<p>Fort Blue Mounds, also known as Blue Mounds Fort, was located in Blue Mounds, Dane County, Wisconsin, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The settlement of Blue Mounds was founded in 1828 by Ebenezer Brigham on the south slope of the eastern mound of the Blue Mounds. In 1832, when word arrived that Chief Black Hawk and his 1200 Sauk followers had crossed the Mississippi River, it was decided to build a fort to protect the settlers.</p><br>
<p>On May 10, 1832, the construction of Fort Blue Mounds began with the help of the residents of Blue Mounds, led by the newly promoted Colonel Ebenezer Brigham. The fort was built a mile south of Eastern Mound on the highest part of the open prairie, allowing for a commanding view of the open country for miles. Those who defended the fort were able to see to the east, south, and west, with the mound bounding the northern side of the fort.</p><br>
<p>Word quickly arrived at the settlement of an engagement between Black Hawks group and the Illinois militia on May 14, 1832. In what was to be called the Battle of Stillmans Run, the Illinois militia were defeated by the Indians. This, along with the closeness of the Ho-Chunk tribe, brought fear to the settlers, and they worked quickly to complete the fort in about two weeks.</p><br>
<p>From May 20 to September 20, 1832, the settlers and miners joined General Henry Dodge&#39;s Michigan Territory Militia during the Black Hawk War.</p><br>
<p>James Aubrey was the first commander at the fort, but after he was killed by the Indians on June 6, his first lieutenant, Edward Beouchard, took command. He didn&#39;t command long before Captain John Sherman succeeded him.</p><br>
<h2>Archaeology</h2><br>
<p>The site of the original fort was owned by Colonel Brigham&#39;s descendants until it was donated to the Wisconsin Historical Society, who dedicated it as a state historical site on September 5, 1921.</p><br>
<p>Through excavation, it was found that the layout of the fort was very similar to one at Apple River in Illinois. The fort was surrounded by a picket fence about 150 ft in length on each side. Its wall was made from oak trees that were about 16 or 17 ft in height, with 3 ft of trunk planted in the ground. At two of the corners of the fort were 20 ft square blockhouses. Inside the wall was a log building in the center that was 30 by 20 ft that was used as a store-house and barracks.</p><br>
<h2>Today</h2><br>
<p>On May 22, 2010, the Blue Mounds Fort marker was rededicated following a three-year fundraising effort by the Blue Mounds Area Historical Society. The marker, which was cleaned up and re-mounted on a chert boulder donated by Blue Mound State Park, sits on the site of the Fort, although it is not currently accessible by the public.</p><br>
<p>Isa Lake is located in Yellowstone National Park, in the USA state of Wyoming. The lake straddles the continental divide at Craig Pass and was first discovered in 1891 by Hiram M. Chittenden, who was exploring the best routes for a road to connect Old Faithful and West Thumb geyser basins. Chittenden named the lake after Miss Isabel Jelke, from Cincinnati, though it is not clear why.</p><br>
<p>Isa Lake is believed to be the only natural lake in the world which drains to two different oceans. (For similar cases see List of unusual drainage systems.) The east side of the lake drains by way of the Lewis River to the Pacific Ocean and the west side of the lake drains by way of the Firehole River to the Atlantic Ocean. This is the opposite of what one would expect since the Atlantic Ocean is east of the lake and the Pacific Ocean is to the west.</p><br>
<p>The lake is easy to visit as it is adjacent to the road that now connects the Old Faithful and West Thumb geysers basins, on what is known as the "lower loop" of the figure-eight roadway which traverses through Yellowstone.</p><br>
<p>Croaghaun  is a mountain in County Mayo, Ireland. At 688 metres , it has the highest sea cliffs in Ireland and Great Britain as well as the third highest sea cliffs in Europe .</p><br>
<p>Croaghaun is the most westerly peak of Achill Island, and its highest mountain. Its cliffs lie on the northern slope of the mountain. The cliffs at Croaghaun can only be seen by hiking around or to the summit of the mountain, or from the sea. They are part of a sequence of sheer rock faces which start south of Keem Bay and loop around the uninhabited north-west of the island, by Achill Head and Saddle Head, and east to Slievemore, occasionally dropping vertically into the waters of the Atlantic Ocean.</p><br>
<p>The Croaghaun cliffs are home to two families of peregrine falcons (RTÉ, 2008). September and October are the best time to see the fastest creatures on Earth here, as they teach their young to fly. Metamorphic, quartz-laden gems may be observed, along with Mediterranean heathers and the waters of the Atlantic. It is common to see shoals of bottle-nosed dolphins and basking sharks, once a source of revenue for Achill Island (BBC, 2009). Porpoises are found in large numbers. Killer whales, humpback whales, and other whales have been sighted.</p><br>
<p>Curlew Pond is a 43 acre natural warm water pond in Plymouth, Massachusetts, located in the Myles Standish State Forest.</p><br>
<p>Called "Clew Pond" in the 19th century, the pond is located north of Rocky Pond and south of Kings Pond. The average depth is 11 ft and the maximum depth is 31 ft. The source for this pond is groundwater, and there is no outlet. Access to the pond, suitable for car top boats and canoes, is at the northern shore. There are two beaches located on both sides to the boat access.</p><br>
<p>About half of the pond is surrounded by the Curlew Pond public camping area of the Myles Standish State Forest, although a number of privately leased cottages ring the northeastern shore of the pond. The southern section is adjacent to the privately owned Blueberry Hill Camping Area.</p><br>
<p>The pond was in the vicinity of a large forest fire in 1902 which burned thousands of acres of forest.</p><br>
<p>Lai da Curnera is a reservoir on the river Rein da Curnera in the municipality of Tujetsch, in the Grisons, Switzerland. The reservoir is linked to Lai da Sontga Maria and Lai da Nalps in the neighboring valley. The lake&#39;s volume is 41.1 e6m3 and its surface area 81 hectare.</p><br>
<p>All surrounding rivers are diverted into the reservoir, among them the Rein da Tuma, coming from Lai da Tuma (Tomasee), near the Oberalp Pass and known as the source of the river Rhine.</p><br>
<p>The Vorderrhein, or Anterior Rhine as the Rhine is called in this area, passes just about 2 kilometers north to the barrier of the lake. A multiday trekking route is signposted along the young Rhine called Senda Sursilvana, from where the barrier can be spotted easily.</p><br>
<p>Keeper Hill or Slievekimalta or Sliabh Coimeálta is a 694 m  mountain in the Silvermine Mountains of County Tipperary, Ireland.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The mountain is about 15 km east of Limerick City. Keeper Hill is the highest mountain in the Silvermines (and the wider Shannon area) and the 117th highest in Ireland.</p><br>
<h2>Access to the summit</h2><br>
<p>There is a looped walk around the lower shoulders of Keeper Hill, to which the ‘hardy’ walker can add the ‘trek’ to the summit. This loop walk is part of the National Looped Walks and is marked using the standard purple National Looped Walk directional arrows.</p><br>
<h2>Conservation</h2><br>
<p>On the slopes of Keeper Hill is a woodland of 3,300 hectares. The 300 hectare summit is blanket bog and Nardus</p><br>
<p>grassland, considered of ecological importance.</p><br>
<p>Keeper Hill is designated a Special Area of Conservation.</p><br>
<p>The Tenney Fire Hall was a historic fire station in Tenney, Minnesota, United States, built in 1904, but which burned down in 2010. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 for having local significance in the theme of politics/government. It was nominated as an example of the municipal services offered by small villages such as Tenney, which measured only two square blocks. In 2011 the village, which had dwindled to three residents, voted 2–1 to dissolve as a separate municipality and become part of Campbell Township.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Tenney Fire Hall was a 24 x wood frame building with sheet metal siding stamped with a brick pattern. The building was characterized by an oversized bell tower with a pyramidal roof and louvered windows. The fire hall originally stood as a sort of miniature version of the similarly-shaped but much larger town hall adjacent.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Fire Hall was built in 1904 to house the town&#39;s two hand-drawn fire pumpers. The engines were used in conjunction with a large curbed well with a double stroked pump, an arrangement which was not abandoned until 1924. In 1918 the town jail was moved and added on to the rear of the fire hall, making room for a larger fire pumper.</p><br>
<p>The building was used for many years as a meeting house, a polling station, and of course as a fire hall and jail. During the 1990s the private owner had hoped to preserve the fire hall and to make it a viable attraction, but his efforts were hamstrung by the state and federal regulations governing the type of actions that can be taken with regard to moving or refurbishing properties on the National Register. In the summer of 2008 an anonymous vandal crashed a vehicle into the fire hall, badly damaging the northwestern corner of the building. In 2010 the fire hall was burned to the ground.</p><br>
<p>In 2016 the fire hall&#39;s original bell was installed in the offices of Myriad Mobile, an app developer, in downtown Fargo, North Dakota.</p><br>
<p>The John H. Addams Homestead, also known as the Jane Addams Birthplace, is located in the Stephenson County village of Cedarville, Illinois, United States. The homestead property, a 5.5 acre site, includes an 1840s era Federal style house, a Pennsylvania-style barn, and the remains of John H. Addams&#39; mill complex. The house was built in two portions, in 1846 and 1854 by Addams; he added some minor additions during the 1870s. Other major alterations took place during a 1950s modernization of the home. The homestead has been noted for its significance to industry and politics. On September 6, 1860 future Nobel Peace Prize recipient Jane Addams was born in the house.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The 5.5 acre John H. Addams Homestead includes the house, a Pennsylvania-style bank barn, and the remains of the Addams Grist Mill. After arriving in Stephenson County in 1845, Addams purchased the Cedar Creek Mills from Van Valzah, who had owned the mill since 1837. John H. Addams built the brick, federal-style house in two portions beginning in 1846. The smaller, northern part of the house was built in 1846, and in 1854 he added the larger southern portion of the house and its central entrance. Addams completed further alteration during the 1870s when he added a chimney and bay to the southern portion of the house, and a porch over the central front entrance.</p><br>
<p>In 1956, after the home was purchased by Thomas Ennenga, the front porch was removed and a gable-style dormer was placed into the roof as part of extensive modernizations done to the home. The rear porch was also replaced at that time.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The homestead also includes a Pennsylvania-style banked barn and the remains of Addams mill. The barn is three and a half stories tall with dimensions of 60 ft by 40 ft. It lies east of the house, and, like all banked barns, is built into a slope. The ramp leads into the south side of the barn, and the threshing floor; on the buildings north side is a cantilevered forebay. Instead of windows the barn has louvered vents. The whole building rests upon a limestone foundation.</p><br>
<p>Most of Addams grist mill has long since disappeared but there are some remains on the homestead site. Along Cedar Creek are the remains of the mills limestone foundation, the dam, and the mill race. The mill pond has dried up and is now a grassy area. The original mill stood four stories tall.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>John H. Addams was a prominent business leader and citizen in early Stephenson County. Besides his grist, saw and linseed mill, which became one of the largest in northern Illinois, Addams held positions in banks, railroad companies and was a founder of the Mutual Fire Insurance Company in 1867. He was active in politics much of his life and was a delegate to the state constitutional convention multiple times as well as serving an Illinois State Senator. His daughter, Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams, was born in the house on September 6, 1860.</p><br>
