<p>The ten-story Fine Arts Building, also known as the Studebaker Building, is located at 410 S Michigan Avenue across from Grant Park in Chicago in the Chicago Landmark Historic Michigan Boulevard District. It was built for the Studebaker company in 1884–5 by Solon Spencer Beman, and extensively remodeled in 1898, when Beman removed the building&#39;s eighth  story and added three new stories, extending the building to its current height. Studebaker constructed the building as a carriage sales and service operation with manufacturing on upper floors. The two granite columns at the main entrance, 3 ft in diameter and 12 ft high, were said to be the largest polished monolithic shafts in the country. The interior features Art Nouveau motifs and murals dating from the 1898 renovation.</p><br>
<p>Currently, true to its name, it houses artists lofts, art galleries, theatre, dance and recording studios, interior design firms, musical instrument makers, and other businesses associated with the arts. It also holds offices of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Jazz Institute of Chicago, the Grant Park Conservancy, the World Federalist Association, the Chicago Youth Symphony, the Boitsov Classical Ballet School and Company, and the venerable Artists Cafe, known to generations of late-night diners. It was designated a Chicago Landmark on June 7, 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Studebaker Theatre</h2><br>
<p>The Studebaker Building houses the Studebaker Theatre, also known as Studebaker Hall, dedicated in 1898. It was the site of David Bispham&#39;s 1901 recital exclusively featuring the songs of Carrie Jacobs-Bond.</p><br>
<p>Paul Whiteman and his orchestra gave the first public performance of Grand Canyon Suite here on November 22, 1931.</p><br>
<p>The venue also housed some of the earliest live television shows including DuMont Television Network&#39;s Cavalcade of Stars hosted by comedian Jack Carter.</p><br>
<h2>Chicago Little Theatre</h2><br>
<p>From 1912 to 1917, the Fine Arts Building housed the Chicago Little Theatre, an art theater credited with beginning the Little Theatre Movement in the United States. Not being able to afford rental on the building&#39;s 500-seat auditorium, co-producers Maurice Browne and Ellen Van Volkenburg rented a large storage space on the fourth floor at the back and built it out into a 91-seat house.</p><br>
<p>Stratton Mountain is a mountain located in Windham County, Vermont, in the Green Mountain National Forest. The mountain is the highest point of Windham County, and of the southern Green Mountains generally. A fire tower located on the summit is generally open for climbing by the public. There is also a small caretaker cabin  at the summit that is inhabited in season by a caretaker from the Green Mountain Club.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Stratton Mountain stands within the watershed of the Connecticut River, which drains into Long Island Sound in Connecticut. The south and southeast slopes of Stratton Mountain drain into Ball Mountain Brook, thence into the West River, and into the Connecticut River. The east side of Stratton drains via Kidder Brook into the North Branch of Ball Mountain Brook. The north side of Stratton drains into the North Branch of Ball Mountain Brook. The northwest side of Stratton drains into the Winhall River, and thence into the West River. The southwest slopes of Stratton drain into the East Branch of the Deerfield River, another tributary of the Connecticut.</p><br>
<p>The mountain has two peaks, of which the southern one is the highest, at 3940 feet. The mountain ridge descends to northward to a saddle at 3830 feet, before rising to the north peak at 3875 feet. The south summit is wooded, except for the small clearing housing the tower and caretakers cabin. The tower was built about 1934 by a crew of the Civilian Conservation Corps, and the cabin dates to about 1970. The tower is the subject of a 1992 listing on the National Register of Historic Places, as one of the states last surviving towers, and one of the last three to be taken out service for fire spotting (in 1982).</p><br>
<p>Looking south at Mt. Snow Ski Area and Somerset Reservoir from the Stratton Mountain Fire Tower - May 2014341x341px</p><br>
<h2>Hiking history</h2><br>
<p>Stratton Mountain claims a unique role in hiking trail history. In 1909, James P. Taylor (1872–1949) was on the mountain when he conceived the idea of a trail from Massachusetts to Canada, which became Vermont&#39;s Long Trail. While on the summit of Stratton during the construction of the Long Trail, Benton MacKaye (1879–1975) considered that it would be a good idea to have a trail spanning the entire Appalachian Range. The result was the Appalachian Trail, a 2,170 mi National Scenic Trail from Georgia to Maine. In southern Vermont, the two trails are coincident, crossing the summit of Stratton from south to north. A short (.75-mile), relatively flat side trail leads from the summit to the Stratton Mountain Resort.</p><br>
<h2>Stratton Mountain Resort</h2><br>
<p>Stratton Mountain ski resort is located on the northeast slopes of the mountain. It has 94 trails over 600 acre with a 2,000 ft (610 m) vertical drop, served by 16 lifts, including four 6-person chair lifts. Jake Burton built his first snowboard while living in Manchester, near Stratton, which was the first major ski resort to allow snowboarding.</p><br>
<p>In 2008 Stratton Mountain Snowboard School under the management of Steve Golby celebrated their twenty fifth anniversary. This was a huge mile-stone within the snowboarding fraternity. The snowboard school was officially announced the "First Snowboard School in the world" to teach snowboarding back in 1983. The Snowboard school was established by Burton snowboards founder Jake Burton and other professional snowboarders Andy Coglin with Mark Heingartner establishing himself as the first director of the school. A simple pass system was introduced to enable the riders to gain access to the lower slopes. Members from the snowboard school Notably Brian Spear and Neville Burt were writers on the first snowboard manual. The manual was designed as part of the education system in developing Instructors.</p><br>
<p>Burton snowboards continued the relationship with the snowboard school and developed many programs that were vital to the snowboarding industry, these included the Learn to Ride system and the development for the up and coming shredder the First Kids progression park.</p><br>
<p>Stratton Mountain was home to and hosted 30th Anniversary of the US OPEN Snowboarding & Freestyle Skiing Championships in March 2012. After nearly 3 decades of hosting this event, it moved to Vail Ski Resort in 2013.</p><br>
<p>The Indiana State Library and Historical Bureau is a public library building, located in Indianapolis, Indiana. It is the largest public library in the state of Indiana, housing over 60,000 manuscripts. Established in 1934, the library has gathered a large collection of books on a vast variety of topics.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Indiana State Library and Historical Bureau has been open to the public since 1934.</p><br>
<p>The first attempts to have a state library started when Indiana was still a territory with its capital in Corydon, making it the oldest agency of the Indiana government. However, the first actual Indiana state library would not be opened until the capital had moved to Indianapolis, starting on February 11, 1825, with the secretary of state acting as librarian. In 1867, the library&#39;s law books were transferred to the Supreme Court to begin the Supreme Court Law Library, which has grown to seventy thousand volumes. The library became its own institution in 1841. The State Board of Education gained control of the library in 1895, with the Department of Education gaining control in 1933. Between 1895 and 1933, the library amassed more material than it had in all its previous existence. Originally, the Library was only for the use of state employees and government officials. After assigning a two-cent tax to attain funds in 1929, and having architects send proposals for a new building in 1931, it was built to designs by Pierre & Wright Architects.</p><br>
<p>In 1945 the library was directed by Howard Henry Peckham, an early American historian who was the first to publish the Revolutionary War journals of Henry Dearborn, a revolutionary war officer and Secretary of War under President Thomas Jefferson.</p><br>
<p>The building is made of Indiana limestone, sandstone, and walnut. Interior features include brass accents, fanciful murals, walnut-paneled walls, stained glass windows, and woodcarvings. The external architectural sculpture was created by Leon Hermant and carved by Adolph Wolter.</p><br>
<p>The library has six main divisions: Talking Book and Braille Library, Genealogy, Indiana Collection, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Reference and Government Services, and Library Development.</p><br>
<p>A 1993 inventory of the library&#39;s holdings included 60,000 books and pamphlets, 3,500 collected manuscripts, 1,500,000 images, and 1,000 maps. Some of this included not only the history of Indiana, but that of the Old Northwest as well.</p><br>
<p>It has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Indiana Historical Bureau has a home at the library. Founded in 1915 as the Indiana Historical Commission, its initial purpose was to prepare for the centennial of Indiana&#39;s statehood. The bureau largely concentrates on the placement of new historical markers across Indiana and encourages education in Indiana history. The bureau runs a gift shop at the library.</p><br>
<p>The Serra de Monchique  is a chain of mountains in the western part of the Algarve region of Portugal, about 20 km inshore. The chain&#39;s highest point is the peak of Fóia, at 902 m. 774 m high Picota is another notable peak.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Monchique Range is the southwesternmost mountain range of the Iberian Peninsula. It is covered in forest and parts of the range have been transformed into eucalyptus, pine and acacia plantations which are detrimental to the native forest cover.</p><br>
<p>The range is named after the town of Monchique, located in the area.</p><br>
<p>Caldas de Monchique is a well-known spa town with geothermal springs also located in this range.</p><br>
<p>Rivers Seixe, Aljezur and Odiáxere have their sources in this range.</p><br>
<h3>Geology</h3><br>
<p>The Monchique Range is part of the Late-Cretaceous Iberian Alkaline Igneous Province and is related to the Mount Ormonde seamount in the Gorringe Bank. The inselberg is formed primarily of nepheline-syenites (foyaite, for which Foia is the type locality). At c.63 km Monchique the fourth largest miaskitic nepheline-syenite intrusion so far discovered. It is assumed to be of laccolithic form, from its regular contact altitude to the Breijera formation (country rock). Pegmatites of similar foyaitic composition are seen within the mass at two locations and an associated dyke swarm of lamprophyres and picrites extends some 3 km from the mountain. the psammite/shale/marl country rocks of the Breijera formation are well exposed to the west of Serra de Monchique, forming jagged outcrops and dramatic gorges, which since the destructive introduction of eucalyptus farming in 1976, now run dry most of the year round.</p><br>
<h3>Ecology</h3><br>
<p>Serra de Monchique is threatened by continued aggressive eucalyptus cash-crop farming, recent publications have shown the water table to be lowering significantly and many endemic species to be on the brink of extinction, including the Bonellis Eagle, the Iberian emerald lizard and many more listed under European Union protection.</p><br>
<p>The Granary is on Welsh Back, Bristol, England.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1869 by Archibald Ponton and William Venn Gough with red Cattybrook brick with black and white brick and limestone dressings as a granary but has been used as offices. It is probably the best preserved example of the Bristol Byzantine style. It has also been known as Wait and James&#39; Granary.</p><br>
<p>It housed a nightclub, also known as The Granary, from 1968 to 1988. Initially opened as a jazz club by Ted Cowell under the guidance of Acker Bilk in 1968, it started hosting regular rock nights in 1969, becoming an all-rock club by 1978. Many well-known rock acts played there, including Yes, Genesis, Status Quo, Motörhead and Iron Maiden.</p><br>
<p>The building was owned by Bristol City Council who invited competitive bids from developers for its renovation and conversion. Barton Willmore produced the designs which supported the winning bid to convert the building into apartments.</p><br>
<p>It has been designated by English Heritage as a grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<p>The Shantar Islands  are a group of fifteen islands located off the northwestern shore of the Sea of Okhotsk east of Uda Gulf and north of Academy Bay. Most of the islands have rugged cliffs, but they are of moderate height; the highest point in the island group is 720 metres.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The island group is administered by Russia as part of Khabarovsk Krai.</p><br>
<h3>Islands</h3><br>
<p>Bolshoy Shantar Island. The largest island in the Shantar group, with an area of 1790 km. It is about 72 km in length and 49 km in width. It has a large brackish lake (Lake Bol&#39;shoe) in its northern end which is connected to the sea through a narrow passage. Smelts (Hypomesus japonicus and olidus) are found in this lake.</p><br>
<p>Feklistova Island, with an area of 372 km.</p><br>
<p>Malyy Shantar Island, with an area of 100 km.</p><br>
<p>Medvezhy, located very close to the coast.</p><br>
<p>Belichy, with an area of 70 km.</p><br>
<p>Other islands include Prokofyeva, Sakharnaya Golova, Kusova, Ptichy, Utichiy and Yuzhnyy.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The islands are currently uninhabited but were known to the mainland Gilyak tribes for their fishing grounds.</p><br>
<p>The first recorded exploration of the Shantar Islands was in April 1640, when Russian explorer Ivan Moskvitin allegedly sailed to the mouth of the Amur River with a group of Cossacks and spotted the Shantar Islands on the way back. Moskvitin reported his discoveries to Prince Shcherbatov, the Muscovite voivode in Tomsk. Based on Ivan Moskvitin&#39;s account, the first Russian map of the Far East was drawn in March 1642. The Shantar Islands were also explored by Russian surveyors between 1711 and 1725.</p><br>
<p>American whaleships cruised for bowhead whales around the Shantar Islands between 1852 and 1907. They anchored among the islands to send whaleboats into the bays to the south and west, including Uda, Tugur, and Ulban Bays. They sought shelter under Bolshoy Shantar, Medvezhy, Malyy Shantar, and Feklistova Islands from strong winds and gales as well as to obtain wood and water. At least four ships were wrecked on the islands: one on the Pinnacle Rocks, one on Medvezhy and two on Bolshoy Shantar during gales in October 1858 and August 1907.</p><br>
<p>At the end of 2013, the Shantar Islands National Park was created by Russian scientists and conservationists with support from WWF and several international organizations to protect the wildlife of the islands.</p><br>
<h2>Ecology</h2><br>
<p>There is no permanent population on the Shantar Islands, but they are often visited by commercial fishermen who use them as a base. Other economic activities undertaken on these islands are fur hunting and trapping as well as logging, which in the past were often done illegally. There are spruce forests on the largest islands. Other trees in the island taiga are the Siberian spruce, the Dahurian larch and the mountain pine.</p><br>
<p>There are many endangered birds on these islands, including the Blakistons fish owl, osprey, black stork, red-necked grebe, gyrfalcon, solitary snipe, Stellers sea eagle and the Siberian grouse. In the spring and summer, a number of seabird species nest on the islands, including black-headed and slaty-backed gull, common and thick-billed murre, horned and tufted puffin, spectacled guillemot, Aleutian tern, long-billed murrelet, and pelagic cormorant.</p><br>
<p>The Kamchatka brown bear (Ursus arctos beringianus), sable and marten, caribou, red fox, and river otter are common on the Shantar Islands. Reindeer can be seen as well.</p><br>
<p>Rivers on these islands are populated by sturgeon, salmon, trout, and various other fish.</p><br>
<p>The waters around these coastal islands are frozen for about eight months of the year on average. Pinnipeds (such as harbour seals, bearded seals, common seals, ribbon seals (on sea ice) and Steller sea lions), sea otters, and cetaceans such as minke whales, killer whales, and the critically endangered bowhead whales, western gray whales and belugas can be seen off the islands.</p><br>
<p>Although there is little visible evidence of human impact, the Shantar island ecosystem is under threat. One of the most severe threats to the environment of the Shantar Islands is a proposed tidal hydroelectric power station, which is currently on hold for lack of funds. Lack of restrictions on tourism and resorting is also a problem as the number of people visiting the islands is increasing in recent years.</p><br>
<h2>Nearby islands</h2><br>
<p>Menshikov Island (Остров Меньшикова; Ostrov Menshikova) 54&deg;36&prime;N latitude, 139&deg;14&prime;E longitude lies 71 km to the east of Kusov Islands eastern shore. It is 7 km long and has a maximum width of 1.6 km.</p><br>
<p>Reyneke Island (Остров Рейнеке; Ostrov Reyneke) 54&deg;19&prime;N latitude, 139&deg;47&prime;E longitude lies 45 km to the southeast of Menshikov Island. It is 7 km long and has a maximum width of 1.6 km. It is located close to a headland in the coast, separated from it by a 5 km wide sound. This island should not be confused with Reyneke Island close to Russky Island in the Vladivostok Bay.</p><br>
<p>Shahdag National Park  — is a national park of Azerbaijan. It was established by the decree of the President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev, on an area of 115,900 hectare in the Quba Rayon, Qusar Rayon, İsmayıllı Rayon, Qəbələ Rayon, Oğuz Rayon and Şamaxı Rayon administrative districts on December 8, 2006. It was enlarged by presidential decree on July 8, 2010 from 115,900 hectare to 130,508.1 hectare.</p><br>
<p>It is located in northern Azerbaijan, close to the border with Russia at the Greater Caucasus Mountains.</p><br>
<p>Mount Bazardüzü, the highest mountain of Azerbaijan is located in Shadag National Park.</p><br>
<p>The Shahdag National Park is the largest national park not only Azerbaijan but in the whole Caucasus.</p><br>
<p>The World Bank has allocated a $17 million loan and $8 million grant for the national park&#39;s creation, while the government of Japan has provided $8 million as a grant for the project implementation. The Shakhdag National Park will help address ecological issues and build a tourist infrastructure in the Caucasus for visitors.</p><br>
<h2>Flora and fauna</h2><br>
<h3>Flora</h3><br>
<p>The major types of trees are Caucasian Oak (Quercus macranthera), Caucasian Ash (Fraxinus angustifolia subsp. oxycarpa), European Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus), Oriental Hornbeam (Carpinus orientalis), Oriental Beech (Fagus orientalis), Silver Birch (Betula pendula), White Birch (Betula pubescens), Common Yew (Taxus baccata), White Willow (Salix alba), Common Walnut (Juglans regia), Wild Cherry (Prunus avium), Caucasian Pear (Pyrus communis subsp. caucasica), etc.</p><br>
<p>Shrub species occurring in the area include Various-Leaved Hawthorn (Crataegus heterophylla), Dog Rose (Rosa canina), Blackberry (Rubus fruticosus), Common Medlar (Mespilus germanica), European Barberry (Berberis vulgaris), etc.</p><br>
<h3>Fauna</h3><br>
