<p>Cribyn is a mountain in the Brecon Beacons with an elevation of 2608 feet  about 300 feet lower than the neighbouring peaks of Pen y Fan and Corn Du. It is a prominent peak in the long and impressive escarpment facing north and running roughly east-west of the central section of the Brecon Beacons.</p><br>
<p>The summit lies on a ridge stretching from Talybont Reservoir in the east, to the A470 road. The ridge line to the west connects Cribyn with the peak of Pen y Fan. To the east, the ridge line descends to Bwlch ar y Fan, a col crossed by an ancient trail sometimes known as The Gap Road before ascending again to the peak of Fan y Big.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>In common with other peaks of the Brecon Beacons, the upper slopes of Cribyn are formed from sandstones of the Brownstones Formation of the Old Red Sandstone laid down during the Devonian period. The lower slopes of the hill are formed from sandstones and mudstones of the underlying Senni Beds Formation. The rock strata tilt gently southward like the rest of the peaks in the range.</p><br>
<p>The heads of Cwm Sere and Cwm Cynwyn, to the northwest and east of Cribyn respectively, nurtured small glaciers during the last ice age and there are rock moraines at the foot of the cliffs. The glacial erosion resulted in the very steep northern and eastern faces which the hill possesses.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>The Brecon Beacons are of open access, so the visitor can walk anywhere in the highland zone. Trails and footpaths are well marked, and owing to frequent use, are also well trodden. The National Trust owns much of the land and the paths are well maintained and reinforced where wear and tear is heavy. The paths are intensively used by a wide cross section of society, such as the British Army for troop training, and by charity walks as well as by walkers and ramblers. The peak is adjacent to Pen y Fan so is often chosen for circular walks along the main escarpment. When the weather is clear, the views to the north are especially impressive towards Mynydd Epynt, Brecon and the Cambrian mountains beyond. Care is needed in mist or fog when walking near the edge of the escarpment, especially in snow and ice when all surfaces become very slippery. Because the rainfall is high in this elevated mountain zone, care is also needed owing to the high levels of surface water. Thunderstorms can be especially hazardous owing to lightning strikes.</p><br>
<h2>Wild Life</h2><br>
<p>Many mountain birds are present, such as birds of prey like peregrine falcons, common buzzards and the red kite. Ravens can also be seen occasionally, and more often heard by their deep croak. They use thermals in the valleys around the peaks to soar and search for food such as mice and voles. The lower parts of the moorland adjacent to the peaks is used for nesting by skylarks as well as some game birds like red grouse and partridges. The skylark can frequently be seen soaring and heard singing above its nest.</p><br>
<p>The Baba Mountain range  is the western extension of the Hindu Kush, and the origin of Afghanistan&#39;s Kabul, Helmand, Arghandab and the Hari rivers. The mountain range is crowned by Foladi peak  rising 4951 m; 16,244 ft. above sea level, and is located south of Bamyan, Afghanistan.</p><br>
<p>The Koh-i-Firoz plateau merges farther to the west by gentle gradients into the Paropamise, and which may be traced across the Hari River to Mashad. To the southwest of the culminating peaks, long spurs divide the upper tributaries of the Helmand, and separate its basin from that of the Farah River. These spurs retain a considerable altitude, for they are marked by peaks exceeding 11,000 ft. They sweep in a broad band of roughly parallel ranges to the southwest, preserving their general direction till they abut on the Great Registan desert to the west of Kandahar, where they terminate in a series of detached and broken anticlinals whose sides are swept by a sea of encroaching sand. The long, straight, level-backed ridges which divide the Argandab, the Tarnak and Arghastan valleys, and flank the route from Kandahar to Ghazni.</p><br>
<p>The high jagged peaks above the Hajigak Pass, blue-black and shining, shimmer in the sunlight for they contain an estimated reserve of 2 billion tons of iron ore; Asia&#39;s richest deposit. The very steep descent from the Hajigak Pass (3,700 m) with its numerous hairpin bends leads to the sparkling Kalu River, known locally as the Sauzao or Green Waters. It is bordered by poplars and several charming villages.</p><br>
<p>There is a mining camp high above the road at the bottom of the pass and almost any black stone picked from the side of the road in its vicinity will impress you with its weight. Piles of neatly stacked rock cleared from the fields impress one with the industry of these Afghan farmers. In the fall one may also see the ladies weaving in open fields beside their houses.</p><br>
<p>The Hajigak Pass with its natural beauty remains rugged and unpaved despite being the transit way into almost whole central Afghanistan. The pass and its surrounding territories remain snow-covered through most part of the year, during which the traffic shifts to Shibar Pass.</p><br>
<p>The area is inhabited mostly by ethnic Hazara people followed by Tajiks, Pashtuns. There are also Sayyid households. Much of the population heavily depends on agriculture as their prime source of income and potato the prime crop.</p><br>
<p>The Andrew John Volstead House is the historic house in Granite Falls, Minnesota of ten-term United States Congressman Andrew Volstead . It is now managed as a museum and the organizational headquarters of the Granite Falls Historical Society. Volstead became nationally synonymous with Prohibition in 1919 when, as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, he was obliged to author the Volstead Act, enabling enforcement of the recently ratified Eighteenth Amendment. Volstead was a moderate progressive who coauthored the Capper–Volstead Act in 1922, which legalized agricultural cooperatives.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 for having national significance in the areas of agriculture, politics/government, and social history. Two years later the house was declared a National Historical Landmark.</p><br>
<p>The 1878 home is a wood-frame structure with a large two-story stairwell tower that was added on by Volstead shortly after he purchased the property in 1894. During Volstead&#39;s time, the first floor had a large screened porch; this has now been replaced by an open porch. The interior is adorned with oak woodwork and stained glass. Volstead moved to a new home in Granite Falls in 1930. The first Volstead House remained privately owned until 1974, when it was listed on the National Register and converted into a historic house museum. Five years later it was donated to the city.</p><br>
<p>The Sinclair Lewis Boyhood Home is a historic house museum and National Historic Landmark located at 812 Sinclair Lewis Avenue, formerly South 3rd Street, in Sauk Centre, Minnesota, United States. The house was the childhood home of Nobel prize-winning author Sinclair Lewis, who was born February 7, 1885, in a house directly across the street. His most famous book, Main Street was inspired by his home town of Sauk Centre as he perceived it from this home. The house is open for tours between Memorial Day and Labor Day, or by appointment.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Lewis House is located on the north side of Sinclair Lewis Avenue (County Road 17), between Walnut and Maple Streets. It is an L-shaped wood frame structure, 1-1/2 stories in height, with clapboard siding. An open porch extends across the front, supported by slender square paneled posts, with decorative brackets and entablature. During part of the 20th century the house had been converted to a duplex, partitioning the interior, and the exterior had been finished in stucco and had other alterations. The house was acquired in 1956 by the Sinclair Lewis Foundation and carefully restored to its appearance during the time of Lewis&#39;s residence, with reproductions of period wallpaper and restoration of its original interior configuration. A period carriage barn stands behind the house.</p><br>
<p>Sinclair Lewis (1885–1951) was born across the street, and the family moved here when he was a few months old. His father, Edwin J. Lewis, was a physician and conducted his medical practice out of this house, as was common in that time. Lewis began to write here as a young man, and his experiences growing up in Sauk Centre were the inspiration for Main Street, the 1920 novel that brought him fame. He was the first American awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, given in 1930.</p><br>
<p>Lake Euramoo  is a shallow dumbbell-shaped volcanic crater lake  in North Queensland, Australia, formed about 10,000 years ago by two massive explosions from groundwater superheating.</p><br>
<p>The crater lake is known to Yidinji, within their oral history and mythology as Ngimun, and known to neighbouring Ngdjon-jii as Nuta; though formally gazetted on the Queensland governments placenames list as Lake Euramoo&#39;,</p><br>
<p>Euramo being the Dyirbal word for river (yuramu)</p><br>
<p>The lake (Ngimun) falls within the current Danbulla National Park and State Forest,</p><br>
<p>on the Tertiary uplifted highlands of the Atherton Tableland, within the Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area, Australia.</p><br>
<h2>Origins</h2><br>
<p>Yidinji and Ngadjon-jii mythology explaining the origin of Ngimun plus two other companion crater lakes, Yidyam (Lake Eacham) and Barany (Lake Barrine), has been described as a plausible and surprisingly accurate oral account of volcanic eruptions or explosions in the area around 10,000 years ago.</p><br>
<p>It is said that two newly-initiated men broke a taboo and angered the rainbow serpent Yamany, major spirit of the area... As a result the camping-place began to change, the earth under the camp roaring like thunder. The wind started to blow down, as if a cyclone were coming. The camping-place began to twist and crack. While this was happening there was in the sky a red cloud, of a hue never seen before. The people tried to run from side to side but were swallowed by a crack which opened in the ground....</p><br>
<p>. After telling the myth, in 1964, the storyteller remarked that when this happened the country round the lakes was not jungle - just open scrub. In 1968, a dated pollen diagram from the organic sediments of Lake Euramoo by Peter Kershaw (1970) showed, rather surprisingly, that the rain forest in that area is only about 7,600 years old.</p><br>
<h2>Vegetation</h2><br>
<p>The vegetation surrounding Lake Euramoo (Ngimun) is a remnant of moist sub montane rainforest, surrounded by previously cleared land that, within the last 50 years, has been planted with endemic Hoop Pine (Araucaria cunninghamii) and exotic conifers, or recolonised by the remnant rainforest species.</p><br>
<p>Typical moist submontane rainforest species found near Lake Euramoo (Ngimun), within 100 m, include:</p><br>
<p>Araliaceae (e.g. Polyscias australiana, Schefflera actinophylla)</p><br>
<p>Araucariaceae (e.g. Agathis robusta)</p><br>
<p>Moraceae (e.g. Ficus sp.),</p><br>
<p>Elaeocarpaceae (e.g. Elaeocarpus grandis)</p><br>
<p>Euphorbiaceae (e.g. Aleurites moluccana, Macaranga spp.)</p><br>
<p>Myrtaceae (e.g. Austromyrtus spp., Eugenia cormiflora) and</p><br>
