<p>Kennebago Divide is a mountain located in Maine&#39;s Franklin and Oxford counties. It is also known as North Peak of Kennebago Divide. Its highest peak is in Franklin County, about 1.5 mi southeast of the Canada–United States border with Québec. Kennebago Divide is flanked to the northeast by White Cap Mountain, and to the south by Snow Mountain.</p><br>
<p>Kennebago Divide stands within the watershed of the upper Androscoggin River, which drains into Merrymeeting Bay, the estuary of the Kennebec River, and then into the Gulf of Maine. The southeast side of Kennebago Divide drains into Bear Brook, and thence into the Kennebago River, then into Cupsuptic Lake, through a series of lakes into the Rapid River and Umbagog Lake, the source of the Androscoggin River. The south end of Kennebago Divide drains into Wiggle Brook, then into the Kennebago River. The northwest side of Kennebago Divide drains into Porter Brook and the Cupsuptic River, then into Cupsuptic Lake.</p><br>
<p>Karanji Lake  is a lake located in the city of Mysore in the state of Karnataka, India. The lake is surrounded by a nature park consisting of a butterfly park and a walk-through aviary. This aviary is the biggest walk-through aviary in India. There is also a museum, the Regional Museum of Natural History which is located on the banks of this lake. The total area of Karanji lake is 90 hectares. While waterspread area is about 55 hectares, the foreshore area measures about 35 hectares. Karanji lake is owned by the Mysore Zoo Authority. Mysore Zoo gets a revenue of an average of Rs. 50000 per day from ticket sales to enthusiasts who visit this lake.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Kar barouanji Lake was one of the favourite haunts of migratory birds like herons and egrets. But the lake started getting polluted when sewage from the nearby residential areas were let into the lake. This pollution led to the destruction of aquatic life in the lake and with the food-source getting depleted, the migratory birds started to avoid the lake.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>In order to prevent the destruction of this lake and to renovate it, help was sought from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Karnataka Urban Infrastructure Development Finance Corporation (KUIDFC) and Zoo Authority of Karnataka (ZAK). These three organisations came together and undertook the restoration activities of this lake. Financial help to the tune of Rs. 12 million was provided by ADB and ZAK undertook the restoration work with the co-ordination of KUIDFC.</p><br>
<p>The first step undertaken was to stop the sewage from entering the lake. Other restoration activities included removal of polluted silt, de-weeding of the entire lake surface, removing 30 cm of silt from the lake, restoration of feeder channels, construction of a jetty to start boating facility, and the construction of a bridge to the newly created butterfly park. A watch tower was also constructed to view the birds and study their behaviour. A giant fountain which can spew water up to 40 feet has been recently added as an attraction. A nursery of medicinal plants is also present here.</p><br>
<h2>Aviary</h2><br>
<p>The aviary constructed on the shore of the lake has a height of 20 m, length of 60 m and width of 40 m making it India&#39;s biggest walk-through aviary. The aviary was set up at a cost of Rs 3.8 million. It includes an artificial water fall and two small water bodies. Water from the Karanji lake is pumped inside the aviary in the form of a stream while the used water is discharged into the lake. It has about 40–50 birds of 17 species.</p><br>
<h2>Butterfly park</h2><br>
<p>The butterfly park has been created on a small island within the Karanji lake. About 45 species of butterflies have been identified here. With the help of a botanist, appropriate species of host plants and nectar plants essential for the breeding of butterflies were selected and planted within the island.</p><br>
<h2>Regional Museum of Natural History</h2><br>
<p>The Regional Museum of Natural History was inaugurated on 20 May 1995. The broad objectives of the Museum are:</p><br>
<p>Depict floral, faunal and geological wealth of the southern region of India.</p><br>
<p>Depict ecological interrelationship among plants and animals with emphasis on conservation of Nature and Natural Resources</p><br>
<p>Provide facility for school children on curriculum-based studies in biology and geology with emphasis on environmental aspect.</p><br>
<p>Develop programs for masses to create environmental awareness</p><br>
<h2>Birds</h2><br>
<p>Some of the common migratory birds found here are grey pelican, painted stork, ibis, cormorant, egret, etc. which nest on trees in the islands present in the lake. Recent survey of birds have indicated 147 species. Herons, Asian open bill storks, egrets, red wattle lapwing, sandpipers, rose ringed parakeet, black drongo, brown shrike, red-whiskered bulbul, booted warbler, sunbird and greenish warbler are some of the other species of birds found here.</p><br>
<p>Kursi  is an archaeological site containing the ruins of a Byzantine monastery and identified by tradition as the site of Jesus&#39; "Miracle of the Swine". The site is now an Israeli national park located in the Israel-occupied side of the Golan Heights. Kursi takes its name from the Talmudic site. A marble slab with Aramaic text discovered in December 2015 seems to indicate that the settlement had, as of ca. 500 CE, a Jewish or Judeo-Christian population.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The site is located near the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee on the bank of a river bed, Nahal Samakh, descending from the Golan Heights.</p><br>
<h2>Christian significance</h2><br>
<p>Kursi has been identified by tradition as the site of the "Miracle of the Swine", where Jesus healed one or two men possessed by demons by driving these into a herd of pigs (Mark 5:1-20, Matthew 8:28–34, Luke 8:26-39). The details differ somewhat in the three gospels dealing with the episode, and again some more in various ancient manuscripts of those same gospels. The events take place in the land of either the Gerasenes, Gadarenes or Gergesenes (Mark 5:1, Matthew 8:28, Luke 8:26). Exorcised was either one man as per Mark and Luke, or two as per Matthew.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The monastery and its church were built in the 5th century, remaining in use throughout the Byzantine period (in Israeli-Judaic terms: the Mishnaic and Talmudic periods). This being a major pilgrimage site, a number of buildings were built for the accommodation of pilgrims as well as the local monastic community, all surrounded by walls and other fortifications. In 614 the Sassanian (Persian) armies invaded Palestine laying waste to most of its churches and monasteries, including the one at Kursi. The church was later rebuilt, but part of the destroyed settlement was left in its ruined state. The church continued functioning under Muslim rule after the conquest of Palestine in 638-641 until being totally devastated by the 749 earthquake. Arab squatters used the ruins as dwellings and for storage in the 9th century, marking the end of Kursi&#39;s use as a Christian pilgrimage site.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The monastery is surrounded by a rectangular stone wall measuring 145 x 123 metres. The entrance facing the Sea of Galilee was guarded by a watchtower, and a paved road led down to a harbor, where pilgrim boats could berth. Once inside the wall, the pilgrims had the choice of going first to a luxurious bathhouse (excavated area to the left/north of the entrance), or going straight to the centrally placed church. 24 x 45 sq. metres in area, the church was entered through a forecourt opening onto an atrium or inner courtyard, followed by the church proper which was flanked on both sides by chapels and auxiliary rooms. The church is of the basilical type, with two rows of columns separating it into a nave and two aisles. The mosaic floor of the nave consists of geometrical designs, while the lateral aisles once contained medallions with depictions of the local flora and fauna; most of these have been destroyed, probably after the Muslim invasion, but some are still visible, such as geese, doves, cormorants and fish, citrons, dates, pomegranates, and grapes. The baptistery chapel on the southern side of the central apse has a small baptismal font, and the mosaic floor includes an inscription indicating that it was laid in the year 585. A staircase (not accessible to visitors) leads from the southern end of the narthex to a crypt used for burials, where archaeologists have found several intact skeletons. Among the rooms on the northern side is one containing an olive press. The atrium is largely built over a large cistern, as one can see from the two well heads; a ladder leading down to the cistern is not accessible to visitors.</p><br>
<p>A small Byzantine chapel stood outside the main compound, on the hill to the south. Here a large boulder was probably considered to be the exact site of the miracle. Remains were discovered of what might have been a tower built around the boulder and of a chapel squeezed in between the hillside and the boulder. Three distinct layers of mosaic floor and an apse were excavated here.</p><br>
<h2>Archaeology</h2><br>
<h3>Monastic complex</h3><br>
<p>The ruins of the monastery were first unearthed by road construction crews in 1970, and the major excavation took place between 1971 and 1974 headed by Israeli archaeologist Dan Urman and his Greek colleague Vassilios Tzaferis for the Israel Antiquities Authority. Together they excavated the largest Byzantine monastic complex found in Israel. Further excavations have since been taking place, the marble-lined bath-house being one of the more recent discoveries.</p><br>
<p>The church has been reconstructed to a degree which allows the visitor to understand its three-dimensional shape and size.</p><br>
<p>Christian artifacts from Kursi can be viewed at the Golan Archaeological Museum.</p><br>
<h3>Synagogue</h3><br>
<p>A building that may have been a synagogue has also been unearthed; a large marble slab inscribed in Aramaic was found inside this building, and two words were deciphered shortly after the discovery: "amen" and "marmaria&quot the latter, literally marble, has been interpreted by some scholars as perhaps linked with the cult of the Virgin Mary, possibly meaning Marias rabbi, since mar&#39; means rabbi.</p><br>
<p>Deal Lake is a man-made lake in Monmouth County, New Jersey. It is the largest lake in the county and one of the largest lakes in New Jersey, occupying 158 acres and drains into the Atlantic Ocean.</p><br>
<p>The lake covers 158 acres. Seven municipalities border the lake, accounting for 27 mi of shoreline, including Allenhurst, Asbury Park, Deal, Interlaken, Loch Arbour, Neptune Township and Ocean Township.</p><br>
<p>Deal Lake, like many urban and suburban bodies of water experienced serious environment pollutant problems in the mid 20th century, in 1974 the Deal Lake Commission was formed to help save the lake.</p><br>
<p>Deal is a freshwater lake, but is unique because it has spawning saltwater fish, including alewives, blueback herring and gizzard shad.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Deal Lake has gone by many names over the years including Lake Uliquecks, White&#39;s Pond, Hogs Swamp Pond, Corlies Pond, Great Pond and Boyleston Great Pond.</p><br>
