<p>The Elbe Lateral Canal, or the Elbe-Seitenkanal in German , is a 115 km long canal in Lower Saxony, Germany. It runs from the Elbe near Lauenburg/Elbe to the Mittelland Canal near Gifhorn. It forms an important transport connection between southern and northern Germany, and it provides a bypass of a section of the Elbe with limited navigability. At the construction start it was also thought as a bypass outside the GDR, considered politically unreliable.</p><br>
<p>Construction of the Elbe Lateral Canal was started in 1968, and the canal was opened in June 1976. Due to a dam rupture, it was closed from July 1976 until June 1977. The difference in elevation between the Mitteland Canal and the Elbe is 61 m, which is achieved by a lock of 23 m in Uelzen and a boat lift of 38 m in Scharnebeck. There are small ports along the canal in Lüneburg, Uelzen and Wittingen. At Wulfstorf (near Bienenbüttel) is a landing stage.</p><br>
<p>The Taylor–Corwin House, also the Falconer Inn, is a Registered Historic Place in Pine Bush, New York. It is located at 112 Maple Street , a few houses south of its intersection with NY 52.</p><br>
<p>Note: This includes</p><br>
<p>It was one of the earliest houses built in what is today Pine Bush, around 1840. Architecturally, it was built in the then-popular Greek Revival style, with some touches of Colonial Revival. In 1871, James Taylor, the local merchant who originally built the house, sold it to farmer John Corwin. Eleven years later, he in turn sold it to Amanda Falconer, who turned it into an inn. It became popular with travelers on the Crawford Railroad, which terminated at Pine Bush, as a place from which they could take in the scenery of the nearby Shawangunk Ridge.</p><br>
<p>Since the demise of the railroad, it has since returned to its original status as a private home. It was added to the National Register in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Bienwald is a large forested area in the southern Pfalz region of Germany near the towns of Kandel and Wörth am Rhein. The western edge defines the eastern extent of the Wissembourg Gap, a corridor of open terrain between the Bienwald and the hills of the Palatine Forest. In the northwest, the forest is bounded by the so-called "Cattle Line" , running from Schweighofen to Kandel. In the north, the forest reaches as far as Hatzenbühl and Rheinzabern. The eastern boundary largely runs along the bank of the Rhine from Jockgrim to Hagenbach and Berg . The southern boundary follows the valley of the Lauter along the border of France and Germany. The bulk of the forest belongs to the municipality of Wörth am Rhein. At its greatest extent, the Bienwald is approximately 17 km wide along its east–west axis and 11 km from north to south. The forest has an area of some 163 km&sup2;. Approximately one-third of the forest is deciduous woodland with the remainder coniferous. The forest has an elevation of 100 metres above sea level by the Rhine, and rises to 150 metres above sea level in its western extremities.</p><br>
<p>The only settlement in the Bienwald is Büchelberg, which lies inside a clearing in the forest and is administratively part of the town of Wörth am Rhein.</p><br>
<p>On 13 August 1793, a battle of the War of the First Coalition took place in the Bienwald. Austrian troops under Marshal Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser pushed the French Army back and frustrated the relief of Mainz. In March 1945, during World War II, the USA VI Corps and the French First Army assaulted German Siegfried Line fortifications in the Bienwald and penetrated German defenses in the forest during a week of heavy combat. The forest is still marked by trenches and bunker ruins from World War II. There are also older French earthworks (redoutes) in the southwestern parts of the forest where it borders the Lauter river and Mundat Forest (Forêt du Mundat).</p><br>
<p>The proposed construction of a multi-lane controlled access highway through the forest is disputed. The proposed road would connect the French A35 autoroute and the German A65 autobahn.</p><br>
<p>European wildcats have taken up residence in the Bienwald in the last few years, often using the ruins of destroyed bunkers for shelter.</p><br>
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<p>The Red Lodge Museum  is a historic house museum in Bristol, England. The original building was Tudor/Elizabethan, and construction began in 1579–1580, possibly to the design of Serlio. The main additional building phases are from the 1730s and the early 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The Red Lodge is a free museum, managed as a branch of Bristol City Council.</p><br>
<p>The museum is open from 1 April to 31 December on Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays, 11 am – 4 pm.</p><br>
<h2>Brief History</h2><br>
<h3>John Young and the Great House</h3><br>
<p>The Red Lodge was originally built at the top of the gardens of "ye Great House of St. Augustine&#39;s Back". The Great House was built in 1568 on the site of an old Carmelite Priory now the site of Colston Hall.</p><br>
<p>The Red Lodge would have originally been used as a guest house and entertainment pavilion, so that the Young family could promenade their guests through their eight ornamental gardens and orchards to wine and dine them.</p><br>
<p>Sir John Young died in 1589, and the Red Lodge was completed in 1590 by his widow Dame Joan. Dame Joan, from an old Somerset and Devon family, was a sister and co-heiress of Nicholas Wadham co-founder with his wife Dorothy Wadham of Wadham College, Oxford, and is buried in a beautiful altar tomb which bears her painted and carved effigy at the entrance to Bristol Cathedral, and which commemorates her, her children by both her marriages, and both her husbands. She was married firstly to Sir Giles Strangways (1528-1562) of Melbury Sampford and then in 1546 to John Young (16th-century MP), who was knighted in 1574 by Queen Elizabeth I when she stayed with the Youngs at The Great House on her visit to Bristol, and the arms of Young impaling Wadham are carved above the porch entrance to the Great Oak Room at the Red Lodge.</p><br>
<p>Their son, Robert Young By 1595, the building was rented out to various tenants as a residence separate from the Great House. Robert Young eventually sold the Great House to Sir Hugh Smyth of Ashton Court.</p><br>
<h3>John and Mary Henley's extensions</h3><br>
<p>In the 1730s, John and Mary Henley bought the Red Lodge and started major extension work on the north side, doubling the footprint of the building, fitting large Georgian windows, and rebuilding with hipped roofs and eaves, and cornices replacing gables, giving a full-height second floor.</p><br>
<p>The Henley’s refurbished the Reception Room and part-refurbished the Parlour, leaving some original panelling and the original decorated ceiling, but made minimal changes to the Great Oak Room, Small Oak Room and Bedroom, leaving the rich Tudor decoration largely untouched.</p><br>
<p>Before the end of the extension work, John Henley died, leaving Mary Henley childless and unable to inherit. John wrote into his will that Mary had the right to live in the Red Lodge for one month in every year. This meant that the building could not be leased out long-term or sold to a new owner.</p><br>
<h3>James Cowles Pritchard and short-term tenants</h3><br>
<p>After the Henleys died the Red Lodge was leased to tenants practising medicine working at the Bristol Royal Infirmary, including James Cowles Pritchard who wrote Researches into the Physical History of Man, and Francis Cheyne Bowles and Richard Smith, who used the Great Oak Room as a dissection theatre. In the 19th century, the current entrance to the building from Park Row was added, as well as the rooms to the East of the original core.</p><br>
<h3>Mary Carpenter and the Girls’ Reform School</h3><br>
<p>In 1854 the building was bought by Lady Byron, using Lord Byron’s endowment and given to Mary Carpenter to use as a school. Mary Carpenter was a zealous reformer and founded the first ever Girls’ Reformatory at the Red Lodge to encapsulate her radical and progressive ideas of improvement and nurture for the nation’s poor,</p><br>
<p>The Red Lodge was used as a Reform School until 1917, during which time Carpenter used her standing as Superintendent to lobby parliament and travel the world researching the plight of ‘pauper children’.</p><br>
<h3>Red Lodge Museum and the Bristol Savages</h3><br>
<p>In 1919, James Fuller Eberle saved the Red Lodge’s historic interior from being pulled apart and sold piecemeal by buying the building for the Bristol Savages and the Bristol Corporation. and converted the Victorian Laundry into their studio, leaving the bulk of the Tudor, Georgian and Victorian building to the Corporation, which became Bristol City Council.</p><br>
<p>The Council renovated the building once in 1920 and again in 1956 before opening the Red Lodge as a museum. From then onwards the building has been a branch of Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, along with The Georgian House Museum, Blaise Castle House Museum, Kings Weston Roman Villa and M Shed.</p><br>
<p>The next stages of development at the Red Lodge Museum are reinstating the fixtures of the New Oak Room and including interpretation for the well which was discovered; and re-ordering the garden paving to make it safe for visitors to enjoy.</p><br>
<h2>Archives</h2><br>
<p>Records of the Red Lodge and Mary Carpenter including journals, accounts, correspondence, reports and published material are held at Bristol Archives (Ref. 12693) () and (Ref. 5137) (). Also held here are the deeds of the Red Lodge and its land dating as far back as 1565 (ref. 5535) ().</p><br>
<h2>The rooms</h2><br>
<h3>The Great Oak Room</h3><br>
<p>The Great Oak Room retains its original oak panelling, moulded plaster ceiling and double-decker fireplace, making it "one of the finest rooms in the West Country". Entrance is via an oak internal porch, similar to that of Montacute House.</p><br>
<h3>The Small Oak Room and Bedroom</h3><br>
<p>The Small Oak Room and Bedroom are contemporary with the Great Oak Room but much less richly panelled. The Bedroom has the moulded plaster ceiling upon which the knot garden’s design is based. The common layout of Tudor rooms in an apartment with people travelling from most public to most intimate suggests that the Great Oak Room was the most public room whilst the Small Oak Room and Bedroom were more private antechambers, possibly bedrooms and cabinets.</p><br>
<h3>The Print Room</h3><br>
<p>The Print Room is part of the 18th-century extension of the Lodge and has been renovated by the Museum to look like a typical Print Room of the period. The collection of tiles around the fireplace, examples of marquetry and parquetry in the furniture and the ‘japanned’ grandfather clock represent the fashion of the early eighteenth century.</p><br>
<h3>The Mary Carpenter Room</h3><br>
<p>The Mary Carpenter Room contains a display of the history of the Red Lodge as a school, a painting by the Savages of Mary Carpenter with her first pupil, a photo of Mary Carpenter, and Mary Carpenter&#39;s Broadwood piano, bought for the house in 1845.</p><br>
<h3>The Staircase</h3><br>
<p>The grand Georgian staircase and landing display portraits of notable people linked with the house – John and Mary Henley, Robert Yeamans, Robert Poyntz, Florence Poulett, William Herbert, the Third Earl of Pembroke, and Col. Adrian Scrope. The staircase was designed with as many windows as possible and nobly proportioned, with a grand chandelier to illuminate Mary Henley and her guests as they processed into the Reception Room.</p><br>
<h3>The Reception Room and Parlour</h3><br>
<p>Though the Reception Room and Parlour are in the original Tudor core of the house, they underwent major renovations by the Henleys to present them as fashionable Georgian rooms. The Reception Room shows a beam where the original external south wall stood, but was knocked through to incorporate the loggia and extend the room as far as possible.</p><br>
<p>The Parlour has a mixture of Georgian Deal panelling and original Tudor oak panelling, and an original moulded plaster ceiling. The Parlour also has niches and hybrid door/windows where the 19th Century extensions were made, blocking off bay windows.</p><br>
<h3>The New Oak Room and the Well</h3><br>
<p>The New Oak Room was extensively altered in the nineteenth century, and in 1965 the museum re-used older fixtures and fittings from other sites to decorate the room. The panelling is pre-18th century, bought from the Refectory of St Michael-on-the-Mount, and the mantelpiece and fire surround from Ashley Down House.</p><br>
<h3>The Second Floor</h3><br>
<p>The Tudor gabled attic was extended into a full-height second floor by the Henleys.</p><br>
<h2>Notable features</h2><br>
<h3>Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I</h3><br>
<p>The Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I is in the Great Oak Room. It was originally thought to be a later copy, but has recently been re-assessed as an original painted in the late 16th century.</p><br>
<h3>Speke Chair/Table</h3><br>
<p>The chair in the Great Oak Room folds down so that the back turns into the table-top. Hybrid furniture was not uncommon in the Tudor period (ie. Chests used as tables and chairs). The Speke family are an aristocratic family from near Ilminster, Somerset.</p><br>
<h3>Portrait of Florence Smyth and her black "Page"</h3><br>
<p>In the Small Oak Room is a portrait of Florence Smyth, of the Smyth Family and her black ‘page’. There is no information on the identity of the boy in the portrait, so it can’t be said whether the boy is a slave, a servant, or a peer of Florence&#39;s. If the boy is a slave then it is probably the earliest depiction of a slave in the UK.</p><br>
<h3>Mary Carpenter's Piano</h3><br>
<p>The piano in the Mary Carpenter Room is the original Broadwood piano bought by Mary Carpenter in 1845. The fabric panel on the front of a Broadwood is usually made from silk, so it is possible that the fabric and embroidery on this one were a project for the school girls.</p><br>
<h3>18th-Century Spinet</h3><br>
<p>The Spinet in the Print Room was made by Benjamin Slade in 1702. It has been at the Red Lodge since at least 1935 when Alec Hodson restored it. The Museum and the Bristol Savages tune it every year and it is used as part of the Savages&#39; festivities.</p><br>
<h3>Walnut Bureau with hidden compartments</h3><br>
<p>The Walnut Bureau and shelves in the Reception Room hide multiple hidden compartments.</p><br>
<h3>The Skinner Chair</h3><br>
<p>The Skinner Chair in the Parlour was carved for Bishop Skinner in the late 17th century. The story told in the relief is that of Actaeon the Hunter who angered Artemis and was punished by being turned into a deer and attacked by his own hunting party.</p><br>
<p>The chair has been used on two royal occasions – Prince Albert sat on it in 1848 when Bristol’s Albert Dock was renamed in his honour, and Edward VII sat on it in 1908 when the Edward VII Dock was opened.</p><br>
<h2>The Knot Garden</h2><br>
<p>The Garden viewed from the Parlour and Great Oak Room is a 1980s interpretation of an Elizabethan Knot Garden. The box hedge knot is copied from the design incorporated into the ceiling of the Bedroom. Herbs and flowers are mixed together in beds as was the fashion in the 1630s, and all the plants used would have been common in a similar garden of the period. The trellis is copied from a French seventeenth century design.</p><br>
<h2>Media and modern day usage</h2><br>
<h3>Art and sculpture</h3><br>
<p>In 2006, Bristol City Council, Arts Council England and Bristol Museum and Art Gallery partnered with Plan 9 for a one-off modern sculpture exhibition at the Red Lodge.</p><br>
<p>Responding to the building, the selected artists take on board sensitivities of politics past, ongoing preservation, and today&#39;s nervy ambiguities. The works contrast and compliment the architecture and decoration of the Red Lodge but none sit too comfortably, and the friction they create subtly transforms this Elizabethan house.</p><br>
<h3>Film and theatre</h3><br>
