<p>The Old Customs House, also called the Old Post Office, is a historic building located at the corner of Clinch Avenue and Market Street in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States. Completed in 1874, it was the citys first federal building. It housed the federal courts, excise offices and post office until 1933. From 1936 to 1976, it was used by the Tennessee Valley Authority for offices. Expanded in 2004, the building is currently home to the East Tennessee History Center, which includes the Lawson McGhee Librarys Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection, the Knox County Archives, and the East Tennessee Historical Society&#39;s headquarters and museum. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its architectural significance.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The Old Customs House is a three-story Italianate style building sheathed in East Tennessee marble. The smooth exterior walls contrast with rusticated quoins at the building&#39;s corners. The former courtroom on the third floor is notable for its neoclassical detailing. Much of the original interior has been altered.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Customs House is situated on what was originally Lot 11 of James White&#39;s 1795 extension of Knoxville. An 1871 map of Knoxville shows the property as an open grove surrounded by a few small houses.</p><br>
<p>Throughout the 1850s, Congress was petitioned by cities across the country to provide courtrooms and post offices. Congress was reluctant to provide funding for buildings that only contained judicial and postal functions, so the title "Customs House" was typically used instead of "courthouse" or "post office." Congress was viewed as more agreeable to providing construction funding if excise taxes collected from foreign imports were linked to projects, since taxes generated revenue.</p><br>
<p>Congress originally appropriated funding for Knoxville&#39;s Customs House in 1856, and reappropriated the funding in 1869. Construction of the original portion of the Customs House (at the corner of Clinch and Market), designed by USA government chief architect Alfred B. Mullett (1834–1890), began in 1871 and was completed in 1874. The first floor was used as a post office, while the second and third floors were used for the federal court and as office space for various federal officials, namely postal inspectors, pension agents, court officials, and internal-revenue officers.</p><br>
<p>As Knoxville&#39;s population quadrupled in the late 19th century, the increased postal activity left the Customs House critically overcrowded, and thus the building was enlarged in 1910. A 1913 government document describes the building as "clean and well kept," with a "large and roomy" workroom for postal employees. The document stated that the building had its own steam plant for heating, and used electricity provided by the Knoxville Railway & Light Company.</p><br>
<p>Knoxvilles continued growth rendered the Customs House insufficient for the citys postal needs, and a new post office was built on Main Street in 1934. Ownership of the Customs House was transferred to the newly created Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for use as office space. Along with the Customs House, TVA maintained offices in the nearby Arnstein Building and in the Daylight Building on Union Avenue. Following the completion of the TVA Towers in 1976, ownership of the Customs House was transferred to Knox County for use by the Lawson McGhee Library&#39;s Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection, and the Knox County Archives.</p><br>
<p>In the 1980s, the East Tennessee Historical Society (ETHS), which had been using the McClung Collection&#39;s office equipment and staff, moved into the Customs House, and set up the East Tennessee Historical Center. The Society initially used the second floor of the Customs House, but moved to the first floor in 1992. The Society opened the Museum of East Tennessee History the following year. In 2000, the second-floor corridor of the building was named "Deaderick Hall" in honor of librarian Lucile Deaderick (1914&ndash;2006).</p><br>
<p>In 2004, a BarberMcMurry-designed eastern extension to the Customs House was completed, extending the structure the length of Clinch Avenue from Market to Gay Street. This new complex, known as the East Tennessee History Center, includes the ETHS&#39;s headquarters, the Museum of East Tennessee History, the Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection, and the Knox County Archives. The Old Customs House is depicted in the ETHS logo.</p><br>
<p>Stetind or Stetinden  is a mountain in the municipality of Tysfjord in Nordland county, Norway. It is located about 15 km northeast of the village of Kjøpsvik. The mountain has very smooth sides reaching all the way to the fjord. Stetind has an obelisk-shape which gives it a very distinct look. In 2002 it was voted to be the "National Mountain" of Norway by listeners of NRK.</p><br>
<h2>Climbing</h2><br>
<p>The mountain had several attempts at first ascents. First was the German Paul Güssfeldt and the Norwegian Martin Ekroll in the summer of 1888. The Dane Carl Hall and the Norwegian mountain guide Mathias Soggemoen attempted in 1889.</p><br>
<p>Neither group succeeded, but Carl Hall built a cairn on the lower summit about 500 m southeast of the main summit. That cairn is now called Halls fortopp (elevation 1,304 m). Around 1900, William Cecil Slingsby also failed to reach the summit.</p><br>
<p>It was not until 30 July 1910 that Ferdinand Schjelderup, Carl Wilhelm Rubenson, and Alf Bonnevie Bryn finally reached the summit of Stetind. The weather conditions were good. It was Rubenson&#39;s 25th birthday, and he was given the honor of being first in the rope. The hardest part was to pass the smooth crag "Mysosten", which Rubenson finger traversed along a tiny crack. After this passage there was an easy climb to the summit. The same three climbers continued their 1910 tour by making first ascents of the Lofoten summits Svolværgeita and Trakta. Arne Næss, Ralph Høibakk, and K. Friis Baasted did the first winter climb of Stetind in 1963 on the eastern wall. In 1966, Arne Næss and four others were the first ones to summit via the west wall.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>The shape of the mountain has been compared with a ste which means "anvil" and the last element is the finite form of tind which means "mountain peak". Slingsby characterized Stetind as the ugliest mountain he ever saw.</p><br>
<p>The Clinton House is an 18th-century Georgian stone building in the city of Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York, United States. It is a New York State Historic Site and has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places as a historic place of local significance since 1982. The house was named for George Clinton, who served as the first Governor of New York and fourth Vice-President of the United States. He was believed to have lived there after the American Revolutionary War, but it is now known that it was never his residence.</p><br>
<p>The house probably served as a meeting place for legislators during the time Poughkeepsie was capital of New York in 1777.</p><br>
<p>Clinton House was built around 1765 by Hugh van Kleeck (born about 1745, died after 1810) who owned about 20 hectares of land south of Main Street where the house stands. In 1780, the house was purchased by Udney Hay, who belonged to Quartermaster Corp of the Continental Army. In 1783, the house was destroyed by fire and Hay rented the nearby Glebe House. When his house was damaged by fire, Hay petitioned George Washington for craftsmen from the army to assist in its repair. However, Hay lost the house in 1786 when it was seized for debt.</p><br>
<p>In 1900, the house had fallen into disrepair and it was purchased by the Daughters of the American Revolution, who presented it to the then Governor of New York Theodore Roosevelt for the citizens of the State of New York.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Today, the Clinton house is used for the offices and library of the Dutchess County Historical Society, with one room still set aside for use by the Mahwenawasigh Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.</p><br>
<p>The Link–Lee House is a large historic home located in Montrose in central Houston, Harris County, in the USA state of Texas. It is currently serving as the executive office of the University of St. Thomas. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places listings in Harris County, Texas in 2000, and became a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Link Lee mansion located at 3800 Montrose Blvd. (on the corner of Montrose Blvd. and West Alabama Street) in Houston is an outstanding example of the early glory days of Texas oil production. The building is a prime example of neoclassical architecture, featuring a pronounced portico, elaborate brickwork and ornate terra cota ornamentation that is consistent with the American neoclassical style. The building has been a Texas Historical Landmark since 2001.</p><br>
<h3>Link Family</h3><br>
<p>In 1910, John Wiley Link, a wealthy lumberman, financier, lawyer, and former mayor of Orange, Texas saw a great opportunity in Houston, so he moved there and formed the Houston Land Corporation. Then he bought several tracts consisting of 250 acres (1 km²) on the outskirts of the city and immediately set about improving the property, building a main street, now part of Montrose Boulevard, through the center of it.</p><br>
<p>At this point, Link began to divide the property into tracts and sold them as part of a strategy to develop the first upscale residential master-planned community in the Houston area, which during the early 1900s had only a total of about 26 mi of decent roads. After Montrose and West Alabama were paved in 1911, Link announced that he would soon begin construction of his own home within the confines of the entire block number 41 in the Montrose addition that he purchased from his own corporation. He hired the architectural firm of Sanguinent, Staats, and Barnes to design the structure that the Young Contracting Company completed in 1912 at a cost of $60,000.</p><br>
<h3>Lee Family</h3><br>
<p>The Links lived in the house until December 9, 1916, when T. P. Lee purchased it for $90,000, reported to be the most ever paid for a single-family dwelling in the Houston area up to that time. Lee, a Houston oil man, investor, and main stockholder of the Yount-Lee Oil Company bought the largest private home in Houston at the time. It stood at 10,500 ft&sup2; of living space. In addition to the living space, the mansion has a basement that matches the first floor in its footprint. The living space includes a living room, formal dining room, breakfast room, conservatory (music room), study, butler’s pantry, and kitchen on the first floor. The second floor consists of five bedroom suites. The third floor housed the mansion’s ballroom complete with its own kitchen, bathroom and a platform for a small band.</p><br>
<p>After Lee&#39;s death, his home remained in the possession of his family until July 9, 1940 when family members, including Mrs. Essie N. Lee, sold the property to the University of St. Thomas for $120,000. At the wishes of all heirs and executors, the college separated the payment into two parts: $6,000 in cash and the remaining $114,000 as a donation, guaranteed by a promissory note dated September 1, 1946, made payable to the William M. Rice Institute for the Advancement of Literature, Science and Art in Houston.</p><br>
<h3>University of St. Thomas</h3><br>
<p>The home, now referred to as the Link-Lee Mansion, and its surrounding land, became the main building of the University of St. Thomas, which still occupies the site today. Originally the building housed the entire university, it now contains the executive offices of the university. While still mostly intact, the mansion has been adapted to accommodate the offices of the president, vice president for Academic Affairs, Dean of Arts and Sciences, vice president for Institutional Advancement, and Alumni Relations.</p><br>
<p>The surrounding patio, porch, and yard of the mansion was utilized each October as part of Neewollah, the university&#39;s Halloween party. This tradition ended in 2006 with the construction of the Edward P. White Memorial Plaza, which feature a large granite monolith and fountain. The plaza is the last design of famous architect Philip Johnson.</p><br>
<p>Future plans involve moving the offices out of the mansion and restoring it back to how it looked in 1912. These plans are contingent upon the university purchasing adjacent properties prior to making any such moves.</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
<p>McKinley, Fred B., and Greg Riley. Black Gold to Bluegrass: From the Oil Fields of Texas to Spindletop Farm of Kentucky. Austin: Eakin Press, 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Stockyards Exchange is a building in South St. Paul, Minnesota, United States, built in 1887 by the recently formed Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha. The building housed businesses associated with the nearby stockyards, which later became the largest stockyards in the United States. It also housed a post office, city offices, and the city&#39;s first bank, Stockyards National Bank.</p><br>
<p>The stockyards were organized in 1886 by Alpheus Beede Stickney, who was the president of the Chicago Great Western Railway. The stockyards attracted four major meatpacking plants, including Swift & Company in 1897 and Armour and Company in 1919. During the World War II years, the stockyards operated at their peak. Due to changing market forces and the decentralization of the industry, the stockyards declined during the 1960s and 1970s. Swift closed their plant in 1969, while Armour closed their plant in the 1970s. In 1976, the South St. Paul City Council gave its Housing and Redevelopment Authority permission to buy the building. Colonial Properties bought the build in October 1979, but two months later, vandals caused major damage to the building by flooding it with fire hoses in the attic. The building was later purchased by a private developer, who was unable to raise the money to finish the renovation as scheduled. A couple opened the building in 1998 as the Castle Hotel, but it was only open a year. The building now houses a restaurant and nightclub.</p><br>
