and their burgeoning baby boom families. When the malls finally did come in the mid-1960s with explosive development, as Towson State Teachers College morphed into Towson State College, and St. Joseph Hospital and Greater Baltimore Medical Center consumed vast remaining tracts to the north, all relicts of surrounding rural life and artifacts of the railroad had vanished from Rodgers Forge by 1970.</p><br>
<p>In 2009, the entire neighborhood of Rodgers Forge was listed in National Register of Historic Places due to "its unique status as a well-preserved example of early to mid-20th Century community design and architecture."</p><br>
<p>According to the official citation:</p><br>
<p>Today, about 4,000 people live in Rodgers Forge, which is now considered among the Baltimore area’s "most sought after locations for families."</p><br>
<h2>Notable people</h2><br>
<p>Charles Adam Fecher, author and editor who is best known for his works about Jacques Maritain and H.L. Mencken; longtime Rodgers Forge resident</p><br>
<p>Charles Eberhart, Director of Neuropathology and Ophthalmic Pathology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.</p><br>
<p>F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Fitzgerald, American novelist couple who resided in Rodgers Forge during 1932-1933</p><br>
<p>William J. Frank, member of the Maryland House of Delegates</p><br>
<p>Mary Claire Helldorfer (Elizabeth Chandler), author of New York Times Best Seller Kissed by an Angel</p><br>
<p>Ralph H. Hruban, professor of pathology and oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; a world-renowned expert in the field of pancreatic cancer pathology</p><br>
<p>David H. Hubel, winner of 1981 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries on information processing in the visual system; resident of Rodgers Forge in 1950s</p><br>
<p>Kevin OMalley, childrens book writer</p><br>
<p>Eric D. Goodman, fiction writer and long-term Rodgers Forge resident who actually set scenes from some of his books in the Forge.</p><br>
<p>Michael Phelps, American competition swimmer and the most decorated Olympian of all time</p><br>
<p>Bayard Turnbull, architect - who lived at La Paix, a Rodgers Forge estate</p><br>
<p>Johnny Unitas, football player; owner of former Golden Arm restaurant in Rodgers Forge</p><br>
<p>Henry N. Wagner, one of the pioneering researchers in nuclear medicine</p><br>
<h2>Schools</h2><br>
<p>Baltimore County Public Schools</p><br>
<p>Rodgers Forge Elementary School</p><br>
<p>Dumbarton Middle School</p><br>
<p>Students in Rodgers Forge are also zoned for nearby Towson High School.</p><br>
<p>Private Schools</p><br>
<p>Dumbarton House, home of the</p><br>
<p>St. Pius X Catholic School</p><br>
<h2>Major Roads</h2><br>
<p>There are several state roads and other major thoroughfares that run through the Rodgers Forge area. These include:</p><br>
<p>Charles Street</p><br>
<p>Bellona Avenue</p><br>
<p>Stevenson Lane</p><br>
<p>York Road</p><br>
<p>The Charles Copeland Morse House was the home of Charles Copeland Morse, founder of the Ferry-Morse Seed Company. It is located in Santa Clara, California, and is a California Historical Landmark , as well as listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>This house is a classic Queen Anne Victorian. Rising three stories over a raised basement, the twin gables, witches&#39; hat turret, decorative shingles, trims and stained glass windows all contribute to the grand effect. The entry is distinguished by an ornate front porch. Inside the mansion are rich wood molding, stained glass windows and chandeliers. A unique chandelier is found in the old dining room. This brass fixture came from the family of the founder of the Bank of America, Amadeo Giannini. About 1975, Caroline and Vaughn Nixon bought the house and restored the ornate mansion to its original grandeur.</p><br>
<p>The Morse Mansion, located at 981 Fremont St., presently houses a sorority of Santa Clara University and is not open to the public.</p><br>
<h2>Footnotes</h2><br>
<p>Mount Saint Helena  is a peak in the Mayacamas Mountains with flanks in Napa, Sonoma, and Lake counties of California. Composed of uplifted 2.4-million-year-old volcanic rocks from the Clear Lake Volcanic Field, it is one of the few mountains in the San Francisco Bay Area to receive any snowfall during the winter.</p><br>