<p>The Ithaca Axis performed a roaming piece of theatre, parts of which were set in the Great Oak Room and the Garden. In 2013, Galliard Films made an online documentary as a fun, informal way of looking into some of the history of the Red Lodge.</p><br>
<p>On 10 February 2016, the Red Lodge was used in the BBC Four documentary Queen Elizabeth I: A Timewatch Guide with shots of Vanessa Collingridge in the Reception Room, Great Oak Room, and knot garden.</p><br>
<p>Piz Cengalo  is a mountain in the Bregaglia range of the Alps on the border between the Swiss canton of Graubünden and Italy. The first ascent of the mountain was by D. W. Freshfield and C. Comyns Tucker with guide F. Dévouassoud on 25 July 1866. The name Cengalo derives from Tschingel, meaning girdle.</p><br>
<p>On 28 December 2011 c. 1.5 million cubic metres of rock broke away from the summit area, causing a massive landslide on the Swiss side of the mountain that could be heard in Soglio and Bondo. As subsequent massive rockfalls are expected in the same area, some hiking and climbing routes have been closed. On 23 August 2017 another landslide occurred on the mountain, estimated about three times bigger than the one in 2011.</p><br>
<p>Mount Jarvis is an eroded shield volcano in the Wrangell Mountains of eastern Alaska. It is located in Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park about 10 mi east of the summit of Mount Wrangell. The mountain sits at the northeastern edge of the massive ice-covered shield of Wrangell, rising nearly 5,000 ft above it in a spectacular series of cliffs and icefalls.</p><br>
<p>When seen from above, Mount Jarvis is distinctly dumbbell-shaped, with two prominent peaks connected by a narrower ridge. The mountain&#39;s main summit is 13,421 ft, making it one of numerous thirteeners (peaks between 13,000 and 13,999 feet in elevation) in Alaska. The second summit is located about 3 mi to the north-northwest, reaching 13,025 ft with over 725 ft of prominence above the connecting saddle,</p><br>
<p>thus qualifying it as an independent peak on the list of thirteeners as well. The entire summit area including both peaks and the ridge is covered in glacial ice. The steep, rocky eastern and western faces of Mount Jarvis form headwalls above the cirques of the Jacksina Glacier and Copper Glacier, which flow northward out of the Wrangell Mountains.</p><br>
<p>Mount Jarvis was named in 1903 by F. C. Schrader, a USGS geologist, for Lt. David H. Jarvis of the U. S. Revenue Cutter Service, who led the Overland Relief Expedition to aid a whaling fleet trapped in Arctic Ocean ice off Point Barrow in 1897–98.</p><br>
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<p>The Sonoma Developmental Center is a large, state-run facility in California, United States, serving the needs of people with developmental disabilities. It is located in Eldridge in Sonoma County.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It opened at its current location on November 24, 1891, though it had existed at previous locations in Vallejo and Santa Clara since 1884.</p><br>
<p>The facility&#39;s current name dates from 1986. Former names include:</p><br>
<p>California Home for the Care and Training of Feeble Minded Children (1883)</p><br>
<p>Sonoma State Home (1909)</p><br>
<p>Sonoma State Hospital (1953)</p><br>
<p>History:</p><br>
<p>1883 - First home opened at White Sulphur Springs near Vallejo.</p><br>
<p>1884 - Fasking Park, Alameda County.</p><br>
<p>1885-1891 - The Home was located in Santa Clara, California, near the intersection of Market and Washington Street.</p><br>
<p>1891 - A new site for the Home was purchased from former State Senator William Hill for $51,000. Two railroads ran through the site until World War II. The superintendent was Dr. Antrim Edgar Osborn.</p><br>
<p>Superintendents</p><br>
<p>1891- Antrim Edgar Osborn, M.D.</p><br>
<p>1900 - William. P. Lawlor, M.D.</p><br>
<p>1903 - W. J. G. Dawson, M.D.</p><br>
<p>1919 - Frederick Otis Butler, M.D.</p><br>
<p>1949 -</p><br>
<p>1918 - A Spanish influenza epidemic killed dozens of inmates. Dr. Lawlor was also killed.</p><br>
<p>The Home had primarily four types of residents: the mentally handicapped, the epileptic, the physically disabled, and the "psychopathic delinquent." From almost the start, the Home was overcrowded.</p><br>
<p>2000 - Main building was listed in the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Research Resources</h2><br>
<p>The State Archive in Sacramento have extensive holdings on the early history of the Home. Including patient registers, photographs, maps, and records. The Gosney Archive at Caltech in Pasadena, CA contains information about sterilization from the 1920s. The SDC does have some historical resources, but these are not open to the general public.</p><br>
<h2>Scholarly</h2><br>
<h2>Fictional Works</h2><br>
<p>The Center provided the setting for Jack London&#39;s short story "Told in the Drooling Ward" (1914).</p><br>
<p>The book In All Things: A Return to the Drooling Ward is a fictionalized account based on the author&#39;s experiences while training as a psychiatric technician at the former hospital.</p><br>
<p>Camp Nichols, also known as Fort Nichols or Camp Nichols Ranch, was a short-lived historic fortification located in present-day Cimarron County, Oklahoma, about 3 miles northwest of the community of Wheeless, Oklahoma. It was built by New Mexico and California volunteers under the command of Col. Kit Carson to protect travelers on the most dangerous part of the Cimarron Cut-off of the Santa Fe Trail from raids by the Kiowa and Comanche Indians. Established in May 1865 and abandoned in September 1865, it was the only manmade structure along the Cimarron Cut-off while it was an active route. It is believed to have been named for Captain Charles P. Nichols of the First California Cavalry.</p><br>
<p>The site was about half way (150 miles) between Fort Union and the Cimarron Crossing of the Arkansas River. The camp was originally a stockaded fort, measuring 200 feet by 200 feet. There were six stone buildings that served as officers quarters, one building that was the quartermasters store and an unknown number of stone walled tents housing the soldiers. The facility was surrounded by earth and stone breastworks. Only ruins remain; much of the stone has been removed by people wishing to use it in building other structures. The site is on private property and is not accessible to the public.</p><br>
<p>Cedar Spring, about 0.25 miles (0.4) km west of the fort, provided fresh water for the camp and for passing wagon trains. The remains of the Cimarron Cutoff are about 0.5 miles south of the camp, and are said to be the most impressive remains of the entire trail.</p><br>
<p>The site was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1963 and subsequently listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Towers, also known as the Twin Towers is a historic structure located at 35 Ocean Road in Narragansett, Rhode Island. It is the only remnant of the Narragansett Pier Casino built in the 1880s. On November 25, 1969, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History (1883–1900)</h2><br>
<p>The Narragansett Pier Casino was the center of social life in Narragansett during the late 19th century. The Narragansett Pier Casino rivaled the Newport Casino’s popularity as a resort for the social elite until it burned to the ground in 1900.</p><br>
<p>Built between 1883–1886, the Narragansett Pier Casino was a fine example of Victorian Shingle style architecture (a variation of Queen Anne Style architecture), designed by McKim, Mead, and White. The Casino offered a variety of sports, including boating, tennis, billiards, bowling, cards, and shooting, restaurants, stores, reading rooms, a theater, a bandstand, a ballroom, and a beautiful beach.</p><br>
<p>The Narragansett Pier Casino thrived during the Gilded Age until it burned down during the Great Fire of September 12, 1900. That day, a fire broke out in the neighboring Rockingham Hotel. The flames spread quickly to the Casino, leaving only the granite walls of The Towers standing. More recently Hurricane Sandy has uncovered the foundation and part of the old boardwalk belonging to the old casino that had been buried by sand.</p><br>
<h2>Recent history</h2><br>
<p>Today, having survived a number of fires, nor&#39;easters, and hurricanes, the Narragansett Towers are the only remaining part of the original Narragansett Pier Casino. One of the most recognizable landmarks in Narragansett, The Towers currently hosts weddings, dances, dinners, plays, and fashion shows. Its location, adjacent to Narragansett town beach, makes it an ideal venue for social events.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>The Towers can be seen in the background of the Rhode Island-based cartoon, Family Guy, episode "Peter&#39;s Got Woods," when Peter rides by on a tandem bicycle with James Woods, both engaged in song.</p><br>
<p>The Casino at the Narragansett Towers is also the location of the first reports of the now-popular seafood dish "clams casino." Many events take place on the land adjacent to The Towers, as well as the land next door, where the Casino once stood, that now includes a lawn and a courtyard with a fountain. Events such as The Blessing of the Fleet road race and festival, local art festivals, the Lighting of the town Christmas tree, and many beautiful weddings.</p><br>
<p>The Unitarian Church in Charleston, home to a Unitarian Universalist congregation, is an historic church located at 4 Archdale Street in Charleston, South Carolina. It is "the oldest Unitarian church in the South" and is a National Historic Landmark. It is the second oldest church in downtown Charleston. Its construction began in 1772 when the Society of Dissenters  needed more space than its Meeting Street location could provide. It was nearly complete in 1776 when the Revolutionary War began, finally being repaired and officially dedicated in 1787.</p><br>
<p>It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Unitarian Universalist Church was not originally built by the Unitarians. It was constructed by the Society of Dissenters who needed more worship space. Construction began in 1774 and was nearly complete in 1776 when the Revolutionary War ignited. It is thought that when the British occupied Charleston, they quartered militia and possibly even horses in the building. It was not until after the war ended that the building could be repaired and officially dedicated in 1787. It was unofficially named The Archdale Street Meeting House.</p><br>
<p>For 30 years following the dedication, the Meeting Street and Archdale Street churches operated as a single entity. They shared not only the same two ministers, but the same sermon was delivered each Sunday.</p><br>
<p>Drs. Hollinshead and Keith, co-pastors of the church, preached one sermon in both houses each Sunday, alternating morning and afternoon services. In 1817, one of the ministers and several congregants became Unitarians, moved to the Archdale Street Meeting House, and founded the Second Independent Church in Charleston.</p><br>
<p>The group was rechartered as the Unitarian Church in 1839. Francis D. Lee, a Charleston architect and church member, was hired in 1852 to enlarge and remodel the building. Inspired by the Chapel of Henry VII at Westminster Abbey and St George&#39;s Chapel at Windsor Castle, Lee completed the project two years later. The fan-vaulted ceiling, nave, and chancel closely resembled their English prototypes; the stained glass windows were considered among the finest in the country. The church may have been the first Gothic architecture built in the United States. The style is referred to as English Perpendicular Gothic Revival.</p><br>
<p>Just 32 years later, the great Charleston earthquake of 1886 struck, shearing off the entire top of the churchs tower, including eight paneled buttresses, high pinnacles and medieval-style finials. Masonry from the tower fell through the fan-vaulted ceiling below. A Boston architect by the name of Thomas Silloway came to Charleston after the quake to repair the damage. With funds raised by Unitarian churches throughout the country, he restored the interior to Francis Lees original design. The tower, however, was rebuilt in a slightly less elaborate form with the pinnacles and parapet lowered and simplified. This was solely to increase structural stability in the event another earthquake struck Charleston.</p><br>
<p>More than one hundred years passed before Charleston faced another natural disaster. Hurricane Hugo struck the Holy City in 1989, causing massive damage in the historic district. The roof of the Unitarian Church was lost during this devastating storm. Following Hugo, the church was repaired to the specifications set by Thomas Silloway and remains nearly unchanged to this day.</p><br>
<p>Prospect Hill is a historic district located on a hillside outside of downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. It is part of the Mount Auburn neighborhood of Cincinnati. Prospect Hill is bounded by the following streets, Liberty, Sycamore, Boal and Highland.</p><br>
<p>The District is bordered to the north by the Mount Auburn Historic District and the Pendleton neighborhood of Over-the-Rhine to the south.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The majority of buildings are brick, and the predominant architectural style is Italianate. Dating from the 1860-80 period, this style is characterized by bracketed cornices and round or segmental arched window details. Good examples of earlier Greek Revival style architecture constructed between 1835 and 1860 are also found, predominantly located on the lower streets which developed the earliest. This style utilizes classical details and geometric, symmetrical forms. Examples of the Queen Anne style, which displays a variety of contrasting materials and decorative surface treatments, and the French Second Empire style, which is characterized by a Mansard roof whose slope actually forms part of the front facade, may also be found scattered throughout the district. These styles date from the turn of the century.</p><br>
<p>Contributing to the distinct character of Prospect Hill are the street steps, which evolved in response to a hillside environment which did not lend itself to a linear grid plan. Where the terrain was too steep to build roads, stairways and "paper" streets developed. The streets that were built often cut sharply into the hillside, requiring retaining walls along lot fronts. Many of these retaining walls, which are primarily stone, support original iron fences and contribute to the character of the district. Open space between lots reflect the fact that the land was too irregular for construction purposes.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The majority of early settlers were veterans of the American Revolutionary War. One of the earliest residents of the hill was Dr. Daniel Drake. He lived in a log cabin while his new home was being built on Third Street.</p><br>
<p>Senator George H. Pendleton also had a house prominently located at 559 Liberty Hill.</p><br>
<p>Sugartown is an unincorporated settlement in central Willistown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States, at the intersection of Sugartown and Boot Roads. It is located 18 miles west of Philadelphia.</p><br>
<p>The town was named after Eli Shugart, a 19th-century tavern keeper. Sugartown is a typical crossroads village that provides goods and services to the surrounding farm community. It played an important part in the development of Willistown and contains an inn, general store, blacksmith and wheelwright, cabinetmaker, saddler, shoemaker and a doctor.</p><br>
<p>The Sugartown Historic District is a national historic district that encompasses 14 contributing buildings. It includes the Sign of the Spread Eagle tavern (c. 1790), Sugartown Store (c. 1800) and residence (1860), Willistown Township Building (1909), "Coxefield" (c. 1790), Shoemakers shop (c. 1790), Sugartown School (1866), the Friends school (1782-1783, 1862), and schoolmasters house (1785).</p><br>