<p>The Glebe House is an 18th-century Georgian stone building in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York, USA. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places as a historic place of local significance since 1982.</p><br>
<p>The name "Glebe House" refers to the glebe, an area of land the proceeds of which supported the parish and its minister. The land associated with Glebe House was about 1 square kilometre (250 acres) in size.</p><br>
<p>The Glebe House itself was constructed in 1767 as a Georgian red brick building on a rubble stone foundation. It was to serve rectory for The Reverend John Beardsley, who ministered at Christ Church, Poughkeepsie and Trinity Church in Fishkill, and his family in 1767. Since Beardsley was a Loyalist, he and his entire household were forced to flee to New York City in December 1777 to seek protection of the British during the American Revolutionary War.</p><br>
<p>After 1777, the house and the land passed through many hands. During this time, it housed a public beer garden and later a florist</p><br>
<p>business. In the early 19th century, an addition to the building was made by Peter De Reimer. In 1929, the house and the remainder of the glebe land (now less than 1 acre) were purchased by members of the Dutchess County Historical Society and the Junior League to protect it from demolition. The house was given to the City of Poughkeepsie to be operated jointly by the Dutchess County Historical Society and the Junior League.</p><br>
<p>The Dutchess County Historical Society was involved with the house from 1929 to 2016.</p><br>
<p>Lodalskåpa is the highest nunatak on the glacier Jostedalsbreen. It is located on the border between the municipalities of Stryn and Luster in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway, within Jostedalsbreen National Park.</p><br>
<p>The 2,083 m tall Lodalskåpa is located 3 km north of Brenibba and 15 km northeast of Høgste Breakulen mountain. The lakes Austdalsvatnet and Styggevatnet lie about 10 km to the east.</p><br>
<p>The first ascent may have happened in 1820 by Gottfried Bohr. The easiest route to climb Lodalskåpa starts in the village of Bødalen in Stryn, then going up Brattebakken mountain to the Bohr glacier (Bohrsbreen). Around the southern summit to the col, then scrambling to the main summit, approximately one rope length.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>The first element is the genitive case of the name of the valley Lodalen, the last element is the finite form of kåpe which means "coat" (here used metaphorically about the glacier surrounding the top&ndash;see also Snøhetta). The name of the valley is a compound of lo which means "meadow" and the finite form of dal which means "dale" or "valley".</p><br>
<h2>Media gallery</h2><br>
<p>Grey Glacier is a glacier in the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, just west of the Cordillera del Paine. It flows southward into the lake of the same name. Before dividing in two at its front end, the glacier is 6 kilometers wide and over 30 meters high. In 1996, it occupied a total area of 270 km&sup2; and a length of 28 km. In November 2017 a large iceberg broke off the glacier.</p><br>
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<h2>Surroundings</h2><br>
<p>The glacier is at the south end of the Southern Patagonia Ice Field. The surface of the lake can be seen when following the big circuit of Paine Mountain Range at John Garner Pass. There is another view of the glacier from the south shore of the lake where the glacier can be seen in the background, with fragments of ice floating close to the shore. It is located to the west side of the Torres del Paine National Park.</p><br>
<p>The People&#39;s Federal Savings and Loan Association in Sidney is an early-modern building in western Ohio, designed by Chicago architect Louis Sullivan, the mentor of Frank Lloyd Wright. It was designed and built in 1917 for use by Peoples Federal Savings and Loan Association, which still operates out of it. It is one of a handful of banks designed by Sullivan between 1908 and 1919 for small communities in the central United States. The building is a National Historic Landmark.</p><br>
<p>People&#39;s Federal Savings and Loan Association is located at 101 East Court Street on the corner of South Ohio Street in Sidney across from the Spot restaurant. It lies also across the street from the Gothic revival Monumental Building and the Second Empire-style Shelby County Courthouse.</p><br>
<p>Numerous colors adorn the building, beginning with the corbels of multicolored terracotta, which are placed over the front windows. A dominant Romanesque Revival archway forms the main entrance, set in a building base of black marble and amid walls of strong reds. Other parts of the walls are pierced by numerous windows featuring blue, green, and purple glasswork. The design is the result of Sullivan&#39;s architectural ideal: simple structurally but ornately decorated in their details.</p><br>
<h2>Other Louis Sullivan "jewel boxes"</h2><br>
<p>Farmers and Merchants Bank, Columbus, Wisconsin (1919)</p><br>
<p>Henry Adams Building, Algona, Iowa (1913)</p><br>
<p>Home Building Association Company, Newark, Ohio (1915)</p><br>
<p>Merchants&#39; National Bank, Grinnell, Iowa (1914)</p><br>
<p>National Farmer&#39;s Bank, Owatonna, Minnesota (1908)</p><br>
<p>Peoples Savings Bank, Cedar Rapids, Iowa (1912)</p><br>
<p>Purdue State Bank, West Lafayette, Indiana (1914)</p><br>
<p>Mount Tarn is a small mountain located on the southernmost part of the Strait of Magellan, in Brunswick Peninsula, about 70 km south of Punta Arenas, Chile. It is in the southern extreme of continental Chile very close to Cape Froward, surrounded by historic places such as Fort Bulnes and Puerto del Hambre .</p><br>
<p>From the summit it is possible to see the Strait of Magellan, Dawson and Tierra del Fuego islands, and many other smaller ones; the Darwin Mountain Range, Mount Sarmiento, and most of the Brunswick Peninsula.</p><br>
<h2>Toponymy</h2><br>
<p>According to historian Mateo Martinic Beros in his book Cartografía Magallánica 1523-1945, the mount was named after the British surgeon, John Tarn, who first ascended the mountain in February 1827 while traveling with Robert FitzRoy on HMS Adventure and later ascended it while traveling with Phillip Parker King in HMS Beagle), during their surveying voyage from 1826 to 1830.</p><br>
<p>Tarn participated in a hydrographic survey conducted in the area, through the collection and classification of flora and fauna species.</p><br>
<h2>Darwin's ascent</h2><br>
<p>On 6 February 1834 a group from the second Beagle survey expedition, including Charles Darwin, ascended Mount Tarn by forcing their way up through dense woodland to the bare ridge which took them to the summit. He recounted the story in his Journal and Remarks. In his ascent the young naturalist found the first ammonites ever known in South America.</p><br>
<p>Mount Crawford is a hill in South Australia approximately 15 km north of Birdwood in the Mount Lofty Ranges.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Indigenous name for Mount Crawford was Teetáka. The mount was given its present name in 1839 by Charles Sturt after James Coutts Crawford (1817–1889). Crawford had a Royal Navy background. He and his drovers arrived overland from NSW in April 1839 with 700 cattle, setting up a hut and cattle run at the base of the mount. Crawford soon moved on to be a pioneer of Wellington, New Zealand.</p><br>
<p>In February 1840 Crawford&#39;s hutkeeper, an old soldier, was bailed up by bushrangers Curran, Hughes, and Fox, who robbed him of his arms and rations. Curran and Hughes were executed by hanging at Adelaide on 16 March 1840 for an armed robbery committed earlier near Gawler.</p><br>
<p>The pioneer families during the first decades of closer settlement included surnames such as Coleman, Hammat, Rankine, Polden, Murray, Warren, and Whyte. The subsequent history was one of mining and pastoralism, until being largely replaced by forestry and recreation activities.</p><br>
<p>An alluvial goldrush occurred in the area in the late nineteenth century, and fossicking still goes on in the area today.</p><br>
<h2>Mount Crawford Forest</h2><br>
<p>Mount Crawford also refers to the Mount Crawford Forest which is a grouping of several government forest lands in the area, the largest encompassing the area around Mount Crawford - others are to the west at Mount Gawler and south around Cudlee Creek and Kangaroo Creek Dam. The Barossa Valley is directly to the north. The forest headquarters and an information centre are located near Mount Crawford. Most of the timber grown are pine trees, though there are some native eucalypt plantations. The Heysen Trail passes through the forests. The forests are also popularly used for recreational purposes, with school fairs and camps being held there, along with a rally car race.</p><br>
<p>El Dorado Lake is a reservoir on the Walnut River 0.5 mi northeast of El Dorado in the Flint Hills region of Kansas. Built and managed by the USA Army Corps of Engineers, it is used for flood control, recreation, and water supply. El Dorado State Park is located on its shore.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Flood Control Act of 1965 authorized construction of El Dorado Lake. The USA Army Corps of Engineers held groundbreaking ceremonies in September 1973, and construction began the following month. The reservoir became fully operational for flood control June 29, 1981.</p><br>
<p>Construction of El Dorado Lake incorporated two pre-existing smaller reservoirs: Bluestem Lake and the original El Dorado Lake. The original El Dorado Lake was built on Satchel Creek in 1927 as a water supply for the community of El Dorado. Bluestem Lake was built on Bemis Creek in the 1950s. The dams of both reservoirs were breached during the building of the larger El Dorado Lake and their waters subsequently inundated. The remnants of Bluestem Lake&#39;s dam are still visible in the Shady Creek arm of the present-day reservoir.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>El Dorado Lake is located at 37&deg;50&prime;50&Prime;N latitude, 96&deg;49&prime;23&Prime;W longitude (37.8472402, -96.8230838) at an elevation of 1,335 ft. The entirety of the reservoir lies within Butler County.</p><br>
<p>The reservoir is impounded at its southwestern end by El Dorado Lake Dam. The Walnut River is both the reservoir&#39;s primary inflow from the north and outflow to the southwest. Smaller tributaries include: Gilmore Branch and Cole Creek from the north, Durechen Creek from the northeast, and Satchel Creek, Bemis Creek, and Shady Creek from the east.</p><br>
<p>The Kansas Turnpike (Interstate 35) runs northeast-southwest across the northern end of the lake and then parallel to its northwestern shore. USA Route 77 runs north-south west of the reservoir, and USA Route 54 runs east-west 1.5 mi south of the reservoir. Kansas Highway 177 runs north-south across the lake&#39;s eastern arms.</p><br>
<p>The reservoir&#39;s namesake, the city of El Dorado, is located just southwest of the dam.</p><br>
<h2>Hydrography</h2><br>
<p>The surface area, surface elevation, and water volume of the reservoir fluctuate based on inflow and local climatic conditions. In terms of capacity, the Corps of Engineers vertically divides the reservoir into a set of pools based on volume and water level, and the reservoir is considered full when filled to the capacity of its conservation pool. When full, El Dorado Lake has a surface area of 8,000 acres, a surface elevation of 1,339 ft, and a volume of 158,189 acre-ft.</p><br>
<p>The streambed underlying the reservoir has an elevation of 1,271.5 ft.</p><br>
<h2>Infrastructure</h2><br>
<p>El Dorado Lake Dam is a rolled earth-fill embankment dam that stands 99 ft above the streambed and 20,930 ft long. At its crest, the dam has an elevation of 1,370.5 ft. An uncontrolled, 350 ft spillway is located near the northwest end of the dam. Additional outlet works include an 11.5 ft by 15.75 ft oval conduit. The estimated peak discharge capacity is 41,200 cuft/s.</p><br>
<h2>Management</h2><br>
<p>The Tulsa District of the USA Army Corps of Engineers manages the dam and reservoir. The Corps has licensed the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWP) to develop and manage approximately 4,000 acre of land around the reservoir as El Dorado State Park and another 4,000 acre of land as the El Dorado Wildlife Area. The KDWP also manages boating on the reservoir surface and local fisheries.</p><br>
<h2>Parks and recreation</h2><br>
<p>El Dorado State Park is divided into four areas spread around the shore of the southern portion of the reservoir: the Bluestem Point Area is located between the reservoirs two eastern arms; the Boulder Bluff Area lies along the western shore; the Shady Creek Area is located on the south shore of the reservoirs southeastern arm; the Walnut River Area lies immediately southwest of the dam. All four areas include boat ramps, camping facilities, and hiking trails. In addition, the Bluestem Point Area hosts a bait shop and a swimming beach, a marina operates in the Shady Creek Area, and the Walnut River Area includes an amphitheater and swimming pond.</p><br>
<p>El Dorado Lake is open for sport fishing. Hunting is permitted in the El Dorado Wildlife Area as well as on 2,000 acre of land in El Dorado State Park.</p><br>
<h2>Wildlife</h2><br>
<p>Fish species resident in El Dorado Lake include blue and channel catfish, rainbow trout, walleye, white bass, white crappie, and wiper. Two invasive species, the white perch and the zebra mussel, live in the lake as well. Game animals living on land around the reservoir include beavers, bobcats, coyotes, deer, doves, pheasants, prairie chickens, quail, rabbits, raccoons, squirrels, and turkeys.</p><br>
<p>X̲áːytem or is an indigenous archaeological site and the name of a related museum run under the auspices of the Stoːlo people at Hatzic, British Columbia, Canada. X̲áːytem is approximately 80 kilometres east of Vancouver on Highway 7. It is reached via the bridge at Mission, about 15 kilometres from the border with the US state of Washington. The site was designated in 1992 as a national historic site of Canada, for its spiritual value to the Stoːlo people, as well as being one of the oldest discovered habitation sites at approximately 5000 years old. It is also known as Hatzic Rock.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Indigenous peoples occupied this area along the northern bank of the Fraser River for thousands of years. The historic peoples who encountered European colonists were the Stoːlo.</p><br>
