<p>The Roger Butler House is a historic house located at 146 Jordan Lane in Wethersfield, Connecticut. Built about 1769, it is a well-preserved example of Georgian architecture, its only principal alteration the Italianate entrance surround. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 15, 1996.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The house stands on the north side of Jordan Lane, just east of its junction with Wolcott Hill Road. The Wilbur Cross Parkway passes on an embankment at the rear of the house, giving it a triangular lot. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, five bays wide, with a large central chimney and a centered entrance. Porches, probably added in the mid-19th century, are on the east and back sides. The front entrance was at one time sheltered by an Italianate hood, but that has been removed; it now has a simpler Georgian surround with corniced entablature. The interior retains a nearly complete set of original flooring, woodwork, and door hardware.</p><br>
<p>The house was built c. 1769, and remained in the hands of his descendants until 1954. The Butler family was long prominent in the area, its progenitor, Deacon Richard Butler, arriving in 1633. William Butler purchase the land this house stands on in 1767, and probably built this house two years later as a wedding gift for his son Roger. Local lore claims that the house was a stop on the Underground Railroad in the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>For the granite dome near Glacier Point, Yosemite National Park, see Sentinel Dome.</p><br>
<p>Sentinel Rock is a granitic peak in Yosemite National Park, California, United States. It towers over Yosemite Valley, opposite Yosemite Falls. Sentinel Rock lies 0.7 mi northwest of Sentinel Dome.</p><br>
<h2>How it was formed</h2><br>
<p>Sentinel Rock formed when masses of rock split off Yosemite Valley&#39;s south-side cliff, along steep joints trending nearly east-west. This formed the near-vertical north face of Sentinel Rock.</p><br>
<h2>Climbing</h2><br>
<p>The most famous climbing route is the Steck-Salathé route, which is rated a A0.</p><br>
<p>Climber Derek Hersey died while attempting to free solo climb Sentinel Rock in 1993.</p><br>
<p>Heaval is the highest hill on the island of Barra, Scotland. It is 383 meters tall and is located 1.5 km northeast of Castlebay. Barra is in the Outer Hebrides.</p><br>
<p>It is most easily ascended from the south east, from the top of a 102 m road pass about 1 km north east of Castlebay. There is signposted car park nearby. About halfway up the ridge, there is a white statue of the Virgin and Child. Near the top, the ridge becomes steep, but any difficulties can be bypassed on the south side.</p><br>
<p>The two other hills on Barra with more than 150 metres of reascent are Ben Tangaval (333 m) in the west, and Ben Cliad (202 m) in the north. Another hill, Theisabhal Mor (190 m) is on Vatersay, which is linked to Barra by causeway. Five of the uninhabited islands to the south have summits higher than 150 m; weather permitting, these islands can be visited, with time for summit ascents, by arrangement with http://www.barrafishingcharters.com/ Barra Fishing Charters.</p><br>
<p>The Eastside Community Center, formerly the Catholic Holy Cross Church, is an historic building in Batavia, Illinois. It was built in 1897 to serve the Holy Cross congregation of Batavia, many of whom were Irish immigrants who came to work in local quarries. The building operated as a church until the 1990s, when the property was transferred to the Batavia Park District. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Col. Joseph Lyon moved to the area now known as Batavia, Illinois in 1834. He built the first schoolhouse in Kane County, which also served as the first building for organized religion in the county. Starting in the 1840s, Batavia became a major source of limestone for the Chicago region. Batavia was largely a Methodist settlement, due to large numbers of Swedish immigrants who came to work in the quarries. The first Catholic services were held in private homes in 1854. Led by Father Sullivan, the followers were mostly Irish immigrants. The Catholics took over a vacant church building for their services in 1870 and became the Holy Cross congregation. As the congregation grew in the late 19th century, they decided to construct a new building.</p><br>
<p>Milo Kemp owned the piece of property on which the church was built. Fr. George Henry Rathz oversaw the construction of the Gothic Revival building. Construction was slowed due to the Panic of 1896 and was dedicated on June 15, 1897. Upon completion, the size of the congregation was 300 people. James William Shannon, a member of the church and owner of Shannon Quarry, donated the limestone for the project and functioned as the main builder. Due to large contributions from volunteers, the church only cost $12,000 to build.</p><br>
<p>A small, one-story schoolhouse was added to the lot in 1960. In the 1980s, the congregation again needed a larger building to serve its needs. They purchased a 14 acre site and built the church that is now known as Holy Cross Catholic Church at 2300 Main Street. On April 27, 1996, the old building was transferred to the Batavia Park District and serves as the assembly hall of the Eastside Community Center. A corridor was added between the former church and the schoolhouse to facilitate travel between the two buildings in their new capacity. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 20, 1999.</p><br>
<p>The building is on a 165 by lot in a residential neighborhood three blocks east of the Fox River. The church itself is 58 by with an entrance facing the south. The nave is 48 by has been renamed Shannon Hall (for the builder). The north side of the building features a six-sided apse. The bell tower is in the southwest and rises 125 ft with a steeply pitched gable. A 10 foot window forms a quatrefoil surrounded with circles above the main door. The roof is covered with asbestos shingles.</p><br>
<p>Alpochori  is a village and a community in southern Achaea, Greece. Alpochori is located on the northern slope of Mount Erymanthos, about 35 km south of Patras. In 2011 Alpochori had a population of 99 for the village and 236 for the community, which includes the village Agios Dimitrios.</p><br>
<h2>Population</h2><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The area followed the fate of the rest of Achaea. Between 1460 and 1821 the area was ruled by the Ottoman Turks, except a brief period of Venetian rule between 1687 and 1715. In the Venetian censuses of 1697 and 1699 the village was called Alpochori Trano (Αλποχώρι Τρανό) and had 111 inhabitants, in 1700, it had 38 families. Alpochori became Greek after the Greek War of Independence of 1821.</p><br>
<p>Alpochori was part of the municipality of Erymanthia between 1835 and 1841, and of the municipality of Tritaia between 1841 and 1912. It was an independent community between 1912 and 1998, and became part of Tritaia again in 1998. At the 2010 Kallikratis reform, it became part of the new municipality Erymanthos.</p><br>
<p>The SUNY System Administration Building, formerly the Delaware & Hudson Railroad Building, is a public office building located at the intersection of Broadway and State Street in downtown Albany, New York. Locally the building and land it sits on is referred to as State University Plaza, or the D&H Plaza; prior to the construction of the Empire State Plaza it was simply "The Plaza". It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 as Delaware and Hudson Railroad Company Building. In 1980, when the Downtown Albany Historic District was listed on the Register, it was included as a contributing property.</p><br>
<p>The central tower is thirteen stories high and is capped by an 8 ft working weathervane that is a replica of Henry Hudsons Half Moon. The State University of New York is centrally administered from this location. The southern towers four top floors at one point were the official residence of the Chancellor of SUNY.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building and the land it sits on itself has a varied history. The building sits at the foot of State Street along Broadway, in the oldest part of the city. It was here that several of Albanys earliest city halls sat, along with the New York State Legislature in the 18th century. The Albany Plan of Union in 1754, presided over by Ben Franklin, was held here. This land was once along the Hudson Rivers banks, over time being infilled, including in 1911 as part of the construction of the Plaza. The city of Albany purchased and consolidated the land ownership that allowed the D&H to build the building and the city to have a park in front surrounded by a street that acted as a loop for the trolleys running on State Street. Public access was allowed to the Hudson River through the central tower and by way of an underground tunnel to the other side of the D&H tracks. The design by Marcus T. Reynolds was based on the Nieuwerk annex of the Cloth Hall in Ypres, Belgium.</p><br>
<p>Originally for this site Reynolds envisioned a triangular park at the termination of State Street with a large L-shaped pier that would go north for three city blocks that would also support another park with a bandshell and docks for yachts and boats. That design would have cost $1 million and was opposed by neighborhood groups as too expensive and grand a design, along with the problems of the railroad traffic. The idea of opening up the view of the waterfront to the public was considered unfeasible and undesirable as the river was full of commercial docks, wharves, warehouses, and railroads. A plan initiated by the Albany Chamber of Commerce (later published under the name of Stvdies for Albany) decided upon a public park as a plaza surrounded by buildings that would screen the locomotive smoke, obnoxious odors and sights of the working waterfront from the vista of State Street.</p><br>
<p>The D&H Railroad used the building as their corporate headquarters; the southern part of the building, which was built later than the main building in 1916-18, housed the Albany Evening Journal newspaper. William Barnes, editor of Evening Journal had a lavish apartment on the upper floors. In 1924 the paper was sold to the Albany Times Union and the building became home to various other businesses including the predecessor to the New York State Department of Transportation.</p><br>
<p>After the D&H and Evening Journal both abandoned the building it sat dormant until November 1972 when the State University of New York (SUNY) announced it would purchase the building as its first permanent home, having occupied One Commerce Plaza as a temporary home since March of that year. SUNY purchased the building in 1973 and construction began that year. The offices were moved into in 1978. That same year SUNY Chancellor Clifton Wharton, Jr. decided that the southern tower would house the chancellor&#39;s apartment. The total renovation of the Plaza cost $15 million. In 1977 the neighboring Federal Building was purchased and added to the State University Plaza. William Hall Associates won the top Owens Corning Energy Conservation Award in the government category for their work in the renovation.</p><br>
<p>The building&#39;s facade was restored from 1996 to 2001; it was covered in scaffolding during the five years of the restoration.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>From north to south the building consisted of at least six sections. When first built the building had an undecorated warehouse directly behind the old Federal Building built of reinforced concrete. South of where the warehouse stood begins the current structure, beginning with a square tower with four corner turrets. A 5-story tall "arm" diagonally connects the north tower with the 13-story tall central tower. Those sections were built first, in 1914-5. The building was too small for all the D&H employees and so another "arm" was built south of the tower terminating at another square tower with corner turrets to house the offices of the Albany Evening Journal. When finally finished in 1918 the building was 660 ft long. Today, without the warehouse, the Plaza is 630 ft long and 48 ft wide. The Plaza has approximately 200,000 ft&sup2; of office space, with the former Federal Building providing an additional 90,000 ft&sup2;.</p><br>
<p>Though the building is in the Gothic architectural style the building sports several touches that tie the building into the Dutch heritage of Albany. The central tower sports an 8 ft weathervane that is in the shape of Henry Hudsons ship the Half Moon while the gables of the entire building bear the coat-of-arms of prominent Dutch families including that of Albanys first mayor, Pieter Schuyler. Other non-gothic elements include the names and dates of prominent printers on the Albany Evening Journal building, including William Caxton 1487, the father of English printing.</p><br>
<p>The building serves as the terminating vista of State Street.</p><br>
<h2>Photos</h2><br>
<p>Monte Zoncolan  is a mountain in the Carnic Alps, located in the region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. It is one of the most demanding climbs in professional road bicycle racing, having been used in the Giro dItalia five times  and the Giro Donne once . Gilberto Simoni was the winner of the first two stages finishing on Monte Zoncolan in the mens Giro while Ivan Basso won in 2010, Igor Antón won in 2011, Michael Rogers won in 2014 and Fabiana Luperini won at the only visit in the women&#39;s race.</p><br>
<p>The mountain also holds the ski resort of Ravascletto with 22 km of slopes and a skiable height between 950 and 2000 m.</p><br>
<h2>Details of the climb</h2><br>
<p>The mountain can be climbed on three roads: one from Ovaro, another from Sutrio, and a third from Priola.</p><br>
<p>West from Ovaro: This is a very demanding climb, and one of the most difficult in Europe, usually compared to the Alto de El Angliru. It was featured for the first time in the 2007 Giro d&#39;Italia. The climb starts in Ovaro in the Gorto valley, and is 10.1 km long at an average of 11.9% with an elevation gain of 1,210 m and a maximum gradient of 22%. The real climb however starts at Liariis, 8.5 km from the summit. Shortly after the village, the road disappears into forest and gains 900 m in the next 6 km, averaging thus 15%. After this section, the road passes through three short tunnels, before a series of steep switchbacks immediately beneath the summit. The former rough asphalt between Liariis and the tunnels was replaced in 2007; that between the last tunnel and the summit had already been resurfaced by autumn 2005. The tunnels are now lit.</p><br>
<p>East from Sutrio: This route is less demanding than the road from Ovaro but it is also one of Italys most challenging climbs. It was featured for the first time in the 1997 Giro Donne and later in the 2003 Giro dItalia. The actual climb to the summit starts at Sutrio and is 13.5 km long at an average of 9% with an elevation gain of 1,210 m and a maximum gradient being 23%. The first 8.7 km have an average gradient of 8.7%, followed by a false flat after this section. The most demanding section is the final 3.5 km with an average gradient of 13% and the initial part of the final kilometre at 22% grade.</p><br>
