<p>The Sarasota Opera House </p><br>
<p>is an historic theatre, now opera house, located at 61 North Pineapple Avenue in Sarasota, Florida. The vision of a local man and the first mayor of the town, A. B. Edwards. It originally opened on April 10, 1926 with an elaborate three-story entrance containing "eight shops on the ground floor, 12 offices on the second floor, and 12 furnished apartments on the third,</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by Roy A. Benjamin in the Mediterranean Revival Style Architecture and constructed by the GA Miller Construction Company.</p><br>
<p>The theatre is now the home of the Sarasota Opera Association, Inc., which owns the building. The Association is the parent body which runs the Sarasota Opera. The house now seats 1,119.</p><br>
<h2>Early history</h2><br>
<p>In the 1920s, it quickly became a popular entertainment venue with major performers of the day, such as Will Rogers (in 1927) and the Ziegfeld Follies (1928), and Elvis Presley (1956), appearing there. Also, it became a movie theatre when it presented the world premiere of Cecil B. DeMille&#39;s The Greatest Show on Earth (which had been filmed in Sarasota) attended by its stars Charlton Heston and Dorothy Lamour.</p><br>
<p>Over the years, managements changed as did the name of the theatre: in December 1936 it became The Florida Theatre</p><br>
<p>while, in the same year, a hurricane damaged the Robert-Morton pipe organ. Various attempts to modernize removed most of its original Art Deco. It became a full-time movie theater, but, finally, in 1973, it closed.</p><br>
<h2>Renovations, 1979</h2><br>
<p>However, opera was beginning to be presented in Sarasota by a non-profit organization, the Asolo Opera Guild, which presented small-scale operas from out of town in the 320-seat Asolo Theater. By 1974, they had begun to produce their own operas. In 1979, the Guild bought the old Edwards Theatre for $150,000. Needing major renovations to restore the house and to accommodate the demands of opera, the Association began renovations in 1982, the result of which was that the new Sarasota Opera House appeared on the National Register of Historic Places in March, 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Renovations, 2007-8</h2><br>
<p>However, opera was beginning to be presented in Sarasota by a non-profit organization, the Asolo Opera Guild, which presented small-scale operas from out of town in the 320-seat Asolo Theater. By 1974, they had begun to produce their own operas. In 1979, the Guild bought the old Edwards Theatre for $150,000. Needing major renovations to restore the house and to accommodate the demands of opera, the Association began renovations in 1982, the result of which was that the new Sarasota Opera House appeared on the National Register of Historic Places in March, 1984.</p><br>
<p>Further renovations between the end of the 2007 season and the 1 March 2008 opening of the 2008 season have led to a significantly-enhanced opera theatre.</p><br>
<p>The $20 million renovations included gutting the auditorium, which resulted in a newly configured seating plan, expansion of the public areas and Opera Club on the second level, the opening up of the 3-story atrium to expose a newly installed skylight system which had existed in the 1926 building, but which had been covered by a ceiling and a chandelier used in the film, Gone with the Wind. In 2008, the Sarasota Opera reopened with Verdi&#39;s Rigoletto. Seating was expanded to approximately 1,200. After the 2009-2010 season, some seats along the far sides were taken out and replaced with aisles on either end of the theater leaving 1,119 seats.</p><br>
<p>Uranus Glacier  is a glacier on the east coast of Alexander Island, Antarctica, 30 km long and 10 km wide at its mouth, flowing east into George VI Sound immediately south of Fossil Bluff.</p><br>
<p>The glacier was probably first seen by Lincoln Ellsworth, who flew directly over it and photographed segments of this coast on November 23, 1935. The portion near the mouth of the glacier was first roughly surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition. It was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for the planet Uranus following the resurvey of its lower portions by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1948 and 1949. Although the glacier is named for a planet of the Solar System, it is not named in association with the nearby mountain range Planet Heights. The entire glacier was mapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition in 1947-48, by Searle of the FIDS in 1960.</p><br>
<p>Mount Zdarsky is a mountain rising at the east side of Simler Snowfield on Velingrad Peninsula, between Barilari and Holtedahl Bays on the west coast of Graham Land, Antarctica. First charted and named "Mont Garcia" by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, 1908–10, presumably in association with his nearby "Cap Garcia".</p><br>
<p>Charcot later transferred "Cap Garcia" (now Cape Garcia) to the north entrance of Barilari Bay, leaving the mountain name on the south side. To avoid confusion with Cape Garcia on the other side of Barilari Bay, the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) altered the name of this mountain in 1959 to Mount Zdarsky. It is named for Mathias Zdarsky, the Austrian pioneer exponent of ski-mountaineering, inventor of the first dependable ski binding, and author of one of the earliest skiing manuals.</p><br>
<p>Black Balsam Knob, also known as Black Balsam Bald, is in the Pisgah National Forest southwest of Asheville, North Carolina, near milepost 420 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. It is the second highest mountain in the Great Balsam Mountains. The Great Balsams are within the Blue Ridge Mountains, which are part of the Appalachian Mountains. It is the 23rd highest of the 40 mountains in North Carolina over 6000 feet.</p><br>
<p>The top of the mountain is a grassy bald that affords a panoramic view. The origin of grassy balds in southern Haywood county is a result of extensive clear-cut logging and locomotive fires in 1925 and 1942. These fires burned deep down into the mineral-rich topsoil slowing reforestation or stopping it altogether. Examples of this can also be found on many of its neighboring peaks and ridges. These features contribute to the area&#39;s popularity, but foot traffic also causes some ecological damage to the ecosystem. The Art Loeb Trail follows the grassy ridge of Black Balsam Knob.</p><br>
<p>Visible peaks from Black Balsam Knob include:</p><br>
<p>Shining Rock in the Shining Rock Wilderness (3 miles northeast)</p><br>
<p>Looking Glass Rock (5 miles southeast)</p><br>
<p>Cold Mountain (6 miles north)</p><br>
<p>Mount Pisgah (9.5 miles northeast)</p><br>
<p>Mount Mitchell. On exceptionally clear days, Mount Mitchell, the highest point in the Eastern United States, is visible 45 miles north east.</p><br>
<p>The Sochi  is a river in the city of Sochi in Krasnodar Krai, Russia. It is 45 km long, and the area of its basin 296 km&sup2;.</p><br>
<p>Originating at Bolshaya Shura Mountain in the Greater Caucasus Mountains, it flows southwest and enters the Black Sea at Sochi, itself named for the river and site of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. It is the third longest river in Sochi after the Mzymta and the Shakhe. Administratively, the valley of the river belongs to Khostinsky City District of the city of Sochi, except for the lowest part, which belongs to Tsentralny City District. The upper course of the Sochi lies in the Caucasus Zapovednik, a World Heritage Site, whereas the middle course, down to Plastunka, belongs to Sochi National Park.</p><br>
<p>The Sochi River begins on the southern slopes of the 2,250 m Bolshaya Shura Mountain and flows toward the west-southwest through mountainous terrain and is joined by tributaries such as the Ushkho and the Ats along the way. About 15 km before its end at Sochi proper, the Sochi River is joined by its main tributary, the Agva. Just beyond is site of scenic Orekhovka Falls on the Bezumenka River as it flows into the Sochi River at Nizhnaya-Orekhovka. The Sochi then turns southward and flows through the suburbs of Plastunka, Baranovka, and Navaginka before reaching the city centre of Sochi where it is contained by concrete embankments before it enters the Black Sea.</p><br>
<p>The Col de Menté  is a mountain pass in the central Pyrenees in the department of Haute-Garonne in France. It is situated on the D44 road between Saint-Béat and the D618  and connects the Ger and Garonne valleys. Le Mourtis ski-station is located 1 km. south of the col.</p><br>
<p>A stele in memory of Serge Lapébie (son of Guy) is situated at the summit.</p><br>
<h2>Details of climb</h2><br>
<p>Starting from Pont de lOule (east) (at the foot of the Col de Portet dAspet), the climb is 10.9 km long. Over this distance, the climb is 716 m (an average gradient of 6.6%). The climb proper starts at Ger-de-Boutx, 7 km from the summit (at 7.8%), with the steepest sections being at 10.5%.</p><br>
<p>Starting from Saint-Béat (west), the climb is 9.3 km long. Over this distance, the climb is 849 m (an average gradient of 9.1%) with several sections in excess of 11%.</p><br>
<p>At the summit there is a road that loops up and over the Col de Menté-Le Mourtis (1,409 m), via the ski-station, returning to the Col de Menté.</p><br>
<h2>Appearances in Tour de France</h2><br>
<p>The Col de Menté was first used in the Tour de France in 1966 and has appeared frequently since. The leader over the summit in 1966 was Joaquim Galera.</p><br>
<p>The Col has featured 19 times, including crossing the Col de Menté-Le Mourtis in 1979 and 1995.</p><br>
<h2>Luis Ocaña</h2><br>
<p>On stage 14 of the 1971 Tour de France Spanish cyclist Luis Ocaña was in the Maillot Jaune with an overall lead of 7 minutes on Eddy Merckx and they crossed the summit of the Col de Menté together in a storm, with streams of mud running across the road. Merckx, an excellent descender, attacked as he descended dangerously down the mountain road. To stay in contact with Merckx, Ocaña took risks descending. Flying through the corners, Merckx lost control and skidded into a low retaining wall at the side of the road. Ocaña trailing close behind could not avoid the fallen Merckx and fell himself. Merckx was up quickly and sped away. Ocaña struggled to release his cleats from the toe clips and was struck by the pursuing Joop Zoetemelk. Ocaña lay on the ground screaming with pain. Help arrived quickly and Ocaña was rushed by helicopter to the hospital in St. Gaudens. He recovered from his injuries, but his 1971 Tour dreams had come to an end. The following day Merckx refused to wear the yellow jersey in order to pay tribute to Ocaña. There is now a memorial plaque at the scene of the accident on the eastern side of the Col de Menté (at 42&deg;54&prime;55.9&Prime;N latitude, 0&deg;44&prime;37.7&Prime;E longitude).</p><br>
<p>Vivonne Bay  is a bay in the Australian state of South Australia located on the south coast of Kangaroo Island about 61 km from Kingscote, the islands main town, and which was named by the members of Baudin expedition to Australia who visited the bay in January 1803. In a survey of 10,000 beaches by Professor Andrew Short, director of Sydney Universitys marine studies centre, the beach at Vivonne Bay was adjudged as one of the best in Australia.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<h3>Location</h3><br>
<p>Vivonne Bay is located on the south coast of the Kangaroo Island in South Australia overlooking the body of water known in Australia as the Southern Ocean and by international authorities as the Great Australian Bight about 61 km south-west of the municipal seat of Kingscote.</p><br>
<h3>Extent</h3><br>
<p>Vivonne Bay has been described in an American source as being “a bight in the coast” between Point Ellen in the west and the Eleanor River in the east which is referred to as being the ‘Mary River’ and which is located about 1.75 nmi north-northeast of Point Ellen. While the American source does nominate an eastern extremity, the official Australian source does not.</p><br>
<h3>Depth</h3><br>
<p>The depth of water within the bay is reported as being in the range of 9.1 to 11 m. The bay is reported as being suitable as an anchorage where there is a need to shelter from northerly and westerly winds. However, the bay is considered to be unsuitable as an anchorage in the case of “fresh SE winds” as “there is no space to get underway if the wind increases and a sea is raised.”</p><br>
<h3>Coastline</h3><br>
<p>The bay’s coastline consists of a curved sandy beach of about 5 km in length with a western end relatively sheltered from wave action by Point Ellen and an eastern end that is subject to “higher wave energy” with the result of “well-developed offshore bars” being formed and the Eleanor River being “constricted due to the large volumes of marine-sourced sand” being recycled and trapped in its mouth. Point Ellen is described as being “a grassy mound 8.5m high” that is “bordered by low rocks at its base” and is formed of a “Pleistocene aeolianite, i.e. a “dune limestone.” Two rivers, the Harriet and the Eleanor, flow into the bay with the Harriet being located at the west end and the Eleanor located at the east end. The Harriet River has an estuary coastal lagoon system at its mouth due to the local absence of the “bedrock cliffs” that dominate Kangaroo Island’s coastline.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>European discovery</h3><br>
<p>The bay was named by a member of the Baudin expedition to Australia in January 1803 after one of the following persons - Louis Victor de Rochechouart de Mortemart (1636-1688), a Marshal of France or Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet (1588-1665), a member of the French nobility. Two sources state that the bay was named by Nicolas Baudin while a third source states that Baudin himself did not visit the southern coast of Kangaroo Island and that it was explored by the Casuarina commanded by Louis de Freycinet and a fourth which states that the bay was named by François Péron and Freycinet.</p><br>