<p>Originally an estuary of the Atlantic Ocean, Deal Lake was altered starting in 1890 to its present form, with the closing off the inlet from the ocean and creation of several separate lakes and ponds. Deal Lake was a model system of the late 19th century for flood control and storm water management. Over time, the lake lured many to build along its banks. Today, almost the entire shoreline has been developed with many homes built within the 100-year flood plain.</p><br>
<p>In the late 1890s, the Ross Fenton Farm was established as a popular entertainment spot on the Wanamassa banks of Deal Lake.</p><br>
<p>Sandsfjorden or Sandsfjord is a fjord in Suldal Municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The 25 km long fjord is the northernmost arm of main Boknafjorden in Rogaland county. The fjord begins at the confluence of the Saudafjorden and Hylsfjorden, just north of the village of Sand. It then travels to the southwest until it reaches the island of Foldøy, where the fjord joins the main Boknafjorden. The villages of Jelsa and Hebnes are located on either side of the mouth of the fjord.</p><br>
<p>The Sandsfjord Bridge is under construction across the fjord near the village of Marvik. The bridge will open in the fall of 2015 and it will connect the Norwegian National Road 13 to the Norwegian County Road 46 and it will replace a ferry route across the fjord.</p><br>
<p>St Bartholomews Hospital is the site of a medieval monastery hospital at the bottom of Christmas Steps, in Lewins Mead, Bristol, England. It has been designated as a grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<p>The building incorporates an arcade of arches from a 12th-century town house. The round piers predate the hospital, and may come from an aisled hall, the earliest remains of domestic architecture in the city, which was then adapted to form the hospital chapel. It was incorporated into a monastery hospital, similar to an almshouse, founded in 1240 by Sir John la Warr, 2nd Baron De La Warr (c. 1277–1347) who gave land in Horfield for the upkeep of the hospital. In 1291 he made a bequest of one hundred marks for the monks to chart in his memory and that of his relatives. The Fraternity of St. Clement was established at the hospital in 1445, funded by a levy on ships in the harbour, with a specific responsibility for 12 sailors.</p><br>
<p>After the Dissolution of the Monasteries it was bought by Robert Thorne, the local member of parliament and became Bristol Grammar School from 1532 to 1767, with the current front of the building being constructed in the 17th century. It has a jettied first floor. It was used as Queen Elizabeths Hospital from 1767 to 1847. Three 17th-century town houses were then incorporated into model workers flats around a courtyard in 1865, and converted to offices in 1978.</p><br>
<p>In the 1970s an archaeological excavation and search of documentary evidence of the site was carried out. 30 skeletons were uncovered which showed a range of fractures and infections indicating the sorts of conditions the hospital is likely to have treated.</p><br>
<p>The Bremond Block Historic District is a collection of eleven historic homes in downtown Austin, Texas, United States, constructed from the 1850s to 1910.</p><br>
<p>The block was added to National Register of Historic Places in 1970, and is considered one of the few remaining upper-class Victorian neighborhoods of the middle to late nineteenth century in Texas. Six of these houses were built or expanded for members of the families of brothers Eugene and John Bremond, who were prominent in late-nineteenth-century Austin social, merchandising, and banking circles. They are located within the square block bordered by West Seventh, West Eighth, Guadalupe, and San Antonio streets. The district also includes several houses on the west side of San Antonio and the south side of West Seventh, at least three of which were built or altered by the North family. The John and Pierre Bremond houses are currently owned by the Texas Classroom Teachers Association, and the John Bremond house serves as the headquarters for the association.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings in the Bremond Block Historic District</h2><br>
<p>The historic district consists of eleven structures.</p><br>
<p>Mount Saint Macrina is the site of the largest pilgrimage among Ruthenian Byzantine Catholics in North America. It is also home to the monastery of Byzantine Catholic Order of Sisters of St. Basil.</p><br>
<p>Established in 1933 by Mother Macrina Melnychuk (1879-1948) near Uniontown, Pennsylvania, the pilgrimage takes place each Labor Day weekend on the grounds of the Basilian monastery there, drawing more than 30,000. Mount Saint Macrina, named for Saint Basil&#39;s sister, Saint Macrina, was formally dedicated in 1934.</p><br>
<p>Once named Oak Hill, it was the estate (more than 1,000 acres) of coal baron J.V. Thompson (Josiah Van Kirk Thompson), a leading figure in the great coal and coke boom of the late 19th century. Financial misfortune forced him into bankruptcy, and in 1933 the Byzantine Catholic Order of Sisters of St. Basil acquired the property. The Thompson mansion, visible from USA Route 40, is now the Sisters&#39; retreat center.</p><br>
<p>The monastery for the community of sisters is a five-story yellow brick building at the north end of the property. An international Order, other groups of the Sisters of St. Basil are spread throughout the world. The newest building on the property is Mount Macrina Manor Nursing Home, dedicated in 1971. Today, the Thompson Mansion serves as a retreat center.</p><br>
<p>Brothers of Prayers previously held their weekly prayer gathering on the Mount Saint Macrina grounds originally in the Trinity Center and eventually the House of Prayer chapel. The Brothers have moved to St. Thérèse de Lisieux Church, 61 Mill Street, Uniontown, PA. Tuesday evenings from 7:00 to 8:15 PM EST.</p><br>
<p>In 1999, the Department of the Interior named Mount Saint Macrina to the National Register of Historic Places under its old name of "Oak Hill Estate."</p><br>
<h2>Burials</h2><br>
<p>Basil Takach, in the cemetery of Mount Saint Macrina Monastery</p><br>
<p>Stephen Kocisko, in the cemetery of Mount Saint Macrina Monastery</p><br>
<p>Thomas Dolinay, in the cemetery of Mount Saint Macrina Monastery</p><br>
<p>Basil Schott</p><br>
<p>George Kuzma</p><br>
<p>Albert N Skomra - who lived nearby and loved to go for a run on the grounds- is now buried there</p><br>
<p>Helorus, Heloros, Helorum, or Elorus , was an ancient city of Sicily, situated near the east coast, about 40 km south of Syracuse and on the banks of the river of the same name. It is currently an archaeological site in the modern comune of Noto.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>We have no account of its origin, but it was probably a colony of Syracuse, of which it appears to have continued always a dependency. The name is first found in Scylax; for, though Thucydides repeatedly mentions the road leading to Helorus from Syracuse, which was that followed by the Athenians in their disastrous retreat, he never speaks of the town itself. It was one of the cities which remained the under the government of Hieron II by the treaty concluded with him by the Romans, in 263 BCE: and, having during the Second Punic War declared in favor of the Carthaginians, was recovered by Marcus Claudius Marcellus in 214 BCE.</p><br>
<p>Under the Romans it appears to have been dependent on Syracuse, and had perhaps no separate municipal existence, though in a passage of Cicero it appears to be noticed as a civitas. Its name is again mentioned by the orator (Id. v. 34) as a maritime town where the squadron fitted out by Verres was attacked by pirates: but it does not occur in Pliny&#39;s list of the towns of Sicily; though he elsewhere mentions it as a castellum on the river of the same name: and Ptolemy speaks of a city of Helorus.</p><br>
<p>Its ruins were still visible in the days of Fazello; a little to the north of the river Helorus, and about a mile from the sea-coast. The most conspicuous of them were the remains of a theatre, called by the country people Colisseo: but great part of the walls and other buildings could be traced. The extent of them was, however, inconsiderable. These are now said to have disappeared, but there still remains between this site and the sea a curious column or monument, built of large stones, rising on a square pedestal.</p><br>
<p>This is commonly regarded as a kind of trophy, erected by the Syracusans to commemorate their victory over the Athenians. But there is no foundation for this belief: had it been so designed, it would certainly have been erected on the banks of the river Asinarus, which the Athenians never succeeded in crossing.</p><br>
<p>The Las Vegas culture is the name given to a large number of Holocene settlements which flourished between 8000 BCE and 4600 BCE. near the coast of present-day Ecuador. The name comes from the location of the most prominent settlement, Site No. 80, near the Las Vegas River and now within the city of Santa Elena. The Las Vegas culture represents "an early, sedentary adjustment to an ecologically complex coastal environment."</p><br>
<p>The Las Vegas culture is important because it was one of the earliest cultures in South America to practice agriculture.</p><br>
<h2>Setting</h2><br>
<p>The Las Vegas culture was located on the Santa Elena Peninsula of Ecuador. The Santa Elena peninsula is the northernmost extension of the coastal desert that stretches for some 3,000 km along the Pacific coast of South America. The city of Santa Elena receives about 250 mm of precipitation annually nearly all of it from January to March. Under the influence of the cool waters of the Humboldt Current, temperatures are mild, averaging 23 &deg;C with only a few degrees in seasonal variation. The natural vegetation near the coast is xeric featuring cacti and other desert plants. Inland, precipitation generally increases and the vegetation becomes more varied and lush, changing from desert to seasonally dry forest.</p><br>
<p>Ten thousand years ago sea level on the Santa Elena peninsula was 30 m lower than at present. Thus, the known settlements of the Las Vegas period were further inland then than they are now and some ancient settlements may have been covered by the rising sea. The dry climate and xeric vegetation seem to have persisted throughout the 10,000 year period.</p><br>
<p>Thirty-two Las Vegas sites have been identified on the Santa Elena peninsula, scattered over an area about 25 km east-west and 12 km north-south, most along the Rio Grande and its tributaries, including the Las Vegas River. Additional similar sites of human habitation probably remain to be discovered near and along several hundred miles of Ecuadorian coast</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Evidence of a human presence of the Santa Elena peninsula has been radiocarbon dated back to 8800 BCE, but with the onset of the Las Vegas period about 8000 BC, the evidence becomes much more extensive. Archaeologists have divided the Las Vegas culture into two periods: early Las Vegas from 8000 to 6000 BCE, and late Las Vegas from 6000 BCE to 4600 BCE. The dividing line between the two periods is a lacuna in the archaeological record at one representative site. The Las Vegas culture was pre-ceramic, meaning that the people did not utilize pottery.</p><br>