<p>During the 1970s the Illinois Historic Sites Survey noted the house for its significance as Jane Addams&#39; birthplace.</p><br>
<p>The USA National Register of Historic Places noted the house for its significance to industry and politics/government, and added it to its listings on April 17, 1979.</p><br>
<p>Nong Han Kumphawapi  is a lake in northeast Thailand, north of the town of Kumphawapi, Kumphawapi District, Udon Thani Province.</p><br>
<p>The lake is shallow, mostly not exceeding a depth of one meter. The open water area of 1.7 km² is surrounded by a wetland covering 4.1 km, including paddy fields.</p><br>
<p>In 2001 the lake was declared a wetland of international importance by the Thai government.</p><br>
<h2>Folklore</h2><br>
<p>According to local folklore, from the very beginning Nong Han played a part in the story of Phadaeng & Nang Ai. In summary, Nang Ai was the daughter of King Kom who ruled the country of Chathida. The beauty of Nang Ai was famed far and wide — and deep. Many very much desired a royal wedding with her, and not all were men. Amongst the many who would wed Nang Ai were Prince Phadaeng, a man from another land, and Prince Pangkhii, who had wed Nang Ai in former lives but in this one was the son of Phaya Nak, the Grand Nāga who ruled the deeps. So many suitors desired to wed Nang Ai that her father staged a rocket festival competition, the winner to enjoy a royal wedding. But hopes were dashed when only rockets of her uncles made it aloft, and her father called the whole thing off. Naga Prince Pangkhii shape-shifteds into a white squirrel to spy on Nang Ai, but she espies him and had him killed by a royal hunter. Pangkhii&#39;s flesh magically transformed into meat equal to 8,000 cartloads (a metric cartload is 2,000 litres). Nang Ai and many of her countrymen ate of this tainted flesh, and Phaya Nak vowed to allow no one to remain living who had eaten of the flesh of his son. Aroused from the deeps, he and his watery myrmidons rose and turned the land into a vast swamp &mdash; of which the Nong Han is a remnant. See them fleeing at the Ancient Siam.</p><br>
<p>Winnecunnet Pond or Winneconnet Pond or Winnecunnett Pond, very often called Lake Winnecunnet or Lake Winneconnet or Lake Winnecunnett although it is a pond rather than a lake, is a body of water in Norton, Massachusetts, United States.</p><br>
<p>The name also lends itself to the residential area around the pond. "Winnecunnett" (in its various spellings) may be an Algonquian word meaning "beautiful place in the pines".</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Located on the east side of town (on the north side of I-495), Winneconnet Pond is fed by the Canoe River and Mulberry Meadow Brook (sometimes simply called "Mulberry Brook" and referred to in an 1890 document as "Leach&#39;s Stream").</p><br>
<p>Winneconnet Pond feeds into a portion of the Mill River known as the "Snake River" before the Mill River feeds into the Taunton River.</p><br>
<p>According to The Sun Chronicle, at one time the town of Nortons "approximate gateways were Ulmers Farm on Route 123 and a big turkey farm near Lake Winnecunnett."</p><br>
<h2>Characteristics</h2><br>
<p>Winneconnet Pond is a 148 acre pond in that is part of the Taunton River Watershed. It has an average depth of 6 ft and a maximum depth of 11 ft. According to MassWildlife:</p><br>
<p>The fertile, stained water is transparent to five feet and the bottom is predominantly mud. The shoreline is heavily developed with commercial and residential buildings except for the swampy areas near inlets.</p><br>
<p>Weeds are a serious problem in Winneconnet Pond. The pond appeared on the United States Environmental Protection Agency "Massachusetts List of Impaired Waters for 1989". The parameter of concern was given as "noxious aquatic plants."</p><br>
<p>In an October 2007 town meeting, Winneconnet Pond area residents spoke in favor of allocating a proposed $40,000 in funds to develop a weed control and dredging program for the pond which a spokesperson described “a weed-infested, mosquito breeding swamp.”</p><br>
<p>Another resident complained, “Were living in unsanitary conditions…People cant sell their homes because we live on a swamp.” A town official said the project would cost the town an additional $15,000 to $20,000 per year besides the initial $40,000 expenditure. Because of these cost factors, the plan was turned down.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Metacomet, the Wampanoag Indian sachem also known as "King Phillip", is said to have hid in a cave near the pond near the end of King Philips War before meeting his death in Hockomock Swamp. According to one source, "Every Norton school child has been entertained with the legend of King Phillips Cave."</p><br>
<h2>Wildlife</h2><br>
<p>In 1927, Edward Howe Forbush wrote a study of the nesting habits of the barred owl which included the following observation:</p><br>
<p>In the region where I hunt, in southeastern Massachusetts, the barred owl is decidedly our commonest large owl, but it is none too common at that...The Winnecunnett pair has a record of 26 years, 1905 to 1930, inclusive, though this pair also was much disturbed by cutting in the woods and was obliged to nest in five different groves of pines, one of which was a quarter of a mile away. In all these cases a pair of red shouldered hawks nested regularly in the same tract.</p><br>
<p>The panfish population of Winneconnet Pond was deliberately thinned with a netting operation in 1955. The pond was last surveyed in July 1978. In a 1978 survey, nine species of fish were found: largemouth bass, chain pickerel, yellow perch, bluegill, pumpkinseed, white perch, brown bullhead, golden shiner and white sucker. Black crappie inhabit the waters as well. In 1988 and 1992 the pond was stocked with northern pike.</p><br>
<h2>Recreational use</h2><br>
<p>The Patriot Ledger reports that "the town forest, where King Philip&#39;s Cave is located, and Lake Winnecunnett are both popular recreation sites." The pond is used for recreational boating and angling. There is a small boat launch at the eastern edge of the pond on Bay Road.</p><br>
<p>According to the MDFW:</p><br>
<p>This pond is one of the most popular ponds in southeastern Massachusetts for ice fishing, being one of the first ponds to ice-up and one of the last to lose its ice. Due to excellent access, the pond is heavily fished. Abundant weed growth in the summer can make fishing and boating difficult. In response to this, the town of Norton once purchased and operated a weed-harvesting machine on the pond during the summer. Fisherman can expect catches of chain pickerel and largemouth bass with an occasional northern pike of ten pounds or more...</p><br>
<p>The Tunasan River , also referred to as the Tunasan-Cuyab River, is a river system in the Philippines. This river begins in Dasmariñas, Cavite, and ends 9 kilometers later at the border of Muntinlupa, and San Pedro, Laguna. It is one of 21 major tributaries of Laguna de Bay.</p><br>
<p>The river system has six adjoining creeks:</p><br>
<p>There are two in San Pedro, Laguna and Dasmariñas, Cavite</p><br>
<p>Three creeks joins the system from the ponds of The Filipinas Golf Club, and</p><br>
<p>The last one connects from the drainage system of RMT Complex.</p><br>
<p>The depth of the Tunasan currently varies from two meters to 0.25 meters</p><br>
<p>Both the river and barangay Tunasan got their names from a medicinal plant locally called tunas () which was abundant on the Tunasan river and the shoreline of Laguna de Bay.</p><br>
<p>The Tunasan river received media attention in 1994 and 1995 due to a series of "fish kills" caused by the high Biochemical Oxygen Demand from decomposing water lilies, and by the profusion of residential wastes that find their way into the river during the rainy season.</p><br>
<p>The Former Montana Executive Mansion, also known as the Original Governor&#39;s Mansion, is a property in Helena, Montana, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<h2>Original Mansion</h2><br>
<p>In 1913, the state of Montana acquired a mansion to serve as the official residence for the governor of Montana. The house and carriage house were built originally in 1888 by William Chessman. Between 1913 and 1959, it was home to nine Montana governors and their families.</p><br>
<p>Originally known as the William Chessman Mansion and after 1959 as the Governor&#39;s Old Mansion, it was built in 1888. It is in Queen Anne style, and was designed by the St. Paul, Minnesota, firm of Hodgson, Stem, & Welter. It is a three-story building built of pressed brick, terra cotta and stone. The interior has seven fireplaces and 20 rooms.</p><br>
<p>Said to have cost $85,000 to build, the listing includes two contributing buildings still standing, the house and a two-story brick carriage house, on an area of 1 acre.</p><br>
<h2>Current Governor's residence</h2><br>
<p>The current Montana Governors Residence is located at 2 Carson 46.584509&deg; latitude, -112.012596&deg; longitude Helena, Montana. It began operation as the governors residence in 1959, replacing the original governor’s mansion. The residence is a two-level steel and brick house located two blocks from the Montana State Capitol building.</p><br>
<p>Big Deer Pond in Hamilton County, New York is located approximately 1.5 west of Lows Lake in the Five Ponds Wilderness Area and the Adirondacks "Bob Marshall Wilderness" area . It serves as a 1/2 mile water-portage between Lows Lake and the upper Oswegatchie River. The portage is a total of 3.5 miles through blowdown of virgin timber. Big Deer Pond is noted for being a large shallow pond with numerous bog plant life. It was initially named Lost Pond by surveyor Verplanck Colvin before being rediscovered by conservationist Bob Marshall  after the turn of the 20th century.</p><br>
<h2>Philo Scott</h2><br>
<p>Big Deer Pond was the home of, 1841–1911; Adirondack Mountains Region (N.Y.) History 19th century "The Hermit" of Big Deer Pond (or Lost Pond) near Cranberry Lake. Scott was a boyhood neighbor and lifelong friend of J. Henry Rushton (canoe designer) and Reuben Wood (professional fly-dresser). Scott was a legendary Adirondack guide, trapper and the model for the title character in Irving Bacheller novel, Silas Strong, Emperor of the Woods (1906). Bachellor also dedicated the poem, Him and Me, to Scott.</p><br>
<p>Scott registered two patents one for an and one for an.</p><br>
<p>Scott Philos one room log cabin was later moved during the winter through the dense woods to Chair Rock on the south end of Cranberry Lake. It was used as the dining room for the historic Wildcliff Lodge (formerly known as "Hoppies" and then "Verns") and still sits unoccupied as of 2008. A committee of home owners in Chair Rock was organized to purchase Wildcliff as a means to eliminate the perceived noise and visitors to the area. Wildcliff now sits in disarray with no intent to repair or rejuvenate the historic property.</p><br>
<p>Homeland is a neighborhood located in the northern part of Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is bounded roughly by Melrose Avenue on the north, Bellona Avenue on the east, Homeland Avenue on the south, and Charles Street on the west.</p><br>
<p>The Greater Homeland Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001 with 1,616 contributing buildings.</p><br>
<h2>Demographics</h2><br>
<p>97.8% of the houses in Homeland are occupied and 88.5% of that number are owner occupied. According to the last census, 88% of the residents are white, 8.6% are black, 1.8% Asian and 1.5% are Hispanic. 20% of the white residents are reported as Irish, another 20% English, 17% German and 10% Polish. The median family income is $136,383 with 1.2% of those in the workforce unemployed. 90.7% are high school graduates and 41% report having a graduate or professional degree.</p><br>
<h3>Notable residents</h3><br>
<p>Ann Marie Doory- member, Maryland House of Delegates</p><br>
<p>Denise Dory- newsanchor, ABC2 News</p><br>
<p>Michael Middleton- Tennessee Grad., Professional Lacrosse player</p><br>
<p>Tom Marechek- Syracuse Grad., Professional Lacrosse player</p><br>
<p>Martin O&#39;Malley- Maryland governor</p><br>
<p>Alec Ross (author)</p><br>
<h2>Government Representation</h2><br>
<p>The church of San Ginés  in Madrid, is one of the oldest churches in that city. It is situated on the Calle Arenal. References to it appear in documents dating from the ninth century. Originally built in Mudéjar style , it was rebuilt in 1645.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The church was one of the churches of the medieval Madrid, of Mozarab origin, from between the 12th and 13th centuries, and its name comes from the fact that it was dedicated to the patron saint of notaries and secretaries, Saint Genesius of Arles (San Ginés de Arlés).</p><br>