<h3>2011 drownings</h3><br>
<p>Vivonne Bay is recognised as having a significant undertow and at times a sizeable swell, and is therefore suited only to experienced swimmers. In April 2011, two Australian tourists drowned when a large wave swept them out to sea as they posed for a photograph with their backs to the water at Point Ellen at the western end of the bay.</p><br>
<h2>Settlements and port infrastructure</h2><br>
<p>A settlement known as Vivonne Bay is located on the coastline near the mouth of the Harriet River. Port infrastructure within the bay consists of a jetty located on the west side of the bay adjoining Point Ellen and having a length of 79 m. As of 2014, navigation aids within Vivonne Bay consisted of a light on Point Ellen.</p><br>
<p>St. Peter&#39;s Seminary is a disused Roman Catholic seminary near Cardross, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Designed by the firm of Gillespie, Kidd & Coia, it has been described by the international architecture conservation organisation DOCOMOMO as a modern "building of world significance".</p><br>
<p>It is one of only 42 post-war buildings in Scotland to be listed at Category A, the highest level of protection for a building of "special architectural or historic interest". It has been abandoned since the end of the 1980s, and is currently in a ruinous state. It was announced in early 2015 that the site had been handed over to artist Angus Farquhar, with the intention that part of it will become an arts venue.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Origin</h3><br>
<p>Following a fire in 1946 at St. Peters Seminary in the Glasgow suburb of Bearsden, a new home was needed for the seminary. Discussions began with Gillespie, Kidd & Coia in 1953, but the plans for a new college in the village of Cardross were not finalised until 1961, when building began. The college had since moved from Bearsden to temporary homes. The seminarys philosophy students were transferred to Darleith House in Cardross and the theology students to Kilmahew House. The plan was for a new building to accommodate all the students at Kilmahew House. It was a baronial mansion at the centre of the Kilmahew estate, a Victorian designed ornamental landscape created by the Burns family in the late 1800s. The mansion, built in 1865-1868, was originally a family home for James Burns and his son John, and later the Allan family, from the early 20th Century until just after the war, when the estate was sold to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Glasgow. Gillespie, Kidd & Coia employees Isi Metzstein and Andy MacMillan developed a radical design in which the old house would become professorial accommodation, and around it would wrap a striking new main block, a convent block, a sanctuary block and a classroom block. The old house thus became one side of a quadrangle, creating a bold juxtaposition between old and new buildings.</p><br>
<h3>Architecture</h3><br>
<p>Determinedly modernist, brutalist and owing a huge debt to Le Corbusier, the seminary is widely considered to be one of the most important examples of modernist architecture in Scotland. "The architecture of Le Corbusier translated well into Scotland in the 1960s. Although the climate of the south of France and west of Scotland could hardly be more different, Corbu&#39;s roughcast concrete style, could, in the right hands, be seen as a natural successor or complement to traditional Scottish tower houses with their rugged forms and tough materials", wrote Jonathan Glancey.</p><br>
<p>Filmmaker Murray Grigor made a documentary about the building entitled Space and Light, while Glasgow artist Toby Paterson has painted it.</p><br>
<p>By the time it was completed in 1966 the number of candidates entering the priesthood had begun to decline. As a result, the building never reached its full capacity of around 100 students. From the outset, the building was riddled with problems, including maintenance difficulties with such a unique structure and significant water entry; the architects and owners each blamed the other for these problems.</p><br>
<h3>Post-seminary</h3><br>
<p>In February 1980, the buildings closed as a seminary. The Archdiocese of Glasgow moved St Peters College to Newlands in southern Glasgow. St Peters College, Newlands remained until November 1984 when it was closed and transferred its students to Chesters College in Bearsden, Glasgow. The Cardross site subsequently becoming a drug rehabilitation centre. However maintenance problems with the modern buildings remained, and accommodation for the recovering drug addicts centred mainly on the old Kilmahew House, which was in a better state of repair. The drug rehabilitation centre closed by the end of the 1980s. In 1995, a fire so badly damaged Kilmahew House that it was deemed too unsafe to stand and was demolished. The remaining modern buildings were Category A listed by Historic Scotland in 1992, and in October 2005 was named as Scotland&#39;s greatest post-WWII building by the architecture magazine Prospect.</p><br>
<h3>Restoration efforts</h3><br>
<p>Nonetheless, the building remains a ruin. Most of the woodwork and glass is now gone, although key aspects of the original design are still clearly visible. According to the architecture writer Frank Arneil Walker, "nothing prepares one for the sight of the new grown prematurely old."</p><br>
<p>Attempts to convert and reuse it, or even protect it from further damage, have come to nothing – hampered by the unique design of the building and its remote location. Plans have included building a 28-unit housing development in the building&#39;s grounds, and stabilising the structure by stripping it back to its concrete skeleton, possibly fully restoring a small cross-section. This is a source of concern for conservation bodies including the Twentieth Century Society, who have placed it on their Risky Buildings Register, arguing that this would destroy much of the remaining fabric of the building.</p><br>
<p>In June 2007 it was announced that the building was to be included in the World Monuments Fund&#39;s 100 Most Endangered Sites list for 2008.</p><br>
<p>Also in 2007, developer Urban Splash became involved. Urban Splash worked with architect Gareth Hoskins, and in 2009 environmental arts group NVA were awarded a grant by the Scottish Arts Council to develop temporary and permanent artworks as part of the redevelopment of the building and surrounding woodlands. In 2011, Urban Splash pulled out of the project due to viability issues, and the Archdiocese of Glasgow reiterated its view that no commercial scheme will be viable for the site.</p><br>
<p>NVA, however, have continued their involvement with the site, working with local community groups, raising funds and developing plans for the partial restoration of the seminary buildings and interventions in the surrounding landscape. In 2010, NVA presented these plans at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale. In 2012, the Scottish Government gave £500,000 for the buildings regeneration by a Historic Scotland building grant. Also in 2012, NVA began working in partnership with the Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Strathclyde on the Invisible College, a research network which aims to radically reinvent the colleges original teaching function for the present day. A college without walls, the Invisible College has involved organised events bringing together academics, local residents, architects, artists and other interested parties on site for debate, discussion and collaborative investigations in the landscape. There have been public talks about ruins, architecture and landscape in the nearby villages of Cardross and Renton, and in the Lighthouse in Glasgow. The college has also produced an audio drift, a sound work layering together environmental recordings and interviews, designed to be listened to on portable MP3 players whilst walking through the landscape, and a guided walk around the Kilmahew estate, in collaboration with the Royal Geographical Society. Local residents from Cardross have begun cultivating food in the ruined walled garden of the former estate, which once supplied food for Kilmahew House and later the seminary. Following on from this, in 2013 the Invisible College is organising a series of events exploring the horticultural and food-producing aspects of the site. The Invisible College has been funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).</p><br>
<p>A planning application was submitted on February 2013 by ERZ Landscape Architects for the landscape-led regeneration of the Seminary.</p><br>
<p>Funding was secured from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Creative Scotland. A major cleanup was completed in 2016, and NVA presented a sound and light event for the public which was sold out.</p><br>
<h2>Images</h2><br>
<p>Further images taken later:</p><br>
<p>Lisi lake  is a small lake in the vicinity of Tbilisi, Georgia; belongs to the Kura River valley, home to a large mixed-use development project by the same name. The landscape is rocky and arid with shrub vegetation and plots of steppe. The lake and surrounding area provide a habitat for variety of different species of exotic birds. In addition to various avian species, the area around the lake provides shelter to a variety of animals such as turtles, foxes and hares. The area is well known for the large population of snakes the live in the hillsides around the lake.</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<p>There is a Warm, Mediterranean, and reasonably dry climate in Lisi Lake. The annual precipitation is roughly 400 mm (&lt; 20 mm in January, &lt; 40 mm in April, &lt; 40 mm in July, &lt; 30 mm in October), and there are 20 to 30 days with heavy rains per year. There are also 10 to 20 days with snow cover. The mean temperatures are: January /0, April/12, July /23, October /13, and the mean maximum temperature (in July) is 37 degrees celsius.</p><br>
<h2>Controversy regarding redevelopment</h2><br>
<p>Plans are in place for Green Lisi Town, a mixed-use development on the lakefront. Chairman of TBC Bank, Mamuka Khazaradze&#39;s Georgian Redevelopment Company is behind the project, while architectural firm Andropogon did the master plan and site design.</p><br>
<p>Phase One of Green Lisi Town opened in 2011.</p><br>
<p>Current plans for the redevelopment of the area date to 2007, when a group led by Mamuka Khazaradze outbid a group of Israeli investors by offering 182 million USD for 354 hectares of land. Conditions of the deal with the government required Khazaradzes group to spend 30 million USD on public utilities upgrades in the area and on a system to provide badly needed fresh water to the lake. Khazaradzes group balked at the conditions of the deal and ended up, under questionable circumstances, purchasing the land directly from the city for 55 million USD - a savings of 127 million USD from the original bidding against the Israeli group. All requirements to improve the ecology of the local area have been dropped, and the only conditions now in place regarding development in this area is the requirement for yet more for-profit housing.</p><br>
<p>Charles W. Van De Mark House is a Queen Anne style historic building located in Clyde, Kansas, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was previously used as a restaurant, but is now a private home.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>Charles W. Van De Mark was a prominent banker and attorney in Clyde, Kansas. He and his wife Elizabeth Stevens had three sons, Martin Van De Mark, Otis Van De Mark, and John V. Van De Mark. Martin was a very successful farmer in Kansas. Otis moved to Houston, Texas, where had a successful business career. John V. Van De Mark went on to develop real estate in Houston with his uncle, Henry F. McGregor, as well as to serve as the Vice President of the Federal Land Bank in Houston.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The two-story house was built for Van De Mark&#39;s family. The house was furnished with the finest mahogany paneling and millwork, which exist to this day.</p><br>
<p>The Birthplace of Ronald Reagan, also known as the Graham Building, is located in an apartment on the second floor of a late 19th-century commercial building in Tampico, Illinois, United States. The building was built in 1896 and housed a tavern from that time until 1915. On February 6, 1911 the future 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, was born in the apartment there, the family moving into a house in Tampico a few months later.</p><br>
<p>Architecturally, the two-story brick building is similar to its neighbors, all of which are part of a historic district added to the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was constructed in 1896 for G.W. Stauffer by Fred Harvey Seymour and later became known as the "Graham Building". From 1896–1915 the first floor of the building housed a tavern while the second floor contained an apartment. On October 1, 1906 Jack and Nelle Reagan moved into the apartment above the tavern. The Reagans had two sons while they lived in the apartment. In 1908, they had their first son, John Neil Reagan. Their second son, Ronald Wilson Reagan, was born on February 6, 1911 inside the second floor apartment. Family legend has it that when Jack first saw his ten-pound baby son, he said, “He looks like a fat little Dutchman. But who knows, he might grow up to be president some day.” In a small town like Tampico in 1911, a new baby was such big news that four days after the birth the Tampico Tornado newspaper printed the rather unusual birth announcement that read, “February 10, 1911 John REAGAN has been calling thirty-seven inches a yard and giving seventeen ounces for a pound this week at PITNEY’s store, he has been feeling so jubilant over the arrival of a ten pound boy Monday.”</p><br>