<p>Rubiaceae (e.g. Flindersia brayleyana,Euodia bonwickii )</p><br>
<p>Around the margin of Ngimun are identifiable zones of aquatic plants which fluctuate with water depth and the seasons:</p><br>
<p>at Lake Euramoo (Ngimun)&#39;s edge, rainforest lianas (e.g. Parsonsia spp.) intertwine with tall swamp grasses (Phragmites australis)</p><br>
<p>away from the canopy&#39;s shade and the liana growth, up to 1 m water depth, the Hibiscus spp. and Ludwigia spp. become more common.</p><br>
<p>further out there are rooted aquatic plants, floating vegetation mats, and, finally, up to 30 m from the edge are the floating aquatic plants (mainly Nymphoides spp.)</p><br>
<p>Lower Wolfjaw Mountain is located in Essex County, New York. Landscape artist Alexander Helwig Wyant  named Lower Wolfjaw, together with neighboring Upper Wolfjaw Mountain, about 1870 for their appearance in profile. The mountain is the northeasternmost of the Adirondack High Peaks in the Great Range of the Adirondack Mountains. Lower Wolfjaw Mountain is flanked to the southwest by Upper Wolfjaw Mountain, and to the northeast by Hedgehog Mountain.</p><br>
<p>Lower Wolfjaw Mountain stands within the watershed of the East Branch of the Ausable River, which drains into Lake Champlain, thence into Canada&#39;s Richelieu River, the Saint Lawrence River, and into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. The east and southeast sides of Lower Wolfjaw Mtn. drain into Wedge Brook, thence into the East Branch of the Ausable River. The west side of Lower Wolfjaw Mountain drains into Wolfjaw Brook, thence into Johns Brook and the East Branch. The north side of Lower Wolfjaw drains into Bennies Brook, thence into Johns Brook. The northeast end of Lower Wolfjaw drains into Rock Cut Brook, thence into Johns Brook.</p><br>
<p>Lower Wolfjaw Mountain is within the High Peaks Wilderness Area of New York&#39;s Adirondack Park.</p><br>
<p>Upper Wolfjaw Mountain is a mountain located in Essex County, New York.</p><br>
<p>Landscape artist Alexander Helwig Wyant (1836–1892) named the mountain, in combination with neighboring Lower Wolfjaw Mountain, c. 1870 for their appearance in profile.</p><br>
<p>The mountain is part of the Great Range of the Adirondack Mountains.</p><br>
<p>Upper Wolfjaw Mtn. is flanked to the southwest by Armstrong Mountain, and to the northeast by Lower Wolfjaw Mtn.</p><br>
<p>Upper Wolfjaw Mountain stands within the watershed of the East Branch of the Ausable River, which drains into Lake Champlain, thence into Canada&#39;s Richelieu River, the Saint Lawrence River, and into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.</p><br>
<p>The east and southeast sides of Upper Wolfjaw Mtn. drain into the East Branch of the Ausable River.</p><br>
<p>The west side of Upper Wolfjaw drains into Ore Body Brook, thence into Johns Brook and the East Branch.</p><br>
<p>The north side of Upper Wolfjaw drains into Wolfjaw Brook, thence into Johns Brook.</p><br>
<p>Upper Wolfjaw Mountain is within the High Peaks Wilderness Area of New York&#39;s Adirondack Park.</p><br>
<p>The Aguja Saint Exupery is a mountain spear  located near the Cerro Chaltén in the Los Glaciares National Park in Patagonia, Argentina.</p><br>
<p>The mountain is named in memory of Antoine de Saint Exupéry, the French writer and aviator who was director of the Aeroposta Argentina airline and pioneered postal flights in the Patagonia region between 1929 and 1931.</p><br>
<p>The Aguja Saint Exupery is not as impressive as its taller neighbors Cerro Chaltén and the striking Cerro Torre, but due to the length of its climbing routes and the extreme weather conditions of the southern Andes, it shares the same big wall reputation as most Patagonian peaks. The Aguja Saint Exupery was first climbed on February 23, 1968, by Silvia Metzeltin, Gino Buscaini, Lino Condot, Walter Romano & Silvano Sinigo, an Italian team of climbers who opened an 800 m route on its East Pillar.</p><br>
<p>The Middendorff Bay,  is a deeply indented bay in the shores of the Taymyr Peninsula. It is located southwest of the Nordenskiöld Archipelago in the Kara Sea and it is open towards the west.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>This bay is limited on its eastern side by the Zarya Peninsula, named after Baron Eduard von Toll&#39;s ship Zarya. On the northern side of the Zarya Peninsula there is a small gulf called Bukhta Kolomeitseva, named after Captain N. N. Kolomeitsev, commander of ship Zarya.</p><br>
<p>The Middendorff Bay is surrounded by bleak tundra coast. It is full of small islands and island groups, foremost of which are Gavrilova Island, the Shren Islands, the Krusenstern Islands, and farther offshore, Belukha and Prodolgovatyy Islands. The small Myachina Islands are located 3 km off Cape Vilda, further west from the bay along the coast.</p><br>
<p>The climate in the area is severe, with long and bitter winters and frequent blizzards and gales. This desolate bay is frozen for about nine months in a year and even in summer it is never quite free of ice floes.</p><br>
<p>The Middendorff Bay and adjacent islands belong to the Krasnoyarsk Krai administrative division of the Russian Federation and the whole area is part of the Great Arctic State Nature Reserve, the largest nature reserve of Russia.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This bay was explored by Russian geologist Baron Eduard von Toll during his last venture, the Russian Arctic Expedition of 1900-1903. It was named after Alexander Theodor von Middendorff, a Russian zoologist, historian and explorer of Baltic-German origin.</p><br>
<h2>Further reading</h2><br>
<p>William Barr, The Last Journey of Peter Tessem and Paul Knutsen, 1919.</p><br>
<p>William Barr, Baron Eduard von Toll’s Last Expedition.</p><br>
<p>Mount Marshall is a mountain located in Essex County, New York.</p><br>
<p>Originally named for Governor DeWitt Clinton, and then for Herbert Clark, it was renamed for wilderness activist Bob Marshall (1901–1939) after his death. Marshall is part of the MacIntyre Mountains. Mount Marshall is flanked to the northeast by Iroquois Peak, and faces Wallface Mountain to the northwest across Indian Pass.</p><br>
<p>The northeast end of Mount Marshall drains into Cold Brook, thence into Lake Colden, the Flowed Lands, the Opalescent River, the Hudson River, and into New York Bay.</p><br>
<p>The east side of Mt. Marshall drains into Herbert Brook, thence into the Flowed Lands.</p><br>
<p>The southwest end of Mt. Marshall drains into Calamity Brook, thence into the Hudson River.</p><br>
<p>The west side of Marshall drains into the southern Indian Pass Brook, thence into Henderson Lake, the source of the Hudson River.</p><br>
<p>The north side of Marshall drains into the northern Indian Pass Brook, thence into the West Branch of the Ausable River, into Lake Champlain, thence into Canada&#39;s Richelieu River, the Saint Lawrence River, and into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.</p><br>
<p>Mount Marshall is within the High Peaks Wilderness Area of New York&#39;s Adirondack Park.</p><br>
<p>The Yenisei Gulf  is a large and long estuary through which the lower Yenisei River flows into the Kara Sea.</p><br>
<p>The Yenisei Gulf and its islands belong to the Krasnoyarsk Krai administrative division of the Russian Federation and is part of the Great Arctic State Nature Reserve, the largest nature reserve of Russia.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Yenisei Gulf is formed by the river widening to an average of for up to in a roughly north-south direction, between a latitude of 70° 30′ N in the area around Munguy settlement, north of Dudinka. The whole region of the lower Yenisei is bleak and sparsely inhabited, and the settlements are built on permafrost ground. There is no vegetation except for mosses, lichens and some grass. Coastal waters are habitats for beluga whales.</p><br>
<p>The maximum depth of Yenisei Gulf is.</p><br>
<p>The mouth of the Yenisei Gulf is roughly located at 72° 30′ N, in the area of Sibiryakov Island, in the Kara Sea.</p><br>
<h3>Islands</h3><br>
<p>The Yenisei has some flat, low-lying islands at its southern end, the Brekhovsky Islands (Бреховские острова) 70&deg;30&prime;N latitude, 82&deg;45&prime;E longitude. They stand where the river flows into the estuary. Lakes and swamps surround this area, which features many arms through which lesser rivers of the tundra flow across wetlands into the Yenisei basin.</p><br>
<p>Further northwards the Yenisei widens and becomes a clear expanse. The water turns brackish at this point. There are three small islands located almost in the middle of the gulf, the Bolshoi Korsakovsky Islands (острова Большой Корсаковский). The largest one is long and wide. 72&deg;17&prime;N latitude, 81&deg;01&prime;E longitude. Burnyy Island is located right in the middle of the gulf. Chaishnyy is the closest to the shore.</p><br>
<p>Krestovskiy or Krestovsky Island (Остров Крестовский) lies a further to the NNW, close to the eastern shore of the Yenisei Gulf. It is long and wide.72&deg;24&prime;N latitude, 80&deg;47&prime;E longitude. This island takes its name from the Russian writer Vsevolod Vladimirovich Krestovskiy (1840–1895).</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<p>The weather pattern in this desolate area is severe, with long and bitter winters and frequent blizzards and gales. The Yenisei estuary is frozen for about nine months in a year and even in summer it is never quite free of ice floes. During the winter the shipping lanes are kept open by icebreaker.</p><br>
<h2>Further reading</h2><br>
<p>Colin Thubron, In Siberia.</p><br>
<p>Nukupule Island is an island in Lifuka district, in the Haªapai islands of Tonga.</p><br>
<p>The island itself is approximately 6 acres and has its own reef system surrounding most of the island with only a few deep channels for access into its own natural lagoon.</p><br>
<p>Nukupule Island is completely untouched. The owner plans to leave it that way for now, but it&#39;s a prime spot for an eco-retreat with zero-impact development. Surf, kitesurf and fishing paradise.</p><br>
<p>There are very few animals (if any) on Nukupule Island although it is surrounded by deep water reefs which are home to an abundance of fish. Humpback Whales with their newborn calves visit from July to October.</p><br>
<p>The island is approximately 12 mi west of the main island of Lifuka, Ha&#39;apai which has a marina,</p><br>
<p>ferries, an airport, shops, a hospital and the police station.</p><br>
<p>Uoleva is an sand-cay island in Lifuka district, in the Ha&#39;apai islands of Tonga. Almost uninhabited, it is known for its three small resorts and clean, quiet beaches.</p><br>
<h2>The Resort Island</h2><br>
<p>Uoleva is known for its three small resorts: Tiana’s, Captain Cook’s, and Serenity Beach. They are each capable of hosting perhaps two dozen guests each, but attendance is usually lower. Each is located on the west, leeward side of the island.</p><br>
<p>Besides the resort owners and their guests, the island is uninhabited. The locals who own the land use it to raise pigs or harvest coconuts, but not on any large scale.</p><br>
<h2>Infrastructure</h2><br>