<p>A large moss-covered boulder, known as a transformer rock and of deep spiritual importance, has survived from ancient times. According to tradition, the transformer god XaːIs was traveling through the land and encountered a man who was mistreating his wife. To teach him a lesson, the god transformed him into stone.</p><br>
<p>Over time, during the years after alienation of native lands by colonization, the site of X̲áːytem had been used as a pasture. The property is adjacent to a highway built in the early 20th century. After it was sold to a developer and initial work on grading the site was begun, concerns about the site&#39;s potential archaeological value prompted an examination by Gordon Mohs. This led to the dramatic finding that it was immensely ancient, and it has been ranked among the oldest-known habitation sites in North America.</p><br>
<p>Following the discovery, the government arranged to transfer the land to the Stoːlo, the First Nation that has historically been in the area, for archaeological and museum purposes. It paid the erstwhile owner compensation for his lost opportunity in development; an extensive residential subdivision had been planned. The Stoːlo have built a museum, the X̲áːytem Longhouse Interpretive Centre, to educate visitors about the site.</p><br>
<p>Excavations have been carried out in consultation with the Stoːlo. Researchers have found at the habitation site "evidence of rectangular pit/ longhouses of long-term occupation with remains of post, hearth and floor features, trade goods, storage, food, and spiritual activity."</p><br>
<p>Hanglip  is a prominent mountain peak near Louis Trichardt, South Africa. It is situated in the Vhembe District of Limpopo in the central Soutpansberg range. The peak with radar station, at 1,719 meters a.s.l., forms a conspicuous landmark visible from the town and the N1 national road.</p><br>
<p>Hanglip mountain is situated in the 354 hectare Hanglip Forest Reserve within the Hanglip State Forest. The state forest contains commercial pine plantations, protected natural forest and bushveld. The pine plantations are harvested in 30 to 40 year cycles for construction wood.</p><br>
<p>Geologically the mountain consists of tilted layers of the Karoo succession including glacial till deposits. Red quartzite deposits and grey andesite lava intrusions are also present.</p><br>
<p>From 1867 the area was controlled by the Venda after they acquired rifles from elephant hunters. In 1898 the Venda under Mphephu were evicted from Schoemansdal by the Boers under the leadership of general Piet Joubert. As safeguard against further attacks, Fort Botha was established under Hanglip some kilometers southwest of Mphefu&#39;s kraal. The ruins of the fort are currently off limits, being situated near graves of Venda captains held sacred by the tribe. The town of Trichardtsdorp was established after the conflict.</p><br>
<p>The Hanglip Forest Reserve is a protected area in the zone of the mountain.</p><br>
<p>Hikers can arrange to overnight in the Hanglip trail hut east of the peak, and motorists can visit a picnic site against its southern slope.</p><br>
<p>Djouce, sometimes referred to as Djouce Mountain, is a mountain situated in the northeastern section of the Wicklow Mountains.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The River Dargle rises on the northern flank of the mountain, close to the source of the River Liffey in the Featherbeds; they rise either side of the catchment boundary, the Liffey flowing west and the Dargle flowing east. Powerscourt Waterfall, the highest waterfall in Ireland, lies on its eastern slope.</p><br>
<p>Djouce overlooks to the west it the highlands around the Sally Gap; to the east the Roundwood / Calary Bog plateau. It also overlooks the corrie lake of Lough Tay to the southwest. It is bounded to the west by the R115; to the south by the R759 and to the west by the R755.</p><br>
<p>Its southern and eastern flanks are heavily forested, up to and above the 2,000 feet contour, mainly with Sitka spruce plantations. As these trees are clearfelled (when they mature) a policy of the reinstatement of native tree species is being pursued, either through</p><br>
<p>planting or natural regeneration.</p><br>
<p>The southern shoulder of Djouce is known as White Hill.</p><br>
<p>The General George Crook House Museum is located at 5730 North 30th Street in Fort Omaha. The Fort is located in the Miller Park neighborhood of North Omaha, Nebraska, United States. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969, and is a contributing property to the Fort Omaha Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1878, General George Crook moved headquarters for the Department of the Platte from downtown Omaha to Fort Omaha. The General Crook home was built in 1879 to be the residence of the Commander. Constructed in an Italianate design, the building consists of two stories with a grand garden surrounding it. Crowned by hipped roofs, the building is asymmetrical in plan and is in good condition. A long one-story porch projects from its eastern facade.</p><br>
<p>General George Crook was the only Commander to occupy the home, as the Department was disbanded after his tenure. In November, 1879, Crook and his wife entertained General and Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant at the home. In September 1880, President Rutherford B. Hayes stayed there while he was reviewing the troops at the Fort.</p><br>
<p>After Crook left Fort Omaha, the house served as a home to each of the subsequent commanders of the Fort. In 1905, the house was used as an officers club and mess hall. In 1930, it was converted back to a post commanders residence, serving until the Fort was closed in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Crook House is the oldest structure built as a private residence in Omaha.</p><br>
<p>The building was named a Nebraska State Historical Site in 1970.</p><br>
<h2>Currently</h2><br>
<p>The Douglas County Historical Society restored the house in the 1980s, refurbishing it with period furniture and restoring its heirloom Victorian gardens. Today, it is open to the public for tours and for special events.</p><br>
<p>Mullaghcleevaun is a mountain in County Wicklow, Republic of Ireland.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>At 849 m tall, the mountain is the second-highest of the Wicklow Mountains and the 20th-highest in Ireland.</p><br>
<p>Mullaghcleevaun is believed to have been named after the rounded depression near the summit, which has a small lake (Lough Cleevaun) inside it. Mullaghcleevaun sits roughly in the middle of the Wicklow Mountains and 3 km west of the Military Road. The massif also includes the summit of Mullaghcleevaun East Top (795 m).</p><br>
<h2>Access to the summit</h2><br>
<p>The most common ascent of the mountain is made via Black Hill from the carpark 3 km uphill from the small hillside town of Lacken. The hills of Wales can be seen on a clear day from the triangulation pillar on the summit.</p><br>
<p>The Amphiareion of Oropos , situated in the hills 6 km southeast of the fortified port of Oropos, was a sanctuary dedicated in the late 5th century BCE to the hero Amphiaraos, where pilgrims went to seek oracular responses and healing. It became particularly successful during the 4th century BCE, to judge from the intensive building at the site. The hero Amphiaraos was a descendant of the seer Melampos and initially refused to participate in the attack on Thebes  because he could foresee that it would be a disaster. In some versions of the myth, the earth opens and swallows the chariot of Amphiaraos, transforming him into a chthonic hero. Today the site is found east of the modern town Markopoulo Oropou in the Oropos municipality of Attica, Greece</p><br>
<p>The sanctuary is located 37.2 km NNE of Athens at a sacred spring; it contained a temple of Amphiaraos (with an acrolithic cult statue), as well as a theater, stoa, and associated structures. The temenos extended for some 240 metres northeast from the Temple of Amphiaraos (hence Amphiareion) along a streambed. The cult, which was both public and private, dates to the 5th century BCE. There was an upswing in the sanctuary’s reputation as a healing site during the plague that hit Athens in the late 5th BCE Herodotus relates that the oracular response of this shrine was one of only two correct answers to the test put to them all by the Lydian king Croesus. There were many dedications from Greeks, notable Romans, and others, many with inscriptions. On the southeast side of the streambed there are extensive remains of domestic structures as well as an unusually well-preserved clepsydra.</p><br>
<p>At the Amphiareion, in addition to the presumed annual festival, Greater Amphiareia were celebrated in an agonistic festival of athletic games, every fifth year. Two reliefs of the late 5th-early 4th century BCE seem to provide the earliest attestations of the festival games; there is an inscribed catalogue of victors at the Greater Amphiareia that dates before 338 BCE.</p><br>
<p>Amphiaraos was also worshipped at the site of Rhamnous about 17.5 km southeast, as well as at Athens, Argos, Sparta, and other sites. The cult at the Amphiareion came to an end with the outlawing of non-Christian worship in the Theodosian decrees at the end of the 4th century CE.</p><br>
<p>In 414 BCE Aristophanes produced a comedy, Amphiaraos, of which fragments survive as quotations.</p><br>
<h2>Sanctuary of Amphiaraos</h2><br>
<p>At the Temple of Amphiaraos, the site is about 154 m in elevation, with a gentle slope to the northeast, as it fills the northwest bank of a small ravine between two hills. The sanctuary was located near the border of Attica and Boiotia, the respective spheres of control of Athens and Thebes; control over the site passed back and forth between the rival cities until Alexander the Great destroyed Thebes in 335 BCE. In the 2nd century CE, the Greek periegetic writer Pausanias stated:</p><br>
<p>I think that Amphiaraos most of all dedicated himself to interpreting dreams: it is clear that, when he was considered a god, he set up an oracle of dreams. And the first thing is to purify oneself, when someone comes to consult Amphiaraos, and the purification ritual is to sacrifice to the god, and people sacrifice to him and to all those whose names are on (the altar), and - when these things are finished – they sacrifice a ram and spread out its skin under themselves, lie down waiting for the revelation of a dream.</p><br>
<p>Description of Greece 1.34.5</p><br>
<p>An inscription from the site, however, states that each man may sacrifice what he wants. Some variation in practice during the nine centuries of cult activity at the sanctuary may be expected. The baths of the site were famous in antiquity. The locations of a stadion and a hippodrome are unknown.</p><br>
<h3>Temple of Amphiaraos</h3><br>
<p>The early 4th-century BCE temple of Amphiaraos was of an unusual Doric hexastyle in antis plan: i.e. it had six columns across the front façade between small projecting walls. The antae were capped with half columns, giving the appearance of an octastyle façade. It measures 14 by Behind the columns was a pronaos, leading into a cella with two rows of five unfluted internal columns. Alongside the second pair of columns back from the pronaos there was a base for the acrolithic cult statue of Amphiaraos of which one arm remains in situ. In the rear wall of the cella, there was a threshold, perhaps a later addition.</p><br>
<p>On axis with the center line of the temple, and about 10.5 m northeast, are the remains of the altar divided into sections with inscriptions to a number of gods and heroes. Pausanias (1.34.3) says that the altar was dedicated to five groups:</p><br>
<p>Heracles, Zeus and Apollo the Healer (Παιών)</p><br>
<p>Heroes and heroes’ wives</p><br>
<p>Hestia, Hermes, Amphiaraos, and of the children of Amphiaraos, Amphilochos</p><br>
<p>Aphrodite, Panacea ("all-cure"), Iaso, Hygeia, and Athena the Healer (Παιωνία)</p><br>
<p>Nymphs and Pan; the rivers Achelous and Cephisus</p><br>
<p>Wrapping around the altar on the west side is a stepped structure that may have served as an early theatral area before the construction of the theater. Immediately to the east is the sacred spring, where Pausanias says worshipers threw coins when they were healed of a disease. Immediately northeast of the spring is the structure traditionally called the men’s bath.</p><br>
<p>To the northeast of the temple was a line of dedications of statuary, of which the bases (illustration, right) have largely survived; the avenue stretched for around 70 m along the road into the sanctuary. Among the more notable dedications, all of the Roman era:</p><br>
<p>42 BCE inscription honoring Marcus Junius Brutus as a Tyrannicide</p><br>
<p>86–81 BCE inscription for the Roman dictator Lucius Cornelius Sulla</p><br>
<p>post-27 BCE inscription for Marcus Agrippa</p><br>
<p>1st BCE inscription for Appius Claudius Pulcher</p><br>
<p>inscription for Gnaius Calpurnius Piso</p><br>
<p>There are also the remains of a small temple at the southwest extremity of this area.</p><br>
<h3>Theatre</h3><br>
<p>The theatre is dated to the 2nd century BCE by inscriptions and the seating area was likely composed of wooden seats on stone supports. Five marble prohedria (seat of honor at the front of the seating area) were discovered placed around the orchestra, which had a radius of 12.4 m. Two parodoi (side entryways) led off from the orchestra between the seating area of the cavea and the stage building. The Doric order proscaenium of the stage structure (c. 12 m wide) is well preserved and thus important for the study of theater design. The theater would have held approximately three hundred spectators.</p><br>
<h3>Stoa</h3><br>
<p>Dating to the mid-4th century BCE, the stoa measured 11 by 110 m with 39 exterior Doric columns and 17 internal Ionic columns. There were stone benches set into the back walls of the structure, perhaps where the suppliants of the god slept and awaited their dreams. The sexes may have been segregated as may have been the case for the bath to the northeast of the stoa, which is traditionally called the women’s bath.</p><br>
<h3>Clepsydra</h3><br>
<p>On the southeast side of the streambed opposite the sacred spring are the remains of an unusually well-preserved clepsydra. This instrument is important in the study of ancient methods of timekeeping in that it is an example of an inflow water clock. Since an inflow clock measures time by the filling of a known volume from a constant rate of inflow, it is much more accurate than an outflow water clock in measuring the gradations between full and empty. The clepsydra was composed of a central, square reservoir with a steep stairway on the south side to allow access to the bronze plug at the bottom of the reservoir. Domestic structures for the operation of the sanctuary are closely packed along the southeast side of the ravine, both north and south of the clepsydra.</p><br>