<p>The Reagans lived at the address from 1906 until May 5, 1911 when they moved into a house on Glassburn Street, also in Tampico. While the Reagans lived in Tampico, Jack was employed at the H.C. Pitney Variety Store, across the street from the Reagan Birthplace in the 100 block of Main Street.</p><br>
<p>The Reagans were in Tampico until Pitneys store closed in 1914, after which they settled in Chicago, Galesburg and Monmouth for various periods of time. Pitneys store reopened in 1919 and the Reagans returned to Tampico for a short time, where they lived in an apartment above the store. Pitney&#39;s store again closed and on December 6, 1920 the Reagans moved to Dixon, Illinois where they occupied the house that would later be known as the Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home.</p><br>
<p>From 1915–1919 the building housed a bakery. The First National Bank located in the structure in 1919, where it remained until 1931. The bank&#39;s owner and president, R.F. Woods, served as mayor of Tampico from 1917–1919. In 1968 the building was purchased by Paul Nicely and his wife. After Mrs. Nicely died the building was put up for sale in 2003 and purchased by WPW Partners of Chicago.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Reagan Birthplace is similar to most of the commercial buildings along Tampicos Main Street. It is brick, two-stories tall, has three second story windows and a cornice. Only the areas oldest buildings differ from the Reagan Birthplace&#39;s metal cornices and flat headed windows.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>The structure known as Ronald Reagans Birthplace is most notable for being the place where Ronald Reagan was born on February 6, 1911. The buildings first floor interior has been restored as the First National Bank, which occupied the property from 1919–1931. On the second floor the apartment has been restored to the period when Reagan was born. The site offers tours to the public and is listed as a "significant" contributing property to the Tampico Main Street Historic District. The Main Street Historic District was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places on June 3, 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Footnotes</h2><br>
<p>The McKinney Homestead is a former limestone home built between 1850 and 1852 by Thomas F. McKinney, owner of the surrounding land. The two-story homestead was continuously occupied until it burned in the 1940s.</p><br>
<p>Archaeological investigations in 1974 determined the house was built with limestone quarried from Onion Creek. The framing lumber was cypress and cedar, both abundant on McKinney&#39;s land. The same wood was used for the doors, window frames and roof shakes. The house was approximately twenty foot by forty foot and had two stories. There were three rooms on each floor and a covered porch both upstairs and downstairs.</p><br>
<p>Most of McKinneys land and the house were sold to James W. Smith in 1885, Smiths grandchildren granted 682 acre to the state of Texas in 1974. It opened as McKinney Falls State Park in 1976. The former homestead was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. It has since been stabilized to prevent further deterioration of the stone structure. The ruins can be accessed via the park&#39;s designated "Homestead Trail."</p><br>
<p>The Alexandra is a historic apartment building located on Gilbert Avenue in the Walnut Hills neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Constructed in 1904 as the neighborhoods first large apartment building, it was one of many such buildings constructed for the real estate management firm of Thomas J. Emerys Sons. It has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Cincinnatis traditional single-family houses were sufficient for city residents into the 1860s, but rapid postwar growth caused land prices to rise, and apartment living became more desirable even for the citys wealthier residents. At first, downtown was the favored location for these developments, with many lining West Fourth and West Ninth Streets. However, the rise of Thomas J. Emerys Sons saw a rapid increase in development in other neighborhoods: although Emery had participated in the downtown apartment boom, constructing the Lombardy Flats on Fourth Street to a Samuel Hannaford design, the firm made itself Cincinnatis leading apartment developer by building high-quality buildings along streetcar lines in the hillside neighborhoods above downtown, including Walnut Hills. Most of their buildings, including the Alexandra, were designed by the firm of Joseph G. Steinkamp & Brother. When constructed in 1904, the Alexandra was Cincinnatis first large apartment building constructed in a hillside neighborhood and the largest apartment building anywhere in the city. Its desirability was increased by its location near the end of the Gilbert Avenue streetcar line at the streets intersection with William Howard Taft, a significant east-west road, just one city block north of the commercial neighborhood of Peebles&#39; Corner.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Built of brick with a foundation of limestone and covered with a slate roof, the Alexandra is a Dutch Colonial Revival building constructed on the edge of the street, with no setback. The first through third stories are pierced with regular rectangular windows, while the fourth story, constricted by the gambrel roof, is illuminated by a mix of rectangular and semicircular arched windows, placed both in the peaks of the gables and in dormers. Porches are provided on all stories, and the Gilbert Avenue end (significantly shorter than the Taft-facing northern front) is interrupted by a central gable and additional porches. The interior was originally divided into fifty-four separate apartments.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>In 1997, the Alexandra was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its architectural integrity and its importance in local history. It is one of numerous Register-listed locations in its section of Walnut Hills, along with the core of Peebles Corner to the south, the Cummins School and the tower of Walnut Hills United Presbyterian Church just to the northwest, and the Park, Verona (also Emery-owned), and Ransley Apartments just to the southeast. The same designation has been given to several other Emery apartment buildings, including the Brittany, Lombardy, and Saxony (all downtown), the Parkside in Clifton, and Haddon Hall and the Somerset in Avondale. In addition to its federal landmark status, grant-funded renovations have improved the building&#39;s condition: in 2004, an office of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland announced that a project to strengthen Walnut Hills and other impoverished Cincinnati neighborhoods had funded a newly completed project to convert the Alexandra into eighty-three units of housing for the elderly.</p><br>
<p>The Alkemeyer Commercial Buildings are a pair of business buildings located at 19 and 23 Court Street in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1879,</p><br>
<p>The Lotze Building, located at 19 Court, was designed by William Walter, a leading Cincinnati architect, for their heirs of inventor Adolphus Lotze. An Italianate structure built from 1879 to 1880, this building is today used for residential purposes. The adjacent building at 23 Court is a larger Queen Anne structure.</p><br>
<p>In 1980, the Alkemeyer Buildings were listed together on the National Register of Historic Places. Because of their importance in local history and because of their historically significant architecture, the buildings were listed together on the National Register of Historic Places on December 9, 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Alms and Doepke Dry Goods Company is a historic commercial building in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Located along Central Parkway on the edge of downtown, it is a late Victorian structure designed by Samuel Hannaford,</p><br>
<p>William F. Doepke, William H. Alms, and Frederick H. Alms established a dry goods store in Cincinnati in 1865 and moved to the northeastern corner of the intersection of Main Street and the Miami and Erie Canal two years later. Starting in 1878, they erected the core of the present structure at that location; it would later be expanded in 1886, 1890, and 1906. Seven stories tall, it is a brick building with a stone foundation and a slate roof. Major architectural elements include an ornate cornice with heavy bracketing and its Mansard roof that is pierced by many dormers.</p><br>
<p>By the late nineteenth century, Alms and Doepke had built a reputation as the regions leading dry goods firm; eight hundred individuals were on its payroll in 1891. When the company chose to expand their facilities in 1886, they hired Samuel Hannaford, who by that time had become Cincinnatis most prestigious architect. During the 1870s and 1880s, Hannaford independently designed a wide range of buildings throughout Cincinnati and its suburbs, becoming known as the architect of choice for prosperous individuals and companies of the Gilded Age.</p><br>
<p>After ninety years of operation, Alms and Doepke closed permanently in 1955. Their headquarters endured after their demise; its architecture was sufficiently well preserved to qualify the building for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, along with dozens of other Hannaford buildings. Three years later, it was one of more than two thousand buildings in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood added to the Register together as a historic district, the Over-the-Rhine Historic District. Today, the Alms and Doepke Dry Goods Company building is owned by the Hamilton County government, which uses it as offices for its Job and Family Services and human resources departments, as it is located across Central Parkway from the Hamilton County Courthouse.</p><br>
<p>The Apostolic Bethlehem Temple Church is a historic church building in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. A German Gothic Revival structure built in 1868,</p><br>
<p>The church building is a rectangular two-story structure facing to the east. Worshippers enter through doors in a prominent tower that occupies the center of the façade. Such a tower is characteristic of the German Gothic churches that this church was built to emulate, as are the transepts on either side of the tower.</p><br>
<p>Located at 1205 Elm Street, Among the properties surrounding it are Music Hall, located at 1243 Elm Street, and a community park whose southwestern corner lies on the other side of Elm Street. In 1973, the church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its place in local history and because of its distinctive and well-preserved historic architecture. Ten years later, most of Over-the-Rhine was added to the Register as a historic district, and the Apostolic Bethlehem Temple Church qualified as one of its hundreds of contributing properties.</p><br>
<p>Longworth Hall is a registered historic building in Cincinnati, Ohio, listed in the National Register on December 29, 1986. Constructed by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in 1904 as the B & O Freight Terminal, the building was reported to be the largest structure of its type in the world at 5 stories high and 1,277 ft long. Camden Yards in Baltimore is a similar structure.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>During construction, 80,000 ft of pilings were driven to support the concrete foundations. The piers between the first floor doors are of Bedford limestone. 4,250,000 bricks were used in the walls. Floor loads are carried on steel girders and these in turn are carried on steel columns. Floors, joists, roof beams, etc., are frame requiring 2,500,000 boardfeet of lumber.</p><br>
<p>The lower floor was designed as the inbound freight house with the upper four floors for storage. The facility trackage could accommodate 125 cars. Other facilities included a boiler house, a 6 stall roundhouse, a coal tipple and a USA Customs Bonded Warehouse, for the care of imported goods.</p><br>
<p>As of 2012, Longworth Hall is at risk of partial demolition due to planned replacement of the adjacent Brent Spence Bridge. However, it will only happen if the current owner sells the part that would be demolished.</p><br>
<h2>Tenants</h2><br>
<p>The Cincinnati Childrens Museum occupied all four stories at the western end of Longworth Hall until floodwaters inundated the building during the flood of 1997, forcing the museum to relocate to the Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal the following year. WOXY.coms studios were located in Longworth Hall from September 2004 until the Internet radio station moved to Austin, Texas, in 2009.</p><br>
<p>Dotloop is currently headquartered in Longworth Hall.</p><br>
<p>The John S. Baker House is a historic house in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Built in 1854 according to a design by Cincinnati architect James Keys Wilson,</p><br>
<p>The Baker House is primarily a brick structure with some elements of weatherboarding; it rests on a stone foundation and is covered by a metal roof. Its architecture is prominent in many ways, most significant of which are its overall style: no other large brick houses in the Cincinnati area feature such a distinctively Gothic Revival style. Many details produce the sense of a castle, such as its tower, its battlements and crenallations, and the decorations on the unusually placed and shaped windows. The appearance is further improved by the house&#39;s location: sitting atop a river bluff, it is visible from a great distance.</p><br>