<p>The mountain has five peaks, arranged in a rough "M" shape. Its highest point, North Peak, is in Sonoma County. The second-tallest, immediately east of the main summit, is the highest point in Napa County.</p><br>
<p>The headwaters of the Napa River are on the southeast slope of Mount Saint Helena.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Mount Saint Helena has had an explosive history of pyroclastic flows that resulted in The Petrified Forest.</p><br>
<p>Mount Saint Helena was originally named Mount Mayacamas, but the name was changed after a Russian survey party ascended the peak in 1841 and left a copper plate on the summit inscribed with the date of their visit. The plate also bore the name of Princess Helena de Gagarin, wife of Count Alexander G. Rotchev, the commanding officer of Fort Ross.</p><br>
<p>Robert Louis Stevenson and Fanny Vandegrift Osbourne spent the summer of 1880 honeymooning in an abandoned mining camp on Mount Saint Helena. Stevenson&#39;s book The Silverado Squatters includes his experiences while living there.</p><br>
<p>The mount is also described by Ambrose Bierce in his ghost story The Death of Halpin Frayser.</p><br>
<p>The peak is reachable by hiking trails leading from Robert Louis Stevenson State Park. The trails are approximately 6 miles long.</p><br>
<h2>Views from the summit</h2><br>
<p>Piz Roseg  is a mountain of the Bernina Range, overlooking the Val Roseg in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.</p><br>
<p>There are two summits on its main ridge:</p><br>
<p>There is also a prominent top on the east-north-east ridge, called the Roseg Pitschen (3,868 m) (Italian border).</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first ascent of the mountain to the Schneekuppe was by F. T. Bircham with guides Peter Jenny and Alexander Fleury on 31 August 1863. The highest point of the mountain was reached two years later by A. W. Moore and Horace Walker with guide Jakob Anderegg on 28 June 1865.</p><br>
<p>Piz Roseg is separated from the neighbouring Piz Scerscen by the Porta da Roseg (3,522 m), also called the Güssfeldtsattel. The Swiss side of this col – a steep ice slope of up to 70° – was first climbed by Paul Güssfeldt, with guides Hans Grass, Peter Jenny and Caspar Capat on 13 September 1872. Grass and Capat had spent the previous day cutting steps up the first two-fifths of the route. The following day they added at least another 450 steps on the first ascent.</p><br>
<p>The 700-metre north-east face of Piz Roseg was first climbed by Christian Klucker and L. Norman-Neruda on 16 July 1890; the face – with a notable serac band halfway up – sports a number of difficult routes. Klucker, together with M. Barberia, also made the first traverse from the Italian side of the Porta da Roseg on 21 June 1898.</p><br>
<p>The Kraus House, also known as the Frank Lloyd Wright House in Ebsworth Park, is a house in Kirkwood, Missouri designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The house was designed and constructed for Russell and Ruth Goetz Kraus, and the initial design was conceived in 1950. Construction continued until at least 1960 and was never formally completed. The owners lived in the house for about 40 years .</p><br>
<p>In 1997, the house was recognized with listing on the National Register of Historic Places of the National Park Service. Russell Kraus sold the house in 2001 to a non-profit organization formed for the specific purpose of saving it. Title was subsequently transferred to the St. Louis County Parks Department, which maintains the 10.5 acre grounds as Ebsworth Park. The house and park are open to the public by appointment only. Tours are available for a small fee and do not allow pictures to be taken inside the house.</p><br>
<p>The Shannon Estuary  is a large estuary where the River Shannon flows into the Atlantic Ocean. The estuary has Limerick City at its head and its seaward limits are marked by Loop Head to the north and Kerry Head to the south. The estuary defines the main boundary between County Kerry/County Limerick to the south and County Clare to the north.</p><br>
<p>The length of the Shannon Estuary is 97 km. The Shannon has a high tidal range, up to around 5.44 m at Limerick docks, such that the estuary has been considered for tidal power schemes, despite occasionally experiencing a tidal bore.</p><br>
<h2>Aircraft</h2><br>