<p>It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The church is preceded by an atrium enclosed by railings.</p><br>
<p>It has a Latin cross plan, with a nave and two aisles separated by semicircular arches and several side chapels and the altarpieces belong to the Neoclassical-Romantic school. It was, however, totally reconstructed after suffering several fires, so few remnants of the original church, such as the bell-tower, remain. In 1870, the loggia and atrium facing the Calle Arenal were added.</p><br>
<p>In the Santísimo Cristo Chapel there are artworks by Alonso Cano, Luca Giordano and el Greco.</p><br>
<p>In fact, the painting by El Greco is not to be found in the chapel of the Santísimo, it is situated in the main church but covered by wood and it is only on display on Saturdays from 11.30 am to noon.</p><br>
<p>Bedford School, located at 910 Bingham Street in the historic South Side Flats neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places since 1986. According to Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation, it is the oldest public school building still standing within the city of Pittsburgh.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Built in the Greek Revival style in 1850, the school opened as Birmingham No. 1, the largest public school on the South Side at the time. It was built to meet the growing need for classroom space in Birmingham, a manufacturing and residential borough that comprised the present South Side Flats between 6th and 17th Streets. Eighty pupils studied in the original four-room building. Boys attended classes on one side; girls on the other.</p><br>
<p>Greek Revival was the predominant architectural style for public buildings and homes built in southwestern Pennsylvania between about 1830 and 1860. Hallmarks of the style used in Bedford School include the pedimented entries with cornice returns and multi-light transoms and sidelights, brick dentils, unornamented lintels, and roof pitch. The inset panels of the second and third-floor windows are similar to features of some other Greek Revival buildings in Pittsburgh from the period.</p><br>
<p>The school was built with a cupola, like many other public schools in Pittsburgh in the mid-19th century. It housed the Birmingham town clock, purchased by the Birmingham Borough Council for $450 in 1850.</p><br>
<p>In 1872 the school joined the Pittsburgh school system, after the city of Pittsburgh annexed Birmingham and other South Side boroughs. The school changed its name to Bedford Public School in honor of Dr. Nathaniel Bedford, a physician at Fort Pitt, thought of as Pittsburgh&#39;s first doctor, as well as a large landowner on the South Side. Bedford had laid out streets and lots in Birmingham and named the town in 1811, for his birthplace in Birmingham, England. In his will, he gave the land to the Borough of Birmingham for a school.</p><br>
<h3>Remodeling</h3><br>
<p>A 1912 remodeling of the Bedford School reconfigured the classrooms, adding rooms and corridors. The Pittsburgh Board of Education annual report for 1912 states the following:</p><br>
<p>This building contained nine class rooms, each 24 ft. x 50 ft. with two teachers and two classes working in each room. Under these conditions teaching was almost impossible. The entire interior of the building was remodeled and contains twelve modern, fully equipped class rooms, properly connected by corridors. The outside privies were removed and replaced with a new two-story sanitary tower directly connected with the building.</p><br>
<p>The remodeling included an addition on the 10th Street side of the building. By 1912, Bedford School, under principal E. W. Dalbey of Wilkinsburg, had 14 teachers and 475 students.</p><br>
<p>By 1920 the Bedford School was the oldest public school building in use in the city of Pittsburgh. It operated as an elementary school until 1957, when the Pittsburgh Board of Education closed Bedford School.</p><br>
<h3>Closing</h3><br>
<p>The first floor served as a school for handicapped students until 1960, when the school board sold the building to Rhea S. Plack, wife of Milton Plack of Squirrel Hill, who used it as storage for L & M Sales, his wholesale hardware and contracting supplies firm. In 1997, Milton Plack sold the building to Frontier Lofts of the South Side, which converted it to condominiums under the direction of Pittsburgh real-estate developer Joedda Sampson. Among eight units, several of which have loft space, all have features of the original classrooms, including hardwood flooring and lighting fixtures, and many retain original blackboards.</p><br>
<p>The renovation is described in.</p><br>
<p>Located in Bay City, Matagorda County, Texas, the Henlsey-Gusman House was built by Alexander D. Hensley , who purchased land at this site in January 1898. With his wife Maggie , he asked his brother, architect Henry Hensley, to design this house to catch breezes from any direction.</p><br>
<p>Recorded Texas Historic Landmark 1993.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1905 by the Alamo Lumber Company, the house is a fine local example of a Victorian-era residence and stylistic influences of the Queen Anne period. It features a distinctive octagonal plan, with porches providing additional spaces to complete the octagon. Because of its unusual floor plan, the house&#39;s central living room contains eight doors but no windows; four of the doors open onto the corner porches.</p><br>
<p>Prominent features include a cross-gable roof with wood shingled gable ends, and decorative wood brackets at cutaway corners above corner windows. The original wooden porch floors were replaced with concrete in the 1930s, but the decorative wood columns and doors remain. Retail salesman James Robert Gusman (1862–1944), his wife Bettie Amanda Harrington (1864–1948) and their children moved to Bay City from Weimar in 1911. They bought the house from the Hensley&#39;s in 1919, and it remained in their family for generations. Recorded by the Texas Historic Landmark - 1993.</p><br>
<p>In 2003, the Hensley-Gusman House was purchased by Timothy Sloan, a lifelong resident of Bay City and attorney at law, from the Bay City Historical Commission, as the home was left by the Gusman family. After extensive renovations, in August 2007, the Hensley-Gusman House became the new home for the law practice of Timothy Sloan, and son, Matthew Hardy Sloan.</p><br>
<p>On August 18, 2007, the home was dedicated by the Bay City mayor and local citizens as a National Historic Place. Some modifications have been made in accordance with the National Register of Historic Places in keeping with the historic nature of this property.</p><br>
<p>All the floors, moldings, doors and windows have been refinished to the original wood finishes. Bedrooms have been furnished into the main lobby, law offices, legal assistant offices, law library and conference room. The kitchen retains its original location, with original cabinetry and updated appliances. The original bathroom has been modified with an addition of a second half-bath to make compliant.</p><br>
<p>Moore&#39;s Crossing Historic District is a community located in rural Travis County nine miles southeast of Austin, Texas near the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.</p><br>
<p>The location was used as a low-water crossing of Onion Creek as early as the 1840s but did not receive its current name until the early 1900s, when John B. Moore built a store in the area. Moore&#39;s Crossing was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 16, 1996</p><br>
<h2>Description and significance</h2><br>
<p>The southeastern quadrant of what is now Travis County was the first part of the county Europeans settled after the Spanish (and later Mexican) government opened Texas lands to colonists in the 1820s. Watered by the Colorado River, the region&#39;s rich black land promised much greater agricultural potential than the rocky hills to the west. Its first residents were farmers who plowed fields and built modest homes along the rivers and creeks that ran through the area. Despite the designation and subsequent growth of nearby Austin as the state capital and county seat, southeast Travis County remained largely an agricultural region until the construction of Bergstrom Air Force Base in 1942, during World War II. Population growth in 1990s and the opening of ABIA in 1999 was followed by commercial development along Texas State Highway 71.</p><br>
<p>In 1915, three of six spans from the 1884 iron Congress Avenue Bridge, which had been put into storage in 1910, were used to construct a bridge at Moore&#39;s Crossing (formerly Onion Creek Bridge). The bridge was washed away by a spring flood that year. The current bridge, built by the Austin Bridge Company of Dallas is made of concrete piers and the remaining three spans from the Congress Avenue Bridge. It was completed in 1922 and took Burleson Road across Onion Creek to Farm to Market Road 973.</p><br>
<p>On January 8, 1980, the bridge was "finally put to rest" after nearly 97 years. Richard Moya, Travis County Commissioner Precinct 4, stated the bridge would be closed to automobile traffic due to risk of structural failure. The estimate to stabilize the one-lane bridge for traffic was $750,000 and that did not include widening it to support the increased traffic caused by area growth. A four-lane concrete beam bridge with a different alignment to Farm to Market Road 973 was built instead. The county barricaded the bridge at Moore&#39;s Crossing and turned it into a pedestrian bridge.</p><br>
<p>The bridge at Moore&#39;s Crossing was registered as a Historic Landmark in 1980 by the Texas Historical Commission. The community itself was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 16, 1996.</p><br>
<h2>In television</h2><br>
<p>Warner Bros. Television used the Moore&#39;s Crossing Bridge and the park beneath it as a location for season 2 of The Leftovers, which airs on HBO. Production at the location occurred between April and October 2015.</p><br>
<p>The Lower Main Street Historic District is a historic district comprising the first several blocks of Main Street  in Beacon, east of its intersection with South Street, the end of its concurrency with NY 9D. The District covers about 50 acres  and includes 32 buildings, most of them in the late 19th-century Italianate style.</p><br>
<p>Many of these buildings have been extensively renovated and are now used for businesses such as boutiques and art galleries. The Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries currently has its home in one of the buildings.</p><br>
<p>The District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>Contributing properties</h2><br>
<p>The former Lewis Tompkins Hose Company No. 1 Firehouse, was the first built in what later became the city of Beacon, New York. Designed by Schuyler Tillman and Benjamin Hall in a Second Empire style, it was completed in 1893. It is located at 140 Main Street, a block away from NY 9D, and was later renovated as an art glass studio. On December 6, 2004 it was listed on the National Register of Historic in its own right.</p><br>
<p>Mohawk Island is a small  island in Lake Erie, in the province of Ontario, Canada. It was formerly known as Gull Island. The island contains the ruins of the Gull Island Lighthouse, built in 1848 to guide ships into the Welland Canal. It was automated  in 1933, and decommissioned in 1969. It is located close to the shore of Rock Point Provincial Park. The lantern room and stairs inside the lighthouse were removed, the wood roof the lighthouse keeper, door and windows are missing.</p><br>
<p>Currently, no humans live on the island, and it is mostly inhabited by birds. It is an important nesting and loafing area for gulls, terns and cormorants; furthermore, the island provides a stopover site for migratory birds such as Canada geese. In 1977, the Canadian government established the island as Mohawk Island National Wildlife Area to protect nesting birds. Although the surrounding waters are popular for recreational boating, people are generally not allowed to visit Mohawk Island.Public access and activities at Mohawk Island NWA are restricted by the Wildlife Area Regulations. Entry to Mohawk Island NWA is not permitted from April 1 to August 31, except by a permit issued by the Canadian Wildlife Service under the Canada Wildlife Act. Signs are posted on the island . On Mohawk Island NWA, overnight camping, open fires, hunting and use of vehicles are prohibited at all times. Entry to the stone lighthouse structures is prohibited at all times.</p><br>