<p>The national park is home to the rare East Caucasian tur (Capra cylindricornis), a mountain dwelling goat antelope found only in the eastern half of the Caucasus Mountains. Other large mammals found here are the Caucasian chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra subsp. caucasica), Bezoar ibex (Capra aegagrus aegagrus), domestic goat (Capra aegagrus hircus), Caucasian lynx (Lynx lynx dinniki), Syrian brown bear (Ursus arctos syriacus), wild boar (Sus scrofa), Indian wolf (Canis lupus pallipes), common jackal (Canis aureus aureus), common jungle cat (Felis chaus chaus), red fox (Vulpes vulpes), roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), badger (Meles meles), and otter (Lutra lutra), etc.</p><br>
<p>The Skorba temples are megalithic remains on the northern edge of Żebbiegħ, in Malta, which have provided detailed and informative insight into the earliest periods of Maltas neolithic culture. The site was only excavated in the early 1960s, rather late in comparison to other megalithic sites, some of which had been studied since the early 19th century. The sites importance has led to its listing as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, a listing it shares with six other megalithic temples in Malta.</p><br>
<p>This later excavation allowed the use of modern methods of dating and analysis. The temple itself is not in good condition, especially in comparison to the more complete temples of Ħaġar Qim and Tarxien. However, the importance of this site does not lie in the actual remains but rather in what was garnered from their excavation.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Żebbiegħ area around Skorba appears to have been inhabited very early in the Neolithic period. When the eminent Maltese historian Sir Temi Żammit excavated the nearby temples of Ta&#39; Ħaġrat, only a single upright slab protruded from a small mound of debris on the Skorba site. Although it was included on the Antiquities List of 1925, archeologists ignored this mound until David H. Trump excavated it between 1960 and 1963.</p><br>
<p>The remains on the site are a series of megalithic uprights (one of them 3.4m high), the lowest course of the temples&#39; foundations, paving slabs with libation holes in the entrance passage, and the torba (a cement-like material) floor of a three-apse temple. This three-apse shape is typical of the Ġgantija phase. Unfortunately, the greater part of the first two apses and the whole of the façade have been razed to ground level.</p><br>
<p>The north wall is in a better state of preservation. Originally, the entrance of the temple opened on a court, but in later additions during the Tarxien phase, the temple&#39;s doorway was closed off, with altars set in the corners formed by the closure. East of this temple, a second monument was added in the Tarxien phase, with four apses and a central niche.</p><br>
<p>For a period of roughly twelve centuries before the temples were built, a village already stood on the site. Its oldest extant structure is the eleven metre long straight wall to the west of the temples’ first entrance. Deposits at its base contained material from the first known human occupation of the island, the Għar Dalam phase, including charcoal, which carbon analysis dated to 4850 BC.</p><br>
<h2>Pottery</h2><br>
<p>The pottery found on the site is divided into two styles, the Grey Skorba phase distinguished by grey-colored pottery with no motifs, and the Red Skorba phase, which is exactly like the grey Skorba but colored using red ocher.</p><br>
<p>Cape Melville is a headland on the eastern coast of the Cape York Peninsula in Australia. To its west lies Princess Charlotte Bay. It is part of the Cape Melville National Park.</p><br>
<p>Pipon Island is about six km north of the cape and Hales Island about two km east, both part of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. King Island lies several kilometres to the north west of the cape. The highest peak on the cape is Abbey Peak, which named in 1901 by Commander Munro. R.N., while aboard.</p><br>
<p>The cape consists of granite outcrops which formed 250 million years ago.</p><br>
<h2>Unique ecosystem</h2><br>
<p>The headland has been described as a "lost world". Several animal species have existed in an isolated section of rainforest for millions of years.</p><br>
<p>In March 2013, a team of scientists and filmmakers joined the ranks of the few human visitors to the misty rain forest atop the Melville Range, a small mountain range on Cape Melville, part of northeastern Australia&#39;s Cape York Peninsula.</p><br>
<p>The fauna and flora found near Cape Melville is diverse and includes several endemic species, including the Foxtail Palm the Cape Melville shade skink and the Blotched boulder-frog.</p><br>
<p>The London Guarantee Building or London Guaranty & Accident Building is a historic 1923 commercial skyscraper whose primary occupant since 2016 is the LondonHouse Chicago Hotel Formerly known as the Stone Container Building, it is located near the Loop in Chicago, and is one of four 1920s skyscrapers that surround the Michigan Avenue Bridge  and is a contributing property to the Michigan–Wacker Historic District. It stands on part of the former site of Fort Dearborn and the building was designated a Chicago Landmark on April 16, 1996.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The London Guarantee & Accident Building was designed by Chicago architect Alfred S. Alschuler and completed in 1923 for the London Guarantee & Accident Company, an insurance firm that was then its principal occupant. The LondonHouse name is an homage to the first owner of the 1923 Beaux Arts tower: the London Guaranty & Accident Co., an insurance company.</p><br>
<p>From the 1960s through the 1980s, the studios of Chicagos popular WLS (AM) radio were located on the fifth floor of the building. For several decades, Paul Harvey performed his daily syndicated radio show from studios on the fourth floor. The building was also famous from the 1950s through the early 1970s for The London House, a famous Chicago jazz nightclub and steakhouse that was located on the west side of the buildings first floor; it had its own entrance on Wacker Drive. It was one of the foremost jazz clubs in the country, once home to such luminaries as Oscar Peterson, Ramsey Lewis, Bill Evans, Dave Brubeck, Marian McPartland, Cannonball Adderley, Erroll Garner, Ahmad Jamal, Nancy Wilson, Barbara Carroll, Bobby Short and many others.</p><br>
<p>In the 1980s and 1990s TV show Perfect Strangers, the building&#39;s exterior was used as the home of the fictional newspaper Chicago Chronicle.</p><br>
<p>In 2001, the building was acquired by Crain Communications Inc. and was referred to as the Crain Communications Building. Crain Communications and other office tenants occupied the tower until Oxford Capital paid $53 million for the property. Crain sold the building during the summer of 2013 to a Chicago hotel developer, Oxford Capital Group, which remodeled the structure into a 452-room hotel, with the addition of a modern glass addition on an adjacent plot. Goettsch Partners-designed the new 22-story addition on a parcel immediately west of the structure. On April 15, 2016, Oxford Capital Group sold the 452-room hotel, but also agreed to a 25-year contract to lease back and manage the hotel. Oxford, however, retained ownership of first and second floor retail space.</p><br>
<p>After an extensive renovation project, the building reopened as the LondonHouse hotel on May 26, 2016.</p><br>
<p>Bárðarbunga, Bardarbunga , is a stratovolcano located under Vatnajökull, Iceland&#39;s most extensive glacier. The second highest mountain in Iceland, 2,009 m above sea level, Bárðarbunga is also part of a volcanic system that is approximately 200 km long and 25 km wide.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Bárðarbunga is a subglacial stratovolcano located under the ice cap of Vatnajökull glacier within the Vatnajökull National Park in Iceland. It rises to 2,009 m above sea level, making it the second highest mountain in Iceland, about 101 m lower than Hvannadalshnjúkur. The caldera is about 80 square kilometres, up to 10 km wide and about 700 m deep. The surrounding edges rise up to 1,850 metres but the base is on average close to 1,100 metres. The volcano is covered in ice to a depth of 850m, hiding the glacier-filled crater. The associated volcanic system and fissure swarm is about 190 km long and 25 km wide.</p><br>
<p>Bárðarbunga was a little-known volcano in Iceland due to its remote location and infrequent eruptions approximately once every 50 years, but recent studies have shown that many tephra layers originally thought to be from other volcanoes were ejected from Bárðarbunga.</p><br>
<p>Sustained seismic activity has been gradually increasing in Bárðarbunga and its associated northern fissure system for a seven years&#39; period, starting in 2007 and leading to an eruption only towards the end of 2014. This activity decreased after the Grímsvötn eruption in May 2011, but later returned to a similar level as before the eruption. The prior eruption was in 1910. There has been frequent volcanic activity outside the glacier to the southwest in the highlands between Vatnajökull and Mýrdalsjökull, and also to the northeast toward Dyngjufjöll.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>Bárðarbunga is named after an early Icelandic settler named Gnúpa-Bárður, and literally translates as "Bárðurs bulge" or "Bárðurs bump" since "Bárðar" is the genitive case (possessive case) of "Bárður".</p><br>
<h2>Eruptions and notable activity</h2><br>
<p>Throughout history there have been large eruptions every 250–600 years. In 1477, the largest known eruption from Bárðarbunga had a volcanic explosivity index (VEI) of 6; there is evidence of many smaller eruptions during the past 10,000 years.</p><br>
<h3>6600 BC</h3><br>
<p>Þjórsá Lava, the largest holocene lava flow on earth, originated from Bárðarbunga about 8,500 years ago, with a total volume of 21 to 30 cubic kilometres and covering approximately 950 square kilometres.</p><br>
<h3>870</h3><br>
<p>Many large eruptions have occurred south-west of the glacier, the first since human settlement of Iceland was the Vatnaöldur eruption about 870 which had a volcanic explosivity index (VEI) of 4.</p><br>
<h3>1477</h3><br>
<p>The Veiðivötn eruption in 1477 is the largest known Icelandic eruption, with a VEI of 6.</p><br>
<h3>1701–1864</h3><br>
<p>Studies of tephra layers have shown that a number of eruptions have occurred beneath the glacier, probably in the north-east of the crater or in Bárðarbunga. There have also been smaller eruptions in an ice-free area of Dyngjuháls to the north-east. Eruptions appear to follow a cycle: there were several eruptions in the glacier between 1701 and 1740 and since 1780.</p><br>
<h3>1910 eruption</h3><br>
<p>1910 was the last known eruption of Bárðarbunga before the 2014 eruptions.</p><br>
<h3>1996</h3><br>
<p>The Gjálp fissure vent eruption in 1996 revealed that an interaction may exist between Bárðarbunga and Grímsvötn. A strong earthquake in Bárðarbunga, about 5 on the Richter scale, is believed to have started the eruption in Gjálp.</p><br>
<h3>2010</h3><br>
<p>On 26 September 2010, an earthquake swarm was recorded with over 30 earthquakes measuring up to 3.7MW on the moment magnitude scale.</p><br>
<h3>2014–2015</h3><br>
<p>In August 2014, a swarm of around 1,600 earthquakes in 48-hours, with magnitudes up to 4.5MW,</p><br>
<p>was followed on 23 August by the USGS Aviation Color Codes being raised from orange to red, indicating an eruption in progress. The following day, the aviation risk was lowered from red to orange and the statement that there was an eruption in progress was retracted. However, later aerial observations of glacial depressions southeast of the volcano suggested that the now-retracted report of an eruption had been correct and that a short eruption did occur under the ice, but the lack of further melting indicated that this eruption had now ceased. Then, a new fissure eruption breached the surface between Bárðarbunga and Askja, in the Holuhraun lava field, in the early hours of 29 August. This was followed by a second fissure eruption in the Holuhraun area, along the same volcanic fissure, which started shortly after 4 am on 31 August.</p><br>
<p>The eruption has emitted large volumes of sulphur dioxide and impacted air quality in Iceland. There was no effect on flights outside of the immediate vicinity as the eruption hasn&#39;t produced a significant amount of volcanic ash.</p><br>
<p>On February 28, 2015 it was officially reported that the eruption is over. Nevertheless, the gas pollution still exists, and the area north of Bárðarbunga, including volcanoes Askja and Herðubreið, still remained closed for visitors.</p><br>
<p>On March 16, 2015 the area north of Bárðarbunga was opened for visitors, excluding the new lava field and the area within 20 meters around it.</p><br>
<h2>1950 aircraft emergency landing</h2><br>
<p>On 14 September 1950 a Douglas C-54 Skymaster aircraft belonging to the Icelandic airline Loftleiðir made an emergency landing on the Vatnajökull glacier at Bárðarbunga during a cargo flight from Luxembourg to Reykjavík. There were no fatalities, but damaged radio equipment left them unable to communicate their location. After two days the crew started the emergency SOS signal beacon in the rubber life-raft and a Loftleiðir Catalina aircraft spotted them. The C-54&#39;s cargo included the body of a deceased USAF colonel, prompting American assistance. A USAF C-47 equipped with skis landed on the glacier but was unable to take off again, so it had to be abandoned. After six days both crews were rescued by a ski-patrol from Akureyri. Later Loftleiðir bought the stranded C-47 from the USAF for $700. In April 1951 it was dug out of the snow and towed down the mountain by two bulldozers, where it was started and flown to Reykjavik.</p><br>
<p>The Dayton View Historic District is a 680 acre sector of Dayton developed in the late 19th century consisting of 219 structures in the registry.</p><br>
<h2>Historic District</h2><br>
<p>In 1984, Dayton View was registered on the National Register of Historic Places, Broadway, Harvard Blvd., Superior and Salem Aves. (No. 84003787). City of Dayton Ordinance #25552.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The area’s style and layout should be credited to the vision of James Oliver Arnold, whose farm house still stands at the northwest corner of Superior and Arnold. The original portion of the farmhouse dates to 1832. James Arnold envisioned a grand neighborhood of broad, tree-lined streets graced with large, impressive homes set back comfortably from the street. Reforestation efforts following the loss of Arnold’s distinctive elm trees are reviving Arnold’s dream. Dayton View was historically one of Dayton&#39;s most prominent neighborhoods.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Dayton View includes houses of many architectural styles, such as Victorian, Jacobethan, Chateauesque, American Foursquare, and Prairie School architecture. The timeline of the architecture style is dated from the late 1880s through the 1930s. Dayton View, however, is listed on the National Register for Late Victorian and Colonial Revival styles.</p><br>
<p>Dayton View is home to large, architecturally significant homes with elaborate staircases, third-story ballrooms, and carriage houses. The neighborhood is anchored by many of Daytons most historically significant cultural institutions, as well as Daytons most historically prominent churches, temples and synagogues (most of which line Salem Avenue). Today, Dayton View, once known for its richness of socioeconomic and cultural diversity, is largely an African-American community, and many of the synagogues and temples have been closed or taken over by other faiths.</p><br>
<p>The Dunbar Historic District is a nationally recognized historic district on S Paul Laurence Dunbar Street in Dayton, Ohio. The district is famous for being the home of Paul Laurence Dunbar.</p><br>
<p>On June 30, 1980, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places</p><br>
<p>A larger area known as Wright-Dunbar (or Mound-Horace) is bounded roughly by US 35, Broadway Street, West Third Street and the Great Miami River. This district has also been known for housing many ethnic groups such as Hungarians, Romanians, and African Americans. After World War I the Wright-Dunbar area was known as the cultural and commercial center of Dayton&#39;s African American community. Many black-owned stores, shops, and theatres gained popularity in Dayton, such as the "Palace Theatre". Decades later, in the 1950s and 1960s, much of the area was damaged during riots, urban renewal, and the construction of Interstate 75. Later, through an effort by the city of Dayton and the county, many of the houses in the district were brought back to life again.</p><br>
<p>The Huffman Historic District is a historic neighborhood in eastern Dayton, Ohio, United States. Formed at the end of the nineteenth century primarily by a wealthy businessman, it has long been home to people of many different occupations and numerous places on the social ladder. After seeing very few changes throughout the twentieth century, it was named a historic site in the 1980s.</p><br>
<p>William P. Huffman was both a banker and a real estate developer; although some of the land in the neighborhood had already been developed before Huffman became involved, he spurred development by arranging for the construction of a street railway on Third Street. The areas early residents occupied numerous places on the socioeconomic spectrum, ranging from laborers to merchants and artisans to executives. Their presence together in the neighborhood can still be seen in the built environment, most of which was built between 1870 and 1890. Several major architectural styles of the late nineteenth century appear in the district, including the Gothic Revival, Italianate, and Queen Anne. Although the districts peak period of growth ended by 1890, construction continued over the next decade, but virtually nothing was built after 1900. Minimal changes since that time have left the neighborhood resembling its appearance of over a century ago, preserving it as an example of late 19th-century developmental patterns.</p><br>
<p>In mid-1982, the Huffman Historic District was officially declared and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of the buildings well preserved architecture and because of the entire districts connection to William P. Huffman. One of nineteen National Register-listed historic districts in the city, Its boundaries encompass 85 acre, more than ⅛ of a square mile. At the time the district was designated, it comprised 668 buildings, of which 663 were deemed contributing properties and 5 non-contributing; the ratio of contributing to non-contributing is far higher than in most historic districts in the United States, reflective of the lack of construction within the district since 1900.</p><br>
<p>Mona Lake is a freshwater lake located in Norton Shores just outside the city of Muskegon in the USA state of Michigan . Mona Lake is a sandy bottom lake that flows into Lake Michigan via the Mona Lake channel.</p><br>
<h2>Fishing</h2><br>
<p>The lake is an exceptional fishery for big walleyes, Black Crappie, Bluegill, Channel Catfish, Largemouth Bass, Muskellunge (Muskie), Northern Pike, Smallmouth Bass, White Bass, Salmon, and Yellow Perch. There is a public access boat launch with hard-surface ramps on the north shore.</p><br>
<h2>Parks and Recreation</h2><br>
<p>There is a Boating Club on Mona Lake that is open to the public. The boating club features a full service gas station dock, boat launch, full service kitchen, restrooms, Tiki Bar, playground, picnic areas, and a sandy beach</p><br>
<p>On the south side of Mona Lake is Norton Shores&#39; Ross Park, which is a 43-acre park located Randall Road. Ross Park Features</p><br>