<p>In the late 1930s, transatlantic air traffic was dominated by flying boats, and a flying boat terminal was located at Foynes on the south side of the Shannon Estuary. However, it was realised that developing technology would require a permanent runway and airport.</p><br>
<p>In 1936, the government of Ireland confirmed that it would develop a 3.1 km² site at Rineanna for the country&#39;s first transatlantic airport. The land on which the airport was to be built was bog, and on 8 October 1936 work began to drain the land. By 1942 a serviceable airport had been established and was named Shannon Airport. From then, passengers were moved from the flying boats in Foynes to the land planes based in Shannon Airport. By 1945 the existing runways at Shannon were extended to allow transatlantic flights to land, completely bypassing the need for Foynes.</p><br>
<h2>Port</h2><br>
<p>Shannon Foynes Port Company is the port authority for the entire estuary. It owns facilities at Foynes Dock, Limerick City and at airport jetty. It provides marine services, including pilotage and towage to privately owned facilities at Moneypoint, Tarbert Island and Aughinish. The maritime history of the estuary is catalogued and on display in exhibits at the Maritime Section of the Foynes Flying Boat Museum</p><br>
<h2>Sustainable exploitation</h2><br>
<p>The Shannon Estuary is an immensely important asset and one of the most valuable natural resources in Ireland and the Mid-West Region in particular – the fringe lands and the marine area both provide space and location for development, activities and opportunities to progress economic, social and environmental growth within the Region. Recent initiatives, such as the Strategic Integrated Framework Plan (SIFP) for the Shannon Estuary 2013-2020, aim to provide an inter-jurisdictional land and marine based framework plan to guide the future development and management of the Shannon Estuary. It was commissioned in 2011 by Clare County Council, Kerry County Council, Limerick City and County Councils, Shannon Development and the Shannon Foynes Port Company. The project is being overseen by a multi-agency steering group composed of the above and other key stakeholders with an interest in the Estuary.</p><br>
<p>Calculations of tidal power show that 111-367 GWh/year could be extracted from the estuary, compared to 2.6 TWh/year for the island.</p><br>
<h2>Biology</h2><br>
<p>Zoology: Bottle-nosed Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) (Montagu 1821) are seen in the estuary.</p><br>
<h2>Fishing</h2><br>
<p>An eel trap and transport scheme is in force on the River Shannon as part of a management programme instigated following the discovery of reducing eel numbers on the River Shannon. The scheme ensures safe passage for young eels between Killaloe Bridge and the Shannon estuary.</p><br>
<p>Though the Shannon estuary fishing industry is now depleted, at one time it provided employment for hundreds of men along its length. At Limerick, fishermen based on Clancy&#39;s Strand used the Gandelow to catch Salmon. In the 1920s the construction of a dam at Ardnacrusha severely impacted salmon breeding and that, and the introduction of quotas, had by the 1950s caused salmon fishing to cease. However, recreational fishing still goes on. Further down the estuary at Kilrush the Currach was used to catch Herring as well as drift netting for salmon.</p><br>
<p>The Westin San Jose, formerly The Sainte Claire Hotel is a six-story historic hotel in downtown San Jose, California, one of the city&#39;s most recognized architectural landmarks. It was built in 1926 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The Sainte Claire was designed by the prominent San Francisco architectural firm of Weeks and Day, well noted for both their theater and hotel designs in California. Interior similarities exist between San Jose&#39;s Sainte Claire and the Mark Hopkins Hotel in San Francisco. Renaissance Revival detailing is basically derived from the Italian Renaissance tradition, though there are several references to French, Spanish, and Mediterranean Revival architecture.</p><br>