<p>Public access to Mohawk Island NWA is permitted from September 1 through March 31, for day use only, from sunrise to sunset. Signs are posted on the island clearly indicating the permitted dates of access. Authorized low-impact recreational uses at the island include wildlife viewing; picnicking; recreational fishing from shore (no lead sinkers and spears); swimming; and boat landing (motorized and non-motorized boats).</p><br>
<p>Kymulga Mill & Covered Bridge are two locally owned historic landmarks located at Kymulga Park in Talladega County, Alabama, United States. The park is on Grist Mill Road  off State Route 76 about 4 miles  northeast of the city of Childersburg.</p><br>
<p>Both structures, dating back to the American Civil War, were restored in 1974 and were listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 29, 1976. The Childersburg Heritage Committee purchased the tract in 1988, and with help from the Alabama Historical Commission and the Talladega County Commission, established Kymulga Park. More structural renovations were made as well. There is an admission charge to visit the park, with proceeds being used for upkeep of all structures and nature trails within this historic recreation area.</p><br>
<p>Kymulga Park was acquired by the City of Childersburg in June 2011. It is currently managed by the Childersburg Historic Preservation Commission.</p><br>
<h2>Kymulga Mill</h2><br>
<p>Kymulga Mill is a working gristmill built in 1864 by German contractor G.E. Morris for Confederate Army Captain George H. Forney, who was later promoted to lieutenant colonel. Forney died at the Battle of the Wilderness in Virginia before construction was completed, but his wife allowed Morris to finish it. Union Army soldiers burned most of the gristmills throughout the area during the Civil War, but Kymulga Mill was missed. The mill was sold four times before being purchased by the Childersburg Heritage Committee from latest owner Edward Donahoo in 1988, though it remained in active service through many of those years.</p><br>
<p>Three water powered turbines ran the four-story mill, including lights, grain elevator and millstones used for grinding grain. Two of its five sets are French buhrs, thought to be the hardest rock in the world. Kymulga Mill continues to operate to this day, though under electricity, still making corn meal with its huge millstones. The building is now a tourist attraction open for guided tours. It also serves as a gift shop and park office.</p><br>
<h2>Kymulga Covered Bridge</h2><br>
<p>The Kymulga Covered Bridge is a wood & metal combination style covered bridge that spans Talladega Creek, located just east of Kymulga Mill within Kymulga Park. Built in 1861, the 105-foot (32 m) bridge is a Howe truss construction over a single span. The Kymulga Covered Bridge is one of two 19th-century covered bridges extant in Alabama still remaining at its original location; the Waldo Covered Bridge, also located in Talladega County, is the other.</p><br>
<p>The bridge once provided access to the Old Georgia Road or the McIntosh Road, a Native American trade route which was used by settlers and frontiersmen who ventured the area. Eventually, farms and communities spawned along the former trail. The United States government purchased land adjacent to Kymulga Mill in 1941 for the Alabama Ordnance Works, a military installation. Settlements within the tract had to be relocated. Today, the Kymulga Covered Bridge leads park visitors to a series of nature trails north of Talladega Creek. People may still find remnants of the Old Georgia Road, as well as other traces of the past.</p><br>
<p>Deadwood Reservoir is a reservoir in the western United States, in Valley County, Idaho. Located in the mountains of the Boise National Forest about 25 mi southeast of Cascade, the 3,000 acre body on the Deadwood River is created by Deadwood Dam. The river flow south from the dam and is a tributary of the South Fork of the Payette River. The reservoir and vicinity is commonly used for camping, water skiing, fishing, canoeing, and other outdoor recreation. The full pool surface elevation is just above a mile-high at 5,334 ft above sea level.</p><br>
<p>Approved by President Coolidge in 1928, the isolated site required substantial road building. Construction of the concrete arch dam itself began in late 1929 and was completed in March 1931.</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<h3>Summer</h3><br>
<p>The temperature can get hot in late July and early August. Rain and wind may frequent the area unpredictably. The climate is much like that of other high mountain lakes in Idaho.</p><br>
<h2>Plant life</h2><br>
<p>Huckleberries</p><br>
<p>Various evergreens (mostly pine trees of one sort or another)</p><br>
<h2>Wildlife</h2><br>
<h3>Fish</h3><br>
<p>Rainbow trout</p><br>
<p>Kokanee salmon</p><br>
<p>Landlock fall chinook salmon</p><br>
<p>Bull trout</p><br>
<p>Cutthroat trout</p><br>
<p>Other fish have been caught than those listed above (i.e. a sort of white fish), though they may or may not be commonly found</p><br>
<h3>Mammals</h3><br>
<p>Chipmunks</p><br>
<p>Deer</p><br>
<p>Moose</p><br>
<p>Wolves</p><br>
<p>Black bears</p><br>
<p>Bats</p><br>
<p>Probably skunks, as they frequent other similar high mountain lakes, such as Lost Valley Reservoir (AKA Lost Lake)</p><br>
<h3>Reptiles</h3><br>
<p>Garter snakes</p><br>
<h3>Birds</h3><br>
<p>Bald eagles</p><br>
<p>Blue Grouse</p><br>
<p>Osprey</p><br>
<p>Turkey vulture</p><br>
<h2>Video</h2><br>
<p>- video - Deadwood Reservoir - 2009-09-12</p><br>
<p>The Zhuoshui River, also spelled Choshui River, is the longest river in Taiwan. It flows from its source in Nantou County up to the western border of the county, subsequently forming the border between Yunlin County and Changhua County, with a total length of 186 km.</p><br>
<p>The river serves as an unofficial boundary between the north and south of Taiwan. It is dammed in its upper reaches by the Wushoh and Wujie Dams and further downstream by the Chichi Weir.</p><br>
<p>The Zhuoshui River environment has in recent years been seriously degraded both by the construction of a dam across the river at Jiji and by the ongoing activities of the concrete industry.</p><br>
<h2>Tributaries</h2><br>
<p>Chenyoulan River</p><br>
<p>Shuili River</p><br>
<h2>Bridges</h2><br>
<p>Xiluo Bridge</p><br>
<p>Osoyoos Lake is a lake located in British Columbia and Washington. Osoyoos is derived from the word sẁiẁs meaning "narrowing of the waters" in the local Okanagan language .</p><br>
<p>Located on the lakeshore are the towns of Osoyoos, British Columbia and Oroville, Washington. The lakes maximum elevation is 912.78 ft, while its minimum elevation is 909.46 ft. The 62-year average discharge into the Okanogan River at Oroville is 683 cuft/s. Maximum discharge in 2004 was 1,340 cuft/s. Orovilles Osoyoos Lake State Park is located on its shore.</p><br>
<h2>An international lake</h2><br>
<p>Osoyoos Lake and its outlet and primary inflow, the Okanogan River (known as the Okanagan River in Canada), are subject to international water-sharing agreements governed by the International Joint Commission as part of the Columbia Basin. The authority responsible for overseeing the IJC agreements is the International Osoyoos Lake Board of Control, composed of appointees from Environment Canada, the BC Ministry of Water, Land Air Protection, the US Army Corps of Engineers, the US Geological Survey, and private consultants.</p><br>
<p>Nuttby Mountain is a Canadian peak in the Cobequid Mountains and at 360.6 metres is one of the highest elevation points on the mainland portion of Nova Scotia. Its longstanding claim to be the highest peak was disputed in 2017 when it was discovered that Higgins Mountain near Folly Lake is 363.7 metres and an unnamed peak near Hart Lake is 365.02 metres.</p><br>
<p>Located west of Route 311 in Colchester County some 20km north of Truro, the peak is accessible by vehicle using a gated road and is topped by telecommunication towers. A fire lookout tower stood there from 1937 to 2013. A 45-megawatt wind farm was constructed on a 400-acre site on the mountain in 2010. As of 2017 Nova Scotia Power owned 22 Enercon E82 turbines on the site with a total capacity of 50.6 MW.</p><br>
<p>North Mountain  is a narrow southwest-northeast trending volcanic ridge on the mainland portion of southwestern Nova Scotia, stretching from Brier Island to Cape Split. It forms the northern edge of the Annapolis Valley along the shore of the Bay of Fundy. Together with South Mountain, the two ranges form the Annapolis Highlands region.</p><br>
<p>North Mountain rises dramatically from the valley floor and tapers somewhat more gradually to the north and west where it meets the coast, although many parts of this coast have vertical cliffs rising higher than 30 metres, most notably at Cape Split. A break occurs at Digby Gut where a gap in the mountain ridge is filled by a deep tidal channel separating the eastern end of the mountain from Digby Neck.</p><br>
<p>The highest point on the ridge is at Mount Rose in Annapolis County, north of Lawrencetown.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The ridge traces its history to the Triassic period when this part of Nova Scotia occupied the center of the supercontinent Pangaea. It is a 201 million year old sequence of tholeiitic basalts, which contains columnar jointing. The basalts also extend under the Bay of Fundy and parts of it are exposed on the shore at Five Islands, east of Parrsboro on the north side of the bay. Numerous sediment-filled fissures are present near the upper surface of North Mountain. The hard ridge of basalt resisted the grinding of ice sheets that flowed over the region during past ice ages, and now forms one side of the Annapolis Valley in western part of the Nova Scotia peninsula.</p><br>
<p>North Mountain is believed to have formed during the opening of the Atlantic Ocean. It is a portion of the Central Atlantic Magmatic Province, which is a gigantic flood basalt and intrusive complex along east coast of the United States, Europe, northwest Africa and South America with a diameter of 4,000 km.</p><br>
<p>A viscous (&lt;175 m) North Mountain flow at McKay Head shows ~25-cm-thick distinguished layers separated by ~130 centimeter of basalt in its upper 34 meters. Upper layers (5 meters below the lava top) are extremely vesicular while lower ones are pegmatitic and include a narrow (~2 cm) rhyolite band. The layering of the flow closely resemble that of some Hawaiian lava lakes.</p><br>
<p>Columnar basalt may be seen at Baxters Harbour and at Brier Island.</p><br>
<p>South Mountain  is a Canadian range on the mainland portion of Nova Scotia. A granitic ridge stretching from the Annapolis Basin to Mount Uniacke, it forms the southern edge of the Annapolis Valley and shelters the valley from the climate effects of the pelagic coast along the Atlantic Ocean. Together with North Mountain, the two ranges form the Annapolis Highlands region.</p><br>
<p>In contrast to its northern counterpart, North Mountain, South Mountain rises gradually over dozens of kilometres from the Atlantic coast and descends sharply at its northern edge where it meets the Meguma strata to form the south wall of the valley. The South Mountain range is also known as the South Mountain Batholith, the largest body of granitoid rocks in the entire Appalachians and comprises both granite barrens and granite uplands. It is estimated to have developed during the late Devonian Age.</p><br>
<p>The highest point on the ridge is at an unnamed point in Kings County, 26 kilometres southeast of Berwick near Lake George.</p><br>
<p>The Goler clan lived on South Mountain and gained infamy throughout the province.</p><br>
<p>For other "River Knobs", see River Knobs .</p><br>
<p>The River Knobs — formerly known as East Seneca Ridge — are a ridge and series of knobs in western Pendleton County, West Virginia, USA, along a stretch of the North Fork South Branch Potomac River. Although the Knobs (peak elevation: 2,854 ft) are dwarfed by Spruce Mountain to the west (peak: 4,840 ft) and by North Fork Mountain to the east (peak: 4,588 ft), they are notable for their series of prominent “razorback” ridges or “fins”. The largest and most famous of these blade-like crags is Seneca Rocks.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The River Knobs stretch for about 18 mi from near Cherry Grove to near Seneca Rocks and are situated in a southwest/northeast orientation. They are a minor part of the High Alleghenies of the Appalachian Mountain Range. Their rock outcrops are clearly visible from WV Route 55 and USA Route 33. Each is associated with a named gap through which a stream has transected the ridge and exposed the bedrock. From north to south the most prominent features are Roy Gap (with its Seneca Rocks), Harper Knob (2,820 ft), Harper Gap, Harmon Knob (2,854 ft), Hinkle Gap, Germany Knob (2,802 ft), Riverton Gap, Judy Gap (with its Judy Rocks), Nelson Gap (with its Nelson Rocks), False Gap, Lambert Gap, Pike Gap and Teter Gap.</p><br>