<p>East from Priola: This is the original old road which was replaced by the newer road from Sutrio described above. The two roads combine around 4 km below the summit. The road from Priola was first asphalted in autumn 2005. From bottom to top, the 8.9 km long road gains an astonishing 1,140 m, meaning an average gradient of 12.8%. The lower part has sharp hairpin bends and is at times very steep. The climb is briefly flat after merging with the newer road, with the remaining 3.5 km containing several ramps of up to 23% steepness.</p><br>
<h2>Giro d'Italia</h2><br>
<p>Monte Zoncolan has been featured in the mens Giro dItalia five times so far. The first time was in the 12th stage of the 2003 Giro dItalia, won by Gilberto Simoni, using the road from Sutrio, at the east side of Monte Zoncolan. It was also the last time that Marco Pantani was seen fighting for a stage victory in the Giro dItalia, launching an unsuccessful attack 3 kilometres from the finish line and finishing in the fifth place, forty-two seconds behind Simoni. Prior to this edition, the climb was used in 10th stage of the 1997 Giro Donne, where Fabiana Luperini won en route to the third of her five overall victories.</p><br>
<p>Monte Zoncolan was featured for a second time in 17th stage of the 2007 Giro dItalia, also won by Gilberto Simoni, but this time using the more demanding road from Ovaro. The climb featured once again in the 15th stage of the 2010 Giro dItalia and Ivan Basso won the stage, that would eventually prove to be the deciding stage of that years Giro dItalia. Zoncolan featured in the 2011 Giro dItalia, during the 14th stage, which was won by Igor Antón, followed by Alberto Contador and Vincenzo Nibali. The last time monte Zoncolan was featured was in the 2014 Giro dItalia, during the 20th stage, which was won by Michael Rogers.</p><br>
<h2>Winners of Monte Zoncolan stage at the Giro d'Italia</h2><br>
<h2>Winners of Monte Zoncolan stage at the Giro d'Italia Femminile</h2><br>
<p>The Spalding Building, formerly the Oregon Bank Building, is a historic office building in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States on the northwest corner of SW 3rd Avenue and Washington streets. Since 1982, it has been on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Architect Cass Gilbert worked on the American Renaissance-style Spalding building while also working on the Woolworth Building in New York City. Completed in 1911, it was considered a skyscraper.</p><br>
<p>The 103,824 ft&sup2; building contains 12 above-ground floors, and its construction mimics a classical column: A base, a shaft, and a capital.</p><br>
<p>In spring 2016, Squarespace, a website-design company based in New York, moved its Portland office to the Spalding Building, in newly renovated space used by around 150 employees.</p><br>
<p>Sudbrook Park is a historic neighborhood near Pikesville, Maryland located just northwest of the Baltimore City limits in Baltimore County.</p><br>
<p>The community dates to 1889 when it was designed by American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. (1822&ndash;1903) and developed by the Sudbrook Company. Known most for designing well-known urban projects like Central Park in New York City, Olmsted conceived this "suburban village" with curved roads and open green spaces, traits that set the community apart from its contemporaries. Two homes in the district were designed by architect George Archer in the Colonial Revival style.</p><br>
<p>Sudbrook Park was registered on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, and from 1993 to 1999 portions of Sudbrook Park became listed as Baltimore County Historic Districts.</p><br>
<p>Today, the community continues to uphold Olmsted&#39;s vision through community association regulations. It is a tight-knit community and holds several annual events and neighborhood activities.</p><br>
<h2>One-lane bridge</h2><br>
<p>One of Sudbrook Parks unique features is the one-lane bridge that crosses over Western Maryland Railway. Constructed in 1889, the bridge stood for more than a century with a wooden platform. In 2005, the bridge closed for reconstruction. It reopened about a year later with an asphalt pavement, retaining its one-lane status in order to preserve the communitys historic charm.</p><br>
<p>The Clarksville Historic District in Austin, Texas, is an area located west of downtown Austin near Lady Bird Lake and just northeast of the intersection of the Missouri Pacific Railroad and West Tenth Street. Many historic homes and structures are located within the Clarksville Historic District. While Clarksville is geographically part of the Old West Austin Historic District, it is distinct from the two historic neighborhoods of Old Enfield which lies immediately to the north on the eastern side of Texas State Highway Loop 1  and Tarrytown which is situated to the west and northwest on the western side of Mopac.</p><br>
<p>Founded by freedman Charles Clark in 1871, Clarksville is the oldest surviving freedomtown ‒ the original post-Civil War settlements founded by former African-American slaves ‒ west of the Mississippi River. The historic district was inducted into the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 in recognition of its unique and valuable history.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The area was originally part of a 365 acre tract of land belonging to Texas Governor Elisha Pease, and in 1871 was sold to Charles Clark, a freedman who would start the community that now bears his name. Clark built a house on what is now West Tenth Street and subdivided the remainder of the land to other freedmen. Just a mile west of Austin, Clarksville soon became a de facto part of the city, especially when the International-Great Northern Railroad laid tracks nearby in the 1870s. The Sweet Home Baptist Church, a cornerstone of the community to this day, was founded prior to 1882, and a school existed as early as the 1890s.</p><br>
<p>At least six communities of emancipated slaves existed around Austin including Wheatville (founded by celebrated Austin black leader Reverend Jacob Fontaine), Pleasant Hill, and Clarksville.</p><br>
<p>However, early in the twentieth century developers began to realize the land value of Clarksville, which lay near growing downtown Austin. Austin city policy aimed to concentrate the local black population in the east, and pressured black communities in west Austin, such as Clarksville and Wheatville, to move. In 1918 the Austin school board closed the Clarksville school. Clarksville residents were later forced to use city services in east Austin or none at all. The 1928 master plan of the city of Austin embraced Jim Crow and recommended "that all the facilities and conveniences be provided the Negroes in this district, as an incentive to draw the Negro population to this area." Most Clarksville residents endured the lack of services, however, and refused to move. In 1968 Clarksville residents unsuccessfully protested a state and local plan to build a highway along the Missouri Pacific Railroad, which extended along the western boundary of Clarksville. The completed Mopac Expressway sliced through the community, forcing 33 families to leave.</p><br>
<p>Despite pressure to move to segregated east Austin, Clarksville retained its African-American identity throughout the 20th century. Residents of Clarksville began requesting Austin city funds for the improvement and preservation in 1964, but dirt streets crossed the area until 1975, and a creek carrying sewage periodically flooded homes. However, in 1975 the Texas Historical Commission designated a two-block-wide strip of Clarksville as a historic district, and the city paved the streets with asphalt. In 1976 the Austin City Council approved the use of $100,000 from a federal housing and community-development grant to pave streets permanently, improve drainage, and expand the neighborhood playground. Another $100,000 was designated for housing rehabilitation. The same year Clarksville residents and supporters defeated a plan to build a thoroughfare through the community connecting Interstate 35 and the MoPac Expressway. Later in the 1970s, as rising land values drove lower-income residents out of the area, the Clarksville Community Development Corporation was established to provide low-income options to preserve the community&#39;s character. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Clarksville today</h2><br>
<p>Many European immigrants settled in Clarksville throughout the early 1900s, building a community still felt today. Anthony Colanetta settled in Clarksville and opened Anthonys Laundry & Cleaners at the corner of West 12th Street and West Lynn in 1950. Colanetta also built a drugstore that he leased to his friend Hylton Nau. Today both stores are still operating, and the soda fountain in Nau Enfield Drugstore is a rare find. Indeed, it was during the mid-1970s that Sledds Nursery, with their high quality plants and organic philosophy, and Jeffrey&#39;s high class, eclectic cuisine open their doors, only to have remained Clarksville staples ever since. In 1979 Craig Weller and Mark Skiles opened Clarksville Natural Grocery, and a year later they joined forces with John Mackey to open the first Whole Foods, then called Clarksville Natural Grocery.</p><br>
<p>Snickers Gap, originally Williams Gap, is a wind gap in the Blue Ridge Mountain on the border of Loudoun County and Clarke County in Virginia. The gap is traversed by Virginia State Route 7. The Appalachian Trail also passes across the gap. Bears Den and Raven Rocks are adjacent to the gap.</p><br>
<p>During the autumn bird migration the gap is a favored spot for birdwatchers to count and study the many raptors that follow the ridge on their way south.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>At 1,056 ft the gap is approximately 300 to 600 ft below the adjacent ridge line and 400 to 600 ft above the surrounding countryside. Due to the dwindling height of the Blue Ridge as it approaches the Potomac River, Snickers Gap is one of the lowest wind gaps of the ridge in Virginia, with only Manassas Gap and the adjacent Keyes Gap being lower. The gap connects the northern Virginia piedmont with the lower Shenandoah Valley and serves as a main thoroughfare between the two regions.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The gap has been a major thoroughfare between the Piedmont and the Shenandoah Valley since before the European colonization of the area. Native Americans originally cut a trail through the gap that continued to be used by white settlers. The gap was known as Williams Gap until the early 1780s, when the modern name began to be used. The gap derived its name from Edward Snickers, who owned the gap and surrounding land and operated a ferry across the Shenandoah River on the western side of the gap. By the late 18th century the Snickersville Turnpike and the Snickers Gap Turnpike were completed, and Snickers Gap became the main thoroughfare between Loudoun County and the Shenandoah, bypassing Keyes Gap, which to that point had been the preferred route. The two turnpikes joined at Snickersville (present-day Bluemont) and then proceeded over the gap to Winchester. The toll at the gap persisted well into the 20th century. The Snickers Gap turnpike was eventually made into Virginia State Route 7, and the toll was dropped. The gap was the scene of many small American Civil War skirmishes, and part of the Battle of Cool Spring (sometimes referred to as the "Battle of Snickers Gap") took place there.</p><br>
<p>The Rondout–West Strand Historic District is located on the shore of Rondout Creek along the southern boundary of the city of Kingston, New York, United States. Formerly Rondout, New York, it is bounded by the creek, Broadway, Hone, Ravine and McEntee streets, an area of 570 acres  containing 259 buildings, most dating to the 19th century. US 9W and the John T. Loughran Bridge are immediately to the east; the Kingston-Port Ewen Suspension Bridge crosses the creek to the west. The neighborhood is often referred to locally by either of the two names.</p><br>
<p>The name of the Rondout Creek comes from the fort, or redoubt, that was erected near its mouth The Dutch equivalent of the English word redoubt (meaning a fort or stronghold), is reduyt.</p><br>
<p>In the Dutch records of Wildwyck, however, the spelling used to designate this same fort is invariably Ronduyt during the earliest period, with the present form rondout (often capitalized) appearing as early as November 22, 1666. Because the spelling of the word was unusual and implied a proper name, the translators, Oppenheim and Versteeg, preserved the original form in their translations instead of giving the English equivalent, as O´Callaghan and Fernow had done.</p><br>
<p>The Dutch word ronduyt is an adjective meaning "frankly" or "positively." The word could also be broken down into its components and translated, literally, "round-out." However, it seems unlikely that the inhabitants of Esopus had any special meaning in mind when they corrupted the Dutch word reduyt into ronduyt and rondout. Most likely, this corrupting process merely represented the simplification of a word (reduyt).</p><br>
<p>The Strand</p><br>
<p>(original pronunciation, in Dutch: "strunt"). Strand means, in Dutch, a shore or beach. The street running along the north shore of the Rondout Creek near its mouth has always been called "The Strand," or, more recently, "Strand Street" (East and West).</p><br>
<p>A short, easily navigable distance up the creek from the Hudson River, the area, originally known as Kingston Landing, had always been an ideal location for a harbor. But it was not until the establishment of the Delaware and Hudson Canal in 1828 made it a key junction for coal being shipped from Northeast Pennsylvania and bluestone being quarried from the nearby Catskill Mountains that it was able to fully take advantage of that situation.</p><br>
<p>The industrial base established was such that the neighborhood remained prosperous long after the closing of the canal. But by the 1960s it had, like similar areas in many other American cities, fallen into decay, and it was only when urban renewal and the construction of the bridge led to the demolition of part of the neighborhood that efforts to preserve the remainder were seriously undertaken.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979; the city has recognized it in its ordinances as well. Today, the area is still an active waterfront, although it primarily sees recreational traffic. Many small boutiques and restaurants have opened in the old buildings along the streets; it has become a popular destination for visitors both by land and water. It is located adjacent to the West Strand Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The Sarawat Mountains or the Sarat  is a mountain range running parallel to the western coast of the Arabian Peninsula and is among the Peninsula&#39;s most prominent geographical features. The Sarawat start from the border of Jordan in the north to the Gulf of Aden in the south, running through Saudi Arabia and Yemen. The range&#39;s northern half, known as Sarat al-Hejaz rarely rises about 2,100 meters, while the middle and southern portions  can reach heights of over 3,300 meters.</p><br>
<p>This mountain range is the largest in the Arabian Peninsula. These mountains are mainly rocky and some can contain vegetation. Many of the peaks are fairly young and jagged, but some are smoother from weathering.</p><br>