<p>In 1979, the Baker House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its historically significant architecture. Included in the listing were two related buildings, a studio and residence for servants; they are located on the side of the bluff below the main house.</p><br>
<p>The Balch House is a historic house in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Located along Greendale Avenue in that city&#39;s Clifton neighborhood,</p><br>
<p>In 1892, Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton Railroad executive George Balch moved to Clifton. Four years later, deciding to construct a house for himself, he chose renowned Cincinnati architect Samuel Hannaford. Balch was one of many Clifton residents to commission designs from Hannaford: having built a reputation as one of Cincinnatis premier Gilded Age architects, Hannaford had designed large numbers of houses for the residents of upscale neighborhoods such as Clifton. The Balch House was one of Hannafords last residences in the area, for he retired in 1897.</p><br>
<p>Built of brick and stucco on a stone foundation, the Balch House is covered by a slate roof. Among its distinctive architectural features is the large gable on the front, which rises above a large frame porch that rests on brick pedestals. Individuals can enter the house through an ornate entrance located under a decorated smaller gable, while a large gable similar to that of the front crowns the house&#39;s western side. The overall floor plan of the house is the shape of an "L."</p><br>
<p>In 1980, the Balch House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its well-preserved historic architecture. Dozens of other Cincinnati buildings were added to the Register at the same time as part of a multiple property submission of buildings designed by Hannaford.</p><br>
<p>The Joseph W. Baldwin House is a historic residence in the city of Wyoming, Ohio, United States. Erected in the late nineteenth century, it was originally the home of a wealthy Cincinnati businessman, and it has been designated a historic site because of its distinctive architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Built of weatherboarded walls with imbricated shingles, the house rests on a stone foundation; its roof is slate, while elements of wood and iron are also present. Two and a half stories tall, the house includes a three-story tower placed above a porch. The tower is covered with a pyramid-shaped roof, based on a cornice with dentils and topped with a delicate iron finial, while the roofs for the rest of the house are typical gables. Its overall floor plan is that of the letter "L&quot the porch and tower are placed within the angle formed by the two ells. These elements combine to make it one of Wyoming&#39;s best Italianate houses.</p><br>
<h2>Historic context</h2><br>
<p>Good transportation is a leading reason for Wyoming&#39;s prosperity. The city lies near the old pre-statehood road that connected Cincinnati with locations farther north, such as Fort Hamilton and Fallen Timbers. Curves in the road were cut off in 1806, forming a new road that is today followed by Springfield Pike through central Wyoming. Improvements in the 1830s only enhanced its importance. By this time, another mode of transportation had become significant: the Miami and Erie Canal was built a short distance to the east in 1828, and the village of Lockland grew up along its side. Railroads reached the city in 1851 with the construction of the Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton Railroad on the border between Lockland and Wyoming.</p><br>
<p>Because of Wyomings proximity to the industry of Lockland, its easy transportation to the booming city of Cincinnati, and its pleasant scenery, many wealthy industrialists purchased local farms and built grand country houses. Most such houses were built in the Wyoming Hills area, west of Springfield Pike; growth in this area continued until the coming of the Great Depression. Although not an industrialist, Joseph Baldwin was among the citys leading businessmen: much of his career was spent as an executive with C.R. Talbot, a company manufacturing nails and other iron products, while the latter part of his career was spent with Equitable Life Insurance Company. Baldwin had the house built in 1884, and he lived in it until selling it in 1900 to Lawrence Maxwell, a Cincinnati lawyer who owned it for the next seven years.</p><br>
<h2>Historic site</h2><br>
<p>In 1979, a local historic preservation group began a citywide survey to identify Wyoming&#39;s historic buildings, and this effort culminated with a multiple property submission of eighteen houses, the Wyoming Presbyterian Church, and one historic district to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. Along with all but one of the other properties, the Baldwin House was listed on the Register in the following year, qualifying because of its historically significant architecture and because of its connection to Joseph Baldwin.</p><br>
<p>The Bates Building is a historic house in the Columbia-Tusculum neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. A two-story building constructed in a vernacular style of architecture, it is one of the oldest buildings on Eastern Avenue in the neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>Constructed in 1865, the Bates Building is a simple frame building with a gabled roof of shingles; it is three bays wide, and each side is a single bay. A significant exception to the houses simple construction is the ornate front porch, which appears to have been built after the rest of the house; complicated beveled woodwork covers the pillars of the porch. The eastern side of the house is otherwise the most distinctive part of the building; an outward projection on that side is the only exception to the houses rectangular shape, and included in the projection is a small oval window, which is the only non-rectangular window in the house.</p><br>
<p>In 1979, the Bates Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places due to its historically significant architecture. It was one of seventeen Columbia-Tusculum properties included in a multiple property submission related to a historic preservation survey that had been conducted in the previous few years; most of the properties were buildings, but the Columbia Baptist and Fulton-Presbyterian Cemeteries were also included.</p><br>
<p>The Bauer Apartments are a historic apartment building in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. it is a brick building with elements of sandstone and metal. The Bauer has been rated as an exceptionally well-preserved example of the Queen Anne style of architecture. Among the most significant elements of its architecture are details such as a bracketed cornice, some courses with corbelling, and a belt of sandstone, plus larger elements such as significant rectangular panels on the facade and massive bay windows. Inside, many original details have survived to the present day, such as elaborate balusters in the halls, the wainscoting on the corners of the rooms, and the plain fireplace mantels.</p><br>
<p>From their construction in 1885 until 1947, the apartments were owned by the family of Ulrick Bauer, a local greengrocer. Both historically and in the present, they have been used both for residential purposes and as the location of a specialty store. In 1982, the Bauer Apartments were listed on the National Register of Historic Places, due to their well-preserved historic architecture.</p><br>
<p>The James Baxter House is a historic residence in the village of Amberley, Ohio, United States, near Cincinnati. Built in the 1800s and expanded in the 1930s, it retains much of its original architecture, and it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>The Baxter House is a brick structure with some weatherboarding and other wooden elements, set on a stone foundation and covered with a shake roof.</p><br>
<p>James Baxter bought the future site of the present house in 1797 as part of a property approximately 0.5 square miles in total area. and much of the rest of the interior, have survived. Very little was modified until the 1930s, when the original building was expanded with a new section. The period owners derived much of the new additions design from that of a Tidewater Virginia house, the colonial-era Carters Grove. The resulting building is approximately 7,000 ft&sup2; in area and surrounded by a large lawn with early landscaping and a caretaker&#39;s house.</p><br>
<p>In 1994, the Baxter House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying because of its historically significant architecture. It is one of three Register-listed locations in Amberley, along with the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Gerald B. and Beverley Tonkens House and the ancient Benham Mound built by the prehistoric Hopewell Indian people.</p><br>
<p>The Becker House is a historic house on the outskirts of the city of Springdale, Ohio, United States. Constructed in 1830 as a farmhouse, it was for a time home to a prominent figure in the national debate over slavery. Few changes have been made to the house since its earliest years, warranting its designation as a historic site.</p><br>
<p>In 1830, Joseph Hough decided to erect a residence on his 63-acre (0.25-km²) property; the finished residence was typical of farmhouses built in the area at the time. His design consisted of a simple two-story structure with weatherboarded walls. Its facade is divided into three bays, with a porch sheltering the entire first floor. Hough owned the property until his death in the early 1850s; the probate process following his death resulted in the propertys conveyance to John Burgoyne, Jr. Burgoynes father, John Burgoyne, Sr., lived at the house from 1860 until 1864, following an incident in which he had suddenly gained a leading position in the national slavery debate: while serving as a judge of the common pleas court for Hamilton County, the elder man ruled that the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was unconstitutional during a case that had already attracted national attention.</p><br>
<p>In 1974, the Becker House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying on the basis of its historic architecture; it is Springdale&#39;s only -designated historic site. It was deemed worthy of inclusion as a well-preserved example of a mid-century farmstead, and its fine structural condition was expected to ensure its intact survival for many years into the future.</p><br>
<p>The Benham Mound is a Native American mound in the southwestern part of the USA state of Ohio. Located in modern Amberley Village in Hamilton County, the mound is an archaeological site.</p><br>
<p>A volume of Hamilton County history, published in the nineteenth century, described the Benham Mound, named for a local farmer, as "a fine, large mound," which measured 8 ft high and with a circumference of approximately 200 ft. The location of the mound is on a hilltop that overlooks the valley of a tributary creek that flows west into the Mill Creek, which correlates with Section 30 of the original Columbia Township, near the Montgomery turnpike (now USA Route 22), that is, near end of present-day Grand Vista Avenue. The Norwood Mound lies approximately 1.5 mi to the southwest.</p><br>
<p>During the late nineteenth century, local residents partially excavated the mound and the ground around it; their diggings revealed significant amounts of mica and divers types of stone tools, including axes, scrapers, chisels, and flint projectile points. These findings, combined with the location of the mound itself, have led archaeologists to conclude that Benham Mound was built by people of the Hopewell tradition. Because of its archaeological value, the Benham Mound was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The George Bennett House was a historic residence built near the city of Harrison, Ohio, United States. Constructed during the middle of the nineteenth century, it was a prominent building along one of the area&#39;s major roads, and it was eventually named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>George Bennett was among the first men of the Harrison area during the middle of the nineteenth century. Besides his wealth, which was equalled by few men in the area, his prominence derived from his politics: he gained a reputation as a premier lobbyist. Bennett also occupied a leading place in the society of northwestern Hamilton County, and his home was widely known for its numerous social gatherings as well as the political events that were held there. He arranged for the construction of his house in 1847, employing an unknown architect to produce a simple design in the Greek Revival style.</p><br>
<p>Two stories tall, the house was highly symmetrical, with a central section and a wing on each side of a size comparable to the center. All three segments of the facade were divided into three bays each, with the main entrance in the central bay of the central section. Each of the remaining seventeen openings was filled with a window, although the second-floor windows on the wings were substantially shorter than the windows of the central section and of the first-floor windows of the wings. Framing the ends of the building were two chimneys, with one on the roofline at each end of the house, while the center was marked by a simple four-pillared portico sheltering the entrance and permitting the central section of the house to have a substantial overhang. All roofs were gabled, and the projection at the center of the facade was topped with a pediment under the roof. Constructed on a stone foundation, the house was built with walls of mixed brick and wood, and in its last years the house was given a tin roof. Bennetts frequent parties necessitated the reservation of a large space on the second floor for use as a ballroom, with its floor supported by springs according to oral tradition, although collapsible screens permitted its conversion into dormitory space when necessary. The overall plan bears similarities to various structures designed by Thomas Jefferson, but the Bennett Houses adherence to the later Greek Revival style was solidified by its lack of complex design elements.</p><br>