<p>The Knobs are part of the same structural fold of the earth’s crust that continues to the north as Champe Knobs (with its Champe Rocks and Yellow Rocks) and to the south as River Hill and (in Virginia) Lantz Mountain.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The exposed rock of the River Knobs is a tough quartzite, Tuscarora Sandstone, an extremely hard sedimentary rock, ranging in color from a nearly translucent white, to gray, pink or orange. Laid down as sediment on a sea floor 440 million years ago, in West Virginia the Tuscarora is 150 to 250 ft thick. At the River Knobs, the quartzite layer has been "verticalized" by geological forces during the formation of the Appalachians some 230 million years ago. A folding of the Earth&#39;s crust forced this layer - and the surrounding strata - into enormous arches, miles wide. The River Knobs trace the western wall of this arch, or anticline, where the Tuscarora was turned a full 90 degrees from horizontal to vertical. Over time, erosion stripped away the softer rock covering the arch, and finally the dome of the arch itself. The tough quartzite of the western walls resisted this process, leaving the soaring "fins" - narrow vertical plates of exposed rock. About 2 mi east, along the top of North Fork Mountain, the horizontal strata of the far slope of the Tuscarora anticline are also visible.</p><br>
<p>(Within this eroded anticline lies Germany Valley, registered as a National Natural Landmark because of its unique karst topography.)</p><br>
<p>At Champe Rocks and Nelson Rocks the outcroppings are seen as not one, but two parallel fins. The reason for this is that, during the rise of the Appalachians, the same forces which formed the anticline caused the Tuscarora to fault or rupture, with the upper layer sliding over and overlapping the lower. As the top of the arch wore away, two fins were left. Nelson Rocks is considered one of the best examples of the “faulted Tuscarora”. Seneca Rocks is a much thicker, monolithic formation because there the rock did not fault cleanly into two layers, but rather rolled over on itself. From Roy Gap, looking north, this effect is clearly visible in the curving layers of rock surrounding the large cave in the south end of Seneca Rocks.</p><br>
<h2>Miscellany</h2><br>
<p>Nelson Rocks Preserve features a via ferrata (one of only six in North America), along with a rope bridge, 200 ft long and 150 ft high.</p><br>
<p>The Gilbert House Childrens Museum is an interactive childrens museum located in Salem, Oregon, United States. This hands-on museum was named in honor of American inventor Alfred Carlton Gilbert and displays several of his inventions, most notably the Erector Set. In fact, the Village is home to the world&#39;s largest Erector Set tower at 52 feet. Originally home to the National Toy Hall of Fame, the museum sold the Hall of Fame to the Strong - National Museum of Play in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Besides its interactive exhibits, Gilbert House Children&#39;s Museum also provides summer camps, birthday party packages, and outreach programs.</p><br>
<p>The museum is housed in several historic Victorian buildings, including the Andrew T. Gilbert House, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP), and a 1998 replica of the Wilson-Durbin House, which was also NRHP-listed until it was destroyed by fire in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Exhibits</h2><br>
<p>Erector Set Tower – A 52 feet high erector set tower; the largest in the world. There are also 3 giant slides and a maze.</p><br>
<p>City of Salem Paddle Wheeler - A model of the City of Salem, a ship that once served the people of Salem.</p><br>
<p>American Flyer Train</p><br>
<p>Mammoth Dig – A simulated archaeological dig for children.</p><br>
<p>Earth&#39;s Core</p><br>
<p>Discovery Campground</p><br>
<p>Miniature Village – Model homes from around the world in a global village.</p><br>
<p>Amphitheater</p><br>
<p>The Gaspar Strait is the strait separating the Indonesian islands Belitung and Bangka and connecting the Java Sea to the South China Sea.</p><br>
<p>These straits, formed between the large islands Banca and Billiton, are generally called Gaspar Straits, after the Spanish captain from Manila, who passed through them in 1724; but Captain Hurle, returning from China in the English ship Macclesfield, had previously passed through them, in March 1702. Pulo Leat, or Middle Island, separates these straits into two principal branches; that to the westward, between it and the S.E. part of Banca, is often called Macclesfield Strait; and the eastern branch, situated between Middle Island, and Long Island, near Billiton, is generally called Clements&#39; Strait, after Captain Clements, who commanded the fleet from China, that went through this branch in July 1781. Gaspar Island, or Pulo Glassa, , lies approximately 24 miles north of Middle Island and approximately 18 miles from Tanjong Brekat . The largest islands in the strait are Lepar, Pongok and Mendanau.</p><br>
<h2>Geologic history</h2><br>
<p>Geologically, the Cobequid Mountains are considered part of the Appalachians. The range stretches from Cape Chignecto in Cumberland County in the west through to Pictou County in the east.</p><br>
<p>The Cobequid Mountains trace their geologic history to the Precambrian and Devonian ages; consequently the mountains are composed of a combination of sediments, granites, and volcanic rock all of which has been crushed and folded by continental drift when this part of Nova Scotia was located at the centre of the Pangea supercontinent. Subsequent erosion over millions of years has resulted in the present-day low range of mountains and rolling hills.</p><br>
<p>The part of northern Nova Scotia which contains the Cobequid Mountains is believed to have been linked with what is now northern Europe. Its collision with a section from present-day northern Africa has resulted in the current landscape in the province; a remnant fault line from this event, the Cobequid-Chedabucto Fault, extends along the southern portion of the Cobequid Mountains, immediately north of the Minas Basin and Cobequid Bay east to Canso.</p><br>
<p>Some mistakenly consider the Cobequid Mountains to extend into Antigonish County further east, however this smaller range is geologically distinct and is named the Pictou-Antigonish Highlands.</p><br>
<h2>Highest elevations</h2><br>
<p>The highest point of the Cobequid Mountains is an unnamed peak on the eastern side of the Wentworth Valley (365 m). Other high peaks include Higgins Mountain (364 m), Nuttby Mountain (360 m), Dalhousie Mountain (335 m), and Mt. Thom (329 m).</p><br>
<h2>Freshwater resources</h2><br>
<p>The range contains an abundance of freshwater lakes and some springs which form headwaters that flow via a number of small rivers and streams south into the Minas Basin and north into Northumberland Strait. Several escarpments associated with the Fundy Basin have been formed from fault lines, resulting in a number of waterfalls on the southern mountain slopes.</p><br>
<h2>Forests and mineral resources</h2><br>
<p>Forests covering the Cobequid Mountains are mainly of hardwood species sugar maple (also known locally as rock maple) and yellow birch on mountain slopes, which present spectacular displays in autumn with the changing of the colours. Steep stream and river valleys are dominated by red spruce stands. The lower slopes consist of balsam fir, red spruce, black spruce, white spruce, paper birch, red maple and silver maple (also known locally as white maple).</p><br>
<p>The sedimentary deposits in the Cobequid Mountains hold several coal deposits in various basins, stretching across the northern slope of the mountains in Cumberland County (from Joggins through River Hebert to Springhill) and on the southern edge at Debert. Igneous rocks yielded iron ore at Londonderry.</p><br>
<p>The Islands of Fleet are a group of small islands in Galloway, Scotland. They are in Fleet Bay, which is part of Wigtown Bay, and is in turn part of the Solway Firth in the Irish Sea. There are three main islands.</p><br>
<p>* Murray Isles, owned by the National Trust for Scotland, with the small rock "Horse Mark" off it.</p><br>
<p>* Ardwall Isle (Ard Bhaile - high town), which has a cairn and the remains of a chapel on it, and has the "Old Man of Fleet" off it. The largest of the three, it is approximately 19 hectare in extent.</p><br>
<p>* Barlocco Island, with the "Three Brethren" off it.</p><br>
<p>Ardwall Isle and Barlocco Isle are two of 43 tidal islands that can be walked to from the mainland of Great Britain and two of 17 that can be walked to from the Scottish mainland.</p><br>
<p>Stege Marsh, also known as the South Richmond Marshes, is a tidal marshland wetlands area in Richmond, California in western Contra Costa County.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>The marsh is the delta at the mouth of Baxter or Stege Creek, which drains from a watershed extending into the Berkeley Hills in El Cerrito. The marsh is opposite Meeker Slough from where Meeker Slough Creek drains into Campus Bay, which is a part of the Richmond Inner Harbor of the San Francisco Bay.</p><br>
<p>The site was polluted by a UC Berkeley Field Station and a Zeneca sulfuric acid manufacturing center. Restoration is underway. The contamination includes dangerous levels of toxic chemicals and organic compounds such as Arsenic, mercury, and PCBs.</p><br>
<p>The Pool of Virkie is a tidal lagoon in the parish of Dunrossness, south Mainland, Shetland.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Pool of Virkie, during the late 15th and early 16th centuries, when it was much deeper than it is today, became the main Hanseatic trading centre for the south end of Shetland. Because of this trade it became known as the Dutch Pool. This name was because locals pronounced Deutsch as Dutch. The actual Dutch visitors were called Hollanders. Flint stones are to be found round the shores of the Pool and as flint does not occur naturally in Shetland, it is assumed these are discarded ballast stones from the continental boats.</p><br>
<p>At the end of the 16th century the Pool silted up and became much as it is today, with the only anchorage available towards the east end or in the Virkie Marina which was formed in the 1980s.</p><br>
<h2>Wildlife</h2><br>
<p>Because of the large area exposed by the ebb tide, the Pool of Virkie has become an important site for bird watching in the South Mainland. It adjoins Sumburgh Airport</p><br>
<p>Cassidy Lake is a lake in Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Cassidy Lake is located in the community of Clover Hill, surrounded by rolling hills in the Caledonia Highlands, 8 km southeast of the village of Norton. Neighbouring communities are Poodiac, Salt Springs, and Southfield. there are less than 30 families living in the immediate area.</p><br>
<p>Numerous cottages dot the lake&#39;s shores, along with several camps and a youth drug rehabilitation centre.</p><br>
<h2>Lake, wildlife, and recreation</h2><br>
<p>The lake is approximately one kilometer in length and half a kilometer wide. The water is clean, and the lake is fed by two large brooks, as well as surface runoff and numerous underwater springs. At the north west end of the lake the water is very shallow and marshy. This area contains most of the wildlife around the lake. There are many types of birds, including bald eagles, loons, cormorants and king fishers, several beaver dams, and mainly chain pickerel, splake, and sunfish, there are also largemouth bass, and speckled trout. Although small, the lake is a popular spot to fish, swim and boat. Every year in May the Fish and Game Society holds a fishing derby which always attracts a crowd.</p><br>
<h2>Area history</h2><br>
<p>Originally called DeForest Lake, it was later named Cassidy Lake after settler Francis Edward Cassidy. His original homestead on Cassidy Hill burned many years ago, but you will still find the foundation, apple orchards, cemetery and church. The church has a very interesting interior design, but is only open to worshipers for one day every August.</p><br>
<p>At one time there was a saw mill on the lake, near what is now Route 865. The Kilpatrick family also owned a general store and millinery on the same road. There is no commerce in the area at present.</p><br>
<h2>Potash mining</h2><br>