<p>There are no roads on Uoleva. There are no cell phone towers but it is within range of the towers on Lifuka or ‘Uiha. Electricity is only generated by small-scale solar panels. Water is available only from rainwater collection tanks.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>Uoleva can be reached by boat or by foot. The reef between the north tip of Uoleva and the south tip of Lifuka is shallow enough at low tide to ford with a 30-minute strenuous walk. The water is usually at knee height but can rise to waist level depending on where one walks. A path is clearly visible through most of it but the terrain changes after each major storm. Tongans from Lifuka sometimes ride horses across this reef to visit their plantations on Uoleva.</p><br>
<p>Uoleva is most often reached by boat. Services can be arranged by the resort owners or by several foreign operators in Pangai.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>There has been no known permanent settlement on Uoleva. When the first Lapita settlers arrived on Tonga in approximately 2850 B.P. (900 BCE), the sea level was 2 m higher than it is today, making it a much smaller island. Early Tongans lived instead on the larger raised limestone islands or ‘Uiha, Lifuka, Foa, and Ha’ano.</p><br>
<p>In the fifteenth century, the new Mata’uvave line of chiefs began constructing many pigeon snaring mounds around northern Ha’apai. They built at least eight on Uoleva alone and can still be seen today scattered around the island’s interior. Located in the center of Uoleva is the largest such mound in all of Tonga, named Siaulufotu. It was the personal mound of the Mata’uvave. Adjacent to the pigeon mound was the chief’s freshwater bathing well, vaisioata.</p><br>
<p>Lake Everett is a lake in Allen County, Indiana. The lake is about 42 acres and most of the land surrounding it is privately owned. Several small and a few larger cottages are located on the lake proper. The Indiana DNR maintains a beach, dock, and boat ramp on the lake. Lake Everett is held to be one of the areas best pan fishing locations. The lake is roughly twelve miles from Fort Wayne, Indiana with its major shopping and business center in NE Indiana. Fort Wayne has a hub airport with national & international service available, and a general aviation airport. Both are located in or at The Fort Wayne city limits. Baer Field also houses the Indiana air National Guards local squadron Currently flying A-10 Warthogs and to be modernized in coming years.</p><br>
<p>Lake Everett was named for Charles Everett, an early landowner.</p><br>
<p>Petrova Gora  is a mountain range in central Kordun.</p><br>
<p>Petrova gora is located in Karlovac County, Republic of Croatia. It is located northeast-southwest, 25 km long.</p><br>
<p>Back in past that mountain was called Gvozd what it means forests. After the great color, called the Battle of Gvozdu, between the Hungarian army on one side and the Croatian Army on the other side, Croatian king Petar Svačić was killed on that hill, and the Croatian mountain was named after Petrova gora.</p><br>
<p>It is an old geological formation, which means that it is relatively rich in water and especially in forest vegetation. This also implies a certain mountaineering restraint because it lacks broad visibility, but there is also a large identification of reliefs with numerous significant reefs and deep ravines enriched with numerous streams. It was built of Paleozoic and Mesozoic rocks.</p><br>
<p>The 37 m high memorial to Mali Petrovac and the abandoned communications tower at Magarčevac, which could easily become a hiking pyramid, provide an excellent view of the immediate surroundings, but also to a good part of central Croatia, Gorski Kotar, and Slovenia, and especially Northwest Bosnia.</p><br>
<p>The idea of building a monument on Mali Petrovac is encouraged even after the end of World War II, and on May 6, 1946, the foundation stone was laid. Construction began only after 34 years, in mid 1980, according to the original solution of the Croatian sculptor Vojin Bakić. The opening of the monument was on October 4, 1981. The monument is a masterpiece of monumental commemorative sculpture of its time and highlights the size of Petrova up in the antifascist struggle in this area.</p><br>
<p>The Edward G. Acheson House is a historic house at 908 Main St. in Monongahela, Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States. Probably built about 1870, it is notable as the home of Edward G. Acheson , the inventor of carborundum, and as the likely site of its invention. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Edward G. Acheson House is located west of Monongahela&#39;s town center, on the south side of West Main Street roughly midway between 9th and 10th Streets. It is a vernacular 2-1/2 story painted brick building that is not architecturally distinguished. It is roughly L-shaped and covered by a hip roof, with a two-bay gabled projection in front. Its builder and construction date are not known; its styling is suggestive of a c. 1870s construction date.</p><br>
<p>Between 1890 and 1895 the house was the home of inventor Edward G. Acheson (1856–1931). Acheson, a native of nearby Washington, was a minimally educated, but in 1880 landed a job at the laboratory of Thomas Edison. After being involved in the installation of electricity infrastructure for Edison, he settled in 1890 in Mongahela, where he worked for the local electric utility, and used excess capacity to perform experiments at his home. A series of experiments in 1891 led to invention of carborundum, the name he gave silicon carbide. According to local lore, the experiments were probably conducted in a summer kitchen attached to the back of the house. He moved to Niagara Falls, New York in 1895, to take advantage of the large power station there to develop carborundum production on an industrial scale. He received international recognition for his invention.</p><br>
<p>Carborunudum is a mixture of clay and powdered coke, fused by electric current. It was then—and for fifty years remained—the hardest known artificial substance in the world. It has been used in countless industrial processes, primarily as an abrasive, over the years. Acheson&#39;s achievements are all the more remarkable in that he was self-educated and worked independently."</p><br>
<p>In 1953, the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission installed a historical marker outside the house, noting the historic importance of Acheson&#39;s achievements. It is designated as a historic residential landmark/farmstead by the Washington County History & Landmarks Foundation.</p><br>
<p>The discovery of a boulder of high-grade iron ore by Leonidas Merritt in 1887 during a survey for the railroad, which he brought to Duluth, the Merritt brothers  established the Mountain Iron Mine in 1892 Mountain Iron, Minnesota which represents the beginning of the exploitation of the Mesabi Range iron ore in the Iron Range of northeast Minnesota. By 1893 the Merritts had claims on a significant portion of the Mesabi Iron Range and had built the Duluth, Missabe & Northern Railway DM&IR. Financial conditions forced them sell their shares to John D. Rockefeller who later sold to Andrew Carnegie. The early development was as an underground mine, but open cast mining soon proved to be a better choice because of the soft, shallow ore deposits. The Mesabi Range and nearby Vermilion Range led Minnesota to become the nations largest producer of iron ore and the United States to lead the world in steel production. This capacity is considered to have been a major factor in Americas ability to contribute to World War II. It also played a major role in the financial success of Andrew Carnegie and USA Steel. Carnegie returned some of his fortune to the communities by funding 2500 public Carnegie Libraries across the country, including 64 in rural Minnesota.</p><br>
<p>The extraction of ore in the region also contributed to the tiny port city of Duluth thriving and becoming the leading port in the United States (by tonnage) in the early 20th century.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and further designated as a USA National Historic Landmark in 1968.</p><br>
<p>The Cleveland Abbe House, also known as the Timothy Caldwell House and Monroe-Adams-Abbe House, is a historic house at 2017 "I" Street NW in Washington, D.C. Built in 1805, it is a good example of Federal period architecture, and has had a series of distinguished residents. Most notable are James Monroe, who occupied it as United States Secretary of War and as President of the United States while the White House was restored after the War of 1812, and historian Henry Adams. However, it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1975 for its association with meteorologist Cleveland Abbe , the founder of the National Weather Service, who lived here from 1877 until his death. It is now home to the Arts Club of Washington.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Cleveland Abbe House stands northwest of the White House, on the north side of "I" Street across from James Monroe Park and near its junction with Pennsylvania Avenue. It is a three-story brick row house, built out of red brick and topped by a dormered gable roof. It is four bays wide, with the entrance in the leftmost bay. Windows are rectangular sash, with stone sills and splayed keystone lintels. A stone stringcourse separates each of the floors from the next. The main entrance has an elaborate Federal surround, with sidelight windows and a large half-round transom window. The interior of the house retains original Federal period finishes.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Timothy Caldwell built the house around 1802 to 1805. James Monroe lived there from 1811 to 1817, a period during which he was Secretary of State and War Secretary. From his inauguration as America&#39;s fifth President in March 1817 until the White House was fully restored in September 1817, the Cleveland Abbe House served as the Presidential residence. In the 1820s, the house was occupied by the British legation. Henry Adams lived here with his parents, Charles Francis Adams Sr., and Abigail Brooks, in 1860 to 1861.</p><br>
<p>Cleveland Abbe, founder of the USA Weather Bureau, lived here from 1877 to 1909. It was during his ownership that a number of alterations were made to the house. He raised it from 2-1/2 to 3-1/2 stories, demolished some of its outbuildings, and built additional rooms onto the rear. After Abbe&#39;s death in 1916, the Arts Club of Washington purchased the building.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as "Arts Club of Washington" in 1969.</p><br>
<p>Smith Sound is a zigzag 24 kilometer inner region of Trinity Bay. This sound is one of the longest portions of inshore waterways in Newfoundland, located on its north-eastern coast in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Bonavista Peninsula is to the north of the sound, while Random Island is to the south. The waters that make up the sound is a continuous channel that encircles Random Island, broken only by a narrow channel located at Clarenville where a causeway was built to provide access to the communities on Random Island. The channel on the south side of Random Island is North West Arm.</p><br>
<h2>Early history</h2><br>
<p>The area was visited seasonally by fishermen in the 18th century, and first settled in the 19th century. On September 5, 1822, William Cormack sailed through Smith Sound to explore the region with Sylvester Joe, a Mi&#39;kmaq guide.</p><br>
<p>Cormack&#39;s account of his travels were published in 1824 and republished in 1856.</p><br>