<p>Due to its large size and distinctive architecture, which were accentuated by its location on the Harrison Pike, the Bennett House was long a landmark for local residents and travellers. In mid-1975, its status was further raised by addition to the National Register of Historic Places; qualifying because of its distinctive historic architecture, it was the first Harrison-area building to acquire this designation, although the Othniel Looker House was listed one week later, and four more houses followed by the end of 1976. Despite its landmark status, the house no longer occupies its place; the site is now an empty lot.</p><br>
<p>The Neill–Cochran House Museum is a historic home in north-central Austin, Texas. Master builder Abner Cook designed and built the house in 1855 as a suburban estate many years before the surrounding area was settled by other homes and businesses. The two-story Greek Revival home features prominent Doric columns and Mr. Cook&#39;s signature "sheaf of wheat" balusters.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built on 17.5 acre northwest of town for Washington and Mary Hill, although they never occupied it. In 1856, it was leased to the Texas Institute for the Blind, currently known as the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, to serve as its first home until Abner Cook finished the school&#39;s campus across town.</p><br>
<p>Subsequently, the House was leased by Lt. Governor Fletcher Stockdale and, it is believed, former Provisional Governor Andrew J. Hamilton. At the end of the Civil War, Federal troops converted the House into a hospital. General George Armstrong Custer was stationed in Austin during Reconstruction, occupying the blind school and, no doubt, visit the Neill–Cochran House.</p><br>
<p>In 1876, the home was sold to Colonel Andrew Neill, a Confederate veteran. Neill lived there with his wife Jennie Chapman Neill, who stayed on after Neill&#39;s death and in 1893 rented the home to Judge Thomas Beauford Cochran.</p><br>
<p>Cochran purchased the home outright in 1895 for his family and expanded and modernized the home. In 1958, the Cochran family sold the property to The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in The State of Texas. The NSCDA operates the home today as a historic house museum. The Neill–Cochran House Museum is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a Texas Historical Commission landmark.</p><br>
<p>In 2007, White Rabbit Adventure Games published a walk-through computer adventure game based on the Neill–Cochran House. The game, "Sterlings Gift", features a fictional story based on published memoirs and diaries that helps the player solve a 150-year-old mystery involving George Custers wife Libbie. Royalties from the sale of this unique game go to the Neill–Cochran House Museum.</p><br>
<h2>Photos</h2><br>
<p>The Christian Specht Building is located at 1110 Douglas Street in downtown Omaha, Nebraska. It is the only existing building with a cast-iron facade known in Nebraska today, and one of the few ever built in the state. The building was deemed an Omaha landmark in 1981, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Designed by local architects Dufrene and Mendelssohn in 1884, the three-story Specht Building was modeled in the Italian Renaissance Revival Style. This was a popular style for cast-iron facade buildings. Christian Spechts company, the Western Cornice Works, manufactured the facade. The company was a manufacturer of galvanized iron cornices, finials and other metal building products. Today the building is renowned for its artistic value by representing this periods usage of iron.</p><br>
<h2>Proposed demolition</h2><br>
<p>In 2001 the Omaha Performing Arts Society, led by the publisher of the Omaha World-Herald, John Gottschalk, proposed building an arts center adjacent to the Specht Building. Plans called for the demolition of the entire block the Specht Building sits on, including the Specht and four neighboring historic buildings.</p><br>
<p>In 2001 the City of Omaha was presented with a US$90,000,000 gift for a downtown performing arts center contingent on the demolition of the downtown block containing the Specht Building and three other restored historical buildings. Shortly thereafter, the Omaha City Council voted to condemn and immediately demolish the Specht Building and the three other buildings to make way for green space for the performing arts center. Before voting to demolish the Specht building, the City Council did not discuss the fact that since 1981 the Specht building had been a designated Landmark of the City of Omaha.</p><br>
<p>Early reports indicated that the historic buildings would stop the project from happening, particularly after the historic building owners secured a temporary restraining order against the City of Omaha that prevented city attorneys from using eminent domain to take the four buildings. Pressure upon the major donors of the performing arts center and the donors requested that the buildings be spared.</p><br>
<p>After negotiations the plans were saved and the location of the buildings was intact. However, during the demolition of the rest of the block, some of the historic buildings were badly damaged, with one of the buildings completely demolished. The Specht Building was remodeled thereafter and is now loft apartments.</p><br>
<p>Memorial Hall is a Beaux-Arts style building in the Centennial District of West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Built as the art gallery for the 1876 Centennial Exposition, it is the only major structure from that exhibition to survive. It subsequently housed the Pennsylvania Museum of Art  and the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art . Since October 18, 2008, the Hall has served as home to the Please Touch Museum. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The building is located west of the Schuylkill River, at the corner of East Memorial Hall Drive and the Avenue of the Republic.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>Memorial Hall was designed by Herman J. Schwarzmann, and is an early example of monumental Beaux-Arts architecture in the United States. Schwarzmann, the chief engineer of the Fairmount Park Commission, also designed the temporary Horticultural Hall for the Exposition. Construction began on and was completed for the opening ceremonies on, at a cost of $1.5million dollars. President Ulysses S. Grant and other dignitaries presided over the event, which was the first major world&#39;s fair to be hosted in the United States.</p><br>
<p>The exterior is finished with granite and the interior is decorated with marble and ornamental plaster. The building is 365 ft by 210 ft with basement and ground floor, and 150 ft tall at the top of the building&#39;s most distinctive feature, an iron and glass dome. Surmounting the dome is the 23 ft statue of Columbia (the poetic symbol of the United States) holding a laurel branch. At the corners of the dome stand four statues symbolizing industry, commerce, agriculture and mining. Memorial Hall was the inspiration for the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany.</p><br>
<p>Memorial Hall was designed to house the Centennial Exposition&#39;s art exhibits. The exposition received so many art contributions that a separate annex was built to house them all. Another building was built for the display of photography.</p><br>
<p>After the Exposition, Memorial Hall reopened in 1877 as the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art and also served as the first home of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which remained there until 1929. The building was taken over by the Fairmount Park Commission in 1958. It also was used for a gymnasium and a swimming pool in both wings. In 1982, the building was being used as a police station.</p><br>
<h2>Philadelphia Orchestra recordings</h2><br>
<p>In the 1980s and 1990s, the Philadelphia Orchestra made a number of recordings in a basketball court in Memorial Hall under the batons of Riccardo Muti and Wolfgang Sawallisch. Memorial Hall was used because the Academy of Music, the orchestra&#39;s home at the time, was considered not resonant enough.</p><br>
<h2>Richie Ashburn viewing</h2><br>
<p>In September 1997, a viewing for former Philadelphia Phillies baseball player and long-time broadcaster Richie Ashburn was held shortly after his death from a heart attack in New York City. Several hundred thousand people mourned his death as they walked by his casket in the Grand Hall.</p><br>
<h2>Please Touch Museum</h2><br>
<p>The Hall fell into disrepair until 2005, when the Please Touch Museum began an $85-million renovation to convert it into its new home. The museum opened its doors to the public on October 18, 2008. Memorial Hall&#39;s eastern lawn serves as the home field for Athletic Base Ball Club of Philadelphia, a vintage base ball team which plays by 1864 rules.</p><br>
<p>Møysalen is a mountain that is located on the border of the municipalities of Sortland and Lødingen in Nordland county, Norway. At 1,262 m tall, it is the highest mountain on the island of Hinnøya and the second highest mountain on any island in Norway. The mountain is located within Møysalen National Park, about 10 km straight east of Hennes and Kaljord in Hadsel municipality.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>The name derives from the Norwegian words "møy", which translates to maiden, and "sal", which can be translated into either saddle or hall. South of the peak is two smaller peaks, named Lille Møya (The Small Maiden) and Store Møya (The Big Maiden), which according to local folklore were two troll maidens that were turned into stone. Møysalen is either the saddle or the roof of the hall of these two maidens.</p><br>
<p>The Malvern Roller Mill, also known as Appel Mill and Malvern Milling Company, is a 19th-century grist mill located near the unincorporated village of Malvern, Illinois, in rural Whiteside County, north of Morrison, Illinois, United States. The original mill on the site, built by 1853, was destroyed by a flood and the present mill was erected in 1858. The mill&#39;s first owner was William P. Hiddleson who operated the mill until he sold to Benjamin Hough in 1871. The mill changed hands over the years until it landed under the control of George Appel in 1892. The Appel family closed the mill in 1942 but it remained in their family until 1985. The Malvern Roller Mill was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The property where Malvern Roller Mill is located was purchased by William P. Hiddleson on October 1, 1845. No records exist to indicate when Hiddleson built the mill on the east bank of Rock Creek in Clyde Township, Whiteside County but it is known that the country mill was in place by 1853.</p><br>
<p>The original mill was powered by a vertical waterwheel; the mill, at the time, utilized buhrstones to grind the meal. On the nearby property, discarded buried buhrstones can be found. In the 1870s or 1880s the mill owners added a 20 hp turbine to help the mill keep up with advances in technology. In 1888 Schriner installed a set of rollers, manufactured by Barkley and Leads Machine Company of Moline, Illinois, at the demand of his mill operator, Amos Greater, who had threatened to quit absent the rollers.</p><br>
<p>Millwright George Appel, from Sterling, Illinois, leased the mill, adjacent land and buildings in 1892. Appel, a recent German immigrant to the United States, oat huller and made oatmeal, corn meal, flour, and bran at the mill with his son. The mill, properly known as the Malvern Roller Mill or Malvern Milling Company, became known as the Appel Mill during this time period. The Appel family held the mill from its purchase in 1892 until 1985. Flour and meal, marketed under the Malvern Roller Mill name, was marketed in Sterling, shipped out the railroad and sold in far away location such as New York City and England.</p><br>
<p>John Appel took control of the mill in 1926 and operated it until its closure in 1942. During Appel&#39;s last years running the mill he limited his customers to nearby farmers who needed grains custom ground for animal feed.</p><br>
<h2>Mill</h2><br>
<p>The Malvern Roller Mill is a country grist mill located in Whiteside County, Illinois along Old Clover Road. The mill building sits about 300 feet (91.4 m) from the present-day roadway, Felton Road, which was rerouted in 1992. The mill is near the small northeastern Whiteside County community of Malvern, about nine miles (14 km) northeast of Morrison, Illinois. The mill building sits on the south bank of Rock Creek, a tributary of the Rock River, and to its northeast is a stone faced dam. The dam stretches the 80 to 90 feet (24.4 m to 27.4 m) across the Rock Creek, it is about 5 feet (1.5 m) thick and was reinforced with concrete during the 1950s. The 1858 mill building is of studded wall construction. The rectangular shaped building is 26½ feet (8.1 m) by 38 feet (11.6 m). To the west of the mill building is a circa 1890 Pratt truss bridge.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>The Malvern Roller Mill was added to the USA National Register of Historic Places on August 4, 1995 because of its local significance in the areas of industry and commerce. The building operated as a grinding mill for farmers and the nearby community of Malvern from its construction until it closed in 1942. It is the only known mill in northwestern Illinois that retains all of its equipment for an all roller and no grindstone process. If the millrace and turbines are clean the mill could operate as it did when it was in business. The Malvern Roller Mill provides a glimpse at the complexity of late 19th century milling operations.</p><br>