<p>Potash is mined to the south east of the lake, the mine was opened by Dennison and was later purchased by the Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan. In the late 1990s areas of the mine began to flood, shortly after it was allowed to flood completed and production was terminated. Today the mine acts as water storage for its sister operation in Penobsquis, New Brunswick, which has also been leaking for some years. By trucking the water to Cassidy Lake, and other sites the Penobsquis Mine has been able to maintain production.</p><br>
<p>Kentmere Reservoir is a water storage facility situated in the Kentmere valley in the county of Cumbria, England. It is located 10.5 km north-northeast of the town of Windermere. The reservoir is fed by the streams which form the headwaters of the River Kent which rises 1.5 km to the north in Hall Cove on the southern slopes of High Street as well as Lingmell Gill which drains the large corrie on the western side of Harter Fell beneath the Nan Bield Pass.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The reservoir was built in 1848 after the mill owners on the banks of the River Kent decided they needed a regular and regulated supply of water to drive their water wheels. The main protagonists in the effort to build the reservoir were the James Cropper paper mill at Burneside, Benjamin Turton’s wood mill at Staveley, Wakefield’s gunpowder works at Sedgwick and Gawith Hoggarth’s snuff mill at Helsington.</p><br>
<p>The mill owners introduced a private bill into parliament in 1845 to get permission to build the reservoir, construction went ahead and was completed three years later. Over the years the James Cropper paper mill became sole owners of the reservoir with exclusive rights for use of the water. However, the firm no longer need the reservoir in their production process even though there is a high use of water in paper making. In 1995 they offered to hand the reservoir over to any new owner for free in return for their paying for repairs totalling £100,000 plus annual maintenance of over £2,000. No buyers came forward and Croppers are still the de facto owners of the reservoir today.</p><br>
<h2>Physical features and location</h2><br>
<p>The reservoir is built in an area of volcanic and low-grade metamorphic (slatey) rocks, which are overlain by a wide tract of Silurian rocks comprising slates and grits. These very old “basement beds” are considered to be effectively impermeable. The reservoir covers an area of 19.5 hectares and holds 1020,000,000 litres of water. It has a 200-metre-long dam wall with a stepped weir type overflow at the western end, and there is a lower outlet for the River Kent in the middle of the dam wall. The reservoir&#39;s location is quiet and secluded, surrounded by the fells of Yoke, Froswick, Ill Bell, Thornthwaite Crag, Harter Fell, Mardale Ill Bell and Kentmere Pike. These fells, which make up the Kentmere horseshoe walk around the head and flanks of the Kentmere valley, throw down steep slopes to the shore and give fine views of the reservoir.</p><br>
<p>Thourio  is a village in the northeastern part of the Evros regional unit in Greece. Thourio is in the municipality of Orestiada. It is located between Orestiada to the north and Didymoteicho to the south, about 4 km west of the river Evros, that forms the border with Turkey here. The nearest villages are Neo Cheimonio to the north and Sofiko to the south. Thourio is on the Greek National Road 51 , and has a station on the Ormenio - Didymoteicho railway.</p><br>
<h2>Population</h2><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Urlu, as Turks named the present Thourio, was ruled by the Ottoman Empire until the First Balkan War in 1912. It was an important railway station on the line Adrianopol-Thessaloniki. Urlu joined Bulgaria during the First Balkan War and according to the Treaty of London (1913). The Treaty of İstanbul (1913) returned it to Turkey, but in 1915, during World War I, Turkey ceded the area of Didymoteicho to its ally Bulgaria, and the town was renamed Kableshkovo. During the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) it was ceded to Greece and it received the present name. Its Bulgarian and Turkish population was exchanged with Greek refugees, mainly from today&#39;s Turkey.</p><br>
<p>Lake Lauerz  is a lake in the Canton of Schwyz, Switzerland. It has a water area that varies between 310 hectare and 360 hectare , a maximum depth of 14 m, and a water level elevation above sea level of 447 m.</p><br>
<p>The lake&#39;s water area is divided between the municipalities of Lauerz, Schwyz and Steinen. There are two small islands in the lake, Schwanau and Roggenburg, both of which are in the municipality of Lauerz. The villages of Lauerz, on the southern side of the lake and in its eponymous municipality, and Seewen, at the eastern end of the lake in the municipality of Schwyz, lie on or close to the shore of the lake.</p><br>
<p>The lakes principal inflow is the Steiner Aa, which flows into the north shore of the lake having passed through the village of Steinen, along with a number of smaller streams. The lakes outflow is at Seewen and takes the form of the Seeweren, a 1.5 km long stream. The Seeweren in turn flows into the Muota river, some 2 km above that river&#39;s mouth on Lake Lucerne.</p><br>
<p>The 1806 Goldau landslide impacted the lake and caused a tsunami 20 m high. This caused damage to the villages of Lauerz and Seewen, and to the island of Schwanau, and partially filled up the lake. More recently, floods in 1999 and 2005 have affected lakeside properties, especially in Lauerz, and attempts have been made to control the water level by connecting Lake Lauerz through a tunnel to Lake Lucerne.</p><br>
<p>Lands End Observatory is a ranger observatory on the rim of Grand Mesa in Colorado. It is accessible from the Grand Mesa Scenic and Historic Byway via Lands End Road,</p><br>
<p>which is about half paved and half gravel. The observatory is about 10 miles west of Colorado State Highway 65.</p><br>
<p>Land&#39;s End Road descends as an all-gravel road from the observatory down to USA Route 50,</p><br>
<p>and the observatory can be accessed from that direction as well.</p><br>
<p>The observatory was built by the United States Forest Service</p><br>
<p>and the Works Progress Administration in 1936-37, with some assistance from two</p><br>
<p>Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) side camps.</p><br>
<p>A large viewing area outside the building provides a panoramic view of western Colorado and eastern Utah. As of 2014, the observatory building itself is closed and boarded up.</p><br>
<p>From the U. S. Forest Service sign outside the building:</p><br>
<p>You have reached Land’s End Observatory</p><br>
<p>on Colorado&#39;s highest mesa, the Grand</p><br>
<p>Mesa, 10,500 feet above sea level. Built in</p><br>
<p>1936-37 by the United States Forest Service</p><br>
<p>and the Works Progress Administration</p><br>
<p>(WPA), the observatory reflects the rustic</p><br>
<p>style of architecture found in public</p><br>
<p>buildings throughout the national parks and</p><br>
<p>forests. It is marked by simplicity and</p><br>
<p>craftsmanship, appearing to grow out of the</p><br>
<p>earth rather than intrude upon it. Basalt</p><br>
<p>stones were selected from the mesa and</p><br>
<p>carefully fitted together to form the walls</p><br>
<p>and terrace. Wood shingles were hand-</p><br>
<p>sawn. The original, handcrafted woodwork</p><br>
<p>can still be found inside. Most of the WPA</p><br>
<p>workers who toiled here during the Great</p><br>
<p>Depression are unknown, the observatory</p><br>
<p>remains their legacy.</p><br>
<p>Land&#39;s End Road was once known as the</p><br>
<p>Veterans&#39; Road. When the Great Depression</p><br>
<p>left many World War l veterans unemployed,</p><br>
<p>President Roosevelt responded by opening</p><br>
<p>the already created Civilian Conservation</p><br>
<p>Corps (CCC) to include them. Thus, between</p><br>
<p>June 1933 and May 1934, the 200 veterans</p><br>
<p>who were brought to Land&#39;s End camp</p><br>
<p>completed 9.2 miles of road. They were paid</p><br>
<p>a dollar a day for their work. Ranging in age</p><br>
<p>from thirty-three to fifty-five, the veterans</p><br>
<p>were hailed as "a remarkable group of men,</p><br>
<p>skilled in almost every imaginable trade."</p><br>
<p>They lived in army tents roughly eleven</p><br>
<p>miles below the mesa rim while clearing the</p><br>
<p>brush for the road. The toughest part of the</p><br>
<p>Land&#39;s Ends Road, from the Wild Road</p><br>
<p>Picnic Area to the rim, was completed over</p><br>
<p>the next two summers by Civil Service</p><br>
<p>machine operators and a few civilian</p><br>
<p>workers hired by the United States Forest</p><br>
<p>Service. "Built the whole road," said the</p><br>
<p>project engineer, "blasting and all, without</p><br>
<p>injuries."</p><br>
<p>First Dutch Reformed Church, also known as the "Old Church on the Green", is located in Hackensack, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It sits in the churchyard of the church by the same name, the current building being constructed in 1791. The east wall of the building is of particular interest because it incorporates several carved stones from the first church building erected on the site. These stones bear the monogram of several of the founding families. The Congregation was founded by Dutch Settlers in 1686. For the first ten years the congregation worshipped in various locations, and in 1696 the first building was built on the current site. In 1780 Colonial General Enoch Poor was buried in the Cemetery. George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette attended the funeral. The church is the oldest church in Bergen County.</p><br>
<p>The church is adjacent to the Hackensack Green, which was originally church land and is one of the oldest public squares in New Jersey. p.83</p><br>
<h2>Notable burials</h2><br>
<p>Adam Boyd (1746–1835) represented New Jersey in Congress from 1803 to 1805, and again from 1808 to 1813.</p><br>
<p>George Cassedy (1783–1842), represented New Jersey in Congress from 1821 to 1827.</p><br>
<p>Enoch Poor (1736–1780), one of George Washington’s officers.</p><br>
<p>Richard Varick (1753–1831), former mayor of the city of New York and former New York Attorney General</p><br>
<p>Mount Trickett, a mountain on the Great Dividing Range, is located approximately 6 km west of Jenolan Caves, in the Central Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia.</p><br>
<p>With an elevation of 1,362 m above sea level, the mountain can be seen from the nearby Jenolan-Oberon Road. The summit or the area generally known as Mount Trickett is topped by a high tower, and stands over 500 m above Jenolan Caves in the valley below. The tower location (around 1,349 m and called "The Porcupine") is not actually Mount Trickett or indeed the highest point. The true location of Mount Trickett is approximately 800 m further west along Edith Road.</p><br>
<h2>Features</h2><br>
<p>Snowfalls are relatively common on Mount Trickett from autumn through to spring with perhaps ten to fifteen falls per season. Five or six of these snowfalls are typically heavy enough to close the roads near the summit. Icy roads during the colder months can also make travel in the area hazardous although it is usually navigable by 2WD vehicles. Particularly strong cold outbreaks make an approach from the Jenolan Caves side quite risky and the Oberon road is preferred. There is a nondescript gravel turnoff that leads you to a brick building at the summit with a sign that says "Navigational Facility". As with nearby Mount Bindo and Shooters Hill, this is a common spot for snow chasers to look for snow when coming in from Sydney and the Blue Mountains.</p><br>
<p>There are no survey control marks (including trigonometrical stations) located at the summit of Mount Trickett.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>Mount Trickett may well have been named after Oliver Trickett L.S. M.S., as he was the Licensed Surveryor, maper and modeller of the Jenolan Caves over twenty years in the late 1800s to early 1900s, (along with surveying and mapping most other major limestone caves in NSW, and surveying, mapping and modelling the mining loads of NSW, chief being the Broken Hill silver, lead and zinc load). This work was conducted whilst in the employ as Surveyor for the NSW Department of Lands and Mining Surveyor for the NSW Department of Mines. He became the chief superintendent of Jenolan Caves in terms of overseeing all access improvements at Jenolan in the early 1900s.</p><br>