<p>The Bolečica  is a short river in north-central Serbia, a 12 km-long right tributary to the Danube. During its entire flow it runs through the suburban section of Belgrade and despite being short it flows through the three Belgrade&#39;s municipalities, next to the half dozen of suburbs of Belgrade  with a total population of 35,000 and is a route to important roads.</p><br>
<h2>Course</h2><br>
<p>Bolečica originates in the northern, low Šumadija region, between two "Belgrade mountains", Avala and Kosmaj, on the slopes of the Begaljica Hill, at an altitude of 105 meters. Originally, it flows to the north along the eastern slopes of the Avala, crossing between the municipalities of Grocka and Voždovac, next to the villages of Vrčin and Zuce, where it receives the Vranovac creek from the right and enters the valley of Bubanj Potok where it marks the eastern border of the woods of Stepin Lug, turns to the north-east through the southernmost tip of the municipality of Zvezdara (for some 300 meters) and receives two more creeks from the left, Bubanj Potok and Zavojnička reka. Bolečica continues through the southern section of Leštane, where it receives the creek of Kaluđerički potok from the left and forms the border between the four suburbs area: Leštane, Boleč, Ritopek and Vinča (where it receives the creek of Makački potok from the left), where it empties into the Danube by a small estuary at an altitude of 68 meters, just east of Belo Brdo, the archeological find of the Vinča culture.</p><br>
<h2>Characteristics</h2><br>
<p>The majority of the Bolečicas flow has been channeled, mostly in the Bubanj Potok-Leštane section. For that purpose, the river bed has been concreted and moved to the west, so the river is now further away from Boleč, which was named after the river. It enabled for a usually minor water flow to conduct abundantly larger quantities of water during heavy rains and floods. However, the final 3 kilometers of the river, through Vinča, has not been channeled, so with the growth of the Danubes level, the water overflows the estuary preventing the waters drained by Bolečica to flow into the Danube (inverse flow). As a result, during high levels, Bolečica overspills itself, sometimes causing the traffic breach on a major roads that cross over the river, like Kružni put and Smederevski put.</p><br>
<p>Due to the much larger impact the river has on Leštane than it has on Boleč, through which it basically doesn&#39;t flow, some of the geographers tend to call the river Leštanska reka (Cyrillic: Лештанска река, Leštane river) but the name has not been accepted officially neither among the local population.</p><br>
<p>A short valley of Bolečica, which can be divided in two sections, Vrčin-Bubanj Potok and Bubanj Potok- Leštane-Vinča is a natural route for several important transportation lines:</p><br>
<p>the Belgrade-Požarevac railway</p><br>
<p>the Kružni put, major road in the southern outskirts of Belgrade which begins almost 30 kilometers to the west, at Ostružnica</p><br>
<p>the section of Smederevski put, tha major road which connects Belgrade and Smederevo</p><br>
<p>the section of the Belgrade-Niš highway, at Bubanj Potok</p><br>
<p>Bolečica is bridged by the Kružni put in Leštane and by the Smederevski put, near the crossroad with Kružni put. Works on building additional 3 kilometers of the road from that point to the rivers mouth into the Danube are halted in 2006. However, this section of the Bolečicas valley is projected route of the future modern highway which should begin at the Bubanj Potok highway crossroad and continue through the projected bridge Vinča-Omoljica into the province of Vojvodina. Despite frequent discussion by the city government on this subject, no projects have been accepted so far.</p><br>
<p>The name of the river means literally "(the water) that cures the illness" (Serbian: bol, ilneess, pain and lečiti, to heal, to cure). Today however, the river is highly polluted, becoming merely an open sewage canal. Dumping of the sewage begins already at Vrčin, and the sewages of all the adjoining settlements, even much larger and distant Kaluđerica. As of March 2007, the projected sewage collector is still not finished. In addition, Bolečica flows through two emerging industrial zones, those of Bubanj Potok and Leštane. The dumping of industrial waste contributed to the demise of the wildlife in the river, which until the late 1990s was clear brook with small fishes and frogs, but today is dead, murky and full of waste deposits and not suitable even for the industrial use anymore.</p><br>
<p>Łysica is the highest mountain in Świętokrzyskie Mountains of Poland. Its height is 612 m. It is located in the Świętokrzyski National Park and there is an abbey below it, on a site that might have been a pagan temple before the times of baptism of Poland.</p><br>
<p>Łysica, which is also called Gora Swietej Katarzyny (St. Catherine’s Mountain) lies in western part of the Lysogory range, near the village of Swieta Katarzyna. It belongs to the so-called Crown of Polish Mountains (“Korona Gor Polskich”), as it is the highest mountain of Holy Cross Mountains. Łysica has two peaks, eastern, and western, with the latter being higher by 4 meters.</p><br>
<p>The mountain is made of quartzite and slate, its northern and southern slopes are marked by the stone run. Furthermore, on the southern slope, at the height of 590 meters, there is a small bog. Most of Łysica is covered by a forest, near the peak there are fir trees, below which are beeches. Łysica is inhabited by birds of prey, such as the lesser spotted eagle, the Eurasian sparrowhawk, and the Eurasian hobby.</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church of Dallas is a historic congregation at 1835 Young Street in the Farmers Market District of downtown Dallas, Texas . The current building is a contributing property in the Harwood Historic District and a Dallas Landmark. The congregation was founded in 1856 as the first USA  Presbyterian Church organized in Dallas, and is the mother church from which many other Presbyterian churches in the area have stemmed.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church of Dallas was founded February 3, 1856, by the Rev. Robert Hamilton Byers, stated supply pastor for Presbyterian churches in Rusk and Henderson counties. The church began with eleven members. It lacked a formal place of worship so members met at various times in private homes, a blacksmith shop, a lumber yard, the courthouse, and a printing shop.</p><br>
<p>In 1873 the congregation erected its first owned building at Elm and Ervay streets. Its second home was built in 1882 at Harwood and Main streets, the first brick church in Dallas. By 1897 this structure had been enlarged and so extensively remodeled that it was considered to be a new (third) building. The style was Victorian eclectic.</p><br>
<p>The present sanctuary and Harwood Street Educational Building at Harwood and Wood, the congregation&#39;s fourth home, were built in 1911–12 by the Alex Watson Construction Company and opened on March 2, 1913. The Greek Revival church edifice was designed by C.D. Hill, a prominent Dallas architect. The Corinthian columns that flank the entrance doors on Harwood and Wood Streets are monolithic—the first in Dallas. Each column was shipped to Dallas on a separate flatcar from Indiana.</p><br>
<p>The exterior walls contain the original pictorial windows of "art glass." These were prepared by the Kansas City Stained Glass Works Company and shipped to Dallas in 1912. The interior design is a modified Akron Plan. The Akron plan was developed by Akron, Ohio architects (1900–1920) to promote efficiency of movement by congregants between worship and Sunday School. This plan is characterized by a semicircular amphitheater with curved seating, opening to classrooms immediately adjacent to the Sanctuary.</p><br>
<h2>Community involvement</h2><br>
<p>Since its early days First Presbyterian has been a leader in provided social services for Dallas.</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church began a home to house the citys orphaned and abandoned children at Annex and Bryan Streets. Today a state historical marker stands at the entrance to the Presbyterian Childrens Home and Service Agency in Itasca, Texas, tracing the institution&#39;s roots to this Dallas church.</p><br>
<p>Children&#39;s Medical Center, adjacent to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, had its beginning as a clinic for small children in the basement of First Presbyterian Church in 1921. It was the first free clinic in the Southwest.</p><br>
<p>The congregation began its Stewpot ministry to the homeless and disadvantaged in 1975. The Stewpot and its many related ministries have received national recognition and serve as models for other churches/cities. In May 2008, First Presbyterian entered into an agreement with the city of Dallas and the Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance to move the Stewpots meal service to The Bridge, Dallas brand new, state-of-the-art homeless assistance center, where they now serve 3 meals a day, 7 days a week.</p><br>
<p>Łysogóry is the largest mountain range in Świętokrzyskie Mountains. It is 25 km long, and runs from the Lubrzanka river in the northwest, to the area of Nowa Słupia in the southeast. It contains the highest peak of the Świetokrzyskie Mountains  and its most famous mountain .</p><br>
<p>Łysogóry can be divided into two parts:</p><br>
<p>eastern half, densely covered by the Jodlowa Wilderness (Puszcza Jodlowa), which contains both highest peaks of the range, and it lies within boundaries of Swietokrzyski National Park,</p><br>
<p>western half, less forested and with smaller peaks.</p><br>
<p>Łysogóry is mostly made of quartzite, with numerous stone runs. The range is crossed by several tourist trail - red trail of Edmund Massalski, and two blue trails.</p><br>
<h2>The peaks</h2><br>
<p>Łysica – 612 m.</p><br>
<p>Łysa Góra – 595 m.</p><br>
<p>Ksieza Skala – 550 m.</p><br>
<p>Hucka – 547 m.</p><br>
<p>Biala Skala – 547 m</p><br>
<p>Widna Skala – 544 m</p><br>
<p>Sztymber – 530 m</p><br>
<p>Chelmiec – 456 m</p><br>
<p>Radostowa – 451 m</p><br>
<p>Krainski Grzbiet – 428 m</p><br>
<p>Wymyslona – 415 m.</p><br>
<p>Sidcot Swallet is a cave near Burrington Combe, in the Carboniferous Limestone of the Mendip Hills, in Somerset, England.</p><br>
<p>It was named after the Sidcot School Speleological Society who explored it in 1925.</p><br>
<p>A swallet, also known as a sinkhole, sink, shakehole, swallow hole or doline, is a natural depression or hole in the surface topography caused by the removal of soil or bedrock, often both, by water flowing beneath.</p><br>
<p>After Goatchurch Cavern, Sidcot Swallet is probably the most popular cave on Mendip for novice parties. What it lacks in length or depth is adequately compensated for by its sporty squeezes and narrow crawls. Despite its popularity, many calcite formations still remain intact in the farthest reaches of the cave.</p><br>
<p>Port Davey is an oceanic inlet located in the south west region of Tasmania, Australia.</p><br>
<p>Port Davey was named in honour of Thomas Davey, a former Governor of Tasmania. Port Davey is contained within the Port Davey/Bathurst Harbour Marine Nature Reserve, the Melaleuca to Birchs Inlet Important Bird Area and the Southwest National Park, part of the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area.</p><br>
<h2>Location and features</h2><br>
<p>Port Davey lies between the Southern Ocean and Bathurst Harbour, which is linked by the Bathurst Channel. The inlet leads north into Payne Bay, fed by the Davey River, with Payne Bay being defined by the features of Davey Head to the west, and Mount Berry to the east. The eastern aspect from Joe Page Bay to Bathurst Harbour is sheltered from the Roaring Forties that buffet the south and west coasts of Tasmania by a narrow part of the inlet that effectively makes the land to the south a peninsula. The north-south ranges on the peninsula&#39;s South West Cape Range and Melaleuca Range lie to the west of the Southwest Conservation Area which is a section of land excluded from the South West National Park that exists between Melaleuca Inlet on the south side of Bathurst Harbour and Cox Bight on the south coast.</p><br>
<p>It is the penultimate waypoint on the western part of the South Coast Walking Track that is also known as South Coast and Port Davey Tracks.</p><br>
<p>Port Davey is not populated, but for many years Deny King and family resided at Melaleuca, engaged in alluvial tin mining. Since the death of Deny</p><br>
<p>King in 1991, the family retain a leasehold within the national park and are actively involved in conservation programs but are not permanently resident.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The French navigator Marion du Fresne was the first European to record the inlet now called Port Davey, in March 1772. On 13 December 1798, when Flinders was off the West Coast, he mentioned Marions small chart of the area, and tried to take the Norfolk in closer to investigate the opening marked on Marions chart. That opening was clearly marked on Flinders first map of "Van Diemens Land" Published in 1800. James Kelly has always been seen as the first to discover Port Davey – However Kelly would have seen Flinders&#39; maps and may have had them with him.</p><br>
<p>In the 1800s, a small piners settlement and boatyard was located on Payne Bay on Port Davey&#39;s north. The settlement remained until the 1900s when the Huon Pine trade ceased. Another temporary settlement was located at Bramble Cove behind the Breaksea Islands to serve the whaling industry in the early 1800s. Nothing remains of the site except for a few huon pine headstones from an old cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The Bathurst Harbour/Port Davey area was marked on early 1800s maps as being the site for a settlement named Bathurst. The exact location of the proposed settlement varied depending on the map. Locations included Bramble Cove, Joe Page Bay below Mount Mackenzie and the Rowitta Plains. By the Victorian era, cartographers discontinued marking the settlement along with others such as Montgomery south of the Spero River, Cracroft on the Arthur Plains and Huntley in the Upper Florentine Forests west of Mount Field National Park.</p><br>
<p>The pioneer aviator Francis McClean organized and led an expedition to Port Davey to observe the May 9, 1910 solar eclipse.</p><br>
<p>In the late 1930s, the British Zionist League considered a number of other places where a Jewish homeland could be established. The Kimberley region in Australia was considered until the Curtin government (in office: 1941–1945) rejected the possibility.</p><br>
<p>Later and with the support of the then Premier of Tasmania, Robert Cosgrove (in office from 1939), Critchley Parker proposed a Jewish settlement at Port Davey, in south west Tasmania.</p><br>
<p>Parker surveyed the area, but his death in 1942 put an end to the idea. See Other Possibilities for A Homeland For the Jewish People</p><br>
<p>Waller Hall is the oldest building on the campus of Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, United States. Built in 1867 as University Hall, the five-story, red-brick structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. The building has been gutted twice by fires with the interior rebuilt each time, and went through renovations in 1987 to 1989 and again in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Built in the Renaissance style of architecture, it is currently used for administration offices and is the oldest university building west of the Mississippi in the USA still in use. Waller Hall is located on the north end of campus opposite the Oregon State Capitol building across State Street. Designed in the shape of a Greek cross, each side has the same measurements and the top has a cupola.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Background</h3><br>