<p>The northern part, running from about north of Ta&#39;if through western Saudi Arabia until the southern tip of Saudi Arabia. Some argue that the mountains of Lebanon and Western Syria are a continuation of the chain. It is mostly a slightly higher elevated area that the rest of Saudi Arabia, with the exception of Asir, and obscure landforms can be found in this chain. Elevations average around 1200–2000 meters, although the highest points are around 2400 meters above sea level.</p><br>
<p>After Medina, the mountain chain seems to disintegrate until they reappear around Taif. Farther south, below Taif, there is Asir Province in Saudi Arabia, where rugged mountains can reach near 3,000 meters, with Jabal Sawda claimed to be the highest at 2,982 meters above sea level. Yet even this part of the Sarawat Mountains is just like a large cliff that climbs out from the Tihamah coastal plain. This is supported by the fact that south of Ta&#39;if, the Hejaz (which means "barrier") is almost entirely around 2,000-2,600 meters above sea level.</p><br>
<p>Nearing the Yemeni border, the Sarawat begin to spread into individual peaks, and the Hejaz turns from a cliff to a gradual ascent up to the Yemeni Plateau. All of the mountains over 3,000 meters (9,800) feet are located in Yemen. The highest of which is Jabal an-Nabi Shuayb, which is the highest peak in the Arabian Peninsula. It is 3,666 meters (12,027 feet) high, located near the capital Sanaa. In Yemen, the Sarawat are divided into the Western and Central highlands, where the western highlands receive plenty of precipitation, more than anywhere else in the peninsula, and the central highlands have the highest mountains in the peninsula. A very dramatic part of the Yemeni Sarawat are the Haraz Mountains, where a few peaks top 3,000 meters but the descents and views from the mountains are staggering; some foots of mountains are only at 500 meters above sea level yet their peaks are at 2,800-3,300 meters.</p><br>
<p>Geologically, the Sarawat are part of the Arabian Shield, and are made up mostly of volcanic rock. The western slopes end abruptly near the Red Sea coast, while the eastern side of the mountain range slopes downward more gently and is intersected by wadis that support agriculture, especially in the southern reaches of the Sarawat, where the mountains face the monsoons.</p><br>
<p>Among the cities located within the Sarawat are the Muslim holy city of Mecca, which is located in a valley in approximately the middle of the Sarawat mountain range, and the Yemeni capital, Sana, located near some of the Sarawats highest peaks.</p><br>
<p>Ascreavie is a country house in Angus, Scotland. It is located 2 km north of Kirkton of Kingoldrum, and 6 km north-west of Kirriemuir. The farms of Over Ascreavie and Nether Ascreavie lie close by. The gardens at Ascreavie are listed on the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland for its important horticultural collection, gathered by the plant-hunter George Sherriff.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1540 the lands of Ascreavie were sold, along with Balfour and Kirkton of Kingoldrum, by Arbroath Abbey to James Ogilvy of Cookston and his wife Marjory Durie. In 1699 John Ogilvy of Balfour sold the Ascreavies to James Ogilvy, third son of Donald Ogilvy who formerly had been the tenant farmer of Nether Ascreavie. The Ogilvy of Ascreavie family continued until the death of James Catherine Ogilvy in 1871. Her son William Baird Young then inherited the title of Ascreavie. Author J. M. Barrie’s grandfather, Alexander Ogilvy, was born at Over Ascreavie in 1788.</p><br>
<p>A new house was built on the estate in the 1850s, to designs by the Dundee architect William Scott. The Youngs lived there until the 1940s when it was purchased by the circus-owning family of Bertram Mills. The house was then sold on in 1949 to Major George Sherriff (1898–1967). Major Sherriff had undertaken a number of plant collecting expeditions with Frank Ludlow in the Himalayas in the 1930s. At Ascreavie he and his wife began to develop the gardens using plants which he had gathered on these expeditions, including many rare rhododendrons. Since Sherriff&#39;s death, the plant collection has been maintained, and a number of specimens have been donated to botanic gardens in Dundee and Edinburgh.</p><br>
<p>Mount Everett at 2,602 ft - or 793.1 m - is the highest peak in the south Taconic Mountains of Massachusetts, Connecticut and New York. The mountain is known for its expansive views of the southern Taconics and Berkshires; for its old growth pitch pine and scrub oak; for the Appalachian Trail&#39;s north-south traverse of its shoulders and summit grounds, and for its rare plant and animal communities. The mountain is named after a 19th-century governor of Massachusetts, Edward Everett. The name was proposed in 1841 by Edward Hitchcock, geologist to the state, in his "Final Report on the Geology of Massachusetts." Hitchcock wrote that at the time of his proposal, the mountain was known as Bald Mountain or Ball Mountain. Some old maps at the Sheffield Historical Society also label the mountain as "The Dome".</p><br>
<h2>Details</h2><br>
<p>Guilder Pond, a highland lake, is located in the cirque-like ravine between Mount Everett and Undine Mountain to the north; Race Brook Falls, a popular series of waterfalls, cascades from a common ledge between Mount Everett and Mount Race to the south, losing approximately 600 feet of elevation in 1200 feet of brook. A seasonal auto road climbs to just short of the summit, though the road&#39;s upper reaches have been closed to motorized vehicles for many years.</p><br>
<p>The summit and west side of Mount Everett is located in the town of Mount Washington; the east slopes are located in Sheffield, Massachusetts. Much of the mountain is located within the Mount Everett State Reservation; other parcels are part of Mount Washington State Forest or conservation easements.</p><br>
<p>The east side of the mountain drains into Race Brook, thence into Schenob Brook, the Hubbard Brook, the Housatonic River, and Long Island Sound. The west side drains into Guilder Brook and City Brook, thence into Bash Bish Brook, the Roeliff Jansen Kill, the Hudson River and New York Bay of the Atlantic Ocean.</p><br>
<p>The Historic Central High School in the USA city of Duluth, Minnesota was built in 1892 of locally mined sandstone at a cost of $460,000. It features a 230-foot clock tower with chimes patterned after Big Ben in London; the clock faces are each 10½ feet in diameter, overlooking the Duluth harbor. Architectural details such as gargoyles are the work of George Tharna.</p><br>
<p>In 1972 the school board ceased using the building for classroom instruction, possibly because the hungry boilers would burn up to 8 tons of coal per winter day. The Central Preservation Committee and other interested citizens saved the building and created an 1890s classroom museum within the structure. Duluth Central High School moved to its new location and the historic structure was renovated for administration use. Subsequently, the alternative school, Unity High School began occupying some space in the old building. Their original mission was to develop alternative teaching and learning methods, and enrollment was by referral only.</p><br>
<p>Bear Island Lake is a lake which is about 15 mi southwest of Ely in the USA state of Minnesota. The lake measures 2,351 acre, or about 2 mi by 4 mi. There are at least 20 other islands in the lake. The shoreline of the natural glacial lake is about two-thirds state and national forest, including Bear Island State Forest. While deep in parts, several shallow bays and natural sand beaches make it a popular swimming spot.</p><br>
<h2>Fishing</h2><br>
<p>The lake is a naturally self-sustaining lake and includes a large variety of fish, such as walleye, northern pike, smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, crappie, bluegill, sunfish, pumpkinseed and perch. The major inlet for Bear Island Lake is the Beaver River, which has rapids and beaver dams that limit fish movement. The lake&#39;s major outlet is Bear Island River, which has an old dam that also limits fish movement at low water. Aquatic plants grow to a depth of 7 ft and are sparse along most of the shoreline of Bear Island Lake.</p><br>
<h2>Skiing</h2><br>
<p>The contains 10 mi of groomed cross country trails. This two-section trail system winds through Superior National Forest, with a pinic rock along the trail to Perch Lake, and another section that follows the shoreline of Bear Island Lake.</p><br>
<h2>Other places</h2><br>
<p>Another nearby lake is called Bear Head Lake and is part of Bear Head Lake State Park, along with Big Island, which is in nearby Eagles Nest Lake, which is actually three separate lakes named No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3. Farther north, along the Canada–US border, is Round Bear Island, which is in Kabetogama Lake and is part of Voyageurs National Park.</p><br>
<p>Fresh Pond is a 62 acre pond in the Manomet section of Plymouth, Massachusetts. The average depth is 12 ft and the maximum depth is 30 ft. The southern shore of the pond is located in the Churchill Landing neighborhood, south of Manomets business district and Manomet Bluffs, west of Fishermans Landing, north of Cedar Bushes and Shallow Pond, and east of Beaver Dam Pond. Route 3A runs along the southeastern shore of the pond to its most southeastern point where it shoots away at a sharp curve known as the Brown Bear Curve, named after a defunct motel along the shore at that curve. A public beach, boat ramp, and a Native American burial site are located on the western shore of the pond on Bartlett Road, which has two intersections with Route 3A. The closer intersection is south of the Brown Bear Curve, while the other intersection is one mile  north, north of Manomets business district. The pond is hydrologically associated with a cranberry bog operation located to the west of the pond. An unnamed brook  heads west through the cranberry bog and ultimately leading to Beaver Dam Brook is the outflow of the pond.</p><br>
<p>Talcott Mountain of central Connecticut, with a high point of 950 ft, is a 13 mi long trap rock mountain ridge located 6 mi west of the city of Hartford. The ridge, a prominent landscape feature, forms a continuous line of exposed western cliffs visible across the Farmington River valley from Farmington to Simsbury. Talcott Mountain 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.</p><br>
<p>A popular outdoor recreation resource, Talcott Mountain is known for its microclimate ecosystems, rare plant communities, and expansive views from cliffs that tower up to 700 ft above the surrounding landscape.</p><br>
<p>Talcott Mountain encompasses two state parks, several municipal recreation areas and reservoirs, a science center and school, a demonstration forest, and the historic Heublein Tower. The 51 mi Metacomet Trail traverses the ridge.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Talcott Mountain is an important aquifer serving metropolitan Hartford and several other communities. Notable reservoirs and other bodies of water on the mountain include: Wash Brook Pond; Lake Louise, a glacial kettle pond with a swamp boardwalk, observation platform, and waterfall; Hartford Reservoirs #&#39;s 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6; Hoe Pond; Ely Pond; Dyke Pond; and Woodridge Lake.</p><br>
<p>Talcott Mountain is traversed by the following roads (from south to north), Connecticut Route 4, USA Route 44, and Connecticut Route 185. A network of suburban streets climb the southern slopes of the mountain, and a number of communications towers sprout from the summit peaks.</p><br>
<p>The Metacomet Ridge extends north from Talcott Mountain as Hatchet Hill and south as Farmington Mountain. The north and west sides of the mountain drain into the Farmington River, thence into the Connecticut River and Long Island Sound. The Farmington River runs along the east base of the mountain, cutting through the Metacomet Ridge between Talcott Mountain and Hatchet Hill at the Tarrifville Gorge. The east side of the mountain drains into the Park River, thence into the Connecticut River and Long Island Sound.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<h2>Ecosystem</h2><br>
<p>Infestation by an invasive species, the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, resulted in the death of large stands of mature eastern hemlock in Penwood State Park on Talcott Mountain. The Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection began a program of removal of dead trees and contaminated living trees in 2000. The infestation and subsequent tree removal dramatically impacted the character of the forests on that part of the mountain.</p><br>
<p>The massive Pinchot Sycamore, a champion tree candidate with a trunk 25 ft in diameter, is located at the foot of the mountain next to the Farmington River in Simsbury.</p><br>
<p>Talcott Mountain is also an important seasonal raptor migration path.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>Talcott Mountain is a popular outdoor recreation resource among residents and visitors of the metropolitan Hartford region. The mountain boasts a substantial network of hiking trails, clifftop overlooks with expansive views over the rural landscape to the west, rugged woodlands, two small waterfalls, a highland swamp boardwalk, scenic ponds and reservoirs, and a number of active recreation facilities.</p><br>
<p>Penwood State Park and Talcott Mountain State Park offer miles of paved and dirt park roads (open to pedestrian use only) and a network of trails including the 51 mile (80k) blue-blazed Metacomet Trail (maintained by the Connecticut Forest and Park Association). The parks are open to hiking, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, picnicking, and other passive pursuits. Penwood State Park was donated to the state by Curtis H. Veeder, an industrialist, inventor, and outdoorsperson. Veeder wished the property to "be kept in a natural state so that those who love nature may enjoy this property as I have enjoyed it." He blazed many of the original trails in the park; Lake Louise, a scenic kettle pond atop the ridge, also called Gale Pond, was named after his wife.</p><br>
<p>The Metropolitan District (MDC), a non-profit municipal corporation chartered by the state of Connecticut, manages more than 3,000 acre on Talcott Mountain as public water supply, watershed, and open space. Besides providing drinking water, the MDC manages hiking trails and dirt roads (non-motorized use only) and practices silvaculture in the property&#39;s forests. MDC lands are open to hiking, picnicking, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, bicycling, mountain biking, and other passive activities. The MDC also manages an interpretive trail and has been active in helping to establish bald eagle populations on the property. Swimming, boating, hunting and fishing are prohibited on MDC lands.</p><br>
<p>Batterson Park, an urban park located on the southeast side of the mountain in West Hartford next to Hartford Reservoir #1, offers a baseball field, picnic areas, playgrounds, a fresh swimming pond, and a boat launch. The towns of Bloomfield and Simsbury own considerable acreage on the northeast and northwest sides of the mountain including town parks and watershed lands. The town of Farmington owns part of Burnt Hill on the southeast side of the mountain; a rough trail navigates it. The town of Avon owns park space on the west side of the mountain as well as significant frontage on the Farmington River at the base of the mountain.</p><br>
<h3>Heublein Tower</h3><br>