<h2>Images of the Amphiareion</h2><br>
<p>Presolana  is a mountain located in Lombardy, northern Italy, about 35 km north of Bergamo.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Part of the Bergamasque Prealps, it is included in the province of Bergamo, and divides the Val Seriana and Valle di Scalve.</p><br>
<p>The top of the mountain is called Presolana Occidentale (Western Presolana) and has a maximum altitude of 2,521 m above sea level.</p><br>
<h3>SOIUSA classification</h3><br>
<p>According to the SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps) the mountain can be classified in the following way:</p><br>
<p>main part=Eastern Alps</p><br>
<p>major sector=Southern Limestone Alps</p><br>
<p>section=Bergamasque Alps and Prealps</p><br>
<p>subsection=Bergamasque Prealps</p><br>
<p>supergroup=Prealpi Bergamasche Orientali</p><br>
<p>group=Gruppo della Presolana</p><br>
<p>subgroup=Costiera Presolana-Visolo-Bares</p><br>
<p>code=II/C-29.II-C.7.b</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Presolana is notable as it is one of the few mountain in Lombardy composed of a limestone rock similar to dolomite.</p><br>
<p>The Corbières Massif  is a mountain range in the Pre-Pyrenees. It is the only true foothill of the Pyrenees on their northern side.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Corbières are a mountain region in the Languedoc-Roussillon in southeastern France, located in the departements of Aude and Pyrénées-Orientales.</p><br>
<p>The River Aude borders the Corbières to the west and north, and the River Agly more or less to the south. The eastern border is the Mediterranean Sea. The eastern part of the Corbières bordering the Mediterranean and the Etangs is also known as the Corbières Maritimes, and has a special kind of climate and typical vegetation (thermo-mediterranean vegetation) which cannot be found in the western part.</p><br>
<p>The highest point of the Corbières is the 1,230 m high Pic de Bugarach.</p><br>
<p>The Bowers Mansion, located between Reno and Carson City, Nevada, was built in 1863 by Lemuel "Sandy" Bowers and his wife, Eilley Orrum Bowers, and is a prime example of the homes built in Nevada by the new millionaires of the Comstock Lode mining boom.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The land originally was purchased in 1856 by Eilley and her second husband Alex Cowan, who returned to Utah a year later with other Mormon settlers. Eilley secured a divorce and moved to Gold Hill where she ran a boarding house and took in washing. Some miners, unable to pay for lodging and laundry with cash, gave Eilley Orrum pieces of their mining claims in payment. Thus she acquired the mining claim which, together with that belonging to her third husband Sandy, became the source of their fortune.</p><br>
<p>The mansion was the fulfillment of Eilleys dreams of prestige and respectability. The mansion, designed by J. Neely Johnson, a builder and ex-governor of California, combined Georgian Revival and Italianate architectural styles. It was modeled after a design conceived by Eilley based on her recollection of elegant buildings in her native Scotland. Indeed, the Bowers employed stonecutters from Scotland for the construction of their new home, which eventually cost $300,000 to build, an exorbitant sum in the 1860s. Eilley and Sandy toured Europe from 1861 to 1863, purchasing furniture, statuary, paintings and other adornments for their home. Unfortunately, during one of these trips abroad, Eilley Bowerss only child, a daughter named Pearl, died.</p><br>
<p>Following the death of Sandy Bowers in 1868, Eilley fell on hard financial times. She generated income by renting out rooms in the mansion and hosting parties and picnics on the grounds. The mansion hosted a ball for the womens suffrage movement and was the location of the annual Miners Ball. The period of 1873&ndash;75 was the height of the mansion&#39;s popularity.</p><br>
<p>However, this was not enough to overcome Eilley&#39;s debts and she finally lost her home to foreclosure in 1876. The mansion was abandoned by the time Henry Riter acquired it and operated it as a resort until 1946.</p><br>
<h2>Today</h2><br>
<p>The building is currently owned and operated by the Washoe County Parks Department. Some 500 Nevada families have donated period furniture housed in the mansion. The park blends the historical site with recreational facilities such as a spring-fed swimming pool, picnic areas, and a playground. Tours of the mansion are given in summer and autumn.</p><br>
<p>The Richard Jackson House is a historic house at 76 Northwest Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Built in 1664 by Richard Jackson, it is the oldest wood-frame house in New Hampshire. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1968. It is now a historic house museum owned by Historic New England, and is open two Saturdays a month between June and October.</p><br>
<p>Richard Jackson was a woodworker, farmer, and mariner, and built the oldest portion of this house on his familys 25 acre plot, located on an inlet off the Piscataqua River, north of Portsmouths central business district. Jackson&#39;s house resembles English post-medieval prototypes, but is notably American in its extravagant use of wood. The house as first built consisted of a two story structure with two rooms on each floor, flanking a massive central chimney. Not long afterward, a leanto section was added to the rear (north side) of the house, which slopes nearly to the ground. Further single-story additions were made to the gable ends of the house, probably c. 1764.</p><br>
<p>The founder of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA, now Historic New England), William Sumner Appleton, acquired the house for SPNEA in 1924 from a member of the seventh generation of Jacksons to live there. Appleton undertook a restoration of the property, removing 19th century modifications, and providing the building with leaded diamond-pane windows of a type that it would have had in the 17th century.</p><br>
<p>It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1968.</p><br>
<p>The George Rogers House, located just east of the Jackson house, is also a Historic New England property, but is not open to the public.</p><br>
<p>Romsdalshornet is a mountain in the municipality of Rauma in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The mountain is located 10 km southeast of Åndalsnes, along the Rauma River and the highway. The mountain Store Venjetinden lies 3 km east of the mountain and 3 km to the west lies the mountain Store Trolltind&mdash;part of the Troll Wall/Trollryggen ridge.</p><br>
<p>Romsdalshornet is a popular mountain for climbing, which is best done in late summer. Descent by rappel is recommended.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first "official" ascent was 1 September 1881 by the Danish climber, Carl Hall, together with Norwegians, Erik Norahagen and Mathias Soggemoen. They arrived only to discover a cairn set up by Christen Smed and Hans Bjermeland around 1828. Previously none believed Romsdalshornet had really summitted until Hall discovered their cairn.</p><br>
<p>Oaklands is a historic plantation home and house museum located in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, United States. Oaklands is on the National Register of Historic Places and is a local landmark known for its unique Italianate design.</p><br>
<p>The plantation was caught in the middle of the Civil War and officers from both the Confederate and Union armies stayed in the mansion. The most notable visitor to the home was Confederate President Jefferson Davis, who stayed at Oaklands in December 1862.</p><br>
<p>The last residential owner of Oaklands, Rebecca Jetton, moved out of the house in the 1950s when she was no longer able to maintain it. The abandoned mansion was vandalized and left in disrepair. The city of Murfreesboro acquired it in 1958 with the intention of tearing it down. However, the mansion was restored to its original grandeur by a group of women who rallied together to form the Oaklands Association. The home was opened to the public as a museum in the early 1960s and now receives thousands of visitors annually and is used for various public and private functions.</p><br>
<p>The Virgin Valley Heritage Museum, originally known as the Desert Valley Museum, is located in Mesquite, Nevada and is listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places. The museum displays exhibits about area pioneers and local history.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was designed by Walter Warren Hughes and built by the National Youth Administration in the Vernacular Pueblo Revival style.</p><br>
<p>Opened in 1940 as a library, it was converted around 1945 to a Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital branch. From 1977-1984, the building was used by the Boy Scouts of America for meetings.</p><br>
<p>It opened as the Desert Valley Museum on May 23, 1985. In July 2001, the name was changed to the Virgin Valley Heritage Museum.</p><br>
<p>The site was listed as a building in the National Register of Historic Places on October 24, 1991.</p><br>
<h2>Collection</h2><br>
<p>The collection includes artifacts from about 1875 to 1935.</p><br>
<p>The Tuloma River  is a river in Murmansk Oblast in Russia. With a drainage basin of 21,500 km&sup2; and an average discharge at 255 m³/s, the Tuloma is one of the biggest rivers in northern Fennoscandia.</p><br>
<p>The river has its sources in the Saariselkä mountains in the eastern parts of the Lapland region in Finland. The Tuloma River itself is formed by the confluence of the Lutto and Nota rivers at Lake Notozero. Its outflow is in the Kola Bay, at the confluence with the Kola River and 10 km south of Murmansk in the Kola Peninsula in Russia.</p><br>
<h2>Hydro Power development</h2><br>
<p>There are two hydroelectric power stations on the Tuloma. The Lower Tuloma was finished in 1938, and is located at the town of Murmashi, close to the rivers outflow into the Kola Bay. The dam raised the river by 19 m, and the resulting reservoir was 60 km long.</p><br>
<p>The second and largest power plant, the Upper Tuloma, was built in the 1960s at Verkhnetulomskiy, 60 kilometres further upriver. A 62 m high dam was constructed below the outflow from Lake Notozero, forming a large reservoir 120 km long and up to 20 km wide.</p><br>
<h2>Fishing</h2><br>
<p>The Tuloma used to be a great salmon river, on a par with the famous Tana River in Norway in productivity, with annual catches in excess of 100 tons. At Padun Falls at the outflow from Lake Notozero the Skolt Sami had rights to catch salmon in a large weir, and every year tens of tons of salmon was caught at this site alone.</p><br>
<p>When hydro power plants were built the salmon spawning grounds and migration routes were destroyed. At the first power plant, the Lower Tuloma, a fish ladder was built. Within a few years salmon catches soon approached their former levels. When the Upper Tuloma plant and a dam at Verkhnetulomskiy were built the salmon stock collapsed. Lake Notozero became part of the large Verkhnetulomskoye reservoir, and the Padun Falls was gone. A fish lift was built at the dam, but it did not work and was closed down after a short time. There remains, however, a small salmon stock in the Toluma, spawning in the tributaries below the dam, especially in the Pecha.</p><br>
<p>There is a project under way to ascertain whether it is possible to reestablish the salmon to the river, by allowing the fish to pass the dams and thus reaching spawning grounds in the tributaries above the reservoirs, which are still in their natural state. It is hoped that this will bring substantial benefits to the region, through recreational fishing and eco-tourism.</p><br>
<p>The Mountains of the Iveragh Peninsula are not found in a single mountain range, but instead consist of a number of unnamed mountain ranges found on the Iveragh Peninsula of County Kerry, in Ireland. The mountains dealt with here include all those found west of Killarney National Park and the Macgillycuddy&#39;s Reeks.</p><br>
<h2>Topography</h2><br>
<p>There are hundreds of peaks to be found on this peninsula, many of them unnamed. Much of the peninsulas coastline is encircled by mountains, and apart from the two large river valleys of the River Inny and river Ferta, most of the peninsulas land area is hilly or mountainous. As one travels from the sea in the west inland to the east, the terrain tends to become progressively more steep and mountainous, with the highest peaks being found far inland, close to the Macgillycuddy&#39;s Reeks. The highest mountain is Stumpa Dúloigh (784 m high), with the second tallest peak being Mullaghanattin (Mullach an Aitinn), 773 m high. Some of the more notable peaks include, from east to west: Boughil (Buachaill Finnleitheid), 639 m; Knocklomena (Cnoc an Mheannáin), 641 m; Broaghnabinnia (Bruach na Binne), 745 m; Knocknagantee, 676 m; Knockmoyle, 684 m; Meenteog, 715 m; Coomacarrea (An Tráigh), 772 m; Teermoyle Mountain, 760 m; Drung Hill, 640 m; Knocknadobar (Cnoc na dTobar), 690 m; and Coomcallee, 650 m.</p><br>
<p>Saddleback Mountain is a mountain located in Piscataquis County, Maine.</p><br>
<p>Saddleback Mountain stands within the watershed of the Pleasant River, which drains into the Penobscot River, and then into Penobscot Bay. The northeast end of Saddleback Mountain drains from Crater Pond into South Inlet Brook, then into B Pond, Guernsey Brook, and the East Branch of the Pleasant River. The easternmost part of Saddleback drains into Mud Gauntlet Brook, then into Ebeemee Lake, and the East Branch of the Pleasant River. The southeast side of Saddleback drains into the Middle Branch of the Pleasant River. The southwest end of Saddleback drains into Saddleback Brook, then into Silver Lake, and the West Branch of the Pleasant River. The northwest side of Saddleback drains into Big White Brook, then into Silver Lake.</p><br>
<p>Saddleback Mountain is at the northeast end of one of the longest lines of sight between elevated points in the eastern United States. The southwest end is Mount Washington in New Hampshire, 136 mi away.</p><br>
<p>Moxie Mountain is a mountain located in Somerset County, Maine.</p><br>