<p>During Early Las Vegas the "basic unit of social production, distribution, and consumption was the small, relatively self-sufficient family, flexibly organized for carrying out a wide variety of subsistence tasks using a few generalized tools and facilities." Houses were small and it appears that family units moved from one site to another to take advantage of seasonal food sources. Houses were very small and flimsy. The people gathered wild foods and hunted and fished in the variety of habitats in the region: the desert, dry tropical forest, and the Pacific coast. Deer, fox, rabbit, small rodents, weasel, anteater, squirrel, peccary, opossum, frog, boa constrictor, indigo snake, parrot and lizard were exploited for food. Intertidal species and crab were also harvested in small quantities. The Las Vegans were broad-spectrum hunters and were able to hunt these many different species and not rely on any one source of food.</p><br>
<p>Later Las Vegas continued to rely on hunting and gathering, but with a greater dependence on fish and shellfish from the ocean. The harvesting of offshore fish species suggests that the Later Las Vegas people may have had boats. They made a variety of tools from stone and bone points and a spatula have been discovered that may have been used for making nets or textiles. They utilized shell, wood, bamboo, reeds, and bark to make tools and containers. Burial customs underwent a major change in the Later Las Vegas. Burials took place only at the two major sites (Site 80 and 66/67) of the culture with the remains of people who died elsewhere transported to those sites for burial or reburial. The burial customs suggest that the two main sites had become base camps and ceremonial centers. Other sites may have been occupied only seasonally as families and bands moved from place to place to hunt, fish, or collect wild plants for food.</p><br>
<h2>Agriculture</h2><br>
<p>Given the desert and near-desert conditions and the scarcity of surface water, the Santa Elena peninsula does not seem a promising area for pre-historic agriculture, but the Las Vegas people were among the earliest in South America to practice agriculture. Agriculture did not replace fishing, hunting, and foraging, but complemented these traditional means of subsistence. The earliest domesticated crops may have been calabash or bottle gourd (an African plant whose presence at this early date in the Americas is something of a mystery) and leren (Calathea allouia, a tropical root crop probably not native to the Santa Elena area). Evidence of their cultivation and domestication date to 7000 BCE. A semi-domesticated type of squash might have been cultivated even earlier. Phytoliths of squash date back to 8000 BCE. Surprising to archaeologists, maize cultivation was practiced in Las Vegas area by about 4600 BCE. Maize originated in Mexico and its cultivation spread elsewhere.</p><br>
<p>Even earlier dates were obtained by Zarrillo et al in 2008. According to their data, early agriculture started in the area c. 11,000 BP (9,000 BC), and maize was already present by 7,500 BP (5,500 BC).</p><br>
<p>"Maize was introduced to Ecuadorian coastal populations already familiar with plant cultivation. At the preceramic Vegas site (OGSE-80), phytolith assemblages, which included bottle gourd (Lagenaria spp.), the root crop llerén (Calathea spp.), and domesticated-size squash phytoliths, were directly dated to 11,210–9,900 cal B.P., with maize present in directly dated phytolith assemblages to ≈7500 cal B.P."</p><br>
<p>Zarrillo S, Pearsall DM, Raymond JS, Tisdale MA, Quon DJ. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 2008;105(13):5006-5011.</p><br>
<p>Also, according to Piperno, the recent dates for maize use by Las Vegas culture are at c. 8053-7818 cal. BP.</p><br>
<h3>Other early maize in the area</h3><br>
<p>Scholars have been debating whether the early planting of maize was done in the lowlands, at the mid-elevations, or perhaps even in the highlands of the Americas. Also, the question remains open whether the first maize in South America was introduced in the lowlands or at the higher elevations.</p><br>
<p>Recent data has suggested that humans dispersed maize into the upper lowland of northwest Colombia at some time within a date range of 8997-8277 cal. BP. Later, human groups dispersed maize into the mid-elevation forests of the Colombian Andes by 8000-7600 cal. BP.</p><br>
<p>In 21st century, archaeologists investigated the Cubilan area, in Oña Canton, Ecuador. Recent microbotanical studies from Cubilan recovered maize starches from milling and scrapping lithic tools associated with contexts dated to 8078-7959 cal. BP (about 6,000 BC). This is the oldest evidence of maize in South American highlands.</p><br>
<h2>End of Las Vegas</h2><br>
<p>Archaeologists have found no evidence of the presence of humans on the Santa Elena peninsula for one thousand years after 4600 BCE. About 3500 BCE, the Valdivia culture appears in the same area as the Las Vegas people lived. The fate of the Las Vegas people is not known.</p><br>
<p>The Drake Court Apartments and the Dartmore Apartments Historic District, built between 1916 and 1921, is located at Jones Street from 20th to 23rd Streets in Midtown Omaha, in the USA state of Nebraska. Built in combined Georgian Revival, Colonial Revival and Prairie School styles, the complex was designated a City of Omaha Landmark in 1978; it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district in 1980. The historic district originally included 6.5 acre with 19 buildings. In 2014, boundary of the historic district was expanded by 0.74 acre include three additional buildings, and decreased by 3 acre to remove open space and parking that had been re-purposed, for a new total of 4.24 acre. The district was also renamed to Drake Court Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>About</h2><br>
<p>Located in the formerly affluent and prosperous mixed-use neighborhood west of downtown Omaha, the Drake Court Apartments and the Dartmore Apartments were built between 1916-1921 by William B. Drake, a prolific builder who held more than four million dollars&#39; worth of apartments throughout Omaha in 1925. These particular buildings were built in both Georgian Revival and Prairie School styles. With beautiful landscaped grounds, marble floors in a number of units and a surrounding park-like atmosphere scattered throughout a mixed-use neighborhood, Drake Court was once a highly desired property.</p><br>
<p>Other buildings in the historic district include the Monroe Apartment Building, built in 1920. A four-story structure, it was rehabilitated in 1987. The Madison Apartments, built in 1927, were rehabilitated in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Three buildings were added in the 2014 expansion, the Ansonia, Ainsworth, and Beverly Apartments.</p><br>
<p>The Omaha Quartermaster Depot Historic District, including several brick structures built in Italianate and other styles, was built for the USA Army between 1881 and 1894. Located in South Omaha between Hickory and 22nd Streets, Woolworth Avenue and the Union Pacific Railroad main line in Omaha, Nebraska, the depot was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district in 1979. The depot previously operated as United States Army Reserve facility. The facility is considered surplus by the GSA and was put up for auction in the fall of 2013.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1892, the depot commissary from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, moved to Omaha. The USA Army&#39;s Department of the Platte used the depot as a storage and distribution source for military outposts for 20 years, including its peak activity during World War I. During that period, the depot supplied camps and National Guard units throughout the Midwest.</p><br>
<p>During the Great Depression, the depot was activated as part of Franklin D. Roosevelt&#39;s New Deal program as a supply base for Civilian Conservation Corps camps across the United States. The depot previously operated as United States Army Reserve facility. On November 19, 2013, the property was put up for auction by the General Services Administration.</p><br>
<p>The South Omaha Main Street Historic District is located along South 24th Street between M and O Streets in South Omaha, Nebraska. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. Home to dozens of historically important buildings, including the Packer&#39;s National Bank Building, the historic district includes 129 acre and more than 32 buildings.</p><br>
<h2>About</h2><br>
<p>The site of a historically vital commercial district in the History of Omaha, the South Omaha Main Street Historic District once comprised the urban core of the City of South Omaha, Nebraska. It includes businesses, the former South Omaha City Hall, a correctional facility, banks, a post office, professional offices, and specialty stores.</p><br>
<p>Renowned for its cultural influences, including the historic location of Omahas Greek, Russian, Polish and Czech immigrant communities, as well as the citys current growing Latino community, including Mexicans.</p><br>
<h2>Contributing properties</h2><br>
<p>The Carpenter Building is one such building in the South Omaha Main Street Historic District, built in 1916 as a one-story brick structure. The building housed a hardware store, until a fire in 1988. A rehabilitation in 1990 allowed the building to continue being used. Packer&#39;s National Bank Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. Founded in 1891, the bank served employees of the Union Stock Yards Company of Omaha and the associated meat packing industry in South Omaha.</p><br>
<p>The Vanous Block, built in 1892, is a three-story contributing property for the district that was originally a warehouse. A 1992 rehabilitation converted it into a commercial and rental residential space. The Stockman Publishing Company building is a two-story building constructed in 1890 that was converted to office and residential space in 1992. The Brandes Block is a three-story brick building that was built in 1889. The building was converted to a mixed commercial and rental residential use in 1991. The Roseland Theater, built in the 1920s, was a theater through the mid-1980s. In 1991 the building was converted into commercial and rental residential use. The Commercial Building is a one-story brick building that was originally a livestock supply dealership. The building was converted to retail and warehouse space in 1994.</p><br>
<h3>Notable locations</h3><br>
<p>Leonard Kniazeff is a stratovolcano between the municipalities of Mabini and Maco in Compostela Valley province, island of Mindanao, Philippines.</p><br>
<p>It has a 203 km diameter caldera lake called Lake Leonard. Amacan Thermal Area is located 5 aerial km SSW of Lake Leonard.</p><br>
<p>Leonard Kniazeff is one of the active volcanoes in the Philippines, part of the Pacific ring of fire.</p><br>
<h2>Activity</h2><br>
<p>The Leonard Kniazeff (North Davao) area has been the object of a geothermal exploration program.</p><br>
<p>Manat thermal area is north of Lake Leonard, solfataras occur around its SW rim, and active solfataras, fumaroles, and hot springs are found in the Amacan-Gopod thermal area south of the lake.</p><br>
<p>There was a scare in 1995 but PHIVOLCS investigation at the time did not disclose any unusual activity, and no unusual activity has been reported since.</p><br>
<p>Its last eruption was dated as c.120 AD.</p><br>