<p>The centerpiece of Talcott Mountain State Park is Heublein Tower, accessible by trail only (1.25 mi, 30 to 40 minute hike). The tower, 165 ft tall and 1,040 ft above sea level, built for Gilbert F. Hueblein in 1914 as a summer retreat and home, was designed to withstand winds of 100 mph (160 km/h). Ownership of the property passed to the Hartford Times newspaper during World War II, and, in the 1950s, was used primarily as a radio beacon. Put up for sale in the 1960s and slated for residential development, the tower became part of the Talcott Mountain State Park in 1965 through the efforts of conservation non-profit groups, the state of Connecticut and the United States government. The tower has been renovated as a museum with period artifacts and furnishings. Visitors may climb to the top of the tower for a 360° view encompassing four states. The tower is open for tours Memorial Day to Labor Day, Thursday through Sunday, 10 am to 5 pm; Labor Day through the end of October, 10 am to 5 pm.</p><br>
<h2>Conservation and education</h2><br>
<p>Talcott Mountain and its ecosystems are most threatened by suburban sprawl and ridgetop home building. Although extensive tracts of the mountain have been conserved as state park, municipal water supply, or conservation easement, private landowners also hold significant acreage, particularly on the southwest side of the mountain where upscale homes dot the ridge crest, and also on the lower slopes of the north and west sides of the mountain.</p><br>
<p>In 2000, Talcott 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 Talcott Mountain Science Center, a regional non-profit education and research facility, located atop the ridge, offers a variety of programs including geology, ecology, astronomy, and meteorology geared toward children.</p><br>
<p>A number of regional and local non-profit organizations are active in conserving the landscape and ecosystems of Talcott Mountain, most notably the Connecticut Forest and Park Association,, and the.</p><br>
<p>Salado River is a river of Chile located in El Loa Province, Antofagasta Region which is in the northern part of the country. It is formed at the confluence of over 30 spring branches emerging from El Tatio area. Flowing briefly south, it turns west and passes through a canyon carved in volcanic rocks.</p><br>
<p>In its middle course, the river receives the Toconce River (originated at the foot of Linzor volcano) from the north and the Caspana River from the south. In this area, a part of the flow of its affluents is diverted for providing water for domestic consumption in Antofagasta and Tocopilla, among other localities.</p><br>
<p>After being joined by the two streams before mentioned, the Salado River enters in a floodplain area, which is used for pasturage by the inhabitants of the nearby localities, including Toconce, Caspana and Aiquina. Then, the Salado again flows through a narrow canyon, where is found the so-called Devil&#39;s Bridge, a cut through rhyolite terrain of 5 m wide.</p><br>
<p>Finally, the Salado empties into the Loa River, the main watercourse of the Chilean Norte Grande, about 3 km south of Chiuchiu.</p><br>
<p>The Hamilton Building is a historic office building in downtown Portland, Oregon. It went through a renovation in 1977, and was listed on National Register of Historic Places in March of that year. It is the neighbor of the Dekum Building, a fellow NRHP listing on Third Avenue.</p><br>
<p>The building, completed in 1893, is an anomaly among its contemporaries. While many buildings built during the late 19th century were often ornate, the Hamilton building has little decoration. It is said that architects Whidden & Lewis designed a ground-breaking building, built decades ahead of later (and similar) trends in commercial architecture. Decoration comes in the form of granite-clad cast iron entry columns and cable mouldings, set against a Japanese-brick facade.</p><br>
<p>The Hamilton Building is 6 stories tall, and is named after Hamilton Corbett, son of Henry W. Corbett. It is also the first building in Portland designed in the Classical Revival style.</p><br>
<p>The Pacific Building is a historic office building in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since March 5, 1992.</p><br>
<p>This building was the second of three similarly-Italianate buildings built in Portland by prolific local architect A.E. Doyles firm. The projects primary designer, Charles K. Greene, worked on the trio of Italianate Doyle-commissioned buildings in Portland: the smaller Bank of California Building (also completed in 1924), the Pacific Building, and the Public Service Building (a skyscraper completed in 1928). A young Pietro Belluschi started his career with A.E. Doyle working on this building, and later in it. Upon its opening in 1926, Doyle moved his firm&#39;s headquarters into the Pacific Building.</p><br>
<p>The lobby of the 10-story building was designed by Belluschi, and connected to Portland&#39;s first underground parking garage. The connection to the parking garage was lost in 2000 when the former bus station to the south (which sat on top of the garage) was torn down and replaced by an annex to the nearby Hilton Hotel. Architecturally, the Pacific Building appears to combine the Chicago School with Italian Renaissance architecture. The red tile roof and dormers combine with geometric windows that are almost flush with the facade to achieve this effect.</p><br>
<p>The lot upon which the Pacific Building stands is across Yamhill Street from Pioneer Courthouse, in the heart of downtown Portland. The entire lot once was the grounds of the Henry Corbett mansion (built 1875), which remained until construction began on the Pacific Building. Corbett&#39;s widow kept a cow on the grounds at one time while a major city grew around it. This juxtapositioning of the old and new earned the lot a nickname: "The Million Dollar Cowpasture".</p><br>
<p>Trikala  is a town in the eastern part of Imathia, Greece. The town  is in the municipal unit of Platy. It is situated between the Aliakmon and Loudias rivers, southeast of Alexandreia.</p><br>
<h2>Population</h2><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The origins of Trikala can be traced back to the late 18th century. The church of Agios Dimitrios (St.Demetrius) was built in 1750. The original name of the town, before the first refugees from Northern Thrace in Bulgaria arrived in 1925, was Karyes (meaning walnut trees), the current name, Trikala, means "thrice good".</p><br>
<p>Trikala was in Ottoman Empire until the Balkan Wars of 1913, afterwards, it became part of Greece. The majority of the population of Trikala to this day is made up by immigrants arriving from the Northern Thrace region of Bulgaria after a mutual population exchange between the two countries and their descendants. In 1935, Trikala saw an influx of Sarakatsani settlers. Some refugees from Pontus arrived before 1940.</p><br>
<p>The Coalman Glacier  is a glacier located on the upper slopes of Mount Hood in the USA state of Oregon. It is the mountain&#39;s highest glacier ranging from about 11200 to 10500 ft, located within the crater rim, southwest of the peak. It was named for Elija Coalman , an early mountain guide who climbed Mount Hood 586 times.</p><br>
<p>Coalman Glacier is the second most frequently visited glacier on the mountain because it is part of the popular South Climbing route from Timberline Lodge. It lies entirely within Mount Hood Wilderness. The most well known feature of Coalman is the Hogsback: a snow ridge running southwest to northeast from Crater Rock toward the summit ridge. The Bergschrund is another widely known feature where the glacier pulls away from the headwall leaving a large crevasse. In 2007, it had become large enough to cause most climbers to use another route.</p><br>
<p>The glacier is a remnant of the massive glaciers that formed during the last ice age. It is historically known to change configuration dramatically, at times a gradual, smooth surface to Hot Rocks; at other times the same place has a 40 ft (12 m) ice cliff.</p><br>
<p>The glacier flows southwest, and is bounded on the north and east by the summit, on the northwest by the rocky crater wall known as Castle Crags (also Hawkins Cliffs), on the west by Hot Rocks, and on southeast by the back side of Steel Cliff.</p><br>
<p>Harleigh Cemetery is a historic cemetery located in both Collingswood and Camden, New Jersey. Harleigh Cemetery and Crematorium is one of the oldest cemeteries in New Jersey. Named Camden County Veterans Cemetery in 2007, the current President is Louis Cicalese. Harleigh cemetery is over 130 acre of lush mature grounds situated on the Cooper River a short drive from Philadelphia. The cemetery has been listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places since 1995 .</p><br>
<h2>Notable burials</h2><br>
<p>David Baird Sr. (1839–1927), United States Senator from New Jersey from 1918–1919.</p><br>
<p>David Baird Jr. (1881–1955), United States Senator from New Jersey from 1929–1930.</p><br>
<p>Ella Reeve Bloor (1862–1951), radical labor organizer.</p><br>
<p>William J. Browning (1850–1920), represented New Jersey&#39;s 1st congressional district from 1911–1920.</p><br>
<p>Albert E. Burling (1891 - 1960), Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1947 to 1960.</p><br>
<p>George C. Burling (1834–1885), Union Army officer during the American Civil War, serving mostly as Colonel and commander of the 6th New Jersey Volunteer Infantry.</p><br>
<p>Ralph W. E. Donges (1875 - 1974), Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court, 1930-1948</p><br>
<p>Carl McIntire (1906–2002), founder of and minister in the Bible Presbyterian Church.</p><br>
<p>William Joyce Sewell (1835–1901), United States Senator from New Jersey from 1881–1887 and 1895–1901.</p><br>
<p>John F. Starr (1818–1904), United States Senator from New Jersey from 1863–1867.</p><br>
<p>Nick Virgilio (1928–1989), haiku poet.</p><br>
<p>Walt Whitman (1819–1892), Essayist and Poet.</p><br>
<p>Charles A. Wolverton (1880–1969), represented New Jersey&#39;s 1st congressional district from 1927–1959.</p><br>
<p>Kościuszko Mound  in Kraków, Poland, erected by Cracovians in commemoration of the Polish national leader Tadeusz Kościuszko, is an artificial mound modeled after Kraków&#39;s prehistoric mounds of Krak and Wanda. A serpentine path leads to the top, approx. 326 m above sea level, with a panoramic view of the Vistula River and the city. It was completed in November 1823. The location selected for the monument was the natural Blessed Bronisława Hill , also known as Sikornik, situated in the western part of Kraków&#39;s Zwierzyniec District.</p><br>
<p>Kościuszko Mound is one of Kraków&#39;s four memorial mounds, consisting of two prehistoric mounds, Krakus Mound and Wanda Mound, and two modern ones, Piłsudski Mound and Kościuszko Mound.</p><br>
<p>The construction of Kościuszko Mound was financed by donations from Poles living in all territories of Poland under foreign occupation. For three years beginning in 1820, people of all ages and class voluntarily constructed the Mound to the height of 34 m. Work was supervised by a Committee for the Construction of the Tadeusz Kościuszko Monument. At the base of the Mound, the Founding Act was deposited in a glass and marble case. At the top, a granite boulder, brought from the Tatra Mountains, was placed, bearing the inscription “Kościuszce” (To Kościuszko). Inside the mound, urns were buried with soil from the Polish and American battlefields where Kościuszko fought.</p><br>
<p>Between 1850 and 1854, the Austrian authorities built a brick citadel around the Mound and began using it as a strategic lookout. As compensation for an earlier historical church that had been demolished, a neo-Gothic chapel of Blessed Bronisława was also built. However, the Austrian fortifications, including the gateway and the southwestern rampart and entrenchment were eventually dismantled following World War II, between 1945 and 1956.</p><br>
<p>Next to the Mound there is a museum devoted to Kościuszko, that displays artifacts and mementoes of his life and achievements. In 1997, heavy rains eroded the Mound, thus threatening its existence. It went through a restoration process from 1999 till 2003 in which state-of-the-art technology and modern materials were used. The Mound was equipped with a drainage system and a new waterproofing membrane.</p><br>
<p>Kościuszko Mound inspired Count Paul Strzelecki, Polish patriot and Australian explorer, to name the highest mountain in Australia Mount Kosciuszko, because of its perceived resemblance to the Kościuszko Mound in Kraków.</p><br>
<p>The American Brewery is an historic former brewery located at 1701 North Gay Street in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Formerly abandoned and left to decay, it has been recently renovated and beautified. It is currently the headquarters of Humanim Inc.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1887 by John Frederick Wiessner, a German immigrant, the American Brewery in East Baltimore was one of the largest breweries in the state of Maryland. At its peak, the brewery employed 61 workers: 16 in brewery work, 17 drivers, 14 in the bottling house, 8 garage men, and 6 office workers. The central tower of the building housed a 10,000-bushel grain elevator. Prohibition forced the shutdown of the facility in 1920. In 1931 the Wiessner family sold the brewery to the American Malt Company, which modernized the interior equipment and operated the brewery until 1973. The building was listed that year in the National Registry of Historic Sites.</p><br>
<p>The Brewery has become the new home for Humanim, a Columbia, Maryland, nonprofit organization, secured $22.5 million for renovations of the American Brewery complex into its new headquarters. The City of Baltimore approved the building permit in early 2004, and work is now complete. The American Brewery is situated in the center of one of East Baltimore’s most blighted neighborhoods.</p><br>
<h2>Redevelopment</h2><br>
<p>Struever Bros. Eccles & Rouse, Humanim Inc., and Gotham Development LLC have announced plans to redevelop the Brewhouse building and bottling plant into a social and human services center and a new Baltimore headquarters for Humanim Inc.</p><br>
<p>The project consists of two phases: the Brewhouse and the Bottle Building. The Brewhouse, a 30,000 ft&sup2; building that once served as the main brewing facility, will be transformed into Humanim’s Baltimore headquarters. Humanim is a 35-year-old Maryland-based social and human services provider that has delivered programs and services in East Baltimore for the last 20 years. The Bottle Building, a 60,000 ft&sup2; c. 1937 industrial building will be converted into a center for organizations working in community arts, community services and small business development. The Brewhouse is scheduled to start construction in summer 2007 with completion scheduled for the summer 2008. The Bottle Building is scheduled to start construction in 2008 with completion in 2009.</p><br>
<p>The once-vibrant neighborhood around the brewery building has long been in decline and was largely forgotten by politicians and the media during the latter half of the 20th century. About half of the homes and other buildings in the area have been demolished or are vacant. Basic services such as grocery stores and restaurants have disappeared as well. In 2006, the City of Baltimore moved to acquire 200 abandoned properties in the area for future demolition or rehabilitation.</p><br>