<p>Due to a variety of factors, including the deterioration of the main campus building dating from 1844 and the need for additional space, the university considered building a new building designed specifically for the university beginning in the 1850s. Then on October 3, 1860, the board of trustees for the school resolved to begin the process of building a new primary hall to be used by the university. Reverend Alvin F. Waller was placed in charge of the efforts to raise the funds needed for a building. However, this was unsuccessful and on November 19, 1862, the board again passed a resolution calling for a new structure and forming a committee of Waller, Gustavus Hines, Josiah Lamberson Parrish, J. Lamson, and John H. Moores to prepare plans.</p><br>
<p>On December 2, the trustees authorized subscriptions to be solicited and paid to Waller with a goal of $20,000. Several designs were then considered for the new building, and on February 22, 1864, by a vote of 16 to 1 the board selected the final plan that called for a brick building with a stone foundation. The foundation was to rise to a level 3 ft above the ground to prevent moisture from the ground seeping into the bricks.</p><br>
<h3>Construction</h3><br>
<p>Construction of the new building began in February 1864 with excavation of the basement. Then on July 24, the cornerstone of the building was laid into place in a ceremony. This ceremony included a time capsule and a speech by Governor A. C. Gibbs.</p><br>
<p>All of the bricks used in the construction were fired on campus using clay excavated from the construction site in order to build the foundation. The builders ordered 500,000 bricks total for the construction project. Construction was completed in 1867 and the building was named University Hall. The school "marched" from the old school building to the new and began using it on October 21, 1867.</p><br>
<p>Total costs for the building were $40,000 at occupation with a need for approximately an additional $17,000 to finish and furnish the building.</p><br>
<h3>Later years</h3><br>
<p>The old school building, the Oregon Institute, burned down in December 1872 leaving University Hall as the only building on campus. As a result, all departments were housed in the building including the College of Law from 1884 to 1923 when it moved to Eaton Hall and the Medical School from 1867 until 1880 when it moved to Portland. University Hall remained the only permanent campus building from 1872 when the Oregon Institute building burned down until 1906 when the Medical Building (now Art Building) was built. Other school buildings such as the first Lausanne Hall were located off campus.</p><br>
<p>On September 16, 1891, University Hall, the schools first brick building, caught on fire. As a result of the fire the top two floors of the building as well as the roof were destroyed. The building was then re-built after the 1891 fire, but unlike the original plans it was constructed with a Mansard style roof. Additionally, a square tower was also built on top in lieu of the original cupola which included a school bell. From its construction until 1987, Waller Hall was used as an academic hall and hosted classes along with housing the schools chapel and as offices for the faculty.</p><br>
<p>In 1912, Willamette renamed the building in honor of the Reverend Alvan (Alvin) F. Waller who was instrumental in getting the hall built. A campaign launched in 1920 by the university was set to raise $100,000 to be used for the reconstruction of Waller, plus completing the new Lausanne Hall and adding a central heating plant.</p><br>
<p>There was some discussion of demolishing the hall in the 1980s after the structure had become dilapidated. These renovations also turned the attic into an office suite for the school’s president. After renovations in 1988 the building was used for university administration offices. Further renovations were completed in 2005 at a cost of $1.3 million for upgrading the 100-year-old windows to newer energy efficient models, repairing the brick, fixing leaks, installing skylights, re-painting, and slightly lightening the exterior red-brick coloring.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Waller Hall was built in the Renaissance style of architecture. This red brick building was designed in the same proportions as a Greek cross. Bishop Janes was responsible for proposing this use of the cross shape for the building. Each of the two wings is 84 ft long and 44 ft wide with aedicule porches on the west, east, and north ends of the building. Originally, the building was 100 ft tall as measured from the base of the building to the top of the dome. The distance from the eaves of the structure to the base is 50 ft. The basement of the building is 12 ft high and the first floor 16 ft high. The foundation is made of stone and the roof has composition shingles. Both the second and third floors are 12 ft tall. The hall has a cupola topping the structure. Other details include pilasters, dentils, and brick corbelling on the exterior and circular stairways on the interior.</p><br>
<h2>Currently</h2><br>
<p>Waller Hall houses alumni relations, the school’s business office, human resources for the university, the office of communications, university relations, the President’s office, and other administrative functions. Additionally, Cone Chapel is on the building&#39;s second floor and seats 300. Cone Chapel features over a dozen stained glass windows and a classic pipe organ. The chapel is occasionally used for commencement ceremonies, lectures, and concerts at the school. Waller Hall sits in the north central part of campus directly opposite of the Oregon State Capitol. The structure is the oldest university building west of the Mississippi River still in use in the United States.</p><br>
<p>In 1992, during the university&#39;s sesquicentennial, the United States Postal Service issued a postal card that featured an image of Waller Hall. Featuring a watercolor painting by George C. Warner of Eugene, Oregon, these 19 cent postcards were part of the Postal Service’s Historic Preservation Series.</p><br>
<h2>Timeline</h2><br>
<p>Mount Nitai  is a mountain in Israel; it is situated west of the Sea of Galilee and north of the city of Tiberias and is due west of Mount Arbel. Har Nitai is named after Nittai of Arbela. The cliffs of both Nitai and Arbel are visible when looking southwest from Capernaum on the shore of the Sea of Galillee.</p><br>
<p>A valley with a stream through it separates Har Nitai from Har Arbel. Atop Har Nitai is a grove of trees and the ruins of an ancient settlement, identified as the ancient village of Arbel (cf. Hosea 10:14). The eastern boundary of the site is marked by the ruins of an ancient wall, and approximately 80 metres east of the wall is a sheer drop-off, or cliff. Ancient residents may have built the wall for safety-reasons (for example, to prevent their children from having access to the cliff); or perhaps to enclose a defendable area, bounded by the wall and the cliff, to repel attackers. Excavation must be performed and evidence unearthed to interpret the site’s history.</p><br>
<p>The Yung See San Fong House, or "Young&#39;s Home in the Heart of the Hills", is a house in Los Gatos in the USA state of California. It is a combination of Asian decorative motifs and pagoda roofs together with Western massing and layout. It was completed in 1917 for Ruth Comfort Mitchell Young, a writer, and her husband, Sanborn Young, a gentleman farmer, conservationist and later California State Senator.</p><br>
<p>Ruth had spent summers in Los Gatos, where her parents and grandparents had summer homes. In 1916 the Youngs started building Yung See San Fong on property granted to them by her parents. Earlier that year, her play The Sweetmeat Game opened at the Palace Theatre on Broadway starring Olive Wyndham. With a Chinese setting the successful play toured the Orpheum circuit around the country for two years.</p><br>
<p>Chinese traditions were adhered to as exemplified by the winding road, which was supposed to deter the devil from finding the house. A statue of the Chinese God of Rice and Plenty still greets visitors at the main gate.</p><br>
<p>Materials used in the house&#39;s construction include stucco, wooden shake shingles, and board and batten siding. The interior has hand-carved wooden panels with Chinese characters. The rooms were furnished with Chinoiserie hand-carved teak tables and chairs, prints, embroideries, and works of art. The dining room, which was screened in the summer and had glass windows in the winter, had woven sea grass seat furniture, which was stylish for the time.</p><br>
<p>Yung See San Fong was basically a self-sustaining farm where vegetables and poultry were raised. In an interview, Young stated, "We raise everything we eat but the staple groceries and the." A Chinese man named Gin directed the household until the late 1920s. His activities included cooking the meals, planting the gardens, milking the cows, and assisting with the interior decoration.</p><br>
<p>As the Youngs were prominent politically and civically, many well-known people visited here, including President Herbert Hoover, who lived in nearby Palo Alto. Others included movie stars Joan and Constance Bennett, and Senator James D. Phelan, former Mayor of San Francisco.</p><br>
<p>The house is now a private residence.</p><br>
<p>The Napier Ranges are located in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The range is south of and runs parallel to the King Leopold Range.</p><br>
<p>The majority of the Kimberley is composed of sandstone but the Napier Range is mostly made from heavily eroded limestone, or karst, with the ridges composed of an ancient Devonian reef system.</p><br>
<p>They feature the impressive Windjana Gorge and Tunnel Creek and Geikie Gorge that were formed over 350 million years ago as part of the same limestone reef.</p><br>
<p>The Fitzroy River cuts through the range at Geikie Gorge, while the Lennard River is responsible for the formation of Windjana Gorge. The Barker River also carved Barker gorge through the range.</p><br>
<p>The highest point in the Napier Range is Mount Behm that is 325 m above sea level.</p><br>
<p>The ranges were made famous by Pigeon (Jandamarra - tribal name) who was the subject of a massive police hunt and caused the construction of the Lillimilura police outpost which is on the southern side of the ranges approximately four kilometres from Windjana.</p><br>
<p>Some small deposits of copper and lead have been discovered in the Range but no active mine sites exist within the area.</p><br>
<p>A major expedition was carried out through the Range in 1988 by the Royal Geographical Society and the Linnaean Society involving 30 scientists. The scientists were studying the biology and geomorphology of the Range.</p><br>
<p>Sooke Basin is a small  body of water on the southern end of Vancouver Island in southwestern British Columbia. It is connected to the Strait of Juan de Fuca by Sooke Harbour, a 4 km long narrow natural harbour.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Sooke Basin is a salt water body located between Sooke and East Sooke. The shores of Sooke Basin are mostly rock, but along the north shore there are beautiful sandy beaches. Scattered around the remainder are occasional muddy and pebbly beaches.</p><br>
<h3>Islands</h3><br>
<p>Three small islets form the Goodridge Islands, located in the southeastern portion of the basin.</p><br>
<h3>Coves</h3><br>
<p>Roche Cove, a small shallow cove is located on the east end of Sooke Basin and is the focal point of the 143-hectare Roche Cove Regional Park. The narrow mouth of Roche Cove, spanned by a small bridge, makes for interesting passage as the tidal currents can be quite strong. The mouth is passable by small powerboats at mid and high tides. Roche Cove is located at the boundary between Sooke and East Sooke.</p><br>
<p>Anderson Cove, a small shallow cove is located on the southeast of Sooke Basin. The entrance to Anderson Cove is quite narrow and shallow but is passable with local knowledge at mid and high tides. The shores of Anderson Cove are dotted with expensive East Sooke homes. The only public boat launch in the Sooke Basin and its coves is located in Anderson Cove.</p><br>
<p>Coopers Cove is formed by the Goodridge Peninsula, the location of a former sawmill and the site of a proposed resort. Goodridge Peninsula was formed when the main portion, previously an island, was connected to the shore of Vancouver Island.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Sooke Basin is named for the T&#39;sou-ke Nation of the Coast Salish peoples, the native inhabitants who had a thriving community and are believed to have been living in the general area for several thousand years before the arrival of the first European explorers. The first known European entry into Sooke Basin was by the Spanish, during the 1790 expedition of Manuel Quimper in the Princesa Real, with Juan Carrasco as pilot. The Spanish gave Sooke Basin the name Puerta de Revilla Gigedo, in honour of then Viceroy of New Spain, Güemes Padilla Horcasitas, Count of Revillagigedo.</p><br>
<h2>Communities</h2><br>
<p>The northern half of the Sooke Basin is contained within the jurisdiction of the municipality of Sooke, while the southern half is located in the East Sooke portion of the Juan de Fuca Electoral Area.</p><br>
<p>Lake Billy Chinook is a reservoir in Jefferson County in the USA state of Oregon. Created by the Round Butte Dam in 1964, Lake Billy Chinook lies in a canyon at the confluence of the Crooked, Deschutes, and Metolius rivers near Culver and Madras. It was named for Billy Chinook, a Native American of the Wasco tribe who traveled alongside American explorers John C. Frémont and Kit Carson in their expeditions of 1843 and 1844.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The canyon in which Lake Billy Chinook lies was carved by the three rivers that flow into the lake. The Deschutes Formation into which it is carved began forming about 11 million years ago, as alternating layers of basaltic lava, stream sediment, and volcanic debris flowed into the area from the Cascade Range.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Deschutes and Crooked River branches of the lake are within the boundaries of The Cove Palisades State Park. The south shores of the Metolius River are public lands administered by the Bureau of Land Management and the United States Forest Service, while the north shores are part of the Warm Springs Indian Reservation. Along with the Island peninsula, there is one island in the lake named Chinook Island.</p><br>
<p>Lake Billy Chinook is a very popular recreational lake in Central Oregon for water skiing, sailing, jet skiing and boating. There are four boat launches around the lake, as well a marina and café on the east shore named the Cove Palisades Resort, which also offers rentals of houseboats and various other watercraft.</p><br>
<p>Southwest of the lake is Lake Billy Chinook Airport, a small, privately owned, public use airport.</p><br>
<h3>Fishing</h3><br>
<p>Lake Billy Chinook offers fishing for brown trout, sockeye salmon, and smallmouth bass, as well as catch and release fishing for spring Chinook salmon and rainbow trout. The lake is also one of the few bodies of water in the United States where bull trout, a threatened species that thrives in Lake Billy Chinook, can be legally fished.</p><br>
<p>As of 2014, the Metolius arm of the lake is closed to fishing.</p><br>
<h3>Cove Palisades State Park</h3><br>
<p>The majority of Lake Billy Chinook is surrounded by The Cove Palisades State Park. The state park offers both camping and lodging and is open all year for day use. The Cove Palisades consists of two campgrounds: Crooked River Campground (open all year) and the Deschutes Campground which is open from mid-May to mid-September. The Crooked River Campground is located higher up in the canyon where as the Deschutes Campground is walking distance from the water.</p><br>
<h2>The Island</h2><br>
<p>Between the Deschutes and Crooked River branches of the lake, there is a large and isolated 208 acre, 1.75 mi peninsular plateau named the Island. The Island is surrounded on three sides by vertical cliffs at heights of 200 ft to 700 ft above the water. The Island was designated a Research Natural Area by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in 1986. In 1997, the BLM closed the Island to the public, although educational institutions and conservation groups are permitted to visit between May and mid-February.</p><br>