<p>Mullaghmeen Hill, in County Westmeath, Ireland.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The hill is situated between the County Cavan border and the Coole end of the Bog of Allen, to the south. It dominates the valley and the Westmeath or the Lake County surrounding countryside. It rises gracefully among surrounding hills that interlace with the many loughs of Westmeath.</p><br>
<p>Mullaghmeen Forest lies about 8 km from the town of Castlepollard. At just 258 metres, the summit of Mullaghmeen is the highest point in County Westmeath, making it the lowest county top in Ireland.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The soil is very rich in limestone and in 1936 the Department of Agriculture decided that it would be ideally suited to the planting of deciduous trees. The Department set about planting mainly beech trees, resulting in what is now the largest beech plantation in Europe.</p><br>
<p>Ķīpsala is an island on the left bank of the Daugava river, connected to Riga city center and Pārdaugava by the Shroud Bridge. Ķīpsala is divided from the rest of Riga by the Daugava in the east, Roņu dīķis in the north, Zunda in the west and Agenskalna līcis in the south.</p><br>
<p>In recent years Ķīpsala has become a prestigious area for living in Riga. There is a campus of the RTU including a newly renovated dorm on Ķīpsala as well as the Olimpia shopping center. The International School of Riga campus has also been situated on Ķīpsala since 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Žanis Lipke Memorial is located on the island at 9 Mazais Balasta dambis. It was built next to the home of Jānis Lipke, where he had arranged a shelter for rescued Jews during the Nazi occupation.</p><br>
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<p>The Mary Schenley Memorial Fountain, also known as A Song to Nature, is a 1918 landmark public sculpture in bronze and granite by Victor David Brenner. It sits in Schenley Plaza at the entrance to Schenley Park and directly in front of the University of Pittsburgh&#39;s Frick Fine Arts Building in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The fountain is designated as a contributing property to the Schenley Farms Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The work of art comprises two major figures: a reclining Pan, the Greek god of shepherds, and above him a female singer playing a lyre. From crevices along the fountain&#39;s rim four turtles spew water into the basin. An inscription on the pedestal reads, "A Song of Nature, Pan the Earth God Answers to the Harmony and Magic Tones Sung to the Lyre by Sweet Humanity." The basin of the fountain is 15 feet high, above which the figures rise another 15 feet.</p><br>
<p>The fountain honors Mary Schenley. In 1889, after intensive lobbying by Edward Manning Bigelow, director of parks for the City of Pittsburgh, Schenley donated the land for the park named in her honor. Upon her death, Pittsburgh City Council sponsored a national competition for the memorial. The judges selected this design by Brenner, who is famous today for his design of the Lincoln cent, which is still in circulation.</p><br>
<p>In June 2008, restoration efforts were begun that include repairs, cleaning, plumbing, paving, and landscaping. A gift from the Benter Foundation will provide lighting for the fountain and plaza.</p><br>
<p>Hårteigen is a characteristic mountain in Hordaland county, Norway. It sits on and is visible from most parts of the vast Hardangervidda plateau. The mountain is located in the municipality of Ullensvang, and it is inside the Hardangervidda National Park.</p><br>
<p>At an elevation of 1,690 m above sea level, the peak of Hårteigen rises 480 m above the surrounding plateau which is fairly level. It is located about 30 km northeast of the town of Odda.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>The first element is from the Old Norse word hárr which means grey and the last element is related to the German verb zeigen which means show. On the large and flat plateau of Hardangervidda this mountain was important for travellers to find the direction.</p><br>
<p>The Snead Building located at 815 W. Market St. is a multi-use facility housing two working glass studios , a Walk-In Workshop and tours by appointment.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>From 1850 to 1901, at least seven different glass manufacturing factories operated in Louisville. Six were utilitarian bottle houses, and the other manufactured window and plate glass. In 1850 the first glass bottle- and jar-making firm, known as the Kentucky Glass Works was formed, which, by 1855, was being referred to under the name "Louisville Glass Works". ("Louisville KY Glass Works" is the actual wording on some of their embossed whiskey flasks of the 1850s and 1860s era). However, that firm was defunct by 1873, and bears no relationship to the former glassmaking business which operated under the name "Louisville Glassworks".</p><br>
<p>In 1896 Edwin Penna began operation, and has gone under five generations of Penna ownership.</p><br>
<p>The downtown location has historically been known as the Snead Manufacturing Building, and was put on the National Register in 1978. Snead was responsible for building many iron buildings around the country. After the old building burnt down, the architect was told to build a "first-class fireproof power building".</p><br>
<p>The Louisville Glassworks business closed its doors in 2012, but glass continues there today.</p><br>
<p>Since 2012, The Louisville Glassworks building has been home to Flame Run Glass Studio and Gallery, who relocated there from their previous location in the NuLu district, and also the home of the Mark Payton Glass Center, The Foundry at Glassworks, and various other businesses on the top floors.</p><br>
<p>The Glassworks building still boasts one of the largest privately owned hot glass studios in the country, and a nationally recognized glass art gallery which showcases artist from across the globe.</p><br>
<p>Boztepe or Mount Minthrion is a hill near Trabzon in Turkey. It is located 3 kilometers southeast of the city center of Trabzon. The Değirmendere Valley lies to the east of Boztepe. The Kaymaklı quarter occupies most of the Boztepe hill.</p><br>
<p>The area has been religiously significant since ancient times. There are four sacred fountains on Bozetepe.</p><br>
<p>*That of Saint John the Sanctifier is near the summit. On the site is a mosque that was formerly a nineteenth-century church. The church in turn may have replaced a sanctuary to Mithras, which may have been the origin of the name Minthrion.</p><br>
<p>*That of Kaymaklı Monastery is known as the milk fountain.</p><br>
<p>*The Skylolimne is now a mostly-dry lake.</p><br>
<p>*The Dragon&#39;s fountain (Δράκοντπήάσον) is near Hoşoğlan village. According to John Lazaropoulos&#39; Logos on St. Eugenios of Trebizond, Alexios II of Trebizond killed a dragon at the site.</p><br>
<p>Ureparapara  is the third largest island in the Banks group of northern Vanuatu, after Gaua and Vanua Lava.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first recorded European who arrived to Ureparapara was the Spanish explorer Pedro Fernández de Quirós on 15 June 1606. He first named the island Pilar de Zaragoza; however, later on, it is charted as Nuestra Señora de Montserrate both by him and his chaplain Fray Martin de Munilla.</p><br>
<p>In 1789, the island was rediscovered by William Bligh, during his journey from Tonga to Timor after the mutiny on the Bounty. After this, Ureparapara was known for a while under the name Bligh Island.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Ureparapara island is an old volcanic cone that has been breached by the sea on its east coast, forming Divers Bay. Apart from this indentation, the island is circular in shape, with a diameter of 15 km. The land area is 39 km&sup2;.</p><br>
<h2>Population</h2><br>
<p>The population was 437 in 2009.</p><br>
<p>There are three villages on the island. The main village is Léar (Leserepla). The others are Lehali (on the west coast) and Leqyangle.</p><br>
<p>Two languages are traditionally spoken on the island, Löyöp and Lehali.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>The name Ureparapara reflects the way the island is named in the language of Mota, which was once chosen by missionaries, at the end of the 19th century, as the reference language for the area.</p><br>
<p>The island is locally named Noypēypay in Lehali, and Aö in Löyöp</p><br>
<h2>Historical sites</h2><br>
<p>Ureparapara is known to host historical sites made of coral stone, named nowon and votwos in Lehali. These ancestral villages, located inland in the forest, were abandoned in the 19th century, yet have been preserved under the vegetation; they have been proposed for inclusion amongst the World Heritage sites of UNESCO. One of the most famous sites is a 12-feet high stone platform called Votwos. These used to serve as a ceremonial platform for the high-profile grade-taking ceremonies, known as sok or nsok in Lehali, and referred to in the anthropological literature as suqe or sukwe (after their name in Mota).</p><br>
<p>These sites are now only visited for ceremonial purposes, as most people nowadays live along the coast.</p><br>
<p>Campo de Borja is a Spanish Denominación de Origen  for wines located in the Campo de Borja comarca, northwest of the province of Zaragoza . It is a transition zone between the plains of the River Ebro and the mountains of the Sistema Ibérico.</p><br>
<p>The DO comprises 16 municipalities. These are Ainzón, Agón, Albeta, Ambel, Bisimbre, Borja, Bulbuente, Bureta, Fréscano, Fuendejalón, Magallón, Maleján, Mallén, Pozuelo de Aragón, Tabuenca and Vera de Moncayo.</p><br>
<p>The Moncayo mountain is the dominant feature of the DO and creates a microclimate which gives the wines a special character.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It is assumed that the ancient Romans introduced and developed grape-growing in this region, but the first written reference is a document in the archives of the Cistercian Monastery of Veruela which refers to donations of vineyards in the year 1203.</p><br>
<p>During the centuries of Arab domination of the Iberian Peninsula, grape and wine production decreased and only increased again after the reconquest by Christian forces.</p><br>
<p>During the course of the 15th century the successive abbots of the Veruela Monastery acquired vast quantities of land and placed it under vines. According to the monastery’s records, in 1453 they even bought an entire town (Ainzón) with all its fields, pastures, watercourses and vineyards.</p><br>
<p>This monastery was very influential in the development of wine production right up to the 19th century, and was responsible for the replanting and grafting of the entire area after the phylloxera plague.</p><br>
<p>The area was finally recognised as a Denominación de Origin in 1980 when the statutes were approved.</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<p>The climate is continental, with Atlantic influences during the winter, notably a cold, dry wind from the northeast. In summer, there is a Mediterranean influence. The temperature varies a great deal, both on a daily and on a seasonal basis. Annual rainfall is very low, only about 350 mm in the low-lying areas and 450 mm in higher areas. The vineyards are planted on a series of high plateaus at heights ranging between 350 m and 750 m above sea level.</p><br>
<h2>Soils</h2><br>