<p>The rehabilitation of the American Brewery may serve as an impetus for further investment in the East Baltimore neighborhood. Due to its central location in a struggling neighborhood, interior space, and architectural quality, the brewery is seen by urban planners as an anchor for future community and economic development initiatives in the area. It is hoped that new employment and social services will attract additional investors, improving the quality of life for current and future residents.</p><br>
<p>The Scalloway Islands are in Shetland opposite Scalloway on south west of the Mainland. They form a mini-archipelago and include:</p><br>
<p>* Burra (two islands linked by bridge to each other and Trondra)</p><br>
<p>** East Burra (with Houss Ness)</p><br>
<p>** West Burra</p><br>
<p>** South Havra</p><br>
<p>** Little Havra</p><br>
<p>** Papa - belongs to Civil parish of Lerwick</p><br>
<p>** West Head of Papa (tidal)</p><br>
<p>The aforementioned islands were all part of the ancient civil parish of Burra, which was merged with Lerwick in 1891.</p><br>
<p>They are shown on coloured maps as part of Lerwick.</p><br>
<p>* Hildasay/Hildesay - belongs to Civil parish of Tingwall</p><br>
<p>* Langa - belongs to Civil parish of Tingwall</p><br>
<p>* Linga (not to be confused with numerous Shetland islands of the same name) - belongs to Civil parish of Tingwall</p><br>
<p>* Oxna - belongs to Civil parish of Tingwall</p><br>
<p>* Trondra (linked to Mainland, and Burra by bridge) - belongs to Civil parish of Tingwall</p><br>
<p>* St Ninian&#39;s Isle, connected to the Mainland by a tombolo, is not far to the south - belongs to Civil parish of Dunrossness</p><br>
<p>The Julia-Ann Square Historic District, is a national historic district located at Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia. It is to the west of the Avery Street Historic District. It encompasses all houses on Ann and Juliana Streets from Riverview Cemetery to 9th Street. There are 116 contributing buildings and one contributing site. The majority of the houses were constructed between 1875 and 1915.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historical Places in 1977, with architecture styles being listed as late Victorian architecture and Colonial Revival architecture. Many notable examples of Queen Anne architecture can be seen in the neighborhood as well.</p><br>
<p>One notable dwelling is the Van Winkle-Wix House. It was built in 1836 by Peter Van Winkle in what was at the time a portion of western Virginia. The building has undergone many changes since being initially constructed as a two-story residence, with most coming in the years 1875-1899. The third floor and the north wing as well as the turrets and spires were all added through the years. Additionally, the entrance, which originally faced Murdoch Avenue to the west, was reversed to face Ann St, as it currently does.</p><br>
<p>The Peter G. Van Winkle House, whose site remains separately listed on the National Register of Historic Places at 600 Juliana Street.</p><br>
<p>Monponsett Pond, also called Monponsett Lake and the Twin Lakes, is actually a system of two ponds, West and East, mostly in Halifax, Massachusetts, with a small portion of West Monponsett Pond extending into Hanson. The western basin is 282 acre, and the eastern basin is 246 acre. The average depth of both ponds is seven feet and the maximum depth is 13 ft. The outflow is Stump Brook, a tributary of Poor Meadow Brook, in the northwestern part of West Monponsett Pond. The pond is part of the Taunton River Watershed. Occasionally during water shortages water from this pond is diverted into Silver Lake, the principal water supply for the City of Brockton.</p><br>
<p>Route 58 bisects the two ponds. A paved boat launching ramp to West Monponsett Pond is on this highway north of White Island Road. A culvert connecting the two ponds is nearby. Route 106 runs close to the southern shore of East Monponsett Pond, and Route 36 abuts the southeast corner of East Monponsett Pond, where there is a paved launching ramp. Access to West Monponsett Pond is an unpaved ramp off Lingan Street. Monponsett Pond Seaplane Base is located on this pond.</p><br>
<p>Laguna Colorada  is a shallow salt lake in the southwest of the altiplano of Bolivia, within Eduardo Avaroa Andean Fauna National Reserve and close to the border with Chile.</p><br>
<h2>Contents</h2><br>
<p>The lake contains borax islands, whose white color contrasts with the reddish color of its waters, which is caused by red sediments and pigmentation of some algae.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Laguna Colorada is part of the Los Lípez (formerly Laguna Colorada) Ramsar wetland. It was listed as a "Ramsar Wetland of International Importance" in 1990. On, July 13, 2009 the site was expanded from 513.18 to 14,277.17 km&sup2; to include the surrounding high Andean endorheic, hypersaline and brackish lakes and associated wetlands (known as bofedales).</p><br>
<h2>Fauna</h2><br>
<p>James&#39;s flamingos abound in the area. Also it is possible to find Andean and Chilean flamingos, but in a minor quantity.</p><br>
<p>Inchmoan  is an island in Loch Lomond, Scotland.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>It is one of an island group just south of Luss. Only a short stretch of water separates it from the island of Inchcruin. The connection between Inchcruin and Inchmoan is very shallow, only a foot or two, and it is possible to wade between the islands.</p><br>
<p>Inchmoan is known for its large sandy beaches, and is low lying, and marshy.</p><br>
<p>There are shingle beaches on either side of the island, meaning that on a sunny day, at least one is sheltered. For this reason and others, it is popular with campers and picnickers.</p><br>
<p>The island was once owned by the Colquhouns of Luss, and now owned by Luss Estates. A large 2 storey ruin stands at the western point but no record exists of any occupants.</p><br>
<p>The name of the island stems from its use by the Luss people as a source of Peat fuel for the village fires.</p><br>
<p>The beaches and bays are sandy and comparatively safe for bathing but the interior is, in places, totally impassable due to the dense growth of rhododendrons, gorse and other spreading trees.</p><br>
<p>Privately owned, 1 mile long, highest point about 30 ft.</p><br>
<p>The island was used for peat fuel for nearby Luss</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Stone age tools have been found on Inchmoan, suggesting it has had an occasional human presence for a number of years. There is also the ruin of a cottage on the island.</p><br>
<h2>Flora</h2><br>
<p>Despite its peaty name, Inchmoan has a wide variety of plant life, including pear, blueberry, alder, gorse, birch, rhododendron, Scots pine and bog myrtle.</p><br>
<p>Lake Ore-be-gone is a 140 acre artificial lake, formed by the flooding of three open-pit iron ore mines, within the city limits of Gilbert, Minnesota, USA.</p><br>
<p>Since the flooding of the mining pits, the area around the lake has been subject to land reclamation, and there now exist beaches and docks. As of June 2011, the beaches previously closed due to low water have been excavated and a new swimming area and boat landing are in the works.</p><br>
<p>There are many sunken attractions for scuba divers to explore near the boat landings and the beach. A map can be found outside the changing house, and the sites are typically marked with white buoys from late spring to October.</p><br>
<p>The lake&#39;s name is a pun on the well-known fictional town of Lake Wobegon, purportedly located in Minnesota. Also since Ore is no longer mined from these pits, Ore be gone is also a pun on no longer mining ore (Iron ore)</p><br>
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<p>The Mangangate River , also referred to as the Alabang-Cupang River, is a river system in Muntinlupa, Philippines. It is one of 21 major tributaries of Laguna de Bay.</p><br>
<p>The main stream has a total length of 10 kilometers and has two branches. The first is connected to the drainage system of Ayala Alabang, while the second is connected with the headwater from NBP Reservation, near Camp Sampaguita. This second branch flows through at Ayala Alabang Village and Filinvest Commercial Site, and connects with the first branch at Pasong Diablo site until it drains out into Laguna de Bay at a point between Wawa, Alabang and Purok 1, Cupang.</p><br>
<p>The river system has four adjoining creeks:</p><br>
<p>The biggest, at a length of 3,500 m, joins the river at Pasong Diablo and serves as the Ayala Alabang Village Drainage.</p><br>
<p>Two creeks join the mainstream at the Filinvest site.</p><br>
<p>At the NBP Reservation, one creek spans 800 m</p><br>
<p>The depth of the Mangangate currently varies from two m to 0.25 m</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
<p>Officers Row, a part of the Vancouver National Historic Reserve Historic District, is a congregation of 21 of the former homes of USA military officers stationed at the Vancouver Barracks in Vancouver, Washington. The oldest of the homes, named the Grant House , dates from 1846, and the last edifice was constructed in 1906. In the 1970s a grassroots campaign to refurbish the dilapidated properties began to appear, and the site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. In 1980, the USA Army declared it a surplus, and it was henceforth deeded to the city for one dollar. A $10.9 million rehabilitation effort proceeded in 1987. Today these homes have been fully restored, and now house several commercial and 34 residential rental spaces.</p><br>
<p>The Henry Weinhard Brewery complex, also the Cellar Building and Brewhouse and Henry Weinhard&#39;s City Brewery, is a former brewery in Portland, Oregon. Since 2000, it has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In that same year, construction began to reuse the property as a multi-block, mixed-use development known as the Brewery Blocks.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The firm of Whidden & Lewis, Portland&#39;s pioneering architects, designed the Brewhouse. The building is designed in a medieval Tuscan style. Completed in 1908, other businesses in the area hired architects to emulate this design theme when building their own warehouses and industrial buildings. At its highest level, the structure has six floors. The structure is actually two buildings that appear as one: The Brewhouse (on the north side of the block), and the Malt and Hop Building (facing Burnside Street).</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Henry Weinhard purchased an existing brewery on this site, the City Brewery, in 1864. He then moved his operations to the then-two block site on West Burnside Street. Business boomed, and between 1865 and 1872 two additional blocks to the north were purchased. As many breweries also owned the saloons that sold their beer at the time, a large business empire owning properties throughout the Northwest, from San Francisco to Canada was run from here. Weinhard&#39;s brewing business continued to expand to the point where he even offered to pipe beer directly to the Skidmore Fountain. This offer was declined by civic leaders. By 1890, the brewery produced 100,000 barrels of beer annually.</p><br>
<p>The present buildings were completed in 1908 in order to meet the expanding brewing needs of the Henry Weinhard brewing empire, now serving the Pacific Northwest and even the Philippines and China. Once Prohibition was enacted, the brewery managed to survive by brewing near-beer (a brew of less than 0.5 percent alcohol), syrups and sodas – such as root beer, becoming a local bottler of national brands. Vanilla cream and other syrup products were marketed as "Gourmet Elixirs".</p><br>
<p>Mergers with and sales to other breweries occurred over the years. A merger with competitor Portland Brewing brought the Blitz name into the formal name of the brewery. Arnold Blitz, who had owned Portland Brewing, became Chairman of the new Blitz-Weinhard company. The new company took 20 years to modernize the brewery and recover from Prohibition, which ended in 1933. In 1979, Blitz-Weinhard was sold to the Pabst Brewing Company. Pabst then sold the brewery to Stroh Brewing Company in 1996. The last and final sale of the company in 1999 had major effects on the brewery building. Strohs sold the Henry Weinhards brand to Miller Brewing Company, and moved all Henry&#39;s brewing operations to the Olympia Brewery in Tumwater, Washington. After nearly 135 years of continual operations, the Weinhard Brewery brewed its last beer on August 27, 1999. It was put up for sale the following month.</p><br>
<h2>Redevelopment</h2><br>
<p>In early 2000, local developers Gerdling-Edlen purchased the entire brewing complex, which consisted of five blocks by the end of brewing operations. GBD proceeded to develop a mixed-use area consisting of offices, retail, and condo towers known as the Brewery Blocks. As part of the project, historic buildings were to be preserved and integrated into the new development. The brewhouses historical importance was recognized with a listing on the National Register of Historic Places, along with the A.B. Smith Buildings art deco facade, in August 2000, a year after brewing had ceased.</p><br>
<p>The renovated Brewhouse was completed in November 2002, after two years of extensive renovations. The west side of the Brewhouses low as developed into Brewery Tower, an office building. The upper floors of the historic buildings are office space, and the first floors contain retail. Henrys 12th Street Tavern, in the Brewhouse building, continues the building&#39;s historical connection to beer. The building was awarded an LEED certification.</p><br>
<p>The Bay River , also known as the Sapang River or the San Nicolas River, is a river system in Bay, Laguna. It is one of 21 major tributaries of Laguna de Bay and is the more southern of two small rivers that hem the town proper of Bay.</p><br>
<p>The other is the Calo River (Tagalog: Ilog Calo), another Laguna de Bay tributary, to the north. In geographical terms, these two rivers created the main area of the town of Bay by leaving many centuries&#39; worth of alluvial deposits in the lower section of the plain close to Laguna de Bay.</p><br>
<p>That plain, in time, was selected by the earliest settlers of Bay as the site of their community, because the access to the lake meant easy transportation and ready access to a source of water.</p><br>
<p>The downside to this choice of location was regular flooding. Residents still recall that when the two rivers overflowed their banks, the poblacion and six other barangays would be flooded. However, this rarely happens today because an irrigation system consisting of canals and ditches which bring water from these rivers into the ricefields have reduced the force of the waters.</p><br>
<p>The Bay River forms Bays boundary with Calauan, Laguna. A third river on the opposite side of the town, the Maitem River (Tagalog: Ilog Maitem), forms Bays boundary with Los Baños, Laguna.</p><br>
<p>The Olona  is an Italian river, 71 km long, that runs through the provinces of Varese, Milan and Pavia.</p><br>
<p>The Olona has more than one source; in fact it has six main springs. Three springs are located in the Rasa Valley, just above Varese, whereas other three springs pour water down from the southern side of pleasant Valganna - since 1877 these still clean and fresh mountain waters were historically used, and still are, to make beer in a renowned local brewery, Poretti, now run by Carlsberg.</p><br>