<p>Especially notable are the coffered lobby ceilings designed by the firm for both buildings. The northwest corner is truncated and recessed forming the corner entrance which faces the intersection of South Market and San Carlos Streets. North and west elevations meet the truncated corner at a 120-degree angle, thus framing the entrance. Tawny brick sheathes the steel and concrete frame on floors two through six, and rusticated buff colored stone faces the ground level. The three part vertical composition includes the arcaded ground level, a shaft of four stories, and the six floors distinguished by paired windows set in arched frames. Denticular stringcourses separate the first and second floors, the third and fourth floors and the fifth and sixth floors.</p><br>
<p>The hotel lobby remains the most intact interior space within the building. The Patio Room, once the hallmark of the hotel, has been covered over, modernized and combined with the Empire Room. Originally, the open patio room was framed by a Corinthian arcade. A small formal garden and fountain room, the Spartan Room on the second floor has also been modernized. Ceilings in the lobby, Spartan and Empire rooms were hand-painted, but alterations over the years have obliterated the original work. Wood details in the guest rooms and the ornate hand-carved wood doors leading to the retail areas are intact. Many of the rooms have original bathroom fixtures.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Hotel Sainte Claire enjoyed the status of being the premiere grand hotel in the entire South Peninsula region, and the reputation of having the most elegant accommodations between San Francisco and Los Angeles.</p><br>
<p>The hotel was financed by noted realtor and developer T. S. Montgomery, a prominent citizen of San Jose largely responsible for much of the commercial development in the downtown. In addition to financing such an ambitious project, Montgomery donated to the city a parcel of land across from the hotel for the new civic auditorium, which stands today.</p><br>
<p>After its restoration in the 1990s, it was known as the Hyatt Sainte Claire. In the 2000s, it was renamed the Hotel Sainte Claire. It was renovated and rebranded The Westin San Jose on July 9, 2015.</p><br>
<h2>Footnotes</h2><br>
<p>The Liberty/Paramount Theatre is an early movie palace located on West Federal Street and Hazel Avenue in Youngstown, Ohio.</p><br>
<p>Designed by Detroit architect C. Howard Crane, the theatre opened as the Liberty Theatre on February 11, 1918. The auditorium originally seated 1700 patrons. The exterior has extensive terra cotta ornamentation, with swags and pilasters. The exterior is an example of the late Neo-classical style popularized by the Ecole des Beaux Arts. The theatre opened as a vaudeville house, and the original operators were C.W. Diebel Associates.</p><br>
<p>In 1922 the McCrory Group acquired 60% of the stock for $209,000. In 1929 Paramount Pictures Corporation purchased the theatre and renamed it the Paramount Theatre. The company spent $200,000 modernizing the building and installing a sound system so the theatre could present the popular new talkies. In 1933 Paramount Pictures went into receivership, but movies by then became the staple of entertainment for the American public. The theatre survived and prospered until the 1960s when, as with so many American cities during that period, the central area of Youngstown went into a sharp decline.</p><br>
<p>The final movie screened was a Bill Cosby film, Let&#39;s Do it Again, in 1976. The theatre was then closed and the building fell into disrepair. Several attempts were made to revive it, but all failed. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 9, 1984, as building #84003776. Ohio One purchased the property 1985 for $26,800. In 1997 Ohio One sold the property on a land contract to Manhattan Theatre Proprietorship. Although the group had the best of intentions, there was no financial plan that could be implemented. On April 21, 2006 Ohio One sold the theatre to Liberty/Paramount Theatre Youngstown, LLC, an investment group led by Grande Venues, Inc. (Mike Novelli, Paul Warshauer and Jon Tharnstrom) of Wheaton, Illinois and USA Parking of Cleveland, (Lou Frangos). The development plan was to restore the theatre on the first floor for theatre and musical events, create a restaurant and cabaret bar in the basement and to create two movie theatres in the balcony. The plan to restore the theatre fell through. It has since been purchased by the city and is slated for demolition.</p><br>