<p>Owing to the steep cliffs that surround it, the Island has never been grazed by livestock, except for one season of grazing by sheep in 1921. As a result, it contains one of the United States&#39; last remaining undisturbed communities of two native vegetation types: western juniper-big sagebrush-bluebunch wheatgrass and western juniper-big sagebrush-bitterbrush. It also is an unusual home to the striped whiptail lizard, a species of southwestern USA deserts that settled the Island by escaping from a recreational vehicle.</p><br>
<p>The Island has not faced a sizable fire in the last century. The lack of a major fire has supported the strong presence of woody vegetation on the Island. The BLM plans to let any fire naturally burn as part of their research, contingent on weather conditions and personnel that can prevent it from affecting the Cove Palisades State Park facilities below the Island.</p><br>
<p>In 2011, USA Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar designated the Island a National Natural Landmark. It is one of nine National Natural Landmarks in Oregon.</p><br>
<p>The Dock Street Theatre is a theater in the historic French Quarter neighborhood of downtown Charleston, South Carolina.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The structure, which was built as a hotel in 1809 and converted to a theater in 1935, occupies the site of the first building in the Thirteen Colonies designed for use as a theater. It has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1973.</p><br>
<p>The theater reopened in 2010 after a $19 million renovation that included major improvements in resistance to dangerous seismic activity and hurricane wind events, the addition of elevators to make the facility fully wheelchair accessible, and greatly improved amenities for the audience.</p><br>
<p>On February 12, 1736 the original Dock Street Theatre opened with a performance of The Recruiting Officer. Built on the corner of Church Street and Dock Street (now known as Queen Street), the Historic Dock Street Theatre was the first building in America built exclusively to be used for theatrical performances. Flora, the first opera performance in America, took place at the Historic Dock Street Theatre.</p><br>
<p>The original Dock Street Theatre was probably destroyed by the Great Fire of 1740 which destroyed many of the buildings in Charlestons French Quarter. In 1809, the current building was built on the site as the Planters Hotel and in 1835 the wrought iron balcony and sandstone columns of the Church Street facade were added. A number of notable persons worked and patronized the Planters Hotel including the noted 19th Century actor Junius Brutus Booth (father of Edwin and John Wilkes Booth). Robert Smalls, an African-American Civil War hero, who stole a steamboat in the harbor and sailed it out past the Confederate held Ft. Sumter and turned it over to the blockading Union Fleet, served as a waiter in the hotels dining room prior to the war. Charlestons famed Planters Punch was first introduced here.</p><br>
<p>After the Civil War, the Planters Hotel fell into disrepair and was slated for demolition. But in 1935, after Milton Pearlstine made the property available to the City of Charleston and at the urging of Mayor Burnet Maybank and other notable citizens, the original building became a Depression Era WPA (Works Progress Administration) project. At that time, the present theatre was constructed within the shell of the Planters Hotel. The hotels grand foyer became the grand foyer of the theatre and the hotels dining room now serves as the box office lobby. The beautiful woodwork and mantels of the second floor drawing room were salvaged from the Radcliffe-King Mansion (circa 1799) which stood at the corner of George and Meeting Streets and was razed to build the College of Charleston gymnasium, another WPA project. Modeled on eighteenth century London playhouses by Charleston architect Albert Simons, the present Dock Street Theatres new stage house and auditorium were built in the hotels courtyard. The local carpenters who were put to work as a part of this Depression era relief effort utilized locally grown and milled native black cypress for the beautiful warm wooden interior. Following this $350,000 renovation, The Historic Dock Street Theatre&#39;s second grand opening took place on November 26, 1937. Notables in the audience included author DuBose Heyward (Porgy) who was named writer-in-residence.</p><br>
<p>The Historic Dock Street Theatre reopened for the third time on March 18, 2010 after a three-year, $19 million renovation by the City of Charleston. This extensive full-scale renovation brought the historic theatre into the 21st century with state-of-the-art lighting and sound, modern heating and air conditioning, and new restrooms and seating. In addition the theatre was made seismically secure and fully handicapped accessible. Extensive sound-proofing was added to ensure that outside noises no longer intruded on performances inside.</p><br>
<p>Now owned and managed by the City of Charleston, The Historic Dock Street Theatre (soon to enter its fourth century as the heart of Charlestons artistic life) is home to many of the Citys finest cultural institutions including Spoleto Festival USA. Charleston Stage, which became the resident professional theatre at the Dock Street Theatre in 1978, produces over 120 performances each season and plays to more than 40,000 patrons annually. In addition more than 15,000 South Carolina students enjoy special school day performances offered by Charleston Stage each year at the Historic Dock Street Theatre.</p><br>
<p>Hovgaard Island is an island 3 nmi long, lying off the northwest coast of Kiev Peninsula, 1.5 nmi southwest of Booth Island in the Wilhelm Archipelago, Antarctica.</p><br>
<p>It was discovered and named "Krogmann-Insel" (Krogmann Island) by the German 1873–74 expedition under Eduard Dallmann, but the name Hovgaard, after Polar explorer and officer of the Danish Navy Andreas Hovgaard, applied by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, 1897–99, under Gerlache, has overtaken the original name in usage. The name Krogmann Point has been given to the western extremity of Hovgaard Island.</p><br>
<p>Hovgaard Island is a popular location for camping in Antarctica among expedition groups due to the presence of a relatively flat campsite along Penola Strait. Campers dig "snow graves" to sleep in. The holes offer protection from the wind.</p><br>
<p>Mount Joyce is a prominent, dome-shaped mountain, 1,830 m high, standing on the south side of David Glacier, 8 nmi northwest of Mount Howard in the Prince Albert Mountains of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was first mapped by the British Antarctic Expedition, 1907–09, which named it for Ernest Joyce who was in charge of general stores, dogs, sledges, and zoological collections with the expedition and who had earlier been with the British National Antarctic Expedition, 1901–04. Joyce was also with the Ross Sea party of Shackleton&#39;s Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914–17.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Mount Joyce, along with nearby nunataks, such as the Trio Nunataks, represents the remnants of a tableland of the Jurassic Ferrar Group, which consists of Kirkpatrick lavas and Ferrar dolerite sills, alternating with rafts of sandstone of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic Beacon Supergroup. The strata dip about 1-2 degrees (at most) to the west. On Mount Joyce only three major dolerite sills are observed, with two thin interleaving seams of Beacon sediments.</p><br>
<p>The Picchetti Winery, also known as the Picchetti Ranch, is a winery located at 13100 Montebello Rd., Cupertino, California in the Picchetti Ranch Open Space Preserve. The Picchetti brothers, Secondo and Vincenzo, for whom the ranch was named, were among the earliest settlers to plant grapes on this ridge, which they named "Monte Bello" or "beautiful mountain." This ridge was later to become one of Santa Clara County&#39;s important vineyard areas.</p><br>
<p>The complex is composed of seven buildings built between 1880 and 1920, which retain their original design details.</p><br>
<p>Vincenzo and Secondo Picchetti settled on Montebello ridge in 1877 and purchased an initial 160 acre for $1,500. The ranch expanded to 500 acre by 1904. The first house on the property was built around 1882, followed by a larger residence in 1886. Both homes, plus the stone winery, were in the Picchetti family until 1976.</p><br>
<p>The first grapes planted were Zinfandel, Carignane and Petite Sirah. At first, the brothers only sold the grapes to local wineries, but in 1896 they decided to make their own wine, becoming one of the early wineries in California (California Bonded Winery number 148).</p><br>
<p>Instrumental in establishing the Montebello School in 1892, Vincenzo served on the first school board and supplied a room for a teacher at his ranch. Vineyards were the life blood of the town of Cupertino&#39;s early economy, although grape parasites destroyed many of the vines in the region in the 1890s.</p><br>
<p>Upon Vincenzo&#39;s death in 1904, sons Antone and John ran the winery and ranch. The front porch of the main house was once screened in and acted as an aviary. Later John had numerous aviaries built - one of those aviaries still stands in front of the homestead house.</p><br>
<p>Commercial wine production ceased in 1963 due to a lack of profitability, and much of the land was sold to the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District. The Santa Clara County Historical Heritage Commission provided funding for the restoration of the winery building. The land produced wine from 1982 to 1998 as Sunrise Winery. In 1998, Leslie Pantling took over the winery and production has resumed to the tune of about 9,000 cases per year under the "Leslie&#39;s Estate" label.</p><br>
<p>Today the Picchetti ranch and winery on Montebello Road remain as evidence of a thriving viticulture industry in early Cupertino.</p><br>
<h2>Picchetti Ranch Open Space Preserve</h2><br>
<p>The 308 acre Picchetti Ranch Open Space Preserve was acquired by the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District in 1976. The winery is leased back to a private party. The preserve is partially surrounded by Stevens Creek County Park, and features 3.7 mi of trails restricted to cyclists.</p><br>
<p>The Mountain Winery, formerly the Paul Masson Mountain Winery, is a winery in Saratoga, California, United States, North America. It was founded by Paul Masson, a pioneer of the California wine industry. The winery became famous for its slogan, voiced by Orson Welles in television commercials: "We will sell no wine before its time."</p><br>
<p>The winery is a California Historical Landmark (#733) and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Masson originally worked for Charles Lefranc, one of a number of French immigrants who had expanded the viticulture introduced into the Santa Clara Valley by the Catholic mission fathers. After Lefrancs death in 1887, Masson had a short-lived partnership with Lefrancs son Henry. Masson bought out Henrys share in the Almaden Vineyards and in 1892 Massons first sparkling wine was introduced at Almaden, and he eventually became known as the "Champagne King of California".</p><br>
<h3>Early 20th Century</h3><br>
<p>In 1901, Masson purchased the Saratoga property. He later centered his sparkling wine production here in Saratoga while other wines were developed at the Almaden operation.</p><br>
<p>In 1905, on a knoll above the winery, Masson built his house, dubbed "The Chateau", where he developed a reputation as an unrivaled host. His wife Louise Masson was a prohibitionist and did not attend the lavish dinner parties held at The Chateau. Masson was able to weather the strains Prohibition placed on the wine industry by selling grapes to the wholesale market and by receiving a special dispensation to sell sacramental wines.</p><br>
<p>After the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the sandstone winery was rebuilt, making use of sandstone blocks from the Saratoga Wine Companys building on Big Basin Way, which had also been destroyed. At this same time, the ancient entrance portal from St. Patricks Church in San Jose, yet another structure claimed by the quake, was added to the structure.</p><br>
<h3>Recent history</h3><br>
<p>In 1952, wine making ceased. A series of concerts began six years later, in 1958. These concerts featured famous performers such as Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Aimee Mann, Ringo Starr, Stevie Wonder, Ray Charles, The Beach Boys, Carlos Santana, Airto Moreira, and Flora Purim.</p><br>
<p>In the late 1970s and early 1980s, a famous chess tournament was held annually on the grounds of the winery, becoming a regional fixture during the early years of Silicon Valley.</p><br>
<p>Around 2000, the owners hired winemaker Jeffrey Patterson to restart winemaking at the site. The vineyards were reestablished at the Mountain Winery in 2004.</p><br>
<p>On 19 August 2010, during a concert featuring folk band The Swell Season, a concert attendee leapt to his death from the roof of the venue onto the stage. The death was deemed a suicide.</p><br>
<p>In 2011, the concert series was produced in affiliation with Live Nation for the last time. Since 2012, each season of the concert series has been produced by AEG Live.</p><br>
<p>Martin Hill is a mountain ridge which connects Tussey Mountain to its east and Evitts Mountain to its west. Martin Hill is located in the Martin Hill Wild Area, which is a part of the Buchanan State Forest, in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. The summit of Martin Hill is one of the few in the Commonwealth which is void of any towers or transmitters; such equipment is located instead on a lesser nearby summit in the same mountain complex. Martin Hill is the second highest in Pennsylvania&#39;s Ridge and Valley Appalachians, the highest being Wills Mountain to its west at 2,780 ft. The highest mountains in the Commonwealth are located in the Allegheny Mountains in western Pennsylvania, where Mount Davis stands at 3,213 ft.</p><br>
<h2>Flora and fauna</h2><br>
<p>Martin Hill is a rugged mountain, with trails that run along the summit ridge and down its slopes. Wildlife on the mountain include bobcat, black bear, ruffed grouse, wild turkey, and the white-tailed deer.</p><br>
<p>Forests dominated by oaks and hickories characterize the mountain; other trees and shrubs include mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia), white pine (Pinus strobus), and hemlock (Tsuga canadensis). Sassafras (Sassafras albidum), fire cherry (Prunus pensylvanica), and striped maple (Acer pensylvanicum) are found on the upper slopes of the mountain.</p><br>
<h2>Other information</h2><br>
<p>The adjacent Sweet Root Natural Area provides 13,000 acre acres of wildland, considered one of the most remote and serene in the Commonwealth.</p><br>
<p>The old forest fire lookout tower was removed in 2003. The views from that tower were beautiful: To the north one could see the ridges of both Evitts and Tussey Mountain fading into the distance. Blue Knob could be seen 30 mi in the distance, rising behind Kinton Knob, the north end of Wills Mountain. To the east Sideling Hill was visible, including its deep road cut on I-68 in Maryland. To the south Dans Mountain in Maryland was visible, and to the west, the Wills Mountain highpoint and the Allegheny Front. Although this panoramic view is no longer available, rock screes and other overlooks in the Wild Area offer other sweeping vistas.</p><br>
<p>The former fire tower site on Martin Hill (829 m) is the highest point on Pennsylvania&#39;s longest footpath, Mid State Trail.</p><br>