<p>Echinos  is a village and a community in the municipality Myki. Before the 2011 local government reform it was part of the municipality of Myki, of which it was a municipal district.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>According to the legend Echinos was founded during the 1360s by Lala Shahin Pasha, hence its old name - Shahin.</p><br>
<p>The village is first mentioned in an Ottoman document from the middle of the 16th century. The document lists those who voluntarily took part in Ottoman military operations. According to that document 23 Muslim families and 18 single Muslims from Shahin were involved in those operations. Their incomes are also included in the document for proper taxation.</p><br>
<p>In the end of the 19th century the renowned explorer of the Rhodope Mountains St. Shishkov traveled through Shahin and wrote about the village that the people were very passionate Muslims and when one meets a woman, she turns her face aside. If you try to talk with her or ask her something, she would call her husband. He also wrote that the village was very rich and even the children used to dress in expensive clothes. The houses were two or three stories all painted in white. Shishkov describes the village more like a little town with some 200 houses.</p><br>
<p>According to Lyubomir Miletich as of 1912 Shahin was a Pomak village in the Darıdere kaza of the Ottoman Empire. According to Patriarch Cyril as of 1943 there were 417 households and 1975 inhabitants in Shahin - all Pomaks.</p><br>
<h2>Administrative division</h2><br>
<p>The community of Echinos consists of two separate settlements:</p><br>
<p>Melivoia (population 588)</p><br>
<p>Echinos (population 2,486)</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Echinos lies on a valley of the Rhodope Mountains. It is 761 kilometers northeast of Athens, 254 kilometers northeast of Thessalonica, and 27 kilometers north northeast of Xanthi.</p><br>
<h2>Population</h2><br>
<p>According to the 2011 census, the population of the settlement of Echinos was 2,486 people, an increase of almost 11% compared to that of the previous census of 2001. The majority of the population of Echinos are Pomaks.</p><br>
<h2>Notable people</h2><br>
<p>Chafiz Sophologiotatos Tzemali (born 1937-03-10) - a graduate of the Islamic University of Madinah and mufti of Komotini.</p><br>
<p>Kalipado  is a settlement on the island of Zakynthos of Greece. It is located 1 km northwest of Vanato and 5 km northwest of Zakynthos City. In 1981, the population of Kalipado was around 564 inhabitants. By 1991, the population had slightly declined to around 505 inhabitants. In 2011, the population was 736 inhabitants.</p><br>
<p>There is significant history attributed to the origins of this village in the area of Arkadioi, a municipal unit of the Southern Ionian Sea chain of islands that go from north, opposite Albania to the south, opposite the mid-Peloponesean southern coast of lower Greece. Its history embraces the era of Magna Graecia and Roman Empire through its many years of being an important colony of Venice, Milano and England, up through 1860 when the Ionian Islands joined post Ottoman-occupied Greece.</p><br>
<p>The August Bepler House is a historic residence in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Built in 1869 for a wealthy inventor and industrialist, it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>August Bepler made himself wealthy by inventing a machine to produce a new type of product, the flat-bottomed paper bag. The foreign-born Bepler settled in the United States in 1851; within four years he had formed a company to manufacture paper bags in the Cincinnati-area village of Lockland, although he relocated the firm to Cincinnati in 1858. Using the wealth gained from the company, Bepler arranged for the construction of the present house in 1869. He later paid for the construction of a second house to functionally the same design, but this later house, located in St. Louis, Missouri, is no longer standing.</p><br>
<p>Two stories tall with a weatherboarded exterior, the house rests on a stone foundation, is covered with a tin roof, and features elements of brick. A large bay window occupies much of the side on the left of a viewer facing the front of the house, while the facade itself features a large columned porch; the columns are topped with capitals resembling those of the ancient Corinthian order. Together with smaller elements, the colonnade creates an excellent Neoclassical appearance, a style not particularly common in the area.</p><br>
<p>In 1977, the Bepler House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its historically significant architecture and because it had been the home of a prominent local resident.</p><br>
<p>The Bernheim House is a historic residence in eastern Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Built in 1912, it is built of brick and stucco with wooden elements.</p><br>
<p>Morris and Delia Bernheim arranged for the construction of the house in 1912 on open land approximately 13 acre in area. One of the owners of a conveyor belt factory, Morris chose to subdivide his property in the 1920s into two separate developments. In contrast to the Bernheim House, most of the houses in the development are built in the Tudor Revival style of architecture, thus increasing the distinctive architecture of the oldest house in the neighborhood. Because of its distinctive historic architecture, the Bernheim House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Blair House is a historic house in the city of Montgomery, Ohio, United States. One of the best examples of Victorian-period Italianate architecture in the city, it was built for butcher James Blair and his wife Anne in 1875. A brick structure with a slate roof, it is a two-story structure built in the plan of the letter "L." Among its distinctive architectural elements are the ornamented single-story bay, the brackets that support the eaves of the roof, and the corbelled chimneys.</p><br>
<p>In 1982, the Blair House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its well-preserved historic architecture. Its date makes it close to unique; most of the city&#39;s remaining nineteenth-century buildings were erected before 1850, and almost no other Victorian structures have survived to the present day. It is one of five locations in Montgomery that is listed on the Register, along with the Montgomery Saltbox Houses, the Universalist Church Historic District, the Wilder-Swaim House, and the Yost Tavern.</p><br>
<p>The Ayres L. Bramble House is a historic residence on the eastern side of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Built in the Greek Revival style of architecture in 1815, Two stories tall, the house features a Neoclassical entrance portico with fluted columns in the Doric order. Although built in the vernacular plan of an I-house, it features many other Greek Revival elements, such as the decorative molding and ornate plaster casts.</p><br>
<p>Ayres Bramble himself was a large-scale hog farmer; his operation was significant enough that it attracted notice in many different periodicals of the day. Besides raising hogs, Bramble eventually entered the business of killing them: he opened a slaughterhouse in Plainville that processed more than 36,000 animals in only one year. In Bramble&#39;s day, Cincinnati was known as "Porkopolis" due to its place as the leading center of pork packing in the United States; his operation was smaller than some in the city, but it was larger than any other slaughterhouse in the remnant portions of Hamilton County.</p><br>
<p>In 1982, the Ayres L. Bramble House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, both because of its historically significant architecture and its place as the home of a leading local citizen.</p><br>
<p>The Brittany Apartment Building is a historic apartment building in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. A Queen Anne structure constructed in 1885, built with brick walls and elements of wood and sandstone. It was built by the firm of Thomas Emerys Sons, Cincinnatis leading real estate developers during the 1880s. It is one of four large apartment complexes erected by the Emerys during the 1880s; only the Brittany and the Lombardy Apartment Buildings have endured to the present day. Both the Lombardy and the Brittany were built in 1885 according to designs by Samuel Hannaford; at that time, his independent architectural practice was gaining great prominence in the Cincinnati metropolitan area.</p><br>
<p>Among the distinctive elements of the Brittany&#39;s architecture are the massive chimneys on each end of the building. The exterior of the building is covered with decorative pieces, such as a comprehensive cornice with boxed pediments, plentiful brick pilasters and corbelling, and prominent bay windows.</p><br>
<p>In 1980, the Brittany Apartment Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, due to its well-preserved historic architecture. Dozens of other properties in Cincinnati, including the Lombardy Apartment Building, were added to the Register at the same time as part of a multiple property submission of buildings designed by Samuel Hannaford. Eight months later, the portion of Ninth Street between Vine and Race Streets was added to the Register as the Ninth Street Historic District, and the Brittany Apartments were named one of the district&#39;s dozens of contributing properties.</p><br>
<p>The building has been redone as LeBrittany, housing 15 units of luxury condominiums.</p><br>
<p>The Jacob Bromwell House is a historic residence in the city of Wyoming, Ohio, United States. An Italianate house constructed in the late nineteenth century, it was originally the home of a USA Representative, and it has been designated a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>Jacob Bromwell</h2><br>
<p>Jacob H. Bromwell was among the most prominent politicians in Wyomings history. Besides serving as a lawyer and a professor, he held office as the city solicitor, as a common pleas court judge (1907-1913), and as Wyomings mayor (1880-1886). He was elected as a Republican Party to the United States House of Representatives, beginning with a special election in 1894 and continuing in office until 1903. The present house was built in 1876, while Bromwell was teaching in the public schools of southern Indiana and Cincinnati.</p><br>
<h2>Historic context</h2><br>
<p>Good transportation is a leading reason for Wyoming&#39;s prosperity. The city lies near the old pre-statehood road that connected Cincinnati with locations farther north, such as Fort Hamilton and Fallen Timbers. Curves in the road were cut off in 1806, forming a new road that is today followed by Springfield Pike through central Wyoming. Improvements in the 1830s only enhanced its importance. By this time, another mode of transportation had become significant: the Miami and Erie Canal was built a short distance to the east in 1828, and the village of Lockland grew up along its side. Railroads reached the city in 1851 with the construction of the Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton Railroad on the border between Lockland and Wyoming.</p><br>
<p>Because of Wyoming&#39;s proximity to the industry of Lockland, its easy transportation to the booming city of Cincinnati, and its pleasant scenery, many wealthy industrialists purchased local farms and built grand country houses. Most such houses were built in the Wyoming Hills area, west of Springfield Pike; growth in this area continued until the coming of the Great Depression. Kirby was typical of these rich industrialists, building a large house and commuting to Cincinnati daily.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Two stories tall, the Italianate Bromwell House is built in the shape of the letter "L". The walls are weatherboarded, built on a stone foundation and covered with an asphalt roof. Among the house&#39;s details are shutters on many of the windows, a side bay window, and an oculus in a gable on the front. Matching porches are placed on the front and rear of the house, featuring chamfered and bracketed pillars and a bracketed cornice.</p><br>
<h2>Recognition</h2><br>
<p>In 1979, a local historic preservation group began a citywide survey to identify Wyoming&#39;s historic buildings, and this effort culminated with a multiple property submission of eighteen houses, the Wyoming Presbyterian Church, and one historic district to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. Along with all but one of the other properties, the Jacob Bromwell House was listed on the Register in the following year, qualifying because of its historically significant architecture and its place as the home of a leading local citizen.</p><br>
<p>The Burchenal Mound is a Native American mound in the southwestern part of the USA state of Ohio.</p><br>
<p>Located in the village of Woodlawn, Overlooking the West Fork of Mill Creek, it was once part of a farm owned by the Burchenal family.</p><br>
<p>A test excavation of the Burchenal Mound was conducted in 1850. However, the results were never published; consequently, the cultural affiliation of its builders is unknown. Based on excavations of similar mounds, it is believed to be the work of the Adena or Hopewell peoples, who typically interred their dead and various grave goods within their mounds. While no further excavations have been conducted since 1850, soil tests have been performed on the surface; these have demonstrated that the mound is built primarily of sand. Its shape is almost perfectly circular.</p><br>
<p>In 1975, the Burchenal Mound was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its archaeological potential.</p><br>