<p>a Sandy Beach Area with playground equipment, a picnic area, a paved walkway and a volleyball area. There is also a Boat parking area for those who want to come to shore.</p><br>
<p>The Ivoryton Playhouse is a small professional theater located in the village of Ivoryton in the town of Essex, Connecticut, USA. The theatre is believed to be the first self-supporting summer theatre in the United States and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It produces shows year round, March through December. As Comstock-Cheney Hall, it is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Comstock-Cheney Hall</h2><br>
<p>Construction began in 1910 and was completed 1911 as a recreation hall for the Comstock-Cheney factory. The building includes Classical Revival architecture. When listed the property included three contributing buildings on an area of 0.6 acre.</p><br>
<h2>The New York Players</h2><br>
<p>Milton Stiefel was an actor who eventually became the right hand and confidant of David Belasco, considered one of the greatest directors to emerge from American theatre. After Belasco&#39;s death in May 1931, Stiefel continued as manager and stage director for many extravagant shows which traveled nationally, playing in every major American city. At the end of one of these tours, Stiefel came to Essex in order to rest, saw the unused recreation hall and thought it would be well-suited to accommodate a resident stock company. A Broadway comedy play titled "Broken Dishes" had just closed in New York (reportedly with Bette Davis in her first Broadway role), and Stiefel opened it in Ivoryton during the week of June 17, 1930. Thus the Ivoryton Playhouse came to be.</p><br>
<p>Stiefel&#39;s actors lived in private homes in Ivoryton, from which most of the sets and props were borrowed. The company did not break even until the last week of summer, but that was enough to convince Stiefel that the theatre could be a success. Throughout the ensuring years, he continued to produce and direct in Ivoryton, and in 1938 he bought the building. Stiefel continued at Ivoryton until his retirement in 1973, when he sold the theatre to Ken Krezel.</p><br>
<p>The theatre is believed to be the first self-supporting summer theatre in the United States. The listing is described in its NRHP nomination document. and Although there were older theatres in Dennis, MA and Skowhegan, ME, they were endowed by foundations of wealthy families and not self-supporting. The Westport Country Playhouse was established one year after the Ivoryton Playhouse.</p><br>
<p>The theatre gained in prestige to the point that invitations to work there were highly prized in the theatrical profession. Its reputation grew nationally and Paramount Pictures produced a film short showing its complete operation. Established actors like Henry Hull and Norma Terris signed on to perform at Ivoryton, and newcomers like Katharine Hepburn and Cliff Robertson came along to help mold the Ivoryton legend. Ivorytons fame as one of Americas leading summer showplaces continued to grow until the outbreak of World War II, when the theatre went dark for several seasons, mainly due to tire and gas rationing making it virtually impossible for audiences to get to the Playhouse. Stiefel went to Hollywood where he served as a director for Columbia Pictures, but he reopened the Playhouse after the war and presented a parade of stars such as Marlon Brando, Ethel Waters, Art Carney, Tallulah Bankhead, Helen Hayes, Betty Grable, Groucho Marx, Myrna Loy, Gloria Swanson, Dorothy Lamour, Maureen O&#39;Sullivan, and many others.</p><br>
<h2>Ivoryton Playhouse Foundation</h2><br>
<p>Krezel decided to sell the property in 1979 and it was then, amid rumors that the historic theatre might be torn down to make way for a discount drug store, that the non-profit Ivoryton Playhouse Foundation was organized and negotiated a mortgage to buy the property. The Foundations&#39; early years (1979–1986) however, were difficult as four different productions failed to put the summer season back on the road to lasting success. In 1987, River Rep, a professional acting group based in New York City, arrived on the scene and its productions were an artistic success from the start. The River Rep spent 19 years in Ivoryton, producing shows during the summer months only. The Foundation began producing shows during the fall and winter months. In 2005, the River Rep and the Foundation failed to come to terms on a new contract, and so the River Rep decided to leave the Playhouse. As a result, the Foundation expanded its productions from just the fall and winter to the spring and summer as well. Continuing this labor of love, the Foundation has also dramatically improved the physical plant, installing comfortable seating, state-of-the-art lighting and sound systems, air conditioning, etc. The Playhouse is on the National Register of Historic Places, as is indicated on the front of the building.</p><br>
<h2>Shows</h2><br>
<p>The Ivoryton Playhouse season runs from early spring (March) through December. A typical season has three or four plays and two or three musicals. Nearly every show runs for three weeks and the current performance schedule is as follows:</p><br>
<p>Wednesdays at 2 and 7:30</p><br>
<p>Thursdays at 7:30</p><br>
<p>Fridays at 8</p><br>
<p>Saturdays at 8</p><br>
<p>Sundays at 2</p><br>
<p>Every main show is produced by the Ivoryton Playhouse Foundation, Inc., although shows not actually locally produced (but paid for) by the Foundation are occasionally brought in.</p><br>
<p>During the summer months the Playhouse has childrens shows, which occur Fridays at 11 am and run for about an hour. In addition, Carmelas Comedy Nights feature top of the line stand-up comedy every few months in the evenings.</p><br>
<h2>Location and Contact</h2><br>
<p>The Playhouse is located in the center of Ivoryton on the corner of Main Street and Summit Street (at 103 Main Street). The Playhouse has a small lobby, where the box office is housed, and then the theatre itself, which seats 284 people in both an orchestra and a balcony section. Behind the balcony is the control booth. Below the theatre are the dressing rooms and storage areas. Behind the Playhouse is a small barn-like structure where much set construction occurs. The Ivoryton Playhouse Foundation has its main offices in the Essex Industrial Park in Centerbrook, where the main rehearsal studio is also housed. The Foundation offices can be reached at (860) 767-9520. However, when the offices are closed, all calls are re-routed to the box office.</p><br>
<p>Vassfjellet is a mountain on the border of the municipalities of Melhus and Klæbu in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The eastern side of the mountain hosts a ski resort, Vassfjellet Skisenter.</p><br>
<p>At the top there is a radio and television transmitting tower, which extends 220 m above the top of the 710 m tall mountain. A road leading to the top has been built for maintenance access to the tower. This road starts in the village of Kvål in Melhus, but is closed to public vehicle access. It is however an excellent route for hiking.</p><br>
<p>The Vassfjell Chapel is located on the northeast side of the mountain in Klæbu.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>The first element is the genitive case of vatn which means "water", "lake", or "tarn" and the last element is the finite form of fjell which means "mountain". (There is a small tarn near the top of Vassfjellet.)</p><br>
<p>Adlington Hall is a country house near Adlington, Cheshire. The oldest part of the existing building, the Great Hall, was constructed between 1480 and 1505; the east wing was added in 1581. The Legh family has lived in the hall and in previous buildings on the same site since the early 14th century. After the house was occupied by Parliamentary forces during the Civil War, changes were made to the north wing, including encasing the Great Hall in brick, inserting windows, and installing an organ in the Great Hall. In the 18th century the house was inherited by Charles Legh who organised a series of major changes. These included building a new west wing, which incorporated a ballroom, and a south wing with a large portico. It is possible that Charles Legh himself was the architect for these additions. He also played a large part in planning and designing the gardens, woodland and parkland, which included a number of buildings of various types, including a bridge known as the Chinese Bridge that carried a summerhouse.</p><br>
<p>The hall was reconstructed and reduced in size in 1928. The work included demolition of much of the west wing, building a screen wall to fill the gap, and removing parts of the south wing. During the 19th and early 20th centuries the gardens, parkland and woodland became overgrown, and the condition of some of the buildings in them deteriorated. From the middle of the 20th century, work has been undertaken to restore some of the parkland and its buildings, and to create new formal gardens near the hall.</p><br>
<p>Adlington Hall is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. The stable block has been converted for modern uses; part of it is listed at Grade II*, and the rest is at Grade II. The grounds contain eleven Grade II listed buildings, and the grounds themselves have been designated at Grade II* on the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. The hall is open to the public for visits and guided tours, and parts of the building can be hired for weddings and social functions.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first known building on the site was a Saxon hunting lodge for Earl Edwin. After the Norman conquest the estate was given to Hugh Lupus, and it remained in the possession of the Norman earls until 1221, when it passed to the Crown. Henry III granted the manor to Hugh de Corona. Hugh&#39;s son Thomas, who had no children, granted it to his sister Ellen, who married John de Legh of Booth in the early 14th century during the reign of Edward II, after which it became the ancestral home of the Leghs of Adlington. Originally the hall consisted of timber-framed buildings on three or four sides of a courtyard surrounded by a moat. The Great Hall, on the north side of the courtyard, was built between 1480 and 1505 for Thomas Legh I. The east wing and porch were added for Thomas Legh III in 1581. During the Civil War the hall was held by Colonel Thomas Legh for the Royalists but was taken twice, in 1642 and in 1644, by the Parliamentary forces. The hall was returned to the Leghs in 1656, and the north front was restored in 1660. Between 1665 and 1670 the north wing was rebuilt for Thomas Legh IV. Windows were inserted and along with the Great Hall, excluding the porch, it was encased in brick.</p><br>
<p>The estate was inherited in 1739 by Charles Legh, who embarked on a major programme of reconstruction, transforming the hall "from a medium-sized Tudor house into a large Georgian manor". He built a new west wing, which contained a dining room, a drawing room, a library, and a ballroom, the last occupying the whole length of the first floor. He then rebuilt the south wing, connecting it with the new west wing and the older Tudor east wing. At each end of the south wing was a pavilion with a canted bay on its south front. The west pavilion contained the southern end of the ballroom, and the east pavilion housed a chapel. During this time the stable block and other buildings were constructed in the grounds. The architect responsible for this work is unknown, although it has been suggested that the design was by Charles himself. A major reconstruction took place in 1928 under the direction of the architect Hubert Worthington. Much of the west wing was demolished, removing the ballroom but retaining the drawing and dining rooms. To avoid leaving a gap exposing the courtyard, Worthington filled it with a screen wall containing a corridor linking the west and south wings. He decorated this with quoins, cornices and sash windows. The projecting pavilions at the ends of the south front were also demolished. In the 1960s the stable block was converted into mews flats. Between 2004 and 2009 the east wing was restored.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>The plan of the hall consists of four ranges or wings arranged as a quadrangle around a courtyard, and comprises a mixture of architectural styles. The north and east wings are in 15th- and 16th-century black-and-white timber framing, and the south and west wings are in brick dating from the middle of the 18th century. The north front is in brick with stone quoins enclosing the timber-framing. It is irregular, in two or three storeys with six gables. It contains a mixture of 12- and 16-pane sash windows, and two Venetian windows. On the courtyard side is a two-storey timber-framed porch bearing a long inscription dated 1581. The east wing is timber-framed, with close studding, on a rubble stone plinth. It contains mullioned and transomed windows, a small oriel window, and 12- and 16-pane sash windows. There is also a two-storey staircase turret. The south wing is in Flemish bond brick with sandstone dressings. It is symmetrical, in two and three storeys, and 13 bays. It is set on a low stone plinth, and has rusticated quoins. In the centre is a portico rising to the full height of the building. This consists of four plain Ionic columns each of which is carried on an octagonal pedestal. It has a frieze bearing the inscription "CHARLES & HESTER LEGH 1757", and its pediment contains the Legh arms. Behind the portico are two round-arched windows and a round-arched door on the ground floor, over which is a window with a Palladian pediment. On each side of the portico are 12-pane sash windows under flat rusticated heads. Only the left and right ends of the west wing are still present, and they are joined by a screen wall. Inside the courtyard, on the south and west sides, is a cloister.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>The major part of the north wing is occupied by the medieval Great Hall. This has a hammer-beam roof, with carvings of angels that were added at a later date. Within the spere truss is an organ (see below). To the sides of the organ are murals depicting, on one side Arabella Hunt, and on the other Saint Cecilia playing a harp. Below the murals were the doors to the buttery and pantry. Both doors are now blocked, replaced by panels carved with animals and foliage. Also in the Great Hall is a fireplace decorated with the head of Apollo.</p><br>
<p>In the west wing are the surviving rooms from Charles Legh&#39;s extension, the dining room on the ground floor and the drawing room above it. Both rooms are panelled and decorated in Classical style, with pediments over the doors and chimneypieces. The dining room is the simpler of the two, and contains a white marble fireplace that has been dated to 1742. The fireplace in the drawing room is also in white marble but is more elaborate, carved with scrolls, garlands, and a profile of Minerva. This room also contains giant Corinthian pilasters. Above its doors are wood-carvings in the style of William Kent, depicting the heads of Bacchus, Ceres, Flora, and Neptune. The rooms in the south wing include family sitting rooms decorated with Rococo style ceilings, and Gothic and Chinoiserie motifs. Also in the rooms of this wing are items moved from the demolished parts of the west wing. The east wing contains service rooms.</p><br>
<h2>Organ</h2><br>
<p>The organ was installed in the Great Hall in the late 17th century. It was probably built in about 1670, but "no conclusive evidence has come to light either to substantiate or to dismiss this theory". It has two manuals, no pedals, and fourteen speaking stops. It includes three 17th-century reed stops, which is a rarity for the time. The organ was "remade" in about 1680 by Christian Smith, and rebuilt in 1741–42 by Glyn and Parker. In 1958–59 it was restored by Noel Mander, at which time it had been derelict for a century or more. The organ has a "very fine Renaissance case", in two tiers. In the lower tier are the two manual keyboards over which is a row of pipes. The upper tier consists of five panels containing pipes, which are flanked by Corinthian pilasters. Over the top is a large curved hood containing gilded statues of putti playing trumpets, and a coat of arms celebrating the marriage of John Legh to Isabella Robartes in 1693. The halls website states it is "without doubt Englands most important surviving instrument from the late 17th century". It has been awarded a Historic Organ Certificate. The organ was filmed and recorded for the documentary The Elusive English Organ.</p><br>
<p>The composer Handel was a friend of the Legh family and played the organ in 1741 or 1742. He also composed the music for a hunting song, the words of which had been written by Charles Legh. There is a tradition that Handel composed The Harmonious Blacksmith at the hall, but it is not possible to confirm this.</p><br>
<h2>Grounds</h2><br>
<p>The hall is surrounded by a landscape park and woodland, covering in total about 160 acre. In addition to the buildings in the grounds, Charles Legh played a large part in designing the layout of the gardens in the 18th century. Over the years parts of the grounds have become overgrown, and the condition of the buildings has deteriorated. Since the 1950s work has been carried out to improve the grounds, and to develop parts of the gardens in a more modern style. To the north of the house a rose garden has been created and, beyond that a yew maze.</p><br>
<p>To the southeast of the hall is the stable block which partly surrounds a courtyard. It has a south front of nine bays, the middle three of which project forwards and have a pediment carried on four large Doric pilasters. The block originally had a cupola, but this has been removed. A formal garden has been built between the east wing and the stable block. Standing in this garden is a lead statue of a reclining, naked male figure, said to be Father Tiber, the river god. This formerly stood in the Wilderness garden. On the wall behind the statue are two carved unicorn heads, the emblem of the Legh family. These formerly stood on pillars at the eastern entrance to the grounds. The statues have been designated as a Grade II listed building. A Grade II building is one that is "nationally important and of special interest". To the south of the formal garden is a stone statue of Napoleon carved by George Turner and dated 1837. To the west of the hall is a ha-ha in rubble sandstone dating from the 18th century. It was built to act as a barrier between the west side of the garden and the deer park beyond it, and is listed Grade II. Immediately to the south of the hall is a circular lawn, in the centre of which is a sundial that probably dates from about 1825. Constructed in ashlar buff sandstone and standing on a pair of circular steps, it consists of an octagonal base with a partly fluted baluster supporting an octagonal moulded capstone. The capstone carries a copper plate inscribed with Roman numerals and the initials "TL", and has a simple triangular gnomon. The sundial is also listed Grade II. Leading south from the lawn is a walk known as the Lime Avenue, which is entered through gates dated 1688. The gates are in wrought iron and the piers in ashlar buff gritstone; these are again listed Grade II. The avenue leads to another Grade II listed building, a structure known as the Shell House, so-called because its interior is decorated with shells and coloured mirrors. It is a single-storey cottage constructed in red brick with buff sandstone dressings. The roof is in stone-slate and the chimney is brick. The wall is in brick with a stone coping. In front of Shell Cottage another sundial, also listed Grade II. This was probably built in the early 18th century for John Legh, and moved to its present position in the middle of that century. It is thought that the pillar on which it stands was originally a Saxon cross base. The octagonal copper plate is inscribed with Roman numerals, the longitude of Adlington, and John Legh&#39;s initials. To the front of the Shell House is another walk, known as the Yew Walk. At the back and side of the house is a rockery. To the south and west of the Shell House is a wooded area known as the Wilderness, through which runs the River Dean (or Dene). Many of the winding paths created by Charles Legh in the Wilderness are now overgrown, and some of the buildings are in a poor condition, or have collapsed into ruin. One building still in good condition is the Tig House, a small square pavilion overlooking the river, an early example of a building in the Chinoiserie style. It is constructed in red brick and partly clad in black and white timber framing. It has a stone-slate pyramidal roof with a wooden finial, and is listed Grade II. Near to this is the a bridge known as the Chinese Bridge crossing the river, but the summerhouse which once stood on the bridge is no longer present. Another structure in the Wilderness is the Temple of Diana. This is a circular temple with a dome constructed in ashlar buff sandstone. It stands on a stylobate which supports six Doric columns and an entablature. The structure is listed Grade II. This appears to be in good condition, but in the early 2000s was said to be suffering from damp. Other buildings known as the Rathouse and the Hermitage, have been damaged by falling trees. At the north entrance to the grounds is a pair of gate piers that are listed Grade II. The piers are in rusticated ashlar sandstone and are surmounted by ball finials. The gates are iron and are similar to those at the end of the lime avenue. At the other end of the grounds, at the site of the former south approach, is a pair of sandstone gate piers dating from the middle of the 18th century. They originally carried the carved unicorn heads that are now in the formal garden, and were left isolated when the route of the turnpike road was moved. They are listed Grade II.</p><br>