<p>The soils are mainly dark lime-bearing soils, of average rockiness, good drainage, average level of organic matter and rich in nutrients. Closer to the Moncayo the clay and iron content increases, as does the general rockiness.</p><br>
<h2>Vineyards</h2><br>
<p>There are currently about 6,300 ha under vines which produce between 20 and 25 million kg of grapes. The vines are cultivated both as low bushes (en vaso) and also on trellises (en espaldera).</p><br>
<h2>Grape varieties</h2><br>
<p>Authorized red grapes: Garnacha, Tempranillo, Mazuela, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Syrah</p><br>
<p>Authorised white grapes: Macabeo, Moscatel</p><br>
<h2>Wines</h2><br>
<p>Whites: made with 100% Macabeo grapes. Min 11%</p><br>
<p>Rosés: made with Garnacha grapes. Min 11%</p><br>
<p>Young Reds: Made both as 100% Garnacha and also in combination with Tempranillo and Cabernet Sauvignon. Min 12%</p><br>
<p>Crianzas: must be aged for at least 24 months. Min 12.5%</p><br>
<p>Reservas: must be aged for at least 12 months in oak casks plus 24 months in the bottle. Min 12.5%</p><br>
<p>Gran Reservas: must be aged for at least 24 months in oak casks plus 36 months in the bottle. Min 12.5%</p><br>
<p>Others: Mistelas, dessert wines form Moscatel and sparkling wine is also produced. Min 15%</p><br>
<p>The Morewood School is a historic one-room schoolhouse at 30 South Mountain Road in Pittsfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Built in 1843, it was converted to a vacation cottage in the 1980s after serving for 130 years as a schoolhouse. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. Originally located on 4 acre around 1825, the lot has been reduced to 1 acre.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Named after the Morewood family who owned "Broad Hall", the current Pittsfield Country Club, the schoolhouse was built around 1843. According to a record book retained by the Berkshire County Historical Society kept by Jesse Oliver Howard, who attended the school in 1865, the original school house burned in June 1841 when several class mates started a fire in the playground during the noon time recess. When Jesse Howard attended the school, the pupils ranged in age from 4–16 years old sitting in benches with no backs. Until 1925, water was drawn from the Howard brook in the wood next to the school. Morewood educated the children of the local early families such as the Howards, Luces and Melvilles. Herman Melville wrote Moby Dick and three other novels while living with his family in the nearby Arrowhead farm from 1850-1863.</p><br>
<p>Horace Mann accepted the position of First Secretary of the State Board of Education in Massachusetts in 1837 when Edward Everett was governor. He took office at a time when glaring weaknesses existed in public education in Massachusetts. He went to Pittsfield in the Berkshire Hills, in western Massachusetts to hold a "teachers’ institute," or convention. He reached the town, in the morning, only to find that no arrangements had been made, and that the little red schoolhouse in which the institute was to be held was in no presentable condition.</p><br>
<p>When Governor Everett saw the condition of the schoolhouse, both he and Mr. Mann were determined to conquer what the secretary called "the arctic regions of Pittsfield" (because of its lack of interest); so, while the secretary was "putting things to rights", the governor made a raid on the nearest dwelling house, borrowed two brooms, and when the aroused and curious inhabitants strolled into the schoolhouse, they stood open-eyed with wonder to see the governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the secretary of the State Board of Education sweeping and dusting the schoolroom, so that everything might be presentable when the hour for the institute arrived.</p><br>
<p>Several of the schools that he established still remain standing today in Berkshire County. It is very likely the Morewood School, the only surviving one room "red school" house, is the same school used for Horace Manns historical teachers institute.</p><br>
<p>The school house has the longest continuous use as a school in New England, seeing continuous use for 130 years. It was used as Pittsfield&#39;s USA Bicentennial Headquarters in 1975. The building was sold to Bob and Karen Clydesdale in 1984 and modernized while retaining the unique Greek revival exterior design features. It is now used as a vacation rental cottage.</p><br>
<p>Milevum  was a Roman&ndash;Berber city in the Roman province of Numidia. It was located in present-day Mila in eastern Algeria.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In Ptolemy&#39;s "Geography" (vol. IV, iii, 7), the city is mentioned under the name of Mileum. During the Roman era, it was called Colonia Sarnensis Milevitana, after the River Sarnus in Campania (southern Italy), whence the colonists had emigrated. This name is often found in the inscriptions of the city.</p><br>
<p>Together with Cirta, Collo and Rusicade, Milevum formed the confederation known as the Four Colonies, the territory of which was very extensive. This confederation area was fully romanised in the fourth century, with nearly all the population speaking Latin, according to historian Theodor Mommsen</p><br>
<p>In the 6th century, the Byzantine Emperor Justinian had Milevum enclosed by a fortified wall, which still stands and forms a rampart for the Muslim city of Mila. It has yielded quite a number of Latin inscriptions from this city and a colossal statue of Saturn.</p><br>
<p>Christianity appeared in the second century and dominated Miletum in the fourth century.</p><br>
<p>Two church councils were held at Milevum, one in 402 AD and the other in 416 AD. The second appealed to Pope Innocent I for repression of the Pelagian heresy.</p><br>
<p>After 682 AD the city may have been conquered by the Umayyad Arabs commanded by Abu al-Muhajir Dinar.</p><br>
<h2>Bishopric</h2><br>
<p>The city was the center of a small bishopric. Among the bishops of this episcopal see were:</p><br>
<p>Pollianus, present at the Council of Carthage (255) and martyred two years later</p><br>
<p>St. Optatus, noted for his work against the Donatists, who died in about 385 AD and who is commemorated on 4 June</p><br>
<p>Honorius</p><br>
<p>Severus, fellow-countryman and friend of St. Augustine</p><br>
<p>Benenanus (484 AD); and Restitutus, who attended the Fifth Œcumenical Council in 553 AD.</p><br>
<p>Milevum remains today a titular see in the ecclesiastical province of Numidia.</p><br>
<p>Emmanuel a Santo Ludovico, O.F.M. † (8 Feb 1672 appointed – )</p><br>
<p>Hyacinthus de Saldanha, O.P. † (28 Jan 1675 appointed – )</p><br>
<p>Johann Ignaz Dlouhovesky de Longavilla † (10 Apr 1679 appointed – 10 Jan 1701)</p><br>
<p>Caius Asterius Toppi † (15 Nov 1728 appointed – 20 May 1754)</p><br>
<p>Anton de Révay † (20 May 1754 appointed – 16 Sep 1776 Bishop of Rožňava)</p><br>
<p>Wilhelm Joseph Leopold Willibald von Baden † (12 Jul 1779 appointed – 9 Jun 1798)</p><br>
<p>Angiolo (Angelo) Cesarini † (28 Sep 1801 appointed – 7 May 1810)</p><br>
<p>Thomas Coen † (26 Jan 1816 appointed – 9 Oct 1831 Succeeded, Bishop of Clonfert)</p><br>
<p>Bernard Collier, O.S.B. † (14 Feb 1840 appointed – 7 Dec 1847)</p><br>
<p>Jean-Marie Tissot, M.S.F.S. † (11 Aug 1863 appointed – 25 Nov 1886 Bishop of Vizagapatam)</p><br>
<p>Charles Lavigne, S.J. † (13 Sep 1887 appointed – 27 Aug 1898)</p><br>
<p>James Bellord (16 Feb 1899 appointed – 11 Jun 1905)</p><br>
<p>Ivan Borzatti de Löwenstern (15 Mar 1907 appointed – 17 Feb 1926)</p><br>
<p>Acacio Chacón Guerra (10 May 1926 appointed – 1 Aug 1927)</p><br>
<p>Anton Gisler † (20 Apr 1928 appointed – 4 Jan 1932)</p><br>
<p>Jean-Félix de Hemptinne, O.S.B. † (15 Mar 1932 appointed – 6 Feb 1958)</p><br>
<p>José Manuel Piña Torres † (12 May 1958 appointed – 7 Jul 1997)</p><br>
<p>Joseph Ignace Randrianasolo † (24 Oct 1997 appointed – 3 Jun 1999, Bishop of Mahajanga)</p><br>
<p>Joseph Chennoth (24 Aug 1999 appointed – )</p><br>
<p>Prodromi is a village in the municipal unit of Pelekanos, Chania regional unit, Crete, Greece. The name of the village in the 18th century was "Peroudo Vrisi". The current name is from the church of Agios Ioannis Prodromos. It is a nice community unspoiled from tourist exploitation surrounded by natural mountain view beauty of Cretan earth.</p><br>
<p>The area is covered with picturesque hills and beyond them steep mountain-sides in a magnificent landscape. There are protected considerable archeological places like the area of Lissos which is a magnificent location that hosts a Temple devoted to Asklipio (god of medicine) and a natural spring with curing water, a Roman grave yard and one of the first Byzantine Churches in the province of Selino at Chania. Yrtakina is an ancient city from the prehistoric period with a castle made from giant rocks.</p><br>
<p>Main produce is olive oil. The production of wine from viticulture in dry rocky fertile ground. Dairy products from goats and sheep. The main church is Agios Charalambos located near the nice neighbourhood of “Halliliana”. There is an annual celebration for the name day of the church. Until recently the village did not have any modern roads but today it can be reached via a narrow modern asphalt covered road from one side leading to the nearby town of Paleochora. The north approach to the village demanded a 4x4 off-road car or other durable vehicle up till the end of 2008 when a new asphalt covered road was constructed. This has protected the area and the environment has remained calm and unspoiled.</p><br>
<h2>The Panagia Church</h2><br>
<p>In the village of Prodromi, at Skafidia, is the Byzantine church of the Panagia. The north road from Prodromi passes below the church, which can be seen from far away on the side of the mountain. The church of the Panagia has tooth-brick decorations on its east side and frescoes by Ioannis Pagomenos dating back to 1347.</p><br>
<p>Nimpo Lake is a freshwater lake in the Chilcotin District of British Columbia, Canada. It is located 300 kilometres  west of Williams Lake on the Chilcotin Highway  and is approximately 160 kilometres  east of Bella Coola. The lake is over 11 kilometres  long with several protected bays and has an area of 9.88 km².</p><br>
<h2>Floatplanes</h2><br>
<p>Nimpo Lake is often referred to as "The Floatplane Capital of British Columbia" and, because it has so many floatplanes landing and taking off, each of the bays or arms have a distinctive name. North Arm is at the extreme northernmost end of the Main Arm of Nimpo Lake while the South Arm is at the other end and the Short Arm is on the eastern side of the lake where a floatplane base is located.</p><br>
<h2>Fishing</h2><br>
<p>Nimpo Lake has a good population of wild Rainbow Trout that are known for their excellent fighting ability and are caught by trolling and on a flyline. Its popularity with anglers fishing for rainbow trout, made it the venue of the 1993 Commonwealth Fly Fishing Championships. It is a popular tourist destination, with several resorts located on the lake offering a variation of accommodation ranging from luxurious suites to rustic cabins and sites for Recreational vehicles.</p><br>
<h2>Leisure activities</h2><br>
<p>Nimpo Lake is the jumping off point to the wilderness, much of it inaccessible to people except by floatplane or on foot. You can go flightseeing over Hunlen Falls, the third longest freefalling waterfall in Canada, or fly over the multicolored Rainbow Mountains or Monarch Mountain and see the pristine icefields. There is canoeing on the Turner Lake Chain in nearby Tweedsmuir Park, and a number of activities available to visitors of the area. These include fishing, hiking, mountain biking, canoeing, kayaking,hunting, wildlife photography and study of rare and unusual alpine plants at higher elevations. In winter snowmobiling, cross country skiing, snowshoeing and ice skating are popular activities.</p><br>