<p>Permanent residents settled in during the 1850s through 1870s. In addition to the fishery industry, others were involved in sawmilling and slate quarrying. Towns abounded on both shores. Some changed or merged over the years, but a partial list includes White Rock and Burnt Brook (or "Brickyard"), the site of an 1850s brick plant at the head of Smith Sound, along with British Harbour, also at the head of Smith Sound, but now an abandoned community, as is Popes (or Popes) Harbour. Other communities included Britannia, Lower Lance Cove, and Petly, (now Petley, Random Islands second largest community, a merger of two original communities of Upper Lance Cove and Aspen cove). Georges Brook was settled early on, around 1862, after John Pelley started a saw mill. Kings Cove was renamed Milton in 1910. Sandy Point became Harcourt, White rock Gin Cove, Upper Rocky Brook became Monroe. Daniels Cove became Waterville. Burgums Cove was renamed Burgoyne&#39;s Cove in honor of a British general, John Burgoyne, who spent time in the area in the late 18th century.</p><br>
<h2>Present day</h2><br>
<h3>1953 Nut Cove tragedy</h3><br>
<p>On the north shore of Smith Sound, across from Britannia, lies Nut Cove, the site of a slate quarry run by three brothers, William Carberry, George Carberry and Jubal Carberry, during 1850-1900. Approximately 100 years later, it became better known as the inclement-weather crash site of an American Convair B-36 bomber known as The Peacemaker, killing all on board on March 18, 1953, including Brigadier General Richard E. Ellsworth. The flight originated in the Azores and was bound for the plane&#39;s home in Rapid City Air Force Base, South Dakota, renamed Ellsworth Air Force Base. The calamity claimed more lives that night when all on board a second plane, a Boeing SB-29 Superfortress from Harmon Air Force Base in Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador spotted the downed Convair, then disappeared, the plane and crew never seen again.</p><br>
<h3>Industry</h3><br>
<p>In addition to its jellyfish harvesting industry,</p><br>
<p>Smith Sound is known for its large Atlantic cod population. Fourteen-year-old cod are not unusual here.</p><br>
<h3>2003 frozen cod mystery</h3><br>
<p>In April 2003, thousands of dead cod, a weight of approximately a quarter-million pounds, washed up on the shores of the sound within a few days, called an ecological disaster, prompting scientific research into the cause. After an interview with DFO scientist John Brattey, CBC St. John’s news website posted:</p><br>
<p>Brattey says the water remains the coldest that the department has ever recorded in the area, and some fish will continue to die. He says tests show some of the cod have an anti-freeze protein, while others don&#39;t. Otherwise, the dead cod appears to have been healthy up until it was instantly frozen by contact with ice crystals. Brattey says the organs of the dead cod are frozen solid, even though the flesh of the fish is pliable.</p><br>
<h3>Tourism</h3><br>
<p>List of Newfoundland and Labrador highways</p><br>
<p>Route 232, Smith Sound Road - located on the Bonavista Peninsula, north side of the sound.</p><br>
<p>The scenic Smith Sound Trail - located at Brittania.</p><br>
<p>Couchsachraga Peak is a mountain located in Essex County, New York.</p><br>
<p>"Couchsachraga" is based on an Algonquin or Huron name for the area, meaning "dismal wilderness". The mountain is part of the Santanoni Mountains of the Adirondacks. Couchsachraga Peak is flanked to the east by Panther Peak. There is no marked trail to the summit, which, being fully forested, has no views.</p><br>
<p>Couchsachraga Peak stands within the watershed of the Cold River, which drains into the Raquette River, the Saint Lawrence River in Canada, and into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.</p><br>
<p>The southern sides of Couchsachraga drains into Calahan Brook, thence into Moose Creek and the Cold River.</p><br>
<p>The northeast and northern sides of Couchsachraga drain via several brooks into the Cold River.</p><br>
<p>According to the 1897 survey of the Adirondacks, the height of Couchsachraga Peak was over 4,000 ft, so it was included in the 46 High Peaks; the 1953 USGS found it and three other peaks to be lower, but the list has not been changed.</p><br>
<p>Couchsachraga is within New York&#39;s Adirondack Park.</p><br>
<p>The Steele County Courthouse, located at 111 East Main Street in Owatonna, Steele County in the USA state of Minnesota is a three-story Austin red-brick building with red mortar, accented with Lake Superior brown stone. It was designed by T. D. Allen of Minneapolis in a Romanesque Revival and Italianate style, featuring corner towers, a turret, and a large clock on four sides. Windows are arched and a statue representing Mercy, Law, and Justice sits above the north face of the building. Polished granite columns support double arches at the entrances. The interior is decorated with wainscoting, woodwork, and an ornate oak staircase. The courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 3, 1976.</p><br>
<p>Steele County&#39;s previous county courthouse, built in 1874, was also listed on the National Register but was demolished in 1987 and removed from the register. The current courthouse is also a contributing property to the Owatonna Commercial Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Panther Peak is a mountain located in Essex County, New York.</p><br>
<p>The mountain is part of the Santanoni Mountains of the Adirondacks.</p><br>
<p>Panther Peak is flanked to the west by Couchsachraga Peak, and to the south by Santanoni Peak.</p><br>
<p>The northeast slopes of Panther Peak drain into Duck Hole pond, the source of the Cold River, which drains into the Raquette River, the Saint Lawrence River in Canada, and into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.</p><br>
<p>The northwest slopes of Panther Peak drain into the Cold River.</p><br>
<p>The southwest slopes of Panther drain into Calahan Brook, thence into Moose Creek and the Cold River.</p><br>
<p>The southeast slopes of Panther drain into Santanoni Brook, Henderson Lake, the source of the Hudson River, and into New York Bay.</p><br>
<p>Panther Peak is within the High Peaks Wilderness Area of New York&#39;s Adirondack Park.</p><br>
<p>The Waseca County Courthouse is the seat of government for Waseca County in Waseca, Minnesota, United States. The 1897 Richardsonian Romanesque building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 for having state-level significance in the themes of architecture and politics/government. It was nominated for being the home of the county&#39;s government and for the role that achieving county seat status had on the development of the city.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Waseca County Courthouse is a two-story building of Kasota limestone and buff-colored brick, with a large bell- and clock-tower. It was designed by Minneapolis architects Orff and Joralemon and constructed by J. D. Carroll of St. Paul Park for $55,833. It features polished granite columns supporting triple arches at the entrance. The interior is decorated with wainscoting, oak woodwork, tiled fireplaces, etched glass, paneled doors, and marble flooring.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The construction of the Waseca County Courthouse embodies a surge of effort to relocate the countys seat of government. With Waseca Countys organization in 1857, Wilton had been given county seat status. A decade later, however, the Winona and St. Peter Railroad opted to route their tracks 4 mi north of Wilton through the unassuming town of Waseca. Efforts to move the county seat to the suddenly booming town culminated in a popular vote during the 1870 election. The proposal passed and the county&#39;s records and courthouse furniture were moved that very night to a new facility in Waseca, which opened for business the following day. This facility was replaced by the current courthouse in 1897.</p><br>
<p>All Saints Episcopal Church, built in 1872-1873, is an historic Carpenter Gothic church in Saugatuck, Michigan. On February 27, 1984, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first Episcopal service in the vicinity of Saugatuck was conducted by Reverend J. Rice Taylor in 1862. The Saugatuck Episcopal congregation was officially organized in 1868. Taylor, who had been assigned to the parish in Holland, Michigan, acted as a missionary minister. The congregation immediately began planning for a church building, and in 1871 purchased the lot that this church sits on. Rev. Taylor was instrumental in raising funds for the church, both within and outside of the parish.</p><br>
<p>The congregation hired Detroit architect Gordon W. Lloyd to design the new church, and local workmen George Harnes, George E. Dunn, and William Dunning to construct it. Construction began in 1872, and although the church was not yet complete, the first service was held in January 1873. The church was substantially completed by the end of 1874. However, the building was poorly outfitted, and over the next few years, funds were raised to install stained glass windows, carpets, a reed organ, lamps, and seats.</p><br>
<p>Saugatuck&#39;s fortunes declined over the next few decades, as lumbering slowed and the population fell. By 1892, the church entered a period of disuse, lacking a priest and it was vandalized. However, by 1907, Saugatuck had become a popular summering spot, and the church became renewed, regaining a priest. Regular services were once again held in the church, and its infrastructure upgraded The church continues to be used by the Episcopal congregation.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>All Saints Episcopal Church is a board-and-batten Gothic Revival structure with a gable roof and tower located on one corner containing the main entrance. The facades have lancet windows.</p><br>
<p>The interior has pine flooring and a vertical-board, beaded wainscoting. The ceiling is constructed against the underside of the roof, and supported by exposed wooden trusses. The nave has a center aisle with pews on each side.</p><br>
<p>Adams Academy was a school that opened in 1872 in Quincy, Massachusetts, United States. John Adams, the second President of the United States, had many years before established the Adams Temple and School Fund. This fund gave 160 acre of land to the people of Quincy in trust. His objective for the money was to build a school in honor of his friends John Hancock and Josiah Quincy, who, like Adams, lived in the town of Quincy, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Origins</h2><br>
<p>John Adams, the second President of the United States, was a lifelong resident of Quincy, Massachusetts. In 1822, when he was in his eighties, he made several bequests to the town of Quincy. One gave to the town land and funding for the construction of the First Parish Church, one concerned the disposition of part of his personal library, and the third was for the establishment of a local school. The third bequest included the donation of 8 acre of land in Quincy center, called for the construction of a stone building (preferably made from Quincy granite from the Adams landholdings), and gave advice to future schoolmasters on curriculum and teaching methods. Adams established the Adams Temple and School Fund to manage these properties.</p><br>