<p>Moxie Mountain stands within the watershed of the Kennebec River, which drains into the Gulf of Maine.</p><br>
<p>The northeast side of Moxie Mtn. drains into Big and Little Dimmick Ponds, then into Baker Pond, Moxie Pond, Moxie Stream, and into the Kennebec River. The north side of Moxie drains into Pleasant Pond, then into Pleasant Pond Stream, and into the Kennebec River.</p><br>
<p>The west side of Moxie drains into Robinson Pond Outlet, then into Pleasant Pond Stream. The south side of Moxie drains into Heald Stream, then into Austin Stream and the Kennebec River.</p><br>
<p>The Appalachian Trail, a 2,170-mile (3,500-km) National Scenic Trail from Georgia to Maine, runs a few miles north of Moxie, across the summit of Pleasant Pond Mountain.</p><br>
<p>The Governor John Langdon House, also known as Governor John Langdon Mansion, is a historic mansion house at 143 Pleasant Street in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, United States. It was built in 1784 by John Langdon , a merchant, shipbuilder, American Revolutionary War general, signer of the United States Constitution, and three-term President  of New Hampshire. The house he built for his family showed his status as Portsmouth&#39;s leading citizen and received praise from George Washington, who visited there in 1789. Its reception rooms are ornamented by elaborate wood carving in the rococo style. The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1974, and is now a house museum operated by Historic New England.</p><br>
<p>The house Langdon had built resembles typical late Georgian houses, with five bays across, a center entry, and four rooms on each floor, flanking a grand central hall and stairway. It is built on a larger and grander scale than most houses, and has very high quality interior woodwoork. The interior joinery is attributed to Ebenezer Clifford, a leading woodworker of the Portsmouth area. The main entry is also particularly elaborate with a large door flanked by pairs of engaged columns, and sheltered by a semi-circular portico supported by Corinthian columns and topped by a balustrade.</p><br>
<p>After Langdons death in 1819, his lone surviving daughter continued to use the house, but did not live there. Between 1833 and 1902 the house passed through several hands. In the 1850s a fire severely damaged the southwest corner of the house, which was reconstructed. In 1877 the house came into the hands of Frances E. Bassett, a descendant of John Langdons brother Woodbury. Her son and daughter-in-law, Woodbury and Elizabeth Langdon, converted the house into a Colonial Revival showplace, adding a two-story wing designed by McKim, Mead & White whose details harmonize well with the original structure, and include a dining room based on one built by the ancestral Woodbury Langdon and preserved in the Rockingham Hotel. Elizabeth Langdon deeded the property to Historic New England in 1947.</p><br>
<p>The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1974. It is open to the public for tours on weekends from June to October, and the grounds are available for functions.</p><br>
<p>C.J. Strike Reservoir is a reservoir located in southwestern Idaho. Its main recreational features include the C. J. Strike Dam and its 7,500 acre reservoir, an impoundment of the Snake River and Bruneau River. This in turn provides excellent fishing  and boating opportunities along with, to a lesser extent camping and hiking.</p><br>
<p>The area is maintained and managed largely by Idaho Power Company, which provides free public access and operates the campgrounds adjacent to the reservoir. The area is also known for ruts from the Oregon Trail which can still be seen by hiking the area.</p><br>
<h2>Species of Fish</h2><br>
<p>The following are or have been resident fishes of Strike Reservoir: Black Crappie, Bluegill, Bridgelip Sucker, Brown Bullhead, Channel Catfish, Chiselmouth, Common Carp, Largemouth Bass, Largescale Sucker, Mottled Sculpin, Mountain Whitefish, Northern Pikeminnow, Peamouth, Pumpkinseed, Rainbow Trout, Redside Shiner, Smallmouth Bass, Warmouth, White Crappie, White Sturgeon (Snake River Population), Whitefish (Var. Sp. Prosopium), and Yellow Perch.</p><br>
<p>Idaho Fish and Game Commission recommends the following for sportsman: Bluegill, Pumpkinseed, Sunfish, Bullhead Catfish, Channel Catfish, Crappie, Largemouth Bass, Rainbow Trout, Smallmouth Bass, White Sturgeon, and Yellow Perch.</p><br>
<p>http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/ifwis/Fishingplanner/WaterInfo.aspx?qt=1&ID=26&WID=15428</p><br>
<p>Due to ignorance of certain individuals other known species have also been found and transplanted. Like all natural resources, continued abuse of the reservoir&#39;s ecosystem could have a detrimental effect on future fishing.</p><br>
<p>Merchant Venturers Almshouses is a historic building on King Street, Bristol, England. It has been designated as a Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was built around 1696 by the Society of Merchant Venturers for convalescent and old sailors to see out their days, often after fever or blindness during service in the ships of the Bristol slave trade. It is now private accommodation, apartments 1 to 10.</p><br>
<p>They are built of Pennant stone in an early Georgian style. The pantile hipped roof has lateral and ridge stacks. There is an oculus over the central doorway, however most of the windows are 20th century replacements. It has scroll-bracketed door canopies at irregular angles.</p><br>
<p>The almshouses were originally built around a quadrangle however bombing and road realignment mean that it is now left with only three sides. It used to be accompanied by the Merchants Hall but this was destroyed in the Bristol Blitz of World War II.</p><br>
<p>In 2014 a long lease for the almshouses was signed for £620,000.</p><br>
<p>The plaque on the wall is a poem:</p><br>
<p>"Freed from all storms the tempest and the rage</p><br>
<p>Of billows, here we spend our age.</p><br>
<p>Our weather beaten vessels here repair</p><br>
<p>And from the Merchants&#39; kind and generous care</p><br>
<p>Find harbour here; no more we put to sea</p><br>
<p>Until we launch into Eternity.</p><br>
<p>And lest our Widows whom we leave behind</p><br>
<p>Should want relief, they too a shelter find.</p><br>
<p>Thus all our anxious cares and sorrows cease</p><br>
<p>Whilst our kind Guardians turn our toils to ease.</p><br>
<p>May they be with an endless Sabbath blest</p><br>
<p>Who have afforded unto us this rest."</p><br>
<h2>Archives</h2><br>
<p>Records of Merchant Venturers&#39; Almshouse are held at Bristol Archives (Ref. SMV/4/1) ().</p><br>
<p>Purple Mountain is an 832 m  mountain in County Kerry, Republic of Ireland.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>It is a massif that includes three main peaks: Purple, Tomies (735m) and Shehy (571m). Purple is the 27th highest peak in Ireland. The mountain is bounded to the west by the Gap of Dunloe, which separates it from Macgillycuddy&#39;s Reeks. To the south and east are the Lakes of Killarney and to the north is the wide, flat valley of the River Laune. The eastern half of Purple Mountain is part of Killarney National Park. Within the national park, the lower slopes are covered in oak forests, some of which are remnants of those that covered Ireland before the arrival of humans.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Before the 19th century, the whole massif was referred to as Tomies, Tomish or Toomish. In Irish Names of Places, Patrick Weston Joyce writes that the name comes from the Irish Tuamaidhe and refers to two burial cairns on the summit. When the name Purple Mountain gained currency in the 19th century, the older name was probably relegated in status, referring only to the lower peak (Tomies). In his Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837), Samuel Lewis wrote that Purple Mountain is "so called from the colour of the shivered slate on its surface".</p><br>
<p>Lotus is a former village in Brevard County, Florida, United States. It is the location of Honeymoon Hill, the highest point on Merritt Island. Only one road runs through the area, CR 3, accessible to the south by Pineda Causeway.</p><br>
<p>Lotus is a wealthy residential area in Brevard County, with homes overlooking both the Indian River and Banana River Lagoons. Lotus along with Tropic, south of the Pineda Causeway lost their identity as individual villages during the beginning of the Space Age in the 1960s as the entire area fell under single family residential zoning only as part of the larger Merritt Island.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Lotus is located at 28&deg;12&prime;39&Prime;N latitude, 80&deg;38&prime;28&Prime;W longitude. The area is 11.08 mi. The area is located between Honeymoon Hill and the Pineda Causeway. Around Honeymoon Hill, this area is known as Fairyland.</p><br>
<p>Georgiana</p><br>
<p>Banana River, Patrick Air Force Base</p><br>
<p>Tropic</p><br>
<p>Pineda, Bonaventure</p><br>
<h2>Honeymoon Hill</h2><br>
<p>Honeymoon Hill is the highest point on Merritt Island and one of the highest points in Brevard County. Honeymoon Hill is 35 ft tall at its apex, which rests on the shores of both Honeymoon Lake and the Banana River lagoon. The area on the eastern shore of Honeymoon Lake is known as Fairyland, which was named after the expression "up to the heavens." Fairyland is known for its homes resting on top of the hill, overlooking South Tropical Trail, the lagoons, and the lake.</p><br>
<p>Honeymoon Hill is located at 28&deg;16&prime;27&Prime;N latitude, 80&deg;39&prime;59&Prime;W longitude.</p><br>
<h2>Honeymoon Lake</h2><br>
<p>Honeymoon Lake is a lake in the former towns, Georgiana, Fairyland, and Lotus. The lake has about 2.15 mi of shoreline. There is a hidden historic ferry passage when this was one of the early settled areas of Merritt Island. It links the Indian River lagoon via the passage. The depth of this lake is at most chest deep, but usually shallower.</p><br>
<p>Honeymoon Lake is located at 28&deg;16&prime;13&Prime;N latitude, 80&deg;40&prime;08&Prime;W longitude.</p><br>
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<p>Riverside Hotel is a former hotel and casino located in Downtown Reno, Nevada, that sits on the exact location where Reno began in 1859.</p><br>
<p>The building now houses apartments and studios for artists and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Early history</h2><br>
<p>C. W. Fuller operated a log building on this location that provided food and shelter to gold-seekers who were passing through the area in the reverse gold rush called the "Rush to Washoe" (meaning people were heading east from instead of west to California), spurred by the gold, and later silver, strikes of the Comstock Lode. Myron Lake owned the property from 1861 into the 1880s, running consecutive hotel businesses under the name Lakes House. After Lakes death, his daughter and son-in-law operated the hotel and renamed it the Riverside. A subsequent owner, Harry Gosse, converted the small frame building into a brick hotel, retaining the name Riverside. His daughter, Marguerite Gosse, was a Nevada Assemblywoman. This version of the Riverside Hotel was destroyed in a fire. Gosse intended to rebuild but was unable to finance the project and George Wingfield, Reno&#39;s most powerful man at the time, acquired the property.</p><br>
<p>Nevadas pre-eminent architect and former mining engineer Frederic DeLongchamps designed the 1927 version of the Riverside Hotel for George Wingfield. At six stories high, the Riverside was the states tallest building until Renos seven-story El Cortez hotel was completed in 1931. For the buildings design, DeLongchamps employed the rich red brick, so common in Reno, with contrasting cream-colored Gothic Revival style terra cotta detailing. Situated as it is along the Truckee River, next to the Washoe County Courthouse, also designed by DeLongchamps, the Riverside was Reno&#39;s most popular hotel. Following the passage of the liberal 1931 divorce law, George Wingfield installed an enormous roof sign advertising the hotel in glowing neon that was visible all over the Truckee Meadows. The Riverside had an international reputation and was mentioned in nearly all of the novels and films featuring Reno divorces.</p><br>
<p>The Riverside Hotel was laid out to suit wealthy divorce-seekers, with 40 corner suites that included kitchen facilities and connecting rooms for children and servants. Each of the apartment suites was furnished with a specially designed cork-insulated and tile-lined refrigerator. Cold brine was circulated through the refrigerators from the main refrigeration plant in the basement. There were 60 single rooms for shorter stays as well. Such a room was occupied by Clare Boothe (award-winning author, editor of Vanity Fair, congresswoman and ambassador) when she arrived in Reno in 1929 to divorce her husband George Tuttle Brokaw:Her train arrived in Reno at 4:30 a.m. on Wednesday, February 6, 1929, in a fierce blizzard. Clares mood turned bleak as the weather when she discovered that her reserved apartment at the Riverside Hotel (a red brick building between the Truckee River and the courthouse) was occupied and that she would have to settle for a cubby hole&#39; of a room for the first three days.</p><br>
<p>The Riverside Hotel was the spot most watched by news correspondents who had been sent to cover the national phenomenon journalist Walter Winchell dubbed "Renovation". Reno had nearly as many reporters on hand as divorce-seekers, with news bureaus representing Associated Press, United Press, International News Service, The Sacramento Bee and the New York Daily News, all looking for an exclusive story.</p><br>
<h2>Casino</h2><br>
<p>As an added bonus to the Riverside’s suites. Wingfield opened the Riverside Bank and leased out casino space in exchange for a sizable (up to 25%) cut of the club’s profits. He was already getting a share of the profits from clubs like the Rex and Bank Club being run by his protégés Bill Graham and Jim McKay.</p><br>
<p>McKay and Graham decided that having access to a bank could fatten their wallets even more quickly than their casinos did. In the late 1920s, Graham and McKay worked with con men from all over the country to lure rich prospects to Reno. Once in town, the well-off vacationers were systematically fleeced of their stock holdings and sent on their way.</p><br>
<p>The casino inside the Riverside, run by Nick Abelman, provided high-class shows, excellent food, and enough table games and slot machines to keep hotel guests and local patrons coming back for years to come.</p><br>