<h2>Present day</h2><br>
<p>Adlington Hall stands in open countryside to the west of the village of Adlington, Cheshire, England. It was designated a Grade I listed building on 25 July 1952. Grade I listing means that the building is acknowledged to be "of exceptional interest, sometimes considered to be internationally important". The hall is still privately owned by the Legh family, who live in the hall. It is open to the public and for guided tours for groups at advertised times. The Great Hall and the Hunting Lodge are available to be hired for weddings and social functions. The south wing of the stable block has been converted into eight flats and is known as The Mews. It has been designated as a Grade II* listed building. Grade II* listing applies to "particularly important buildings of more than special interest". The east wing is listed Grade II and has been converted into two flats and tea rooms. The landscape park has been registered at Grade II* in the National Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. Designation as Grade II* on the Register means that the site is "particularly important, of more than special interest".</p><br>
<p>Church Street United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church located on Henley Street in downtown Knoxville, Tennessee. The church building is considered a Knoxville landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History and architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Church Street Methodist congregation formed in 1816. Initially, it met in a building on what is now Hill Avenue in downtown Knoxville. In 1836 the congregation moved into a new building on Church Street between Walnut and Market Streets, where it met until 1863 when the building was confiscated by Union troops for use as a hospital during the American Civil War. Around 1870, the congregation relocated to a brick building one block east of its former location on Church Street, and in 1878 it moved into its new Victorian Gothic church building erected on its former 410 Church Street location. Some say this building was designed by Knoxville architect Alexander Campbell Bruce. Planning to replace that church building began in 1921 when the congregation recognized a need for a larger facility to accommodate its growth, but little progress had been made as of February 1928, when a fire destroyed the building on Church Street. The congregation then acquired the Henley Street site to construct a new, larger church building. In the move to Henley Street, the church retained its old name of Church Street Methodist Episcopal Church, South. (In 1939, it became Church Street Methodist Church.)</p><br>
<p>The congregation decided to retain the Gothic Revival architectural style for its new building. Architect John Russell Pope of New York City was hired to design the new facility, in cooperation with local architect Charles I. Barber of the Knoxville firm of Barber & McMurry. The design was similar to several other Gothic Revival buildings that Pope’s firm had designed, including buildings on the Yale University campus and churches in Larchmont and New Rochelle, New York, and Columbus, Ohio. Construction of the new building began in March 1930 and was completed the following year, with the first worship service held in January 1931.</p><br>
<p>The church is built from Crab Orchard sandstone and has a slate roof. A prominent feature of the building is a large entrance tower. The original sanctuary and church school wing are arranged around a central courtyard, which is accessed through a series of pointed arch entranceways. The sanctuary features stained glass windows designed and manufactured by Charles J. Connick of Boston. Stained glass from Connick&#39;s studio is seen in many other American churches from the 20th century, including St. Patrick’s Cathedral and the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York City, St. John’s Cathedral in Denver, Fourth Presbyterian Church in Chicago, Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, and University Chapel at Princeton University.</p><br>
<p>On Labor Day 1940, with his campaign for a third term beginning, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was driven past the church en route to Newfound Gap to dedicate the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. He reportedly inquired about the church and remarked, "That is the most beautiful church I have ever seen."</p><br>
<p>The congregation made additions behind the original building in 1964, when a new education building was built, and in 1986–1989, when the Church Life Building was built. The additions used the same exterior building materials as the 1930 building, have minimal attachment to the original building, and are considered "sympathetic" to the original design.</p><br>
<p>In 2009, the church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The National Register listing recognizes the building for its architecture and its stained glass.</p><br>
<p>St. John&#39;s Lutheran Church is a historic Lutheran church located at 544 Broadway NW  in Knoxville, Tennessee. The church building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, both individually and as a contributing property in the Emory Place Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The St. John&#39;s congregation was formed in 1888. It was the first English-language Lutheran congregation in Knoxville. The founding members were Lutherans of German heritage who preferred English over German, which was then used in other local Lutheran churches. Initially, they met for worship in the First German Evangelical Lutheran Church in downtown Knoxville. In 1889, the group leased the former the Broad Street Methodist Episcopal Church building, on the corner of Broadway and Fifth Avenue, for worship use. In 1890, the congregation incorporated, affiliated with the United Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the South, and purchased the former Broad Street Methodist property.</p><br>
<p>Development of the current church building began in 1910 after church member Martha Henson donated land one block north of the church building. After adjoining land was acquired, construction of the new church building began in August 1911. The new church was completed and dedicated in 1913. Martha Henson contributed almost $90,000 toward the $100,000 cost of the project as a memorial to her husband, James A. Henson. Gothic elements in the building include arches at windows and doorways, exterior buttresses, and tracery. The church&#39;s interior utilizes quarter sawn oak. Hammerbeam trusses vault the sanctuary, rising to almost 40 ft. The sanctuary is surrounded by 61 stained glass windows, including a series of nine pictorial windows that depict scenes from the Bible in chronological sequence. The windows were designed by Von Gerichten Art Glass of Cincinnati and assembled onsite during building construction.</p><br>
<p>The congregation is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).</p><br>
<p>Lake Tali Karng is a natural lake in the Alpine region of Victoria, in eastern Australia. At 14 hectare in area and 51 m in depth, the lake is the only deep lake in Victoria. The lake was formed by a landslide 1,500 years ago and is the only lake in the Alpine region.</p><br>
<p>Unlike alpine lakes in the Snowy Mountains, Lake Tali Karng is the only permanent, deep, highland lake in Australia that is not of glacial or volcanic origin. The lake was formed by falling from the Sentinel, which is 700 m above the valley. The landslide dammed the Wellington River with the area of the landslide now known as the Valley of Destruction. The lake has no stream outlet, and has never been known to overflow, the overflow seeping away through the Valley of Destruction. Two creeks feed the lake, Snowden Creek and Nigothoruk Creek. Nigothoruk Creek has three waterfalls, collectively called the Snowden Falls. There is no vegetation in the lake itself as the water is slightly acidic. Its maximum depth is 51 m, and due to the minimal sunlight falling upon it, together with the snow-melt which feeds it, it remains cold throughout the year.</p><br>
<h2>Traditional custodians</h2><br>
<p>Tali Karng lies in the traditional lands of the Gunai Kurnai tribe, who hold it as a sacred place. In keeping with their law, aboriginal people are forbidden to visit the lake. The Gunai Kurnai are, however, tolerant of non-indigenous people visiting Tali Karng provided they treat the area with respect. This includes requesting visitors not to camp at the lake. Visitors are asked to camp either above the lake at the southern end of the Wellington Plains or below the lake in the Valley of Destruction along the Wellington River.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation activities</h2><br>
<h3>Camping</h3><br>
<p>The most popular camping area has traditionally been the western end of the lake, where there are large grassy areas. Camping is also possible at the eastern end, although this area is hard to access. Water from the lake must be boiled, although water coming from the side creeks is drinkable. Fires are not permitted near the lake so all campers must be equipped with a fuel stove.</p><br>
<p>Camping at the lake is now discouraged and alternative camping with basic facilities is available at Nyimba campsite, near the site of the former Riggall Hut at the southern end of the Wellington Plains. Campfires are allowed here and water is generally available from a nearby creek. There is also informal camping along the Wellington River below the lake. Permits are not required.</p><br>
<p>The area can be quite crowded at Easter, Melbourne Cup Weekend and other holidays, but compared to other areas in the Alps, accessible by motor vehicles, it is peaceful.</p><br>
<h3>Access</h3><br>
<p>Tali Karng is difficult to access, with the quickest route a hard five-hour walk, from MacFarlanes Saddle via the Wellington Plains track. This involves an 800 m descent, either via the Gillios Track or the Riggalls Spur track. Riggalls Spur has the only view of the lake from Echo Point, but is a little overgrown. An alternative access to the lake is the 15 km walk up the Wellington River. This involves 15 river crossings, and can be quite dangerous, particularly under high river conditions. The final passage through the Valley of destruction can be particularly challenging, given the small boulders which must be traversed. This is a difficult area for camping with limited space for all but small tents.</p><br>
<p>A further access route approaches via Mount Margaret, which begins a short distance from Licola.</p><br>
<p>The bushfires of December 2006 burnt much of the surrounding forest, although regrowth is well underway in many of the burnt parts as of January 2008. Trees along the Wellington Plains track have not re-grown much due to the exposed nature of the area, so there is little shade for that section of walk. All approaches are now open.</p><br>
<h3>Surrounding attractions</h3><br>
<p>Although the lake itself is likely to be the focus of a bushwalk, the surrounding high plains are also of interest. Mount Spion Kopje, about 3.7 km to the north east, is one of the higher nearby mountains, and has a great view from its dolerite capped summit over much of Gippsland. The Wellington Plains offer expansive views, as does Mount Wellington.</p><br>
<p>Lake Seppings  is a freshwater lake located within the city of in the Great Southern region of Western Australia.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The lake is 3 km east-north-east of the Albany city centre. The main bitumen roads that border Lake Seppings are Golf Links Road to the east, Troode Street to the north, Collingwood Road, Drew Street/Sleeman Avenue to west and Lake Seppings Drive to the south. The lake is nearly completely surrounded by a 2.7 km compacted gravel footpath and wooden walkways. A wooden bird hide has been built along the western side of the lake. A car park for access to the path is located along Golf Links Road.</p><br>
<p>Lake Seppings is approximately 1.1 km in length (from north to south) and the north end is approximately 400 m in width. The lake narrows toward the southern end and the path crosses the lake approximately 250 m before the southern tip. The lake is situated in the Lake Seppings nature reserve that has a total area of 17.1 hectare.</p><br>
<h2>Fauna</h2><br>
<p>Lake Seppings is regarded as an excellent place for bird watching, particularly for water-birds. Over one hundred different species of birds have been recorded on and about the lake.</p><br>
<p>Wading species are often seen along the margins of the lake such as the Australian white ibis, yellow-billed spoonbill and the white-faced heron.</p><br>
<p>Several species such as the blue-billed duck, musk duck, black swan, hoary-headed grebe, Australian pelican and Eurasian coot can be seen regularly on the surface of the lake.</p><br>
<p>Birds that can be spotted amongst the lake vegetation include spotless crake, masked lapwing, dusky moorhen, purple swamphen and buff-banded rail.</p><br>
<h2>Flora</h2><br>
<p>Lake Seppings has a rich variety of vegetation around its margins. The immediate lakeside is surrounded by a mixture of bullrushes, reeds and sedges. The fringing trees are a mixture of Myrtaceae: Western Australian peppermint trees, spearwoods, paperbarks, native willows and wattles. Banksias are also found around the lake. The northern end of the lake is a dense melaleuca stand of the above-mentioned species.</p><br>
<p>The north-western side of the lake has been cleared and is suffering from infestations of several weeds. These include kikuyu grass, bracken, blackberry, nasturtium, Taylorina and arum lily. Conservation groups are trying to restore the area starting with the old tip site which has been cleared and re-planted with several natives such as bluegums, Albany woolly-bushes and kangaroo paws.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Around 20,000 years ago the sea level was about 130 m lower than present and the coastline was about 4 km from the lake&#39;s current shoreline. The sea level then rose and the lake was a shallow basin in the sea floor. This explains why cockle shells can be found preserved in the soil. Sea levels then fell to current levels about 8000 years ago leaving Lake Seppings 500 m from the coast line.</p><br>
<p>Lands along the eastern shore of the lake once were part of an estate belonging to Joseph Spencer of Balgarrup near Kojonup in 1884.</p><br>
<p>In 1887 it was proposed to the Albany Municipal Council by Councillor Robert Andrew Muir that the Council apply to the Government to grant the land surrounding Lake Seppings as a</p><br>
<p>Commonage for the Municipality. The council later voted on the application in 1888 with the intention of establishing a botanical park along the shoreline for a portion of the lake and a timber reserve around the lake.</p><br>
<p>In 1888 Lake Seppings was declared a Botanic garden. The lake was renamed "Albany Park" in 1900 and protected as a natural wetland. Between 1900 and 1970 the west side of the lake became a rubbish dump until 1972 when the department of fisheries and fauna suggested the lake become a water-fowl reserve.</p><br>
<p>The Apex club of Albany began work on the bird-walk during the 1980s. The Albany community demanded that the lake be protected and restored in 2000 and in 2004 the walking trail around the lake was completed.</p><br>
<h2>Dreamtime</h2><br>
<p>The local indigenous Australians are the Noongar people whose name for the lake is Tjuirtgellong which means "The place of the long-necked tortoise". The lake has a special significance to the Noongar who believe it to be the footprint of the spirit Djrat who created the south coast of Western Australia.</p><br>
<p>The Sulm is a river of 83 km length in Southern Styria  which originates at the eastern slopes of the Koralpe , and flows eastwards towards the Mur through the districts of Deutschlandsberg and Leibnitz. The Sulm valley runs from the Western Styrian hill ranges to the Eastern Styrian hills and lowlands.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The main tributaries of the Sulm are the Schwarze Sulm ("Black Sulm&quot with Schwanberg as the central market town) and the Weiße Sulm ("White Sulm&quot with Wies) which merge near the village of Prarath, upstream of Gleinstätten. It is there where the actual Sulm valley is considered to begin. Further downstream, near Großklein and Fresing, the Sulm proceeds to receive the Saggau river, and - close to Leibnitz - the Laßnitz river, immediately before the Sulm makes a sharp turn to the Southeast and flows almost parallel to the Mur river before joining it.</p><br>
<p>The Sulm runs on top of a thick bed of its own massive quaternary deposits, and therefore the valley bed is now quite flat although (as can be deduced from the remaining terraces on its rims) it must have been steeper initially. The river therefore breached its banks easily, and used to cause frequent major flooding, until it was regulated from the 1960s onward.</p><br>
<p>A unique geographic feature in the Sulm valley is the Sausal mountain range which has its own mild microclimate, supporting a significant fraction of Styria&#39;s wine-growing economy.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Sulm valley has yielded archeological finds from the neolithic period onward, illustrating that it has served as an east-west traverse for thousands of years. In the Iron Age, during part of the Hallstatt Culture period, a settlement on the Burgstallkogel between Gleinstätten and Großklein had considerable regional importance. The associated necropolis, part of which can still be seen, is one of the largest and best-preserved in Central Europe although much has been plundered from the late 19th century onward.</p><br>