<p>Scar Ridge, also known as Scar Ridge , is a mountain located in Grafton County, New Hampshire. It is part of the White Mountains. It is officially trailless and several different routes are possible. Scar Ridge is flanked to the west by Loon Mountain, to the northwest by Black Mountain, and to the east by Mount Osceola.</p><br>
<p>Scar Ridge stands within the watershed of the Pemigewasset River, which drains into the Merrimack River, and into the Gulf of Maine at Newburyport, Massachusetts. The northeast side of Scar Ridge drains into the Hancock Branch, a tributary of the East Branch of the Pemigewasset River. The southwest side of Scar Ridge drains into Telford Brook, Mack Brook, and Little East Pond Brook, all of which drain into Eastman Brook, and thence into the Pemigewasset.</p><br>
<p>Fryingpan Glacier is on the eastern face of the 11,138 ft Little Tahoma Peak, just to the east of Mount Rainier in the USA state of Washington. The glacier is located on top of a cliff from the Emmons Glacier to the north and a small ridge separates this glacier from the Whitman Glacier to the south, except for a small snowfield in which these two glaciers are connected. Most of the ice is located on a broad plateau at an elevation of 8000 to 8600 ft. The head of the Fryingpan Glacier is located to the northeast of the ridge and at the foothill of Little Tahoma Peak at around 9100 to 9800 ft. The glacier flows downhill eastward and the uneven topography causes the glacier surface to be crevassed The glacier ends on shallow to steep slopes at about 7100 to 7500 ft. Numerous snowfields and alpine meadows are located near the bottom and east of the glacier. Meltwater from the glacier drains into the White River.</p><br>
<p>The Gideon H. Pond House is a historic house in Bloomington, Minnesota, United States. It is part of the Pond-Dakota Mission Park, which also includes the Oak Grove Mission site , a cemetery, and the remains of the Pond family farm and orchards. The site is significant within the history of the Minnesota River valley, the Dakota tribe, and Bloomington. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Gideon Hollister Pond (1810&ndash;1878) and his brother Samuel came to Minnesota with a mission to teach Christianity to the Indians and to teach them agriculture. The Ponds received permission in 1834 from Major Lawrence Taliaferro, the Indian agent at Fort Snelling, to establish a mission school near Lake Calhoun, where a band of Dakota spent their summers. Pond started work on writing a Dakota language dictionary. After a war broke out between the Dakota and the Ojibwa in 1839, the band of Dakota moved to a village near the Minnesota River, and Gideon Pond moved with them. He established a mission along the river bluffs. The area served as a mission between 1843 and 1852, when the Dakota were sent to a reservation further up the Minnesota River as a result of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux. At that point, Pond bought this land and became a farmer. He also served as a member of Minnesota territorial House of Representatives 7th District, 1849&ndash;1850. Later, Pond started the Oak Grove Presbyterian Church, which was originally located on land which is now the Bloomington Cemetery. The church later moved its building to the corner of Penn Avenue and Old Shakopee Road.</p><br>
<p>The home, located at 401 East 104th Street in Bloomington, is constructed of red brick and features chimneys serving each room. The home was occupied by Gideon and his wife Sarah, and is now open to the public on a limited basis.</p><br>
<p>The Cannon Balls is a mountain ridge located in Grafton County, New Hampshire. It is part of the Kinsman Range of the White Mountains. The ridge has three peaks with elevations of, from west to east, 3,693, 3,660, and 3,769 feet . The ridge takes its name from adjacent Cannon Mountain, on which a series of boulders, when viewed from the foot of the mountain, resemble an antique artillery cannon. The Cannon Balls are flanked to the northeast by Cannon Mountain, and to the southwest by Kinsman Mountain.</p><br>
<p>The south side of the ridge drains into Cascade Brook, thence into the Pemigewasset River, the Merrimack River, and into the Gulf of Maine in Massachusetts. The north side drains into Coppermine Brook, thence into the Ham Branch of the Gale River, the Gale River, Ammonoosuc River, Connecticut River, and into Long Island Sound in Connecticut.</p><br>
<p>The Appalachian Trail, a 2,170 mi National Scenic Trail from Georgia to Maine, runs across the southern base of the Cannon Balls between North Kinsman and Franconia Notch.</p><br>
<p>Sardis Lake is a reservoir in Pushmataha County and Latimer County in Oklahoma, USA, named for the now-defunct town of Sardis, Oklahoma. The dam impounding the lake is located approximately 5 mi north of Clayton.</p><br>
<p>Sardis Lake is the focus of a lawsuit by the Chickasaw Nation against the Governor of Oklahoma, (Chickasaw v. Fallin) alleging that the state has ignored the tribe&#39;s rights to the water in the lake. The outcome of this case has the potential to become a major legal decision regarding not only this issue, but the rights of Native American tribes in other areas.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The lake covers 14,360 acre with 117 mi of shoreline. The lake is an impoundment of Jackfork Creek, a tributary of the Kiamichi River. The lake is also 45 miles east of McAlester, Oklahoma. It drains an area of 275 square miles.</p><br>
<p>The lake&#39;s normal pool elevation is 599 ft above sea level. Its storage capacity is 274,330 acre.ft. At flood stage its elevation is 607 ft above sea level and its capacity rises to 396,900 acre.ft.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The USA Army Corps of Engineers, led by Donald Mahaffey, constructed the dam and lake between 1977 and 1982 under a contract with the state of Oklahoma for the purpose of selling water to municipalities and industrial customers in Oklahoma. Oklahoma agreed to make 50 annual payments and to pay the costs of operating the dam and lake. However, the state was unable to sell the water it needed to recover its costs, so the state discontinued payments to the federal government in 1997. The federal government sued the state for breach of contract and recovery of funds. The case wound its way through the courts and eventually Oklahoma lost the case when the Supreme Court declined to hear the case. Thus, the Corps of Engineers legally owns Sardis Lake.</p><br>
<h2>Proposed transfer of water</h2><br>
<p>Shortly after Sardis Lake was filled, various plans were presented to the Oklahoma Water Resources Board (OWRB) for moving water from Sardis Lake to the vicinity of Oklahoma City. One of the first plans, presented in 1992, contemplated selling about 93 percent of the water to the North Texas Municipal Water District. Following heated protests, the state legislature rejected the ORWB plan.</p><br>
<p>A second attempt to sell the lake&#39;s water in Texas (this time to a different water district) occurred in the following year. This would have included having the legislature impose a seven-year moratorium on further out of state water sales. This plan also failed to pass in the legislature.</p><br>
<h2>Litigation</h2><br>
<h3>Debt to Corps of Engineers</h3><br>
<p>A news article in June, 2010, reported that the State of Oklahoma had paid $27 million to the Corps of Engineers to settle the debt.</p><br>
<h3>Chickasaw v. Fallin</h3><br>
<p>Oklahoma City is endeavoring to purchase the lion&#39;s share of water from Sardis Lake. A state contract executed in 2011, reserved 136,000 acre-feet of water for the Oklahoma City Water Utilities Trust. (OUT)</p><br>
<p>Several Native American tribes had filed a lawsuit in a USA District Court in 2011, seeking an injunction that would prevent the state and Oklahoma City from transporting water from Sardis Lake to Oklahoma City. In particular, the tribes state that they had been excluded from negotiations between the OWRB and the OUT. The Choctaws, for example, claim that the 1830 Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek gave them authority over water resources in their territory. State officials claim that treaties signed by the tribes after the Civil War relinquished tribal rights, and therefore they can no longer make such claims.</p><br>
<p>An article published in the Tulsa Law Review describes the potential legal ramifications for this case:</p><br>
<p>"If the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations successfully obtain either full or substantial rights to the waters in Sardis Reservoir, other federally-recognized trbes that have water rights not yet formally recognized may have the footing needed to seek legal protection of those rights. If Oklahoma wins this case... tribal water rights could be severely impaired and the future social and economic wealth of all the tribes in the state could be jeopardized, beginning with the Choctaw and Chickasaw."</p><br>
<p>Kryoneri  is a mountain village and community in the municipal unit of Nevropoli Agrafon, Karditsa regional unit, Greece. In 2011 Kryoneri had a population of 415 for the village and 595 for the community, which includes the village Koutsodimos. Kryoneri is situated in the mountains northwest of Lake Plastiras, at about 880 m elevation. It is 11 km south of Mouzaki and 21 km west of the city of Karditsa. Its residents are based in agriculture.</p><br>
<h2>Population</h2><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The village was founded in the valley southeast of its present location. It was relocated to its present, safer location during the Ottoman rule of Greece. The new village was named Stougko. As a result of the 1525 treaty of Tamasi, the Agrafa area was de facto independent; the name "Agrafa" means "unwritten", the area was not recorded by the Ottomans.</p><br>
<p>The Cowlitz Glacier is on the southeast flank of Mount Rainier in the USA state of Washington. The body of ice covers 1.3 square miles and has a volume of 6 billion ft . The glacier starts at an elevation of 10,700 ft and flows southeast. An adjacent glacier, the Paradise Glacier, is connected to this glacier on its southwest margin. As it flows down the slopes of Mount Rainier it nearly meets up with the Ingraham Glacier and during the Little Ice Age, which ended around the year 1850, the two glaciers shared a common terminus. Meltwater from the glacier drains into the Cowlitz River.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>About 35,000 years ago, the combined Cowlitz and Ingraham glaciers terminated some 62 mi from Mount Rainier. As the Ice Age ended the glacier retreated north back to Mount Rainier. In recent times, the glacier has retreated and thinned, except for the period between the mid-1970s and mid-1980s, during which the glacier made a notable advance.</p><br>