<p>In July 2011, the city of Youngstown received a $803,490 grant for demolition of the theater. The preservation of the facade would have cost an additional $1 million, with no guarantee of success. So, after years of neglect and unrealized attempts at preservation, demolition of the Liberty Theater began in early July 2013. Preliminary work began July 1, with demolition beginning on July 8. Baumann Enterprises Inc. was hired for the $721,000 demolition project. The site is slated to become a parking lot.</p><br>
<p>The Downtown Historic District of San Jose, California is a designated USA Historic District area of the city roughly the size of one square block. It is bounded by S. First Street to the west, E. San Fernando Street to the south, S. Third Street to the east, and E. Santa Clara Street to the north, but also includes the south side of E. Santa Clara Street between Third and Fourth Streets.</p><br>
<h2>Introduction</h2><br>
<p>As Santa Clara Valleys mercantile and financial center for the past 100 years, San Joses downtown historic commercial district is significant both from a historic and an architectural perspective. The downtown commercial district retains the highest concentration of older buildings in the downtown, which reflects the best examples of architecture from almost every period in the growth of the city. It is the prime example in Santa Clara County in its broad representation of historic California commercial architecture.</p><br>
<p>The district has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places and contains buildings of six different architectural styles: Italianate, Romanesque Revival, Victorian, Edwardian, Neoclassical, Mission Revival, and Spanish Colonial Revival.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Soon after the Mexican-American War, the city was surveyed first by Thomas Campbell in 1847 and later by Chester Lyman, in 1848, following the standard grid street pattern utilizing traditional Spanish pathways. This street pattern has remained virtually unaltered to this day. The development of American commercial areas in San Jose extended into this newly surveyed area, just east of the original pueblo site of 1797 (relocated from the 1777 site after major flooding).</p><br>
<p>In the 1870s and mid-1880s, the heart of downtown commercial activity had moved northward along Market Street (immediately west of First Street and part of the Pueblo) to the Santa Clara Street intersection. However, by the latter part of the 1880s, Santa Clara and First Streets became the new focus for downtown business activity. The early horse-drawn railway systems reinforced the importance of this intersection with single and, later, double tracks located along both streets.</p><br>
<p>During this period, Italianate and Romanesque Revival styles dominated. This was a group of buildings designed by the finest local architects and built by the leading citizens of the time: James D. Phelan, F. Sourisseau, C. T. Ryland, Martin Murphy&#39;s descendants and the Auzerais family. Buildings such as the Knox-Goodrich Building at 34 South First Street, with its extreme rustication, reflect the qualities of the wealthy, orchard oriented, agricultural community of the turn-of-the-century.</p><br>
<p>Following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, Edwardian and Neoclassical commercial buildings replaced the damaged Victorian and Romanesque businesses. In addition, Mission Revival, California&#39;s first indigenous architecture, dominated smaller commercial architecture. Spanish Colonial Revival also provided California with a new historic architectural mode.</p><br>
<p>During the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, modernization and further consolidation characterized the downtown core. New growth patterns to the west and south of the center of the city changed the commercial desirability of the downtown core area of San Jose. New construction was virtually nonexistent until the government sponsored redevelopment programs of the 1960s began razing of entire center city blocks for planned new development.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural landmarks</h2><br>
<h3>Late 19th-century buildings</h3><br>
<p>Knox-Goodrich Building, 1889</p><br>
<p>La Rosa Pharmacy, 1870</p><br>
<p>Letitia Building, 1890</p><br>
<p>Oddfellows Building, 1883 (Italianate)</p><br>
<p>Security Building, 1892 (Romanesque Revival)</p><br>