<p>Llyn Cefni is a small reservoir in the centre of Anglesey, Wales which is managed by Welsh Water and Hamdden Ltd, while the fishery is managed by the Cefni Angling Association. The reservoir is located just 1 km northwest of the island&#39;s county town of Llangefni and is the source of the Afon Cefni.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>During World War II, a water scheme was devised for the town of Llangefni in central Anglesey. It involved water from a local source being pumped to two settling tanks in the Dingle part of the town. From here the water was pumped across the river to a reservoir and water tower, on the site of the present Pennant Estate. These arrangements became redundant with the building of the Cefni Reservoir, which was completed in 1951, but the settling tanks and pumping station survive in Llangefni to this day. The new scheme was designed to supply most of the water needs for the people of Anglesey for the foreseeable future.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Afon Cefni is one of the main rivers of Anglesey. It was dammed about 1 mi northwest of Llangefni, just below the confluence of the tributary from Tregaian with other streams flowing from the northwest, and the reservoir has a catchment area of about 9,400 acre.</p><br>
<p>The reservoir is fed by two main streams, the Afon Frogwy entering from the west and the Afon Erddreiniog from the north east end.</p><br>
<p>In the summer of 2011, toxic blue-green algae were found in the reservoir and visitors were advised to avoid contact with the water.</p><br>
<p>Astrolabe Glacier is a glacier 4 nmi wide and 10 nmi long, flowing north-northeast from the continental ice and terminating at the coast in a prominent tongue at the east side of Geologie Archipelago. It was first sighted in 1840 by the French expedition under Captain Jules Dumont dUrville, although no glaciers were noted on dUrvilles chart of this coast but a formidable icy dike with perpendicular flanks of 37.7 m high according to the joined plate, corresponding to the glacier tongue. The glacier was photographed from the air by USA Navy Operation Highjump in January 1947. It was charted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1949&ndash;51, and named after dUrville&#39;s flagship, the Astrolabe.</p><br>
<p>The Astrolabe Glacier Tongue (66&deg;42&prime;S latitude, 140&deg;5&prime;E longitude) is a prominent glacier tongue about 3 nmi wide and 4 nmi long, extending northeast from Astrolabe Glacier.</p><br>
<p>The Valley of the Giants is a 51 acre forest preserve owned and managed by the Bureau of Land Management and is located in a remote portion of the Oregon Coast Range of Northwest Oregon in the United States, near the former company town of Valsetz. Receiving greater than 180 in of rain annually, the preserve is home to many large specimens of Douglas-fir and Western Hemlock. A famous specimen is "Big Guy" which at one time was the second largest Douglas-fir known standing in Oregon. Before "Big Guy" was blown down by a wind storm in 1981, it was estimated to be over 600 years old, stood approximately 230 ft above the forest floor, and had an estimated 36.5 ft girth.</p><br>
<p>Valley of the Giants Trailhead 44&deg;56&prime;N latitude, 123&deg;42&prime;W longitude</p><br>
<p>In 1976, the Bureau of Land Management designated the site as an Outstanding Natural Area. The Valley of the Giants is located 30 mi west of Falls City via logging roads generally suitable for passenger cars, if driven slowly. Visitors are encouraged to call BLM’s Salem District Office at 503-375-5646 for directions and road information.</p><br>
<p>As of June 6, 2008, the Oregon Heritage Tree Program dedicated the Valley of the Giants Outstanding Natural Area as a Heritage Tree Grove.</p><br>
<p>The Haas–Lilienthal House at 2007 Franklin Street, San Francisco, California, United States is the city&#39;s only intact Victorian era home that is open regularly as a museum, complete with authentic furniture and artifacts.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>William Haas entrusted Bavarian architect and contractors McCann & Biddell to build his home in 1886.</p><br>
<p>The house withstood the 1906 earthquake with only slight damage. However, the home was threatened by the devastating fire, which followed the earthquake and destroyed about 40% of San Francisco. The Haas family watched the fire from the roof of their house, but was soon forced to evacuate by city authorities. So the family, along with most other San Francisco residents, went to the nearest public park, Lafayette Park, to camp out during the emergency. Later, they temporarily moved to a large house in Oakland while the City was reconstructed.</p><br>
<p>The 1928 addition — living quarters over a garage — were built to provide needed space for the additions to the family when Billy and Madeline were brought to the Haas home. The architect of the addition, Gardner Dailey, later in life received recognition for his work on Ranch-style houses in the Bay Area.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural style and ornamentation</h2><br>
<p>Architecturally, the exterior of the Haas–Lilienthal House contains several of the features that have come to be associated with the word “Victorian”. The house is primarily a Queen Anne style, with some Stick style details.</p><br>
<h2>San Francisco Architectural Heritage</h2><br>
<p>The Haas–Lilienthal House is a property of the non-profit organization San Francisco Architectural Heritage.</p><br>
<h2>Haas–Lilienthal House as a museum</h2><br>
<p>Three generations of Haas and Lilienthal descendants lived at 2007 Franklin Street, after which the house was donated to Heritage. In keeping this house alive, Heritage is helping to educate people about the City’s architectural legacy and why it is important to preserve and protect it.</p><br>
<p>The Haas–Lilienthal House was opened to the public for tours in 1972. It is the only intact private home of the period that is open regularly as a museum, complete with authentic furniture and artifacts.</p><br>
<p>Volunteer docents lead tours of the house which begin in the basement ballroom. The first floor, and the original principal bedchamber, one other bedchamber, a nursery, and one bathroom on the second floor are included in the house tour. The third story, or attic, which contained a spacious redwood-paneled playroom, gym, storage room, and servants’ quarters for the cook and maids, now serve as Heritage offices, as well as the residence of the house manager.</p><br>
<p>Mount Ōyama, also Mount Afuri or Mount Kunimi , is a 1,252 m mountain situated on the border of Isehara, Hadano and Atsugi in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Together with Mount Tanzawa and other mountains in the Tanzawa Mountains it forms the Tanzawa-Ōyama Quasi-National Park. Mount Ōyama is a popular sightseeing spot in Kanagawa Prefecture.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The mountain is made from non-alkali mafic rock. The rock is 7-15 million years old. The rock was extruded on the sea floor during the Neogene and then pushed up and onto the island of Honshu when the Izu-Bonin-Mariana Arc collided with the rest of Japan.</p><br>
<h2>Holy mountain</h2><br>
<p>Mount Ōyama has long been regarded as a holy mountain and object of worship. Religiously motivated mountain climbing has been practiced since the Hōreki era (1751–1764) and the various paths leading there were called Ōyama Kaidō. Today this name survives as the pseudonym of Route 246.</p><br>
<p>At the top of the mountain is the head office of the Ōyama-Afuri Shrine. Lower down the mountain is the lower shrine and the Ōyama-dera. Afuri refers to the high amount of rain and clouds associated with the mountain. Farmers pray at Ōyama-Afuri Shrine to the rain god.</p><br>
<p>The mountain is also known as the Guardian of the Land (Kunimi-yama).</p><br>
<h2>Sightseeing</h2><br>
<p>A bus connects Isehara Station on the Odakyu Odawara Line with the cable car station at the foot of the mountain. A narrow road runs directly between the town areas and the cable car station. The cable car starts from next to Ōyama-dera and climbs to the top station. The top station is not far from the lower Afuri Shrine. Hiking from there it takes about 1.5 hours to climb to the top of the mountain.</p><br>
<p>Tofu and spinning tops are well-known local products. The Ōyama Tofu Festival takes place every March. The Ōyama mountain climbing Marathon also takes place in March between Isehara Station and the lower shrine. The course is over 9 km long and includes an altitude difference of over 650 m. Possible access points for an ascent are the cable car terminus, the temple Hinatayakushi in Isehara, Minoge and the Yabitsu ridge in Hadano.</p><br>
<h2>Photo gallery</h2><br>
<p>Mount Tabor is an extinct or dormant volcanic vent, the city park on the volcano, and the neighborhood of Southeast Portland that surrounds it, all in Oregon. The name refers to Mount Tabor, Israel, part of Portland&#39;s distinct Jewish culture and past. It was named by Plympton Kelly, son of Oregon City pioneer resident Clinton Kelly.</p><br>
<h2>Cinder cone</h2><br>
<p>The peak of Mount Tabor is 636 ft in elevation</p><br>
<p>about two-thirds of this is prominence since the surrounding land is about 200 ft elevation.</p><br>
<p>Near the peak, where a basketball court and outdoor amphitheater are now situated, part of the cinder cone has been cut away, and the rock is visible to park visitors. The remaining cinders were used to pave the nearby parking lot.</p><br>
<p>The Tabor cinder cone is part of the Boring Lava Field, an extensive network of cinder cones and small shield volcanoes ranging from Boring, Oregon to southwest Washington, and dating to the Plio-Pleistocene era. The lava field has been extinct for over 300,000 years. Three other cinder cones from this field also lie within the city of Portland: Rocky Butte, Powell Butte, and Kelly Butte.</p><br>
<p>Portland is one of four cities in the United States to have an extinct volcano (Mount Tabor) within its boundaries. Bend is the only other city in Oregon with a volcano within its city limits, with Pilot Butte. Jackson Volcano in Jackson, Mississippi and Diamond Head in Honolulu being the others.</p><br>
<p>The volcanic nature of Mount Tabor became known in 1912, years after reservoirs and a public park were developed on it.</p><br>
<h2>Park</h2><br>
<p>The 196-acre (0.79-km²) Mount Tabor Park does not appear to have ever been formally ordained by the City as a park. According to archival records, an ordinance declaring Williams Park, named for a prominent citizen, was stopped by neighborhood activists wanting the historic name, Mt. Tabor Park, to be retained. No other ordinance appears to have been enacted to date. The entire park, including the Central Maintenance Yard, was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. The nomination was forwarded by a community effort spearheaded and funded by the Mt. Tabor Neighborhood Association. Mt. Tabor Park is known for its reservoirs, three of which were accepted to the National Register of Historic Places in January 2004. The reservoirs&#39; nomination was also a community effort spearheaded by the Friends of the Reservoirs and funded by donations. The park was designed, along with other Portland parks, by Emanuel Tillman Mische, a highly pedigreed horticulturist and long-time landscape designer for the famed Olmsted Brothers landscape firm. John Charles Olmsted, stepson and nephew of the famed Frederick Law Olmsted, visited Portland in 1903 to help design the site for the Lewis and Clark World Exposition, on the request of Rev. Thomas Lamb Eliot, minister of the First Unitarian Church and relative of Charles Eliot, the son of the president of Harvard University and acclaimed landscape architect and partner in the Olmsted landscape firm in Brookline, Massachusetts. Rev. Eliot arranged for Olmsted to visit Seattle for park planning, too, in order to help make the long trip financially feasible. While John Charles Olmsted was in Portland, Rev. Eliot and other park supporters took him on a tour throughout the city so that he could create a grand plan of parks. Mt. Tabor Park was the largest Portland park until 1947 when Forest Park was created. The land making up the Mt. Tabor volcanic butte was identified for a park in the 1880s due to its ideal elevation for a water distribution system. City fathers formed a water committee and created a municipal water system piping water some 25 miles from the Bull Run River watershed, separate and west of Mt. Hood, to Mt. Tabor reservoirs and across the Willamette River to City Park reservoirs (now Washington Park) in 1894. The Bull Run watershed was among the first federal lands to be set aside in the Forest Reserve Act of 1891 and enacted by president Benjamin Harrison.</p><br>
<p>The Mount Tabor reservoirs were built during the period of 1894 and 1911, along with reservoirs in Washington Park. The reservoirs and their gatehouses are artistically constructed, incorporating extensive reinforced concrete, designed to look like stonework, by two early patented techniques by noted engineer Ernest L. Ransome and wrought-iron fencing and lampposts designed by noted architect William M. Whidden. There were initially four above-ground reservoirs, numbered 1, 2, 5, and 6. (Reservoirs 3 and 4 are at Washington Park, and Reservoir 7 is a small underground reservoir near Mount Tabor&#39;s summit.) Reservoir 2, on the corner of SE 60th and Division, was decommissioned in the 1980s, and the property was sold to a private developer. Its gatehouse remains, and is used as a private residence. Reservoir 6 is the largest, with two 37 million gallon chambers; it also contains a fountain, which was unused for many years; however, it was reactivated in early 2007.</p><br>
<p>The park features a statue of The Oregonian editor and Scottish Rite Freemason, Harvey W. Scott. The bronze statue was dedicated on July 22, 1933, with approximately 3000 in attendance, 23 years after Scott died. Oregon governor Julius Meier was chairman of the event, and Chester Harvey Rowell gave a speech.</p><br>
<h2>Reservoir controversy</h2><br>
<p>The Mt. Tabor reservoirs, along with those in Portland&#39;s Washington Park, have been the subject of a decade-long controversy surrounding lucrative engineering contracts to replace the historic open reservoirs with underground storage tanks. Concern has been raised about the possible relationship between City officials and the engineering firms receiving the no-bid reservoir decommissioning contracts; and about the role these parties may have played in lobbying for pro-underground-tank modifications (the "LT2" rule) to the Safe Drinking Water Act.</p><br>
<p>On June 15, 2011, a man was observed urinating in a nearly 8,000,000 gallon reservoir, prompting city officials to drain the water at a cost of around $36,000.</p><br>
<p>Under LT2 several hundred of the country&#39;s historic open reservoirs were decommissioned.</p><br>
<p>Following pressure from other open-reservoir cities, in 2011 the EPA softened its stance on the LT2 rule and allowed the countrys remaining open reservoirs to halt burial plans; but despite public outcry Mt. Tabors open reservoirs remain slated for decommissioning. In August 2015 the Portland City Council voted for decommissioning, considered to be the final vote on the issue.</p><br>
<h2>Access to the park</h2><br>
<p>Mt. Tabor Park can be entered from 69th Avenue and Yamhill Street on the north side of the volcano, Harrison Street on the east, Lincoln Street on the southwest, and 60th Avenue and Salmon Street on the northwest side. An off-leash dog park is located on the south side near the Harrison entrance.</p><br>
<h3>Hiking</h3><br>
<p>Mt. Tabor has numerous paths and can be climbed from virtually any direction. Three official trails begin and end at the kiosk in the parking lot just west of the park entrance at 69th and Yamhill. The easy one-mile (1.6 km) Red Trail, the intermediate 1.7-mile (2.7 km) Green Trail and the more difficult 3-mile (4.8 km) Blue Trail all circle the volcano by way of gravel paths and paved roads. The Blue Trail includes the 96-step stairway between Reservoirs 5 and 6, and has an optional 0.31-mile (0.5 km) loop around the summit. Bicycles are permitted on the Red and Green Trails. Leashed dogs are permitted on all the trails. Restrooms are available at the trailhead and the visitors center near the 60th and Salmon entrance.</p><br>
<h2>Visitors' center</h2><br>
<p>In October 2011, the Friends of Mount Tabor Park opened a visitors&#39; center in a former storage room at the park.</p><br>