<p>The Olona river passes through the deep Olona Valley, cut in the poruous soils of the upper Po Valley, eventually flowing in the plain after Legnano. It is in the Olona valley part that the river gets much of the industrial pollution which has made it a byname for venomous waters for decades. Only in recent years attempts to restore the river&#39;s ecology have proven at least partially successful. After Legnano, the Olona river flows in the plain until Milan, usually contained in narrow artificial banks. New expansion basins are being constructed to prevent floodings, which are rare but can be devastating under conditions of sudden intense rain in the upper river flow.</p><br>
<p>In ancient times, the 131 km long Olona continued its course south of Milan, through the Province of Pavia, eventually joining the Po. Due to massive hydraulic works, that started in the Roman Age and were continued until the 20th century, just before Milan the river leaves its natural bed and begins to flow under the street level, like a sewer, feeding and becoming part of the complex groundwater system of the city.</p><br>
<p>Immediately after passing through a tunnel under the Naviglio Grande, the Olona flows into the Lambro Meridionale, that carries its waters in the Lambro. Until the late 1980s, a branch of the Olona fed the Darsena of Porta Ticinese (the inner harbour of Milan). The water flow in this branch was first reduced, and finally completely cleared, when city authorities realized that the river&#39;s pollution began to threaten the Darsena and the Naviglio Pavese, which originates from it.</p><br>
<p>The Olona river counts 39 tributaries. The principal tributaries are the torrents Vellone, Bevera Varesino, Lanza (or Gaggiolo), Bozzente, Lura, Merlata and Mussa.</p><br>
<h2>"Southern" or "Lower" Olona</h2><br>
<p>Also a stream, 41 km long, that flows entirely within the province of Pavia is called "Olona". Some historical researches, supported by geographic and geological data, suggest that the bed of this river is nothing but the southernmost part of the ancient Olona, that the Romans diverted to Milan. This fact easily explains why the two rivers carry the same name.</p><br>
<p>This river originates from the join of many secondary watercourses in the country south of Milan, and receives also a notable amount of water from several natural springs ("fontanili"). Near San Zenone it flows into the Po.</p><br>
<p>Although it is usually indicated simply as Olona on topographic and road maps, it may be called either Olona inferiore (Lower Olona) or Olona meridionale (Southern Olona) for better distinction with the northern Olona.</p><br>
<p>The Flatiron Building, also known as Ringlers Annex and Espresso Bar is a historic two-story building in downtown Portland, Oregon. Since 1989, it has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Previously, it had been designated a Portland Landmark by the city&#39;s Historic Landmarks Commission in 1988. This small building has a triangular footprint, as it sits at the end of a triangular lot bounded by West Burnside, SW Stark, and 12th Streets.</p><br>
<p>From its inception, the building&#39;s size has played part in how it has been promoted. When opened, it was said to be the "smallest commercial building on the West Coast". Over its lifespan, the building hosted a catering kitchen and a talk radio station. The current occupant, a McMenamins pub calls it "a tiny window on the world of bustling West Burnside, complete with a fishbowl-like main floor and a mezzanine tailor-made to observe the city in motion".</p><br>
<p>The USA Post Office in Rhinebeck, New York serves the 12572 ZIP Code. It is located on Mill Street  just south of the intersection with NY 308 at the center of the village.</p><br>
<p>It is a stone Colonial Revival structure built in 1940, during the New Deal. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a native of nearby Hyde Park, took a personal interest in its design, as he did with other post offices in Dutchess County built during his administration. He chose a ruined historic house, whose stones were used in the post office, as its model, and spoke at its dedication. In 1989 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is also a contributing property to the Rhinebeck Village Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The post office is a one-and-a-half-story fieldstone building with a low-sloping jerkin roof shingled in asbestos treated to look like wood. It flares out over a porch that runs the length of the eastern (front) elevation. Two large brick chimneys rise from the ends, both next to a small dormer window on the north and south faces.</p><br>
<p>The porch is wooden, supported by square piers, with a bluestone floor. At either end of the facade are the large cornerstones, also of bluestone. One is a standard datestone giving the names of the participants in the ceremony; the other says that the building is a replica of the 1700 Beekman House and that stones from the ruins of that house were used to build the post office. The main entrance, a simulated Dutch door, is within a wooden vestibule.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the lobby stretches across the front of the building. It is floored in random-width pegged oak. Pine wainscoting rises to a ceiling with hand-hewn exposed beams. Two display cases contain other remnants of the Beekman House. Above the wainscot are murals depicting scenes from local history, including the post offices groundbreaking ceremony. Two original oak counters remain. The postmasters office to the north is paneled.</p><br>
<p>A long wing projects to the west, where the parking lot, accessed from nearby West Market Street, is located. Two original cast iron lamps are located along the sidewalk leading to the entrance from Mill Street.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Even before he became governor of New York State in 1928, Roosevelt had taken a keen interest in reviving the use of fieldstone in the Hudson Valley, the material favored by many early Dutch settlers of the region, including his own ancestors. He had made sure, in the mid-1920s, that Hyde Parks library, built in his fathers memory, used stone. As president he had ensured that new post offices in Beacon and Poughkeepsie used the material. The latter had also emulated an earlier building, Dutchess County&#39;s 1809 courthouse.</p><br>
<p>After Poughkeepsie&#39;s post office was completed and opened, Postmaster General James Farley asked Roosevelt if he wanted to start work on a new post office in Hyde Park, a project he had wanted to undertake. Congress had authorized both post offices in 1937. Since Rhinebeck was a larger community with a more pressing need for a new post office, the president told Farley to give it priority first. The town helped matters along by selling the site of their 1872 town hall to the federal government for $16,000 ($ in contemporary dollars).</p><br>
<p>Roosevelt insisted that the new post office be built in the style of Kipsbergen, or the Beekman House, a nearby home (destroyed by fire in the early 20th century) where some of his ancestors had lived, which features a similarly steep-sloped front roof. There was some opposition to this from local historians since they did not think the style typical of Dutch homes in the region, but eventually it was built as Roosevelt wished.</p><br>
<p>Rudolph Stanley-Brown, a former Treasury Department architect then in private practice, handled the details of the design. Many of Kipsbergens stones remained, and these were used in the post offices construction. Ultimately, 90% of the front wall was built of its stones. Local artist Olin Dows, head of the Treasury Relief Art Project, later painted a mural inside of scenes from Rhinebeck&#39;s history.</p><br>
<p>Both Farley and Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. were present at the dedication ceremony on May 1, 1939, along with the crown prince and princess of Denmark and Iceland, who were touring the USA at the time. All of them ceremonially laid the first mortar on the cornerstone.</p><br>
<p>The president spoke at length about the building and its design:</p><br>
<p>Three of the six stone post offices in the region whose design Roosevelt oversaw were based on historic buildings no longer extant at the time of their construction. Of those three, Rhinebecks most closely replicates its original, and is the only one with an exhibit inside of some other remnants of that model. Its porch and lobby mimic a typical 18th-century colonial homes finishing. The paneling in the postmaster&#39;s office imitates a parlor of that era.</p><br>
<p>A few changes have been made to the building over time, such as the installation of modern light fixtures in the lobby and aluminum-muntined storm windows, but it has otherwise remained largely intact. In 1989 the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places, a contributing property to the existing Rhinebeck Village Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Lewis Army Museum  is a military museum at Fort Lewis in the state of Washington, USA It is housed in the historic former Red Shield Inn, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places  and can be seen prominently from Interstate 5. It is the only certified USA Army museum on the West Coast.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Established in 1971, the museum was originally housed in a two-story barracks. In July 1973, it was moved to the old Fort Lewis Inn.</p><br>
<h2>Exhibits</h2><br>
<p>Inside the museum are approximately 10,000 ft&sup2; of interior displays of various collections of uniforms and equipment, including "Soldiers of the Northwest", I Corps, the 9th Infantry Division, the Medical Corps, and "The Army Family". Outside, on 2.5 acre, in the Vehicle Park, are a collection of tanks, jeeps, and other military vehicles, along with weapons, including a Nike-Hercules Missile and an Honest John rocket. The current director is Erik Flint. The Museum was reopened in 2012 after a two-year renovation. The museum closed in July 2, 2016 and reopened in August 31st 2017 after renovations of the interior exhibits to include dioramas and interactive features.</p><br>
<h2>Red Shield Inn</h2><br>
<p>The Red Shield Inn is one of two surviving Fort Lewis buildings that date back to the World War I era, when the present Fort Lewis was "Camp Lewis". It is the only remaining structure from a onetime recreational area that was called Greene Park.</p><br>
<p>The building, in Western Stick–style, was built in 1918 by Pratt & Watson Construction Co. of Spokane, Washington, for the Salvation Army, at a cost of $107,000. It was named the Red Shield Inn, based on the Salvation Army symbol. It was 47,966 ft&sup2; in size and had approximately 150 rooms. The Salvation Army sold it to the USA Army on July 21, 1921, for the nominal price of one dollar. It was briefly known as the Camp Lewis Apartments, then the Camp Lewis Inn, and from 1927 the Fort Lewis Inn. In August 1972, after the new Fort Lewis Lodge opened near the Main Post Headquarters, the building was preserved to become the new home for the fort&#39;s museum. The inn officially became the Fort Lewis Military Museum on July 18, 1973. It gained its NRHP listing in February 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Bumbungan River  is a river in the province of Laguna in the Philippines. It is commonly referred to as the Pagsanjan River because of the popularity of Pagsanjan town and Pagsanjan Falls, the province&#39;s most popular destination. The official website of Pagsanjan town and the people of Cavinti refers to the river as Bumbungan River. The municipality of Pagsanjan was named so because it is where the Balanac River, originating from Mount Banahaw, joins the Bumbungan. Its old name, Pinagsangahan, which literally means branching, was changed to Pagsanjan during the Spanish Colonial Era.</p><br>
<p>Bumbungan River originates from the Sierra Madre Mountains, in the highlands of Cavinti town, flowing through the town of Pagsanjan and ending in Lumban where it drains to Laguna de Bay, the largest lake in the country. Bumbungan is one of 21 major tributaries of the lake and responsible for up to 35% of the water that flows into the lake. It is regularly monitored by the Laguna Lake Development Authority(LLDA) through one of its 15 river monitoring stations.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>Located about 100 km southeast of Manila, the Bumbungan River is a major tourist attraction within the Pagsanjan Gorge National Park with its rapids and waterfalls. For the people who live in Pagsanjan and Cavinti, the Bumbungan River is an important source of livelihood. In Pagsanjan, along the banks of Bumbungan are several hotels and resorts, some with views of the river, catering to visitors of the area. Pagsanjan Official Website. Retrieved on 2012-05-08.</p><br>
<h3>Pagsanjan Falls</h3><br>
<p>The waterfalls for which the Bumbungan river is famous is the Magdapio Falls, a section of the river in the town of Cavinti where the river drops about 300 ft. Because the original boat ride to reach the falls starts in Pagsanjan, it became known as the Pagsanjan Falls. This round trip boat ride consists of a 5.1 km guided by a set of boatmen positioned at each end of the boat, as visitors are taken upriver passing through the narrow Pagsanjan Gorge, which gradually increase in elevation to over hundreds of feet high. The gorge is lined with trees, ferns, overhanging vines, rocks and boulders where varieties of fauna like birds, dragonflies, lizards and monkeys can be observed. The return trip, called Shooting the rapids, is a faster downriver ride as the skilled boatmen maneuvers the banca, avoiding rocks, as it glides through the rapids.</p><br>
<h3>Cavinti Eco-Park</h3><br>
<p>The Cavinti Eco-Park in Brgy. Tibatib, also known as Pueblo El Salvador Nature&#39;s Park and Picnic Grove, was opened by the government of Cavinti on February 24, 2007 to capitalize from the popularity of Pagsanjan Falls, which is located within its limits and generate income for its locals. The park offers an alternative for the visitors to the falls giving a shorter access to the falls from land and opening the upper Bumbungan River for hiking for interested individuals. Huts are rented out for picnickers and a viewing deck is also available for safely viewing Nakulo Falls, the uppermost waterfall of Pagsanjan Falls, and the top of the hidden second tier of Pagsanjan Falls. A long stairway and some rappeling takes visitors down to the floor of the gorge where they can take the raft that go under the falls or do the Shooting the rapids boat ride to Pagsanjan with the boatmen from Cavinti.</p><br>
<h3>Bumbungan Eco-Park</h3><br>
<p>Past the waterfalls and further upriver near the poblacion (town center) of Cavinti is a small park called the Bumbungan Eco-Park also in Brgy. Tibatib. The Bumbungan was dammed at this section where the top of the spillway also served as a wet bridge on the Lumban-Caliraya-Cavinti Road. After an adjacent bridge was constructed, the dam and adjacent land became the Eco-Park with huts for picnickers and bathroom facilities.</p><br>
<h2>Conservation</h2><br>
<p>While the river itself appears quite clean to tourists, there is still considerable environmental concern. The LLDA notes that the Pagsanjan River Subwatershed is the second largest of the 21 sub basins that feed into Laguna de Bay, covering 311.77 km&sup2, and since it feeds so much water into the lake, it is "one of the biggest contributors of pollution loading".</p><br>