<p>The Frauenberg, a hill near Leibnitz, is especially significant in terms of pre-history. Apparently a halidom for female goddesses throughout the Neolithic and Celtic periods, its plateau bore a temple during Roman times when the municipium of Flavia Solva flourished. Recently, one of the largest known cemeteries from the late Roman period has been identified on one of its slopes.</p><br>
<p>It is believed that the Sulm valley was only minimally (if at all) populated during the Völkerwanderung, after the Romans had withdrawn from the province of Noricum in the 5th century. Records from the 10th and 11th century C.E., when it was resettled by Bavarian emissaries from Salzburg, describe it as swamped and hardly passable.</p><br>
<p>Many settlements in the lower Sulm valley likely date back to the 9th century when the Bavarians reclaimed the region from the predecessors of the current Slovenes who had loosely settled it after the rule of the Avars had succumbed to Charlemagne. During the 12th century the region became a territory of the church-state of Salzburg, and remained so for more than 400 years. The Khuenburg family, a significant branch of Salzburg nobility, owned large swaths of territory until the late 19th century.</p><br>
<p>War and natural disasters that affected the eastern and southern parts of today&#39;s Austria hardly ever spared the Sulm valley, with the probable exception of migratory locusts of which there is no local record, even during times when other parts of Styria suffered severely. In 1532 Turkish troops retreating from their abortive first Siege of Vienna moved southward along the Mur, and laid waste to a broad swath of land on both sides of the river; their cavalry pillaged, burned and abducted almost unhindered. In 1680 and 1681 the last outbreak of the Black Death (bubonic plague) in Austria claimed numerous victims in the Sulm valley region. In November 1805, during the Napoleonic War of the Third Coalition, invading French troops plundered the region and terrorized the residents.</p><br>
<p>The Sulm valley region lost many vital connections to the South (especially to the city of Marburg an der Drau, now Maribor) in 1919 when Lower Styria was annexed to emerging Yugoslavia. As a result, the region became more oriented towards the North, and towards the Styrian capital, Graz but also became a "quiet corner" of Austria.</p><br>
<p>On occasion of a January 1947 special envoy meeting on Austrian affairs that was held in Londons Lancaster House, Yugoslavia made territorial claims not only against the southern parts of the Austrian province of Carinthia (where the population had voted to remain with Austria in the Carinthian Plebiscite of 1920), but also against parts of Southern Styria which were completely Austrian. Josip Broz Titos close advisor, Joze Vilfan, presented a memorandum that would have made the Sulm a border river. The split that occurred between Tito and Stalin shortly thereafter caused the USSR to withdraw its initial support of these demands, and together with the uncompromizing attitude of the British occupation forces in Styria this caused the Yugoslav plan to collapse completely. Today the Sulm region and Slovenia have long put the past behind them, and entertain very friendly relations.</p><br>
<p>From 1907 to 1967, a railway line was operated in the valley which merged with the Austrian Southern Railway at Leibnitz. Many of the original station buildings and some steel railway bridges still exist. Only a short part of the railroad line at Gleinstätten is still in use. Those parts of the groundworks that had not been removed during the following decades have now mostly been converted to a biotope, providing shelter for the local fauna and flora and offering a distant reflection of what the Sulm valley bottom had been before it was diverted to the present intense agricultural use.</p><br>
<h2>Economy</h2><br>
<p>The soil of the Sulm valley is rich, and its economy is characterized by agriculture (mostly maize, but recently also alternative crops) and - on the hillsides and in the Sausal mountain range - also wine with an excellent quality. A key vegetable product (not only of the Sulm valley but of the entire region) is pumpkin seed oil, an EU-protected specialty.</p><br>
<p>Tourism, mainly in the form of hiking and cycling, has developed into a significant economic factor. Mostly from the 1970s onward, a service economy has also begun to flourish in the Sulm valley.</p><br>
<p>Some areas show significant deposits of clay. In earlier times, when peasants went barefoot except on Sundays or special occasions, the clay sticking to their feet made them yellowish-brown and therefore they were nicknamed Gelbfüsse ("yellow-feet"). Especially at Gleinstätten these deposits have long been exploited for brick manufacturing. Tondach Gleinstätten AG (part of the Wienerberger AG public construction material company) is of significant importance to the regional economy. Two factories of the Assmann Group, at Leibnitz and Gleinstätten, are another major contributor.</p><br>
<p>The Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University was established in 1956 with an endowment from Florence Peshine Eagleton , and it focuses on state and national politics through education and public service.</p><br>
<p>The Institute is located at the Cook-Douglass Campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey and is housed at Wood Lawn, which listed is the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>Florence Peshine Eagleton was a suffragist and a founder of the New Jersey League of Women Voters who advocated women&#39;s higher education. She was one of the first women to serve as a Trustee of Rutgers University. She willed more than $1,000,000 to establish the Wells Phillips Eagleton and Florence Peshine Eagleton Foundation, which became the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. Eagleton directed that her support be applied:</p><br>
<p>... for the advancement of learning in the field of practical political affairs and government that a knowledge of the meaning of democracy may be increased through the education of young women and men in democratic government.... It is my settled conviction that the cultivation of civic responsibility and leadership among the American people in the field of practical political affairs is of vital and increasing importance to our state and nation... I make this gift especially for the development of and education for responsible leadership in civic and governmental affairs and the solution of their political problems.</p><br>
<h2>Centers and program</h2><br>
<p>The Eagleton Institute of Politics has several centers and programs:</p><br>
<p>The Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) aims to promote greater knowledge and understanding about womens participation in politics and government and to enhance womens influence and leadership in public life.</p><br>
<p>The Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling, established in 1971, performs university-based public interest polling.</p><br>
<p>The Center on the American Governor seeks to promote research and discussion on the role of the governor in the United States. The Center is building an extensive virtual archive and plans to sponsor a range of academic activities and public forums on topics and issues relating to the office of governor across the country as well as the administrations of selected holders of the office in New Jersey and other states.</p><br>
<p>The Program on Immigration and Democracy leverages the resources of a major public research institution to explore the challenges and opportunities stemming from immigration—across New Jersey, the nation and the world.</p><br>
<p>The Youth Political Participation Program (YPPP), through research, public service, and educational programs, is dedicated to exploring civic education at the high school level and political participation among young adults. YPPP initiatives include RU Ready RU Voting, State House Express, the Young Elected Leaders Project, and the Darien Civic Engagement Project</p><br>
<p>Other programs and initiatives include:</p><br>
<p>Clifford P. Case Professorship of Public Affairs &mdash; established by the universitys board of governors in 1980 and named in honor of Clifford P. Case, longtime USA senator from New Jersey. The holder of the professional typically visits one of Rutgers three campuses for a few days each year. Past holders have included George J. Mitchell, Olympia Snowe, Lee H. Hamilton, Chuck Hagel, J. William Fulbright, and Gerald R. Ford.</p><br>
<p>Electronic Government Project - compiles a list of research findings and best practices for government publication of data through technology</p><br>
<p>Arthur J. Holland Program on Ethics in Government &mdash; established in 1989 and named after Arthur John Holland, longtime mayor of Trenton. The program organizes an annual lecture at the university as well as workshop at the New Jersey League of Municipalities&#39; Atlantic City conference. The program also awards a stipend "to support a student undertaking a project designed to promote ethics in government."</p><br>
<p>New Jersey Project &mdash; established in 1995, the project aims "to increase awareness and understanding of New Jersey politics." The project has organized seminars on the implementation of the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) in the state. Through the project, the Eagleton Institute also publishes NJVoterInfo.org, "a non-profit, non-partisan website about elections and public affairs issues affecting New Jersey."</p><br>
<p>Initiative on Climate and Social Policy (CSP)</p><br>
<p>State Politics and Government activities - supported by the Alan Rosenthal Fund for the Study of State Government and Politics</p><br>
<h2>Eagleton Staff</h2><br>
<p>Ruth B. Mandel- Director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics, Board of Governors Professor of Politics, and Senior Scholar at CAWP</p><br>
<p>John Weingart- Associate Director of the Eagleton Institute of Politics and author of</p><br>
<p>Debbie Walsh - Director, Center for American Women and Politics</p><br>
<p>David Redlawsk - Director, Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling</p><br>
<p>Michael Soga- Coordinator, Building Services</p><br>
<p>Gerald Pomper- Board of Governors Professor of Political Science (Emeritus)</p><br>
<p>Lake Abant  is a freshwater lake in Turkeys Bolu Province in northwest Anatolia, formed as a result of a great landslide. The lake lies at an altitude of 1,328 m at a distance of 32 km from the provincial seat of Bolu city. It is a favorite vacation and excursion spot for both Turkish and foreign travellers thanks to the natural beauty of its surroundings, which are covered with dense forests, and easy access by car . Lake Abant is a natural park.</p><br>
<p>The lake covers an area of 1.28 km&sup2; and its deepest spot is 18 m. The lake area has two large hotels in the immediate vicinity of the shores, as well as other amenities and services for visitors, who sometimes alternatively opt for the family guesthouses available in the nearby town of Mudurnu 18 km to the south. To the north of the lake, at a distance of 8 km from Bolu city, is the main campus of Abant Izzet Baysal University.</p><br>
<p>European black pine, Scots pine, oaks, ashes, hornbeams, willows, junipers, tamarisks, hazels, common medlar, and strawberry trees are among the tree species that make up the lake&#39;s woodlands, and there are wild boars, fallow deer, roe deer, red deer, brown bears, wolves, red foxes, jackals and rabbits in the surrounding forests, which makes the lake a prized location for hunters during the season. The lake is inhabited by the Abant trout Salmo abanticus, a (sub)species of trout which is strictly endemic to this lake only.</p><br>
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<p>Denge Wood is a wood located 8 miles southwest of Canterbury in Kent, England. The wood is owned by the Forestry Commission and the Woodland Trust. Part of the wood is also privately owned. Much of Denge Wood is classified as ancient semi-natural woodland suggesting it has been in existence since at least 1600AD and probably longer.</p><br>
<h2>Location and geology</h2><br>
<p>Denge Wood is situated on the dip slope of the North Downs and within the Kent Downs AONB. The wood is located on clay with flints over chalk bedrock at a maximum altitude of 140 metres. Two dry valleys run northward on the eastern side of the wood whilst the western side is located on a plateau. The western most fringes of Eggringe Wood and Down Wood form part of the eastern Stour Valley escarpment.</p><br>
<h2>Ecology</h2><br>
<h3>Flora</h3><br>
<p>The wood consists largely of chestnut coppice and conifer plantations. There are also areas of beech (Fagus sylvatica), hazel (Corylus avellana), ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and oak (Quercus robur) woodland. There are several clearings in the wood where there is a mixture of scrubland and chalk grassland such as at Bonsai Bank. Bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) and wood anemone (Anemone nemorosa) grow on neutral soils whilst on the alkaline, lime rich soils plants such as dog&#39;s mercury (Mercurialis perennis), herb paris (Paris quadrifolia) and columbine (Aquilegia vulgaris) can be found.</p><br>
<p>Denge Wood is particularly notable for the range of orchids that it supports. twayblade (Neottia ovata), common spotted orchid (Dactylorhiza fuchsii), pyramidal orchid (Anacamptis pyramidalis), greater butterfly orchid (Platanthera chlorantha), man orchid (Aceras anthropophorum) and fragrant orchid (Gymnadenia conopsea) occur in the scrubland and chalk grassland. The early purple orchid (Orchis mascula), fly orchid (Ophrys insectifera), lesser butterfly orchid (Platanthera bifolia) and bird&#39;s nest orchid (Neottia nidus-avis) can be found in woodland areas whilst there is also a large population of the rare lady orchid (Orchis purpurea).</p><br>
<h3>Fauna</h3><br>
<p>The wood provides an important habitat for nesting and migratory birds including the nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos), chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita) and spotted flycatcher (Muscicapa striata). Up to 27 species of butterfly have been recorded in the area managed by the Woodland Trust and there are populations of green hairstreak (Callophrys rubi), grizzled skipper (Pyrgus malvae) and the scarce Duke of Burgundy (Hamearis lucina). The woodland provides a habitat for mammals including the dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius) and reptiles such as common lizard (Zootoca vivipara) and adder (Vipera berus). There are also populations of fallow deer (Dama dama) and roe deer (Capreolus capreolus).</p><br>
<h2>Human use</h2><br>
<p>Denge Wood is a popular site for walking and horse-riding due to its scenic beauty and ecological interest. The land that is owned by the Woodland Trust and Forestry Commission is open access and there a network of footpaths, bridleways and byways that cross the wood. Parts of Denge Wood are also used for economic activity such as forestry.</p><br>
<p>In May 2005 Denge Wood was the site of a rave that attracted up to 2000 people to the site. The rave resulted in substantial damage to wildlife and the rubbish left behind including human excrement, methadone bottles and needles took a whole day to clear up. The Criminal Justice and Public Order Act prevents raves although the police stated that they did not have the resources available at the time to act against the event.</p><br>
<p>Junction Hollow is a small wooded valley bordering the west flanks of Schenley Park and the campus of Carnegie Mellon University and the southern edge of the University of Pittsburgh&#39;s campus in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>The 150 ft valley runs south to north approximately 2+1/2 mi. It begins where Four Mile Run empties into the Monongahela River and runs through the neighborhood of Four Mile Run north into Oakland along Schenley Park, Carnegie Mellon, and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, and ends at Neville Street behind Central Catholic High School.</p><br>
<p>Junction Hollow is often confused for Panther Hollow, which at Panther Hollow Lake veers off from it to the northeast into the park.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Junction Hollow is named for the Pittsburgh Junction Railroad, which first laid tracks there in the 1880s, and the idea of a Junction Hollow spur line was to divert rail traffic north through Schenley Tunnel (beneath Neville Street) to a rail yard along the Allegheny River, thus avoiding rail congestion in Downtown.</p><br>
<p>Prior to the railroad the area was known as the Four Mile Run Valley, for its stream that was named on account of its distance from The Point. Today the stream is piped underground to the river.</p><br>
<p>In the 1950s and 1960s planners created a grand proposal to fill the hollow with a research complex extending from the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University to the river, but it was never realized.</p><br>
<p>Since the 1990s, the Eliza Furnace Trail extends into the hollow, where it is called Junction Hollow Trail.</p><br>
<p>The Hoo is a large detached house in the Hampstead area of the London Borough of Camden. An early design in the Queen Anne style by the architect Horace Field, it was built from 1888-90, and altered in 1987-88. It is a Grade II listed building.</p><br>
<p>The English Heritage listing describes its style as an "Irregular composition in Domestic Revival style, much influenced by Norman Shaw". The house faces south at a right angle to Lyndhurst Gardens. The eastern flank of the house has a tall chimney and a broad gable. The house is built of red brick, with tile-hanging features on the upper storey. The casement windows are built partly of stone and timber, with leaded lights. The tiled roofs have overhanging eaves. The interior retains many original features, with original panelling, plasterwork, door surrounds and fireplaces. The original staircase has been retained, along with dados, and a built-in window seat with chests of draws.</p><br>
<p>Field later designed several houses in nearby Lyndhurst Road, this time in a Neo-Georgian style.</p><br>
<p>The house is now occupied by the Belsize, Gospel Oak and West Hampstead Community Health Teams, part of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. It is also the site of the archives of the Royal Free Hospital. Fleet Counselling, who offer affordable one-on-one counselling services are also based in the building.</p><br>
<p>Faure Island is a 58 km island pastoral lease and nature reserve, east of the Francois Peron National Park on the Peron Peninsula, in Shark Bay, Western Australia. It lies in line with the Monkey Mia resort to the west, and the Wooramel River on the eastern shore of Shark Bay. It is surrounded by the Shark Bay Marine Park and Shark Bay World Heritage Site and, as the Faure Island Sanctuary, is owned and managed by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy .</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The island was given its European name by French explorer Nicolas Baudin in 1801, in honour of the geographer, Pierre Faure, aboard his ship Le Naturaliste.</p><br>
<p>Pastoral leases over the island were granted to Charles Broadhurst in 1873, and to WD Moore & Coy in 1883. For most of the 20th century, from 1905, the Hoult family of Denham ran sheep and goats on the island. In 1999 the Hoults sold the lease to the AWC, which removed more than 3400 sheep.</p><br>
<h2>Landscape and climate</h2><br>
<p>The landscape consists mostly of red and white sandy plains and dunes, with claypans in low-lying areas. The highest point is 26m above sea level. It has some limestone and red sand cliff shores, like Peron Peninsula.</p><br>
<p>The vegetation is predominantly low shrubs of Acacia ramulosa. There are also mallee shrublands, spinifex grasslands, samphire/Atriplex shrublands, and coastal mangroves.</p><br>