<p>Redland Parish Church is a Georgian church, in 1742, in the Redland suburb of Bristol, England. It is a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It which was built, probably by John Strahan and completed by William Halfpenny, with plasterwork by Thomas Paty, in 1742 as a private chapel for John Cossins who had purchased the local manor house, Redland Court, which is now Redland High School, though it was not consecrated until 1790.</p><br>
<p>The chapel eventually became the parish church when the parish of Redland was separated from Westbury-on-Trym in 1942 and, unusually, has no dedication to a patron saint.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The front of the limestone building has four Ionic pilasters around the door with a pediment above. The roof of the building has an octagonal leaded cupola. On the rear of the buildings are carved moors heads.</p><br>
<p>Inside are a square chancel and a nave. The interior has a coffered ceiling and intricately carved wooden panels showing birds and foliage. The Baroque carvings are made of limewood and mounted on dark oak background. The original pulpit was of three levels however this was reduced to two in the Victorian era. Memorial busts of John Cossins and his wife were carved by John Michael Rysbrack.</p><br>
<p>The walls and gates were constructed in 1743. The gate piers have ziggurat tops and gates made by Nathaniel Arthur.</p><br>
<h2>Archives</h2><br>
<p>Parish records for Redland Green church, Bristol are held at Bristol Archives (Ref. P.RG) () including baptism, marriage and burial registers. The archive also includes records of the incumbent, churchwardens and parochial church council plus photographs.</p><br>
<p>Polar Bear Peak is a 6,614 ft mountain in the USA state of Alaska, located in Chugach State Park. Situated in the Chugach Mountains, it lies at the head of South Fork Eagle River, 5 mi ESE of Eagle Lake, and 22 mi ESE of downtown Anchorage. The peak was named in 1963 by members of the Mountaineering Club of Alaska because a snow patch on its north face resembles a Polar bear skin.</p><br>
<h2>Terrain</h2><br>
<p>Beginning at approximately 1000 ft., Polar Bear Peak becomes a predominantly alpine zone, characterized by exposed rock, extremely scant vegetation, a variety of lichens, and snow pack (including year-round snowfields and glaciers).</p><br>
<h2>Wildlife</h2><br>
<p>Like many Alaskan mountains, Polar Bear Peak may be frequented by rock ptarmigan, Dall 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>The Hayes Mansion is a historic mansion estate in the Edenvale neighborhood of San Jose, California. The mansion currently operates as a luxury hotel resort and is occasionally referred to as the Dolce Hayes Mansion Hotel, as part of Dolce Hotels and Resorts.</p><br>
<p>Originally the home of the Hayes family, the mansion is regarded as one of the best examples of late 19th-century Mediterranean Revival architecture in the Santa Clara Valley. It is a California Historical Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Architect George Page was commissioned in 1903 by Mary Chynoweth, widow of Anson Hayes and wife of San Jose attorney Thomas Chynoweth, to build a home to replace the Hayes family’s wooden English Baroque mansion, which had burned to the ground in 1899. Intended to provide a triple residence for the Chynoweths and growing families of Marys two sons (Everis A. Hayes and Jay Orly Hayes), the homes design incorporated the latest fire safety features of the day.</p><br>
<p>Early on, the property was self-sufficient, with its own power plant, a post office, railroad station, carriage stop, lodgings for 40 ranch hands, and a chapel. The family grew fruits and vegetables and raised its own livestock. Everis A. Hayes and Jay Hayes went on to help develop the Santa Clara Valley fruit industry and became the publishers of the San Jose Mercury. Three USA Presidents visited the mansion during their prominence.</p><br>
<p>The family sold the property during the 1950s, after which the building remained vacant for some time then became dilapidated. Purchased by the City of San Jose during the 1990s, the property was renovated and expanded to its present state. The building now contains 33,000 ft2 of meeting space and 214 guest rooms and is surrounded by a 20 acre park.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The 41,000 ft&sup2; Mediterranean villa features exotic woods, imported marble and ornate stained glass windows. Constructed in the shape of a Maltese Cross, its long center section contains an 18-foot (5.45 m) wide solarium connecting the north and south wings.</p><br>
<p>A loggia connects the east with the west. Walls are stucco coated double brick. Fire-safety features include fire hose cabinets connected to water tanks on the third floor and a kitchen located in a separate building connected to the mansion by a glass and marble conservatory.</p><br>
<p>The Germantown Cricket Club is a cricket club in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was one of the four principal cricket clubs in the city and was one of the clubs contributing members to the famous Philadelphian cricket team. It was founded on 1 August 1854 in what is now the northwest section of the city, and is the nations second oldest cricket club. Its clubhouse was designed by architects McKim, Mead & White, the same architects who designed the Newport Casino tennis club. It is supposed to be the place where tennis first started in America. The USA National tennis championship, precursor to todays US Open, was played on Germantown Cricket&#39;s lawn tennis courts from 1921 to 1923.</p><br>
<p>One of the most famous cricket matches held at Germantown was that against Lord Hawkes team in 1891. The game was attended by over 7000 spectators and led to the founding of the Associated Clubs of Philadelphia which selected the top cricketers in Philadelphia each year to represent the city on the Gentlemen of Philadelphia team. Cricket is still regularly played on Germantowns exquisitely maintained cricket pitch lawn during the spring and fall, bracketing the summer tennis season.</p><br>
<p>The Germantown Cricket Club was located in Nicetown from 1877 until 1890 when it moved to its present Manheim Street location after the merging with the Young America Cricket Club in 1890. The Newhall brothers joined the Germantown cricket team at this time after being the backbone of the Young America Cricket Club for forty years. George Newhall became editor of the American Cricketer which was published from 1877 to 1926. Walter Newhall scored his first century aged 12 and died in the Civil War. He fought on the Union side. It continues as a private club with facilities for tennis, squash, swimming, and special events. The club&#39;s facilities are a designated National Historic Landmark.</p><br>
<p>Mount William is a prominent snowy mountain in Antarctica, standing 1,600 m tall, and located 6 km north-northeast of Cape Lancaster which is the south extremity of Anvers Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. This is the tallest mountain visible from Biscoe Bay, near the south end of the island&#39;s Osterrieth Range which also includes Mount Français .</p><br>
<p>This mountain was discovered on February 21, 1832, by John Biscoe who incorrectly believed it to be part of the mainland of Antarctic Peninsula, instead of on an island. He named it for William IV, then King of the United Kingdom.</p><br>
<p>Mountain climbers from the U.K. were the first to ascend this peak, in 1956. In 2003, after climbing this mountain, two Americans skied down.</p><br>
<p>Afon Cefni is one of the major rivers on the island of Anglesey, Wales. It is 16.9 km long. The river starts at the Llyn Cefni in the centre of the island and then runs south through the county town of Llangefni. Just north of the A55 the river turns and flows south-west. It passes through the flatlands of the Malltraeth Marshes, where the river course was altered in 1824, creating a canal-like straight stretch. This part of the river and the surrounding marshes, part of which is a RSPB reserve, are frequented by a variety of wetland birds which in their turn are preyed on by falcons, hawks and harriers. A cycle trail follows the straightened course of the river as it flows through the marshes.</p><br>
<p>Finally it flows under a bridge carrying the North Wales Coast Railway Line at Malltraeth Sands in the south-west of the island and into the Irish Sea. The viaduct is described as "noble" and has nineteen arches. An embankment carries the A4080 across the estuary at the village of Malltraeth, half a mile below the railway bridge. Another RSPB reserve is to be found in the estuary here, Newbourough Warren. Malltraeth Pool at the north end of the estuary is a place visited by many waterbirds during their spring and autumn migrations, and other wildfowl and waders are to be seen on the estuary all winter. Newborough Forest on the southern shore is used by large numbers of ravens as a winter roost, and a peninsular and a rocky islet in the estuary are a breeding ground for shags and cormorants.</p><br>
<p>There was a ship named after the river built in Glasgow in 1890 by a company based in Menai Bridge.</p><br>
<p>Another Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel existed at the NASA Langley Research Center</p><br>
<p>The Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel, located at the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Federal Airfield, Mountain View, California, United States, is a research facility used extensively to design and test new generations of aircraft, both commercial and military, as well as NASA space vehicles, including the Space Shuttle. The facility was completed in 1955 and is one of five facilities created after the 1949 Unitary Wind Tunnel Plan Act supporting aeronautics research.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>After the construction of the Variable Density Tunnel at Langley in 1921, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics built a variety of technical research facilities upon which the American aircraft industry was based. These facilities enabled the American aircraft industry to dominate the skies in both commercial and military aviation. By 1945, America&#39;s lead in the field of aviation seemed to be evaporating. The technological achievements of the German missiles and jet aircraft indicated a lag in American aeronautical research.</p><br>
<p>In 1949, Congress passed the Unitary Wind Tunnel Plan Act, under which the Federal government coordinated a national plan of facility construction encompassing NACA, as well as the Air Force, private industry, and universities. The Unitary Plan resulted in the construction of a new series of wind tunnel complexes to support the American aircraft industry, including the Ames Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel Complex.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>Construction of this facility began in 1950-1951 and continued until 1955. Because no one wind tunnel could meet all the demands for additional research facilities simulating the entire range of aircraft and missile flight, NACA chose to build the Ames tunnel with three separate test sections drawing power from a common centralized power plant. The transonic test section spanned 11 by 11 feet (3.3 x 3.3 m), while the two supersonic sections were smaller: nine by seven feet (2.7 x 2.1 m) and eight by seven feet (2.4 x 2.1 m). Giant valves 20 feet (6 m) in diameter supplied air from one supersonic leg to another.</p><br>
<p>The American West Coast aircraft industry quickly capitalized on the Ames Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel Complex. The famed Boeing fleet of commercial transports and the Douglas DC-8, DC-9, and DC-10 were all tested here; as well as military aircraft such as the F-111 fighter, the C-5A Galaxy transport and the B-1 Lancer bomber. In addition to aircraft, in the 1960s and 1970s almost all NASA manned space vehicles including the Space Shuttle were tested in the Ames Unitary Plan Wind tunnel complex.</p><br>
<p>The Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel has three closed-loop wind tunnels, each with its own model test section, but all sharing the same powerful electric motors (100,000 horsepower, 75,000 kilowatts) driving their compressors to propel the air within them. Because of this shared layout, only one UPWT test section can be used at a time. The three wind tunnels that are part of this system are:</p><br>
<p>11-by 11-foot Transonic Test Section. A closed-return, variable-density tunnel with a fixed-geometry, ventilated test section with a flexible wall nozzle with a Mach range of 0.20 to 1.45.</p><br>
<p>9-by 7-foot Supersonic Test Section. A closed circuit, single return, variable density, continuous flow wind tunnel with a Mach range of 1.55 to 2.55.</p><br>
<p>8-by 7-foot Supersonic Test Section. A closed circuit, single return, variable density, continuous flow wind tunnel</p><br>
<p>The Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Engineering</h2><br>
<p>The major element of the tunnel complex is its drive system, consisting of four intercoupled electric motors. The transonic wind tunnel is a closed-return, variable density tunnel with a fixed geometry, ventilated throat, and a single-jack flexible nozzle. Airflow is produced by a three-stage, axial-flow compressor powered by four-wound-rotor, variable-speed induction motors. For conventional steady-state tests, models are generally supported on a string. A Schlieren system, one that allows regions of varying refraction in a transparent medium caused by pressure or temperature differences and detectable by photographing the passage of a beam of light, is available for studying flow patterns, either by direct viewing or by photographs.</p><br>
<p>The details of the larger supersonic tunnel are much the same, except that it is equipped with an asymmetric, sliding-block nozzle and the airflow is produced by an 11-stage, axial-flow compressor powered by four variable-speed, wound-rotor, induction motors. The smaller supersonic tunnel is a closed-return, variable-density tunnel equipped with a symmetrical, flexible-wall throat and the sidewalls are positioned by a series of jacks operated by hydraulic motors.</p><br>
<p>The Sarah Orne Jewett House is a historic house museum at 5 Portland Street in South Berwick, Maine, United States. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1991 for its lifelong association with the American author Sarah Orne Jewett , whose influential work exemplified regional writing of the late 19th century. The house, built in 1774, is a high-quality example of late Georgian architecture. It is now owned by Historic New England, and is open for tours every weekend between June and October, and two Saturdays per month the rest of the year.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Jewett House is set prominently at the northeast corner of Main and Portland Streets in the center of South Berwick, Maine. The house, a two story wood frame structure with clapboard siding, was built in 1774 for John Haggins, a successful merchant. It is surmised from the modest exterior and elaborate interior that Haggins did exceptionally well during the American Revolutionary War, and was thus able to afford a higher quality of workmanship for the interior.</p><br>