<p>Abelman ran the gaming with his partners, Steve Pavlovich and Bert Riddick, until 1949, when Mert Wertheimer convinced Wingfield to let him expand the casino. Wertheimer, most recently working with the Nevada Club group after coming to Reno from Detroit, was well-financed from his operations at the Chesterfield Club (and others) in the Motor-City.</p><br>
<p>The Riverside added eighty-four guest rooms and the first swimming pool to be built in a Reno hotel. Wingfield sold the hotel in December 1955. Over the next 25-years, the club had a progression of owners, most of whom ran a casino.</p><br>
<p>In 1967, the Nevada Gaming Commission revoked the gaming license at the Riverside over a dice-cheating scandal, and the Riverside closed completely in 1968. In 1971, Jessie Beck purchased the property and opened her own casino.</p><br>
<p>Beck ran a profitable operation and in 1978, she sold the Riverside to Harrah&#39;s Entertainment so they could make a deal for the Overland Casino owned by “Pick” Hobson. “Pick” took the Riverside and ran the hotel and casino until it finally closed in 1986, nearly 60-years since Wingfield rebuilt the hotel along the Truckee River.</p><br>
<p>Mullaghmore is a 180m limestone hill in the Burren in Glenquin, County Clare, Ireland. It is part of a hiking trail called the Mullaghmore Loop in the Burren National Park.</p><br>
<h2>Burren Visitor Centre Controversy</h2><br>
<p>Throughout the 1990s, a long running conflict about a proposed visitor centre caused "major divisions in the local communities" between those for and against developing a site near Mullaghmore as a visitor center to the Burren.</p><br>
<p>In April 1991, the Minister of State of the Irish Department of Finance announced a plan for the construction of an interpretative visitors’ centre at Mullaghmore by the Office of Public Works (OPW). This would have made use of EU Regional and Social funds earlier allocated by the European Commission after a general approval of the Irish tourism program that did not, however, take a stand on any specific projects.</p><br>
<p>The proposal quickly resulted in opposition from a number of groups and individuals. These different groups came together in the Burren Action Group or BAG. They worked out an alternative proposal for a visitor centre. However, there was also a counter-mobilisation by prominent representatives of local communities. These included groups such as the Irish Farmers&#39; Association (IFA), the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), as well as politicians from the centre-right. Their coalition became known as Burren National Park Support Association and emphasized the economic potential of the OPW proposal as well as the prospect of much needed jobs in a high unemployment area.</p><br>
<p>In June 1991, the WWF UK lodged a complaint against the project with the European Commission. It was later joined by An Taisce. They argued that the project would be in violation of Community law regarding the protection of groundwater. In February 1992, OPW published an environmental impact assessment, at the request of the Commission. This, as well as a follow-up study, were criticized by the WWF.</p><br>
<p>In early 1992 a car park was cleared at the site, sewage works commenced and foundations for the centre were constructed.</p><br>
<p>In October 1992, the Commission stated that it would not initiate a procedure against the Irish government on this issue.</p><br>
<p>By November 1992 seven key members of the BAG had sought an injunction at the Irish High Court against the construction work. This argued that the OPW’s exemption from the need for planning permission was unconstitutional and that the OPW lacked the statutory power to build the visitor centre.</p><br>
<p>In December 1992, the WWF and An Taisce brought an action at the European Court of Justice, claiming that 2.7 million Irish pounds of Community funds allocated to the project should be suspended. The Court, however, dismissed the application.</p><br>
<p>In January 1993, a key political ally of BAG, Michael D. Higgins became Minister for Arts, Culture and Gaeltacht.</p><br>
<p>In early 1993 work at the proposed site stopped, following action by BAG at the Irish High Court. The High Court found in February that the OPW had unconstitutionally and illegally initiated construction and that it did indeed lack the relevant statutory power. OPW appealed, but the injunction was upheld.</p><br>
<p>However, in June 1994 the High Court found that the OPW had the right to resume work under the State Authority Management Act. Minister Michael D. Higgins nevertheless stopped the project.</p><br>
<p>By March 1995 the state had abandoned plans to complete the centre and the OPW application for construction was withdrawn. This resulted in heavy criticism from those who had been in favour of the project, including local Fianna Fáil politicians. Minister Higgins commissioned a new overall plan for the Burren National Park. This aimed at retaining the majority of EU funding for a new centre to be based on more consensus. Some of the Community funds were to be used for the demolition of those structures already constructed.</p><br>
<p>The OPW did later try to go ahead with a scaled down version of the centre. This was supposed to consist of an entry point to the park, toilets, ranger accommodation and a roofed area on the site of the originally planned interpretive centre. There were also plans for a car park for 76 cars and to retain an existing water treatment facility on the site of a nearby quarry.</p><br>
<p>In 1999 the Clare County Council refused planning permission for this new version. This was challenged by both sides of the controversy. On the one hand, the Minister for the Arts, Gaeltacht and the Islands, Sile De Valera and the OPW claimed that the centre would have minimal visual impact and no significant adverse effects on the area. On the other hand, An Taisce and the Burren Action Group also appealed. However, they wanted to strengthen the planning refusal. They argued that the centre’s concept was fundamentally flawed and not environmentally sustainable. In particular, placing the visitor centre in the middle of the park rather than on its border would prevent the local communities from benefitting from it. Also, according to them, the large number of visitors would have caused substantial environmental damage to the very ecosystem the National Park was supposed to protect.</p><br>
<p>In 2000 An Bord Pleanála confirmed the ruling by the Clare County Council to refuse planning permission for the scaled down version. The Burren Action Group and An Taisce welcomed this decision. An Bord Pleanála argued that the centre would have involved unacceptable damage to the environment and to the fragile local ecology and would have detracted from the scenery and rural character of the area. However, supporters of the scheme argued that a focal point for tourism in the Burren National Park would still be needed, as it would stop visitors from entering private lands.</p><br>
<p>In 2001 existing structures at the centre site were demolished.</p><br>
<p>In 2012, the Irish National Parks and Wildlife Service lodged a planning application with Clare County Council for a 27 space car park on the site of the overflow car park of the original interpretative centre. This is supposed to reduce parking on road verges and improve access to the park, where recently five walking trails have been developed. The goal is to improve access for existing levels of visitors. The wildlife service argues that it would be the only formal parking area in the whole National Park and that no other services will be provided at the site. No impact on EU-protected habitats was envisaged. However, the planning process was put on hold after the Clare County Council voiced serious concerns over the NPWS application.</p><br>
<p>Lake Moultrie is the third largest lake in South Carolina covering over 60,000 acre.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Lake Moultrie is located in Berkeley County, South Carolina, is fed by Lake Marion through a diversion canal. Nearby towns include Moncks Corner, Bonneau, Cross, and St. Stephen.</p><br>
<h2>Origin</h2><br>
<p>Lake Moultrie was created in the early 1940s by the South Carolina Public Service Authority. Its effluent is the Cooper River, and it is dammed by the Pinopolis Dam. It covers about 60,000 acre. It was named for Governor William Moultrie.</p><br>
<h2>Fishing</h2><br>
<p>Lake Moultrie offers a varied fishing environment. There are shallow swamps, black water ponds, thousands of tree stumps and live cypress trees, as well as large open areas of water. This lake does not form ice in winter months. A world record Channel Catfish weighing 58 lb. was caught from this lake. The lake also holds the state record for Black Crappie (5 lbs).</p><br>
<h2>Recent news</h2><br>
<p>On September 16, 2007, 59-year-old Bill Hedden was snorkeling in the lake when he was attacked by a 12 ft, 600 lb alligator, which ripped off his left arm. Five nurses who were at a picnic nearby were able to stop the bleeding until help arrived. The alligator was killed and the arm recovered, but doctors at the Medical University of South Carolina were not able to reattach it.</p><br>
<p>In September 2010, Maryellen Mara-Christian, a 48-year-old former bank marketing officer from Fitchburg, Mass., bagged a 13½-foot 1,025-pound alligator in Lake Moultrie. It took about two hours to secure the gator.</p><br>
<p>Fort Hunt Park is a public park located in Fort Hunt, Fairfax County, Virginia. It is administered by the National Park Service as part of the George Washington Memorial Parkway. The park preserves the remains of the eponymous Fort Hunt, portions of which date to the time of the Spanish–American War. Remains of several of the forts original batteries, including Battery Mount Vernon, Battery Robinson, and Battery Sater, and Battery Porter , have been preserved, and may still be visited today. The structures have been stabilized enough that visitors are able to climb on them without difficulty. Besides the batteries, the battery commander&#39;s station still stands; in addition, a flagpole has been erected as a memorial to the intelligence officers who served at the fort during World War II.</p><br>
<p>Fort Hunt Park is open from dawn until dusk, year-round; access is from the George Washington Memorial Parkway or from Fort Hunt Road.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Fort Hunt is located along the Potomac River just 11 miles south of Washington, D. C. Its proximity to the Nations capital dramatically affected the land use history. What occurred on this site frequently mirrored the political and social history of the United States. The site began its existence as a portion of George Washingtons River Farm; though it passed out of Washingtons familys hands around the beginning of the 19th century, it remained farmland until not long after the American Civil War. A fort was constructed on the site as part of a plan, developed in the 1880s, to expand and strengthen fortifications around the city of Washington. Fort Hunt was planned to complement Fort Washington, located just across the Potomac River in Maryland, and was completed in time for the Spanish–American War, though it did not see action in that conflict. On June 11, 1932 General Douglas MacArthur established a field hospital at Fort Hunt to serve military veterans known as Bonus Marchers who were camped in the Anacostia and Hains Point areas of the District of Columbia. In the 1930s the site was converted into a Civilian Conservation Corps camp. During World War II it was the setting for top secret World War II military intelligence operations (known as "P.O. Box 1142") as well as an interrogation center for high-value prisoners of war. At one time the United States Army ran a school of finance there, but this did not last long. Today, the park is a popular picnic and jogging area. A playground and sports facilities are also available, and the United States Park Police man a substation at the park, as well as stables for their police horses.</p><br>
<p>Lieutenant Commander Werner Henke, the highest-ranking German officer to be shot while in American captivity during World War II, was killed while attempting an escape from Fort Hunt in June 1944. He was later buried in the post cemetery on Fort Meade, Maryland. In 1980, the remaining structures at the site were added to the National Register of Historic Places as the Fort Hunt Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The surrounding community of Fort Hunt, Virginia takes its name from the original fort.</p><br>
<p>Fort Hunt Park Commanders Station 2016.jpgCommanders Station</p><br>
<p>Fort Hunt Park Battery Mount Vernon 2016.jpgBattery Mount Vernon</p><br>
<p>Fort Hunt Park Battery Porter 2016.jpgBattery Porter</p><br>
<p>Fort Hunt Park Battery Sater 2016.jpgBattery Sater</p><br>
<p>Fort Hunt Park Battery Robinson 2016.jpgBattery Robinson</p><br>
<p>Oeschinen Lake  is a lake in Bernese Oberland the Bernese Oberland, Switzerland, 4 km east of Kandersteg in the Oeschinen valley. At an elevation of 1,578 m, it has a surface area of 1.1147 km&sup2;. Its maximum depth is 56 m.</p><br>
<p>The lake is fed through a series of mountain creeks and drains underground. The water then re-surfaces as the Oeschibach. Part of it is captured for electricity production and as water supply for Kandersteg.</p><br>
<p>In observations from 1931 to 1965, the elevation of the lake surface varied between 1,566.09 m and 1,581.9 m. The average seasonal variation was 12.2 m (September/April).</p><br>
<p>The lake is generally frozen during five months, from December to May. From time to time ice skating is possible on ice.</p><br>
<p>Fish in the lake include Arctic char (Seesaibling), lake trout (Kanadische Seeforelle), rainbow trout (Regenbogenforelle). From January to March, ice fishing is popular.</p><br>
<p>A gondola lift from Kandersteg leads to Oeschinen, 25 minutes by foot from the lake.</p><br>
<p>Since 2007 the lake is part of the Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn UNESCO World Heritage Site.</p><br>
<p>The Pope&#39;s Eye is the uncompleted foundation for an island fort intended to defend the entrance to Port Phillip in the state of Victoria, Australia. The undefined area of the fort, generally assessed at 4 hectare, is one of six separate areas that comprise the Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park and is a popular site for divers.</p><br>
<h2>Features</h2><br>