<p>Ingraham Glacier is on the south-eastern flank of Mount Rainier, in the USA state of Washington. The glacier is named for the Mount Rainier enthusiast Edward Sturgis Ingraham. From the summit ice cap, Ingraham Glacier flows east between Gibraltar Rock, , and Disappointment Cleaver and south of Little Tahoma Peak , which divides it from the much larger Emmons Glacier to the north. Descending southeast, it approaches the east flank of Cowlitz Glacier and the two glaciers nearly join at 6,700 ft. Meltwater from the glacier drains into the Cowlitz River.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>About 35,000 years ago, the Ingraham and Cowlitz glaciers flowed 62 mi down from Mount Rainier to near present-day Mossyrock, Washington. More recently, the Cowlitz - Ingraham glaciers advanced slightly from the mid-1970s to mid-1980s, but have been in a general state of retreat since the end of the Little Ice Age around the year 1850. During the Little Ice Age, the Ingraham and Cowlitz glaciers were combined and terminated at the 5,600 ft level but have retreated more than 1 mi in the last 150 years.</p><br>
<p>The worst mountaineering accident in American history occurred in on June 21, 1981, when eleven people lost their lives in an ice fall on the Ingraham Glacier. None of the bodies were ever recovered.</p><br>
<p>The Kautz Glacier is a narrow glacier on the southern flank of Mount Rainier in Washington. Named for August Kautz, who is sometimes credited for the first ascent of Mount Rainier, covers 1.8 square miles and contains 7.8 billion ft  of ice. Immediately west of the main ice cliff, the glacier continues down Kautz Chute which terminates in another ice cliff just above the lower Kautz Glacier at 10,800 ft. Usually reached by a short descent from Camp Hazard at 11,300 ft on Wapowety Cleaver, climbers following the Kautz Glacier climbing route ascend this chute to the upper glacier.</p><br>
<p>Starting from the Kautz Glacier Headwall at about 12,500 ft, the lower glacier flows generally south-southwest between the Kautz and the Wapowety Cleaver. Just before it meets the Success Glacier, the Kautz makes a right turn and heads west for a short distance. After the two glaciers meet, the resultant glacier reaches down to about 6,000 ft before terminating. Meltwater from the glacier drains into Kautz Creek Falls and into Kautz Creek, a tributary of the Nisqually River.</p><br>
<h2>Debris flows</h2><br>
<p>The glacier is one of four on Mount Rainier that are known to have released debris flows. Similar flows have stemmed from the Nisqually, Winthrop, and South Tahoma glaciers as well. The glacier released a particularly large mudflow on October 2–3, 1947, when heavy rains melted and eroded the lower part of the glacier. The meltwater transformed into a 14 billion ft (40 million m) mudflow replete with large boulders up to 13 feet (4 m) in diameter. The flow buried Highway 706 in 28 feet (9 m) of sediment and watery debris. Deposits from the 1947 mudflow can still be seen today. Smaller flows occurred in the years 1961, 1985 and 1986.</p><br>
<p>The South Mowich Glacier is a glacier located on the western flank of Mount Rainier in Washington. It covers 1.4 square miles and contains 4.5 billion ft  of ice. After leaving the Amphitheater, there is an icefall on the glacier where it plunges down below 10,000 ft. As the glacier descends, it gradually turns and by the time the South Mowich meets the Puyallup Glacier at 8,800 ft, the glacier is flowing northwest. As the glacier nears Jeanette Heights, it passes by several turns and becomes very rocky in comparison to the upper sections of the glacier. The glacier splits into two arms before their termini, with a shorter, northern arm ending at 5,500 ft and the longer, larger southern arm ending near a stand of conifers at 5,100 ft. Meltwater from the glacier drains into the South Mowich River which eventually merges with the Puyallup River.</p><br>
<p>The Tahoma Glacier is a long glacier mostly on the western flank of Mount Rainier in Washington. It covers 1.2 square miles and contains 4.3 e9ft3 of ice. As the glacier drops below 10,000 ft, it broadens and joins the smaller South Tahoma Glacier. After the broad expanse of ice at over 8,000 ft, the Tahoma Glacier narrows as it descends around the rocky 7,690 ft Glacier Island, a sub-peak of Rainier once fully encircled by both the South Tahoma and Tahoma Glaciers. Leaving the bottleneck in the glacier, the glacier splits; the larger, longer northern arm continues flowing west-southwest and terminates at around 5,500 ft. The southern arm flows south towards the arm of the South Tahoma Glacier, but this arm terminates before it rejoins the South Tahoma at 5,700 ft. Meltwater from the glacier is the source of the South Puyallup River and Tahoma Creek, a tributary of the Nisqually River.</p><br>
<p>The Colliding Rivers is the name of the confluence of Little River into the North Umpqua River at Glide, Oregon, approximately 12 miles  east-northeast of Roseburg. It is known as Colliding Rivers because of the nearly head-on angle at which the streams meet, the only place in the state of Oregon where a river meets its tributary in such a straight angle. Prior to the point of the Colliding Rivers, the Little River approaches from the south and the North Umpqua has completed a sharp bend and intersects the Little River.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Colliding Rivers is on the west side of the town of Glide, which is accessed off Oregon Route 138. Interstate 5 connects to Route 138 from the West and USA Route 97 from the East.</p><br>
<p>Route 138 has a rest area and viewpoint adjacent to the Colliding Rivers Visitor Center that includes a comfort station plus several interpretive panels about the area and its natural phenomenon.</p><br>
<h2>Whitewaters</h2><br>
<p>The Colliding Rivers area is a constricted section of the two rivers because of several large rock formations. Within a 5 mile radius surrounding the Colliding Rivers point there are many straight river routes leading to several class 2 and 2+ pool drop rapids with frequent 2–3 feet standing waves.</p><br>
<p>Lake Rotoiti, previously also known as Lake Arthur, is a lake in the Tasman Region of New Zealand. It is a substantial mountain lake within the borders of Nelson Lakes National Park. The lake is fed by the Travers River, water from the lake flows into the Buller River. The lake is surrounded by Beech forest and is 82 metres deep. Saint Arnaud is a small community at the northern end of the lake.</p><br>
<p>The first European to see the lake was John Sylvanus Cotterell on 18 January 1843. Thomas Brunner and Charles Heaphy reached the lake in November 1843, and Heaphy named it Lake Arthur after Captain Arthur Wakefield, but the Māori name remained.</p><br>
<p>Tramping tracks circle the lake, including the Lakehead track on the east side and the Lakeside track on the west side. There is a water taxi service that travels the length of the lake ferrying trampers to and from the Coldwater and Lakehead huts at the head of the lake. Rotoiti is also a popular place for waterskiing and is adjacent to Mt Robert, which hosted a small club-owned skifield, until it was removed by DOC in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The lake has introduced trout which attract recreational fishermen.</p><br>
<p>Lake Rotoiti is a lake in the Bay of Plenty region of New Zealand. It is the northwesternmost in a chain of lakes formed within the Okataina caldera. The lake is close to the northern shore of its more famous neighbour, Lake Rotorua, and is connected to it via the Ohau Channel. It drains to the Kaituna River, which flows into the Bay of Plenty near Maketu.</p><br>
<p>The full name of the lake is Te Rotoiti-kite-a-Īhenga,</p><br>
<p>which in the Māori language means "The Small Lake Discovered By Īhenga", the Māori explorer also credited with discovering Lake Rotorua. Legend says that the lake was named as such because when Ihenga first saw it, he was only able to see a small part of it and thought the lake was a lot smaller.</p><br>
<p>Since the 1960s, the quality of lake water has been negatively affected by inflows of nitrogen rich water from Lake Rotorua, agricultural run-off from surrounding farms and seepage from domestic septic tanks. The effects of this included an almost permanent algal bloom in the Okere arm of the lake and choking lake weed growth in other still areas of the lake. A barrier to divert the nutrient rich waters of Lake Rotorua into the Kaituna River was completed in late 2008. The Bay of Plenty Regional Council expected to see improvement in lake water quality within five years and the Rotorua Te Arawa Lakes Program reported in 2013 that the intervention has significantly improved water quality. Water quality is the highest it has been in decades, on track to meet targets set by the Program to meet community expectations.</p><br>
<p>Lake Rotoiti has thermal hot-spring baths on the southern shore which are accessible by boat.</p><br>
<p>Beklemeto Pass, also known as Troyan Pass , is a mountain pass in the Balkan Mountains  in Bulgaria. It connects Troyan and Karnare on the Karlovo Plain.</p><br>
<p>The pass is in north-central Bulgaria 20 km from the town of Troyan. The pass features a ski resort.</p><br>
<p>The pass is on one of the main roads connecting northern and southern Bulgaria. This was the Roman Via Trayana (Trajan road), and some of the Roman remains can still be seen. North of the pass was the fortress of Ad Radices, south of it was Sub Radices, and at the pass was the crest station of Montemno (Monte Haemo), the foundation of which is still visible.</p><br>
<p>Close to the pass there is a monument dedicated to the liberation struggle of the Bulgarians on the peak of Goraltepe, a 15-minute hike to the east of the pass. It is accessible via a narrow paved road.</p><br>
<p>Electric Tower  is a historic office building and skyscraper located at the corner of Washington and Genesee Streets in Buffalo. It is the seventh tallest building in Buffalo. It stands 294 ft and 14 stories tall and is in the Beaux-Arts Classical Revival style. It was designed by James A. Johnson and built in 1912. Additions were made in 1923 and 1928. Inspired by the electric tower at the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition, the white terra-cotta clad was originally built as the Niagara Mohawk Building and features an octagonal tower which steps back three times to terminate in a large lantern. It is also known as Iskalo Electric Tower.</p><br>
<p>The decorative symbols featuring aspects of electricity production are considered precursors to subsequent art deco design.</p><br>
<p>Like One M & T Plaza, the spire of the tower is illuminated with different holiday colors at night throughout the year. Both buildings are illuminated blue and gold for the Buffalo Sabres during the National Hockey League playoffs.</p><br>
<p>The Electric Tower hosts the annual Buffalo Ball Drop on New Year&#39;s Eve, the second largest in the nation. People from all around gather in Roosevelt Plaza to ring in and celebrate the New Year. The Buffalo Ball Drop is accompanied by live performances and a spectacular firework show.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in September 2008.</p><br>
<p>Fern Ridge Reservoir  is a reservoir on the Long Tom River in the USA state of Oregon. The reservoir is located approximately 12 mi west of Eugene on Oregon Route 126. The reservoir is a USA Army Corps of Engineers flood control project encompassing more than 12,000 acre and is a popular site for boating, fishing, and birdwatching.</p><br>
<p>Surrounding portions of the reservoir is the Fern Ridge Wildlife Area, a wildlife management area providing a unique habitat for a variety of species including wintering waterfowl populations.</p><br>