<p>The climate is semi-arid to arid, with hot dry summers and mild winters. Rainfall is erratic, falling mainly in winter, with an annual average of 222 mm. Cyclones may sometimes bring rainfall in summer and autumn.</p><br>
<h2>Wildlife</h2><br>
<h3>Birds</h3><br>
<p>Faure Island is an important breeding area for many seabirds, as well as being important for migratory waders using the East Asian - Australasian Flyway. With the neighbouring much smaller (5 ha) Pelican Island and their associated mudflats, it has been identified as a 5821 ha Important Bird Area (IBA). The Faure and Pelican Islands (Shark Bay) IBA supports breeding colonies of fairy terns and over 1% of the world populations of red-necked stint and pied oystercatcher. Together with the nearby Quoin Bluff and Freycinet Island IBA, it supports more than 1% of the world population of pied cormorants.</p><br>
<h3>Mammals</h3><br>
<p>The original native mammal fauna of Faure Island did not survive the introduction of livestock and the presence of feral cats. However, sub-fossil evidence of the former presence of native mammals has brought reintroduction of the boodie, Shark Bay mouse, banded hare-wallaby and western barred bandicoot and greater stick-nest rat.Tom Curtis (2008) Boodie abode: Australias Faure is an island of good news for boodies, bandicoots, and banded hare wallabies.(Australian Wildlife Conservancy) Boodie abode: Australias Faure is an island of good news for boodies, bandicoots, and banded hare wallabies.</p><br>
<p>In Wildlife Conservation, v.111, no.2, 2008 March–April, p.34-41</p><br>
<h2>Marine surrounds</h2><br>
<p>The island is located within the Shark Bay Marine Park and is adjacent to both the Wooramel Seagrass Bank and the Faure Sill sandbank that is a major component in the creating of the conditions within the Hamelin Pool Marine Nature Reserve.</p><br>
<p>The Seth Peterson Cottage is a two-room lakeside cottage located in Mirror Lake State Park outside Lake Delton, Wisconsin, United States. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1958.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Wisconsin resident Seth Peterson convinced Wright, who was then 90 years old, to design a cottage for him in 1958. Peterson took his own life before the cottage was finished, and the next owners completed the work. Mirror Lake State Park was established nearby in 1962, and in 1966 the land on which the cottage stood was acquired by the state and added to the park. Away from the developed areas of the park, however, the cottage was neglected and fell into disrepair. In the late 1980s Audrey Laatsch, a local resident, noticed the run-down cabin while canoeing on Mirror Lake and became interested in the structure. Upon discovering its origin, she spearheaded a grass-roots campaign among local residents and Wright-aficionados to restore the cottage. They founded a non-profit organization, the Seth Peterson Cottage Conservancy, in 1989. Their efforts funded a $300,000, three-year restoration that included elements from Wrights original designs that had never been built. The work was finished in June 1992, the 125th anniversary of Wrights birth.</p><br>
<p>The plight of the condition of the cottage was made widely known via a 1986 Wisconsin State Journal article entitled "What Would You Do If You Owned a Frank Lloyd Wright House? P.S. You Do." While the cottage had been known to locals, this article publicized the embarrassing condition of the cottage and possibly energized the movement to rehabilitate it. The article was written by author Joyce Rogell Kult, a long-time Wright aficionado, researcher, and artist.</p><br>
<h2>Visiting</h2><br>
<p>The cottage can accommodate up to four overnight guests, up to twelve for a meeting, and 30-40 for an event. The cottage is also opened for a public tour on the second Sunday of every month.</p><br>
<p>Hammarby sjö  is a watercourse in central Stockholm, Sweden. Separating Stockholm City Centre from South Stockholm, or, more locally, Norra Hammarbyhamnen on eastern Södermalm from , it connects Saltsjön to Årstasjön.</p><br>
<p>Covering a surface of 34 hectare and having an average depth of 4,5 metres (maximum 6 metres), Hammarby sjö is supplied by a drainage area covering 159 hectares and contains 1,600,000 cubic metres of water. Originally a lake about 3 metres deep, it was transformed into a canal when connected to Saltsjön in the 1920s and a 6 metres deep channel was dug between and Saltsjön and another to . The importance of the water expanse has grown since the late 20th century as new residential areas have been constructed along its shores.</p><br>
<p>Four bridges stretch over Hammarby Sjö and connected bodies of water: Danviksbron, Skansbron, Skanstullsbron and Johanneshovsbron.</p><br>
<p>Chain Hill is the chalk downland hill directly above Wantage and also the name of the road rising from Wantage through the westerly part of the scarp to the Berkshire Downs. It rises steeply south of Wantage towards Wantage Field and back to the Ridgeway and east from Manor Road across to Lark Hill. Chain Hill is also known as the B4494 and is signposted to Newbury.</p><br>
<p>At the crest of the hill, there is a small community amid copses of beech, fir and chestnut and a reservoir which taps into the chalk water beds and supplies water to Wantage. Apart from this, most of Chain Hill is wide undulating crop plains made up of large fields descending from the ridgeway. At the bottom slopes of Chain Hill is a cemetery and then at the bottom of this, is Ormond Road and former St. Mary&#39;s School.</p><br>
<h2>Panorama</h2><br>
<p>The Chain Hill scarp appears on British Library map called Wantage and can be seen to be the closest panoramic viewpoint of both Wantage centre, the Thames Valley basin and the hill forts and beacons around.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The plains of Chain Hill were held by the King as part of the Royal Estate in Wantage as referred to by Asser in the opening paragraph of the Life of King Alfred and as also recorded in the Domesday Book. According to the Vale and Downland Museum, the current name most likely is a derivative of the French word, &#39;Chêne&#39;, meaning Oak named by a French speaking settler over the years. It may have been named in Norman times or possibly much earlier by the daughter of Charles the Bald, king of the West Franks; Princess Judith (Leotheta). If so, it would probably have been during a stay at Ælfred&#39;s birthplace in Wantage after Æthelwulf&#39;s pilgrimage to Rome and return via France with his new bride in 856. Over the years the name became &#39;Chayne Hill&#39; and then finally the &#39;y&#39; became an &#39;i&#39; and the &#39;e&#39; was dropped, and so the current name, Chain Hill, came into common use.</p><br>
<p>In the mid-19th century, Chain Hill was bought by Mr Edward Ormond; the solicitor and benefactor of Wantage Memorial Park. Prior to being named Ormond Road, the road at the foot of Chain Hill was known as Pidgeon Lane and prior to that, the Icknield Way, one of the oldest roads in Britain. On the T-junction of Chain Hill and what was the Icknield Way, there is a Norman arch leading through the wall to the historic site thought to be used for the meeting of the Witan circa 995. Latterly the site was used by the convent of the community of St Mary the Virgin as St Mary&#39;s School, Wantage.</p><br>
<h2>Archaeology</h2><br>
<p>A number of coin and sceat finds have been made at the top of Chain Hill indicating a period of settlement from the late Iron Age through to Medieval times. Of particular note was an Æthelwulf of Wessex coin, Doribi/Cant issued between AD848-851 by the Rochester mint and moneyed by Manic. The find was listed by the Portable Antiquities Scheme as of regional importance because Æthelwulf was Ælfred&#39;s father and Ælfred was born in Wantage during the period in which this coin was minted. The detailed record can be found here</p><br>
<h2>Literature</h2><br>
<p>It is quite possible to imagine, whilst sitting atop Chain Hill on a sunny day, pictures of Judith reading Beowulf to young Ælfred under the shade of an oak. With the hills of historic Wessex behind him and the plains of Mercia in front of him, it is not surprising to see G. K. Chesterton comment on how important the place would have been to him in the book London.</p><br>
<h2>Nature</h2><br>
<p>A red kite, one of the animals that inhabit Chain hill</p><br>
<h2>Events</h2><br>
<p>The Old Berks Point to Point holds one meeting each year on Easter Monday further up Chain Hill en route to West Lockinge. The point to point racing is organised by about 125 local volunteers and attracts between eight and ten thousand spectators making it one of the largest horse racing events in the area during the year.</p><br>
<p>Judarn is the name of a small lake in Bromma, a western suburb in Stockholm, Sweden. Surrounded by the forest and nature reserve Judarskogen, it stretches between Åkeshov and Södra Ängby. Three other lakes are found nearby: Kyrksjön, Lillsjön, and Råcksta Träsk. The name is etymologically associated to ljuda, the verb "to sound".</p><br>
<h2>Characteristics</h2><br>
<p>With an area of 74,000 square metres and an average depth of 2.7 metres (maximum 3.7 m), the lake contains 180,000 cubic metres of water and is supplied by a drainage area of 0.8 km². Originally supplying lake Lillsjön, Judarn today discharges into lake Mälaren. Regarded as one of the least contaminated lakes in Stockholm, Judarn receives storm water from a nearby traffic route which gives it considerable levels of lead resulting in a bathing ban, metal content otherwise being low and phosphorus levels moderate. The lake, considered as being of great recreational and natural value, is part of the nature reserve Judarskogen and has a rich flora and fauna with many aquatic plants, birds, and frogs. Its isolated location combined with low levels of chlorophyll makes Judarn one of the clearest lakes in Stockholm, and notwithstanding low levels of oxygen nutrient content is low even during winters, with raised levels of PAH and PCB in deep sediments.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Geological traces of the inland ice which withdrew from the area some 11,000 years ago are found in the moraines around the lake. The huge square blocks of stone scattered in the area are the result of the earthquakes produced by the tension caused by the retiring ice. The geologist Gerhard de Geer studied the surrounding moraine ridges, which were eventually given his name, and geological excursions are still common in the area.</p><br>
<h2>Flora</h2><br>
<p>The flora in the lake itself is reduced to a few species, including White Waterlily, Common Bladderwort, and Whorled Water-Milfoil; while others plants are found along the beaches, including Narrow Leaf Cattail, Slender Tufted-sedge, Greater Pond-sedge, Marsh Cinquefoil, Gypsywort, Yellow loosestrife, Purple Loosestrife, and Corn Mint. An isolated biotope of Greater Spearwort is found on the southern end of the lake. Among surrounding trees and bushes can be found Black Alder, Buckthorn, Grey Willow, and Bay Willow.</p><br>
<h2>Fauna</h2><br>
<p>The fauna is dominated by Gastropods, Caddisflies and dragonflies. Fishes present in the lake include Perch, Roach, and Crucian carp. Mirror Carp and Signal crayfish have been introduced in the lake, the crayfish forming a population allowing fishing. A population of Great Crested Newt has now vanished, but the City of Stockholm is planning to reintroduce them by constructing dams and ponds to recreate their natural habitat.</p><br>
<h2>Visiting</h2><br>
<p>Walks around the lake are organized regularly by Bromma borough and the Society for Nature Conservation (Svenska Naturskyddsföreningen). Nearest metro station is Åkeshov.</p><br>
<p>The Medford Carnegie Library is a two-story library building located in Medford, Oregon, United States. The building was erected in 1911  as a gift from Andrew Carnegie. The Carnegie Library building was vacated in 2004 when all services were moved to a new library building in downtown Medford.</p><br>
<p>Throughout 2009, the building was occupied by various city offices while renovations were being completed on the existing Medford city hall building. The city spent about $210,000 to have Grants Pass-based Ausland Builders Inc. refurbish about an eighth of the 16,000-square-foot structure to make way for the temporary office space in the old children&#39;s book section. The work involved seismic upgrades, insulation, new windows and ceilings.</p><br>
<p>After City Hall renovations were complete city offices relocated back and further restoration efforts continued on the Carnegie Building. To date nearly $1 million in renovations have been made to the building. The city awarded an $800,000 construction bid to S&B James Construction, based in White City, to replace the library&#39;s windows and overhaul its heating and air cooling system. The construction money came from various Oregon Department of Energy grants and federal stimulus dollars.</p><br>
<p>There are various sizes of meeting and event space available for rent. The Medford Parks and Recreation Department, 541-774-2400, currently manages use of the facility.</p><br>
<p>The Hotel Severin originally opened in 1913 as the Grand Hotel of Indianapolis. The building now stands as one of the last remaining structures in the Indianapolis Union Station Wholesale District and it is contributing property to the historic district. The hotel is located directly across Jackson Place from the Union Station  head house. Omni Severin Hotel, Indianapolis is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.</p><br>
<p>From opening in 1913 to the late 1930s, the Hotel Severin thrived on the 300 passenger trains that came in and out of Indianapolis daily. It was built by Henry Severin Jr. with help from the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway Founders Carl G. Fisher and James A. Allison.</p><br>
<p>The immense Austrian crystal chandelier hanging in the Severin Ballroom Lobby is the original chandelier from 1913. The marble staircase is also from the original hotel. Several different owners managed the hotel until it was bought by Warren M. Atkinson in 1966. Renamed the Atkinson Hotel, the building underwent a $2.5 million renovation. Mansur Development Corporation bought the Atkinson Hotel in July 1988 and after a $40 million high profile restoration, the hotel reopened as the Omni Severin Hotel. with the renovation of the original hotel and the additional rooms, the hotel now boasts sixty different guest room configurations which add to the character and uniqueness of the property. The original 1913 mailbox still serves as the working mailbox in the hotel today. Other visible items from the original Hotel Severin are the furniture pieces located on each elevator landing of the hotel. These pieces were dressers from the guest rooms of the Hotel Severin. Today, the Omni Severin Hotel is the city&#39;s only remaining "grand hotel" and continues to be a proud, historic landmark amidst the downtown renaissance. The Omni Severin Hotel is the oldest and longest operating hotel in downtown Indianapolis.</p><br>
<p>The Omni Severin Hotel has 424 guest rooms with meeting and banquet facilities. The hotel is a member of the Omni Hotels chain.</p><br>
<p>Yucuita  is an archaeological site located in the Mixtec municipality of San Juan Yucuita in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It was founded by the Mixtec civilization in the pre-Classic Period as a small village dedicated to agriculture and obsidian.</p><br>
<p>Because of its antiquity and its long-term continuous occupation (from the fourteenth century BCE to the ninth century CE), Yucuita is one of the most studied Mixtec archaeological sites.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Located in a small plain of Oaxaca&#39;s Sierra Mixteca, Yucuita is some 86 km northeast of the city of Oaxaca, the capital of the state.</p><br>
<p>Although the precolumbian Mixtecs were not characterized by monumental architecture, in Yucuita there are two architectonic complexes that have been the object of numerous investigations since the 1930s, when Esteban Avendaño explored the zone (1933). The most recent excavations at the site were in 1976-80 by the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).</p><br>
<p>One of these complexes was dedicated to the living quarters of the governing elite. It consists of a platform constructed on the slope of a hill. The platform supports the remains of living quarters set around a central patio. The second complex was a ceremonial center, of which only part of the platform and two long walls remain. One wall is 70 m long by 4 m high (230 ft by 13 ft). At right angles to it is another wall, 52 m long. On the northern side of the first wall is a narrow stairway leading to the top of the platform. Near the stairway is a narrow tunnel roughly 60 m in length, which served for drainage and as a passageway.</p><br>
<p>Caumasee  is a lake near Flims, in the Grisons, Switzerland. It is one of the lakes on the Flims Rockslide deposits. The lake is fed from underground sources. Its surface area is 10.3194 ha.</p><br>
<p>The level of the lake varies by approximately 4 to 5 meters along with the varying underground water flow during the year, hence reaches its minimum by the end of April when snow melting in the mountains increases. A maximum level is reached by mid July but may be topped in August even after previous falling due to summer rain. The very western bay never freezes in winter, probably showing a maximum water flow in this area.</p><br>
<p>When the lake is at a low level, with a small volume of water, it warms up sooner than most lakes in the region, so people can be seen starting to swim the lake in April while bigger lakes even in lower areas of Switzerland remain rather cool. Water temperature in summer is at an average 21 Celsius, with a maximum around 24 Celsius.</p><br>
<p>The lake is located in a huge Forest that was allowed to remain on the agriculturally useless debris area of the biggest prehistoric rockslide in the alps region and can only be reached by a footpath (wheelchair accessible), possibly using a funicular built in 1939, refurbished in 1988 on its original tracks (running May to October only). The walk from the edge of town to the funicular takes about 10 minutes.</p><br>
<h2>Flow System</h2><br>
<p>As close as 500 yards to the Caumasee is another dell and altering lake, called Lag Tuleritg, which is just about level to the Caumasee; it is just 18 Meters higher. This lake dries out completely in autumn and remains empty until being filled by a small river of just about 800m in length, covering some 100 meters difference in altitude. That river will start flowing around May, depending on temperatures and snow melt rate in the mountains. Its origin is another lake, Lag Prau Pulté, which is fed by underground water only in spring, disappearing in autumn and staying dry all winter. During a cold period in spring, water that entered the basin of this lake may disappear again as snow melt decreases and all water remains in the underground flow. Due to its origin, the water of both lakes is grey all summer until the level starts to go down in autumn. In Lag Prau Pulte one can see another special effect caused by air being forced out of the underground; this is causing the lake not only to remain grey but to frequently produce bubbles and therefore different colours can be seen on the surface.</p><br>
<p>The flow system has been severely attacked by building the Flims Bypass Tunnel when engineers decided to divert some 800 Litres per minute of underground water flow out of the tunnel instead of sealing it into the rock. Further changes occurred when the basin that fills with water every year, was slightly altered. Since 2011 additional water is being fed near the tunnel into the river running from Lag Prau Pulte to Lag Tuleritg to compensate the water loss in the underground system.</p><br>