<p>Dinosaur Park is a tourist attraction in Rapid City, South Dakota, United States. Dedicated on May 22, 1936, it contains seven dinosaur sculptures on a hill overlooking the city, created to capitalize on the tourists coming to the Black Hills to see Mount Rushmore. Constructed by the city of Rapid City and the Works Progress Administration, WPA Project #960&#39;s dinosaurs were designed by Emmet Sullivan. Sullivan also designed the Apatosaurus  at Wall Drug nearby in Wall, South Dakota, the Christ of the Ozarks statue in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, and the dinosaurs at the now closed Dinosaur World in Beaver, Arkansas.</p><br>
<p>The park is located at 940 Skyline Drive and is maintained by the city of Rapid City. Admission is free, however steep flagstone stairs may limit handicapped accessibility. The park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 21, 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Dinosaurs on display</h2><br>
<p>Dinosaurs represented in the park include Apatosaurus, Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops, Stegosaurus, and an Edmontosaurus annectens (formerly Anatotitan which itself formerly Trachodon). A Protoceratops and a Dimetrodon (Dimetrodon is not actually a dinosaur, but rather a synapsid, and more closely related to mammals than reptiles) were added later on and are located near the gift shop and parking lot. With the exception of the Protoceratops, the dinosaurs they selected were based on fossils found in South Dakota and the Western United States.</p><br>
<p>The dinosaurs were constructed out of 2 inch (5.08 centimeters) black iron pipe, with a wire mesh frame and a concrete skin. Originally they were gray in color, but by the 1950s the statues were painted bright green with white undersides. Being constructed in the 1930s, the dinosaurs reflect the thinking of the times (for example, dragging tails). The tyrannosaur&#39;s original finger claws (of which it incorrectly had three on each hand) as well as its teeth have been lost or damaged over the years to where its hands are stumps and its teeth are all but gone. Vintage postcards of the T. rex do in fact show these were originally part of the sculpture. The Stegosaurus also had a shorter tail with 4 correct tail spikes, but this has changed recently where the tail spikes have been removed (perhaps due to safety concerns) and the tail considerably lengthened.</p><br>
<h2>Gallery of Dinosaur Park Images</h2><br>
<p>Katafygio  is a village in Aetolia-Acarnania in Greece. It is built amphitheatrically at an altitude of 620 metres on the Eastern foothills of Makryoro Mountain, which is naked and particularly steep. It borders to the north with Anavriti village, north-east with Kentriki and Aspria villages, southeast with Chrysovo village, northwest with Gavros village and southwest with Anthofyto village. It is about 33 kilometres from Nafpaktos and is accessed by a tarmac road via Nafpaκtos - Anthofyto - Gavros - Golemi and after passing through the imposing rocks of Amorani.</p><br>
<p>The village is surrounded by 2 hills on the summits of which are found the small churches of St Konstantinos and St Athanasios. The village is divided into 4 equal parts by 4 streams that join towards the lower part of the village. The land here is prone to subsidence and landslip. In 1878, 25 buildings disappeared because of subsidence. The houses and the fields are strengthened with low walls, (demata) in order to stabilise the ground.</p><br>
<p>In the centre of village is the square with 2 coffee houses and the Holy Church of Koimiseos of Theotokou. In the village there are 2 basketball courts, a children&#39;s playground, while at the top of village in the place named Desi there is a traditional hostel called Desi, and in the entrance of the villagein the place named Saint Dimitrios there is another one called Katafigio.</p><br>
<p>The natural environment itself constitutes a beautiful sight. It is worth climbing the gorge of Foniorema, visiting the old mills, the caves, and also the 2 old traditional bridges which are located in very pretty settings. Also the Holy Church of "Metamorphosis of Sotiros" (Transformation of our Saviour)), built about 13th century and situated near Chrysovo. This church is what remains of the historic monastery of Sotiros which at that time belonged to Amorani, (Katafigio), and which was closed in 1834.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The old name of the village was Amorani and in 1928 it was renamed Katafygio (Katafigio). The new name of the village resulted from the fact that at the time of the Ottoman occupation the area represented a genuine refuge. The abundance of caverns, and the rocky and steep terrain rendered the village exceptionally inaccessible.</p><br>
<p>It is not certain when it was founded, however it exists as a village round 1550-1575, at which time we find it registered in Turkish tax documents in the region of Kravara.</p><br>
<p>During the period of Ottoman domination it constituted one of the main villages of the region. Around 1700 two families of cattle-breeders moved home to the western side of the Makryoro mountain and created a small settlement, named Golemi. This historical relationship renders Golemi an integral part of Katafygio (Katafigio). Administratively Katafygio (Katafigio) village from 1836 until 1912 belonged to the municipality of Apodotia. With the royal decree in the 31 August 1912 261/Α/1912 it was recognized as the community of Amorani. It was renamed to Katafygio (Katafigio) by the decree of 9 September 1927 of the official Journal of the Hellenic Republic 206/A/1927. Included in the community is the small settlement of Golemi.</p><br>
<p>With the application of the Kapodistria law it constitutes henceforth the Municipal District of Katafygio, (Katafigio), in the Municipality of Apodotia in Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece and it occupies 23.429 stremmata (measure of area, 1 stremma=1000 sq meters, 4 stremmata=approx 1 acre), while the census of 2011 recorded 322 individuals making it one of the more vibrant villages of the mountainous Nafpaktia area. Historically the residents lived by livestock farming, maintaining a significant number of animals, an activity which the remaining residents still carry on today.</p><br>
<h2>Historical population of Katafygio community</h2><br>
<p>Ralph Johnson Bunche House, the last home of American diplomat Ralph Bunche ,</p><br>
<p>is a National Historic Landmark in New York City. It is a single-family home built in 1927 in the neo-Tudor style, and is located at 115-24 Grosvenor Road, Kew Gardens, Queens. It is named after Ralph Bunche, who helped to found the United Nations in 1945. In 1950 he became the first African American and first person of color to win the Nobel Peace Prize, for mediating armistice agreements between Israel and its neighboring countries.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Bunche house was developed in 1927 as part of the development of Kew Gardens. The property, in which the house was eventually constructed, was continually bought and sold over the years. The Kew Gardens Corporation sold this property to Elena Goodale in 1920, who later sold it to Louis Frisse in 1926, who constructed the house. In 1948, ownership of the property changed and in 1949, it was sold to Jack Sturm.</p><br>
<p>During the 1950s, Bunche lived in Parkway Village, an apartment complex in Kew Gardens Hills that was built for UN employees and that was one of the first in the country to be racially integrated. In 1952 Sturm sold the property to Ralph Bunche and his wife, who were raising three children; the couple used the award money that came with the Nobel Prize to buy the house. He lived in the house until his death in 1971, and his wife lived there until she died in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The style of which this house was built is a neo-Tudor style. It was designed by the prominent Brooklyn architects Koch & Wagner. The house stands at 2 1/2 stories and is faced in stucco pierced by random bricks and stones. The house maintains its original wooden doors with iron strapping; the original leaded glass windows and slate roof are also maintained. It is located in a suburban setting of single-family homes and is surrounded by mature trees and bushes. The house is also situated on the crest of a hill and contains a terraced flagstone walkway leading from the street to the front door. The houses attached gable is inset into the hill at the basement level. The house is faced with random ashlar stones and has an opening that is stone-framed and arched segmentally; this opening is filled by wooden doors with small plain glass lights and metal strapping. The house is three bays wide with a central, full height, projecting gable capped/adorned by a clipped roof. The doorway, within the gable, is built within a round arched, stone-trimmed opening and holds a wooden door with a small, rectangular window covered by a decorative iron grille. There is an original iron and glass lantern situated on the wall beside the door. Additionally, there is a small, rectangular window within the gable above the doorway, along with a large, double-height window to the side of the entrance. This window has leaded glass casements with a decorative stained glass motif of a knight on horseback at the bottom center of the window; this window is fronted by a small, iron balcony. A pair of small rectangular windows are built near the top of the gable and are surrounded by half-timber framing. There is a stucco-faced chimney on one side of the central gable. The lower section of the chimney projects toward the front and creates another small roof and shape variety. There is a small, open stone porch on the west side of the houses main section, while the east side contains a one-storey, stone-faced sun room with floor-to-ceiling casement windows. This area is recessed behind a patio and the stone walls that rise up from the garage below.</p><br>
<h2>Landmark</h2><br>
<p>The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976. The house is also a New York City landmark.</p><br>
<p>Another home of Ralph Bunche, in Washington, D.C., where he and his family lived from 1941-1947, is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Alice Austen House, also known as Clear Comfort, is located at 2 Hylan Boulevard in the Rosebank section of Staten Island, New York City, New York. It was home of Alice Austen, a photographer, for most of her lifetime, and is now a museum and a member of the Historic House Trust. The house is administered by the "Friends of Alice Austen", a volunteer group. Today, the Alice Austen House hosts many school programs, including photography summer camps and day trips for classes of all age groups.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was originally built in the 1690s/early 1700s as a one-room Dutch Colonial House on the shore of New York harbor, near the Narrows with brothers Jacob Johnson and Lambert Johnson being the likely first occupants. The brothers Johnson purchased 120 acres of land from George Brown in 1698. Jacob Johnson&#39;s mother-in-law was Winifred King Benham, who was tried for witchcraft in Wallingford, Connecticut and may have been a resident of the house after her acquittal and virtual banishment.</p><br>
<p>The house was remodeled and expanded several times in the 1800s, most notably after John Haggerty Austen, Alice&#39;s grandfather, purchased, renamed, and remodeled it in 1844.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, became a New York City Landmark in 1971. It was purchased by New York City in 1975 and opened to the public. In 1993 it became a National Historic Landmark, and in 2002, it became a Historic Artist Home and Studio.</p><br>
<h2>Museum special exhibitions and activities</h2><br>
<p>Alice Austen House participates as a museum in the Smithsonian program of Museum Day events. In 2016 Austen House presented its first juried triennial exhibition, Staten Island Unlimited featuring 35 photographers from three boroughs of New York. During the members preview reception of the show, a toast was made to Alice Austens 150th birthday. Other activities included Triennial Talks, discussions with artists about their work on the subjects of "Staten Island as Place" and "Staten Island as Community." The first Staten Island Unlimited was supported by Macy&#39;s, Duggal, and, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the New York City Council.</p><br>
<p>The Alice Austen House permanent collection of Alice Austens photography, including many of her documentary photos, is being digitized and presented on the museums website.</p><br>
<p>In March 2016, the Whitney Museum hosted New Eyes on Alice Austen, a panel discussion in honor of Women’s History Month and Alice Austen’s 150th birthday featuring, as reported in American Photo magazine, "scholars, academics, and historians who have investigated her incredible work and unconventional lifestyle." The Whitney program was made possible by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Celebrating 50 Years of Excellence.</p><br>