<p>Although the church was constructed first (per Adams instructions) in 1828, the school took some time to develop, owing to its small endowment. By 1868 the endowment had grown large enough to begin work on the school, and Adams grandson Charles Francis Adams, Sr., a supervisor of the Fund, invited architect Henry Van Brunt to design a suitable building. The Fund board approved Brunt&#39;s plans (made in collaboration with William Robert Ware) in January 1870, and the building was completed that year at a cost of $29,000.</p><br>
<h2>History of the academy</h2><br>
<p>Adams Academy opened its doors in 1872, and operated until 1908; its peak enrollment was 140 students in 1876–77. The school was modeled after its football rivals, Phillips Academy and Phillips Exeter Academy. There was a strong emphasis placed on the classics, and Adams students were prepared to attend Harvard. By the early twentieth century, however, public schools in the area had improved, and there was competition from other private academies. Due to lack on enrollment, Adams Academy was closed in 1908.</p><br>
<h2>Later uses of the building</h2><br>
<p>After the Academy closed, the Adams Temple and School Fund sought other uses for the building that were in keeping with John Adams&#39; original bequest. For a number of years it was used by a variety of civic organizations, including the Boy Scouts, American Legion, and the Red Cross.</p><br>
<p>Although it was first proposed in 1934, only in 1972 was the building leased to the Quincy Historical Society, which is now its tenant. The Society uses the building as a museum and to house its library, uses deemed by the Fund trustees (who include Adams descendants) to be in keeping with John Adams&#39; original intentions.</p><br>
<h2>Adams Academy today</h2><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1994. It is located at 8 Adams Street.</p><br>
<p>The Hendrick Hopper Homestead is a historic building located in Glen Rock, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, and was built in the early 19th century. It was home to the Hopper Family and is located on the corner of Ackerman Avenue and Hillman Avenue. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 as site #83001526. This house is occupied by a family.</p><br>
<p>A blue sign stands in front of the house that reads:</p><br>
<p>Hopper Homestead</p><br>
<p>North wing built 1780 by Hendrick Hopper in area then called “small lots.” Center section erected by son, John, in early 1800s. The farmhouse was sold to the Hillmann family in 1895 ending four generations and 115 years of continuous Hopper ownership.</p><br>
<p>The Hopper Family burying ground is also located behind the Hopper Homestead where the farms of Garrett E. Hopper and Hendrick H. Hopper met. Descendants of Hendrick Jan Hopper are buried in the cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The Hendrick I. Lott House is a historic home located at 1940 East 36th Street between Fillmore Avenue and Avenue S, resting in the neighborhood known as Marine Park, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, there lies one of the oldest Dutch Colonial farmhouses in Kings County. The Lott House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is designated as a New York City Landmark. The house remains structurally sound and virtually unchanged from the time Hendrick Lott constructed it in 1800, incorporating a section of the 1720 original homestead built by his grandfather, Johannes Lott. Ph.D. candidates who grew up in the neighborhood found windowless rooms inside the house. They believed that some slaves had slept in these rooms. Below the floors of these rooms, they found corncobs in star or cross shapes and other spiritual objects that showed mutual religious practices between slaves who worked there and Africans in West Africa. These spiritual objects were believed to serve as a purpose of connecting two worlds between the living and the dead.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Family patriarch Johannes Lott, a member of the New York Colonial Assembly, purchased land from Coert Van Voorhees in the rural area of Flatlands in 1719 to be used for farming. Lott expanded the family holdings from Kings Highway south to Jamaica Bay and "Lott&#39;s Landing." On this property, Johannes built his homestead just east of the present house. Johannes died in 1775, leaving the farm to Johannes Jr., who occupied the property until 1792.</p><br>
<p>The Lott family quickly became leaders in the area. When Hendrick I. Lott married Mary Brownjohn in 1792, he found his grandfather’s house was too small, too old, and too outmoded for an established member of a prominent family. Hendrick built a larger, grander house, combining Dutch architecture with that of the English, making it into a distinctly American building. Hendrick did not abandon his grandfather’s house entirely, however, it served as the kitchen wing being moved to the eastern end of the new house. He balanced this 1720 wing with a west wing, creating the symmetrical composition. Although Hendrick added Federal-style dormer windows, the gambrel roof with graceful spring eaves is typical of the Dutch Colonial architectureal style. The interior features 18 rooms organized by a center hall plan.</p><br>
<p>In the 19th century, at its peak the Lotts’ farm included more than 200 acre. Like most large farmers in southern Kings County, the Lotts relied heavily on the labor of slaves to grow the crops that they sold in the markets of Brooklyn and Manhattan. They held the most slaves in the neighborhood. Legal documents in 1803 showed that elders who were inefficient at the work field were valued less than those who were children and adults. After 1799 however, the value of all slaves began to decline. New York wanted to free slaves who were born after July 4, 1799 and served their masters until they turned 28 if the slaves were male. Females, on the other hand, can be freed by the age of 25 if they met the same qualifications. Slaves became more difficult to hold due to such actions made by the state. Therefore, the Lotts freed all but one of their slaves by 1805, long before the abolition of slavery in New York State in 1827. The Lotts then hired the freed slaves back as paid workers. These actions taken by the Lotts support the claim that they were abolitionists. Later, it is said, the House may have served as a stop on the Underground Railroad.</p><br>
<p>By 1825 the 200 acre farm, on which the Lotts raised cabbage, potatoes, vegetables and wheat, included outbuildings, barns and a separate stone kitchen. The foundation of which, that was located between the home and the present East 36th Street, was excavated in 1998 by the Brooklyn College Archaeological Research Center.</p><br>
<p>For two centuries descendants of the Lotts lived in the homestead and used the land for farming. The last farmer, John Bennett Lott, died in 1923. The majority of the land was sold, leaving only three-quarters of an acre (0.3 ha) surrounding the house. The last Lott descendant to live there, Ella Suydam, a great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Johannes Lott, lived in the house until she died in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Hendrick I. Lott House, which sits on its original location on three-quarters of an acre (0.3 ha) of land, and its grounds are currently closed for restoration. The house was bought by the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation in 2001 and operated by the Hendrick I. Lott House Preservation Association, and is a member of the Historic House Trust. The restoration of the Lott House is a joint effort of the City of New York/Parks & Recreation, Historic House Trust of New York City, Marine Park Civic Association, and Hendrick I. Lott House Preservation Association.</p><br>
<p>The Icy Cape is a headland on the Chukchi Sea side of the North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States. It was discovered and named by James Cook on August 17, 1778, on account of the ice along the coast.</p><br>
<p>Icy Cape is in an area of landspits, bounded by Kasegaluk Lagoon to the east and Sikolik Lake further inland.</p><br>
<p>Pink salmon and Arctic char are abundant in the waters near Icy Cape. Whales can also easily be sighted offshore in the Icy Cape area.</p><br>
<p>Icy Cape was formerly the site of the Icy Cape DEW Line Station, a United States Air Force Distant Early Warning Line Radar station</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>Icy Cape is the setting for "Ice", an episode of the first season of the American television series The X-Files.</p><br>
<p>The Black Rapids Roadhouse, also known as the Rapids Roadhouse and the Rapids Hunting Lodge, is a historic Alaskan structure along the Richardson Highway in east-central Alaska. It was built in 1902. Construction of the Alaska Railroad led to a decline in the 1920s, but the original roadhouse continued to operate until 1993. A new, modern lodge was built near the roadhouse in 2001 and the original building is preserved as a historical curiosity and tourist attraction.</p><br>
<p>The original roadhouse was listed on the National Register of Historical Places in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>Black Rapids Glacier</h2><br>
<p>Black Rapids Roadhouse is across the Delta River from the Black Rapids Glacier. For three months in 1937 the Black Rapids Glacier made national news by advancing across the valley at the rate of a mile a month-it was known as the "galloping glacier." The 27 mi long glacier has since retreated, but the moraine can still be seen from Richardson Highway pullout.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Rapids Roadhouse, variously known as Black Rapids Roadhouse or Rapids Hunting Lodge, opened at least by 1904 to serve travelers on the new Valdez-Fairbanks Trail. Of more than thirty roadhouses that operated along the route between 1902 and 1923, Rapids Roadhouse is one of the few that survive.</p><br>
<p>Rapids Roadhouse continued to operate until 1993, although its peak years had been during the first decades of the 20th century. Because of this, period of significance ended in 1923.</p><br>
<p>Wawaset Park is a planned community national historic district located on the western edge of the City of Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. The area was formerly the grounds of Schuetzen Park, a horse racing and later auto racing track and fairgrounds. It was purchased in 1917 by the DuPont Company and developed into single-family houses, semi-detached and row houses to meet the housing need for the company&#39;s expanding corporate staff. The historic district encompasses 321 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure.</p><br>
<p>The neighborhood&#39;s design by noted Baltimore architect Edward L. Palmer, Jr., with curvilinear streets and ample lawns giving it the setting of a suburb within the city, was influenced by the work of Frederick Law Olmsted, and its architecture includes Tudor cottages, Georgian mansions, and elements of the Picturesque and Gothic styles. The dwellings are unified by slate roofing.</p><br>
<p>The historic district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Ox Mountains are a mountain range in County Sligo on the west coast of Ireland. They are also known as Saint Patrick&#39;s Mountains after the saint who built churches on its slopes and left his name to some of its wells.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The highest peak in the Ox Mountains is Knockalongy, which is 544 m high.</p><br>