<p>In the December 2005 Water Quality Status Report listed on the Laguna Lake Development Authority&#39;s site,</p><br>
<p>the Pagsanjan River was listed as Class D, with high total coliform concentration. According to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (Philippines) Water Usage & Classification for Fresh Water, Class D Quality freshwater is suitable for agriculture, irrigation, livestock watering and industrial water supply class II. The report also indicated that this status had been maintained since the river was last monitored.</p><br>
<p>The LLDA&#39;s conservation efforts for the major tributaries and watersheds of Laguna de Bay have led to the creation of the Laguna de Bay River Basin Councils, of which the Pagsanjan-Lumban River Basin Management &. Development Fdn. is particularly tasked with conservation of the Pagsanjan.</p><br>
<h2>Popular culture</h2><br>
<p>In the 1979 movie Apocalypse Now directed by Francis Ford Coppola, some of the scenes were shot along the Bumbungan River.</p><br>
<p>Oconaluftee is the name of a river valley in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, located in the Southeastern United States. Formerly the site of a Cherokee village and Appalachian community, the valley&#39;s bottomland is now home to the main entrance to the North Carolina side of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.</p><br>
<p>The Oconaluftee area parallels the Oconaluftee River as its basin gradually broadens from Smokemont in the north to the southern tip of the Qualla Boundary. The Qualla Boundary, commonly known as Cherokee, North Carolina, comprises the bulk of a federal trust that acts a reservation for the Eastern Band of the Cherokee. The national park lands in Oconaluftee are home to the Oconaluftee Visitor Center, Mingus Mill, and the Mountain Farm Museum. Much of the area is part of the Oconaluftee Archaeological District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Near Newfound Gap, several small creeks converge to form Beech Flats Prong. This stream flows south along the southern base of Mount Kephart, dropping 2,000 feet (600 m) over 10 mi before merging with Kephart Prong, Kanati Fork, and Smith Branch to form the Oconaluftee River. The Oconaluftee continues southward, cutting a valley between the Richland Mountain massif to the east and the Thomas Ridge massif to west. The confluence of the Oconaluftee River and Bradley Fork at Smokemont strengthens the river considerably, with the valley broadening as a result. Near the park boundary, a large and relatively flat bottomland has been created by the river&#39;s junction with Raven Fork, which flows down from the northeast. Past Cherokee, the river turns west en route to its mouth along the Tuckasegee River, near Bryson City.</p><br>
<p>The rock formation underlying the area around the Oconaluftee-Raven Fork junction contains some of the oldest exposed rocks in the Eastern United States. This formation, which is composed primarily of an Early Precambrian basement rock known as granite gneiss, was formed over a billion years ago from the gradual accumulation of marine sediment and igneous rocks.</p><br>
<p>The upper elevations of the Oconaluftee Valley are underlain by a Late Precambrian metamorphic rock of the Ocoee Supergroup, which is the dominant rock class in the Great Smokies. These rocks were formed from ocean sediments nearly 400 million years ago, and were thrust upward during the Appalachian orogeny, when the North American and African plates collided.</p><br>
<p>The Greenbrier Fault, which crosses the Oconaluftee River between Tow String Creek and Mingus Creek, divides the basement formation from the Late Precambrian formation. Exposures of both rock formations can be seen along USA Route 441 between Newfound Gap and Cherokee.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Early history</h3><br>
<p>The Cherokee considered the waters of the Oconaluftee sacred. Dora Woodruff Cope, who lived in the Oconaluftee valley near Smokemont around 1900, recalled a legend her Cherokee neighbors told her:</p><br>
<p>...part of the river was called Yanu-unata wasti&#39;yi, "Where the bears wash." It was a deeper part of the river, where all the animals came to wash and heal their wounds when they had been hurt by hunters. No white person had ever seen this place because evil had blinded us to its existence. The animals knew how to find it, and diving into it meant instant healing.</p><br>
<p>The term "Oconaluftee" comes from the Cherokee village name Egwanulti, which means "by the river", and appears in the journals of John Bartram in 1775. Where along the river this village was located is unknown, although anthropologist James Mooney believed it to be situated near modern Birdtown, between Cherokee and Bryson City. Archaeological evidence, however, has identified a Cherokee settlement along the Oconaluftee north of the Qualla Boundary, just inside the present-day national park. While the Cherokee roamed the Smokies far and wide, this is the only known permanent Cherokee settlement within the park boundaries. This village was probably destroyed in 1776 by the army of General Griffith Rutherford during the American Revolution.</p><br>
<h3>19th century</h3><br>
<p>See also Cherokee, North Carolina</p><br>
<p>John Jacob Mingus (ca. 1774-1852), who arrived in the Oconaluftee in the 1790s, was the first Euro-American settler in the valley and the first within the boundaries of what is now the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Mingus purchased the land from Felix Walker, a land speculator and later North Carolina Congressman. While Mingus roamed from county to county in the Southern Appalachians, his descendants would remain in the area until the establishment of the park.</p><br>
<p>Mingus was followed by Abraham Enloe (1770–1840), who settled downstream from the Mingus plot. Due to Enloes resemblance to Abraham Lincoln, many locals believed he was the presidents father. Later Euro-American arrivals included Isaac Bradley (1772–1855), whose family settled in the vicinity of the stream that now bears their name, and Aden Carver (1844–1945), who lived near Smokemont.</p><br>
<p>In 1831, Enloe entered into a partnership with William Holland Thomas (1805–1893) to form the Oconaluftee Turnpike Company. The company widened the Indian Gap Trail from Oconaluftee to the crest of the Smokies, allowing wagon access to saltpeter mines on Mount Le Conte. The road&#39;s first tollkeeper, Robert Collins, would later guide Arnold Guyot on surveying expeditions across the crest of the Smokies. Mount Collins, between Clingmans Dome and Newfound Gap, is named for him.</p><br>
<p>Thomas, the son of caucasian parents who was adopted by Cherokee peace chief Yonaguska, took control of Cherokee business affairs in the 1830s. His land purchases for the tribe included the Qualla Boundary, which became the backbone of the federal trust for the Eastern Band of the Cherokee. After the 1835 Treaty of New Echota ordered the Cherokees removal from all eastern lands, Thomas went to Washington and successfully argued that since the Oconaluftee Cherokees were North Carolina citizens, the treaty didnt apply to them. In 1868, the Eastern Band was recognized as a separate tribe.</p><br>
<h3>20th century</h3><br>
<p>In the late 19th-century, innovations in the band saw and logging railroad led to a logging boom in Southern Appalachia. With base camps at Smokemont, the Three M Lumber Company and later the Champion Fibre Company cut much of the Oconaluftee valley before its tract was bought out by the Great Smoky Mountains Park Commission in the 1930s. In 1925, a massive forest fire quickly swept across the dried brush left over from the extensive logging, scorching much of the southern slopes of the Smokies.</p><br>
<p>After the establishment of the national park, a Civilian Conservation Corps camp was set up at Smokemont to construct roads and trails in the area. In 1937, the CCC restored Mingus Mill, a large turbine-driven gristmill on Mingus Creek. In the 1950s, several log structures were moved to an area adjacent to the Oconaluftee Visitor Center to form the Mountain Farm Museum, which provides an exhibition of pioneer life in Appalachia.</p><br>
<h2>Present day</h2><br>
<p>Along with the historic sites in the vicinity of the Oconaluftee Visitor Center, the park service maintains a large campground at the former logging camp of Smokemont. The small mountain hamlet of Tow String is sandwiched between the national park and Qualla Boundary, just above Oconaluftee. The southern terminus of the Blue Ridge Parkway is at the valleys southern tip, near the rivers confluence with Raven Fork.</p><br>
<p>A 20 mi leg of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail connects Oconaluftee with the Appalachian Trail near the summit of Clingmans Dome. The Bradley Fork Trail follows Bradley Fork north from Smokemont to the Cabin Flats area between Hughes Ridge and Richland Mountain. From here, the Dry Sluice Gap Trail continues north to the crest of the Smokies, emerging near Charlies Bunion.</p><br>
<p>In 1982, the Oconaluftee area was added to the National Register of Historic Places as the Oconaluftee Archaeological District.</p><br>
<h3>Mingus Mill</h3><br>
<p>Mingus Mill was built in 1886 by the millwright Sion Thomas Early of Sevier County, Tennessee. Early did the work for John Mingus, a son of John Jacob Mingus. Early completed the mill in three months for a cost of $600. The mill operated at wholesale and retail levels until the National Park Service purchased the property in 1934. The mill was restored in 1937, closed during World War II, and reopened in 1968.</p><br>
<p>Water diverted from Mingus Creek via a sluice (canal) and a wooden flume turns two turbines which provide power to the mill. An iron shaft connects the turbines to grindstones on the first floor and a wheat cleaner and bolting chest on the second floor (the latter two via a series of pulleys). Wheat or corn is first transported by bucket belt to the wheat cleaner, which is essentially a fan which clears the grain of dirt and excess material, and then drops it back to the first floor. The cleaned grain is then fed into the grindstones, which break it down into flour (or cornmeal). The flour is then transported back to the second floor and fed into the bolting chest, which uses bolts of progressively coarser cloth to separate the flour into different grades.</p><br>
<p>While the mill&#39;s turbine is not as photogenic as the overshot wheels that power mills such as the Cable Mill at Cades Cove, it was more efficient and required less water power to operate. The turbine generated approximately 11 hp turning at 400 rpm.</p><br>
<p>Aden Carver, who arrived in Oconaluftee in the mid-19th century, helped Early build the mill in 1886. When the mill was restored in 1937, Carver, then in his 90s, aided in its restoration.</p><br>
<h3>Oconaluftee Visitor Center</h3><br>
<p>The original visitor center at Oconaluftee was built in 1940 by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) as a ranger station and magistrate’s courtroom. The stone-and-log cabin was designated a "temporary" visitor center in 1947, and stayed that way until 2011, when a brand-new center was built in just two months in late winter and early spring, and dedicated on April 15. The Great Smoky Mountains Association paid three million dollars for the buildings (the other being a highly efficient restroom facility between it and the original center), and Friends of the Smokies donated over half a million more for the exhibits inside. Trotter & Associates Architects, LLC was the architect of record for the new visitor center. No government or taxpayer money was allocated for the project, so construction costs had to come entirely from donations to the two groups, which in turn donated the center to the National Park Service. The center and restrooms are open year-round, and after 64 years of "temporary" use, the original building has finally been reverted to its original administrative use, though its rustic and historic "parkitecture" remains untouched on the outside.</p><br>
<p>Just to the south on USA 441 is the southern end of the Blue Ridge Parkway, which unlike GSMNP and 441, is normally closed in winter.</p><br>
<h3>Mountain Farm Museum</h3><br>
<p>Adjacent to the Oconaluftee Visitor Center is the Mountain Farm Museum. The museum is a collection of several log buildings from various places around the park, the purpose of which is to depict a typical mountain farm in pioneer Appalachia. Gardens are planted during the spring and summer, and barn fowl roam the premises. Since most of the structures were not moved from their original locations intact, they are not eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places. The park service maintains them by the same standards, however.</p><br>
<p>Structures at the Mountain Farm Museum:</p><br>
<p>John Davis Cabin, built in 1900. This cabin was originally located on Indian Creek several miles to the west above Bryson City. John Davis moved to the area in 1885 to free-range his livestock. The cabin was constructed with matched chestnut logs joined with dove-tail notches.</p><br>
<p>Enloe Barn, built around 1880 by Abraham Enloe&#39;s grandson, Joseph, who owned the land where the museum is now located. The Enloes sold their farm to the Floyd family in 1917. This relatively large barn housed livestock in its lower stalls and grain and fodder in its lofts. This is the only structure that was originally located in Oconaluftee, being moved only 200 yd from its native spot. The roof consists of over 16,000 hand-split shingles.</p><br>
<p>Messer Applehouse, built by Will Messer of Cataloochee, a valley located within the park on the other side of Cataloochee Mountain to the east. At its original location, the applehouse was partially underground to help insulate it from the summer heat and winter cold.</p><br>
<p>The meathouse, located just behind the cabin, was moved to the site from Cataloochee. To cure meat (usually pork) and give it flavor, a small fire was built just inside the meathouse, exposing the meat to several hours of smoke.</p><br>
<p>The Baxter/Jenkins Chickenhouse, built by Willis Baxter in the late 19th century, was originally located at the base of Maddron Bald between Greenbrier and Cosby, Tennessee. Baxter&#39;s cabin is still located at its original site. Chickenhouses were used to protect chickens from carnivorous animals.</p><br>
<p>The blacksmith shop was built around 1900 and moved to the site from Cades Cove.</p><br>
<p>The springhouse, moved from Cataloochee, was used by farmers for refrigeration.</p><br>
<p>Two corn cribs, built around 1900, were moved from Thomas Divide, just north of Bryson City. Corn crib roofs were often raised to place the recently cut corn crop inside. A large pitchfork was used to remove the corn via the small square doors when it was time to take the corn to the mill.</p><br>
<p>Other buildings include a hog pen, a sorghum press and still (used to draw sorghum from cane and boil it into syrup), an ash hopper (water was filtered through the ashes to extract its lye, which was then mixed with hog lard to make soap), a woodshed, and native fencing.</p><br>
<h3>Oconaluftee Indian Village</h3><br>
<p>The Oconaluftee Indian Village is operated by the Cherokee Historical Association on the slopes of Rattlesnake Mountain inside the reservation. The outdoor museum is a replica of a typical Cherokee village from the mid-18th century.</p><br>
<h2>Images</h2><br>
<h3>Mingus Mill</h3><br>