<h3>Early 20th century</h3><br>
<p>Landmark Square, 1907</p><br>
<p>Bank of America building, 1926 &mdash; San Jose&#39;s first skyscraper, at fourteen stories</p><br>
<p>Jose Theater (Mission Revival)</p><br>
<p>"El Paseo" shopping block, 1920s (Spanish Colonial Revival)</p><br>
<h2>Footnotes</h2><br>
<p>Regal Mountain is an eroded stratovolcano or shield volcano in the Wrangell Mountains of eastern Alaska. It is located in Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park about 19 mi east of Mount Blackburn, the second highest volcano in the United States, and southeast of the massive Nabesna Glacier. Regal Mountain is the third highest thirteener  in Alaska, ranking just behind its neighbor, Atna Peaks. Because the mountain is almost entirely covered in glaciers, no geological studies have been done, but published references state and the geological map shows that the mountain is an old eroded volcanic edifice.</p><br>
<p>Several major glaciers flow from the steep and heavily eroded flanks of Regal Mountain. The Rohn Glacier and Regal Glacier head east and southeast to join the Nizina Glacier, while the Root Glacier flows south 15 mi to join the Kennicott Glacier just above the town of McCarthy. Each of those large glaciers exceeds 1 mi in width, but largest of all on Regal Mountain is a massive unnamed glacier, over 3 mi across, which flows northwest just over 10 mi to join the mighty Nabesna.</p><br>
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<p>Leschenault Estuary is an estuarine lagoon that lies to the north of Bunbury, Western Australia.</p><br>
<p>It had in the past met the Indian Ocean at the Leschenault Inlet - but that has been altered by harbour works for Bunbury, and the creation of The Cut north of the historical inlet location.</p><br>
<p>The estuary is approximately 13.5 km in length and has a maximum width of approximately 2.5 km. The total area of the estuary is 25 km&sup2; The lagoon is separated from the ocean by a thin peninsula of sand dunes called the Leschenault Peninsula.</p><br>
<h2>Catchment</h2><br>
<p>The catchment area below Wellington Dam for the estuary covers 1,981 km&sup2;.</p><br>
<p>The catchment includes part of the Swan Coastal Plain, the Darling Scarp and the Darling Plateau.</p><br>
<p>The Collie and Preston Rivers are the main catchment rivers and enter the estuary from the southern end and with the catchment runoff discharging into the Indian ocean via the cut in the peninsula.</p><br>
<p>Other rivers in the catchment area include the Brunswick River, Ferguson and Wellesley as well as numerous other creeks, streams and irrigation drains.</p><br>
<p>Seven local government areas are located within the catchment including Bunbury, Collie, Capel, Dardanup, Harvey, Donnybrook-Balingup and Boyup Brook. The catchment has a total population of approximately 65,000 people.</p><br>
<p>The catchment area retains 40% of its natural vegetation, the remainder of the area has been cleared mostly for agricultural purposes with some light industry.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The sand dune system responsible for the formation of the estuary began about 7,000 years ago. At this time the coast section between Mandurah and Bunbury was an open rocky limestone shore. A dune system began to build on the shore forming a long barred estuarine lagoon between the current estuary as far north as Lake Preston and effectively separated the lagoon from the ocean.</p><br>
<p>About 4,500 years ago the dune system met up with the eastern shore of the estuary separating the lagoon into two sections. The northern portion filled with mud leaving the southern section as the estuary that exists today.</p><br>
<p>Construction of the Cut, which opens the estuary into the ocean opposite the Collie River mouth, commenced in February 1950.</p><br>
<p>Two explosive packages were found in the inlet in 2013. The first package composed of TATP was found near a jetty and taken to Gloucester Park in Perth to be detonated in a controlled explosion. Divers searched the surrounding following day and found another package of the same explosive that was detonated on site. Traffic along the Old Coast Road was disrupted as a result.</p><br>
<h2>Flora and fauna</h2><br>