<p>The main block of the house is five bays wide and two deep, with a hip roof pierced in front by three gabled dormers. A gable-roofed Colonial Revival portico shelters the main entrance; it (and the dormers) were added in the late 19th century. A two-story ell extends to the rear of the main block. The interior has an elaborately-decorated entrance hall, with a keystone arch supported by fluted pilasters, and a staircase whose carved balusters and posts were reported to take two men 100 days to complete. The public rooms downstairs also feature decorative Georgian carved paneling. The rooms are decorated to the late 19th century, and the bedroom of Sarah Orne Jewett on the second floor is essentially as it was when she died there.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Theodore Jewett, also a merchant, moved his family into the house sometime in the 1820s. John Haggins died in 1819, and his estate sold the house to Jewett in 1839. His son, Dr. Theodore H. Jewett, moved into the house in 1848, and it is here that his second daughter Sarah was born. From 1854 to 1877 the young family lived next door, in what is now called the Jewett-Eastman House. Sarah Orne Jewett and her sister Mary inherited this house in 1887, with their younger sister Caroline moving into the 1854 house next door. The two sisters, neither of whom ever married, lived in the house for the rest of their lives, Sarah dying in 1909, and Mary in 1930. The house was inherited by Caroline&#39;s husband Edwin Eastman; he gave the property to the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA, now Historic New England). That organization now operates the main house as a house museum dedicated to Sarah Orne Jewett, with the Jewett-Eastman House serving as a visitors center.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and was declared a National Historic Landmark on July 17, 1991.</p><br>
<p>Sarah Orne Jewett became widely known for her writing after the publication in 1896 of The Country of the Pointed Firs. The work popularized a form of literature now called American literary regionalism, in which the character of a region (in Jewett&#39;s case, rural southern Maine) is infused into the writing. She was hailed by writer Willa Cather for her influence, and her publications and life are the regular subject of scholarly interest.</p><br>
<p>The Daniel Marrett House is a historic house museum at 40 East Ossippee Trail  in Standish, Maine. Built in 1789, it is a prominent local example of Greek Revival architecture, and was for many years owned by members of the Marrett family. In 1944 it was given to the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities , which operates it as a museum today. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Marrett House is located in the village of Standish Corner, on the north side of the Ossippee Trail, just east of the junction with Maine State Route 35. It is a wood frame connected farmstead, with the main house in front, connected via a series of additions to a barn. The main block is 2-1/2 stories in height, with a side gable roof, central chimney, clapboard siding, and stone foundation. The front facade is five bays wide, with an entrance vestibule featuring flanking pilasters and a gabled pediment. The building corners are pilastered, and Greek Revival trim is continued on the ells and the barn. The interior of the house retains most of its original finishes, and is decorated with Marrett family possessions, given with the house.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1789 by Benjamin Titcomb, and had at that time typical Federal period styling. It was acquired in 1796 by Daniel Marrett, a Harvard College graduate who moved to Standish to become the town parson. The house he purchased reflected his status as the communitys leading citizen. Over the years, Marretts children and grandchildren enlarged and updated the house but left many furnishings and interior arrangements unchanged as relics of the past. They preserved the southwest parlor exactly as it had appeared on the occasion of a family wedding in 1847. In 1889, the family celebrated the house&#39;s centennial by refurbishing several of the rooms with reproduction heirloom wallpapers and bed hangings, and organizing a large family reunion to honor the Marrett legacy.</p><br>
<p>The house was used to safeguard gold from banks in Portland during the War of 1812.</p><br>
<p>In 1944, the house was given by Daniel Marrett&#39;s descendants to Historic New England. The house is open to the public for guided tours on the first and third Saturday of the month, June though October 15.</p><br>
<p>The Nickels-Sortwell House is a historic house museum at 121 Main Street in Wiscasset, Maine, United States. Built in 1807 by a wealthy ship&#39;s captain, the house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1970 as an exceptionally high-quality example of the Federal style of architecture. After serving as a hotel for much of the 19th century, the house returned to private hands in 1900. It was given to Historic New England in 1958, which gives tours of the house between May and October.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Nickels-Sortwell House is set facing south on a sideways-sloping lot on the north side of Main Street (United States Route 1) in the center of Wiscasset. It is a three story wood frame structure, five bays wide and 83 ft deep, the length including a rear ell. It has a low-pitch hip roof and is set on a granite foundation. The front facade is finished in flushboard, while the remainder of the house is clapboarded. On the first floor, the middle three bays are outlined by slightly-projecting arches, the central bay (where the entrance is) being slightly wider. The entry consists of a single door, flanked by pilasters and sidelight windows embellished with oval tracery, and topped by a semi-elliptical fanlight with similar tracery. The entry is sheltered by a portico supported by four Corinthian columns, with a latticework balustrade on top.</p><br>
<p>Above the central projecting arches, four fluted Corinthian pilasters rise to the roof level. The fenestration of the bays other than the central one is uniform; there is a Palladian window at the second level in the center, and a half-round window at the third level, exhibiting tracery similar to that found in the entry windows.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the house has a modified central-hall plan, with the central hall divided by a partition into a front public hall and a rear service hall, which is continued to the service rooms in the rear ell. The front hall is semi-oval in shape, and is divided crosswise by an arch. Doorways in the front half lead left and right into large parlor spaces, and a free-standing spiral staircase rises in the center. The interior retains much of its original woodwork, including window seats and recessed inside shutters for the windows.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1807 by Captain William Nickels, a ship owner and trader. The style and age of the building reflect "a period when shipbuilding and the maritime trade brought prosperity and sophisticated tastes to this riverside community." Nickels, whose earlier success had enabled to build such a lavish house, was financially ruined by the Embargo of 1807 and the War of 1812, and died in 1815. From 1820 to 1900 the house was operated as a hotel. During this time a number alterations were made to the interior, including subdividing some of its bedrooms.</p><br>
<p>The house was purchased in 1899 by Alvin F. Sortwell of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and redecorated by his family in the then-fashionable Colonial Revival style. The solarium in the northeast corner was added by the Sortwells, as was the present entry portico, which replaced a broader porch added during the hotel period. The Sortwells also repurchased a parcel to the rear of the house that had been subdivided from the Nickels holdings, and built a carriage house on it. The garden in between was designed by Charles Eliot II of the Olmsted Brothers landscape design firm. Frances Sortwell, the daughter of Alvin and Gertrude Sortwell, bequeathed the property to the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (now Historic New England) in 1958.</p><br>
<p>The property was designated a National Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, and is a contributing property to the Wiscasset Historic District, listed in 1973. It is open seasonally between May and October for tours; admission is charged, except for members of Historic New England.</p><br>
<p>Lake Magaguadavic  is a lake in south-western New Brunswick, Canada. It lies primarily in Prince William Parish, but small parts of it extend into neighbouring Dumfries Parish and McAdam Parish, all in York County. The lake is home to smallmouth bass and landlocked salmon, and the warmer months see many fishermen, boaters, swimmers and vacationers throughout. Although not as massive as Grand Lake or Oromocto Lake, it is still one of the largest bodies of fresh water in New Brunswick. Part of the lake is known as "second lake" ; this small inflow is connected via a winding, marshy channel called the thoroughfare. The larger of the "two" lakes is more commonly referred to as "Magaguadavic Lake" among residents and locals. There are many beaches and islands on both lakes.</p><br>
<p>The Pierce House is a rare 17th century  house at 24 Oakton Avenue in the Dorchester neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts. Built c. 1683, It documents period building practices, and the tastes and housing needs of one family, the Pierces, over more than three centuries. At different times, family members expanded and adapted their dwelling to meet new demands for space, function, comfort, privacy, and cleanliness.</p><br>
<p>The history of the Pierce family, ten generations of whom lived in the Pierce House, highlights important aspects of social history, community history, and New England history. On the most direct level it tells the story of a New England family over the course of three hundred and fifty years. The Pierces, like other families of their class, worked hard to provide for themselves and their children and to preserve their legacy; to do so they continually had to adapt to changing circumstances. They took part in both local and national events; during the American Revolution, for example, Colonel Samuel Pierce (1736–1815), participated in the fortification of Dorchester Heights.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The house is now owned by Historic New England, which operates it as a historic house museum, with school and youth programs.</p><br>
<p>St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church in Lowell, Massachusetts, is an Eastern Orthodox parish under the jurisdiction of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America. St. George Church is one of several Eastern Orthodox Churches in the city of Lowell, along with Holy Trinity, Transfiguration, and St. George .</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first Syrian-Lebanese families came to Lowell in the mid-1880s. They came from two small towns: Aita al-Foukhar in the present-day Lebanon and Saydnaya, Syria. With them came the ancient faith of their forefathers, Eastern Orthodoxy.</p><br>
<p>Since there was no church, and when a priest was available, Sunday services were held in the homes of the faithful. Through the efforts of dedicated laymen, the present church was purchased in 1917. It had originally been built in 1883 by French Huguenots, a Protestant sect. It took two years to remodel and prepare the church building for use as an Orthodox temple of worship. On Sunday, May 25, 1919, Metropolitan Germanos Shehadeh of Zahle, assisted by Archmandrite Seraphim Nassar, dedicated the church edifice.</p><br>
<p>The original parish comprised 25 to 30 families. The parish has grown throughout the years as more Orthodox faithful have migrated and immigrated to the area. The city of Lowell is unique in that approximately one-fifth of the population is of the Eastern Orthodox faith. The parishioners of St. George take pride in their parish&#39;s professional people who include doctors, lawyers, graduate engineers and many successful business people.</p><br>
<p>The church has been under the jurisdiction of the following Prelates: Metropolitan Archbishop Germanos Shehadah, Metropolitan Archbishop Victor Abouassaly, Metropolitan Archbishop Samuel David, Metropolitan Archbishop Michael Shaheen, and since August 24, 1975, is under the jurisdiction of Metropolitan Archbishop Philip Saliba Primate and his Auxiliaries, Bishop Antoun Khouri, Bishop Basil Essey, Bishop Demetri Khoury and Bishop Joseph Al-Zehlaoui. Throughout the years, the church has been served by the following Priests:</p><br>
<p>1917-1919: Michael Husson</p><br>
<p>1919-1926: Fiani</p><br>
<p>1926-1929: Raphael Husson</p><br>
<p>1929-1931: Nicholas Husson</p><br>
<p>1931-1938: (closed)</p><br>
<p>1938-1951: Cosmo Ansara</p><br>
<p>1951-1962: Michael Shahin</p><br>
<p>1962-1965: Elias Gillette</p><br>
<p>1965-1966: Haddad</p><br>
<p>1966-1972: Thomas Green</p><br>
<p>1972-1975: Mark Pemberton</p><br>
<p>1975-1976: John Scollard</p><br>
<p>1976-1978: Antony Beauchamp</p><br>
<p>1978-1982: Andrew Zbeeb</p><br>
<p>1982-1986: Daniel Griffith</p><br>
<p>1986-1989: Theodore Pulcini</p><br>
<p>1989-1992: John Teebagy</p><br>
<p>1992-1994: George Sayaf</p><br>
<p>1994-2001: Isaac Crow</p><br>
<p>2001-pres: Leonard Faris</p><br>
<p>Over the years, much remodeling and beautification of the church has taken place. In the mid-1980s, new icons were installed, painted by the well-known Iconographer, Youssis. The most prominent of these are the breathtaking image of the Holy Virgin (Platytera) in the church apse and the majestic icon of the Pantocrator (Jesus) directly overhead.</p><br>
<p>Most recently, air conditioning has been installed.</p><br>
<h2>Placement on the National Register of Historic Places</h2><br>
<p>St. George of Lowell was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in June 2008. It was included on the National Register because of the church&#39;s association with immigrants who worked in the mills that made Lowell the center of the American Industrial Revolution.</p><br>
<p>The Lou Henry Hoover House or, very rarely, Lou Henry and Herbert Hoover House, located on the campus of Stanford University in Stanford, California, United States, is the former house of Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States, and his wife Lou Henry Hoover, who designed it. It is now the official home of the president of Stanford.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Prior to the end of World War I, the Hoovers had commissioned architect Louis Christian Mullgardt to design their Stanford home; however, Mullgardt publicized his appointment prior to the end of the war, angering the Hoovers, who felt that it was an inopportune time in the waning months of a terrible conflict to announce the construction of a large home. Mullgardt was summarily dismissed.</p><br>
<p>After several consultations the Hoovers convinced Arthur B. Clark, a Stanford art professor who practiced freelance architecture during the summer, to be their architect. Clark agreed on the condition that Mrs. Hoover design the house and that Clark, aided by architectural draftsman Charles Davus and Clarks architect son, Birge, would serve in an advisory capacity. Mrs. Hoover sketched ideas, watching construction, but when anyone told her that any of her architectural ideas werent done, she responded, "Well, it&#39;s time someone did."</p><br>
<p>The exterior of the house appears much smaller than would be suggested by its interior. This is achieved thanks to the hillside site with the house disappearing into the slope of San Juan Hill and hence appearing much smaller.</p><br>
<p>Herbert Hoovers contribution was to order that the home be fireproof, and the walls were constructed of hollow tiles. Built from 1919 to 1920, the house was the couples first and only permanent residence. The Hoovers lived there only a short time before Herbert was appointed Secretary of Commerce by President Warren G. Harding in 1921, a role he continued under President Calvin Coolidge. It was here that Hoover awaited the Presidential election returns in 1928, when he won against Alfred E. Smith, and 1932, when he lost the election to Franklin D. Roosevelt. During Hoover&#39;s presidency (1929–32), the Hoover family only made brief visits to their Stanford home. They returned to this house after 1932, while maintaining a New York apartment as a second residence.</p><br>
<p>After Lou&#39;s death in 1944, her husband deeded the house to Stanford University to serve as a home for university professors. It now serves as the official residence of the university president and is not open to the public.</p><br>
<p>In 2008 it was fitted with solar panels.</p><br>