<p>The Steinhuder Meer or Lake Steinhude is a lake in Lower Saxony, Germany located 30 km northwest of Hanover. It is named after the nearby village of Steinhude. It has an area of about 30 km², making it the largest lake of northwestern Germany, but it is very shallow, with an average depth of only 1.35 m and a maximum depth of less than 3 m. It lies within a region known as the Hanoverian Moor Geest.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>It is part of the glacial landscape formed after the recession of the glaciers of the latest Ice Age, the Weichselian glaciation. There are two theories regarding how the lake of Steinhude was formed.</p><br>
<p>One of them says that glaciers gouged out the hole and meltwater filled it. The other theory states that an ice storm formed the hole and as the groundwater rose, the lake was created. In its middle there is a small artificial island carrying an 18th-century fortification, the Wilhelmstein. Today the lake is the heart of a nature reserve, the Steinhuder Meer Nature Park, and is also used as a recreational area.</p><br>
<h2>Islands</h2><br>
<p>The lake has two islands, both of them artificial:</p><br>
<p>Wilhelmstein (12,500 m²) off Hagenburg was built between 1761 and 1765. It was turned into a military fortress between 1765 and 1767 by William, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe. Afterwards it briefly served as military school (one of its graduates was Gerhard von Scharnhorst who later became Chief of the Prussian General Staff). From 1777 until 1867 the island was used as state prison of the Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe.</p><br>
<p>Badeinsel Steinhude (35,000 m²) was built in 1975 using sand retrieved from the lake. It has a sandy beach which is popular during summer; a service center is available. Access to the island is via a 80m pedestrian bridge from Steinhude.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>The lake is a popular destination for locals and for vacationists. Up to three ships offer cruises; they are supplemented by smaller boats running on schedule across the lake. A bike path (ca. 22 mi/35 km) encircles the lake, crossing various landscapes.</p><br>
<p>Devil&#39;s Head Lookout is a USA Forest Service fire lookout tower at the summit of Devils Head in Douglas County, Colorado. Located on a large pinnacle of Pikes Peak granite, the fire lookout point lies within the Pike National Forest and is accessed by hiking the Devils Head National Recreation Trail.</p><br>
<p>The station was first established in 1912, with the original tower built in 1919. In the summer of 1951, the old tower was dismantled and current structure was built. In 1991, Devil&#39;s Head Lookout was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Sitting at the highest point of Rampart Range, the fire lookout is the last remaining such structure to be in service along the Front Range of Colorado.</p><br>
<p>The view from the current structure extends at least 100 miles in every direction on clear days.</p><br>
<p>The lookout (elev. 9748 feet, or 2971 m) can be accessed via easy/moderate trail (2.8 miles, or 4.5 km round trip) with elevation gain of 951 feet, or 290 m. The last stretch is a climb on 143 stairs. The access is from Rampart Range Road, a 14.5-km dirt road (easily accessible by passenger cars) from CO67. Note that the road to the trailhead is always closed to vehicles during the winter and typically does not open until April or May.</p><br>
<p>The Hotel Alder, is an historic five-story building in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. In 2004, it was named to the National Register of Historic Places. It has also been known as the Hotel President, the Jack London Hotel, and Century Plaza. The ground floor is occupied by the popular Rialto Poolroom Bar and Cafe and an off-track betting parlor which was sold to new owners in December 2016.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Hotel Alder was originally built by the Southern Pacific Railroad as a terminus hotel and was popular with traveling businessmen. Over the years, the hotel declined, eventually turning into low-priced single-room occupancy (SRO) hotel. In 1974, Art McFadden purchased the building. In 2004, McFadden sold the three residential floors to the Portland Development Commission (PDC). The PDC then sold the space to the Central City Concern (CCC), a local non-profit agency devoted to assisting the homeless get back on their feet. CCC began rehabilitating the building to provide for 99 low-income housing units.</p><br>
<p>The renovation, carried out by SERA Architects, required the entire building to be closed, including the Rialto. It was fully renovated to historic standards. On September 7, 2005, a ceremony marked the grand re-opening of the Hotel Alder, the premier of a documentary filmed inside, and the building&#39;s inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>In January 2017, a multi-story fire caused the temporary displacement of around 80 residents.</p><br>
<h2>Documentary</h2><br>
<p>Century Plaza is the name of a documentary film about life in the Hotel Alder during its time as an SRO. The films name is taken from the Hotels official name during the time it operated as an SRO Hotel. Filmmaker Eric Lahey lived in the Hotel Alder for seven months to get a feel for the lives of the occupants at the time.</p><br>
<p>The USA Post Office in Hyde Park, New York, serves the 12538 ZIP Code. It is a stone building in the Dutch Colonial Revival architectural style, located on East Market Street  just east of US 9.</p><br>
<p>It is a stone building modeled on an early house in the region. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a native of Hyde Park, took a personal interest in the construction of the new building during the New Deal. A series of murals inside depict major events in local history. In 1988 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The post office is located in the center of Hyde Park, on a corner lot at the intersection. Hyde Park Reformed Dutch Church is to the north; St. James Chapel is across East Market to the southeast. A decorative stone wellhead sits to the west, near the actual corner.</p><br>
<p>Its front facade, four bays wide, faces south. The two-story main block is faced in fieldstone in a random ashlar pattern. Windows have louvered shutters It is topped with a hipped roof with boxed wooden cornice and plain modillions. The main entrance, in the western bay, has a small pedimented wooden porch with square piers.</p><br>
<p>Two -story wings, on the east and west, have gabled roofs with clapboard siding in the gable ends. The cornices are shallower. The west wing has an entrance with paneled reveal and transom light. A larger, later wing extends from the north, of brick in common bond with a gambrel roof and cornice echoing the main roof. It ends in a loading platform.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the lobby has a flagstone floor and wainscoting. Around the upper wall on three sides are murals of Hyde Park&#39;s history. Much of the woodworking and finishes are original. A small display case holds the trowel used by Roosevelt at the groundbreaking ceremony.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The post office as an institution is of local historic importance. Hyde Park takes its name from its first post office, located in the Hyde Park Inn. The settlement&#39;s name was originally Stoutenburgh, but the new name took on wide use and eventually became official in 1812. Nine years later the town was separately organized under that name.</p><br>
<p>A century and a half later, Franklin D. Roosevelt took it upon himself as president to promote the use of the Dutch Colonial Revival style, and fieldstone, for new institutional buildings in his native Hudson Valley. He had personally made sure that new post offices in Poughkeepsie and later Rhinebeck, to the south and north, were built that way. Postmaster General James Farley asked him if he wanted to address Hyde Parks needs next, but the president told him to get Rhinebecks post office built first since it had the greater need.</p><br>
<p>In his speech at the 1939 groundbreaking for the Rhinebeck post office, he jokingly warned Farley and Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr. that they would not keep their jobs unless they made sure that there would be federal money available to build a new post office in Hyde Park. Rudolph Stanley-Mills, a former Treasury architect by then in private practice, was chosen to design a building for Roosevelts ultimate approval, due to his successful work on Rhinebeck, Wappingers Falls and other stone post offices in the region. The president insisted on stone even though Bards house had been frame.</p><br>
<p>The site was chosen and purchased in April 1940 for a cost of $15,000 ($ in contemporary dollars). Three houses were removed and demolished to clear a site for the new building. Stones, larger and more regular in size and shape than those used on the other four stone post offices in the county, was procured from old stone walls on a farm owned by onew of Bard&#39;s descendants. In November the president laid the cornerstone for the almost complete building</p><br>
<p>He personally chose the 1772 clapboard house built (but by then demolished) for early settler John Bard as the model for the structure. Stone for the building was taken from stone walls on land once owned by Bard&#39;s son Samuel. The next year, he helped lay the cornerstone for the new building, which opened the following year.</p><br>
<p>The brick rear wing was added in 1963, and some modern light fixtures have been installed. Other than that the building is as it was when opened.</p><br>
<h2>Public art</h2><br>
<p>Local artist Olin Dows painted murals in the lobby depicting Hyde Parks history, from Henry Hudsons Halve Maen docking in the nearby Hudson River during his 1609 voyage, to Britain&#39;s King George VI visiting Roosevelt at his house the year before. He had previously painted similar scenes in the Rhinebeck post office.</p><br>
<p>Public art in the building caused a local controversy in 2001. The postmaster had instituted a local "Artist of the Month" program which, in October of that year, featured Fatgirl, a painting of the clothed torso and midsection of an obese woman by Audrey Martin. After the post office received several verbal complaints, and one written, it was removed from the building. Protests of censorship from the local arts community drew nationwide sympathy and support, but the Postal Service defended its decision on the grounds that it is not an art gallery, and ended the program.</p><br>
<p>Tyrone House in County Galway is a ruined manor house, built in the 1770s for Christopher St. George. It is on a promontory by the estuary of the Kilcolgan river, about 2 mi from the village of Kilcolgan, County Galway, Ireland.</p><br>
<p>The house was destroyed by the local Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit during the Irish War of Independence.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Tyrone House, County Galway, was built in 1779. (It should not be confused with Tyrone House, Marlborough Street, Dublin, a townhouse designed by Richard Cassels for The 1st Earl of Tyrone of the 3rd creation in 1740.)</p><br>
<p>Its original owner was Christopher St. George. The house was reputedly designed by John Roberts of Waterford (1712–1796) who also designed Moore Hall in County Mayo and Waterford Cathedral.</p><br>
<p>The St. George family at the time owned much of the area around Kilcolgan.</p><br>
<p>Arthur French St. George was described as a resident proprietor in 1824.</p><br>
<p>In 1912, Tyrone House was described as "rather dilipated" by visitor Violet Martin. It served as an inspiration for the novel "The Big House at Inver" by Edith Somerville, published in 1925.</p><br>
<p>The house was destroyed by the local IRA unit during the Irish War of Independence in 1920. Rumour had it that it was going to be used by the Black and Tans as an infirmary. Tyrone House was uninhabited at the time.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>It was a big solemn house, grandly planned, three stories high, built on a height, in order to dominate the surrounding land and sea. The front faced south, and the northern side was protected by dense woods, beyond which lay the Kilcolgan river.</p><br>
<p>Fort Rosalie was a French fort built in 1716 in the territory of the Natchez Native Americans. The present-day city of Natchez, Mississippi, developed at this site. As part of the peace terms that ended the Natchez War of 1716, Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville required the Natchez to build the fort by providing materials and labor. Sited close to the main Natchez settlement, called the Grand Village of the Natchez, Fort Rosalie served as the primary French stronghold and trading post among the Natchez.</p><br>
<p>French settlements and tobacco plantations were established in Natchez territory, with the fort serving as the local seat of colonial government. Growing tension between the French and the Natchez erupted into violence several times during the 1720s, culminating in a massive Natchez attack on November 29, 1729. They destroyed the entire French settlement, killing nearly all the men and taking hundreds of women and children captive. The Natchez seized and occupied Fort Rosalie.</p><br>
<p>Retaliation by the French and allied Choctaw forces in 1730 forced the Natchez to evacuate, leaving the fort in ruins. By 1731 the French, with their more numerous Indian allies, had killed, captured, or dispersed most of the Natchez, and they ceased to exist as a tribe. The French sold surviving Natchez into slavery, many destined for French plantations in the Caribbean. Some escaped and found refuge among the Chickasaw, Creek, and Cherokee of the region. The French rebuilt Fort Rosalie in the early 1730s.</p><br>
<p>Following the Treaty of Paris in 1763 after the British won the Seven Years&#39; War, the French ceded the fort and part of present-day Louisiana to British control (with New Orleans and the land west of the Mississippi River going to Spain). The British renamed the outpost Fort Panmure.</p><br>
<p>During the American Revolutionary War, Spain declared war against Great Britain and took control of the fort, holding it from 1779 to 1798. After 1798, the United States took over, establishing the Mississippi Territory with Natchez as its first territorial capital.</p><br>
<p>The USA abandoned the fort in 1804. The city of Natchez traces its origin to the founding of Fort Rosalie in 1716. Today the site of the fort is part of Natchez National Historical Park.</p><br>
<p>The River Whitewater rises at springs near Bidden Grange Farm between Upton Grey and Greywell in Hampshire, England. It flows northeast and is a tributary of the River Blackwater near Swallowfield. Its headwaters flow over chalk and there is little pollution making the River Whitewater rich in wildlife. It was noted on Jansson&#39;s map of Hampshire of 1646.</p><br>
<p>The settlements of Greywell, North Warnborough and Hartley Wintney lie on the River Whitewater.</p><br>
<p>The river contains a variety of species of fish including brown trout, dace, barbel, perch, pike, roach and chub. Fishing on part of the river is controlled by Farnborough and District Angling Society which has separate coarse and fly fishing sections. Like many rivers in the south of England, non-indigenous mink and signal crayfish are present.</p><br>