<p>The fort has been protected as a marine reserve since 1979 and is now part of the Port Phillip Heads Marine National Park. It is located about 7 km inside Port Phillip Heads, 3 km east of Queenscliff, 5 km north of Portsea, and is less than 1 km south-west of the former Chinaman&#39;s Hat. It is named after a naval midshipman and has no religious connotations.</p><br>
<p>Construction of Pope’s Eye began in the 1880s, under the supervision of Sir William Jervois, by dumping bluestone boulders on a submerged 12 m deep sandbank until they formed a horse-shoe shaped artificial reef, open to the north-east, just above high-water level. Construction ceased before completion as a fort because improvements in naval gunnery enabled the entrance to Port Phillip (The Rip) and the associated shipping channel to be protected by guns at the nearby Swan Island fort, as well as at Fort Queenscliff and Fort Nepean, making Pope’s Eye redundant for military purposes. The reef now hosts a navigation beacon.</p><br>
<p>The inside of the eye is only about 2 m deep and is accessible to small boats as a sheltered anchorage. It is protected from strong currents and the whole structure is popular with snorkellers and scuba-divers.</p><br>
<h3>Flora and fauna</h3><br>
<p>The reef provides a rich habitat based on the underwater forest of marine algae, such as giant and leathery kelp, that sustains a rich fauna of fish and marine invertebrates, including sponges and soft corals. The site is part of the Swan Bay and Port Phillip Bay Islands Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International. Pope’s Eye is an important breeding site for Australasian gannets, which nest on platforms constructed for them as well as on the rocks of the reef, which are also used for roosting by black-faced cormorants and for foraging by ruddy turnstones. The site is often visited by Australian fur seals and Burrunan (bottlenose) dolphins.</p><br>
<p>The USA Post Office in Ellenville, New York, United States, serves the ZIP code 12428, which covers Ellenville and much of the surrounding town of Wawarsing. It is located on Liberty Place in the center of the village.</p><br>
<p>The building was one of many post offices in the region which were built of stone, reflecting the historical Dutch influence in the Hudson Valley, during the New Deal by the Works Progress Administration. President Franklin D. Roosevelt personally approved the design. As a native of the region, he understood the importance of stone architecture and made sure that new post offices in the region were built in that style. In late 1939, villagers in Ellenville sent Roosevelt a telegram which complained that their new post office was to be brick, despite the presence of pre-Revolutionary stone houses in Ellenville&#39;s location, the Rondout Valley.</p><br>
<p>"I will stop this brick right away!" he vowed in response, and two days before construction bidding began, he sent the project back to the drawing board. The final building combined features typical of stone houses throughout the region.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. It is located in the Ellenville Downtown Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Chapel of the Cross is a parish of the Episcopal Church of the United States in the Diocese of North Carolina. It is the spiritual home to more than 1,600 communicants, including a large number of students studying at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Church of England was established in Chapel Hill in 1752 when a “chapel of ease” was built at an important hilltop crossroads in the southern part of Orange County to spare remote parishioners a journey to the church in Hillsborough. The small log building, known as New Hope Chapel, stood where the Carolina Inn is now but disappeared during the American Revolution. The settlement on New Hope Chapel Hill remained, the University of North Carolina was founded in 1795, and traveling clergy visited; but a permanent Episcopal congregation did not form again for half a century.</p><br>
<p>In May 1842, the Rev. William Mercer Green, a Professor of Belles Lettres at the University of North Carolina, presided over the organization of the Church of the Atonement: an Episcopal parish with fifteen communicants and no church building.</p><br>
<p>The growing congregation worshiped in one another’s homes for five years as work on their little church went slowly, using handmade bricks fired in kilns on the Rev. Green’s property. On October 19, 1848, Bishop Levi Silliman Ives consecrated the new church – complete with a wooden gallery for slaves – “The Chapel of the Holy Cross.” He accurately described the scale of the building by calling it a chapel, but declared, “We’ll name it for the deed and not the doctrine.” The parish had twenty-two communicants, five of whom were University students. The Gothic Revival style church was designed by noted architect Thomas U. Walter. The red brick church has a gable roof and features a crenellated entrance tower and lancet windows. The original church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. It is located in the Chapel Hill Historic District.</p><br>
<p>By 1921 the parish had outgrown its first church. The Vestry, under the leadership of the Rev. Alfred Lawrence (rector 1921–1944) asked the distinguished church architect Hobart B. Upjohn to design a new building to be connected to “the old chapel” by a cloister. Major funding for the church was provided by a gift from the Durham mill owner and philanthropist William A. Erwin in memory of his grandfather, William Rainey Holt, a classmate of William Mercer Green in the class of 1818. The new building was consecrated on May 14, 1925.</p><br>
<p>The Chapel of the Cross has not been untouched by the moral and political turmoil of the twentieth century. The Rev. David Yates (rector 1945–1959) insisted that a Christian community was obligated to pray for the enemy and respect the rights of conscientious objectors, however difficult, during World War II. He ensured that black people were welcomed in the parish, long before most Southern institutions were integrated. Later, on February 13, 1977, the Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray, the first black woman ordained to the Episcopal priesthood, celebrated her first Eucharist and also became the first woman to celebrate the Eucharist at The Chapel of the Cross. She presided in the same chapel where her grandmother, Cornelia, a slave child belonging to Mary Ruffin Smith, was baptized in 1854.</p><br>
<p>The Rev. Peter James Lee (rector 1971–1984) introduced the use of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer and opened the pulpit and altar to women priests. In 1980, extensive renovation and restoration of parish buildings were completed. Mr. Lee was consecrated Bishop Coadjutor of the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia on May 19, 1984, and became Bishop of Virginia the next year.</p><br>
<p>On July 1, 1985, the Rev. Stephen J. Elkins-Williams, then Associate for Parish Ministry, became the twenty-seventh rector of The Chapel of the Cross. His tenure has been marked by an intentional focus on expanding the outreach ministry of the parish and its role in the community as exemplified in the development of a Sister Parish Covenant with St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church, a student-parish Habitat for Humanity partnership, continued strong campus ministry, and increased outreach funding. Christian Education and Youth Ministry programs have been expanded, and a more intentional Elder Ministry is in the process of development. The staff has been increased to keep up with expanding ministry, including the Assistant for Pastoral Ministry, full-time Organist-Choirmaster and Christian Education Director positions, and increased administrative and maintenance support.</p><br>
<p>The thirtieth anniversary of the Reverend Pauli Murray&#39;s first Eucharist was commemorated in the chapel on February 8, 2007, in a service celebrated by the Most Reverend Katharine Jefferts Schori, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church.</p><br>
<p>A new parish house, designed by Washington architects Hartman-Cox, was opened in October 2014 providing the Great Hall, classrooms, preschool, and youth and music facilities.</p><br>
<p>The Rev. Elkins-Williams retired on October 11, 2015.</p><br>
<p>The Rev. Elizabeth Marie Melchionna became Rector on August 1, 2016</p><br>
<p>The history of the Chapel of the Cross has been marked by steady growth. The Church of the Holy Family, the second Episcopal church in Chapel Hill, was commissioned in 1952. The Church of the Advocate, an Episcopal mission of Chapel of the Cross, Holy Family and St. Matthews (Hillsborough), was founded in 2003.</p><br>
<h2>Today</h2><br>
<h3>Mission statement</h3><br>
<p>Its mission statement is as follows:</p><br>
<p>The Chapel of the Cross welcomes you with an open door. We are:</p><br>
<h3>Information</h3><br>
<p>Chapel of the Cross holds five services every Sunday during the Fall, Winter and Spring. Four services offer the Eucharist and occur at 7:30 am, 9:00 am, 11:15 am, and 5:15 pm. Both Rite I and Rite II are offered every Sunday. The final Sunday service is a candlelight service of Sung Compline held at 9:30 pm.</p><br>
<p>Chapel of the Cross holds three services every Sunday during the Summer. All three services offer the Eucharist and occur at 8:00 am, 10:00 am, and 5:15 pm.</p><br>
<p>Services are also held at assisted living facilities in the Chapel Hill area. Holy Eucharist Rite II is celebrated at 5:15 pm on Thursday. A service of Evening Prayer is held on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday evenings at 5:15 pm.</p><br>
<p>The Chapel of the Cross has a strong choral tradition with five separate choirs led by the Organist and Choirmaster Dr. Wylie S. "Van" Quinn: the compline choir, the junior choir, the senior choir, the cantus choir, and the parish choir.</p><br>
<p>The Chapel of the Cross serves students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has a strong college ministry program called the Episcopal Campus Ministry, or "ECM." The Episcopal Campus Ministry meets every Tuesday at 5:30 during the academic year. The church also has a strong youth program called the Episcopal Youth Community for sixth through twelfth graders which meets on Sunday nights.</p><br>
<p>As a university church, there is also a strong focus on adult and youth education. Sunday School is held every week with a variety of other programs and discussion groups on topics ranging from the death penalty to the environment. Along with education, other programs are offered to assist parishioners with their spiritual development and prayer life.</p><br>
<p>Troop 9 of the Boy Scouts of America began meeting at The Chapel of the Cross in 1937 obtained its charter with The Chapel of the Cross in 1946. The origins of Troop 9 predate the incorporation of the Boy Scouts of America. The Troop originated on the UNC campus in 1910 as a Scout Unit of the YMCA. Along with other YMCA Scout Units, the Troop was transferred into the BSA under an agreement with the BSA&#39;s founder and the YMCA in 1912. Troop 9 celebrated its 100th birthday in 2010, at the same time the Boy Scouts of America celebrated their 100th anniversary of incorporation in the United States.</p><br>
<p>With a focus on the Millennium Development Goals developed by the United Nations, Chapel of the Cross engages in a wide variety of outreach work in the community of Chapel Hill, the United States and the world. International outreach efforts have focussed on two countries, South Africa and Honduras. Another major effort undertaken by the Chapel of the Cross in the area of outreach is the annual Attic, Basement and Closet Sale (ABC Sale), which raises thousands of dollars for charities that apply for grants. In addition, the church&#39;s facilities are used by a wide variety of organizations from the University of North Carolina and the community, including Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, and English as a Second Language (ESL) classes. A special service is held monthly for individuals in the community with developmental disabilities.</p><br>
<p>There are currently three full-time clergy at Chapel of the Cross:</p><br>
<p>• The Rev. Elizabeth Marie Melchionna – Rector</p><br>
<p>• The Rev. Tambria Lee – Associate for Campus Ministry</p><br>
<p>• The Rev. Victoria Jamieson-Drake – Associate for Pastoral Ministry</p><br>
<p>• Vacant – Associate for Parish Ministry</p><br>
<p>The Rev. Scott Balderson serves as deacon at the Chapel of the Cross. Several other priests serve in volunteer capacities, including the Rev. Dr. Bill Morley, the Rev. Martha Brimm, and the Rev. John Branson.</p><br>
<p>The main governing body of the Chapel of the Cross is the vestry, which is composed of twelve lay people elected from the congregation for three-year terms. Four vestry members are elected annually. For a list of the current vestry members, refer to the vestry website.</p><br>
<p>Chapel of the Cross is active in the governance of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, the national Episcopal Church, and the international Anglican Communion as a whole.</p><br>
<p>For more information about the current state of the Chapel of the Cross, please refer to their publications page.</p><br>
<h2>Notable names with connections to Chapel of the Cross</h2><br>
<p>• The Rt. Rev. Robert Duncan (Bishop of Pittsburgh (Southern Cone)) – Served as the Associate for Campus Ministry</p><br>
<p>• The Rt. Rev. John Spong (Bishop of Newark) – Served as a Student Resident</p><br>
<p>• The Rev. Pauli Murray – Celebrated her first Eucharist at Chapel of the Cross</p><br>
<p>• State Senator Eleanor Kinnaird – Parishioner of Chapel of the Cross</p><br>
<p>• Chancellor Emeritus of UNC-Chapel Hill James Moeser – Parishioner of Chapel of the Cross</p><br>
<p>Mont Maudit  is a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif in France and Italy. The French name literally means "Cursed Mountain". Until the end of the 18th century, Mont Blanc and its satellite peaks were collectively known in French as the Montagne Maudite.</p><br>
<h2>Climbing history</h2><br>
<p>The first ascent of Mont Maudit was by a British party comprising Henry Seymour King and the lawyer/diplomat William Edward Davidson with guides Johann Jaun and Johann von Bergen on 12 September 1878. The route they took was via the south ridge, during an ascent of Mont Blanc by the Corridor route.</p><br>