<p>A fourth Lake, Crestasee, is also fed by underground water but retains a constant level all year.</p><br>
<p>Iron Crag is a mountain in the English Lake District, standing between Crag Fell and Caw Fell. The name of the fell is the source of some confusion, as the summit is unnamed on Ordnance Survey maps. Iron Crag apparently refers to the rocky outcrop below the summit, while the lower slopes are referred to as Ennerdale Fell. The Western aspect of the lower slopes, facing Ennerdale Water are known as The Side.</p><br>
<h2>Topography</h2><br>
<p>Iron Crag is separated from Caw Fell by an unnamed col at the watershed of Bleaberry Gill and Silvercove Beck. The Western slopes are separated by a much shallower col leading to Whoap. The gentler southern aspect, which is covered by rough grassland, covers a roughly triangular area, bordered on the South by Caw Fell and Bleaberry Gill, and on the West by Lank Rigg and Whoap. The Ennerdale Wall, running over the length of the ridge, marks a striking transition in vegetation, with the Northern slopes of Iron Cragg being mostly carpeted by heather.</p><br>
<h2>Summit and view</h2><br>
<p>The true summit, marked by a small cairn, is on the Northern aspect of the Ennerdale Wall</p><br>
<h2>Ascents</h2><br>
<p>From the Fell Road at Kinniside, a track known as the Black Potts road leads Eastwards for around three miles, past Blakeley Raise, Grike and Crag Fell before ending at the lower slopes of Boat How. From here, the Ennerdale Wall can be followed to the summit area of Iron Crag.</p><br>
<h2>Crashed Aircraft</h2><br>
<p>The remains of a Royal Canadian Air Force Sabre Mk6 (23380), which crashed on 26 June 1959, can be found close to the summit of Iron Crag</p><br>
<p>Mount Azuma-kofuji is an active stratovolcano in Fukushima prefecture, Japan.</p><br>
<p>It has a conical-shaped crater and as the name "Kofuji" (small Mount Fuji) suggests, the shape of Mount Azuma is like that of Mount Fuji. Mount Azuma&#39;s appealing symmetrical crater and the nearby fumarolic area with its many onsen have made it a popular tourist destination.</p><br>
<p>The Bandai-Azuma Skyline passes just below the crater, allowing visitors to drive to within walking distance of the crater and other various hiking trails on the mountain. There is also a visitor center along the roadway near the crater, where a collection of eateries, facilities, a parking lot, and a stop for buses from Fukushima Station are located.</p><br>
<p>The Azuma volcanic group contains several volcanic lakes, including Goshiki-numa, the Five Colored Lakes.</p><br>
<p>Each Spring, as the snow melts away, a white rabbit appears on the side of Mount Azuma. The melting snow shaped like a rabbit is known as the seeding rabbit and signals to the people of Fukushima that the farming season has come.</p><br>
<p>Brady Heights is a historic district in Tulsa, Oklahoma that was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1980, as Brady Heights Historic District. It was Tulsa’s first district to be listed in the Register. According to the NRHP documentation, it is the most complete pre-1920 neighborhood surviving in Tulsa. Its boundaries are Marshall Street to the north, the alley between Cheyenne Avenue and Main Street on the east, Fairview Street on the south, and the Osage Expressway right-of-way on the west. At listing, it included 250 contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>From territorial days until the 1920s, Brady Heights was an important part of the then fashionable north side of Tulsa. Professionals and businessmen like G. Y. Vandever (owner of Vandever&#39;s department store), I. S. Mincks (initial owner of the Mincks-Adams Hotel), architect George Winkler and “Diamond Joe” Wilson, owned homes there.</p><br>
<p>The area derives its name from entrepreneur W. Tate Brady, who owned the land now covered by the addition which bears his name. Many architectural styles have influenced the design of Brady Heights. Architects and builders used elements of Queen Anne, Prairie School, Victorian, Georgian Revival and Bungalow styles. Wood and brick are the most common exterior materials. The houses of Brady Heights are on a larger scale and of a more sophisticated design than those of adjacent neighborhoods. Bay windows with leaded glass, servants’ quarters, and broad porches suggest the elegance of earlier days.</p><br>
<p>The development differs from later Tulsa neighborhoods in that it is more eclectic. The district also includes two Dutch Colonial houses and a 1920 neoclassic mansion.</p><br>
<p>It was listed under National Register Criteria C, for its architecture.</p><br>
<p>Owen Park is a residential neighborhood and historic district in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Its borders are Edison Avenue on the north, the municipal Owen Park on the east, the Keystone Expressway  on the south, and Zenith Avenue on the west. Opened on June 8, 1910, it was Tulsa&#39;s first municipal park. The district covers 163.48 acres, while Owen Park itself covers 24 acres on the east side of the District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The history of the Owen Park neighborhood can be traced back to early territorial days. In 1825, preparing for the arrival of the Five Civilized Tribes in the Indian Territory, the USA Government made a treaty with the Osage Indians. The Osage conceded lands for the use of the Cherokee and Creek Tribes. Though the Osage were to vacate their land in Oklahoma, they were still present in 1832 when USA Rangers arrived with civilian observers. Among them was Washington Irving, perhaps the best known American author of the time. On October 14, the party was traveling to their camp destination at the convergence of the Cimarron and Arkansas Rivers. Pausing briefly at a lookout point, Irving enjoyed the panorama from the hilltop in the Owen Park neighborhood. The descriptions of the view can be found in his book, Tour of the Prairies. A monument to this event stands at the corner of Easton Boulevard and Vancouver Avenue.</p><br>
<p>By 1834, the Osage Tribe had been convinced to move to a reservation in Kansas. Following this period, it has been suggested that Owen Park was the location of a Creek settlement called Big Springs Town. After the Civil War, the Osage were relocated back to the land which is now Osage County. The point where the Osage, Cherokee and Creek Nations joined is commemorated by a monument in Owen Park.</p><br>
<p>A Methodist missionary minister, Rev. Sylvester Morris, built a house in the early 1880s that now stands in Tulsa&#39;s Owen Park. Originally, it stood on what became North Cheyenne St. Morris served from 1836 until 1907, according to a sign in front of the house. This is the oldest surviving house in Tulsa.</p><br>
<h2>Chauncey Owen</h2><br>
<p>No account of the historical significance of Owen Park would be complete without homage being paid to the man for which it is named. Chauncey A. Owen (1847 - 1930), a Pennsylvanian entrepreneur and Civil War veteran, conducted a freighting business in Kansas before coming to Indian Territory and marrying Jane Wolfe, a Creek woman. During the 1870s, Owen established himself as a leading rancher and farmer in the Broken Arrow area. Using imported white labor, he planted peach trees, cultivated large areas of fertile land, owned herds of cattle and harvested walnut timber on the Verdigris. He built a ranch home known throughout the region as the “Big House.”</p><br>
<p>In 1882, the railroad was on the way from Vinita across the Verdigris to the Arkansas River. Owen followed the railroad grading work, hauling a large tent. He used the tent as a boarding establishment. With beef and produce from his farm, he supplied hundreds of rail workers, including James Monroe Hall and his brother, Harry C. Hall. James was in charge of the railroad contracting company and Harry was one of the contracting suppliers. Although the Hall brothers are considered to be the founders of modern Tulsa, Chauncey Owen was already in the boardinghouse business at the nearby riverbank. After pitching the company store tent near the future terminal site on that summer evening in 1882, the Halls made their way to Owen’s tent to sample his wife’s home cooking.</p><br>
<p>Owen immediately moved his tent boardinghouse near the new terminal location, and soon after began to build the first hotel in Tulsa. The six-room wood frame building was also Tulsa’s first two-story building. Appropriately named the Tulsa Hotel, it began business in the winter of 1882. The hotel was managed by Mrs. Owen (aka "Aunt Jane") and until 1890, when it was leased and renamed the St. Elmo.</p><br>
<p>In 1892, Owen leased 80 acre of his wife’s Creek land to J. P. Goumaz, who built a home at Brady Street and Santa Fe Avenue. Around 1895, the Goumaz family planted 7,000 peach trees, an apple orchard, strawberry fields, and established a large concord grape vineyard from the top of the hill east to Quanah Avenue. Some remnants of the vineyard are still evident on alley fences.</p><br>
<h2>Creation of Owen Park</h2><br>
<p>Chauncey Owen’s wife, Jane, died in 1902. Her heirs received an allotment of 160 acre from the Creek Nation, which encompassed the present Owen Park and neighborhood. In the early twentieth century, the lands of Owen Park were often used for public events, even before the park received official designation. Fourth of July celebrations took place there, with firework displays entertaining crowds who sometimes numbered in the thousands.</p><br>
<p>Following the discovery of oil in the summer of 1901 at Red Fork, Tulsa began to rapidly grow and prosper. Owen wanted to divide and sell his land, but at over an acre, there was scant public interest. Perhaps he believed he could capitalize on the growing recreational movement in the country. He offered more than 20 acre of park land to the city. In March 1909, the city held its first Park Commission meeting and, by August 18, 1909, decided to purchase the land from Chauncey and Mary Owen for $13,500. The decision met with criticism due to the land’s price and distance from downtown. In those days, many considered it to be too far out in the country. Most were placated, though, when it was announced that a streetcar line would be run to the park, running west on Archer and turning north on Rosedale to Easton Boulevard. Owen Park officially opened on June 8, 1910.</p><br>
<p>Also in 1910, the city sold 5 acre of the park land to the nearby Tulsa Vitrified Brick Company, located at the southeast edge of the park. Owen attempted to prohibit the sale. He contended that the brick company would “excavate large quantities of earth which will make a dangerous hole for the accumulation of water and the production of sickness...” and would be a “detriment to the health and comfort of the citizens.” He lost an appeal to the State Supreme Court, who held that the deed did not specify that the land would be used for park purposes only. Owen’s concern proved to be prophetic when a young lad drowned in the abandoned brick pit in 1954. The city soon moved to repurchase and fill the pit. The reclaimed property was again added to the park.</p><br>
<p>In 1913, the ravine in Owen Park was dammed to create a small lake which was used as a city swimming pool, although “swimmin hole” was probably a more appropriate name. In spite of annual efforts each spring to line the pond with sand hauled by wagons from Sand Springs, it was never long before rains and usage negated those attempts. The muddy bottom, however, did not detract from its popularity. The major problem occurred when bathers, jumping from the twelve-foot tower, sometimes missed the diving hole. Lifeguards would then be called upon to rescue victims stuck in the mud. During the winter, the lake served as a skating rink. Its use as a swimming pool continued through the 1920s. Today, bathing and skating are prohibited, but fishing is a popular pastime and the lake is home to a thriving population of ducks and geese.</p><br>
<p>By 1915, the neighborhood was growing rapidly. The boulevard had been paved and the Irving monument was dedicated on April 30. An advertisement in the Tulsa World on July 4 announced that, “Lots are going fast in Tulsa’s most beautiful residence suburb—Irving Place and Park Hill.” The oil boom that had made many wealthy also provided abundant jobs for a burgeoning middle class. New homes were in high demand and residential construction progressed rapidly. By the end of the 1920s, the lots were filled with homes ranging from craftsman bungalows to estate mansions. Schools had been built in the neighborhood. In 1918, Pershing Elementary was built on the hilltop and, in 1926, Theodore Roosevelt Junior High was built on 8 acre of land adjoining the park on the south.</p><br>
<h2>General description</h2><br>
<p>OPHD is primarily residential. There are a few commercial buildings, one historic church, an elementary school and a junior high school. The houses were mostly wood frame with weather board siding. Some houses had shingles, stucco, brick veneer and stone veneer. Nearly all originally had wood shingle roofs, though a few had tile roofs. The shingle roofs have been replaced with asphalt composition roofs. About 70 percent of the houses were built in Bungalow Craftsman style. About 6 percent of the houses are Colonial Revival style, which was the second most popular style. Other styles include Tudor Revival (2 percent), Mission/Spanish Colonial Revival, Italian Renaissance, Modern Movement/Minimal Traditional, National Folk, and Commercial Style. A significant number (about 7 percent) are primarily garage apartments, categorized as "No Style."</p><br>
<h2>NRHP listing</h2><br>
<p>Owen Park Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 9, 1999.</p><br>
<p>Kyrksjön  is a small lake in Bromma, a western suburb in Stockholm, Sweden. Named after its vicinity to the old church Bromma kyrka, the lake was made part of the nature reserve Kyrksjölöten in 1997. Three other lakes are located near Kyrksjön: Judarn, Lillsjön, and Råcksta Träsk.</p><br>
<h2>Characteristics</h2><br>
<p>With an area of 6,7 hectares and average depth of 1,5 metres (maximum 2,5 metres), Kyrkosjön contains 80,000 cubic metres of water and is supplied by a drainage area of 48 hectares. The lake is thus small and shallow, with no feeder or storm water conduit connected to it. The lake is surrounded by one of the biggest broadleaf forest in Stockholm rich in various species of birds, batrachians, and bats. Levels of phosphorus and nitrogen have decreased since the 1980s. Metal levels are low and the waters are moderately clear. Two bathe are located at Kyrkosjön, which is considered to be of significant recreational and natural value. Sewers from a nearby allotment-garden and a traffic route produces some input flow, but normally not enough to even produce an outflow. Historically considerably larger, Kyrksjön used to extend well into the Spånga parish and its outflow used to discharge through a nine metres tall white water. The lake was lowered to the present level in 1863 which resulted in today&#39;s stagnant lake, notwithstanding later attempts to reopen the outflow.</p><br>
<h2>Flora and fauna</h2><br>
<p>Moderate levels of algae are commons in late summer, principally golden algae and carapace algae (Ceratium hirudinella), while zooplankton (such as Rotifer and Copepod) are relatively rare). Aquatic plants are relatively few, the lake floor is mostly covered by Charales such as Chara tomentosa (present since the mid 19th century), accompanied by bladderwort, milfoils, and others. Along the shores are found Carex pseudocyperus, purple loosestrife, milk parsley, and lesser bulrush. Trees around the lake include black alder and grey willow. Bottom specimens taken in July 1996 mostly unveiled larvae of chironomids, Oligochaeta, and empty shells - typical for lakes rich in nutrients but poor in oxygen. Specimens taken along the shores the same year resulted in reports of mayflies, caddisflies, and dragonflies. Fish population has been decimated by low levels of oxygen and is now reduced to Crucian carp.</p><br>
<p>Birds reported include Eurasian coot, great crested grebe, tufted duck, common moorhen, pochard, and Slavonian grebe. The dense vegetation surrounding the lake contains nightingales, blackcaps and marsh warblers hiding from sparrowhawks, goshawks, and tawny owls. The lake is also an important breeding ground for frogs, including common frog, moor frog, and common toad. The presence of great crested newt is threatened and all frog species are protected by law. Grass snake was observed in 1996. Surrounding buildings and deciduous forest forms a great habitat for bats such as northern bat, soprano pipistrelle, Daubenton&#39;s bat, and Nyctalus.</p><br>
<p>The Dunantspitze , formerly called Ostspitze , is a peak of the Monte Rosa Massif in the Pennine Alps in Switzerland. It is the second highest peak of the massif, after the Dufourspitze  and the second highest summit in Switzerland, but its prominence is only about 15 metres. At the time of its first ascent it was unclear which of the summits was the higher.</p><br>
<h2>Naming</h2><br>
<p>Dunantspitze and Dufourspitze were originally just the eastern and western summits (Ostspitze and Westspitze) of the Gornerhorn. Westspitze was renamed Dufourspitze in 1863 in honour of Guillaume-Henri Dufour, while Ostspitze retained its name until October 2014. It was then renamed Dunantspitze in honour of Henry Dunant, the Swiss founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in 1863.</p><br>
<h2>First ascents</h2><br>
<p>The first approaches to the Gornerhorn were made from the northern slopes over the Gorner glacier via the Silbersattel (4,510 m). This pass was first reached on August 12, 1847, by the Zermatt guides Matthias and Johann Zumtaugwald/zum Taugwald, Johann Brantschen and Joseph Moser guiding the French professors Victor Puisieux and Edouard Ordinaire. Precisely a year later (12 August 1848), Johann Madutz from Matt, Glarus, and Matthias Zumtaugwald guided the Swiss theologian :de:Melchior Ulrich to the pass for an ascent of the highest summit. Ulrich had to give up, but the guides proceeded to climb to what they thought to be the Ostspitze and established a new altitude record in Switzerland (which since 1820 had been held at 4,563 m by the climbers of the Zumsteinspitze). The descent over the same route was so tricky that Madutz at places had to lower down Zumtaugwald by rope. Three years later, on 22 August 1851, Johann Zumtaugwald returned, with Peter Taugwalder and Peter Inderbinen and the Swiss botanist brothers Adolf and Hermann Schlagintweit to repeat this ascent. They did not dare to traverse to the western summit, which the Schlagintweits measured to be 7 meters higher.</p><br>
<p>In 1891, W.A.B. Coolidge analyzed these ascents and concluded that both parties had reached the 4,618 m Grenzgipfel instead, which is a mere 50 meters to the east of Dunantspitze, an idea adopted by the Alpine historian Gottlieb Studer in 1899. Coolidge transferred the honor of first climbing Dunantspitze to the brothers Christopher, Edmund and James G. Smyth from Great Yarmouth and unnamed guides, who reached it on 1 September 1854, also from the Silbersattel. (The guides were Ulrich Lauener from Lauterbrunnen and Matthias and Johann Zumtaugwald.) Two more parties reached the Ostspitze within two weeks, each time with Zumtaugwald brothers as guides. The 1870 Siegfried Map, current in Coolidge and Studers time, shows Grenzgipfel to be exactly 7 meters lower than the Ostspitze and Dufourspitze, perhaps helping Coolidge to make his assessment. The real, 14 m height difference (a ~24° instead of 12° angle from Grenzspitze) and the presence of Zumtaugwalds at every ascent suggest a weakness in Coolidges argument, and modern writers like Pusch, Dumler and Burkhardt assume that the 1848 and 1851 ascendants reached Dunantspitze after all.</p><br>