<h2>Fern Ridge Dam</h2><br>
<p>The Fern Ridge Dam was completed in 1942, and is currently one of 13 multi-purpose dams operated by the Corps of Engineers in the Willamette Valley. The dam provides flood control, irrigation, recreation, navigation, and improved downstream water quality. The water level is kept high from May through September for recreation purposes.</p><br>
<p>Throughout the summer, the water level is lowered by up to 3 ft to provide for downstream irrigation needs, and is further lowered after September to provide necessary water storage capability to prevent possible downstream flood damage during the Willamette Valley&#39;s rainy season. The USA Army Corps of Engineers’ major repair effort of Fern Ridge Dam on the Long Tom River near Eugene began in June 2005 and was completed in late October 2005. The internal drainage system was repaired and the embankment dam was rebuilt.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>Fern Ridge is home to multiple parks and yacht clubs, both private and county-managed.</p><br>
<p>During the summer, strong, generally northerly winds develop in the afternoon and usually last until dusk. Because these winds are quite reliable, Fern Ridge has become a popular sailing destination for the nearby population. The Eugene Yacht Club hosts several annual regattas as well as class championships.</p><br>
<p>The Winthrop Glacier is a large glacier on the northeastern side of Mount Rainier in Washington. Named after Theodore Winthrop, the body of ice covers 3.5 mile  and has a volume of 18.5 billion feet . Starting at over 14,300 ft at the Columbia Crest, the glacier heads north and descends steeply over the uneven topography of Rainier. Another glacier, the Emmons Glacier is directly connected to this glacier up to the Steamboat Prow. After passing the Prow, the glaciers split up; the Emmons heads east-northeastward and the Winthrop continues northeast. As the terrain becomes flatter, the Winthrop glacier becomes heavily rock-covered when it terminates in a forest at about 4,900 ft. Meltwater from the glacier drains into the White River.</p><br>
<h2>Debris flows</h2><br>
<p>The glacier is one of four on Mount Rainier that are known to have released debris flows. Similar flows have stemmed from the Nisqually, Kautz, and South Tahoma glaciers as well.</p><br>
<p>The Palazzo Chigi is a palace or noble residence in Rome and the official residence of the Prime Minister of the Italian Republic. Since December 12, 2016, the occupant of Palazzo Chigi is Paolo Gentiloni.</p><br>
<p>The Palazzo, overlooking the Piazza Colonna and the Via del Corso, was begun in 1562 by Giacomo della Porta and completed by Carlo Maderno in 1580 for the Aldobrandini family. In 1659 it was purchased by the Chigi family. It was then remodelled by Felice della Greca and Giovan Battista Contini. It has five floors, a broad stairway that leads to the living rooms, and a courtyard decorated with a fountain, designed by Giacomo della Porta. The fountain has been copied in many sites in Rome and other Italian cities.</p><br>
<p>In 1878 it became the residence of the Austro-Hungarian Ambassador to Italy. In 1916 it was bought by the Italian state and became the seat of the Minister for Colonial Affairs. Later it was the official residence of the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs. In 1961 it became the official meeting place of Council of Ministers whose President is the head of the Italian government.</p><br>
<p>The Library Hall was commissioned by Agostino Chigi at the end of the 17th century in order to house the enormous library of cardinal Flavio Chigi. The project was realized by Giovan Battista Contini, a famous architect of the period.</p><br>
<p>The Chigi library or Chigiana contained thousands of valuable manuscripts, to a large part based on the personal library of Pope Alexander VII, a member of the Chigi family. Since the time of Pope Benedict XV, the Vatican attempted to acquire this library, but lacked the necessary funds. Eventually, Pietro Tacchi Venturi was tasked by Pope Pius XI to negotiate the purchase with the newly formed fascist government of Benito Mussolini. Venturi managed to convince Mussolini to donate the library to the Vatican free of charge.</p><br>
<p>The Heck-Andrews House was finished in 1870 and was one of the first houses in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina to be constructed after the American Civil War. It is located at 309 North Blount Street. It was created by G.S.H. Appleget for Mrs. Mattie Heck, the wife of Colonel Jonathan McGee Heck. It is on the National Register of Raleigh Historic Property. The house has a dramatic central tower capped with a convex mansard roof with a balustrade. The central part of the 2 1/2-story, Second Empire style frame dwelling is enclosed with a concave mansard roof with patterned slate.</p><br>
<p>The house was owned by the Heck family until 1916 and was sold to A.B. Andrews. In 1948, Andrews heir sold the house to Julia Russell. The North Carolina government bought the house in 1987 planning to refurbish the structure. The exterior refurbishment was completed, however the State sold the house to the North Carolina Association of Realtors in January 2016 who plan on using it as an office building.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The Capehart House is a Queen Anne Style house built circa 1898 by Charles P. Snuggs for Lucy Catherine Capehart and her second husband B.A. Capehart. It is located on 424 North Blount Street in Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina. The house is one of the best examples of Queen Anne Style that is still standing in Raleigh. The Capehart House has an irregular skyline, made of towers, turrets, dormers, and pediments, and facades which are luxuriously ornamented with colors and textures such as stained glass and decorative wooden design.</p><br>
<p>After Capehart&#39;s death, H. H. Crocker owned the home until 1947 and it was used for apartments. In 1971 the state bought the house and it is now used as office space for the government. In 1979 the house was moved from its former location at 403 North Wilmington Street to 424 North Blount Street.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Dodd-Hinsdale House was built in 1879 for the family of the Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, city mayor. It was constructed in the Italianate style, with some Second Empire embellishments.</p><br>
<h2>Background and early history</h2><br>
<p>The Dodd-Hinsdale House was fabricated in 1879 in Raleigh, North Carolina, for city mayor, William H. Dodd. It is a brick house with, bracketed eaves, narrow Segmental arch windows, porches, and carved millwork—which are all characteristic of the Italianate style. The shallow gable roof is also an Italianate feature, but the tower with concave mansard roof and ornate dormers is distinctly "Second Empire" in style. Despite the mix of features, Virginia and Lee McAlester classified the house as Italianate with an uncommon mansard roof. The design is very similar to an 1875 wood house at 304 Oakwood Avenue which was constructed by the same builder. The structure is a surviving example of the luxurious and prestigious houses built on Hillsborough Street in the late 19th century, many of which have since been replaced by modern commercial buildings.</p><br>
<h2>Later history</h2><br>
<p>In 1890, Dodd sold the house to John W. Hinsdale. The house was kept in the Hinsdale family until 1971. For a couple of decades the fate of the house was uncertain—despite its 1971 listing on the National Register of Historic Places as a Raleigh Historic Property. At the end of the 1980s, the owners attempted to renovate the house—but failed to complete it—leaving the house vacant and partially gutted. On September 9, 1997 it was bought by a private company and turned into a luxury restaurant named "Second Empire," giving recognition to its past and architectural design.</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
<p>Harris, Linda L., et al., An Architectural and Historical Inventory of Raleigh, North Carolina; Raleigh; City of Raleigh Planning Department and The Raleigh Historic Properties Commission; 1978.</p><br>
<p>Foster&#39;s Almshouse is a historic building on Colston Street, Bristol, England. The almshouse was founded by bequest from 15th century merchant John Foster in 1492.</p><br>
<p>The west wing of the current building was built in 1861, the north wing in 1872, and the south and east wings in 1880-83 by Foster and Wood. The Chapel of the Three Kings of Cologne, which was built for the use of those living in the Almshouse, was restored at the same time.</p><br>
<p>It has been designated by English Heritage as a grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<p>In 2007 Bristol Charities, which runs the almshouse, sold the existing buildings to a developer to develop into private accommodation. This decision was taken because the existing buildings were judged to be unfit for the purpose of housing the old and often infirm occupants who lived there. The proceeds of the sale have been used to establish a new purpose-built John Fosters Almshouse&#39; in North Bristol.</p><br>
<h2>Archives</h2><br>
<p>Records of Foster&#39;s Almshouse are held at Bristol Archives (Ref. 33041/BMC/2) () and (Ref. 45157/1) ().</p><br>
<p>Originally called Petersham Ait, Glover&#39;s Island is situated in Horse Reach on the River Thames, between Richmond Lock and Teddington Lock in the Borough of Richmond upon Thames, London, England.</p><br>
<p>In the 1872 the island was bought by a Richmond waterman named Joseph Glover for £70. He put the island up for sale in 1895 but Sir J. Whittaker Ellis (Charter Mayor of Richmond) declined to buy it for £5,000 and suggested that the Richmond Corporation should be approached.</p><br>
<p>The Amenities Committee considered the proposal on 2 April 1895 and decided –</p><br>
<p>"That while the Committee think it desirable that the Island should be acquired for the Corporation if it could be obtained at a reasonable price, they are of the opinion that in view of the sum now named, it would be useless to enter into any negotiation for its purchase."</p><br>
<p>Trying again in 1898, Glover caused a scandal by putting the island up for auction and suggesting it could be sold to Pears soap to erect a giant advertising hoarding.</p><br>
<p>Glover used this to blackmail the Richmond Corporation, offering it to them for £4,000 but although the Corporation wanted to buy the island, it was felt that there was no justification in spending such a large sum of money out of its funds.</p><br>
<p>There then followed a lengthy debate and correspondence in the local press about preserving the view from Richmond Hill and suggestions were made that the purchase should be funded jointly by public subscription and the corporation.</p><br>
<p>By September, only £50 had been given to the public fund and the disclosure that Glover had purchased the island in 1872 for £70 did not help the collection.</p><br>
<p>The auction took place on 21 September but the highest bid was only £200. An unnamed resident had offered Glover £1,000 for the island (which he then intended to present to the Corporation), but Glover refused to sell and also withdrew the island from sale.</p><br>
<p>In 1900 Max Waechter, who lived in Terrace House, Richmond Hill, bought Glover’s Island and gave it to the Council – the sale price was never disclosed.</p><br>