<p>The mountains begin immediately southwest of Ballysadare, and run west-southwest for some forty miles to the boundary of County Mayo, where they are continued to the southwest by the Slieve Gamph range, which runs first on the boundary of the two counties, and then into Mayo. The mountains have several summits from 1,200 to 1,800 feet high; and Slieve Gamph reaches 1,363 feet.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Gneiss, schist and granite form the bedrock of the Ox Mountains. This wild area of uplands is covered largely with blanket bog. Some parts are extensively forested, whilst others have numerous outcroppings of rock. To the north and south the land is underlain by limestones and sandstones of Carboniferous age, and is generally farmland. Lead and copper mines were formerly worked in the Ox Mountains, but by 1900, the works had been long since discontinued.</p><br>
<h2>Peaks</h2><br>
<p>The Strouds Ridge Preserve is a project of Athens, Ohio, to create a greenbelt buffer and trail system on the outskirts of the city. This effort began in 2002, and has so far involved the acquisition of three parcels of land, for a total of 325 acre, in two discontinuous tracts. All these properties, which include the pre-existing 22 acre Sells park, are contiguous with Strouds Run State Park. One of these three acquisitions was subsequently dedicated as the Dale and Jackie Riddle State Nature Preserve, and is otherwise known as Hawk Woods, an 85 acre old-growth forest. Also nearby are the 75-acre Blair Preserve and the 264-acre Baker Tract of the Athens Conservancy.</p><br>
<p>The trail system is known as the Athens Trail system, and connects with the trails at the state park. The trail system centers around the Athens Trail, currently 3.2 mi but slated to be a full-loop trail around the City of Athens, and the Rockhouse Trail, a 2.7 mi scenic trail.</p><br>
<p>The Hermitage, located in Ho-Ho-Kus, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, is a fourteen-room Gothic Revival house museum built in 1847–48 from designs by William H. Ranlett for Elijah Rosencrantz, Jr. Members of the Rosencrantz family owned The Hermitage estate from 1807 to 1970. The site was designated a National Historic Landmark for the excellence of its architecture and added to National Register of Historic Places in 1970. In 1971 it was added to the New Jersey Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1767, the original colonial estate was purchased by Ann Bartow DeVisme who moved to Ho-Ho-Kus from Manhattan with five children. One of Ann&#39;s daughters, Theodosia Bartow Prevost, and her husband James Marcus Prevost, occupied another house on the property, downhill from the present structure, nearer to the mill ponds. During the American Revolutionary War, while Major (later Lieutenant Colonel) Prevost was fighting for the British in Georgia and South Carolina, the women and children were left alone in Ho-Ho-Kus.</p><br>
<p>In July 1778, word reached Theodosia that George Washington and his troops would be passing through Ho-Ho-Kus on their way from the recent battle at Monmouth Courthouse to White Plains in Westchester County, New York. When the General and his entourage stopped at a local house, Theodosia sent an invitation to Washington for him and his men to come and stay at The Hermitage.</p><br>
<p>While widowed, both British and American soldiers were welcomed into this resting station, one being Aaron Burr. A romance soon developed and once the hostilities ceased, they were married at the Hermitage and briefly lived on the property.</p><br>
<p>Visitors to the house during the Revolution included James Monroe, William Paterson, the Marquis de Lafayette, Alexander Hamilton, Lord Stirling and Aaron Burr. In 1782, after her husband was killed during the War, Theodosia Prevost married Aaron Burr at The Hermitage. For a period of time they lived in a small house adjacent to The Hermitage.</p><br>
<h2>Infrastructure</h2><br>
<p>In 1847, the house was remodeled in the Gothic Revival style by architect William H. Ranlett. The stone house was originally built in a Dutch-American tradition.</p><br>
<p>The large house consisted of wood-shingled roofs and pointed gables, allowing the classical music that played to be enjoyed along with the beautiful architecture.</p><br>
<p>The Hermitage is owned by the State of New Jersey and is a museum, open to the public year-round, financed and operated by The Friends of the Hermitage, Inc., a non-profit organization. The home and land were willed by Mary Elizabeth to the State of New Jersey.</p><br>
<p>Today, The Hermitage represents Bergen County&#39;s first National Historical Landmark.</p><br>
<p>Santanoni Peak is a mountain located in Essex County, New York.</p><br>
<p>The mountain is part of the Santanoni Mountains of the Adirondacks.</p><br>
<p>The mountain&#39;s name is believed to be an Abenaki derivative of "Saint Anthony&quot the first French fur traders and missionaries having named the area for Saint Anthony of Padua.</p><br>
<p>Santanoni Peak is flanked to the north by Panther Peak, and to the southwest by Little Santanoni Mountain.</p><br>
<p>The east slopes of Santanoni Peak drain into the eastern Santanoni Brook, thence into Henderson Lake, the source of the Hudson River, and into New York Bay.</p><br>
<p>The south end of Santanoni Peak drains into the southern Santanoni Brook, thence into Newcomb Lake, the Newcomb River, and the Hudson River.</p><br>
<p>The southwest side of Santanoni drains into Ermine Brook, thence into Moose Creek, the Cold River, the Raquette River, the Saint Lawrence River in Canada, and into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.</p><br>
<p>The west slopes of Santanoni drain into Calahan Brook, thence into Moose Creek.</p><br>
<p>Santanoni Peak is within the High Peaks Wilderness Area of New York&#39;s Adirondack Park.</p><br>
<p>The Wilkin County Courthouse is the primary government building of Wilkin County, Minnesota, United States, located in the city of Breckenridge. Built from 1928 to 1929, the courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 for having local significance in the themes of architecture and politics/government. It was nominated for being Wilkin County&#39;s seat of government and for its well-preserved architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Wilkin County Courthouse is a two-story building with a raised basement, constructed of cream-colored brick and Indiana limestone. Its architectural elements suggest Beaux-Arts style, but flattened and squared off to conform to the Moderne aesthetics of the 1920s. Tall brick pilasters extend to a cornice, which is topped by a high parapet with the inscription "To None Will We Delay, To None Will We Deny, Right or Justice." The flat roofline disguises that the building has a stained-glass dome over its central hall. Over the main doorway is a transom window and a cornice topped by a 4 ft stone eagle. Other details include carved rosettes and garlands. Interior features include terrazzo floors, steel and bronze doors, ornamental plaster, pink Tennessee marble wainscoting, and brass trim. Murals represent life in 19th-century Wilkin County.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The current building was constructed as a replacement for an 1883 courthouse that burned down in 1924. It was designed by Saint Paul architects Buechner & Orth, and the firm of Redlinger & Hanson was paid $203,492 to build it. The inscription across the top of the building is a quote from Magna Carta.</p><br>
<p>Woodford is a historic mansion at Ford Road and Greenland Drive in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Built about 1756, it is the first of Philadelphia&#39;s great colonial Georgian mansion houses to be built, and exemplifies the opulence of such houses. A National Historic Landmark, it now a historic house museum open to the public.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1756, Woodford is the first of the great, opulent, late-Georgian mansions to be erected in the Philadelphia area. Woodford was built on 12 acre of land as a 1½-story summer residence by William Coleman, a wealthy merchant and justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.</p><br>
<p>Upon Colemans death in 1769, the house was sold to Alexander Barclay, a Quaker who served as His Majestys Customs Comptroller for the port of Philadelphia.</p><br>
<p>Upon Barclay&#39;s death in 1771, the house was bought by his brother-in-law, David Franks, who in 1772 added a second story and a kitchen wing, enlarging the house to almost its present size.</p><br>
<p>In 1778, Franks, a staunch loyalist, was arrested and ordered to leave. He took his family to New York City, and transferred the property to Thomas Paschall in settlement of a debt. Paschall is believed never to have lived at the house, but rented it out. He sold it to Isaac Wharton in 1793.</p><br>
<p>In 1869, the city bought Woodford from Whartons heirs to add to Fairmount Park. The house served as the home of the Parks Chief Engineer and Supervisor, and later, in 1912, as the Park Guard headquarters and traffic court.</p><br>
<p>The building was restored, commencing in 1927, and in 1930, it was opened to the public as a house museum, which it remains today. It houses, under the direction of the Naomi Wood Trust, the Naomi Wood collection of antique household goods, including Colonial furniture, unusual clocks, and English delftware.</p><br>
<p>Woodford was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1967. It is a contributing property of the Fairmount Park Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Donaldson Mountain is a mountain located in Franklin County, New York, named in 1924 after Alfred Lee Donaldson , author of A History of the Adirondacks.</p><br>
<p>The mountain is part of the Seward Mountains of the Adirondacks.</p><br>
<p>Donaldson Mtn. is flanked to the northeast by Seward Mountain, and to the south by Mount Emmons.</p><br>
<p>Donaldson Mountain stands within the watershed of the Raquette River, which drains into the Saint Lawrence River in Canada, and into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.</p><br>
<p>The southeast side of Donaldson Mt. drains into Seward Brook, thence into the Cold River, a tributary of the Raquette River.</p><br>
<p>The southwest end of Donaldson Mt. drains into Boulder Brook, thence into the Cold River.</p><br>
<p>The northwest side of Donaldson drains into Calkins Brook, thence into the Raquette River.</p><br>
<p>Donaldson Mountain is within the High Peaks Wilderness Area of Adirondack State Park.</p><br>
<p>The Saint Paul City Hall and Ramsey County Courthouse, located at 15 Kellogg Boulevard West in Saint Paul, Ramsey County, in the USA state of Minnesota is a twenty-story Art Deco skyscraper built during the Great Depression era of high unemployment and falling prices. For this reason, the $4,000,000 budgeted for the building was underspent, while the quality of materials and craftsmanship were higher than initially envisioned. The exterior consists of smooth Indiana limestone in the Art Deco style known as "American Perpendicular", designed by Thomas Ellerbe & Company of Saint Paul and Holabird & Root of Chicago and inspired by Finnish architect, Eliel Saarinen. The vertical rows of windows are linked by plain, flat, black spandrels. Above the Fourth Street entrance and flanking the Kellogg Boulevard entrance are relief sculptures carved by Lee Lawrie.</p><br>