<p>The southern side of the mountain is considerably steeper than the gentle snow slopes of the northern side and features the well-known southeast or Frontier ridge (also known as the Kuffner ridge, D). This route was first climbed by Moriz von Kuffner with guides Alexander Burgener and Josef Furrer from 2–4 July 1887. George Mallory, in a party led by R. L. G. Irving, made the third ascent of the route in 1911. Ascents of the ridge start from the hut on the Col du Trident and take at least seven to eight hours.</p><br>
<h2>2012 avalanche</h2><br>
<p>On 12 July 2012, at least nine climbers—three from the United Kingdom (including Roger Payne, a mountain guide and former general secretary of the British Mountaineering Council), two from Switzerland, two from Germany, and two from Spain—were killed by an avalanche as they attempted a dawn ascent of the mountain from the Refuge des Cosmiques. Nine others were injured and flown to hospital. The avalanche struck at 5 am, as the climbers began their climb up one of the most popular, but dangerous, routes up the mountain. Éric Fournier, the mayor of Chamonix–Mont Blanc, described the snowslide as one of the deadliest in recent years. "There was no weather bulletin giving any avalanche warning," he claimed.</p><br>
<h2>Huts</h2><br>
<p>The Heptastadion  was a giant causeway, often referred to as a mole or a dyke built by the people of Alexandria, Egypt in the 3rd century BC during the Ptolemaic period. The Heptastadion was created to link Pharos Island to the mainland coast and given a name based on its length . Overall it was more than three-quarters of a mile long.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Alexander the Great founded of the city of Alexandria in April 331 BC on the site of the small fishing village of Rhacotis as the marine base for his fleet. The city was built on a narrow limestone ridge opposite to Pharos Island where the Pharos lighthouse would later stand. Forces under Alexanders command cleared the sand and silt deposits which made the port unnavigable, and Alexanders engineer Dinocrat linked the port of Alexandria and the island of Pharos with a bridge 1200 meters long and 200 meters wide, creating two harbour basins for commercial and military shipping. The northeast basin (currently the Eastern harbour) was designed for military vessels and the southwest basin (currently the main port of Alexandria) was for commercial use.</p><br>
<p>In the Ptolemeic period the lighthouse was constructed on the orders of Ptolemy I and II. It is probable that Ptolemy I was also responsible for the building of the Heptastadion. The causeway formed a barrier further separating the two harbours of Alexandria&#39;s oceanfront. This arrangement had the advantage of protecting the harbours from the force of the strong westerly coastal current. The east side of the mole became the Portus Magnus (the Great Harbour or Royal Harbour), now an open bay. The west side became the Portus Eunostus (the commercial harbour), with its inner basin Kibotos, now vastly enlarged to form the modern harbour. Two channels with bridges above were let under the causeway to allow access between the two ports. Julius Caesar ordered these channels to be blocked during the Alexandrian War. The Heptastadion is also believed to have served as an aqueduct while Pharos was inhabited,</p><br>
<h2>Later periods</h2><br>
<p>Due to silting over the years, upon which the Ottomans built their town from 1517 onwards. Today&#39;s city development lying between the present Grand Square and the modern Ras el-Tin quarter is built on the silt which gradually widened and obliterated the mole.</p><br>
<p>Moschochori ; ; ;  was a small village in the community of Krystallopigi, Greece. Its population was 488 at the 1940 census.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The village is mentioned for the first time in an Ottoman defter from 1530 under the name Vimbil. The term means "spring" in different Bulgarian dialects. It has a church dating from 1871. During Ottoman rule the Orthodox congregation was included in ethno-religious community under Graeco-Byzantine domination and all Orthodox Greeks, Bulgarians, Albanians, Vlachs and Serbs, were considered part of the same community in spite of their differences in ethnicity and language. With the rise of nationalism under the Ottoman Empire during the 19th century the Rum millet began to degrade with the continuous identification of the religious creed with ethnic nationality. The national awakening of each ethnic group inside it was complex and most of the groups interacted with each other. In the late 19th century, competition arose between Greeks and Bulgarians over the village. Initially the conflict was waged through educational and religious propaganda, with a fierce rivalry developing between supporters of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, who identified as Greek, and supporters of the Bulgarian Exarchate, which had been established by the Ottomans in 1870. Under these conditions, in the early 20th century a vicious guerrilla war broke between Bulgarian and Greek bands within the area.</p><br>
<p>In the book "Ethnography of the vilayets of Adrianople, Monastir and Salonika ", published in Constantinople in 1878, that reflected the statistics of the male population of 1873, Moschohori (Vembel) is listed as a village with 150 households with 420 inhabitants Bulgarians. According to Al. Synvet ("Les Grecs de l&#39;Empire Ottoman. Étude Statistique et Ethnographique") in 1878 in Moschohori (Vambeli) lived 600 Greeks. In 1889 Stefan Verkovich (Топографическо-этнографическій очеркъ Македоніи“) wrote that the village had 135 Bulgarian families with 656 inhabitants. According to statistics of Vasil Kanchov ("Macedonia. Ethnography and statistics") in 1900 Vambel had 650 inhabitants all Bulgarians. According to the secretary of the Bulgarian Exarchate Dimitar Mishev ("La Macédoine et sa Population Chrétienne") in 1905 in Moschohori (Vambel) lived 960 Bulgarians Exarchists. During the Ilinden uprising Vambel was burned from the Ottomans. After the uprising, the Balkan Wars and the First World War part of the population gradually took refuge in Bulgaria. In 1936 the population was 680 people.</p><br>
<p>During the Second World War here was founded an subdivision of the pro-Bulgarian Ohrana. It was heavily destroyed during the Greek civil war (1946–1949) and afterwards the rest of its population emigrated to different Slavic-speaking countries: Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and the village was practically depopulated.</p><br>
<h2>Notable people</h2><br>
<p>Pando Andreev (1878–?) Bulgarian volunteer from Macedonian-Adrianopolitan Volunteer Corps</p><br>
<p>Zissis Papachristos, Greek priest and Macedonian fighter</p><br>
<p>Mito Atanasov (1890–?) Bulgarian volunteer from Macedonian-Adrianopolitan Volunteer Corps</p><br>
<p>Lazaros Potsis, Greek Macedonian fighter</p><br>
<p>Ilija Digalov (1890–1922) Bulgarian Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization revolutionary</p><br>
<p>Naoum Rolos, Greek Macedonian fighter</p><br>
<p>Socrat Lafazanovski (1939–) Artist, Republic of Macedonia</p><br>
<p>priest Christos, Greek priest & Macedonian fighter, killed by Bulgarians</p><br>
<p>Socrat Panovski (1948–) Politician, Republic of Macedonia</p><br>
<p>Jani Lukarov (1922–1948) Macedonian partisan</p><br>
<p>Stavros Stavropoulos, Greek Macedonian fighter</p><br>
<p>Andrew Rossos (1941–) Macedonian Canadian historian</p><br>
<p>The Slieve Mish Mountains  are a mountain range found in County Kerry in Ireland.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Overlooking Tralee Bay on the northern side and Dingle Bay on the south, they extend for approximately 19 km from east to west. They run from the mainland just south of Tralee along the centre of the neck of the Dingle Peninsula, before ending in a series of low foothills and deep river valleys which separate them from the Mountains of the central Dingle Peninsula further to the west. The mountain range is relatively narrow, extending only about 7 km from north to south. The mountains form a high ridge of sandstone which was deeply incised by glaciers in the last ice age, leaving behind U-shaped valleys and corrie lakes. Dozens of peaks are to be found here, only a few of them named: Glanbrack Mountain, 664 m; Baurtregaum (Barr Trí gCom), 851 m high and the tallest peak in the range; Gearhane (An Géarán), 792 m; Caherconree (Cathair Conraoi), 835 m.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>"Sliabh Mish" is named after a mythological Celtic princess who was famed for being cruel.</p><br>
<p>Jervvasstind  is Norway&#39;s ninth-highest mountain. The 2,351 m mountain lies in the Hurrungane mountains in the eastern part of the municipality of Luster in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It lies on the eastern end of a mountain ridge including the mountains  Store Skagastølstind-Vetle Skagastølstind-Sentraltind-Store Styggedalstind-Jervvasstind. The village of Skjolden is located 16 km to the west.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>The first element is the genitive of the name of the lake Jervvatnet and the last element is tind which means "mountain peak". The first element in the lake name is jerv which means "wolverine" and the last element is the finite form of vatn which means "water" or "lake". The old form "Gjertvasstind" is wrong and misunderstood (there is no word "gjert" in the Norwegian language).</p><br>
<h2>First ascents</h2><br>
<p>The first recorded ascent was by William Cecil Slingsby and Emanuel Mohn in 1876. The first winter ascent was by Arne Randers Heen and Ernst Bakke in 1953.</p><br>
<p>The Delaware Governors Mansion, also known as Woodburn or Governors House, is the official residence of the Governor of Delaware and the governors family. It is located in Dover, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as "Governors House" in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The land Woodburn stands upon was granted to David Morgan and his heirs in 1684 by the Swedish crown. In the 1780s Charles Hillyard III purchased the land at a sheriff&#39;s sale for $110. In 1790 he constructed the home that would be called Woodburn.</p><br>
<p>The house was inherited by Mary, Hillyards daughter, and her husband, Martin W. Bates. Bates was a doctor, merchant, lawyer and a USA Senator. In 1820 Bates leased Woodburn to the Governor, Jacob Stout, the first time Woodburn was used as the executives residence.</p><br>
<p>Bates sold the house in 1825 to Daniel & Mary Cowgill. Cowgill, devoted abolitionist and a Quaker, freed his familys slaves and allowed them to meet in the great hall at Woodburn. The house remained in the family for years until it was sold in 1912 to Daniel O. Hastings. In his ownership the brick front porch, pillars on the south facade, a reflecting pool and numerous interior modifications were completed. He sold the house in 1918 to retired Philadelphia dentist Frank Hall, who also completed more renovations of the interior. In Halls residency, a young guest named Jessica Irby visited the house; she would later live in the house as the wife of a governor of Delaware.</p><br>
<p>Upon the Halls death in 1953 there was a proposal to secure the house as the governors mansion but it was disapproved by the legislature. The property was divided in two, with a school purchasing the majority of the land and Thomas Murray purchasing the house and a surrounding acre and a half.</p><br>
<p>The proposal of a residence for the governor was revived in 1965 when Governor Charles L. Terry, Jr. and his wife, Jessica Irby-Terry, secured Woodburn for the state. The house was refurbished by Mrs. Terry with period pieces dating from the house&#39;s construction. The decoration was completed a year later and an open house was held in February 1966. Woodburn has served as the official residence ever since.</p><br>
<h2>Appearance</h2><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>The two-story brick home is in the Flemish bond pattern and has endured more than 200 years. The main section of the house has three bays with the main entrance on the far right. The large Dutch door and original wrought-iron strap hinges and iron lock box allow the door to swing open with little effort. The door is surmounted by a large fanlight inside a projecting pediment. The double sash, 9 panel windows are framed by sandstone blocks above and below and wooden dog-head shutters. A brick chimney projects through the sloped roof. The wing has slightly smaller windows with a basement entryway.</p><br>
<p>Möja is an island in the Stockholm archipelago in Sweden. Möja is one of the most popular islands in the archipelago for travellers and boaters, and is also significant in size.</p><br>
<p>Möja is frequented by the ferries of Waxholmsbolaget and other companies, and is easily accessible from Stockholm. There are food stores, cafés, restaurants, and hostels, and other facilities mostly destined to tourism.</p><br>
<h2>Möja Archipelago</h2><br>
<p>Möja forms part of the Storö-Bockö-Lökaö Nature Reserve, in Swedish colloquially referred to as Möjareservatet. Historically, this group of islands used to belong to the villages on Möja. Each village owned a specific island, which is still reflected in the names of the islands (i.e. Bergbo, Storö, Lökaön, and Ramsmoraö). Since the 19th century, all these islands have been subdivided into smaller plots of land. No permanent settlement on these islands are older than the 19th century, before which they were exclusively used for grazing, fishing, hunting, and for cultivating strawberries.</p><br>
<p>The nature of the Möja Archipelago reflects its location on the edge to the peripheral archipelago region. While traces of human activities are plentiful, some areas are untouched barren cliffs and marshy grounds.</p><br>
<p>The Avonmore River, also known as Abhainn Dé , flows from Lough Dan in the Wicklow Mountains west of Roundwood. It flows in a generally southerly direction for approximately 30 km before joining the Avonbeg at the Meeting of the Waters  to form the River Avoca, which in turn discharges into the Irish Sea at Arklow. From source to sea the river remains in East Wicklow.</p><br>
<p>Downstream from Lough Dan the Avonmore reaches the village of Annamoe where it is crossed by the R755 regional road. From there is descends to Laragh and down through a heavily wooded valley to Rathdrum. Near Rathdrum it passes through the grounds of Avondale House, former home of Charles Stewart Parnell. A few kilometers south of Avondale it meets the Avonbeg at the Meeting of the Waters.</p><br>