<p>Lamentation Mountain, or Mount Lamentation, 720 ft, is a traprock mountain located 2.5 mi north of Meriden, Connecticut. It is part of the narrow, linear Metacomet Ridge that extends from Long Island Sound near New Haven, Connecticut, north through the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts to the Vermont border. Lamentation Mountain is known for its scenic vistas, extensive cliff faces, unique microclimate ecosystems, and rare plant communities. It rises steeply 550 ft above the city of Meriden to the south with west-facing cliffs of 200 ft or more. The cliff line, described by the Connecticut Forest and Park Association as "perhaps the most scenic traprock ridge walk in the state" is a prominent landscape feature visible for miles.</p><br>
<p>The mountain is traversed by the 50 mi Mattabesett Trail.</p><br>
<h2>Origin of name</h2><br>
<p>Lamentation Mountain takes its name from an incident in 1653 when a member of a nearby colony became lost on the mountain for three days before he was found by a search party. Also known from a legend in the 1700s when a Native American Girl committed suicide by jumping off the Mountaintop from the loss of her love.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Roughly 3 mi long by 0.75 mi wide, Lamentation Mountain is located within the towns of Middletown, Berlin, and Meriden, Connecticut.</p><br>
<p>Crescent Lake, (formerly called Bradley Hubbard Reservoir), lies nestled in the gap between Lamentation Mountain and Chauncey Peak. The lake provides emergency drinking water to the city of Meriden. Silver Lake, visible from the cliffs, is located in the low gap between Lamentation Mountain and Cathole Mountain.</p><br>
<p>The Metacomet Ridge continues west from Lamentation Mountain to become Cathole Mountain of the Hanging Hills; it continues south as Chauncey Peak. Another, lower extension continues 8 mi north culminating in the uplands of Rocky Hill, Connecticut. The southern half of Lamentation Mountain drains into the Quinnipiac River, thence to Long Island Sound; the northern half to the Mattabesett River, then to the Connecticut River, thence to Long Island Sound.</p><br>
<h2>Geology and ecology</h2><br>
<p>Lamentation Mountain, like much of the Metacomet Ridge, is composed of basalt, also called traprock, a volcanic rock. The mountain formed near the end of the Triassic Period with the rifting apart of the North American continent from Africa and Eurasia. Lava welled up from the rift and solidified into sheets of strata hundreds of feet thick. Subsequent faulting and earthquake activity tilted the strata, creating the cliffs and ridgeline of Lamentation Mountain. Hot, dry upper slopes, cool, moist ravines, and mineral-rich ledges of basalt talus produce a combination of microclimate ecosystems on the mountain that support plant and animal species uncommon in greater Connecticut. Lamentation Mountain is also an important raptor migration path. (See Metacomet Ridge for more information on the geology and ecosystem of Lamentation Mountain).</p><br>
<h2>Recreation and conservation</h2><br>
<p>The southern third of Lamentation Mountain lies within Giuffrida Park, managed by the city of Meriden. The park boasts a lake, golf course, woodlands, and the rocky peaks of Lamentation Mountain and Chauncey Peak. Permitted activities within the park include hiking, snowshoeing, cross-country skiing, picnicking, and bicycling. Swimming, boating, and fishing are prohibited on Crescent Lake. Rock climbing is prohibited within the park but is permitted elsewhere on the mountain. The park supports a number of trails, most notably the 50 mile (80k) Mattabesett Trail which stretches from the northern end of Lamentation Mountain, south to Totoket Mountain and north again to the Connecticut River. The 51 mile (80k) Metacomet Trail connects to the Mattabesett Trail at the foot of Lamentation Mountain; the Connecticut Forest and Park Association maintains both trails. Trailhead parking for Lamentation Mountain is located at Giufridda Park on Westfield Road, 1.2 mi east of its junction with USA Route 5 and 1.8 mi west of Interstate 91, exit 20, via Country Club Road (which becomes Westfield Road) and alongside Spruce Brook Road in Berlin, 0.5 miles (0.75 km) east of its junction with USA Route 5 and 1.75 mi south of Berlin center.</p><br>
<p>In 2000, Lamentation Mountain was included in a study by the National Park Service for the designation of a new National Scenic Trail now tentatively called the New England National Scenic Trail, which would include the Metacomet-Monadnock Trail in Massachusetts and the Mattabesett Trail and Metacomet Trail trails in Connecticut.</p><br>
<p>The Berlin Land Trust and the Meriden land Trust are active in the conservation of Lamentation Mountain and its viewshed.</p><br>
<p>Bradley Mountain, 700 ft, is a traprock mountain located 3 mi west of New Britain, Connecticut, United States, in the towns of Southington and Plainville.</p><br>
<p>It is part of the narrow, linear Metacomet Ridge that extends from Long Island Sound near New Haven, Connecticut, north through the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts to the Vermont border. Bradley Mountain, popular as an outdoor recreation destination in the metropolitan Hartford/ New Britain area, is known for its clifftop scenic vistas overlooking Plainville Reservoir, unique microclimate ecosystems, and rare plant communities. Bradley Mountain is traversed by the 62.7 mi Metacomet Trail.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Roughly 1.5 mi in diameter, Bradley Mountain rises steeply 450 ft above the Quinnipiac River valley to the west. The mountain consists of an upper ridgeline with several summits and a lower 375 ft high bluff-line. The Metacomet Ridge continues north from Bradley Mountain as the ridgeline of Pinnacle Rock and south as Ragged Mountain. Plainville Reservoir (also called Crescent Lake) occupies a bowl-shaped valley on the western side of the mountain, and Shuttle Meadow Reservoir stands between Bradley Mountain and Ragged Mountain to the south. The lower bluff-line is occupied by suburban development. A 0.5 mi diameter traprock quarry, owned by Tilcon, has obliterated the northeast side of Bradley Mountain below the summit.</p><br>
<p>The Quinnipiac River, not much more than a brook this far north, passes west through the gap between Bradley Mountain and Pinnacle Rock, forming the north and west and drainage of the mountain, before flowing into Long Island Sound. The east and south sides of the mountain drain into the Mattabesett River, then to the Connecticut River, thence to Long Island Sound.</p><br>
<h2>Geology and ecology</h2><br>
<p>Bradley Mountain, like much of the Metacomet Ridge, is composed of basalt, also called traprock, a volcanic rock. The mountain formed near the end of the Triassic Period with the rifting apart of the North American continent from Africa and Eurasia. Lava welled up from the rift and solidified into sheets of strata hundreds of feet thick. Subsequent faulting and earthquake activity tilted the strata, creating the cliffs and ridgeline of Bradley Mountain. Hot, dry upper slopes, cool, moist ravines, and mineral-rich ledges of basalt talus produce a combination of microclimate ecosystems on the mountain that support plant and animal species uncommon in greater Connecticut. Bradley Mountain is an important raptor migration path. (See Metacomet Ridge for more information on the geology and ecosystem of Bradley Mountain).</p><br>
<h2>Recreation and conservation</h2><br>
<p>Despite the development on its lower slopes and the quarry on the mountain&#39;s northeast side, Bradley Mountain is a large area of protected public land. Much of the summit and the upper ridgeline west of the summit extending down to Plainville Reservoir has been conserved as Sunset Rock State Park, an undeveloped state property, and as water conservation property managed by the town of Southington. Permitted activities include, boating, fishing, mountain biking, hiking, picnicking, snowshoeing, and bow hunting (in season). A number of rock climbing websites indicate several climbing routes on the mountain. Permits are required for non-resident boating and fishing. Bradley Mountain is also traversed by the 51 mi Metacomet Trail, (maintained by the Connecticut Forest and Park Association), which extends from the Hanging Hills of Meriden, Connecticut to the Massachusetts border. The Metacomet Trail also passes by Shuttle Meadow Reservoir, managed by the New Britain water department. Bradley Mountain offers a number of clifftop views west over Plainville Reservoir and south toward Ragged Mountain.</p><br>
<p>The ecosystem of Bradley Mountain is most threatened by quarrying. In 2000, Bradley Mountain was included in a study by the National Park Service for the designation of a new National Scenic Trail now called the New England National Scenic Trail, which includes the Metacomet-Monadnock Trail in Massachusetts as well as the Mattabesett Trail, Metacomet Trail and Menunkatuck Trail trails in Connecticut.</p><br>
<p>The Berlin Land Trust is active in the conservation of Bradley Mountain and its viewshed.</p><br>
<p>The Kitakami River is the fourth largest river in Japan and the largest in the Tōhoku region. It is 249 km long and drains an area of 10,150 km&sup2;. It flows through mostly rural areas of Iwate and Miyagi Prefectures. The source of the river is the Mount Nanashiruge in northern Iwate, from which it flows to the south between the Kitakami Mountains and the Ou Mountains. The river is unusual in that it has two mouths, one flowing south into Ishinomaki Bay and the other flowing east into the Pacific Ocean, both in Ishinomaki City.</p><br>
<p>The Kitakami river was an important transportation route during the Edo period and before the building of railways in the early Meiji period. Numerous dams have been constructed on the river and its tributaries from the Taisho and Showa periods for hyroelectric power generation, flood control and irrigation. However, another unusual feature is that there are no dams from its mouth to the Shijūshida Dam north of Morioka. This allows for a spectacular salmon run every fall.</p><br>
<h2>Tributaries</h2><br>
<p>In Iwate Prefecture from north to south showing from which direction the water flows and the city where it empties into the Kitakami River.</p><br>
<p>Tanto-gawa - from the east (Iwate)</p><br>
<p>Matsu-gawa - from the west (Hachimantai)</p><br>
<p>Nakatsu River - from the east (Morioka)</p><br>
<p>Shizukuishi River - from the west (Morioka)</p><br>
<p>Iwasaki-gawa - from the west (Shiwa)</p><br>
<p>Takina-gawa - from the west (Shiwa)</p><br>
<p>Kuzumaru-gawa - from the west (Hanamaki)</p><br>
<p>Hienuki-gawa - from the east (Hanamaki)</p><br>
<p>Sarugaishi River - from the east (Hanamaki)</p><br>
<p>Se-gawa - from the west (Hanamaki)</p><br>
<p>Toyosawa-gawa - from the west (Hanamaki)</p><br>
<p>Waga River - from the west (Kitakami)</p><br>
<p>Isawa River - from the west (Ōshū)</p><br>
<p>Hirose-gawa - from the east (Ōshū)</p><br>
<p>Hitokabe-gawa - from the east (Ōshū)</p><br>
<p>Koromo-gawa - from the west (Hiraizumi)</p><br>
<p>Iwai-gawa - from the west (Ichinoseki)</p><br>
<p>Kitetsu-gawa - from the north (Ichinoseki)</p><br>
<p>Senmaya-gawa - from the east (Ichinoseki)</p><br>
<p>Kinomi-gawa - from the east (Fujisawa)</p><br>
<p>Kinryu-gawa - from the west (Ichinoseki)</p><br>
<p>The Melrose Apartments were built in 1916 at 602 North 33rd Street in the Gifford Park neighborhood of Omaha, Nebraska. The Melrose was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>About</h2><br>
<p>A three-story, L-shaped building, the Melrose was completed during Omaha&#39;s first apartment "boom" period from 1912 to 1917.</p><br>
<p>Two separate three-story buildings are positioned adjacent to each other in an L-shape with a large courtyard between the buildings. Both buildings are made of brown brick with identical limestone and darker brown brick detailing, with the west building being larger than the north one. There are balconies flanking each building&#39;s entryway with "The Melrose" inscribed above.</p><br>
<p>The Melrose was rehabilitated in 1991, with virtually no alterations to the exterior and only minor changes in the interior.</p><br>
<p>East Peak, 976 ft, is a prominent basalt traprock mountain in the Hanging Hills of Meriden, Connecticut. Rugged and scenic, the peak rises steeply above the city of Meriden 600 ft below and is characterized by its vertical cliffs and sweeping views of southern Connecticut and Long Island Sound. A small stone observation tower known as Castle Craig stands on the summit.</p><br>
<p>East Peak is located within the 1,800 acre Hubbard Park. The 51 mi Metacomet Trail crosses East Peak, and a seasonal auto road climbs to a small parking lot at Castle Craig. Activities enjoyed on the peak include Hiking, bicycling, and in the winter, cross-country skiing on the road. Although East Peak appears on a number of rock climbing websites, the brochure to Hubbard Park indicates that the areas is closed to rock climbing.</p><br>
<p>Cathole Mountain, 515 ft, is the lowest peak in the trap rock Hanging Hills of Meriden, Connecticut. The rugged southern ledges of the mountain rise steeply 150 ft above the city of Meriden. The mountain is separated from South Mountain by the narrow, rocky Cathole Pass through which Connecticut Route 71 ascends.</p><br>
<p>The mountain consists of two prominences, the southern ledges 341 ft and the main peak one mile to the north. The 51 mile Metacomet Trail crosses Cathole Mountain and offers views of Cathole Pass. The cliffs continue south with views over Meriden, but there is no official trail that runs the length of them. Activities enjoyed on the peak include hiking, rock climbing, and in the winter, snowshoeing.</p><br>
<p>Much of the northern half of the mountain is privately owned.</p><br>
<p>Škrlatica, historically also known as Suhi plaz , is a mountain in the Slovenian Julian Alps. With its summit at 2,740m above sea level, it is the second highest peak in Slovenia  and the third highest in the Julian Alps as a whole .</p><br>