<p>The interior design in the "Zigzag Moderne" style drew its inspiration from the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, which promoted soft ornamentation and sensuous curves. In Memorial Hall the white marble floor contrasts with three-story black marble piers leading to a gold-leaf ceiling. At the end of the hall is the 60-ton, 38 ft white onyx Indian God of Peace by Carl Milles (later renamed Vision of Peace). Other features include woodwork fashioned out of twenty-three different species of wood and uses for five different types of imported marble. Murals were painted by John W. Norton while the six bronze elevator doors were made by Albert Stewart.</p><br>
<p>The Castle Museum, previously known as Castle Station or Saginaw Post Office, in Saginaw, Michigan, United States is a historic structure on the National Register of Historic Places. It is currently the home of the Historical Society of Saginaw County and officially known as the Castle Museum of Saginaw County History.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Castle Museum was designed by William Martin Aiken, under a federal building program to reflect the ethnic and cultural heritage of its community. William Martin Aiken used the influence of the European chateau to illustrate the Saginaw Valley’s earliest white settlers-French fur traders and trappers, and combine it with decorations from the Italian Renaissance and Gothic periods. The Supervising Architect of the US Treasury, and built in 1898 as a United States Post Office. In the 1930s, the post office was becoming too small and a movement was started to get the post office out and into another building. An uproar arose because no one wanted their beloved castle to be torn down. The building was remodeled by local architect Carl Macomber, who enlarged the building by adding wings on both ends using limestone from the same quarry as the original building, tore down one of the three turrets, and added a large sorting room on the back of the building (by Hoyt Library). The Saginaw Federal Building at the time, the Castle Building was on the verge of extinction in the 1930s. Unable to keep up with Saginaw’s growing mail business, the Castle Post Office Station was too small and plans were made to replace it. In the 1930s a decision was made to tear it down and build a new post office on its site. A storm of protests and a petition signed by 1,000 residents was sent to Washington. The signers of the petition called the building “one of the best and most attractive buildings in Michigan” the replacement order was canceled in 1933. A final decision to demolish was made in February 1935 more protests followed and a compromise was made on February 17, 1935 the building would be extensively remodeled. Construction was completed in 1937 and Postmaster General James A. Farley labeled the building “memorial to President Roosevelt”. In the 1970s, a new post office was built and the building was almost demolished once again, but local citizens and the Saginaw County Board of Commissioners took steps to list the building on the National Register of Historic Places to ensure the preservation of the building and the local heritage it represents.</p><br>
<h2>Exhibits</h2><br>
<p>Some of the interesting items on permanent display include a 1914 Saginaw cyclecar, archaeology exhibit, and a lumbering exhibit. The museum changes displays on a regular basis and nearly all have a Saginaw connection.</p><br>
<p>The Doane College Historic Buildings are located on the Doane University campus at 1014 Boswell Avenue in Crete, Nebraska, United States. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district, there are three buildings included: Gaylord Hall, Whitcomb Conservatory/Lee Memorial Chapel, and Boswell Observatory.</p><br>
<h2>About</h2><br>
<p>Gaylord Hall was built in 1884 as a womens dormitory. Boswell Observatory is a small structure built in 1883-84 to house Doane Colleges program in astronomy and meteorology. The Whitcomb Lee Conservatory was completed in 1907.</p><br>
<p>The Whitcomb Lee Conservatory, also known as The Con, is a two-story building designed by the Chicago architectural firm of Dean and Dean in 1905. It was completed in 1907, and originally housed Lee Memorial Chapel and the music department. It is a five-sided brick building that. In 2005 the building was renovated, and currently provides facilities for the College&#39;s theatre and forensics departments. The conservatory was winner of the 2005 AIA Nebraska Design Award for its restoration.</p><br>
<p>Gaylord Hall was the third building constructed on the Doane College campus and was completed in 1884. Built in a late Victorian residential style, the hall was originally a residence hall for female students called Ladies Hall. It was renamed after Reverend Reuben Gaylord, a pioneer home missionary and Christian educator in Iowa and Nebraska.</p><br>
<p>Mount Emmons is a mountain located in Franklin County, New York.</p><br>
<p>The mountain is named after Ebenezer Emmons (1799–1863), a geologist who named the Adirondack Mountains and led the first recorded ascent of Mount Marcy in 1837.</p><br>
<p>The mountain is part of the Seward Mountains of the Adirondacks.</p><br>
<p>Mount Emmons is flanked to the north by Donaldson Mountain.</p><br>
<p>Emmons is the westernmost of the 46 High Peaks.</p><br>
<p>Mount Emmons stands within the watershed of the Cold River, which drains into the Raquette River, the Saint Lawrence River in Canada, and into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.</p><br>
<p>The east side of Mt. Emmons drains into Seward Brook, thence into the Cold River.</p><br>
<p>The west side of Emmons drains into Boulder Brook, thence into the Cold River.</p><br>
<p>Mount Emmons is within the High Peaks Wilderness Area of Adirondack State Park.</p><br>
<p>Camp Billings is a co-ed, non-denominational summer camp on Lake Fairlee in West Fairlee and Thetford, Vermont, United States. Accredited by the American Camp Association, it was established in 1906, and is open by boys and girls between the ages of seven and sixteen. In 2006, it was listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Activities</h2><br>
<p>Camp activities include sailing, backpacking, boating, canoeing, windsurfing, swimming, snorkeling, diving, swim team, water sports, Von Program, music, paddleboarding, playaking, tennis, photography, arts and crafts, archery, waterskiing, teen club, junior program, fishing, book club, ropes (zip lining, rock climbing, etc.), and drama. The camp also offers canoeing and backpacking trips, either during the day, or overnight.</p><br>
<p>A day at camp Billings is shaped like this:</p><br>
<p>Wakeup/breakfast</p><br>
<p>Camp duties</p><br>
<p>Choice program</p><br>
<p>Cabin time</p><br>
<p>Lunch</p><br>
<p>Rest hour</p><br>
<p>More choice program</p><br>
<p>Free swim</p><br>
<p>Cabin cleanup</p><br>
<p>Dinner</p><br>
<p>Evening program</p><br>
<p>Bedtime</p><br>
<p>Some of the evening programs include capture the flag, rock drop (campers move around camp with rocks to drop into buckets, trying to avoid being spotted by counsellors with flashlights), choice program in the evening, and more</p><br>
<p>Depending on the session, there are some special activities. For example, second session, campers can choose to try out for Billings glee, which is a camp version of glee. If campers make in on a team, they practice and perform songs for the rest of the camp, who then vote on the best team. The winner on the last night of glee gets a special prize.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Camp Billings was founded in 1906 under the sponsorship of the local YMCA district by Dr. Garnder Cobb and Julia Billings, wife of businessman and conservationist Frederick Billings. The land was first leased, and then purchased for the camp by members of the Billings family. It is, after Camp Aloha, believed to be the second-oldest active summer camp in the state. The camp saw significant growth through the 1920s, and continued its growth after lean years of the Great Depression and World War II. In 1957, its first director, Archibald Hurd, retired, creating a gap that was temporarily filled by volunteer alumni and staff. The camp has since continued to grow, and is now managed by a non-profit organization no longer affiliated with the YMCA.</p><br>
<p>The Perryman Ranch Headquarters is located in the current Jackson County, Oklahoma. North and East of the town of East Duke, Oklahoma. The headquarters is the location of an original dry-laid rock Half-dugout and rock corral from the late 19th century</p><br>
<p>The Perryman Ranch Headquarters, as designated by the National Register of Historic Places and the Oklahoma Historical Society can be found at the listed location - Perryman Ranch Headquarters.2 mile East of Jct. of County Roads #N193 & #E159, 4/4/07, A, C, D, 07000260.</p><br>
<p>Jackson County, Oklahoma was once a part of Old Greer County, Texas, Greer County, Oklahoma Territory and now a part of the State of Oklahoma.</p><br>
<p>The Perryman Ranch Headquarters first served the Alonzo Perryman family starting in July 1888. Still owned by the grandson of Alonzo Perryman the Homestead including the architectural establishments of the Rock Half-Dugout and Rock Corral are a testament to a family that endured through tough times on the plains of Texas/Oklahoma and the Dust Bowl.</p><br>
<p>The Railway Exchange Building, also known as Santa Fe Building, is a 17-story office building in the Historic Michigan Boulevard District of the Loop community area of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. It was designed by Frederick P. Dinkelberg of D. H. Burnham & Company in the Chicago style. Dinkelberg was also the associate designer to Daniel Burnham for the Flatiron Building in New York City.</p><br>
<p>The building is recognizable by the large "Motorola" logo on the roof, which is visible from Grant Park across Michigan Ave and from Lake Michigan. It is also notable for the round, porthole-like windows along the cornice. The center of the building features a lightwell, which was covered with a skylight in the 1980s.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The formal entrance to the building is located on Jackson Boulevard, which in 1904 was a more important street than Michigan Avenue. The impressive entrance is believed to have been required by Daniel Burnham, head of the architectural firm and the buildings main stockholder. The firm moved its offices to the fourteenth floor, and Burnhams descendants continued ownership in the building until 1952. The building is organized as a classicization of John Wellborn Root&#39;s Rookery. A street level two-story enclosed court designed in a symmetrical Beaux-Arts style was surmounted by an open lightwell which was surrounded by a ring of offices. By the formal arched entrance on Jackson Boulevard, a large staircase led to shops and a second-floor balcony. White-glazed terracotta sheaths the exterior façade and interior court and the lightwell is lined with white-glazed brick. Classical designs were used for the ornamental dentils, balusters, and column capitals. The building is completely steel-framed. In July 2012, the Santa Fe sign was replaced with an illuminated Motorola sign when Motorola Solutions began a lease on one floor of the building. The Santa Fe letters were given to the Illinois Railway Museum. After a four year restoration, the sign was put on display at the museum in 2016.</p><br>
<p>The building is significant as a historic site because Daniel Burnham and his staff made the 1909 Plan of Chicago in a penthouse on the northeast corner of the roof.</p><br>
<h2>Tenants</h2><br>