<p>A white mangrove colony exists within the estuary, the colony are the most southern mangroves in Western Australia and are believed to be 2500 years old. The mangroves inhabit an area of 6.4 hectare. A boardwalk with informative signage has been constructed around the Mangrove colony so that visitors can inspect the area.</p><br>
<p>Waterbirds depend on the area for habitat. Up to 62 species of waterbird use the estuary, mostly feeding in the tidal salt-marshes.</p><br>
<p>The estuary is also an important fish nursery area.</p><br>
<p>Mehetia or Meetia is a volcanic island in the Windward Islands, in the east of the Society Islands in French Polynesia. This island is a very young active stratovolcano 110 km east of the Taiarapu Peninsula of Tahiti. It belongs to the Teahitia-Mehetia hotspot.</p><br>
<p>The island has an area of 2.3 km&sup2; and its highest point is 435 metres (1,427 ft). Mehetias well-defined volcanic crater contains a very active hot point. In 1981 the island was the centre of earthquakes.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first European sighting was by the Spanish expedition of Pedro Fernández de Quirós on 9 February 1606, that charted it as Decena (ten in Spanish). Later on it was sighted by Samuel Wallis in HMS Dolphin 1767 and Louis Antoine de Bougainville in 1768. It was also sighted by Spanish navigator Domingo de Boenechea on November 6, 1772 on ship Aguila. He named this island San Cristóbal.</p><br>
<h2>Administration</h2><br>
<p>Mehetia is administratively part of the commune (municipality) of Taiarapu-Est and of its easternmost commune associée Tautira. The island is uninhabited and doesnt have much vegetation but has a small coral reef on the underwater slopes.</p><br>
<p>Big Mountain is the high point on the Tuscarora Mountain ridge in south central Pennsylvania in the United States. The 2,458 ft. summit is located in the Buchanan State Forest and offers an viewshed that is one of the more stunning in the Commonwealth.</p><br>
<p>Tuscarora Formation quartzite of the Silurian Age underlies the summit; it is this weather resistant rock which gives Big Mountain its high prominence.</p><br>
<p>Big Mountain and the rest of the Tuscarora Ridge has abundant wildlife. Black bear, white-tailed deer, a variety of bird species and its most notorious resident the timber rattlesnake can be found while hiking on the ridge.</p><br>
<p>The Tuscarora Trail passes along the ridge and over the summit, the nearby Cowans Gap State Park offers a variety of campsites, swimming, boating and hiking trails centered on a 42 acre lake.</p><br>
<h2>Images</h2><br>
<p>Deer Creek is a 52.9 mi river in Maryland that flows through the scenic areas of Harford County and empties into the Susquehanna River, roughly halfway between the Interstate 95 bridge and Conowingo Dam. Its watershed area is 171 square miles. Its watershed area in MD  is 145 square miles, with 3% impervious surface in 1994. It serves as a divider between the agricultural and urban/suburban areas of Harford County.</p><br>
<p>Deer Creek rises in Shrewsbury in York County, Pennsylvania, and flows southeast, soon entering Maryland. It cuts across the northeastern corner of Baltimore County and into Harford County, where it runs through Rocks State Park, Palmer State Park, and Susquehanna State Park, passing north of the Bel Air area.</p><br>
<p>Deer Creek supported the last known population of the Maryland darter, the only endemic vertebrate in Maryland. The creek is commonly used for recreation in the summer months.</p><br>
<p>The Deer Creek Bridge, Stewartstown Railroad carries the Stewartstown Railroad over Deer Creek in Hopewell Township and Shrewsbury Township, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>Butler Knob is a peak on the Jacks Mountain ridge in south central Pennsylvania in the United States. The "Knobs" summit is underlain with weather resistant quartzite of the Tuscarora Formation . Butler Knob is accessible by a rough road, where there is a closed firetower on the summit. The firetower presently hold a weather station that gives current forecasts for the area .</p><br>
<p>There are views available from a nearby scree slope. The views are mainly east, south and west from here; the summits of Big Mountain, Sideling Hill, Williamsburg Mountain and Blue Knob can be seen in the distance. Butler Knob is located within the Rothrock State Forest, all camping and activities on the mountain are subject to the rules and regulations of that agency.</p><br>