<p>The first traverse of the entire summit ridge (Grenzgipfel (4,618 m) – Dunantspitze (4,632 m) – Dufourspitze (4,634 m)) was by Ferdinand Imseng, Gabriel Spechtenhauser, Giovanni Oberto, Richard Pendlebury, William Pendlebury and Charles Taylor, on July 23, 1872. This party had made the first ascent, earlier in the day, of the Macugnaga face.</p><br>
<p>The Parrotspitze   is a peak in the Pennine Alps of Italy and Switzerland. It is located south of Dufourspitze in the Monte Rosa Massif. The mountain is named after Johann Jakob Friedrich Wilhelm Parrot, a German doctor, who made an attempt on the Piramide Vincent with Joseph Zumstein in 1816.</p><br>
<p>The first ascent was made by Reginald S. Macdonald, Florence Crauford Grove, Montagu Woodmass and William Edward Hall with guides Melchior Anderegg and Peter Perren on 16 August 1863, four days after the same partys (with an extra guide) first ascent of the nearby Dent dHérens.</p><br>
<p>The previous year, on 8 July 1862, a party comprising A. W. Moore and Hereford Brooke George (the first editor of the Alpine Journal) with guides Christian Almer and Matthias Zumtaugwald climbed the east spur of the Parrotspitze (the British Route) but made straight over the frontier to Switzerland, not bothering to climb the final 60 metres to the summit.</p><br>
<p>The Signalkuppe  also known as Punta Gnifetti   is a peak in the Pennine Alps on the border between Italy and Switzerland. It is a subpeak of Monte Rosa. The mountain is named after the Signal, a prominent gendarme atop the east ridge, named Cresta Signal.</p><br>
<p>The first ascent was made by Giovanni Gnifetti, a parish priest from Alagna Valsesia, together with J. Farinetti, C. Ferraris, C. Grober, J. and G. Giordiano and their porters on 9 August 1842.</p><br>
<p>The highest hut in Europe, the Margherita Hut (named after Italy&#39;s Queen consort Margherita of Savoy) lies on the summit of the mountain. Work started in 1890, supported by the Italian crown, and Queen Margherita opened it in 1893. The new hut, effectively a high-altitude Faraday cage, is clad in sheet copper to shield against unwanted electrical fields.</p><br>
<p>Sun Yat Sen Memorial House or Memorial House of Dr. Sun Yat Sen is a museum located in São Lázaro, Macau, China where former family members and relatives of Sun Yat-sen, the &#39;Father of Modern China&#39; used to live. The House bears witness to his short but significant stay in Macau in the early 20th century where Macau serve as the starting point for Dr. Sun&#39;s travels around the world; it also act as an important venue in which he conducted revolutionary activities and finally as the ideal place he chose to settle his family in later years.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Known formerly as "Mansion of Sun", the House was built in 1912 as residence for his first wife, Lu Muzhen. It is located within walking distance of Lou Lim Ieoc Garden where Dr. Sun once stay during his later visits to Macau in 1912. Designed in mock-moorish style, the House is a three-storey high building with ornate verandahs and spacious courtyards.</p><br>
<p>Lu Muzhen settled down in the House in 1913 with their two daughters, Sun Yan (孙延), Sun Wan (孙琬) and son Sun Ke at Dr. Sun&#39;s request. She lived in Macau for 40 years before passing away at the age of 85 on 7 September 1952. A son-in-law of hers and a granddaughter lived over a long period of time and died in Macau too. Another notable mention is Dr. Sun&#39;s elder brother Sun Mei (孙眉) and his wife moved to Macau in 1913 and settled in together with Lu Muzhen, where he conducted business and organised a fishermen&#39;s association in Macau. Sun Mei died in Macau at the age of 60 on 11 February 1915.</p><br>
<p>Macau is a fusion of Chinese and Western culture that stretches back to the 16th century when it was opened up as a harbour for trade with the West. Dr. Sun&#39;s former residence in the village of Cuiheng, Xiangshan County in China is only 37 kilometres from Macau. Both Cuiheng and Macau were historically under the sway of Xiangshan County before gradually succumbing to the occupation of the Portuguese in the second half of 19th century.</p><br>
<p>Dr. Sun&#39;s father, Sun Dacheng was a Macau resident. He arrived in Macau at the age of 16 to work as a cobbler in a shoe shop in Largo do S. Domingos before returning to his hometown 16 years later to farm and marry a year later to Lady Yang, Dr. Sun&#39;s mother. In 1879, she took 13-year-old Dr. Sun to Macau and he consequently became familiar with the territory. From whence he accompanied his mother on his first sea voyage on board the British iron ship S.S. Grannock bound for Honolulu in Hawaii to embark upon a western education. In 1884, five years after his first voyage, the young man went abroad again by ship from Macau once more. Subsequently, Macau was to serve as the starting point for Dr. Sun to leave his own country and travel around the world.</p><br>
<h3>Medical practice</h3><br>
<p>At the age of 26, Sun Yat-Sen graduated from the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese. In 1892, Dr. Sun was invited by Kiang Wu Hospital in Macau to set up the Western Medicine Department as a voluntary doctor and diagnosed patients for free. He became the first Chinese doctor to practice Western medicine in Macau. With borrowed funds from the hospital, he subsequently opened the Chinese-Western Medicine Joint Clinic in Rua das Estalagens and was well known for his outstanding medical skills and enjoyed widespread admiration in the community.</p><br>
<h3>Revolutionary activities</h3><br>
<p>Whilst studying at the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, the young Dr. Sun constantly travelled between Hong Kong and Macau to criticise the corruption of the Qing regime and agitated for revolution to save the country. He, along with Chan Siu-bak, Yau Lit and Yeung Hok-ling, were known as the Si Da Kou (Four Bandits). During this period, Sun Yat-Sen made many revolutionary statements and his first great essay—Letter to Zheng Zaoru—in his anthology was published by a Macau newspaper in 1890.</p><br>
<p>During the Chinese Revolutionary Party years straddling 1915, Sun Yat-Sen and his associates regarded Macau as an important base for their defensive activities in Southern China. The Chinese in Macau provided valuable support for Dr. Sun at all times and supported his revolutionary enterprises materially and spiritually. The support from them and the overseas Chinese was an important chapter of the Chinese republican revolution. Dr. Sun also made frequent contact with the renowned thinker, reformer and entrepreneur Zheng Guanying (郑观应). Later, two of his earlier essays were incorporated in Zheng&#39;s Sheng Shi Wei Yan ("Warnings to a Prosperous Age"), a collection of his works that act as a welcome boost to Dr. Sun fledging revolutionary aspirations.</p><br>
<p>While making revolutionary plans in Macau, Dr. Sun maintained good relationships not only with the Chinese in Macau but also with Portuguese lawyers. Dr. Sun during his studies in Hong Kong made the acquaintance of Francisco Hermenegildo Fernandes, a Macanese working as clerk in the Hong Kong Courts, where he served as Chinese interpreter. Fernandes&#39; family was in the printing industry in Macau. In July 1893, Fernandes set up Macau&#39;s first weekly Chinese newspaper, Echo Macaense (Ching-Hai Tsung-Pao), from which news about Sun Yat-Sen&#39;s medical practice in Macau and his early revolutionary activities gained ongoing coverage. As a Macanese, Fernandes accepted democratic ideology prevalent in Western countries at that time, and thus he was sympathetic towards, and supported Dr. Sun&#39;s revolutionary cause. A deep friendship consequently blossomed between them. Fernandes died in 1923 and was interred in Macau&#39;s Cemiterio S. Miguel Arcanjo.</p><br>
<p>On 13 February 1912, Sun Yat-Sen resigned his position as provisional President of the Republic of China and conducted an inspection tour of China to invigorate its development, visiting Macau in May 1912 and June 1913. In May 1919, Sun Yat-Sen expelled the warlord Gui Xi (Guizhou military clique) in Guangdong and assigned his son Sun Ke to set up an office at the Rua de Inacio Baptista No. 10 to plan and agitate on behalf of the Constitutional Protection Movement. In 1922, Sun Yat-Sen supported the anti-tyranny wishes of the Chinese people of Macau and received a petition delegation from Macau workers in Guangzhou to make every effort to defend the Macau populace.</p><br>
<h3>Lou Lim Ieoc Garden</h3><br>
<p>In May 1912, Sun accepted the invitation by Chinese businessmen to pay a return visit to Macau. It had been 17 years since he first visited the territory. He was warmly received by the Chinese and Portuguese communities in Macau then. Accompanied by his beloved eldest daughter, Sun Wan, he spend two nights at the Spring Herb Hall (former name of Lou Lim Ieoc Garden) built earlier by business man Lou Lim Ieoc, who was the Chairman of Kiang Wu Hospital.</p><br>
<p>Sun Yat-Sen was too occupied by military affairs to return to Macau after 1913 but nevertheless remained in close contact with Macau. Sun Yat-Sen died in Beijing on 12 March 1925. Over 20,000 people (one fifth of the city&#39;s population then) in Macau attended the solemn memorial ceremony held at Kiang Wu Hospital on 29 March 1925. Since his passing, Macau has hosted large-scale ceremonies over the decades to commemorate the birthday of Dr. Sun and the Xinhai Revolution. In November 2006, a photographic commemoration exhibition was organised by the Macau Government Tourist Board and Macau History Association in his honour. In addition, Macau has dedicated three grand statues of Dr. Sun and has named one memorial hall, one garden and two new roads after him too.</p><br>
<h2>The Memorial House today</h2><br>
<p>In 1933, the House was reconstructed and was renamed to its present name in 1958. A full-length bronze statue of Dr. Sun in the courtyard was cast by his Japanese friend Shōkichi Umeya in 1934. Three other identical bronze statues of Dr. Sun now stand at Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in Nanjing, the Whampoa Military Academy and the Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou.</p><br>
<p>The House is currently open to the public which showcases his books, letters, photographs, personal belongings and old newspapers accounts of his life and the Chinese republican revolution which finally overthrew the regime of the Qing Dynasty in 1911.</p><br>
<p>Råcksta Träsk  is a small lake in the western suburbs of Stockholm, Sweden. Notwithstanding its location in the vicinity of the Swedish capital and high levels of lead and copper, the lake is considered as an important breeding ground for frogs, of moderate interest to pleasure fishing, and of minor interest for birds. There are three other small lakes located nearby: Judarn, Kyrksjön, and Lillsjön.</p><br>
<h2>Catchment area</h2><br>
<p>The catchment area is mostly composed of forest and open terrain part of the Grimsta nature reserve, with several minor wetlands. 20 percent of the catchment area is composed of residential buildings and 10 per cent of roads. 300 metres downstream is a historical mill administrated by a society devoted to local culture and history (Vällingby hembygdsförening) with limited means to regulate the water level. West of the lake is a grass-grown peak composed of excavated material from the construction of the suburbs Vällingby and Hässelby. Several heavily trafficked roads and a metro track passes above ground through the catchment area. 7 hectares of the area is occupied by the Råcksta Crematorium and its cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The lake and the surrounding area is regarded as of great recreational value. Pathways were arranged around the lake in the 1970s, angling is popular, and, occasionally, a skating-rink is ploughed on the lake during winters.</p><br>
<h3>Environmental influence</h3><br>
<p>Local storm water pipes, occasionally fouled with oil of unknown origin, produces most of the affluent, with remaining contributions coming from local roads and run-off from residential areas, the latter bringing mostly nutrients to the lake with minor contributions of zinc and copper (from roofs). High levels of phosphorus have been recorded during late winters and summer. Reports in 1991-1997 of metal content in lake sediments noted moderate levels of copper, the highest levels of lead in any lake in Stockholm, and raised levels of organic compounds such as PAHs and PCB in lower sediments. Levels of copper in the water table were reported as 50 times national median value.</p><br>
<h2>Flora and fauna</h2><br>
<p>Phytoplankton content in August is mostly composed of green algae, with minor populations of diatom and golden algae, and no presence of cyanobacteria. Among Zooplankton the most common is various species of rotifers, with occurrence of copepods, bosminidae, and ciliates.</p><br>
<p>The number of aquatic plants is relatively small, with the lake floor dominated by rigid hornwort, and free-floating plants including Lemna minor, yellow water-lily, white waterlily, broad-leaved pondweed, and amphibious bistort. Along the shores are Alisma, slender tufted-sedge, cyperus-like sedge, reed sweet-grass, yellow iris, purple loosestrife, Phragmites, Rorippa amphibia, and many others. Common trees found around the lake include black alder and grey sallow.</p><br>
<p>An examination in 1996 showed the fish stock is dominated by crucian carp accompanied by populations of perch, roach, tench, and common carp. Introduction of trout and rainbow trout was made in 1992. The signal crayfish is known to exist in the lake.</p><br>
<p>Bird life at the lake was abundant before the lake was dredged in 1973. Since then it has been reduced but has a stable population of mute swan, mallard, reed bunting, and common moorhen.</p><br>
<p>The area is an important breeding locale for common frog and common toad, both species being protected and classified as of local and regional interest.</p><br>
<h2>Visiting</h2><br>
<p>Guided tours in the area by foot or bike are frequently arranged by the city and the Society for Nature Conservation. Nearest metro station is Råcksta.</p><br>
<p>The Legges Tor is the summit of the Ben Lomond mountain range in northeast Tasmania, Australia.</p><br>
<p>It is the second highest mountain in Tasmania and named after William Vincent Legge who explored the region. It is an unimposing feature on the plateau, being a rocky knoll behind the more spectacular cliffs of Giblin Fells, yet as the summit of the national park it is a popular destination with bushwalkers. A walking track leads to the summit from the ski village and from Carr Villa hut in the northern foothills of Ben Lomond.</p><br>
<p>Before Legges Tor was surveyed, Stacks Bluff (at the plateau&#39;s southern extremity) was thought to be the highest elevation on the Ben Lomond plateau. From 1905 to 1912 a full survey of Ben Lomond was conducted by Legge and his survey party.</p><br>
<p>The survey party explored the highlands on the north of the plateau in 1907. Legge had long suspected that the north of the plateau was higher than the trigonometric station on Stacks Bluff although it is less obviously elevated from casual observation. Moreover, the area was, at the time, an area so remote and unexplored that Legge described it as untrodden as the distant ranges of the west coast.</p><br>
<p>Lyndhurst Giblin, a member of legges survey party, climbed and measured the true summit and named it after Legge and, in turn, the prominent bluff to the south of the summit was named for Giblins father - Giblin Fells.</p><br>
<p>The Connelly-Yerwood House, is an Eastlake-style cottage located in Austin, Texas. The structure was built in 1904 for Kate and Michael Connelly and their four children. In addition to his occupation as a stonemason and bricklayer, Connelly owned the Silver King Saloon at 307 E. Sixth Street. Eventually the population of the neighborhood began to change, as communities served by Samuel Huston College and St. Peter&#39;s M.E. Church were moving into the area. In 1926 the Connellys sold their home to an African-American doctor, Charles R. Yerwood, and his wife Nan.</p><br>
<p>The Yerwoods divorced but Nan Yerwood continued to live in the house; she sold the south portion of the lot where their garage was located; three homes were later constructed on this lot. Daughter Connie Yerwood Odom later occupied the house. Prominent in the public health field in Texas, Dr. Connie Yerwood achieved many "first" - as a woman and as an African-American. Following Dr. Connie Yerwood, other family members owned and occupied the house through the 1990s when the structure and land was purchased by Anderson Community Development Corporation.</p><br>
<p>In the late 1920s or early 1930s the house was enlarged to nine rooms, the original rear porch enclosed and the west half extended to include the present kitchen and dining room. Additional changes occurred in the 1950s when two bathrooms and a bedroom were added. The exterior was also altered when the front porch was shortened and pink composition siding with green trim was applied. The color scheme a nod to Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority of which Dr. Connie Yerwood was a member.</p><br>
<p>In 2000, ownership of the property was transferred to the City of Austin - Office of Neighborhood Housing and Community Development. The structure was renovated and restored. Renovations began with replacement of the old pier and beam foundation which was in bad condition. The original floors have been preserved as well as other interior trim, including bathroom tiles. Using old photographs porch spindles and trim were reproduced and the house is once again wearing its fish-scale shingles. The project received a 2006 Heritage Society of Austin Merit Award.</p><br>
<p>The building, located at 1115 East 12th Street serves as the home office for Anderson Community Development Corporation.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Westville Village Historic District is a historic district representing most of the commercial center of the Westville neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003, and its boundaries were increased in 2006.</p><br>
<p>In 2003, the listed area was 22 acre and there were 30 contributing buildings in the district. The theater building is now occupied by an antiques store.</p><br>
<p>When listed, the district included 34 buildings, of which 30 were deemed contributing buildings. The contributing buildings are:</p><br>
<p>446 Blake Street, Greist Manufacturing Company</p><br>
<p>495 Blake Street, Geometric Tool Company</p><br>
<p>512 Blake Street, c. 1840 (See photo #13 in accompanying photo set)</p><br>
<p>15-17 Tour Avenue, Italianate, c.1905</p><br>
<p>23-25 Tour Avenue, Queen Anne, c.1905</p><br>
<p>413 West Rock Avenue, a Queen Anne style house</p><br>
<p>416-418 West Rock Avenue, Queen Anne</p><br>
<p>417 West Rock Avenue</p><br>
<p>420-422 West Rock Avenue</p><br>
<p>426 West Rock Avenue, Tudor Revival</p><br>
<p>831-835 Whalley Avenue, the Alfred Minor Building</p><br>
<p>837-839 Whalley Avenue</p><br>
<p>843 Whalley Avenue</p><br>
<p>845-847 Whalley Avenue</p><br>
<p>859-861 Whalley Avenue</p><br>
<p>865 Whalley Avenue</p><br>
<p>867 Whalley Avenue</p><br>
<p>873-875 Whalley Avenue</p><br>
<p>879 Whalley Avenue</p><br>
<p>881 Whalley Avenue</p><br>
<p>882-888 Whalley Avenue, Hotel Edgewood (photo #9)</p><br>
<p>883-889 Whalley Avenue</p><br>
<p>893-901 Whalley Avenue</p><br>
<p>898 Whalley Avenue</p><br>
<p>900-902 Whalley Avenue</p><br>
<p>903-911 Whalley Avenue, a Masonic hall built for the Olive Branch Temple Corporation</p><br>
<p>904-906 Whalley Avenue</p><br>
<p>914-918 Whalley Avenue</p><br>
<p>920 Whalley Avenue</p><br>
<p>949 Whalley Avenue, the Westville Masonic Temple, from 1926 (see photo #6 in photos accompanying NRHP nomination)</p><br>