<p>The building was originally built as a railway exchange for the Santa Fe railway. Burnham & Company had offices on the 14th floor. Though the firm&#39;s successor, Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, has moved, a number of architectural organizations still practice there, including the Chicago Architecture Foundation, Goettsch Partners, VOA Associates, Harding Partners, and the Chicago offices of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and landscape architecture and planning firm, Design Workshop.</p><br>
<p>The building was purchased by the University of Notre Dame in 2006. The university&#39;s Mendoza College of Business began holding classes there in 2008.</p><br>
<p>The installed a 320 square-foot model of Chicago in the building&#39;s atrium in 2009. It is updated annually to reflect architectural changes in the downtown area.</p><br>
<p>In 2011, Anacostia Rail Holdings moved its corporate headquarters to the Railway Exchange Building.</p><br>
<h2>Position in Chicago's skyline</h2><br>
<p>The Railway Exchange Building appears (unlabelled) in front of Three First National Plaza in the image below:</p><br>
<p>Taymyr Island, Russian: Остров Таймыр , is a large island in the coast of the Kara Sea. Its length is 33 km and its average width about 10 km. This island is located west of the Taymyr Gulf in an area of skerries right off the western coast of the Taymyr Peninsula. The narrow strait between Taymyr island and the Siberian coast is called Proliv Taymyrskiy It is about 3 km wide on average.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Taymyr Island is one of the islands of the coastal area of the Nordenskiöld Archipelago.</p><br>
<p>The shores of Taymyr Island and some of its larger neighboring islands, such as Nansena, Bonevi and Pilota Makhotkina, are deeply indented, with many crooked inlets. The sounds between this island and neighboring islands are also somewhat labyrinthic. Geologically all these coastal islands are a continuation of the Nordenskiöld Archipelago which lies further north. Hovgaard Island, the closest island of the Nordenskiöld Archipelago lies 10.8 km northwest of the NW point of Taymyr Island across the Matisen Strait.</p><br>
<p>The sea surrounding Taymyr Island is covered with pack ice with some polynias during the long and bitter winters and there are many ice floes even in the Arctic summer.</p><br>
<p>Taymyr Island belongs to the Krasnoyarsk Krai administrative division of Russia and is part of the Great Arctic State Nature Reserve – the largest nature reserve of Russia and one of the biggest in the world.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In October 1900, during Baron Eduard von Toll’s fateful last expedition, winter quarters for ship Zarya were set at Nablyudeniy Island and a scientific station was built there. This is a small granite island southwest of Taymyr Island, located in a bay that Baron Toll named Bukhta Kolin Archera (Colin Archer Bay), after the shipyard where Zarya had been built.</p><br>
<p>In some maps Taymyr Island is named simply as Taymyra.</p><br>
<p>Seward Mountain is a mountain located in Franklin County, New York, of which it is the highest point.</p><br>
<p>Seward Mtn. is named after William H. Seward (1801–1872), Governor of New York (1839–1842), and United States Secretary of State (1861–1869).</p><br>
<p>The mountain is part of the Seward Mountains of the Adirondacks.</p><br>
<p>Seward Mountain is flanked to the southwest by Donaldson Mountain, and to the east faces Seymour Mountain across Ouluska Pass.</p><br>
<p>Seward Mountain stands within the watershed of the Raquette River, which drains into the Saint Lawrence River in Canada, and into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.</p><br>
<p>The southeast slopes of Seward Mtn. drain into Seward Brook, thence into the Cold River, a tributary of the Raquette River.</p><br>
<p>The west end of Seward Mtn. drains into Calkins Brook, thence into the Raquette River.</p><br>
<p>The northern slopes of Seward drain into Ward Brook, thence into Ampersand Lake, Ampersand Brook, Stony Creek, and the Raquette River.</p><br>
<p>Seward Mountain is within the High Peaks Wilderness Area of New York&#39;s Adirondack Park.</p><br>
<p>Blue Sea Lake  is a lake in the municipalities of Blue Sea and Messines, Quebec, Canada, about 90 km north of Gatineau. It is known for its crystal clear water and is surrounded by cottages on its shores.</p><br>
<p>The blue waters of Blue Sea Lake, together with its dimensions and the absence of significant relief around, create the illusion of a sea. It feeds the Blue Sea River which empties into the Picanoc River, in turn a tributary of the Gatineau River. Its name first appeared on a map of Hull County in 1928.</p><br>
<p>Just over 10 km to the west, in Cayamant, is another, somewhat smaller lake called Lac de la Mer Bleue, which also means "Blue Sea Lake". To differentiate these lakes from each other, the English name is used for the larger one, even in French.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The town of Blue Sea is in the centre of what is known as the Upper Gatineau region and is surrounded by a number of other lakes, rivers, ponds, and wetlands — and true wilderness areas. Like so many other areas of Quebec, Blue Sea grew and prospered because of the forest industry, which in turn was dependent on the abundant waterways of the region, especially the Gatineau.</p><br>
<h2>Local folklore</h2><br>
<p>According to legend, a monstrous snake-like animal with a horse head used to live in this lake. Presumably seen by several people between 1913 and 1930, this exceptionally long, large, and fast seahorse has no longer given any signs of life since, except around 1980 in the Baskatong Reservoir, located much further north. His "absence" has been explained by the increase of tourism in the region and, hence, the number of motorized boats travelling on the lake. The Algonquin of Maniwaki called this monster "Misiganebic" or Grand Serpent, who supposedly cut a trail between Blue Sea and Cedar Lakes and would have manifested itself in several surrounding lakes and rivers.</p><br>
<p>The Astor Fur Warehouse is a historic fur warehouse located at Bolvin and Water Streets on St. Feriole Island in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. Jean Joseph Rolette, an agent of the American Fur Company, built the warehouse in 1828. The warehouse was used until the mid-19th century; it has since been incorporated into the Villa Louis museum. The building, now a National Historic Landmark, is the only known surviving fur trade warehouse in the upper Mississippi valley.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The two-story warehouse was built from locally extracted limestone. The three-bay front facade faces the Mississippi River. A wooden beam, which was possibly inspired by Greek Revival designs, separates the first- and second-story front windows. Quoins mark the corners of the building. A staircase on the north side of the warehouse leads to an entrance on the second floor. The interior consists of three one-room floors; a hoist system moved fur between the floors.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Prairie du Chien became a fur trading center in the 18th century, largely due to the French and Canadian fur trade on the Mississippi River. After 1763 the trade came to be controlled by British firms, although many of the traders were men of French descent, although a growing number were Metis. The North West Company was particularly influential in the city, as it built an office and warehouse there circa 1805. In 1816, however, a new USA Law blocked foreign participation in the fur trade within the Louisiana Territory, greatly limiting British and Canadian firms roles in the Mississippi River trade. John Jacob Astors American Fur Company took advantage of the law by opening a post in Prairie du Chien in 1817, and it soon became the dominant trading firm on the Upper Mississippi. Jean Joseph Rolette was the company&#39;s first agent in the city, and he built the warehouse circa 1828.</p><br>
<p>In the 1820s and 1830s, the American Fur Company continued to control the Upper Mississippi fur trade and expanded its influence throughout the Louisiana Territory. Rolette and two partners split a separate fur trading business, also called the American Fur Company, from the original company in 1842; the new company rented the warehouse from its parent firm. Over the next two decades, the fur trade began to decline in Prairie du Chien, and Rolette&#39;s company ultimately closed its warehouse. The building was variously used as a warehouse, store, and machine shop over the next century. It was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1960 and opened as a historical museum in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The New York State Armory is in Poughkeepsie, New York. Built in 1891, it is a Romanesque building designed by Isaac G. Perry, then the New York State Architect, who also designed the state capitol and 26 other armories. In 1982 the Armory was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>In 2012 it was sold to the Greater New York Seventh-Day Adventists Church in a public auction and is planned for community programs and recreation.</p><br>
<p>Located at the junction of Church (eastbound US 44/NY 55) and Market streets downtown, it is across from the Old YMCA. It is a two-and-a-half-story structure made of brick and rusticated sandstone, visible to traffic entering Poughkeepsie from the west via the Mid-Hudson Bridge. Its interior features, such as oak lockers, staircases and floors, are well-preserved. It also retains the original pressed metal ceilings and light fixtures.</p><br>
<p>Governor David Hill attended the cornerstone laying on Memorial Day (then called Decoration Day) in 1891, and spoke of the importance of maintaining state-level military facilities and the respectability conferred by service in the Guard. The armory was completed the following year.</p><br>
<p>Troops were later deployed from here to the Spanish–American War and both 20th-century world wars. It has been host to a variety of events from basketball tournaments to birthday parties for Franklin D. Roosevelt, a resident of nearby Hyde Park. The Company A, 101st Signal Battalion of the New York Army National Guard were stationed in the Armory, however, in 2011 the National Guard moved the remaining 200 soldiers stationed there to Camp Smith down the Hudson River near Peekskill.</p><br>
<p>Seymour Mountain is a mountain located in Franklin County, New York, named after Horatio Seymour , Governor of New York .</p><br>
<p>The mountain is part of the Seward Mountains of the Adirondacks.</p><br>
<p>Seymour Mountain faces Seward Mountain to the west across Ouluska Pass.</p><br>
<p>Seymour Mountain stands within the watershed of the Raquette River, which drains into the Saint Lawrence River in Canada, and into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.</p><br>
<p>The east and southeast slopes of Seymour Mtn. drain via various brooks into the Cold River, a tributary of the Raquette River.</p><br>
<p>The west side of Seymour Mtn. drains into Seward Brook, thence into the Cold River.</p><br>
<p>The northern slopes of Seymour drain into Ward Brook, thence into Ampersand Lake, Ampersand Brook, Stony Creek, and the Raquette River.</p><br>
<p>Seymour Mountain is within the High Peaks Wilderness Area of New York&#39;s Adirondack Park.</p><br>