<h2>Alleged haunting</h2><br>
<p>An old neighborhood tradition told that, after midnight, one could hear the clanking of chains coming from the cellar. This was attributed to the ghosts of slaves who were kept there during the American Revolution. Another apocryphal story is that of a British soldier hanging himself from a beam in the parlor because of a broken heart. It is said that the sound of his military boots and the clinking of his spurs may be heard in that room after midnight.</p><br>
<p>The Holland Land Office building is located on West Main Street  in downtown Batavia, New York, United States. It is a stone building designed by surveyor Joseph Ellicott and erected in the 1810s.</p><br>
<p>It was the third and last office of the Holland Land Company, which owned almost all of what is today Western New York. Ellicott presided over the survey, sale and ultimate settlement of a vast tract of land. In 1960 it was declared a National Historic Landmark, the first one in Western New York and the only one in Genesee County. Today it is a museum, with exhibits about the history of the company and the region.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The building is located on the south side of West Main between Ellicott and Thomas Avenues on the north, two blocks west of the county courthouse and the commercial center of downtown Batavia. To the west is the Oak Street (New York State Route 98) intersection.</p><br>
<p>Tonawanda Creek is to the south. The office occupies a narrow strip of land between it and the street. On its east the creek comes closer to West Main, leaving only enough room for a sidewalk; a parking lot is located on the west between the building and Oak Street. Across West Main is another parking lot, houses and a Dunkin Donuts. The area is level, part of the creeks former flood plain.</p><br>
<p>The land office building itself is a one-and-a-half–story limestone structure with a 47 by main block topped with an asphalt-shingled gabled roof. A wooden pedimented entrance portico projects from the north (front) elevation, and two additions are located to the southwest. One is a small one-story cinder block connector to the other, a large L-shaped timber frame wing with about 12 ft between it and the main block.</p><br>
<p>Four round stone columns support the pediment, where a denticulated cornice frames an entablature faced in clapboard. Below the cornice are black letters spelling out "Holland Land Office Museum" on the plain frieze. The two six-over-six double-hung sash windows on either side of the main entrance have louvered shutters with stone sills and splayed lintels. Recessed panels top each window on the upper story.</p><br>
<p>On either side of the pediment small gabled dormer windows with eight-over-eight double-hung sash pierce the roof. Side fenestration consists of two windows similar to the front windows at ground level, two small windows on the second floor and a fanlight at the gable apex. The roofline has an overhanging eave with a continuation of the denticulation on the pediment.</p><br>
<p>Smooth round pilasters frame the recessed main entrance, topped by a rounded fanlight. It opens into a central hall. There is one room on the east and two on the west. Both are used as exhibit space. There are eight wall vaults, originally used to store records. One has its original 10 ft metal door. Steel I-beams have been added to support the roof, and braces are visible in the west parlor. The upper stories are used for office and exhibit space, as are the additions.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Holland Land Company was formed late in the 18th century by a group of Dutch investors to dispose of lands they had acquired west of the Genesee River, originally owned by the state of Massachusetts and the Seneca Nation of the Iroquois Confederacy until the 1797 Treaty of Big Tree. The company had acquired them from Robert Morris, who had financed the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, and needed to sell due to financial troubles in some of his other land dealings. In 1794 they hired Pennsylvania surveyor Joseph Ellicott to survey the five million acres (2 million ha) they had acquired in what is now Western New York and the adjacent areas of Northwestern Pennsylvania. After the survey was finished and the land subdivided into townships, Ellicott was appointed agent in 1800.</p><br>
<p>Working from the present site, Ellicott not only oversaw the sale of individual properties but functioned as the areas sole regional planner, reporting to Paolo Busti, the companys agent in Philadelphia, by mail. He was, a contemporary historian wrote, "the single most powerful person in the area for the first two decades of the century." His decision to sell the land in small parcels rather than large blocks, despite the objections of the companys trustees who wanted the land sold quickly, resulted in settlement by small farmers rather than the establishment of quasi-feudal manors as had occurred in the Hudson Valley. Drawing on his experience laying out the city of Washington, D.C., for Pierre LEnfant, he surveyed and planned the cities of Buffalo and Batavia.</p><br>
<p>The company&#39;s first office was a log cabin. In 1809 it was replaced with a timber-frame building, in turn replaced by the existing structure in 1815, the third and last one. It was built of stone to be fireproof and better protect the records it kept. At that time it stood alone on a two-acre (2 acre) lot. Ellicott left his position in 1820; the company remained in existence until the mid-1850s, by which time all the land had been sold and all the debts retired.</p><br>
<p>The building was eventually sold. It became first a music school, and then a church. To support those uses modifications were made to the interior.</p><br>
<p>In 1894 the Holland Purchase Historical Society was formed to restore the building and adapt it for museum use. Later that year the building was dedicated to Morriss memory at a ceremony attended by Morriss descendants and members of the Cabinet of President Grover Cleveland, who had himself begun his political career in Buffalo. It was staffed by members of the local Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) chapter.</p><br>
<p>During World War II the DAR leased the building to the local chapter of the American Red Cross. At that time the cinder block addition was built on the rear. After the war, in 1948, the county&#39;s Board of Supervisors voted to assume ownership.</p><br>
<p>The western frame wing, known as the Robert Morris Wing, was added around 1970. To build it and the parking lot, a house next door was demolished. Seven years later it received an east wing, originally used by the county historian. Since that office moved to separate quarters nearby it has been used for the museum. The final addition came in 1982, a small room attached to the back of the wings rear to exhibit the countys 12½-foot (12.5 ft) gibbet.</p><br>
<h2>Museum</h2><br>
<p>The museums collection includes many artifacts of Ellicotts original survey of the region. These include not only his chains and transit, but the written records of the survey. An original copy of Ellicott&#39;s 1804 map, valued in the five figures, hangs on one wall.</p><br>
<p>Iroquois artifacts on display include a ca. 1700 succotash bowl, wampum beads and a model of a longhouse, the tribe&#39;s traditional habitation. There is also an armchair used by Seneca elder Eli Parker, and a charcoal sketch of Seneca Wolf Clan chief Red Jacket, wearing the silver medal George Washington gave him. They are exhibited in a room named for Parker.</p><br>
<p>The USA Army Corps of Engineers Vessel Yard in the USA city of Duluth was constructed between Lake Superior and Duluth&#39;s harbor, midway between Duluth and Superior, Wisconsin.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>After the construction of the St. Mary&#39;s Falls Ship Canal was completed at Sault Ste. Marie, ships carrying grain, lumber, coal, and iron ore could carry the natural resources of the Midwest to East Coast ports. By the late 19th century the United States Army Corps of Engineers was tasked to create a bustling harbor at the western end of Lake Superior. For several years they created breakwaters, dredged channels, and built docks to accommodate ever-larger cargo-hauling ships. By the turn of the century, the Vermilion and Mesabi Iron Ranges were producing nearly 8 million long tons (8,100,000 Mg) of ore per year. The Corps was busy&mdash;between 1897 and 1902 they dredged 22 million cubic yards (17,000,000 cubic metres) out of the Duluth and Superior harbors, creating a 360 acre harbor with 17 mi of ship channels. By 1906, the quantity of material shipped through the harbors was dominated only that of New York and Philadelphia.</p><br>
<h2>New location</h2><br>
<p>In 1904, the Corps acquired its present site on the sandy spit of Minnesota Point, midway between Duluth and Superior. Few of the original buildings remain, but the mission continues&mdash;to keep the harbors open to increasingly larger ships.</p><br>
<p>The Old First Presbyterian Church, also known as First Presbyterian Church and Cemetery, is a church in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The grounds, located in the Four Corners Historic District, includes an old burial ground.</p><br>
<h2>Notable burials</h2><br>
<p>William Burnet (1730–1791), physician who represented New Jersey in the Continental Congress from 1780 to 1781.</p><br>
<p>Silas Condit (1778–1861), represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives from 1831 to 1833.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Ward (1759–1842), represented New Jersey&#39;s 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1813 to 1817.</p><br>
<p>Thomas M. Woodruff (1804–1855), represented New York&#39;s 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1845 to 1847.</p><br>
<p>Riverby was the estate of the American naturalist John Burroughs , who wrote and created a genre of naturalist essays. Riverby is also the title of one of Burroughs books, published in 1904, and is also the name of an edition of his collected works. Burroughs study at Riverby is a National Historic Landmark.</p><br>
<p>The Riverby estate is located above the west bank of the Hudson River, in the town of West Park, in Ulster County, New York. Burroughs bought a 9 acre farm there in 1873, and added additional land later. The estate included a main house, a writing study lower on the slope towards the Hudson River, a building that his son lived in during the years when Burroughs primarily used the study, and other buildings.</p><br>
<p>In the study, which looks east over the Hudson River, Burroughs wrote Fresh Fields (1884), Signs and Seasons (1886), Indoor Studies (1889), and Riverby (1894), and he edited other works. Theodore Roosevelt and many others visited Burroughs in the study.</p><br>
<p>He also wrote in Woodchuck Lodge, a lodge in Roxbury in the western Catskills of Delaware County, New York, that he used from 1908 on, and Slabsides, a cabin one mile (1.6 km) east of Riverby that he used in summers from 1895 on.</p><br>
<p>The study was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1968. The study is lined with books and, up to 1975 at least, had been preserved essentially as Burroughs left it.</p><br>
<p>The home is maintained by the Burroughs Society.</p><br>
<p>The collection of buildings on the estate has been split among the heirs, and they discourage visiting the site.</p><br>
<p>The Minnamurra River, an open mature wave dominated barrier estuary, is located in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia.</p><br>
<h2>Location and features</h2><br>
<p>Minnamurra River rises within the Budderoo National Park on the eastern slopes of the Illawarra escarpment, west of the village of Jamberoo and north of Missingham Pass, and flows generally east, descending the 100 m Minamurra Falls. The river drains into the Jamberoo Valley surrounded by Stockyard Mountain to the north, Jamberoo Mountain to the west and Noorinan and Saddleback Mountain to the south. The mouth of the river lies immediately north of the Kiama suburb of Minnamurra at Minnamurra Point. The entrance is characterised by a small island just offshore from the mouth. The river descends 306 m over its 23 km course.</p><br>
<p>The Princes Highway crosses the Minnamurra River north of the suburb of Minnamurra.</p><br>
<p>The name Minnamurra is derived from the Aboriginal word of Meme Mora, meaning "river of many fish".</p><br>
<p>In 1893, four adults and three children were drowned whilst rowing a small boat near the mouth of the Minnamurra River. The boat succumbed to heavy surf conditions.</p><br>