<p>The mountain&#39;s name derives from the feminine adjectival form of the Slovene word škrlat, a cognate of the colour scarlet, referring to the dramatic reddish-purple shade assumed by its steep northwestern rockface when viewed in the light of the sunset. The name Suhi plaz refers to a scree below Mount Spodnji Rokav.</p><br>
<p>The first recorded ascent of Škrlatica was made from the southern side on 24 August 1880 by Julius Kugy, accompanied by the mountain guide Andrej Komac and the hunter Matija Kravanja.</p><br>
<p>The Norwalk Islands are a chain of more than 25 islands amid partly submerged boulders, reefs and mudflats along a six-mile  stretch and mostly about a mile off the coast of Norwalk, Connecticut, and southwest Westport, Connecticut, in Long Island Sound.</p><br>
<p>The islands are used for several different types of recreational activities, including camping, boating, kayaking, swimming, bird watching. Ownership of the islands varies, with about a half dozen held in private hands, some owned by the governments of Norwalk or Westport and some are part of the Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge.</p><br>
<p>Various laws protect the islands, including town ordinances, the Coastal Barrier Resources Act, the National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966, and the Endangered Species Act. On a clear day, Manhattan&#39;s skyscrapers are visible.</p><br>
<p>Geologists generally consider the islands to be terminal moraines &mdash;material left by glaciers&mdash;deposited about 17,500 years ago as the ice cap paused in its retreat northward. Above water, the moraines are characterized by various rocks, gravel, sand, silt and clay, sometimes sorted out by waves. The Captain islands in Greenwich to the west are part of the same moraine (but not the Fish islands in Darien), and submerged parts of the same moraine are located between the Norwalk Islands and Charles Island, off Milford, to the east. (That island is probably part of the Hammonasset-Ledyard Moraine.)</p><br>
<p>Some historians have speculated that rocks from the islands were used as ballast for sailing ships returning to New York, where the rocks may have been used for cobblestones.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>No fresh water is provided at any of the islands.</p><br>
<h3>Kayaking</h3><br>
<p>The islands are popular with kayakers, with some paddling all the way from New York City. Tidal currents are gentle, the mainland is always visible and the electric power plant on Manressa Island helps with navigation (although if fog hits it can cause sudden and complete disorientation). Public boat launches and beaches are nearby, and some businesses in Norwalk rent kayaks.</p><br>
<p>The South Western Regional Planning Agency published a brochure for kayakers describing a "Norwalk Islands Canoe and Kayak Trail" showing full-day and half-day loops. Guided tours are also available by kayak.</p><br>
<h3>Fishing, clamming and hunting</h3><br>
<p>Striped bass, bluefish, fluke, flounder, false albacore, bonito, trout, and dogfish can be caught off the islands. Some clamming beds off the islands are seeded.</p><br>
<p>In duck-hunting season, hunters may hunt below the mean high-tide line. Deer can be hunted on the privately owned islands with the owner&#39;s permission.</p><br>
<h3>Bird watching</h3><br>
<p>Rookeries were previously on many of the islands, but now most are on Cockenoe. Herons, egrets, black cormorants can be seen on Cockenoe.</p><br>
<h2>Wildlife</h2><br>
<p>Deer swim to the islands. Harbor seals are increasingly seen at the southwest end of Sheffield Island, although authorities have asked boaters to remain at least 50 yd from them in order not to disturb them (kayaks are about the same size as some seal predators). The Marine Mammal Protection Act prohibits harassing the animals and sets limits on how close observers may get.</p><br>
<p>Flora include thorn thickets, wild blackberries, black cherry, bittersweet, sassafras, juniper and honeysuckle.</p><br>
<p>Many birds are found on Sheffield Island and more than elsewhere, according to a brochure published in 2001 by the South Western Regional Planning Agency, but according to a July 2007 article in Darien, New Canaan & Rowayton magazine, Cockenoe island is now the largest home for birds, who have been in decline on the other islands. Sheffield Island, according to the planning agency brochure, has a "considerable nesting potential" for osprey, herons and other migratory species. Many wading birds, shore birds, songbirds and terns live on the island, including the endangered roseate tern. Brant, scoters, black duck and other waterfowl can be found in the waters surrounding the island.</p><br>
<h2>Largest islands</h2><br>
<h3>Chimon Island</h3><br>
<p>At 59 acre Chimon is the largest of the islands and is located in the middle of the group and a bit less than a mile to the southeast of the entrance to Norwalk Harbor. The island is part of the Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge.</p><br>
<p>The north and west coasts of the island are gravelly, and boulders are strewn along the south and east coasts. Although boaters may land at the three-acre beach at the northwest shore during the day, year round, access to the rest of the island is restricted from April 1 to August 15 each year (bird-nesting season). No overnight camping is allowed. Chimon Island is at 41.065&deg; latitude, -73.39&deg; longitude.</p><br>
<h3>Cockenoe Island</h3><br>
<p>Owned by the Westport town government, the island (Pronounced "kah-KEE-nee") has almost all the bird rookeries in the chain. Herons, egrets, black cormorants can be seen on Cockenoe. The cormorants&#39; guano, which leaves some of the rocks white, is toxic to the trees and kills them off after the birds nest in a spot for less than a year. Overnight camping is allowed by the town Conservation Department, but for only four parties per night. Cockenoe Island is at 41.085&deg; latitude, -73.355&deg; longitude.</p><br>
<h4>History</h4><br>
<p>An early rumor about the island was that William Kidd buried a treasure there. In the 19th century, the island was a working farm with a farmhouse, barn, and livestock. The business eventually turned into a whisky distillery, which the federal government raided in 1870. In the 1960s, The United Illuminating Company planned to build a nuclear power plant on Cockenoe. Due to concerned local residents and the threat of eminent domain, Westport bought the island for $200,000 in 1967.</p><br>
<h3>Shea Island</h3><br>
<p>Once called "Ram Island", the 45 acre isle was renamed after Daniel Shea, a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient from Norwalk who died in the Vietnam War. Owned by Norwalk city government, the island is just northeast of Sheffield Island and about 4,000 yd south of Manressa Island.</p><br>
<p>Along with Grassy Island, Shea is open to the public from May through Columbus Day, and campers with a permit can stay overnight. Two solar-powered restrooms are available in season, and there are 16 campsites. The entire shoreline is strewn with rocks and boulders, making it a more difficult place to approach by boat. Shea Island is at 41.0595&deg; latitude, -73.402&deg; longitude.</p><br>
<h3>Sheffield Island</h3><br>
<p>At 51 acre, Sheffield is the second largest island in the group, and the most southerly, located about 1,500 yd from the Norwalk coast and just southwest of Shea Island. The entire shoreline is strewn with rocks and boulders.</p><br>
<p>Many bird species nest on the island. Sheffield is also one of the best places to see seals. The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk organizes boat trips circling the islands, including a cruise to see the fall foliage and a winter cruise to see harbor seals and waterfowl (see Wildlife section for more information).</p><br>
<p>Part of the Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge, the island is controlled by the USA Fish and Wildlife Service, which closes it to the public most of the year in order to protect the bird nesting areas, The public is usually restricted to the 3.5 acre around the Sheffield Island Light, which the maintains, although a 2,000 yd trail has been created to allow the public controlled access. In the summer, the association arranges tours for people to visit the lighthouse and picnic there. On Thursday nights, clambakes and on Friday nights, sunset cruises are held. The lighthouse, built in 1868, was a navigational aid until about 1900. Sheffield Island is at 41.052&deg; latitude, -73.415&deg; longitude.</p><br>
<h2>Smaller islands</h2><br>
<p>These other islands are in the group:</p><br>
<p>Betts Island &mdash; located about 400 yd north of Chimon Island. Privately owned. Betts Island is at 41.072&deg; latitude, -73.389&deg; longitude.</p><br>
<p>Calf Pasture Island &mdash; located almost 1,000 yd to the southeast of Calf Pasture Beach. Calf Pasture Island is at 41.0825&deg; latitude, -73.384&deg; longitude.</p><br>
<p>Copps Island &mdash; located close to the southeast end of Crow Island. Copps Island is at 41.0589&deg; latitude, -73.387&deg; longitude.</p><br>
<p>Crow Island &mdash; located 300 yd to the southeast of Chimon Island. Crow Island is at 41.061&deg; latitude, -73.3905&deg; longitude.</p><br>
<p>Grassy Island &mdash; located 300 yd to the northeast of Chimon Island. Owned by Norwalk city government. Grassy Island has a better boat landing area than Shea Island. Open to the public May through Columbus Day. Campers with permits can stay overnight at one of the four camp sites. Grassy Island is at 41.071&deg; latitude, -73.382&deg; longitude.</p><br>
<p>Goose Island &mdash; located about 1,000 yd east of Grassy Island. Some say that scientific research was done on the island to find a cure for yellow fever. Others say the small stone hut on its shore was built as a spy lookout during World War II. Goose Island is at 41.071&deg; latitude, -73.372&deg; longitude.</p><br>
<p>Hoyt Island &mdash; located close to the coast of Norwalk. Hoyt Island is at 41.074&deg; latitude, -73.4195&deg; longitude.</p><br>
<p>Little Tavern Island &mdash; located about 150 yd northeast of Tavern Island. Little Tavern Island is at 41.0630&deg; latitude, -73.4201&deg; longitude.</p><br>
<p>Long Island &mdash; located about 300 yd east of the southern end of Manressa Island. Long Island is at 41.0729&deg; latitude, -73.4034&deg; longitude.</p><br>
<p>Peach Island &mdash; located about 100 yd east of the Harborview neighborhood in South Norwalk. This island is part of the McKinney Wildlife Refuge and is off limits to visitation. Peach Island is at 41.083&deg; latitude, -73.4055&deg; longitude.</p><br>
<p>Sprite Island &mdash; located about 300 yd to the northeast of Calf Pasture Beach and about 700 yd north of Calf Pasture Island. In the 1940s, the island was the summer home of a New York City financier. It is home to the Sprite Island Yacht Club, which bought the island from its former owner in 1952. The former owner bred collies, and the club turned the kennels into lockers. A rocky bluff is at one end of the island, and at another is a small, protected, rocky beach. It takes about 20 minutes to walk around the entire isle. Sprite Island is at 41.09&deg; latitude, -73.381&deg; longitude.</p><br>
<p>Tavern Island &mdash; located about 500 yd from Wilson Point and 1,000 yd north of Sheffield Island, it has a private mansion with grounds and walkways. Showman Billy Rose once owned Tavern Island. Tavern Island is at 41.0605&deg; latitude, -73.422&deg; longitude.</p><br>
<p>Tree Hammock Island &mdash; located about 2,000 ft south of Manressa Island and 1,000 ft north of Shea Island. Tree Hammock Island is at 41.0649&deg; latitude, -73.4053&deg; longitude.</p><br>
<p>Kampos  is a village in the Mani Peninsula, in Messenia in southern Greece. It was the seat of the municipality of Avia. Kampos had 422 inhabitants in 2011. It is located at height of 350m, on the provincial road Kalamata-Areopoli, 22 km. away from Kalamata.</p><br>
<p>Kampos has primary school and a junior high school. In the village there is the Byzantine church of SS. Theodores which is known for its frescoes. Also, there is the small church of St. John with 13th-century frescoes, and the tower-house of the Koumoundouros family, in which Alexandros Koumoundouros (a 19th-century politician and prime minister of Greece) was born. Near this tower-house there is the arched Mycenaean tomb of Machaon, son of Asclepius. Above the village is the castle of Zarnata.</p><br>
<p>Camp Olmsted is a summer camp and retreat in Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, operated by the Five Points Mission, a Methodist organization. It is located along Bayview Avenue, NY 218, near Storm King Mountain.</p><br>
<p>It was founded in 1901 when the mission, which had been working to improve conditions for residents of the eponymous Manhattan slum (depicted in the Martin Scorsese film Gangs of New York) since 1848. At the turn of the century, they realized children from the immigrant families they were helping needed a place to get away from the city during the summer. Sarah and John Olmsted donated the 21-acre (8 ha) parcel that was originally known as the Olmsted Fresh Air Home. Campers would take the Hudson River Day Liner from the city to Cornwall and then proceed to the camp.</p><br>
<p>In 1966 the New York City Society took a role in operating the camp, which, when three cabins were winterized, allowed for year-round operation. The camp was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, and accredited by the American Camp Association two years later. The addition of two adjoining properties in 1998 brought the facility to its current 76-acre (30 ha) size. Today the camp runs four 12-day sessions for city children in the summer, and religious retreats year-round.</p><br>
